Good luck with the projects — look forward to hearing how they go. đ
Year: 2018
Sounds like a plan to me – I do that sometimes – just spin up a $5/month VPS with Digital Ocean, play around with something, then tear it down again if it doesn’t work out (or keep it if it does!)
A 9V battery, some test leads and croc clips, a resistor and an LED. I am way more excited about this LED lighting up than perhaps I would have expected to be. This is loads of fun.
I’m even enjoying measuring the resistance of resistors with the multimeter and cross-checking against the reading from the coloured bands.
Having loads of fun with Make:Electronics so far. Have measured the resistance of my tongue, dunked my multimeter probes in a glass of water, and shorted a (1.5v) battery. Good stuff.
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I’m going to set up a FreedomBox. I have an old Raspberry Pi B+ knocking around. FreedomBox works on it apparently (https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/RaspberryPi) but I’m wondering if it’s going to be a bit low-spec to do much with it. Anyone know? My main uses to begin will probably be syncthing, Quassel, Radicale, and OpenVPN.
#freedombox
Interesting argument that we should view protocols as the digital means of production, more so than platforms. And that ‘protocol cooperatives’ will do more to break down capitalism than platform coops will. I think the main argument being that platform coops are inherently centralised, and that as far as challenging capital goes, we should be striving for decentralised architectures. I think the argument being we should have coops that interoperate on top of a shared protocol; not one coop that dominates an entire market with a platform.
Relates somewhat to the Statebook article, which argued that the state would serve us better if it focused on building and promoting shared protocols, not on building a Facebook alternative.
Dunno if I’m too verbose, but I’m finding 500 characters often not enough for me, specially if I’m writing about an article I’ve read.