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The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-hot-water-bottle.html

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

F-Droid is an alternative app store for Android phones which only carries privacy-friendly free open source software. You can follow at:

➡️ @fdroidorg

Their site is https://f-droid.org

Google has made it a bit difficult to install F-Droid on a Google Android device. However, once it's been installed F-Droid is very easy to use.

Here's a guide for how to install it:

https://switching.software/use/f-droid

#FDroid #Android #FreeSoftware #ILoveFS #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #OpenSource #Smartphones #Apps

The wonderful #XMPP-client #dino now supports audio/video calls between two or more people! Especially now many of us are stuck at home, we need a way to collaborate & socialize in a privacy-friendly way. Dino uses the XMPP-protocol for decentralized communication and with an intuitive user interface, helps you reach out to friends, family and co-workers, both for larger groups with a server in the middle as well as private groups directly peer-to-peer -> https://dino.im/blog/2022/02/dino-0.3-release/

I also like Aral's "Three Lws of Personal Devices", which have always seemed self-evident to me but apparently aren't

https://ar.al/2021/12/18/the-three-laws-of-personal-devices/

Dino 0.3 is released and supports video calls and conferences! 🥳

You can call a friend or a group of people. Calls are e2e-encrypted, peer-to-peer and compatible with other XMPP applications.

Release blog post: https://dino.im/blog/2022/02/dino-0.3-release/

Check out the new #streaming service #Resonate! It is a co-op owned by the artists and listeners – no VC money! It is still young and does not have #Spotify's massive catalog … but I love it!

I strongly encourage you to check out their About page to get a compact explanation of how it works: https://resonate.is/about/

Oh, and everything is #OpenSource and they have spent a lot of effort fostering a constructive community – it is a #coop after all.

What are you waiting for, sign up today (€10)!

This is a haiku.
It really is a haiku.
Double pinky swear.

#haiku

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are.

Also, links on Mastodon stay in the form you wrote them. This is much better for privacy than Twitter.

Twitter quietly changes all posted links to go via Twitter's domain t.co so they can track people. This doesn't happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse.

You can see this hidden conversion in Twitter by hovering your mouse over a link there, the link appears to show a normal address but Firefox and other browsers will indicate the true t.co address in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you try this same check on Mastodon or the Fediverse, you will see your links stay just as you wrote them.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Twitter #LinkShorteners

Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record

European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.

The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.

The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).

This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.

#Oxford #JET #NuclearFusion

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

So #Docker is turning its back on the #OpenSource community on which it's built. Can't even have more than 1 auth token on the free account, eliminated autobuilds, etc. They have an Open Source application form at https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application which, though it says it can't be used for funded projects, is clearly designed for companies. I filled this out awhile back and it was ignored.

Mastodon and most other Fediverse platforms display posts chronologically, without any algorithms.

On your feed you will see all the posts from all the people you follow, in the order they posted them.

Because of this, if you post something important you may want to boost it again later in the day so that people in different time zones have a better chance of seeing it.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #TimeZones

"If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer" - Dominic Tarr

I have always loved this quote and lived by its message long before I found it so succinctly put. Thanks again, Dominic.