Well, the title was mostly a take from this post:

• Help designing a tiny solar system

But I guess I should have said a “PV system”? Or do you have a better name?

We’re not looking to be tied to a grid outside the community. Do you have any links to recommended resources to learn more about microgrids and/or community grids?

If it were me and I understand correctly I would probably not tie the systems together.

Well, the loads of the buildings are different, so tieing them together would be very beneficial. For example, one building is a workshop with lots of power tools and heavy machinery and some other buildings (with equal sq meter rooftops) are residential (with less energy requirements)

This seems to suggest that you have to get it from lemmy when you first uploaded the image

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/505#issuecomment-583784057

Thanks, but I’m asking because I didn’t find the reference documentation especially helpful.

It says I need the “delete token” or “alias”. How do I get that for a given URL?

I’m looking for an example that describes how to construct the commands for the API calls knowing only the URL of the image.

No, please do not deactivate downvote functionality.

(I say this as someone who has received a lot of downvotes; they’re useful feedback that I appreciate)

Also, monero.town is currently a recommended instance on awesome-lemmy-instances (at the time there’s only 7 recommended instances, and monero.town is one). If this instance deactivates downvote functionality, it will no longer be recommended as downvote functionality is one of the requirements for recommendation.

You definitely can do that, but if you’re afraid that you might stand-up and forget you’re using it, then you probably shouldn’t.

It’s probably enough to just use the default trigger that locks your screen. Or, once you get comfortable with it, set it to shut down your computer. Most people don’t need to shred their FDE keys, unless they’re facing torture.

In fact, we make it difficult to use “destructive” triggers (like the LUKS Header Shredder that wipes the FDE header) and intentionally do not include the ability to switch to it in the app. To use it, you have to do a lot of extra work. So most users don’t have this issue.

Why? It defaults to just locking your screen. So you stand-up, the magnetic breakaway cable separates, and then you just have to type your password…

If you’re the type of person that would forget to lock your computer before standing up and walking away, then it’s exactly what you’d want.

Can you elaborate on the phone-friendly point? I spent a long time translating it to markdown so the contents would be lemmy-native and also the source article’s website is responsive.

Thank you for your input, but I think it’s worth mentioning that that’s absolutely not true.

To be clear: I’m not asking for a no-KYC solution. I’m happy to auth with my company’s official government-issued registration records, with my personal government-issued ID, etc.

I’m not aware of any regulations that require a phone number. There are regulations (eg UK’s PSD2) that effectively require 2FA – and many banks chose to implement this requirement via phone numbers.

Hopefully one day the regulations will explicitly prohibit 2FA OTPs from being transmitted at all (ie so banks are forced to use secure 2FA methods like TOTP or U2F instead of insecure methods like SMS, email, etc). But currently I’m not aware of any KYC regulations that require a phone number from the customer.

Thanks for PMing me. I’ve left my comments here

• https://monero.town/post/1146423

In addition to being vouched-for by ProxyStore, we also have the green check box on Monerica. If you have specific criticisms of our product, please let us know. Mostly we’ve got “you’re a scam because everything blockchain is a scam.” – but I would expect better from the monero community.

Not sure how providing journalists, activists, human rights defenders, crypto traders, etc with open-source hardware kill cords makes us illegitimate…

Sorry folks, just seeing this. Obviously I do not think I’ve posted spam.

1. I only post at most one link per month. I have no idea how one could consider publishing content that infrequently to be spam.
2. I post once in every relevant community on lemmy. Again, that’s not spam; that’s the nature of the fediverse. As there’s so many “world news” communities, I am pretty annoyed when users don’t take the time to post a link to an important news story to all of the “world news” comms.
3. Obviously many communities found value in my posts, as can be seen by the upvotes.

I make an effort to only post to communities that I think the article is relevant-to. But If someone thinks that an article is not relevant to the community in which it was posted, they can downvote it. That’s what the button is for.

You associate everything that can be bought with cryptocurrency as a scam? It sounds like you haven’t even read the post. I spent a lot of time making it easily accessible here on Lemmy. You don’t even have to click the link. Just scroll-up and read :)

Yes, it’s clearly disclosed in my profile that I am the founder of the BusKill project.

This is a PSA that our sale has started. I’ve had inquiries from members of our community asking about Black Friday sales.

10% off is barely any discount anyway.

Sorry, we’re a very small open-source shop. I’ve paid myself nothing so-far. The price just barely breaks-even for the business.

All of this is explained in-detail in “The Finances” section here.

Prices would drop dramatically if we could do production runs (and actually sell) >10,000 units at a time. Currently we only sell a few cables per month. If you want to help, please tell all your security-conscious friends about BusKill :)

How exactly did you come to the conclusion that this is a scam? We’re a fully open-source hardware & software project that’s been around for a few years. If you don’t want to buy from us, we go out of our way to help users build their own 3D-printed BusKill cables (currently in prototype stage).

• https://www.buskill.in/tag/3d-printing/

Our software is free as in speech and free as in beer under the CC BY-SA and GNU GPL licenses.

• https://github.com/buskill/buskill-app

Hi, this is not spam but a useful PSA that’s full of information, not just about the sale.

BusKill is useful for many groups, including human rights defenders, activists, journalists, whistleblowers, etc. You can read more about the use-cases of our community at our documentation here:

• https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/introduction/what.html#who-uses-buskill

Yes, BusKill works with any USB drive.

• https://github.com/buskill/buskill-app

In fact, the BusKill cable is just a USB Drive. The only thing “fancy” that it has is a magnetic coupler in the middle of the 1-meter cable so that it will breakaway at any angle. But, if you’d like, you can build your own. The instructions are here:

• https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/hardware_dev/bom.html

It’s run by the folks at dys2p.

Besides running ProxyStore in Leipzig, they have published some pretty great articles:

• Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
• Revealing Traces in printouts and scans
• On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS

You can follow them on Mastodon here https://chaos.social/@dys2p

Yes BusKill works similarly – any USB drive can use the BusKill software

• https://github.com/buskill/buskill-app

The BusKill cable is just nice because it includes a magnetic breakaway, so it works when the laptop is snatched-away at any angle. There’s actually a ton of anti-forensics software like usbkill and BusKill; we enumerate them all on our documentation’s Similar Projects section

• https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/attribution.html#similar-projects

You may want to check ^ it out :)

I made a video of this (demo in Windows, MacOS, Linux, TAILS, and QubesOS) with the old DIY model here (sorry for the terrible audio quality)

• https://www.buskill.in/demo-2/

We’re currently working on an updated video with someone who is much better at video production than me; it should be finished in early 2024.