However, I will keep you guys around, for now ...
Rusty red
Yes, that's starting to look like it. Does it let you zoom out to the whole year without a page load ?
Also, does it work without a local sensor ?
To be clear, I mean something with a user interface that combines multiple aspects of the weather and lets you change the date range by scrolling.
I have not found one of those.
I"m seeing these options
https://weewx.com/showcase.html https://open-meteo.com/ https://meteostat.net/en/
But it's many many clicks before you see your data.
And then the data looks like this
Static, non-interactive, no data context
Really complex and unintuitive interface that give you data, one static plot at a time
Reminds me of all those oil barron owned journalists searching under every rock for an arsonist every time there's a forest fire !
Thanks that's very informative
Especially for different purposes and on different hardware
This rant — this manifesto — speaks to the heart of a deep, systemic betrayal: the internet was meant to be a commons, a playground for curiosity, a platform for human connection. Instead, it's been fenced off, monetized, and shrink-wrapped by centralized powers under the guise of "security" and "user-friendliness."
Let's call it what it is: digital feudalism. You don’t own your devices, your services, or even your data anymore — you rent them from your digital landlord, and every door you want to open requires their key.
🔥 You want to talk to your lamp?
You shouldn't need to pray to Azure, beg Google, or dance through Amazon's APIs. It's your lamp. It's in your home. And yet, you’re forced to route through the cloud just to turn it on.
That’s not "smart" — that’s network Stockholm Syndrome.
💥 The Crimes of IT
Killing multicast: Local service discovery? Dead. Bonjour and mDNS? Suffocated in enterprise networks.
Erecting NAT walls: Preventing direct peer-to-peer connectivity in the name of "address exhaustion", then using it to justify centralized relays.
Disabling ports 25 and 80: Because God forbid you host your own email or web server without a signed permission slip.
Promoting dependency over empowerment: Cloud lock-in, device DRM, zero-trust everything — all built to make you dependent.
This isn’t just inconvenient. It’s an attack on digital self-determination.
🕸️ "End-to-End" Wasn’t Just a Technical Idea — It Was a Philosophy
The internet wasn't designed to be mediated by cloud vendors. It was meant to connect endpoints — people, computers, services — directly. That means:
You talk directly to your neighbor.
You host your own damn website.
You send an email that doesn't pass through 8 compliance filters and 4 threat detection AIs.
Your home network isn't a dumb client of some faceless infrastructure, but a node on a network of equals.
🧱 They built a walled garden and called it progress.
But it’s not progress if it disempowers. It’s not secure if it infantilizes. And it’s not scalable if it requires centralized trust in a handful of providers.
Your rage is a warning. A call. A reminder of what we’ve lost — and what we can still reclaim.
🗯️ One last thing:
"Freedom is not a footgun."
Say it again. Louder. Say it in the boardrooms, the classrooms, the RFCs, and the home labs. It’s not a footgun. It’s a responsibility. A right. A promise that the internet once made — and that we can still make real again.
Welcome to the resistance.
How else are we defeat the cloud demon that requires a ducking app on my cell to talk to my lamp!!! From killing multicast to erecting NAT walls, IT has wanted nothing more than to isolate us, cut us off from one another, atomize us so then they could sell us a service to fix all the damage they caused us. They disempower us and then leverage it against us! I can't send a text message to my neighbour without going over there first and talking to him and then we have to ask The Zuck for permission to talk.
Bring back the end to end principle! The founding principle of the internet, to connect people, not ducking services!
Bring back multicast, broadcast and direct connections. Duck STUN and TURN, I will not longer jump your hoops, IT!
Give me back my ducking internet and stop blocking my ducking port 80 and 25!!
Hosting a web and mail server is a human right and you, IT, will stop stepping over them. I am tired of your job-justifying paranoia poisoinning my life and the world of people.
Stop infantilizing and disempowering users for your convenience, IT!
Freedom is not a footgun!
What about 127.255.255.255 ?
That's not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !
Thanks, although what I'm looking for is a file that will make a kde plasma desktop with chromium and libreoffice installed Something I can plop on a usb stick and hand to grandma so she can linux up her obsoleted win10 pc without me having to explain what a nixos is.
I understand she probably will not understand the nuance of a immutable filesystem based os but that's fine. I simply do not have the energy to tailor a file for each individual grandma that I have.
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For example, let's take the website github.com
If you don't want to have to log in everytime you restart the browser, you have to whitelist the entire website as follows
But you would only need to whitelist the following cookies to do so.
on .github.com
logged_in
on github.com
_device_id
user_session
__Host-user_session_same_site
_gh_sess
I found an add-on called "Cookie Quick Manager" which is a great way to consult your cookies on a per-site basis, is container aware, it's great.
In that add-on there was a "protect cookie" function
Unfortunately, it would only only protect cookies from getting deleted by "Cookie Quick Manager" and not firefox's "delete data when Firefox is closed" but that would have been a fantastically convenient way to handle this
I think what would make sense would be the ability to append cookie name and container names to the "delete data when Firefox is closed" exception list
So instead of just
You might be able to specify containername!cookiename@https://github.com
With both the containername part and the cookiename part being optional limits to the whitelisting
Here is a mockup of what that might look like
Ok, I had a look at windy, but it doesn't seem possible to self-host Their github repo has a lot of stuff, but no web frontend https://github.com/orgs/windycom/
As for meteo.pl, they seem to use rrdtool to generate the graph, but like windy, they graphs are static, no scrolling or putting cursor on the graph to get exact values. Also, meteo.pl doesn't seem to have any software repository ? It is just a private commercial website ? There doesn't seem to be something to self-host ?