Meh, it’s sort of an empty gesture, as discussed in the HN thread. The “competitor” is a somewhat-compatible Teensy 3 clone that uses a different processor with roughly similar cpu performance. It doesn’t compete with the much faster Teensy 4 which is the only model that PJRC currently sells. And these types of boards aren’t generally about CPU performance anyway. If you want fast computing, get a Linux board or similar. These boards are about stuff like analog i/o.

bit.ly? They may have degoogled but they still stopped too early.

This is big stupid drama but there’s a long thread about it on hackernews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

Ars technica is usually legit.

Why do TV’s and audio gear use memory? TV’s ok I can sort of understand a little, but audio? That’s still analog right? Or anyway mostly analog.

Meaning fuel powered generators? Bah.

I’d DIY it (maybe with FreeNAS, about which I know nothing) instead of buying a proprietary NAS in a box. What’s the point of self-hosting if you’re going to be at the mercy of someone else’s software anyway? If you’re DIY’ing, there are 3.5" drive enclosures with soundproofing stuff in them that should keep the drive pretty quiet. Or if you can afford enough SSD’s for your storage requirements, then use those.

In the backup world, 50TB isn’t really a lot, and you’re not really ready to talk about tape systems or maintaining an always-on disk system. Also, HDD’s have been getting more expensive due to AI idiocy. But, cheapest is probably a second raid system, like 4x 20tb drives. Do the backup at home and then move the backup system off site and either keep it spinning, or make sure to spin up and test the individual drives every so often.

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“The all-electric Dacia Spring now starts at just €11,900 (around $13,900), thanks to a massive €5,000 (around $5,900 at current exchange rates) discount.”

24kwh battery, 300 km range or so .

I’ve thought of doing it for privacy and other reasons. I don’t have the sense that the resource load is high, but I haven’t checked carefully.

You mean a self hosted CA? Yes there are tons of those.

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Just ask your questions here. You’ll pay a ridiculous amount for help at real consultant rates.

Message boards etc. still exist but I generally have thought of them as distinct from “social media”. The distinguishing characteristic is algorithmic feeds. Also, Lemmy is mostly link aggregation, which is much less of a thing on message boards. Lemmy is even more like that than Reddit was, despite the implementations being similar.

The culture shift is from communication to entertainment. Author describes some fediverse issues as symptoms, though they aren’t always perfect matches.

The premise isn’t about the fediverse, it’s about a culture shift. And re “join another one”, um no, there are 14 competing standards and we don’t need a 15th.

No idea about Pixelfed, which I don’t use. I thought the article gave an interesting perspective on the internet in general, not just the fediverse. So the concrete stuff about Pixelfed, cross-fedi accounts, etc. didn’t seem that important.

There are some interesting posters on Mastodon and also on Lemmy, but I think the fediverse in general is nowhere near what Usenet or Reddit used to be. No idea about Facebook or IG, both of which I stay away from, though there is a musician on IG who I was thinking of emailing to suggest cross-posting on Youtube.

Why is CSS taken as anything more than a style hint? The final decision about styling should always be on the client side.

There’s tons of regulatory hurdles to operating any kind of money transmitter, at least in the US. Also, Taler is designed to be reversible which is problematic in some situations. The opposite is of course problematic in other situations.

Chaum’s original digicash patents are long expired by now. I wonder if those schemes should be revisited.