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- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 7 hours ago:
Generally speaking Trump is not getting into an alliance with Russia, but rather joins the “multipolar” club of imperialists that want to carve out their own sphere of influence with out the others interfereing. China agrees with this but there are other reasons why the interests of the US and China still clash.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 8 hours ago:
Woodpecker is more mature and I can control access better since I am not the only one using my Forgejo. But I think at some point the built in ones might reach feature parity.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 10 hours ago:
Experimented with selfhosting a Woodpecker CI as a complement to my Forgejo.
Works quite nicely, I just need to set up a native ARM64 agent as the overhead of cross compilation on x86_64 is quite big.
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
XMPP also has a working ActivityPub bridge. But I think at some point these bridges are a bridge too far.
Software like Friendica or Hubzilla that can speak multiple protocols including AP are clearly part of the Fediverse, but things that need 3rd party bridges IMHO are not, as the creators clearly do no intend them to be part of it. Otherwise Xhitter would be also part of the Fediverse as bridges exist(ed in the past at least).
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The title already gives it away 😜
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 5 days ago:
There was a Vietnamese instance for a short while, but it seems like they got scared off with how restrictive their governments internet policy is.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 5 days ago:
There is (was?) an Indian one… but run by hindutva right-wing nationalists, so I think we can skip that one.
There is also one that is located in Japan, but no idea if it can be described as an instance for Japan.
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- Comment on Self-hosted home server project - call for competent advisory opinions 5 days ago:
Just install Linux on the laptop and start experimenting.
Yunohost is very easy, but something like Debian or Fedora Server Edition will be more flexible.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Charity is not the same as mutual aid anyways, even though I have also seen “mutual aid” requests on the Fediverse that were clearly asking for charity.
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 5 days ago:
Matrix mobile clients got worse, yes 😅
Otherwise not really. Three years ago Conversations was quite good already, although the newer forks Cheogram and Monocles added some nice convenience features.
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 5 days ago:
Xmpp itself works great. The slidge.im bridges are relatively new and your mileage will vary. Matrix, Discord and Telegram works ok, Signal & Facebook messenger have issues right now, WhatsApp is a bit tricky to set up properly.
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 5 days ago:
Works here 🤷
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 5 days ago:
It basicallly allows you to remote control an existing Matrix account on a remote homeserver. Works quite well.
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 5 days ago:
Matrix servers have the problem of highly variable resource use.
Basically if you only use it for some light chatting with friends and family and some niche topic public rooms it isn’t very heavy.
But if any user of your homeserver joins any busy rooms or uses the bridges to join busy public Telegram channels or such, it will quickly outgrow the resources of a reasonably priced VPS.
Personally I would rather recommend you to set up an xmpp server, which can include a gateway to Matrix and other services, but architecturally is much more lightweight and has better mobile clients.
- Comment on Nextcloud pod with Podman + Quadlet 6 days ago:
Solid setup! Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Can I move my nextcloud account from a provider to my own server? 6 days ago:
You might be able to ask for a SQL database export that you could try to import into your own Nextcloud instance (with the same version).
- Comment on Just Because 1 week ago:
Please ask the Greenlanders nicely first. For a life time supply of marple sirup they might even agree to join you 😅
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 week ago:
That completely misses the point I was trying to make you understand. But I guess you are a bit too deep in the bezzle to understand it (yet).
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 week ago:
Yet you fail to see the forest for the trees…
A system that makes it so trivial to scam people, is a system made for (and likely by) scammers, even if it has other good ideas as well.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 week ago:
Nono, it is not all just a scam. It is just {insert list of pretty much all relevant actors} that are scammers, the idea itself is totally legit! /s
Futher reading: drewdevault.com/…/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disaster.ht…
- Comment on What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? 1 week ago:
The Youtube algorithm that pushes videos (and thus advertisement income) is very opague and there is a kind of mystic cargo cult by many creaters on Youtube trying to game it (but they usually end up being manipulated by Google instead). Suggestions to move outside of this cult is often met with a lot of hostility as they don’t want to endanger their imagined connection with the algorithmic gods.
- Comment on Terraform Industries actually created synthetic methane from sunlight, water, and air 1 week ago:
That’s why I mentioned it as the process is similar but much more efficient.
The problem with ammonia is mainly that it is poisinous to handle (and very smelly) and burning it in engines without exhaust scrubbing releases nitric-oxides that caused the famous “sour rain” issues of the 1980s, but both are relatively minor technical issues.
- Comment on Terraform Industries actually created synthetic methane from sunlight, water, and air 1 week ago:
Pretty much anything one can think off because this methane production from normal air is so incredibly inefficient.
The most obvious alternative would be to use the abundant nitrogen from the air and produce ammonia with it, which is both an energy storage and an important precursor for artificial fertilizer production.
- Comment on Terraform Industries actually created synthetic methane from sunlight, water, and air 1 week ago:
Economically feasible compared to other option what to use the excess electricity for, even when you factor in remote location issues.
- Comment on Terraform Industries actually created synthetic methane from sunlight, water, and air 1 week ago:
This has the same problem as CO2 capture technologies, that is the relatively low CO2 concentration in the air.
The only way to make this even remotely feasible are end of pipe solutions where you directly capture the exhaust of a fossile fuel combustion process. But that in turn is at best a temporary band aid.
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- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 1 week ago:
Yanis Varoufakis has done a few interviews and videos on the topic which you can find on YouTube.
Some large industries are doing that, yes. But due to very low gas prices until 2022, much of the industry has slept on the issue and now with general economic headwinds are not necessarily prioritizing such investments due to other bigger problems.
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 1 week ago:
Ok, lots to unpack in this video, but the primary issue is that it is highly US centric and doesn’t apply very well to other large electricity markets like the EU.
Here in the EU there is already a very high percentage of renewable electricity generation, often exceeding 70% of the total.
But we have hit a wall not because of too much competition or low profitability, but the exact opposite.
In the EU the power generation is primarily owned by a few large companies, basically an oligopol. These own both large renewable and fossile fuel plants.
The video is correct in how it describes how electricity spot markets function, but has a blind spot in how it can be gamed if a few large companies conspire in keeping the electricity a mix.
By ensuring the demand is rarely fully covered with cheap renewables, but rather keeping a few expensive to run gas-fired plants in the mix, they can collect the price for the gas powered electricity even for the cheap renewables and thus make record profits as long as they keep the market captured like that.
As a result electricity prices for private and industrial consumers are high, despite a large percentage of cheap renewables, and this is a huge barrier for the much larger non-electricity energy consumption sector to electrify.
- Comment on Hubzilla or Akkoma? 1 week ago:
Having experience with running both, I would recommend GoToSocial instead 😅
Akkoma isn’t too heavy, but the setup is a bit convoluted and there is almost no support what so ever if you run into problems.
Hubzilla has interesting features, but use as an AP fediverse instance is an afterthought at best. It kinda works, but if that is the part you are most interested in, I would not use Hubzilla for it.