Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can't !lemmy because many of the communities don't have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.
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I have heard from tons of people, especially here on Lemmy who have tried to move people and communities over that it is often abandoned due to a huge amount of fundamental and UX problems that make it a huge pain to deal with and admin for and keep updated without a bunch of things breaking.
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As an engineer, hybrid works best for many of us.
Design phase can be wfh with some in-person idea sessions or important meetings because I have yet to be at an online idea session that was as productive as in-person being able to draw things out and visualize better, and people tend to not speak up or just check out and agree at the end in online meetings.
Testing phase has to be mostly in person for lab tool access and collaboration on physical things.
I have worked with a contractor that did everything from home and had a whole home lab, but it was a big time sink and cost shipping parts back and forth 5 times and you couldn't physically probe behaviors together which leads to slightly different setups and sometimes different results.
Socially I moved to a place where I had no friends so I like getting social contact at work since in Belgium, it is extremely difficult to make new friends after you are done with school because of a culture of not talking to anyone else unless people are obnoxiously drunk lol. I like wfh on overwhelming days and in-person on days where I want more social contact.
That being said, I work 100% in office now because I live a 12 minute bike ride from work, so very easy.
Kopia is great for this. Choose your encryption, built in support for different provider storage tyoes in the GUI to choose where to go, dedupe, folder structure scramble, etc...
But their flatpak hasn't been updated in ages...
I have yet to use a consumer ADF scanner on a printer that didn't feed the paper at an angle until they are crushed and folded, doesn't matter if the guides are perfectly set for A4 either. It has never worked for me.
Yes, but people are forgetting how it was discovered.
It was discovered because there was a visible performance impact by running benchmark tests on other, time-critical software.
Do you know how it was not discovered? By maintainers looking through changes of the software and looking through the code, exactly the way that the commenter and you and others are saying things would be caught.
If the attacker hadn't been so eager and only set it to start working after a time delay a year later or multiple updates later? It would have infected almost every server in the world, even if it got noticed immediately, it would have been a giant problem that would have reaped the benefits for the malicious party before it could be regressed and changed.
Opencloud is a fork from Owncloud Infinite Scale just as nextcloud was a fork from the old Owncloud version.
Apparently much much simpler and more performant than nextcloud in almost every way. It also has a secure file sharing link feature.
They are also based in Germany.
I am about to spin up opencloud behind traefik and authelia hopefully this week or weekend.
But who is seriously looking at the sudo code at every update. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority simply trust him and gloss over it maximum.
The chain of trust has to exist otherwise distrobox maintainers would spend 24 hours a day reviewing code changes and only update once every 6 months.
So I am in the designing of the circuit and PCB stage right now.
The usecase is for Meshtastic/Meshcore nodes because those sit outside in a tree or in a high place outside year-round and are solar charged. I am designing it as a RAKwireless Wisblock power module that will be charged by 2, 5V, 200mA small solar panels in series. The whole project will be released on Codeberg like all of my home projects.
Later I can copy the circuit over to other PCBs for more general formats. One of my future projects is going to be an 8S pack BMS for driving a 12V water pump for off-grid rainwater collection barrels.
I am targeting 2S systems now because then the entire sodium cell can discharge if the system voltage is set to 3V and I don't need any buck/boost, just a buck which is significantly cheaper and easier on the batteries.
I am using an STM32C011 as a custom BMS + buck charger because my original idea of using a very cheap, small mixed signal FPGA (greenpak SLG47105) wouldn't work well for sodium because it didn't have enough comparators to have a soft constant voltage region (gradually increasing CV voltage from 3.8V per cell to 4V along with the natural current decrease to prolong charge cycle life), it will have overvoltage/over current protections, 1A or 2A max current, resistive battery balancing, and some safety features and an I2C readout.
(Sorry, wall of text)
I agree.
Also, Health Connect now is integrated as of 2026 which is absolutely huge for actually allowing app interoperability.
We have heat pumps at my job for our factory.
They are literally useless around of below freezing in the experience here.
They exchange heat so they blow out air colder than outside air, then their entire radiator gets completely covered in ice, then it has to switch off and then the entire factory cools off while they have to turn on the resistive heaters to defrost themselves, then they turn themselves back on and because they are covered in water from defrosting, very quickly freeze again and the whole cycle repeats while the factory is very marginally warmed up during the cycle.
Alright I can answer this because with all the shit there have also been a ton of cool tech that isn't fascist, and ton of instances of the community building something awesome:
**Commercial things: **
- Sodium Batteries (I have a 18650 shipment on the way for my custom charger)
- Solar panels have dropped in price so dramatically that they are viable for hundreds of millions of people
- Prusa and Bambu have made 3d printing not just a hobby, but very functional and practical. Now people themselves can replace broken parts, create new functional parts and tools without having to make their entire hobby and personality trying to fix and optimize their 3D printer
- MCUs have blasted off the past 10 years. nRF has revolutionized the Bluetooth space with nRF52 and newer. ESP has brought WiFi to literally everyone in any device they want with whatever processor strength with no antenna design. STM is very friendly to hobbyists and has everything for motors, and NXP makes performance beasts (and all non-US companies doing the great things of course) and they have all become so much more dramatically efficient.
- Multiple MCU companies have switched to open source toolchains that are inter-compatible, more portable, and transparent, making embedded development much less relying on shitty half-baked manufacturer libraries that are incomplete for different offerings.
- FOC motor control and bringing it to the masses have created a huge step in motors and have made implementing efficient servos actually viable for open source projects
- RLCD is an up and comer that gives epaper-like reduced eye strain and outdoor visibility while having an update rate of an LCD.
Maybe older, but still great:
- open source hardware companies like adafruit, sparkfun, olimex, etc... Have made electronics so much more accessible to actually do useful things with.
- epaper displays being widely available for power savings in small devices
**Community Projects: **
- HomeAssistant has gone from an enthusiast system 10 years ago, to literally the best, and easily customizable automation system that supports every
- Meshtastic and Meshcore bringing community location services and communication to everyone for a very cheap price
- Docker and Podman. They have revolutionized the server space.
- The leaps and bounds made in self hosting software in general is incredible and taken self hosting from a quite risky and very very complicated technical endeavor to do safely to a medium difficulty hobby project that is 100x less of a time sink. Not only that, but commercial software has genuinely good replacements Traefik/caddt, crowdsec, docker, immich, paperless-ngx, jellyfin, mealie, syncthing, nextcloud/opencloud, *arr suite, etc...
- The fediverse, still in early stages, but I don't need to explain the impact
- Gadgetbridge, turning smart wearables spying on you and selling your biometric data to insurance companies to just plain useful local devices for looking after yourself
There is more, but this is already long
Sodium companies closing is incredibly painful because also if you look at the reasons, outside of Northvolt, it is literally all startups where their investors pulled out and screwed them because lithium prices dropped and they wanted to recoup their costs with 30% market share on week 1 of launch (exaggeration of course)
Proving yet again that rich fucks are complete and total idiots who can't look any further at all than 4-8 quarters.
China sodium is luckily going strong, so we have a fallback when lithium prices inevitably spike yet again.
I don't know, that is about all Mistral can do too.
That and python scipy is like a 50/50 for relevant code snippits.
It had never once output compilable embedded code, even when I have tried to directly lead it there.
I don't have a deck, so maybe this is a dumb question, but why doesn't Firefox/zen/etc... With ublock origin work? I have used that for a decade on my desktop with no problems
They do these types of things, a lot more often than open source projects actually.
Thread Group:
- ARM
- NXP
- Samsung
- Qualcomm
- nest labs (google)
- Apple
I will list more that for example google and/or apple are a part of, but not the involved companies to not make a wall
- OpenID Foundation
- FIDO Alliance
- AOMedia (AV1)
- CSA (formerly ZigBee alliance)
- Bluetooth SIG
- Apache Foundation
- Unicode Consortium
- WiFi alliance
- LLVM Foundation
Not to mention smaller groups that collaborate to discuss strategy over activies like golf or dinners.
The downside is that very very often, the collaboration involves how best to fuck over consumers and the general public for more profit margin.
correct, the real mesh internet replacement is HaLow, that can get a whopping 4Mbps or something.
And this is why I try to recommend to every single person starting their smart home to plan it so that if everything dies, their internet, their router, power gets restarted, and their HomeAssistant gets corrupted, and you die, at the same time, that everything will work exactly as expected, because with MANY smart home systems they will just stop functioning or be stuck in a bad mode until your family hires someone to fix it.
That's why I lean hard towards KNX
And Bing, and searches that use google and Bing results (DDG, ecosia)
Something like endurain?