The Ford government is driving up energy costs and polluting more by ignoring the lowest cost source of energy - renewables.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
For the February newsletter, we highlight why openness fundamentally conflicts with how Big Tech makes money by forcing people into ecosystems that only the company controls.
Read on about how being open is our core innovation, learn about our new merch store, and more 👇🏼
#Newsletter #HomeAssistant
No data on customer satisfaction with this change? They seem more interested in pumping the credentials of the CTO than indicating whether this is pure cost cutting or if it will drive the customer base away from an already frustrating experience
This is a genuinely great watch, even if you don't need convincing about electrification.
Here's one for anyone looking for a not evil alternative to #TikTok.
@dansup.bsky.social, the developer behind the BlueSky-compatible photo sharing app @pixelfedapp.bsky.social, has created a new app called Loops.video
It's ad free, community owned, and not under Trump-mandated ownership.
Trying out Flare to be able to post simultaneously to both Bluesky and Mastodon.
So far, so good.
https://github.com/DimensionDev/Flare
Available in F-droid (and the other usual app stores)
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
Screenshot of "Manage apps trackers" report in /e/OS showing 98% blocked which is 3,155 in the past week
/e/OS is effective at blocking tracking, and available for most phones that run Android.
See if your device is supported at doc.e.foundation/devices and consider an OS change to protect your privacy!
People can use CoMaps for leaving notes on #OpenStreetMap. Those notes can suggest edits that are outside CoMaps' editing capabilities.
You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: www.comaps.app/news/2025-10...
David Gewirtz on ZDNet writes AI could kill open source.
I disagree.
AI changes how we write code, not what open source stands for 👇👇👇
gaelduval.com/why-ai-wont-...
Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
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I hate HP printers. One of the worst purchases.
Any thoughts on an e.foundation shift to Matrix and away from Telegram?
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
Sticking to gadgetbridge for now. Hope they get the Pebble app on there
Interesting study about effect on food when changing freezer temperature from -18 C to -15 C (and others, but -15C is a sweet spot).
Will change my freezers and monitor. 10% energy reduction would be huge if adopted more globally
www.nomadfoods.com/wp-content/u...
#driveto-15 #sustainability
Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.
You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
Was able to get these setup for local access, then something random changed in the past week and though the Kasa app can see and control them, the TP-Link integration in #homeassistant can no longer find them. These are frustrating pieces of hardware
The Greenbelt, Wasaga Beach, now protected land in Port Hope. We should all be concerned that our environment is being sacrificed for insider profits.
Ontario Greens will keep fighting to protect our farmland and green spaces.
Yup, 100% of the time so far
No worries. Gadgetbridge still works with it, so I have options. I understand the need to focus effort. Just hoped wherever the crash was coming from would be reasonably easy to fix and fix things for a larger class of users.
Submitted, thanks!
Got in on this round (yay!) But connecting to original Kickstarter Pebble results in crashes (boo). Hopefully there's enough instrumentation being sent back to help fix the crashes.
Just updated @f-droid.org.web.brid.gy and saw that #Spotube (cross platform music player) has support for @listenbrainz.org ... Connected that to my @musicbrainz.org account, and am in the process of importing the @last.fm history.
Happy to move away from Spotify as a metadata source.
After 13 months, the #bosch dishwasher is having control panel problems. Won't buy another Bosch. It's been terrible since buying it. How are these the highest rated?
People power is how we stopped Ford's Greenbelt scheme and it's what's going to stop Bill 5.
Thanks to the @whhgreens.bsky.social for organizing this event.
It's definitely worth people exploring end-to-end encrypted photo storage such as Ente. Kind of crazy how many deeply personal images are shared with companies that have no respect for their users' privacy
This is a fun vid from @climatetown.bsky.social
youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw?...
