🔋 Farphone Project Powers Up Safely Without a Battery
A clever and responsible hack that blends environmental awareness with solid engineering practice, showing how sustainability and safety can coexist in grassroots tech innovation.
A new update to the ‘farphone’ project—a Fairphone 2 repurposed as a web server—details how the creator removed the lithium battery after community safety concerns. The device now runs directly on external power, demonstrating a practical and sustainable approach to DIY hardware reuse.
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🕵️♀️ Bringing Sexy Back — How Internet Surveillance Killed Eroticism
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🧑💻 Petition Seeks Recognition of Open Source Work as Civic Service in Germany
A timely proposal that reframes open-source development as civic participation, emphasizing its public value and the need for institutional recognition.
A German petition proposes that open-source contributions be officially acknowledged as a form of volunteer service. It argues that such work sustains vital digital infrastructure but remains unrecognized in legal and financial frameworks, urging policy reform to equate digital and traditional civic engagement.
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