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  • I think there were two reasons for that. One was that without centralized server where element could flash nunbers in front of VC there would not be much funding just like other open source protocols like xmpp experience. It also attracted more people because you didn't have to think of servers or bother with the whole federation concept (just join the main server, as everyone is there already).

    Additionally matrix is pretty good distributed database but imo horrible chat protocol. It's extremely heavy on resources making other small servers impossible to compete or run on the same terms as the big ones. Back in the days I was running one of the top 5 size matrix server but I realized that the ever growing database, load issues when users joining large rooms and ton of other problems all, I went back to xmpp. It made me realized how crazy expensive and unsustainable in long run was running essentially text chat app became, and that could be better spent elewhere. Matrix is basically not designed for the purpose it's pushed for. It might be great as a communication platform in a organization or corporation or government agency ( you can accurately track the room state from its inception so great to have an overview of who, when, what). For fedi-like chat servers XMPP which can run on a potatoe is much better choice. Both from financial perspective (as your small server joining a big room does not affect you cause you don't need to replicate the room state essentially killing your server), but also environmental (its light and scales depending on your community needs better).

  • Community Themes
  • I'm personally against clonning communities as i think it's largely defragmenting already small communities into seperate little islands. The idea of federation is to create spaces where people can participate together no matter the instance they are from. Creating copies just goes against this idea IMO. One does not need to be on the isntance to participate in communities. That's the beauty of federation. I understand there might be reasons sometimes to do it, but if your idea is to just copy bunch of them so that you're the mod, I find it a waste.

    As for disroot's branding of such communities. I think it would require admins to be part of the moderation of such community as it gives others the impression its related or at least supported endorsed by the team. Our idea for the instance was to make it more of a free for all approach then curated set of communities (eg. Beehav). So it makes sense that disroot branded communities are somewhat rated to disroot team or a project. At the same time other communities hosted on the server can use whatever branding they want.

    So to sum up my position. I am rather against this idea. Using branding creates association for others. Even if you use disclaimers that it isn't. Since your communities are independent, I would rather see you create a unique branding to your comms so that people seeing them could straight away know who are they moderated and run by.

  • Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)
  • Yeah. Pity indeed. Also think the stylus is coming soon (TM). Still I wouldn't mind one.

  • Federation issues?
  • 🤔 I think I found the issue. Can you double check to make sure? Once again sorry it is taking so long.

  • Since today I can't add disroot as search engine
  • Add it where? To your browser (if so which browser).

  • DisNews 24.11 - Lacre open beta
    disroot.org DisNews 24.11 - Lacre open beta | Disroot.org

    Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

    It is time to move to the next phase of Lacre testing. Our end-to-end solution to incoming E-mail encryption is ready to be tested on a broader scale. For the past weeks we have been running Lacre on the Disroot email server to check some nasty bugs and edge cases before more people start using it. With just a handful of uploaded keys from brave early birds we managed to find some little annoying issues and to take care of those.

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    DisNews 24.12 - Happy Solstice
    disroot.org DisNews 24.12 - Happy Solstice | Disroot.org

    Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

    Happy solstice everyone!

    We wish you a warm, bright, and happy solstice. Whether it is the longest or the shortest night of the year for you, we hope you make the best out of it and enjoy this astronomical event and celebration of seasonal change.

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    Post your setup. no matter how uggo
  • This is great. I have couple of those HP machines which are awesome but was just stacking them on my desk. 10 inch rack will be great for them. Need to do some hunting.

  • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All
  • You dont need to explain email so federation does not seem to be the issue here IMO. The problem is money which FLOSS projects usually don't have. The successful ones have perhaps enough so that the devs can put food on their table, but not much else. Most of the apps are after Dayjob hobby projects. It's hard to compete with those who have teams of paid staff.

  • Just wanna know about disroot
  • Disroot founder here 👋 if you have any questions I would be glad to answer. Been doogfooding all services myself as primary communication means. We are small team of ethusiasts and we mainly reuse code writtem by awesome FLOSS contributors in form of services. Not reinventing wheel here. Next year we will celebrate 10 years of existance \o/

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  • Will GPG be baked into the app or still relay on third party like open key chain?

  • This Ukrainian guy has been trying to develop his home brew solar focusing system to power homes on the cheap for the past 10+ years.
  • Yes. been following his work for over a year now. I am in the process of building my house but hopefully next year I will have more time to work on energy side of things. I plan to build solar collectors similar to the one from videos where you concentrate sunlight using mirrors and heatup oil. If I manage to get good results and warmup the oil to over 100C (400C should be possible), I plan to build sand-battery in the ground.

  • This is just a test. Sorry
  • Just another test.

  • Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News
  • But all those actions are exactly same as signing petition. Just louder and in many cases made more about the protesters then the protest. It's more like doing something so that you feel you tried and media writes about it which males you feel like you did the change. But nature doesn't give two shits about the protests neither is the current economy of consumption which leads us to the disaster. Being on the internet, discussing this matter right now is contributing to the problem and only shows that our life style, which we are happy with is the problem.

    And yeah blocking the street causes much more pollution plus losses off everyone, so not sure what's the goal there either

  • This is just a test. Sorry
  • Nope. We failed.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Battery size I think here is the difference. Leaf, specially the old ones come with 22kwh battery. My Zoe is 52kWh. Think newer Leafs also come with 52/64kwh packs but are much more expensive then Zoe. At least that was the case when I was researching it when buying a car last year.

  • Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz
  • And this is the most scary part of it. Specially that it isn't just France or Germany but pretty much across the board young people voted for biggest populists out there.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Yeah. I did quite some research and found Zoe to be the best price for range while not being a giant expensive suv. I think specially on european roads its pretty good choice.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Second hand Renault Zoe user here. I have the model from 2020 with 52kWh battery. Things are pretty ok I think as far as the interior and exterior, but we had major issue with the engine that had to be swapped (good the car was under warranty still in the dealership we bought it from). For the rest it's pretty smooth ride. The range of the car in spring/summer gets to about 350km so its pretty good. The SOH is 91.3%. Ranault's warranty on battery is still active until 2028 or 80 000km or when battery's SOH drops below 75% so for now I am not worried about this. I think once the battery gets low and outside of warranty there will most certainly be more developed infrastructure of third-party battery module maintenance so it should be possible to get the pack to it's original state for not gigantic sums of money.

  • Home Assistant 2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs
  • Ok. Npw Its definitely time to migrate my instance to something more powerful then my raspberry pi

  • DisNews 24.03 - New services and Lacre hitting the server
  • I'm a n00b. Looks like the moment you put an image the link changes to that image instead of the link provided to the post.

  • Multiple small wInd tubines in ongrid home setup.

    I'm starting to think about diversifying my energy prodution. I have a solar panel array (5kWp) on the roof for a year now. I see that adding more panels does not make much sense as the production in summer as is is already hard to consume it all, and in winter the production is rather symbolic while consumption is through the roof.

    So I thought of looking into wind turbines. There is plenty of wind the whole year where I live. But, rather then buying a big 5kW turbine which is quite expensive on its own (plus a pole and all the other stuff) I thought, how about using multiple small turbines (up to 1kW) connected together, similar to how solar panels are. Either into one inverter or using microinverters. Does anyone have any interesting links to follow or some experience in similar setups?

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