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If I'm not mistaken, you can also follow hashtags, but I haven't done this myself as i prefer a high signal to noise ratio.

Another fediverse project that might fit your needs better is Lemmy, which behaves more like Reddit/HN.

It would be interesting to see some numbers on this, but I have the impression that (neo)vim users are growing in numbers. I'm just a HTML+CSS guy building small websites, and learning vim has been huge boost not only to my speed/efficiency, but to the amount of fun I'm having! I ditched VScode aprox 4 months ago an basically live in the terminal now with tmux, nvim and fzf. It's such a powerfull combination!

IKEAs zigbee devices are cheap, realiable and accessible and works great with Home Assistant + the deCONZ usb dongle. No WiFi connected devices, not internet access. When I'm out of the house I "phone home" with a VPN to adjust the temperature and turn off the lights if I forgot. I have automated several basic things, like the color temperature of the lights and the temperature of my heaters when electricity prices spikes.

Unfortunately this is not really accessible for regular consumers, only for nerds who know their way around a terminal and vi(m).

We are generally so habituated to services that plunder our contact lists and auto-populate our social graph that we end up all dazed and confused when checking out privacy-respecting social networks. Like … where are my friends at?

In the fediverse, you can choose your community, you have choices. Most servers (instances) gather around a topic, common interest or subculture and have their own rules and etiquette. An easy place to get started is https://joinmastodon.org/communities. If you discover people who "live" on other instances, you can still follow them.

It might take more time to build your social graph in the fediverse than on the centralized and commercial services, but the satisfaction of having a feed that you put together yourself, without being influenced by nagging recommendation algorithms is worth it – at least to me!

EDIT: To answer your question more directly, I'll add some of the people and projects that I find interesting and follow (and that you probably won't find on other social networks). YMMV:

- https://mastodon.social/@mntmn (researcher building an open source laptop, amongst other things)

- https://social.coop/@compost (a magazine about the digital commonts)

- https://mastodon.art/@BenjaminBrinckmann (talented painter / artist)

- https://indieweb.social/@bonfire (a project building a system for easier self-hosting of federated services)

- https://chaos.social/@delta (Instant Email Messaging App)

- https://fosstodon.org/@flockingbird (Federated version of LinkedIn in the making)

- https://floss.social/@forgefed (Vocabulary and protocol for federation of project and repository hosting)

- https://mastodon.social/@zrythm (young DAW software project)

- https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck (Creator of Tusky, now banned from Google Play Store)

- https://linuxrocks.online/@dnkl (Developer making the great terminal emulator "foot")

Suddenly I'm imagining a huge stadium filled with vim-users, watching a duel between to vim-masters — e-sport-style. Would actually be fun to watch!

The email protocol is being used for instant messaging — check out DeltaChat. It works much better than I expected, and it is possibly the most desentralized solution there is.

Great! The clear keyboard also sounds interesting as I could hack together my own Norwegian Colemak layout.

* I meant ISO, not ANSI in my parent comment :)

Same for me, but I can understand if it is hard to implement in the current design.

I was dreaming about such a laptop only a few days ago (admittedly with an IBM/Lenovo-like keyboard). Do you offer ANSI keyboards for European countries? It would be great if a nordic keyboard layout was an option and easily swapable.

Could you elaborate on your setup an usecase?

I bought one of these a couple of years ago after becoming hooked on using 'the nipple' on my ThinkPad x220. Perfect when using an external monitor. I also bought a ThinkPad E495 last year. The newer nipples are not as nice as the one on the x220. I'm not sure if it's a driver problem or a hw problem, but I'm tempted to go back to my x220.

Now that Signal offers group voice and video chats, it can replace booth WhatsApp and Skype. As I am my familys tech guy I think I can manage to move our groups to Signal within the next few weeks.

Tesla was all the rage for a couple of years, especially due to their exceptional (and free) charging infrastructure and weak competition. The government has done a lot to facilitate the expansion of the public charging infrastructure and this makes it more attractive to buy electric cars from other brands. Teslas are so common here know that it has lost much of its novelty. There are so many cars to choose from now.

I used this for a while and have had many interesting conversations with people from all over the world, including the creator of the app. I turned it of during the summer holiday last year, and forgot to turn it back on again. Back then it was called My Boss or something similar, and at the start of every conversation a question was sugested to get the conversation started.

Check out Vivaldi, a much better browser for poweusers.

Thanks for this book recommendation! If anyone else wants to read this book, I found a nicely cleaned up PDF here: http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/1474/homo_ludens_johan...

This ad from Facebook reads like something an abusive partner would say to force the abused not to leave them.

> a super-simple OS installation for Raspberry Pi 4, based on archlinux and contaning only a Weston desktop, virtual terminal, and HW-accelerated browser

If you where to write about this in more detail I would certainly read it (hint hint). I have been toying with a similar idea. Alpine Linux might also be an interesting OS for something like this.

Down in Norway.

It is only avaliable in Norwegian at the moment, but I think he wants to make an English version too: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/207515

I have a friend who had a long standing problem with inflammation which later developed into cancer. As an old film-maker, he documented his own personal journey, and ended up choosing to try Seyfrieds approach (press-push). His disease was an aggressive one and he was given no hope of recovery by his doctors. He is now the first case documented to recover fully from this type of cancer. In his film he travels to talk to Seyfried to both thank him for his research and interview him for his film.

I think Seyfried's research eventually will change our approach to understanding and treating cancer, but it is an uphill battle. His research is good and his scientific approach and results are hard to write off as "alternative medicine" — but vested interests in the regular paradigm and treatments makes change a slow process.

The concept of Stories does not seem very complex to implement from a technical point of view. This makes me hope that someone feels inspired to make a open source Stories-project that can be self-hosted and integrated easily anywhere on the web – without AMP and Googles tracking tentacles built into it. Maybe make it part of the Fediverse?

I know that Pixelfed has their own Instagram-inspired Stories functionality – ephemeral stories that disappear after 24h. What Google has built here seems to be a b2c-focused product.

I agree, it stirs up feelings of the web that was, but in a modern and functional way. (mobile view)

Life replicates art: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)

Does anyone know where POWER9-chips used in the Thalos II [0] are made?

[0]: https://www.raptorcs.com/

Welcome to the realities of our great and glorious IoT future! These devices are the next frontier in data collection, and it's a grueling privacy nightmare.

I've focused on IoT-devices that uses the ZigBee-protocol, which can be integrated directly (trough a ZigBee controller of your choice, like deConz) into HA without the need of any proprietary hubs. Luckily IKEAs IoT-devices (primarily lights, controllers and switches) use the ZigBee-protocol and are decently priced. I have also used cheap environmental sensors[0] from China that supports ZigBee. I really like the idea of only using components with an open protocol and being able to isolate my IoT-setup to my local network. Everything would still work if I lost my internet connection and no data is leaving my house.

[0]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000713849766.html

I have played around the last few months with HA to cover my IoT-needs, and it's the only option if you want to avoid vendor lock-in and fragmented, expensive and often insecure ecosystems. It is a joy to use and everything works perfectly once you have set it up.

The setup part still requires familiarity with the terminal and some basic unix/posix tools, but having followed the project from the sidelines for some years, there has been a consistent effort to reduce the need to interact with the terminal to use HA. Every release (and they come quite often) brings more user friendly ways of interacting with your devices. Can't wait to see what they can achieve in a few years time!

For me there are no other options, my IoT ecosystem has be under my control and contained on my own network. The open nature of the project brings a host of DIY folks together and it clearly shows in how diverse and flexible the system is for those who want to customize and tinker.

I'm currently running my setup on a pi3 with a deConz dongle, which controls my IKEA lights, switches etc through the open ZigBee protocol. I have also set up IKEAs outlet switches in combination with cheap temperature sensors from China to make all my "dumb" electrical heaters smart and thermostat-driven.

With HA, the opportunities are endless for those who have the prerequisite knowledge to get up to speed with how HA works. The less technically inclined is still bound to the commercial offerings, unless they know someone who can help them set it all up.

Come to think of it, I would expect local business offering people to help set up (and maintain) secure IoT solutions based on HA. Does anyone know if this exists already? The setup can be greatly simplified if a business have a standard set of open components and default configurations ready to deploy and build upon.

I have waited on this phone since I pre-ordered it in 2017. Worth the wait and I'm happy to have contributed financially to all the hard work that has been put into making a much better linux experience on mobile devices in general, not only the Librem 5.

Does this work with transparency? Would be nice with a watermark indicating sleep state, but still being able to see the content.