jadero

@jadero@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community server for a local community⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent! I’ve just started my own investigations in the same direction, so please keep us posted on your progress.

  Have you looked at Friendica? It requires more of a server than what I’ve got, but it looks pretty good to me.

  A couple of days ago, I set up a GoToSocial instance. It’s still alpha software, but it looks pretty good so far and is a lot less resource intensive than Mastodon. It’s also server-only, but the clients I tried all worked with it just fine.

  I’ve been able to follow people on regular Mastodon instances, but haven’t interacted outside my instance beyond mere following.

  It was easy to get going on “bare metal” (no Docker), although I had to start over once because of a documentation gotcha. (The instructions as-is will leave you with an old version instead of the newest version.)

  FWIW, I wrote up my experiences here.

  For truly personal servers (single account), there is seppo.social, but I haven’t figured out how to actually getting it running! 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 5 schematics, repair, and recycling documentation is now available⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I follow the project very casually. If I knew for sure that it would work properly on the SaskTel network, I’d follow it a lot closer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming your math is right, a different way of imagining this is that 20 of these wipe out all other power generation systems with enough overproduction to power desalination and/or carbon capture from the atmosphere.

  I know that there are currently problems with both of those systems, but at least carbon capture is going to have to be sorted out once we have excess capacity. Otherwise, whatever climate we’ve created will remain for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.

  Of course, one slight problem is that this would need to be replicated worldwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Maps⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone playing with this, don’t forget to try showing historical data for regions of interest that seem to have no data. Sometimes there just isn’t any data, like Manitoba, but sometimes it’s like Saskatchewan, which only misses live data.

  FWIW, as much as Alberta contributes to the problem via their tar sands, their electrical generation still seems to be greener than Saskatchewan’s.