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I just remembered the famous story about how the original ARM processor had extremely low power consumption by accident, so much so that it could run off leakage current. [1] I wonder if any recent ARM application processor (not a microcontroller, but something with an MMU that can run Linux) has power consumption that low. And if so, how does it fare on benchmarks?

[1] Hacker news thread with citations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…

The ARM chip was low power essentially by accident. The designers wanted to keep... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #IAQ advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.

When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #MatrixConf have been monitoring the air quality, adjusting ventilation, and noting when things are concerning. I never even had to ask!

The trick is making the invisible visible, and giving people the tools to make informed decisions.

... and in case you're curious, here are the live data feeds for the event!

LAB Green: aranet.cloud/public/b7v923hk
LAB1: aranet.cloud/public/r52ec3cg
LAB3: aranet.cloud/public/wnh5g37q
LAB4: aranet.cloud/public/v8m3c3w3
Organizer Room: aranet.cloud/public/dx9vb3r9

A screenshot of a dashboard showing CO2 levels across five rooms in a conference. CO2 levels are running between 508 and 693, with some dramatic spikes here and there. (The REALLY dramatic spikes are when someone picked up the sensors to inspect them up close. Don't worry, our rooms never actually had 6000 ppm CO2! We maxed out at about 1500 ppm CO2 yesterday.)
#iaq #HealthAndSafety #matrixconf
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

rudokemper.github.io/google-ma…

A screenshot of the "Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps" tool.

Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps

rudokemper.github.io
@Organic Maps
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ArcaneChat (previously known as #DeltaLab) an alternative Delta Chat client for #Android is now available in official F-Droid store!

If you already have it you can securely continue to upgrade it now from F-Droid (or #IzzyOnDroid) thanks to #ReproducibleBuilds which ensures the apk matches the source code and not me nor F-Droid is manipulating the binary 🎉

f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.d…

#encryption #decentralization #anonymous #email #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #fdroid

Screenshot of the app's chatlist with header text: "Secure Encrypted Chats"
header text: "No phone number or any private data required"
an screenshot of a conversation in a family chat, some visible features: voice messages, images, emoji reactions to messages. There is a header text at the top: "reliable instant messaging"
screenshots showcasing in-chat mini-games one of a chess game another of 2048 tile-merging game, a header text between the two screenshots says: "interactive mini-apps in chats"
#android #email #fdroid #encryption #anonymous #decentralization #deltachat #DeltaLab #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid #arcanechat
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#blocklist update:

Added ts.net to my spammy-subdomains.txt list. While I have been aware of this for the past year, the number of subdomains on fedi has increased and the spam risk is too great (at least one person reported spam).

I should have added this months ago, to be honest: free easily-created subdomains and partially-managed hosting (networking) all in one for a product with sufficient popularity without heavy moderation of spam generally spells out a terrible place way to run an instance. Get a domain name.

For more about spammy-subdomains, see the supplementary blocklists section of my fediverse blocklists.

#BlockList
in reply to Seirdy

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Seirdy

blocklists

Moreover, I’ve had an increase in requests to add entries to shared blocklists. I normally don’t take requests for shared lists except in extreme situations, and in those cases I only do overrides as part of the process documented in the article. If I think an override is controversial, I ask a couple sources most likely to disagree; if multiple sources are opposed to adding an entry that overrides consensus, I don’t.

The point of FediNuke is to show what basically everyone agrees should be blocked, and that leaves out a lot of awful (and less-awful) entries. The goal isn’t to make a blocklist that’s enough; it’s to make a blocklist whose entries you probably agree with. As the docs say, this list is not comprehensive. It’s a huge compromise. There’s a reason why our blocklist isn’t just FediNuke; FediNuke is a list to compare other lists to, or a starting point for blocklist-skeptics. If you choose to trust FediNuke (and it’s fine if you don’t; I’m not “making” anybody use it on principle), then your list should eventually be a superset of what you import from it.

#FediNuke

#fedinuke
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Российская Федерация — светское государство. Религиозные объединения отделены от государства. Обеспечивается светский характер образования в государственных и муниципальных образовательных организациях.

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finally figured out why @mozilla's rejection of the #fediverse is bothering me so much: i had no idea mozilla.social was open to the public. i thought it was only for their employees.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m…

so am even angrier because this "experiment" was bullshit.

if i, one of the most eager early adopters of tech on the planet didn't get that mozilla.social was open to everyone, then it's their fault millions didn't flock to the platform.

Mozilla Social FAQ | Firefox Help

Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.
support.mozilla.org
#fediverse @Mozilla
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Want to use a cheap eSIM plan but don't have an eSIM compatible phone?

Try an eSIM adapter! These nifty cards are basically removable eUICCs that you can provision eSIM profiles onto.

The one I'm recommending uses an open source app to manage profiles. The app in question is OpenEUICC, a fully open-souce LPAd implementation for Android. Other eSIM adapters use proprietary, closed source apps and require account sign-ups.

More details can be found in this article: androidauthority.com/esim-adap…

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