Pinellas County - Fartlek: 5.01 miles, 00:09:09 average pace, 00:45:54 duration
from recovery to a fartlek to celebrate the colder weather.
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Pinellas County - Long Run: 11.46 miles, 00:10:31 average pace, 02:00:28 duration
Weather was a bit cooler with a nice breeze. just really congested from beginning to end and made breathing a chore. very nice to get out. minus dealing with a dead rat on the bridge.
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@adi@twtxt.net I think it is, and one benefit they have is that you can add third-party repositories to the F-Droid app as you discover them. So, for instance, if you know of a developer who pushes builds to an F-Droid compatible repository, you can add that to your F-Droid app and start tracking updates like you would for any other app in there. Can’t do that with Google Play!

F-Droid tends to focus on open source applications that can be built in a reproducible way, which limits the inventory (though of course tends to mean the apps are safer and don’t spy on you). There are non-free apps in there as well but they come with warnings so you’re informed about what you might be sacrificing by using them.

That said if you have a favorite app you get through Google Play, there’s a decent chance it won’t be in F-Droid. Many “big corporate” apps aren’t, and vendor-specific apps tend not to be either. But for most of the major functions you might want, like email clients, calendar apps, weather apps, etc etc, there are very good substitutes now in F-Droid. You’re definitely making a trade-off though.

What I did was go through the apps I had installed on my last phone, found as many substitutes in F-Droid as I could, started using those instead to see how they worked, and bit by bit replaced as much as I could from Google Play with a comparable app from F-Droid. I still have a few apps (mostly vendor-specific things that don’t have substitutes) that come from Google Play but I’m aiming to be rid of those before I need to replace this phone.

Tropical flower supply looking tight as rain dampens the north’s dry season
Lovers of Australian-grown tropical flowers could have trouble finding them as an usually rainy dry season has put Queensland growers two months behind schedule. ⌘ Read more

Growers warn ‘unworkable’ Pacific Islander worker changes lack critical flexibility required for horticulture
Changes to the Pacific Islander labour scheme mean workers must be guaranteed a minimum of 30 hours of work each week, but the horticulture industry says the seasonal nature of the work and weather events make that unworkable. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain in Sustainable Programming
The benefits of blockchain implementation across multiple sectors are well-documented, but how can this decentralised solution be used to achieve more sustainable programming?

As the effects of the ongoing climate crisis continue to impact weather patterns and living conditions across the planet, we must continue to make every aspect of our lives, from transport and energy usage to all of our technology, greener and more sustain … ⌘ Read more

‘We just take the good with the bad’: Farmers and rural communities optimistic as dry El Niño weather looms
Queensland farmer “Sno” Harm has seen many El Niño weather patterns in his 50 years of growing cotton. He says he “can’t really prepare” for the next drought and remains hopeful for rain. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · Spring 2023 Edition
It’s been a while since we’ve published our Release Radar. You can blame IRL conferences coming back, getting influenza, and being struck down by the weather. But those are just me problems. While I’ve been down or travelling, the community has been hard at work shipping new releases and new projects. So, we thought we’d […] ⌘ Read more

Australia’s wine grape vintage plummets to 23-year low
Australia’s vintage is well down on the 10-year average thanks to challenging weather and economic factors — but the industry hopes higher quality fruit will mean better prices for what’s sold. ⌘ Read more

The weather all of a sudden went from chilly and wet to warm and pleasant. It’s before 8am and it’s already 15°C and sunny.

Cooler season puts Gippsland winemakers ‘under pressure’ despite overall warming trend
A Victorian winery owner says cooler weather has delayed harvest and exposed grapes to more risks but, until this season, the conditions had been growing noticeably hotter. ⌘ Read more

More weather expected

Tassie apple variety Southern Bliss about to enter market as national harvest numbers drop
Tasmanian apples could fetch top prices this season, with its apple season escaping the bad weather that plagued interstate orchards. ⌘ Read more

Expect to see less canned tomatoes on supermarket shelves this year
SPC-branded canned tomato products will not be produced again until next year as Victorian tomato growers are struggling to recover after flooding and hail. ⌘ Read more

Hot chips back on the menu as potato shortage eases, but for how long?
Wet weather and fewer potato imports are creating trying times for fish and chips shops, but growers say the start of the potato harvest across Tasmania and Victoria should ease demand. ⌘ Read more

Shifts in weather are causing Italian families to rethink an inter-generational tradition
Italian-Australian communities are facing uncertainty over whether they’ll be able to keep their annual sauce-making tradition this year due to a tomato shortage. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Creating a simple weather application with Phoenix LiveView

In this article we will discuss our experience building an online weather application in Elixir using Phoenix LiveView. We created a real-time weather application that allows users to see the past, current, and forecast temperature and precipitation data for any UK postcode. The goals of building this app were:

• to further familiarise ourselves with[Phoenix LiveView](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Farmers stripped of 12 months’ income by freak hailstorm want changes to disaster recovery arrangements
Some Queensland farmers lost 100 per cent of their crops during vicious weather last year but didn’t receive government support as no disaster was declared. As climate change gets worse, they fear for their futures. ⌘ Read more

Weather Station
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St Petersburg Distance Classic: Halfathon: 13.27 miles, 00:08:31 average pace, 01:52:59 duration
Great weather this morning and finally broke 2 hours in the HM! Didn’t catch the runner’s name but thanks to whoever ran miles 8 to 10 with me. Kept me in a good space and hopefully their marathon went well, too.
#running #race

@prologic@twtxt.net @justamoment@twtxt.net Yep, my back yard security cam. And my poor weather station buried in the snow.

Pinellas County - Long run: 15.43 miles, 00:10:13 average pace, 02:37:40 duration
i am loving the weather!
#running

Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.

The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc.
It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t … ⌘ Read more

I just read that on average we get about 108 liters of rain per square meter in July. This year it has only been 6 liters so far. I truly hope that we get some heavy rain later this evening. But looking at the forecast I reckon it will only be a few drops, if at all. It’s supposed to get less and less with each day and even hour I look at the weather report. :-( Terrible 35°C at the moment. Bwäh!

I slept poorly yet the cooler weather is making me feel a lot better than I felt yesterday

Hong Kong’s resilient SMEs have weathered every storm since handover, but can they bounce back from Covid-19?
Some find it hard to be optimistic, others bank on city’s proven record of thriving despite crises. ⌘ Read more

Designer perfumes hit by war and weather as vital ingredient becomes ‘liquid gold’
Perfumes by top luxury brands, such as Christian Dior, Estee Lauder and Chanel, will be affected by commodities prices that soared after Russia invaded Ukraine, and heatwave that damaged roses and their oil – a vital ingredient. ⌘ Read more

Amid record-breaking floods in China, premier calls for stepped up disaster control and relief
Executive meeting of the State Council told more extreme weather predicted and everything must be done to ensure ‘safety of people’s lives and property’. ⌘ Read more

Before the storm (2007-2012): Hong Kong’s national pride and a rare political deal in 25 photos
The city weathered the global financial crisis in a relatively calmer period domestically, but the seeds of activism were sowed over the demolition of Queen’s Pier. ⌘ Read more

China hit by floods, heatwaves and a tornado, with more weather misery on the way
Severe storm and flooding alerts go out in seven southern regions, with central and northern China to see extreme heat continuing into next week. ⌘ Read more

To kick off my few days of Easter vacation, I took my freshly inspected and repaired pedelec (e-bike) with beautiful weather (20 degrees and sun) and drove a round on the “Ringgleis”, a bike path around my city. The total mileage has now also finally reached the 3000 km. That’s still not much over several years, but I still have my second, non-electric bike, with which I probably ride a lot more. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest delayed (again) due to illness & weather
Lunduke is still sick. And now there’s an ice storm. The Fest must (unfortunately) be delayed. ⌘ Read more

Phew the weather here keeps oscillating. 3-5C deltas every day.

Band name of the day: weather station in a dead universe

You can at least go sledding @kas@enotty.dk! It’s been raining for hours in Berlin. #weather

Wow, it’s really pouring down today in Berlin. #weather

@kas@enotty.dk Wow wttr.in is really great! I used finger berlin@graph.no until now. #weather