jwildeboer

jwildeboer, 9 months ago to random

Simple calculation. If you pack solar panels on the giant flat roofs of shopping malls (and maybe add them as shade covers on the giant parking places AND add some big storage batteries, you can offer FREE charging for all EVs, cover most of the power usage of the complete shopping mall and on good days even sell electricity to the grid. Same for airports. What's not to like? cc @isotopp

jwildeboer, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Is your primary e-mail account #gmail? As in the e-mail account we would use to communicate, so not necessarily your job related e-mail. Feel free to share widely.

jwildeboer, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random German

#Digitalkompetenz

Liebe Stadt #Nürnberg und alle anderen Kommunen. Ich erkläre es noch mal GAAAAANZ einfach.

#CellBroadcast geht an ALLE die wo Handy haben. #NINA #Katwarn #DWD #WarnWetter NICHT.

Eure Aufgabe ist es die gesamte Bevölkerung zu warnen. Also ZUERST Cell Broadcast, DANN NINA/KatWarn. OK?

"Nach den Warnungen über die Warn-Apps "Katwarn" und "Nina", sowie den Deutschen Wetterdienst sei eine zusätzliche Warnung per Cell Broadcast nicht notwendig gewesen."

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/warum-gab-es-keine-cell-broadcast-warnung-in-nuernberg,TnHNd96?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=BR.de

jwildeboer, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Starlink

I recently got quite some flak for discussing what #Starlink satellites burning up in the atmosphere after their planned lifetime of 6 years could do to the stratosphere. Adding tons of aluminium and other elements as fine aerosol particles. Well. New research has just been published:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120

jwildeboer, 8 months ago to random

Follow this thread for a boring story of me delivering my German tax filings manually on time. It will include me arriving at home, printing 16 pages, taking the S-Bahn to the tax man and putting an envelope in a post box.

jwildeboer, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

My name is Jan Wildeboer, I own a Brother laser printer that JustPrints(tm) since many years and I support this message :)

(and should you think that screenshot is fake — it isn't: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine )

H/T https://0w0.is/objects/6827014a-a2be-457f-bab8-af8c4ce51b8a

jwildeboer, 1 year ago to random

You know what big electricity companies, authorities and lobbyists REALLY fear? That with (hyperlocal) solar, wind and a bit of storage capacity (batteries, hydro and yes, the batteries in EV) we can turn a lot of places/small villages/city quarters into autark zones, where households can get electricity effectively for free, with maybe a low flatrate to keep the infrastructure humming. A local, federated grid along the "help your neighbours" principle.

jwildeboer, 11 months ago to random

How many rebuilds exist of Linux distributions other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

How many people make rebuilds available of the subscription-only Ubuntu packages with security fixes?

How many other distributions develop so completely in the open as Red Hat does with the gitlab repos?

Context matters, IMHO.

jwildeboer, 4 months ago to random

Running your own e-mail server might seem complicated and geeky but will you trust those US based megacorps managing your digital existence once Trump gets elected? Especially when you’re not an US citizen? I decided many years ago.

jwildeboer, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

It's 2023 and my German internet provider (DTAG) still forces a change of public IP (v4 and v6) address every 24 hours ATM for me, making sure I cannot run my own services reliably from my server at home.

UPDATE: Changed the wording to reflect my individual problems, as it seems others do not have these effects. Still: you cannot get a dedicated IPv4 address or IPv6 range as a home user/domestic customer.

jwildeboer, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

I am Dutch :krulorange: I live in Munich, Germany. An old friend once warned me about living in Germany. It was two sentences. It still haunts me, as it seems to be so true, but I really hope it isn't.

"Germans have this wonderful talent to find new problems in every solution. Everything is "Ja, aber" (yes, but)"

Would you agree?

jwildeboer, 11 months ago to RedHat

Open offer: If you are confused by the recent #RedHat announcement on source RPMS and all the drama of "Red Hat isn't open anymore!1!!" and other weird accusations — DM me and I will happily explain the details in a call. I also agree to you recording that call and use the result in any way you want.

jwildeboer, 8 months ago to Starlink

A mixture between fascinating and disturbing. Live animation of #Starlink satellites in orbit. You can zoom in and check activated coverage too. https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink

jwildeboer, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to TeslaMotors

Looking forward to #Musk trying to trademark a Unicode symbol, in this case 𝕏 :) Maybe we should start using #x1D54F as the new Hashtag for everything #Twitter and #X #𝕏 :) http://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/1D54F.html

jwildeboer, 5 months ago to random German

#NFC geeks/nerds: where can I buy NFC cards with a #ST25TA64K chip? It seems that is the chip with the biggest storage available? Or do you know of other standard type 4 tags with 8kB or more?

jwildeboer, 1 month ago to random

Could y'all please add (paywalled) or ($) or (€) when you post links here to content behind paywalls? It is really annoying to click through several "consent banners" and other popups, thus feeding gazillions of trackers, just to get the "to continue reading, please subscribe" message. #kthxbai

jwildeboer, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random German

Idee aus Amsterdam für Innenstädte wie z.B. #München. Großes Lastenrad (elektrisch) für Sperrmüll. Kann man gratis leihen am Wertstoffhof. Abholen, nach Hause radeln, vollpacken, zurück radeln, ausleeren und wieder aufladen. Für Menschen (wie ich) die #Autofrei leben :) Quelle: https://indieweb.social/@draadloos/110802261827293661

jwildeboer, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

As instance #admin I do NOT want to moderate DMs. The last three spam waves from mastodon.social however were sent as DMs.

I therefore urge @Gargron to make it the default that DMs can only be send between users that have a follow relationship.

The current default is that anyone can send anyone DMs. I consider this to be a loophole that spammers will continue to exploit, causing a lot of extra work for site admins in an area they should keep out of, in the interest of user privacy.

#FediAdmin

jwildeboer, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

The best EV for anyone living in a city is an electric bicycle, IMHO and experience. A comfy and practical one. Not some pseudo sporty stuff. With big bags. So you can do your shopping, go out for a picknick in the park, to the lake or whatever. You don't need a car for everything. This is my daily ride. And at a bit below 900€ quite affordable, IMHO.

jwildeboer, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to internet

I am starting to miss the "hide reply" option from #Twitter. Some of my toots attract reply-guys with their typical negativity that I would really like to remove from some threads to keep the positivity of other replies alive. UPDATE: Or implemented as a Content Warning style option (“Hidden by thread owner/curator”) where the reader has to consciously click to reveal the content.

jwildeboer, 9 months ago to random

I guess I am a bit weird. But when you get solar electricity effectively for free, can use it yourself at home, maybe even store it in batteries — didn't you already get enough? Why all this fuss about selling the excess electricity? Just give it away to your neighbours, for free. Whatever gets used locally, reduces the problems on the grid, which is often used an excuse by Big Electricity to refuse to buy solar electricity. 1/n

jwildeboer, 11 months ago to fediverse

If some people say the #fediverse is a left-progressive project, it only shows how successful we collectively are to block the Nazis. Loads of far-right instances and users exist in the fediverse. Gab, anyone? But defederation and blocking makes that part invisible to most of us. They still exist and federate amongst themselves. ActivityPub, the protocol, is neutral. We decide what we want and not want. The fediverse is a herd of Venn diagrams, not a closed circle.

jwildeboer, 11 months ago to random

Guess who gets headlines, live reporting and loads of tax payed navy vessels to save the passengers?

A submersible carrying 5 passengers to look at the titanic wreck disappears and navy ships are immediately deployed to save and rescue.

jwildeboer, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random German

Alle, die ein wenig Ahnung von #Strassendesign haben warnen seit Jahren vor dieser Fehlkonstruktion, der sogenannten #Angstweiche, wo Rad- und Autoverkehr im Kreuzungsvorlauf gemischt werden, weil sie unübersichtlich und gefährlich für alle Verkehrsteilnehmer ist.

Nun ist es also passiert. LKW tötet Radfahrerin an genau dieser Stelle in #München.

Das auf der Luftbildaufnahme bei Google Maps gleich' zwei Autos den Radweg blockieren ist Zufall. Oder?

https://www.polizei.bayern.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/066275/index.html

jwildeboer, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#WhereIsMySurprisedFace

Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:

"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/