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What is Solarpunk?

A SolarPunk Manifesto

Basic Rules:

For any community related question or to just test some function: !meta@slrpnk.net

Try our Photon & Alexandrite frontends.

Or try our lightweight UI and Voyager mobile UI.

All accounts also work with XMPP chat automatically incl. our Movim client.

If you need to jointly brainstorm on your next Solarpunk text, try our Etherpad.

And don't miss our Wiki.

founded 2 years ago
ADMINS

Where solarpunks organize for a better world!

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Spooky nights have come and gone,
A new monthly thread, but we shan't drag on.
Come one, come all, do join us down below,
Us Admins read every comment, dontcha know.
Share your news, your fun, your most wondrous thoughts,
The server, by the by, lives now upon the cleanest solar watts!

And thus, let us welcome November.


🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

We have a new community thanks to @CurlyWurlies4All, who created !enshitification@slrpnk.net, a place to document and discuss the downward trend of the tech world as described by Cory Doctorow.

Or maybe you're interested in how you or your community can better respond to the upcoming changes due to climate change? You might want to check out !disasterresponse@slrpnk.net, which gathers together some excellent articles and guides on preps, mutual aid, and disaster response.

But what if you have a burning question about solarpunk problems, solutions, or ideas? Something that makes you do the chin grabby thing and ponder about the future? Well why not ponder about visiting !asksolarpunk@slrpnk.net and drop a big 'ol brain tingler in there! (I'm sorry).


⚕️ Experts & Fighting Misinformation 👩🏿‍🔬

We recently received a report for a post spreading potentially dangerous misinformation in !antidepressants@slrpnk.net, and as the creator and mod of that community is MIA, we had to determine ourselves if the report was legitimate. We eventually determined that the post wasn't misinformation, but as we admins are not medical experts, it took a fair amount of effort to research.

With how potentially dangerous medical misinformation can be, and with how widespread it is online, this situation highlights the importance of having someone qualified to root out that mis-info on subjects where it has the possibility of doing serious harm. We've decided to lock the community to prevent the possibility of that occurring in the future, at least until someone with the ability to weed out that harmful information wishes to take over moderating the community.


🛠️ Technical Updates 📡

Despite last month's announcements, not much actually happened so far. We are currently considering pushing back the Photon frontend migration until the new Svelte5 based version stabilizes, but are optimistic that it will bring a nice speed improvement.

We are currently struggling a bit with IP/DNS issues, as our contract with the glass-fiber internet provider does not guarantee a fixed IP (the joys of DIY hosting...). After nearly five years of never changing it, they seem to have made some backend changes and now it seems to randomly change some time. For now, we put an automatic monitoring and DNS updating in place as a mitigation, but this is not ideal on some slow updating DNS mirrors. It would be possible to upgrade to a contract with a fixed IP, but it would require some negotiations as their default offer for that has a lower upload bandwidth. On the upside, it might finally allow IPv6 connections. For now, we will probably wait and see how often this happens and how well our mitigation works.

Our Movim XMPP chat and blogging service has also seen some updates with some bug fixes and additions of "Briefs" as a sort of microblogging feature. This is not compatible with Mastodon etc., but you might have some fun with it nevertheless. The upcoming group video/audio calls are still a work in progress and will hopefully arrive by the end of the year or so. In addition, we updated the Ejabberd XMPP server to the latest 24.10 version, which includes some nice bug-fixes and a few new behind the scenes features.


Solar-Powered Servers ☀️

We have not really analyzed our power consumption via the newly installed solar panels, and it has been a bit rainy the last month, so production has not been optimal. By a guesstimate, we covered about 70-80% of the total electricity needs of our servers, with some days of significant surplus but insufficient battery storage capacity. In a few months we will probably have a clearer picture how well it fares over the winter, but so far it is better than expected.


💬 Open Discussion 🗨️

It wasn't just a poem, we really do like it when you share with us your news, questions, happenings and thoughts. If it's about the instance, the fediverse, or anything else you think is on topic (like how you created that new community? You know the one), this is the time to slam it (or gently place it, that's cool too) down below!

We hope you all had a great October and fun filled Halloween. If we're lucky, maybe November will start with a touch of Steve McQueen. :)

...I'll stop now.

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Is it over for the American Auto industry?

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IT DECIDED TO BLOOM!

Spoiler, sad newsIn dirt. Outside. Not in hydro.

What did I learn? Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) seems to need a cold shock and/ or short days to get the signal to bloom.

This means, that I probably (hopefully) just need to wait until the days get shorter. Optimistically. Or, worse, it needs cold temperatures, which means, that I have to place every pot with the bulbs inside onto my balcony, making the indoor plant aspect obsolete.


Also, I accidentally dropped a pot, so I had to repot the already germinated bulbs.

I noticed that the skin of them peeled off and started rotting. I really hope that this won't attract too many fungus gnats, or I'll get mad. This means, that I have to flush the pots now regularily to get off any dead plant matter. This fucking sucks man.

I really really hope that I even like the taste of saffron. This is such a fucking pain. If it also tastes like grandpas' arse, like the only time I tried commercial saffron, I'm gonna cry man.

Cheers.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15393046

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I'm not sure their method of assessing ability to respond is quite there — a lot of it is about community-building, and the things they use (eg: spending on shared infrastructure) are very rough proxies for that. Still, it's making an effort in a direction that I haven't seen others do.

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IT DECIDED TO BLOOM!

Spoiler, sad newsIn dirt. Outside. Not in hydro.

What did I learn? Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) seems to need a cold shock and/ or short days to get the signal to bloom.

This means, that I probably (hopefully) just need to wait until the days get shorter. Optimistically. Or, worse, it needs cold temperatures, which means, that I have to place every pot with the bulbs inside onto my balcony, making the indoor plant aspect obsolete.


Also, I accidentally dropped a pot, so I had to repot the already germinated bulbs.

I noticed that the skin of them peeled off and started rotting. I really hope that this won't attract too many fungus gnats, or I'll get mad. This means, that I have to flush the pots now regularily to get off any dead plant matter. This fucking sucks man.

I really really hope that I even like the taste of saffron. This is such a fucking pain. If it also tastes like grandpas' arse, like the only time I tried commercial saffron, I'm gonna cry man.

Cheers.

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As the number of observations submitted to the citizen science platform iNaturalist continues to grow, it is increasingly important that these observations can be identified to the finest taxonomic level, maximizing their value for biodiversity research. Here, we explore the benefits of acting as an identifier on iNaturalist.

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The Climate Policy Institute attending the UN summit was founded by a state-backed think tank which has received fossil fuel funding.

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Archived copies of the article:

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Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”

The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty.

This represents a reversal of what the same groups were told at a similar briefing held in August, when Biden administration representatives raised hopes that the U.S. would join countries like Norway, Peru, and the United Kingdom in supporting limits on plastic production.

Nearly 70 countries, along with scientists and environmental groups, support the latter. They say it’s futile to mop up plastic litter while more and more of it keeps getting made.

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France's Defender of Rights urges the government to address climate change's impact on children. The organisation outlines several key recommendations in a report released Wednesday to mark United Nations World Children's Day.

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A new analysis finds that the parts of the country where HIV prevalence is high are also some of the most at-risk areas for climate disasters.

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