Yeah, it's dangerous for a community to tolerate and adopt closed-source software. We should have done a better job pressuring them to license it openly.

The OSM wiki pointed me to Maperitive first, but I wish it pointed me to qgis first. We should probably edit the wiki with a huge warning banner that the code is closed, the app is full of bugs, and that it is not (and can not be) updated.

Edit: I took my own advice and added a big red box to the top of the article warning the user and pointing them to QGIS instead.

Edit 2: Do we have any way to know when the latest version of Maperitive (v2.4.3) was released? Usually I'd check the git repo, but..

Edit 3: stat on the Maperitive-latest.zip file says that it's last modified 2018-02-27 17:25:07, so it's at least 6 years old.

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)

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 :)

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

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 :)

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