mattbk1

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by mattbk1 5y ago
"If we're going to meet at noon, the sun should be straight over head, damnit." Absolutely.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
This looks amazing!
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Pleorma is easier to install and less resource-hungry, so the bar for setting up an instance is lower.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
An instance of Lemmy is free to federate (or not) with other instances on the Fediverse. Each instance can have its own code of conduct. Seems good for everyone.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Sounds similar to WinLink forms on ham radio, used to make sending structured data easier: https://www.winlink.org/WinlinkExpressForms
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Please don't joke about suicide.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
I understand your pain. Even simple things like moving posts from one channel to another aren't possible for an admin to do in Slack, although this has been basic forum functionality since...ever?
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Save Standard Time(savestandardtime.com)
4 points by mattbk1 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattbk1 5y ago
What do you see as the "huge tech cost and barrier of entry of mastodon"?
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by mattbk1 5y ago
When Gratipay existed, they didn't take a cut (financial transaction fees were covered by donor or recipient). They survived on dogfooding[1]. Liberapay operates the same way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eati
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Glad to see you're still around!
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by mattbk1 5y ago
It also includes the ability to sponsor through Liberapay, the remaining Gratipay fork.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
There was a lot of pivoting going on near the end, unfortunately. The "companies pay" version of the site wasn't around for very long.
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Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)(gratipay.news)
117 points by mattbk1 5y ago|103 comments
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by mattbk1 5y ago
As articulated four years ago: https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-...
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Cool! I found an example of a local feed here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/25796/
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by mattbk1 5y ago
StreetComplete is a great Android app to help update OSM data by asking you questions while you're out walking around. So rather than drawing new features, you're just saying "yes, this is a house/no, there is no wheelch
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by mattbk1 5y ago
In a perfect world, all of those would work in an RSS reader.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
I would add that Joplin is great because it's plain text. People keep trying to shove OneNote at us at work and all I want is one text box per note, that doesn't move around when I try to edit it.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
This is the big thing hidden behind all projects (renewables, capture, efficiency upgrades) that claim "this is the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road." Think of the savings for health and the environment if we just spe
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Snopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/
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by mattbk1 5y ago
I think the word "option" probably needs to be emphasized more here. My workplace is moving toward hybrid, which allows this option. > That won't be for everyone. But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs b
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Arrow – TNC with BLE and 2M Radio(curiouselectron.com)
1 points by mattbk1 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattbk1 5y ago
This source suggests that geological methane emissions are about 40% of total emissions: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-natural-geological-methane-emi... Oil and gas seeps notwithstanding, the vast majority of reservoir
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by mattbk1 5y ago
"Anyway" from what reference point? The gas stayed in the ground for millions of years before we poked a bunch of wells into the reservoir. If the wells are shut in correctly, they shouldn't leak appreciably. As the comment a
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Just remember that flags aren't languages.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
Good old Act 60.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
An Urban Arrow Family cargo bike. Great for kids, great for groceries, saves driving.
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by mattbk1 5y ago
I had some old theater gels around and cut them up for this purpose.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Love the RSS buttons!

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