Interesting project, and thanks for the Parky Towers link. I'm right into low powered devices, my RaspberryPi runs off a battery pack (30000mah) and I'll look at anything that doesn't require AC. Mainly because I'm on the road a lot (off grid).

charging your iPhone inside your microwave

This definitely works. I do it every morning to charge my phone and heat my tea at the same time.

Like charging your iPhone inside your microwave.

There's something similar on Windows, where someone would tell others to "open cmd.exe" and type del System32, which would destroy the core system files. Probably the simplest form of malware to ever exist. I've heard stories of people actually falling for that.

Thank you!

Good article. Everyone of us knows a hoarder.

Good read.

I don't have the problem. I'm kind of a hoarder, but I hate spending money, so each purchase I make gets vetted intensely and I take months, sometimes years between "I need that" and "I bought it". Stuff I want, but do not need, I won't even think about buying. If I don't need it, I won't spend money on it.

So I still have a laptop from the 1990s, but I only have three laptops in total.

If I didn't passionately hate spending money for myself I would probably be very cluttered, too. When giving gifts on the other hand, I am not stingy at all.

But even as a kid I hated parting with stuff I owned. Tech or none tech. Not sure why I have such a hard time letting go of stuff I don't actually need anymore.

You have a broken link in the "Related Articles" section. The very last one. The file that it points to doesn't have a ".html" extension.

Once Space X's Starlink has increased satellite coverage of the planet, and that roaming dish coverage is enabled like mobile WIFI (currently its not, just fixed positioning of the dish at your residence with up to a 30km peripheral radius), then SSB messaging will be "always on".

Thank you. I just corrected the problem.

There is a bug on your search form. Any search result comes with a warning message:

Warning: Use of undefined constant allow - assumed 'allow' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/forms_php/search.php on line 160

The number of times this warning appears is equivalent to the number of search results returned.

Google seems to be showing the site, but only the index page. Most of the results are other sites containing links.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cheapskatesguide

It does start showing individual articles after a bit of tinkering, like doing "repeat the search with the omitted results included."

my recollection of secure scuttlebutt was that it was a cool idea but sucked in function

Should Ramble have a decentralized Internet forum?

Also, what HTML tag do I need to include in an article to get a picture to be visible beside the title on Ramble? Apparently <meta property="og:image" content=""> does not work.

Good read, and something I miss about the internet of yesteryear. Online accounts with avatars of cartoons or TV shows, online handles that were based on hobbies or interests and no two sites required the same login. A better time.

never heard of it

How friendly to free speech is riseup? It certainly doesn't present itself as such.

For example, would it be less likely to kick off somebody using their email service in a flyer they don't like than Protonmail? Everybody gushes over these little services, yet the first change they have of calling you a racist for something you didn't even do with their service, they will cut you off.

What's the point of feeding communists, who hate me, all my data voluntarily?

It's registered in AU and they have operations there, but they claim the "main servers" are in the US.

The CEO griped that secret code added to their platform, required by the law, could foul their operations or get accidentally fixed, so they certainly think they're subject to it.

Is it based there, as in, that is where the company is registered?

Or is it based there, as in, that is where the servers are?

If that's just where the company is registered, no big deal really. (As far as I know) If the servers / infrastructure for the service is there, then that is more worrisome.

Fastmail location is not really a problem, but there are others that make it the second worst e-mail provider, the first one being Hushmail. I would only use it for its JMAP thing ltt.rs supports, but most people use IMAP instead, so why bother? Just use Riseup (or Disroot if you don't have the invite code) - you don't even have to pay for it!

Fastmail is based in Australia, which subjects it to the "Assistance and Access Bill" which introduces secret warrants, gag orders, and backdoors. Like VPNs in similar jurisdictions, you can not take seriously any claims to deleting logs or other privacy trust.

I don't think so, but I think you can use the voices for anything as long as you give credit

I don't think there's any permanent solution to service providers deciding to not provide you with a service. One could hack their way through by applying workarounds where possible, although that's only temporary. Anonymity networks generally solve the tracking problem, but they come with their own issues. It's impractical to use darknets for daily tasks, especially when you have a slow connection, plus the lack of mass adoption.

I know about this, and I even learned archiving by it. Also, they included Ruqqus on the Deathwatch, even though it actually died earlier for some reason. I guess we'll just hope the Wayback Machine got most of the data.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/