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La consommation énergétique en Belgique atterrit à son niveau le plus faible depuis 1995
  • Oui mais en 2023, il y a eu la crise énergétique avec flambée des prix... Pas sur que les habitudes ont suffisamment changé avec la baisse des prix pour que cet effet soit pérenne sur le long terme... On verra les stats de 2025.

  • Good foss app to run a simple http server from a directory?
  • I use SimpleHttp server but it's not open source and available only on play store. I use this to download epub from my e-reader after having downloaded them on my phone. Now I will look into foss solutions proposed in this Post, through termux or other apps, thanks.

    Edit: indeed with termux + caddy + termux widget it's just perfect

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? June 25
  • Finished Into the water by Paula Hawkins. I would say that it's not as gripping as I thought. What is as much a plus and a minus point is tge change of narrator every chapter. At first, I was pleased by this "not so usual" way of writing but at some point, I just got lost about who is who and I had to search a list of characters on the web. That's perhaps because I had not a lot of time to read, so it took a while.

    I started Behind her eyes by Sarah Pinborough. I know there is a Netflix show inspired by this but I prefer to read the novel first (or only we will see).

  • Timezone changes between 1923 and 2023
  • The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?

    For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/what-we-do/permanent-time-zones-eu/

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? May 28
  • Just finished Nuclear war, a scenario by Annie Jacobsen. This nonfiction book about a fictional scenario about what a nuclear war would be really shaked me. I strongly recommend it. Read it in a few days because it was really gripping (ok this week have been a bit hard with the few sleep hours each night).

    Not yet found what I'll start reading now but something lighter for sure (perhaps a crime/mystery/thriller, has been long since I read a good one). If you have some recommendations, they are welcome.

  • Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
  • A bit on the costly stuff but I find the vacuum cleaner robot (not sure it's called this in English) very useful. The house is cleaner to be vacuumed every day (even if it's not as efficient as manual vacuuming or cleaning). Especially with pets and children.

  • Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
  • Indeed, being Belgian and an adept of the real French fries (double cooked) I was not convinced at all. In the end, I still prefer real fries but I find the air fryer very practical to cook (or warm up quickly - unlike microwave oven it does not make stuff soft) all sort of food.

  • How do you follow your favorite authors ?

    As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:

    • I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
    • It's time consuming and inefficient
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    Everforest (green accent) like theme for Photon

    Based on the awesome job of WFH@lemm.ee documenting the stuff and applying it to solarized, I tried to do the same with my vim favorite theme: everforest. It's far from perfect (I'm not at all a designer), feel free to improve your way (and share updates in comments). The zinc theme is probably more refined because I use only this one, I tried to make slate match the palette but as I'm not using it it's more difficult.

    A screenshot: !

    { "other": { "white": "#FDF6E3", "black": "#002b36" }, "primary": { "100": "#A7C080", "900": "#8DA101" }, "zinc": { "50": "#D3C6AA", "100": "#A7C080", "200": "#DBBC7F", "300": "#D3C6AA", "400": "#D3C6AA", "500": "#D3C6AA", "600": "#4F585E", "700": "#4F585E", "800": "#425047", "900": "#232A2E", "925": "#2D353B", "950": "#2D353B" }, "slate": { "25": "#FDF6E3", "50": "#FDF6E3", "100": "#EFEBD4", "200": "#E0DCC7", "300": "#E0DCC7", "400": "#D3C6AA", "500": "#5C6A72", "600": "#5C6A72", "700": "#5C6A72", "800": "#5C6A72", "900": "#8DA101", "950": "#8DA101" } }

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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml fievel @lemm.ee
    TIL the etymology of british isles names

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160716 >Pretty interesting video ...

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    TIL the etymology of british isles names

    Pretty interesting video ...

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    Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?

    Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

    However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

    I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

    For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

    Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

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    Lemmy (active) users # seems to stabilize

    Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

    The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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    Dongle recomendations

    I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I wonder if you have some recomendations for a usb dongle for zigbee and/or z-wave compatible with linux, not too expensive but good enough if I want to extend the network later. I read about SONOFF-ZB USB Dongle Plus Zigbee 3.0 available on Chinese websites. What do you think?

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    Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

    > Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users: > - lemmy.world: 19516 > - lemm.ee: 3779 > - lemmy.ml: 2970 > - sh.itjust.works: 2355 > - feddit.de: 2293 > > Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 >

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    stackdiary.com A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed

    A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

    > Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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    stackdiary.com A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed

    A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

    > Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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    stackdiary.com A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed

    A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

    > Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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    Belgium @lemmy.ml fievel @lemm.ee
    IRM-RMI forecast data API

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2911046

    > Do you know if the IRM-RMI (meteo.be) have a public API to provide forecast data ? > > I seen that some open source application provide data from meteo-france for France which provides much more accurate forecast locally than the global worldwide models. It would be nice to be able to submit a PR with focus on Belgium.

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    IRM-RMI forecast data API

    Do you know if the IRM-RMI (meteo.be) have a public API to provide forecast data ?

    I seen that some open source application provide data from meteo-france for France which provides much more accurate forecast locally than the global worldwide models. It would be nice to be able to submit a PR with focus on Belgium.

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    Twitter client privacy friendly with notification

    As I'm not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as soon as they post something.

    I have tested some open source Twitter client which works pretty well for looking at content in my opinion but none of them have the capacity to push a notification when a post is done in a specific followed account.

    Do you have some recommendations (it would be best if it's open source but I'm not completely closed to "free as in free beer" alternatives) ?

    Thanks.

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    github.com GitHub - fievel/lemmy_backup: A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance

    A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance - GitHub - fievel/lemmy_backup: A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance

    GitHub - fievel/lemmy_backup: A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance

    I made a script based on plemmy and LemmyHttp API to be able to backup the list of registered communities and user profile (for now, that's just the biography). It output in human-readable format on console and have an option to output in a json file. The next step will be to provide also a script to restore such json backup to another lemmy instance or user.

    I decided to do this small development following the sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net instance which resulted in the lost of all my subscribed communities.

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    Backup script for Lemmy

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/973445

    > Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? > At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. > I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. > If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...

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    Backup script for Lemmy

    Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...

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    fievel @lemm.ee

    C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net

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