Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe)
mastodon.bsd.cafe
Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin@fedimeteo.com to stay updated! UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse. FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing. You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris). Currently supported countries include: Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon! FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability. Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today: https://fedimeteo.com Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️ FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone. #FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    7 days ago

    Hold on, let me check the weather.

    Huh…

    What? What’s it say?

    It says it’s going to be a high of 66, a low of 38, and cloudy with a chance of Linux in the air. That can’t right…

    No, that sounds right. It’s been Linuxing all week.

    What…

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
    10·
    7 days ago

    FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

    That’s a lovely anecdote, but also an argument against keeping up with weather prognoses — if you’ve already decided your preferred outcome based on your plans and desires for the next day 🙂

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Currently supported countries include:
    Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!

    Bro. Harsh.

  • Jonathan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    That’s a really cool use for snac! It’s perfect for something so straightforward and uses so little resources that I would imagine if you eventually have the entire planets weather forecasts being published it would still only use a tiny amount of bandwidth and power!

    • Stefano Marinelli@mastodon.bsd.cafe
      3·
      6 days ago

      @gashead76 @vsis Yes, snac is perfect for this purpose. The choice was quite straightforward. The load average is ridiculously low — all the instances, Nginx, etc., are using only 154 MB of RAM (including the FreeBSD kernel and tasks). snac is an amazing tool.

    • vsis@feddit.clOPEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I though the same. This is a cool example of “public service” via snac.