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Or as someone else put it: "If you want to understand German politics, you have to know that the German government is the political arm of the German car industry"

It's interesting to look at the different sponsor pages posted in this thread.

When I got invited, I basically copied my text over from patreon. But it seems the way to address github sponsors is a bit different in tone.

I also noticed that many start their tiers at $5 instead of just at $1.

Obligatory sponsorship link: https://github.com/sponsors/splitbrain

I totally agree with you. The "social contract" was the premise the author started his article with. So not only did he not address his own premise, that premise is also wrong or a least worth discussing. shrug

How does that deal with the problem of the "social contract" of having to maintain a software project and engage with its users?

This seems more like a recipe for people who want to have an open source project but don't know what to do.

I'd wager most open source developers do not have that problem. The more common problem is that you want to scratch another itch, but your last itch based projects are still keeping you busy because they started to scratch other people's backs.

This looks promising, thanks. Still a bit on the heavy/large side. Is this using GaN tech already?

Now, can anyone recommend a small, lightweight PD charger that ideally also has 3 to 4 "normal" USB ports, provides 100 Watts and has an EU socket connector? I would love to carry a single power supply for charging all my devices when travelling.

Does anyone know how stable these coatings are in real life? How easy is it to dust off or wet clean one of those super black coatings? How well would it take daily touching?

What's missing in this article is the aspect of escapism. The mentioned names Ronny and Mandy were especially popular in East Germany for kids born in the late 70ies, early 80ies. I think many parents picked "exotic" names for their kids in some sense of longing for the places they could never hope to see. Maybe some simple way to be part of a larger world?

I could see the same mechanism in socio-economic disadvantaged parents. Their world is limited by money, not borders, but they still want to be part of the larger world.

That's what the first ever webcam was invented for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

I had a similar thing on my website for ages (probably 10 years or so) based on the open text summary tool. It works pretty good and is completely open source: https://www.splitbrain.org/services/ots

From what I understand this handles only authentication and provides tokens that may be used for additional (undefined APIs).

What bugs me about this (and all the oAuth implementations out there) is that you never just want authentication. You also want to know things about the user (username, name, email, avatar, etc) - but to get this you have to implement a plethora of APIs for the various services, because they are all different. I wish fetching profile info would be part of the standard.

Well, moving a working locomotive is relatively easy compared to a non-working one ;-)

I wonder if clean up was part of the costs. I imagine there's quite a few parts that are difficult to move without heavy machinery. Or did they just leave the wreck and tracks as is? If so are there any of those crash sites still visible?

"your website as a record" resonates with me. I recently redesigned my website (which is online since 2001) and one new feature I added is a random button. Clicking it will open a random page which is often a blog post I wrote many years ago. It's easily the most fun feature for me personally as it makes me remember things of my life... I don't know how much other visitors use or like it. If you want, give it a try at https://www.splitbrain.org - it's the dice in the menu.

when I read the title I somehow assumed that the optimization would be in the length of the recording, not the encoding. I would like a podcast format with very short episodes.

beautiful and sad

TL;DR because of a stalker

Yes, the whole thing is multi-site capable. We also relaunched https://www.forummatrix.org using the same code. We have a couple of other sites that are still waiting to get the relaunch.

We also have a few ideas for other topics, but starting a new site requires a lot of initial research, so it's nothing we can do lightly.

12 years after the initial launch we relaunched WikiMatrix in a new design and an updated feature set. WikiMatrix allows you to compare various wiki software based on their feature sets. A wizard helps newcomers to narrow down what they need.

The goal was to build a lightweight site that's low maintenance but helpful to its users. It's made with the PHP Slim framework and uses an SQLite database to store the data.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Interesting, though what this actually does is run a local webserver so I assume it would be even simpler to just open the default web browser pointed to the local server? But then you start thinking that sound output could also be handled via the audio API and one could even play this remotely. So what you created is a webapp? Why even run it locally at all then... just some thoughts. Still a cool idea to circumvent the lack of good native UI support in go I guess.

After a quick look I have a lot of questions

1) Unlike YAML or JSON this doesn't parse into a simple array structure, but a library dependent object hierarchy?

2) Is the API of the libraries also part of the language spec?

3) Can I assume that document.lookup() will be available as document->lookup() in the PHP library?

4) What about programming language specifics that may differ between languages? Will the PHP objects implement the Iterable interface? Or the ArrayAccess interface? (There are probably similar but slightly different concepts in other languages).

5) There is eno.parse(), but is there some kind of reverse mechanism to create a new Eno document? Like document.addList([...]).addSection('hey', 2) or something.

This is awesome. Does anyone know something like this for Linux?

what exactly is Mozilla doing except having created a github issue tracker?

Huh? It needs my phone to be present to turn on the lights? What if my wife wants to turn on the lights? Why does it need to talk to a phone? Wouldn't a zigbee device compatible with the hue bridge make more sense?

To me inoreader.com is the perfect Google reader like feed reader. I don't get all the fuzz about feedly, there are better alternatives. just my $0.02

I tried feedly shortly after Google Reader shut down but didn't like it much then. Don't know how it is nowadays. Inoreader is very close to the Google Reader experience without being a 1:1 clone.

I can't recommend inoreader.com enough. A worthy successor to Google reader. (I am not affiliated, just a happy user)

I experienced the same. Not showing retweets in my Twitter app of choice made Twitter enjoyable again. I can highly recommend it.

I remember a time when stuff like this fit on a single 3.5 floppy.

The API used for the cloud service is quite simple. There are already two projects on github implementing it (one by me) - search for remarkable-tablet to find them.

The tablet also works fine without using the cloud service, it has a built-in webserver to upload documents to it that you can just access via WiFi or USB-LAN.

Really this device is a hacker's dream in terms of openness. The only last thing I'd wish for was open sourcing the main software application running on it.