Yeah, free for open-source projects or so. Never used it though as I either use the Codeberg one or a self-hosted one I recently set up. But for a small project I would not recommend self-hosting it as it is surprisingly heavy on server resources.

Should be possible yeah, but I think the official weblate instance is better set up for github.

Weblate. You can use the instance from Codeberg.org if your project is open-source.

The bigger question is why Matrix didn’t follow the long established standard for this, which is using @.

But I guess it fits into the general pattern of: Monolithic, Awefully Trendy ReImplementation of XMPP (MATRIX).

P.S.: it’s nice to be able to have your ActivityPub, XMPP and Email all on the same address 👍

Seems like an obvious suggestion, but Nextcloud can do that quite well.

That seems like a fun toy. Thanks for sharing.

Especially when starting out it can also be quite helpful to have a screen and keyboard attached to the server and not only SSH access.

To prevent battery issues it is often possible to limit the charge level in the bios.

Small communities don’t see much of that because only people actively subscribing usually get to see the posts. But once a community gets big enough for upvotes causing it to show up in the all feed on other instances the trolls and debate-bros show up.

https://mas.to/@skeletor

Makes fun memes.

Yes, you could continue using the old unmaintained app, but this is similar to using old proprietary app versions that lack security updates and are always at risk of stopping to work due to some changes in your OS. So that is far from ideal.

Non-commercial is really not well defined legally. For example in Germany, a public tax funded broadcaster was found in breach of a CC-BY-NC license for using an image on their website. And many similar legal examples exist. So basically anything that involves a service offered to more than one person, even if totally free and donation funded, is not safe from litigation.

And obviously, if upstream changes the license to something that triggers a hostile fork, it is unlikely that you will get a commercial license for that hostile fork. Furthermore, even if you somehow can make a deal, you will always remain hostage of that proprietary license.

FOSS licenses are explicitly designed to protect the users of the software from such potentially abusive licensing, so I really don’t think anyone will see this as an improvement.

You could probably approximate something similar with Odoo. It is a big ERP, but all modular, so you can just remove the parts that are too complex.

Well, if they want to try that they are of course free to try, but the argument has a big gaping hole:

They might not ever change the license terms afterwards for software already on your hard-drive, but they absolutely can do so for updates and likely will. Normally that would result in a fork if the new terms are bad, but who would be willing to fork software under a restrictive non-commercial license that doesn’t even allow you to collect donations for running the infrastructure?

So in the end you are basically back at square one with nothing but nice promises by them and still vendor locked.

Maybe, but the digital Euro has none of the buyer’s privacy protection of Taler.

I personally suspect that the digital Euro will not see much every-day uptake because it will be overly bureocratic and a hassle to use, but it might end up as an common way to charge your Taler wallet.

https://www.gls.de/taler is the page of the German bank.

The forum of the ongoing project has some interesting links, but is sadly not very active: https://ich.taler.net/

No, it is a payment system, not a pseudo currency. Think of it as an open-source Paypal.

It has been used as a digital voucher system on some events, and there is afaik a trial with a inofficial regional currency somewhere in Italy.

But mainly people are currently waiting for the first bank to offer an option to charge your Taler wallet with Euros. There is a German coop bank that plans to do so in the comming weeks.

This I don’t know, but probably some limitation with the control software or some similar issue.

Well in these stacks you usually have a single BMS and each battery is in series. So four units maximum is about 200-240 V and not exeeding that probably makes it simpler to build an inverter for a 240V regular house grid.

Probably just an invertor input voltage limitation.

Being worked on apparently.

https://bewcloud.com/

https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud

Is a new option I recently learned about.