doomaproching - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I wrote many of my own apps. (Score 1) 175

by doomaproching on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:52AM (#65557480) Attached to: 'The Future is Not Self-Hosted'

I'm a software engineer and at some point I got tired of forced updates, continuous changes that no one asks for and just got fed up with the prevailent enshitification in general.

So I started writing my own apps.

Now I've got 9 of my own apps for everyday stuff that are written to my spec, with the features I want, no recurring payments (other than super-low AWS bills; under 15 USD a month for everything). Deployed both as web app and an android app. Things like todo lists, shopping lists, financial planner connected with my bank account, a meal planner with meal templates, generation of meals and automatic shopping lists, etc. Fully fledged apps with everything I need and without everything I don't.

Plus, it's been a great self-development exercise, keeping my skills fresh.

any chance you would be willing to share the code?

Submission + - US finally backs international space "code of cond (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @12:26PM

coondoggie writes: "Perhaps it was the concern that the nearly 14 ton Russian Mars probe would land smack-dab on the White House or maybe they just come to their senses, the US State Department today said it would indeed work with the European Union and other countries to develop a formal space code of conduct.
Of particular concern is the growing amount of space trash and how the world can go about eliminating or controlling the problem. There is also the desire to keep space free of military weaponry."

Comment Awesome (Score 1) 223

by doomaproching on Thursday January 05, 2012 @12:20PM (#38597572) Attached to: Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling"

Not sure artificial light can every replicate sunlight, open sky and clouds, but kudos for trying.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication? 5

Submitted by

ltjohhed

on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @06:25AM

ltjohhed writes: "We've been using deduplication products, for backup purposes, at my company for a couple of years now (DataDomain, NetApp etc). Although they've fully satisfied the customer needs in terms of functionality, they don't come across cheap — whatever the brand.
So we went looking for some free dedup. software. OpenSolaris, using ZFS dedup, was there first that came to mind, but OpenSolaris' future doesn't look all that bright. Another possibility might be utilizing LessFS, if it's fully ready.
What are the slashdotters favourite dedup flavour?
Is there any free dedup software out there that is ready customer deployment?"

Submission + - The Fjord-Cooled Data Center (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:11PM

1sockchuck writes: A new data center project in Norway plans to use a fjord-powered cooling system, drawing cold water from an adjacent fjord to cool data halls. The fjord provides a ready supply of water at 8 degrees C (46 degrees F), eliminating the need for an energy-hungry chiller. The Green Mountain Data Center joins a small but growing number of data centers are slashing their cooling costs by using the environment as their chiller, tapping nearby lakes, wells and even the Baltic Sea.

Submission + - Troops in Afghanistan Supplied by Robot Helicopter

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:54AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Pakistan is still blockading NATO war supplies passing through the port of Karachi in response to last month’s killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by an alliance air strike. But inside Afghanistan, supply lines are about to get a lot safer for NATO’s logisticians as an unmanned helicopter just delivered a sling-load of beans, bullets, and band-aids to Marines at an undisclosed base in Afghanistan marking the first time a drone has been used to resupply a unit at war. The 2.5-ton, GPS-guided K-MAX can heft 3.5 tons of cargo about 250 miles up and over the rugged and mountainous terrain of Afghanistan across which NATO troops are scattered and can fly around the clock. "Most of the [K-MAX] missions will be conducted at night and at higher altitudes,” says Marine Capt. Caleb Joiner, a K-MAX operator. “This will allow us to keep out of small-arms range.” K-MAX will soon be joined in Afghanistan by Lockheed’s robo jeep that can carry a half a ton of supplies for up to 125 miles after being delivered to the field in a CH-47 or CH-53 helo."

Submission + - New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the M (mpa-garching.mpg.de)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @05:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map is of a quantity known as Faraday depth, which among other things, depends strongly on the magnetic fields along a particular line of sight. To produce the map, data were combined from more than 41,000 individual measurements using a novel image reconstruction technique. The work was a collaboration between scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), who are specialists in the new discipline of information field theory, and a large international team of radio astronomers. The new map not only reveals the structure of the galactic magnetic field on large scales, but also small-scale features that provide information about turbulence in the galactic gas.

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