keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
Just found out about beestat.io for #ecobee thermostats. FOSS (GPLv3) and seems to give more useful stats than ecobee's official (unfortunate) interfaces.
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To bump this thread: The Swiss state has been taxing the carbon in fossil fuels since 2008 ⛽
The tax started very low, and increases every year. It is currently 120 CHF (~130 USD) per tonne CO2 💰
2/3 goes to each citizen, evenly divided, as a reduction of their health insurance! 🏥 1/3 of the tax goes into green spending.
Every country can do this, without losing economic 'competitiveness' if a tariff is applied 🗺️
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Verb Tenses for Internet Searching
1. I google; I am googling; I googled
2. I bing; I am binging; I bung
3. I duckduckgo; I am duckduckgoing; I duckduckwent
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#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try it out! https://nitter.net
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Please make sure to read this carefully before ordering a #PinePhonePro:
The #PinePhone Pro is still very much in development, and thus just won't be your daily driver smartphone upon receiving the device.
Read https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_Pro_(pine64-pinephonepro) to get an idea.
I don't want to hamper your excitement, but I also don't want to see you start a rant YouTube channel because you're upset due to not reading this properly. The PPP is really cool, but it's not your new "privacy smartphone" at this point.
@staltz it would be really convenient if your activitypub account had toots/posts that referenced your blog posts so they could be boosted more directly (and bring more visibility to Manyverse). Thanks for writing them in any case
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@ScottMortimer There is also this excellent blog post in response: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html :)
@thahajemnireal@mastodon.social @werwolf @xerz using XMPP & helping people onboard is getting easier with @snikket_im
There's still the question of which snikket server to use if you don't have the ability to run your own. That's something that I think Mastodon and Matrix did better: a decent default instance with effective encouragement to migrate to other smaller ones.
WhatsApp had a good twist with the "$1/year after first year" to seed the network
@danie10 I'd love to boost this, but looking at those URLs I just can't bring myself to. Any chance of a cleaned up version?
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One of the main reasons we don’t have a truly decentralised internet is actually really simple: it’s the fact that providers globally don’t give us symmetric upload/download speeds and fixed IP addresses at home. Kills decentralisation at the root. 1/2
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Anyone who thinks decentralization is an unmitigated good never heard of cars in comparison to public transport
TIL that a chromebook I bought a couple of years ago (intending to install Debian on, but got shelved until an immediate need for kids in online learning) has been officially abandoned for security updates by Google. I didn't realize how short the interval was before Google forced a choice between using an insecure browser or creating a massive amount of ewaste.
Luckily I should still be able to liberate this one (thanks Debian!) but most people won't. What a sad state of affairs.
Seems that Honda infotainment units are having date issues as of 2022-01-01 where the date gets rolled back to 2002 and stuck. This appears to be another instance of the (unfortunately named) "Y2K22" bug, similar to those hitting Microsoft Exchange servers at the same time.
Storing dates & times as "YYMMDDHHMM" in an int should have been seen as a bad idea. Sounds as though it may be August (!) before a fix is available.
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Good luck #BlackBerry users... you have been mobile security pioneers!
"The shutdown means the phones will no longer reliably function for "data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality"
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Before you buy that e-book from Amazon, do yourself a favor and see if the publisher has a website with direct sales.
I've found a number of books that I was interested in DRM-free, in EPUB format, and sometimes at a discounted price, just by poking around a little.
@dthompson what temperature of water do you put in it? Does it have a cover or other insulation to slow the heat dispersal?
@Sommer@mastodon.social maybe split the difference with a slight adjustment of "I will not let a PR sit over one work week"?
Joined Jun 2019
