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  • MicroOS (and its flavors) update the same way Android does; as a full image

    They don't. They update with regular packages. The updates are atomic though and are only applied at next boot, so there's less of a risk of weird breakages.

  • Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative
  • I guess that depends. If the costs to invest in storage is cheaper long term than losing money from excess energy, then energy companies would lose less money and thus could offer cheaper prices. But it would definitely help decrease or get rid of negative prices.

  • Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative
  • In isolation, it's very obviously a bad thing, because it makes solar less profitable and might slow down the switch to renewables.

    In a wider context, it can still be seen as a god thing as it means there has been a significant pivot to solar already and luckily it's also a very solvable problem. There just needs to be more energy storage.

  • Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
  • This is the best FOSS keyboard that's under active maintenance.

    I assume that might be a reference to FlorisBoard? Because development on that one as actually picked up again, but that's only visible so far if you're using the Beta version. They're opreparing for a new full release.

  • Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
  • A lot of the mainstream apps definitely have privacy issues. They often sell data about their users menstrual cycles which can theoretically be bought by anti-abortion activists/authorities on the free market to track whether someone might be pregnant.

  • Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete
  • StreetComplete and its expert editions are definitely my favourite way to contribute to OpenStreetMaps on mobile. There's also Vespucci which allows you to do more complex stuff like add paths and shape, but the UI isn't super great imo. Organic Maps which I use for navigation actually allows you to edit and contribute quite a bit.

  • German researchers have turned a fiber optic cable into a computational device that runs some AI models, using only light, better than silicon chips.
  • Yes, the idiotic fallacy of giving greater weight to the opinion of an authority at the subject being discussed. It is no match to the logical chad move of giving weight to the opinion of a random internet commentator who claims something is nonsense without giving any reason or explanation why.

  • Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy
  • The law does make sense, if you put it into practice. In practice the dry weight amounts will probably just be checked on the street. Checking your home will require a warrant which isn't easy to come by, so they're not gonna bother about cases where it might be three or four plants or this or that many grams.

  • Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy
  • Well, who's gonna pay for your medical care when you inevitably develop drug problems/health issues. So in a socialized healthcare system, you are harming others with it.

    (And not offering treatment or making the patient pay for it which they often won't be able to, would be very inhumane imo)

  • [Feature Request] Search via Instance X/universal search

    (Hoping this post will finally make it throug now that federation issues are fixed) One of the main pain points of lemmy imo is that it is hard to find/be aware of communities your instance hasn't been connected to. In my previous app, Liftoff, I was kind of able to get around that by quickly switching to the default mode (basically guest mode for lemmy.world) and search for communities via lemmy.world, as that is one of the biggest and most well connected instances, and then subscribe via my regular account.

    I wonder if there could be a way to implement something like that in Voyager. Voyager already has a guest mode that also defaults to lemmy.world, but it's not really easily accessible anymore once logged in. Being able to add a guest account to the switcher could be a quick way to make that a bit easier. Or maybe it would make more sense to add a "search via instance X" option to the search interface directly. There's also stuff like lemmyverse that aggregrates all instances and has an even more complete community search, but that would I assume be the most labour intensive way to implement a broader search feature like that.

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    Patternz - a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'
    mastodon.social Wolfie Christl (@wchr@mastodon.social)

    Attached: 1 image As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan@eupolicy.social and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported: We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillan...

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    Good FOSS 2D animation software

    I occasionally do some 2D animations, mostly just simple silly emotes, and gimp is proving to be a bit limited. So I looked at what 2D animation stuff flathub has to offer and there are several. The ones I found and that looked promising were synfig studio, pencil2D and glaxnimate.

    Does anyone have any experience with those (or woud recommend somethibg else)? How do they stack up in terms of features, user-friendliness and maturity of the software. My only real requirement is that it should also be able to do some stuff with regular image files even if many things will probably work better with vectors. I will mostly be doing very basic beginner stuff.

    (I also posted this post here: https://feddit.de/post/3595315 )

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    Mongolia: Rise and fall of an empire

    Documentary about the general history of Mongolia starting with Genghis Khan and its impact on modern Mongolian society and culture.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)FR
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