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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Good time to shamelessly plug valetudo, if your vacuum robot is supported.

    With this, it does not access the public internet, and still functions the same as without rooting it. You just can’t manage it if you’re not home, unless you have some VPN set up or home assistant integration. But I don’t know when I ever wanted to manage/watch my vacuum robot when I’m not home. Some sort of offline mode should be legally required for these kinds of devices that don’t really need it. “Does not need an app to work” has become a major selling point for me for things, alongside “has physical buttons”.

    Also drop me a message if you’re in switzerland and need an unsoldered valetudo breakout board, I still have around 5 left.








  • I think there’s still a lot of room to explore without abandoning the utopia setting. like we usually only see the spaceship stuff, but what about a more political drama taking place on member worlds, that kind of thing, i think it could be amazing.

    also, as you say, it’s been done for 60 years. Might as well do the same thing over again for a new generation that hasn’t seen tos/tng/ds9. They don’t know it yet, so it’s not overused, and the TOS audience wouldn’t be the target audience anyways. and could still explore new topics. the audience isn’t the same, our world isn’t the same, making the same show again would still not be boring as it be a completely different thing.

    Both approaches can work imo and have a place, without the need to go more dystopia.



  • Don’t know about the second point, but on the first, there’s a online newspaper here that does it pretty well. It’s like 240$ a year, but with the option to pay however little/much you want. the articles can be shared freely (no paywall, though i think since a year ago you need to enter your email to read, used to be completely free to share), but can’t be discovered/found unless you’re subscibed. it’s split into two legal entities, the newspaper that employs the journalists and a second non-profit that actually collects the payments and that every subscriber is allowed to vote in, elect leadership for etc. that works out guidelines for the newspaper part to follow.

    has been working pretty well for several years now and it’s one of the last few places of quality, independent journalism in my country