Have been running on the 8.0 RC for a week now. Very nice release, and imho the important part isn’t even mentioned: they upgraded the official containers to Debian Trixie, which includes a much more recent version of ffmpeg.

https://www.shotcut.org/ and https://www.openshot.org/ are other options, besides the already mentioned KDEnlive.

That’s quite impressive given the limitations.

Very few in Africa are under any sort of illusions about Russia. They just play both sides for their own benefit.

And it is anyways China that has a much bigger influence these days in many African countries.

Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn’t particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn’t help this lately.

This kind of video content is apparently not popular here 😅

But from the server logs it doesn’t seem like many people use RSS.

I don’t think many people use RSS as is, but it is surprisingly common for someone to run a bot that takes an RSS feed and post it in a chat channel or so. This obviously hides the actual usage numbers a bit.

And that example isn’t even touching on how high-speed rail is in many other ways a bondogle that does more harm than good in most cases.

I am not overly surprised by this. The humanitarian response funding has been absolutely gutted this year, and not only by Trump (for example German gov. funding is down by 50% since 2022).

Thus organisations are struggleing to keep the lights on in the many emergency responses they already previously committed to, and have also not yet structurally adjusted, so there is an administrative overhang that further swallows what little funding remains.

And without NGO pushing for it, the shallow self of what journalism has become is totally oblivious to such relatively slow moving disasters. But it also becomes a self-reinforcing death spiral with no media coverage there is little non-government donations, thus further reducing the funds available.

False advertisement is never ok.

Something is wrong with the link or website.

The idea as a PoC is not bad, but it would probably make more sense to use an open standard like GNU Taler for it and only do the data transmission over Meshtastic.

A user configurable “hardware” privacy switch is a contradiction in itself. If it can be controlled by software it can’t do what the marketing claims 🤦

Otherwise, Mediatek soc… likely riddled by binary blob drivers and bad mainline kernel support, but lets see.

Conversations/Cheogram are excellent XMPP apps for Android that are freely available on F-Droid.

Nice to hear that they started operations now.

I found this bit interesting:

The Geretsried project will ultimately provide, in annual terms, 8.2 megawatts of electricity to the grid or about 64 megawatts of heating to the nearby town.

Emphasis mine… so I would guess they focus on electricity production during the summer months?

Such a close loop system has a bit of a low-grade waste heat problem during summer months though, even when using it to produce electricity. I guess we will see more heated public outdoor swimming pools again if this technology takes off.

If would need to be patched in on Linux kernel level, which is annoying to say the least.

If someone is offering a public wifi, there is a reasonable expectation that other people sitting in the same cafe for example can’t listen in on what you are doing on your device. As older wifi encyption standards are easily compromised, this requires enforcing a semi-recent wifi-standard. You can of course make your own judgement in your own home, but in a public space it is different.

As for SSL certificates… this isn’t only a captive portal issue. If your device has such outdated root certificates that you run into issues already at the captive portal, you will have also issues with each and every website that uses https. Root certificates are only cycled out of use for good reasons, such as them becoming compromised, so by using an super old root certificate on your device you are wide open to MITM attacks on supposedly secure connections.

It wouldn’t actually come with a case or a PSU, so it is fairly easy to ship. The bigger question would be what your setup is and how comfortable you are with getting things running.

Hetzner probably has some spare modules…

Ok I tried to allow-list some search engine spiders in the robot.txt, however they will probably still just run into the AI scraper block if they act too shady.

But honestly, I highly doubt we will get much traffic from Google search. It’s completely gone to shit these days.

Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.