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by skyfaller 3y ago
To steelman your proposal, I should mention that Low-Tech Magazine thinks you're on to something, although they suggest putting the panels on the stove inside the cabin: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/05&#x
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by skyfaller 3y ago
Low-tech Magazine covered pigeon towers, as previously mentioned on HN: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/10/pigeon-towers-a-lo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885525
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by skyfaller 3y ago
I was very impressed with Foot on my MNT Reform, where I was having trouble getting Alacritty to work (hardware issues too difficult to overcome, and I say that as someone who was able to apply a patch to make Alacritty run on my Pinebook P
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by skyfaller 3y ago
Cory Doctorow made a pretty good case that carbon offsets are a market for lemons, where good credits will inevitably be driven out of the market by bad credits. After all, it's always cheaper to do nothing than to do something (if you
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by skyfaller 3y ago
I hate speaking negatively about Ministry for the Future, because I admire KSR, and we need fiction that confronts the climate crisis and shows people taking positive action to change the world for the better. Still, I sadly cannot recomm
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by skyfaller 3y ago
I use Gnome Web to test websites with the WebKit engine from Linux. I'd be curious if there any other good WebKit browser options: I wasn't able to find anything else that I could easily install. (Nyxt apparently supports WebKit,
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by skyfaller 3y ago
This sort of long-form writing is what attracted me to OkCupid once upon a time, before it was bought out by Match.com and gradually enshittified. I feel like there is a niche for dating people who like long-form reading and writing still,
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by skyfaller 3y ago
Any chance this might interact with Block Protocol in any way? https://blockprotocol.org/ The obvious immediate benefit to this would be native editing of Wordpress blocks for your website. But if this became standardized a
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by skyfaller 3y ago
Yet another stats page, this one includes kbin too: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse Lemmy and kbin are theoretically both compatible with each other, as well as with less-closely related projects like Ma
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I think we can/should greatly reduce use of plastics by eliminating single-use plastic wherever possible. This mostly requires political will / habit changes. Although creating circular systems for e.g. food containers has its cha
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Good news, 40% of all shipping is fossil fuels, so if we abandon fossil fuels, the shipping problem gets significantly smaller: https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c...
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by skyfaller 4y ago
According to CNet, with Google Maps "Transit, bicycling and walking directions are also not available offline -- only driving directions." https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/why-you-shou...
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I use Fritter and love it, thank you for your efforts! It's a great way to open Twitter links when necessary, since I've deleted the official app from my phone and I'm trying not to log in to my account for now. Could you say
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Is the fact that Shell is a member of the Green Software Foundation a bad sign? I also see the Green Web Foundation is a member of the GSF, and I do trust that organization, so this is a genuine question. https://www.thegreenwebf
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I don't remember direct links to Twitter being so prevalent until recently. Is it... time to reconsider this? Twitter no longer seems like a reliable source for anything except Elon Musk himself, since he presumably won't suddenly
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Or another way to phrase it is that the experience sucks equally on all platforms, so you might as well switch to Linux.
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Thanks for mentioning tilvids.com! You got me to subscribe to like my second Peertube channel: https://tilvids.com/c/veronicaexplains_channel I'll say that the depth and breadth of topics still seems lacking (lots
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I guess "directly related" is more controversial than I thought. I would call these indirectly supporting Firefox, and in line with Mozilla's mission. Building public documentation for free doesn't directly help Firefox&
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Although I understand your sentiment, there was a big uproar (rightly so) when Mozilla cut a lot of stuff that wasn't directly related to Firefox, such as MDN web docs or the experimental Servo browser engine. Building a healthy and in
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by skyfaller 4y ago
It appears to no longer be open source: https://community.memex.garden/t/is-memex-going-closed-sourc...
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I think that something people often forget in "free speech" discussions about hateful and dangerous people like Kiwi Farms is that while deplatforming someone can be seen as an evil, killing or imprisoning them certainly would be
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by skyfaller 4y ago
It may not directly help that ISP, but increasing numbers of the people living in that territory will be Russian invaders, as the Ukrainians living there are murdered or deported. And helping the invaders is problematic. It may indirectly h
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by skyfaller 4y ago
This is apparently FOSS under the GPLv2: https://github.com/wibyweb/wiby/ FWIW I don't see any mention of suckless on Wiby itself, so the headline may be misleading. As someone who has a negative impression o
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Medium has https://scribe.rip/
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Consider how worried people are about Google Chrome's browser market share, and how Google is increasingly able to dictate details of the web unilaterally. The Web is made of standardized protocols, but Google has significant control o
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Can anyone explain why Bluesky is making a new protocol instead of using ActivityPub like Mastodon? What advantages would it have over ActivityPub? https://activitypub.rocks/ Worth noting that ActivityPub is an official W3
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by skyfaller 4y ago
This is a "trick" that Socrates was famous for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning Many of his contemporaries hated his guts and ultimately they condemned him to death. It may be a good way to
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by skyfaller 4y ago
There's also a ... newer version? at https://validator.w3.org/nu/ I'm not 100% sure what the difference is, but you can see the source code at https://github.com/validator/validator and
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I think it's still worth knowing how to host the website locally, even if it is only available on your local machine / LAN. Having to go through the deploy step and wait a couple minutes every time to view the tiniest changes is n
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Another source explaining optional HTML in depth: https://meiert.com/en/blog/optional-html/

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