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  • The specified currents are:

    • USB 2.0 is 500mA,
    • USB 3.0 is 900mA

    Since most USB hubs in PCs are USB 3, you can guess that they can push 900 mA regardless. Also, PCs are using internal USB hubs nowadays and often they don’t regulate a single USB outlet but the cumulated power the hub is pushing. This isn’t necessarily safe, but this makes a couple of hubs capable of pushing 1000mA or even more on a single outlet, even though it is not specified this way.

    All in all: You could be fine by doing this, depending on the overall power draw of your device. But probably working on a USB 3 port.







  • I think you got that one wrong.

    Open source is not a license. Open source literally just means that the source is openly available. It does not include the right for you to reuse or change any of the source.

    That’s why most of the time, people are talking about “Free Open Source Software” (FOSS) when they think of openly licensed source code.

    That’s why you can publish your project on e.g. Github (= open source) but if you don’t add a license statement, your work is still protected by an “all rights reserved copyright”. (= not free)

    Anyhow, I would not necessarily deem a project OSS, just because the used language is readable by default. To me, OSS needs at least the developers intention to make it openly available.





  • Personally, I love Bludit as it is really simple, flat-file and perfect for blogging.

    However, you could also look into WriteFreely if you want something with ActivityPub (= Fediverse). Feature wise very very plain and simple, but might noch give you most of the bells and whistles as other platforms would do it. Think of it as an alternative to “Medium”.





  • This would incentivise instances to keep growing, as more users would potentially mean more income. I don’t think that this is a good idea as it conflicts the decentralized nature of the fediverse.

    I would suggest that we promote donations more. Seriously, nobody is talking about that stuff.

    Furthermore, “money” doesn’t always fix a communities infrastructure issues - people do. Most of the time, admins are a one-person-army. If people would take over work (like moderation, implementing helpful features in code, …) more often, that might help out the admins more than just throwing money at them.

    It is the same as with a lot of open source communities: It’s not all about the money, it’s about people getting active and involved and helping each other out.