[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 months ago

Source? And fyi, if you use Signal you are generating your own encryption keys. Your private keys are generated on your phone and stay on it. So what gives you the idea that

the US government has all the keys

?? Sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

I know! But I don't really have a choice currently; which app would you suggest for tickers / info channels? Mastodon would be an option, but it's not quite the same. Abd I'd first have to convince everyone to use it :/

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Telegram without ads? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

So, Telegram has launched horrible ads that look a lot like spam to me. At least in my channels it's typically some crypto bullshit. So, I wonder if people know about alternatives to the subscription service for blocking them? Sadly, Forkgram won't offer that option and it doesn't seem to be allowed. However, I wonder if there are still forks out there which block the ads? Or do people know of alternative options?

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Isn't anyone gonna comment that in the picture there's a flying end of a bed on the wall??

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago

Why not use VIM though?

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using metager for some while and really like it. They're also part of an initiative pushing for a free as in freedom search index, so that's nice

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

In my understanding a problem often is that electricity isn't used when renewable electricity sources can provide it. One solution to this is storing it, another (complementary) one is to adjust the usage to times when there is a lot of renewable energy available. This especially makes sense for big consumers (like factories), but a lot of washing machines also sum up to a lot of electricity demand. So we have to adjust to mainly use electricity when it's available via renewable sources, and this thing can hopefully help with that.

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By saying that it cost around 5€ I meant that the material to build this cost me around 5€. I would happily set them up for free if one gave me the material for free, but the microcontroller and so on do cost some money.

The API and (of course) the source code are free (as in freedom, being AGPL licensed). And since I did my best to document it well and provide easy to follow instructions in the README, I do think I managed to make it free as in freedom.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

Inspired by this Mastodon account, I programmed an ESP8266 microcontroller to act as a traffic light, indicating the current electricity mix. Check it out on Codeberg! It uses an API from the Fraunhofer Institute and the parts cost around 5€. In my shared flat we use it as an indicator on when to run demanding devices, like the washing machine.

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Well done, capitalism

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FOSS equation plotter? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

So currently I use Grapher for plotting equations. I've used it for years and it works great, but it doesn't seem to be open source. So I looked for a FOSS alternative, but didn't find one on F-Droid or the rest of the internet. Do you know of a FOSS alternative? What do you use? Do you prefer web applications (like Wolfram Alpha)?

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Does anyone actually use I2P (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I first heard about I2P here on lemmy. The concept sounds really cool, but does anyone actually use it? And if so, what for? To me it sounds like it depends on many people using it and many applications integrating it, which just doesn't seem to be the case.

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Such a neat app!

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FOSS Yoga App? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Does anyone know of a FOSS app for yoga practice? This seems easy enough, but I couldn't find anything on F-Droid...

[-] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

My brother pushed some buttons in Windows lockscreen, which caused assistance settings to never go away again (I still don't know how I should've fixed it), that was the final annoyance with Windows and I switched to Linux on my laptop. On my PC I switched once I didn't need Windows for work (remote desktop) anymore.

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