carsten

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Thoughts of a nerd and software engineer -- 🇩🇪🇳🇱👫🍎🐧☕🐟🦐 -- Carsten (operator of yarn.zn80.net, a 🧶Yarn.social pod)

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There is news regarding electricity prices. Until 31 March we will pay 0.70 EUR per kWh, with a tariff of 0.753 EUR during the day and 0.608 EUR at night from 23:00 to 07:00. From April, the prices will change and be reduced to 0.509 EUR during the day and 0.450 EUR in the night tariff. In May, prices will be reduced again slightly to 0.48 EUR during the day and 0.43 EUR at night. Although we are still not at the “pre-war level”, this is a significant improvement compared to January 2023, when we still had to pay EUR 1 per kWh.

However, I am curious to see how the supplier will charge for this when we get over the 2900 kWh limit. From this value on, the law says that we have to pay a maximum of 40 cents per kWh, and after that the normal price. However, exactly how and when this will be calculated is still unclear to me. I hope that there will be no surprises and that we won’t have to pay too much.

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Yesterday was a nice day and a bad experience in 3D printing. After cleaning up the house, paying a fortune for a refill of 1.5kg of CO2 for the fish tank (24 Euros) I managed to get a hold of the Groot flower pot STL file. Unfortunately I forgot to add support to the print and had to cancel it :-(. Early, after 5 hrs, but still sad as about 50g of material wasted. Expensive wood filament :-(

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In-reply-to » @prologic Each system was created because there was someone thinking about something that this person was missing from the other systems. Now that we start connecting all these systems back together, do we then need the different systems anymore, or could we only fall back to using one system?

@prologic@twtxt.net This is undoubtedly why I went away from Hugo, Pelican, WordPress and co and wrote a small, for my needs, blog software. I also learned a lot about the Flask Framework, which I can now use to enhance our apps at work and make my boss happy. I would have chosen Go, but it was not the chosen product at work, so, sorry. KISS principle. Like almost everything in the *nix world. A small tool for a small thing. Chain it with others if you need more.

The pull-only model seems to work nice. You have multiple social networks, each one with its own unique audience. Pull things from others into your when you want.

From my point of view, I think twtxt and yarn are good as they are. The protocol s nice, easy and clean afaik. The surrounding software, makes it what it is today. Multiple clients, each having it pros and cons. The only thing I am missing is some sort of media manager for my uploaded images to yarn.social. But that is specific to this implementation and has nothing to do with the twtx protocol.

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In-reply-to » @carsten Your thoughts/opinions on Activity Pub integration with Yarn / Tstxt? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Each system was created because there was someone thinking about something that this person was missing from the other systems. Now that we start connecting all these systems back together, do we then need the different systems anymore, or could we only fall back to using one system?

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In-reply-to » @carsten Your thoughts/opinions on Activity Pub integration with Yarn / Tstxt? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net good morning. I am uncertain if this would be beneficial or not. On one hand, it would be nice to see twtx show up in my mastodon feed. Sure, on the other hand, I think it would be too much to get them here in yarn social. I like the small audience and group of people around this. It is a limited factor and a limited small nerdy group, but isn’t this why you have developed it? And people are using it? Small groups of people? Of course, you could achieve the same on any mastodon instance, but the deployment stack of mastodon is huge compared to twtx.

I would not want it. Maybe crossposting from twtxt to an activity pup instance is sth I would use.

One other question that I am asking myself, and I think I mentioned that in our email conversations, is the fact if we really need so many interconnected systems and do I or do we want to use so many different systems?

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