

Thanks, that’s what I had found. I will set up prosody somewhere and try…


Thanks, that’s what I had found. I will set up prosody somewhere and try…


Software company? They misspelled “private equity” in a peculiar way.


Do you run any bridge (I forget the XMPP nomenclature). One of the reasons I run matrix (synapse) myself is to have a single interface for many instant-message platforms. I’ve been looking into migrating to XMPP (im sure my matrix deployment can be slimmed down but for now it’s a behemoth taking 4 GB of RAM…) but I’ve been somewhat discouraged by the process


I sync to a local directory and then sync that with syncthing. It works.
The sync file is a big json thing, so concurrent edits are not exactly supported, but you get a pop up to warn you if you have diverging changes.


I worked in a couple of major european projects that had SLES everywhere, and I don’t remember official support being a topic at all.
What exactly is the use case for enterprise support? Where does it help and/or save money? I’m not challenging the concept, I’m genuinely curious because despite having worked in places where I assume it would make sense I have never seen it and never understood why would anybody pay for that.
Every time I see that brand in the store my mind goes “ooh black Betty, blend-a-med”…


Hard agree on IAM granularity. But breaking up things in projects limits the blast radius somewhat. They’ll get there.


A heat pump is also in my future, but the funds need to recover from this round of energy efficiency interventions first.
But even before then, having resistive heating might not be the best (or the cheapest) but I love to be able to measure all my house energy needs in kWh without conversions (sure if you have gas you can count cubic meters, but it’s a lot of approximations).


I’ll tell you when I have seasons behind me! It’s a new installation :)


10 kWp but ~45% of it on the northside. We’re in south Germany, 49ish degrees north. We redid the roof (bought a house with resistive heating and almost no roof insulation… Picked up a bit of a project here) and covering 60% of the south side with panels is required by law (at least to get some subsidy), but we would have done anyway. Don’t use this day do evaluate the project :)


I don’t like walking upside down, so I stick to the top of the sphere :D


I took the screenshot then and I was too lazy to do it again before posting :) Also, sometimes the integration that does the prediction becomes more realistic and the difference would have been less strong. But it looks like it didn’t re-evaluate the prediction, and the second half of the day was even worse :)

You are correct of course, generation happens without direct sunlight. In fact, today it was raining and I never saw the sun (until literally 5 minutes before sunset, go figure). It’s actually awesome to get what I get on a rainy day, jokes aside.
I can confidently say that there was no direct sunlight involved today because I have panels on the northwest side, that doesn’t get any direct sunlight these days, and they behaved just like the south. Even pale sun makes the south take off way past whatever the north string can do. Didn’t happen today



I didn’t know Maybe, but I take the opportunity to suggest Actual, which took an opposite path (born as a closed SaaS solution, and upon commercial unviability was turned FOSS, and, boy, am I grateful for that).


Well it’s not “solved”, and they seem to be increasing in number, but its not like that became the “hive” (which I’m sure it’s not the right name for ants). Way way more cocoons are appearing and disappearing than the average amount of “nurses” shuffling them around. And crucially, while they walk around a metal beam inside, they don’t seem to care about my tomatoes and my plants. The feeling I get is that they are guests. I’m ready to regret my choice of not acting, but so far they keep behaving.


slrpnk.net was gone for a while, and I didn’t update the thread, but I wanted to thank you again, @StopSpazzing@lemmy.world We went through a cold-ish and super rainy week and into a heatwave, and while they kept shuffling their cocoons around, they seem to clean up after themselves and leave when hatched. Now, it seems like it’s an invasive species around here, and they are a bit annoying in some places (my wife’s workplace had an indoor wave of them). I’ll confirm the species when I get a chance. But for the specific case of the greenhouse, they are very considerate guests, ignoring my plants, nursing their babies, and GTFO. I think they leave the panels cleaner than they find them. A+ guests, would host again :D


The location is southern Germany. I don’t know if carpenter ants are a thing here.
They now amassed almost everything in the sections of the panels that are partially covered by the structure. It rained hard for 24 hours, so they are not shielding from the sun,
The ants are now spread on at least 4 panels (but crucially, not in the one that I flushed, fully damaging the tape). I guess it’s very humid in there, I let it bake off a bit before reinstalling it, but then I thought it would dry also while installed, given the damaged tape. The heavy rain didn’t make it worse (the openings are in a protected area)
I will have to spend the better part of a day to remove and fix all panels, so I guess I’ll observe the evolution until the weekend. I would not have the time (and the weather!) for major maintenance until then.
The garden has several spots with heavy ants activity. I naively expect that after hatching they will move out…


Yesterday night there was heavy rain, it must have been bumpy in there.
Are these crumbles a sign they hatched or broken? There seem to be more ants around today… Do they come out of that cocoon fully independent?

They also seem to be accumulating under the frame, so it might be already getting a bit too hot for them?

It’s fun to watch, I hope I don’t regret it 😅


Thank you! That seems to agree with what I observed in a mostly shady southern panel, where I observed the same early in the year, and while there are still some, they seem to have moved on (well, as long as I dont look on the north side :))
That is fascinating about them using it as incubator. I forgot that ants don’t all lay eggs… So they must be taking them there from where the queen lives?
I’ll leave them alone and observe for a while and ping you here if I have questions, thank you!
This, from the project I use to deploy my server, could be a starting point
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy?tab=readme-ov-file#bridges