Seems like an interesting project, I think I will keep an eye out for a secondhand machine and give this a go. There are a couple of videos comparing the features like pressure profiling and temperature control to a much more expensive machine. Impressive.
The closest thing I have found are the Sainsbury's meal plans which are weekly [1].
However as far as I can tell there is no optimisation to limit waste and the number of ingredients.
In the UK there has been a rise in 'cookery boxes' companies who send boxes of ingredients which you can use to cook a few different recipes.
However there is not many options in the market for a service where you can simply subscribe to the recipes (and generated shopping list) and then cook yourself. This could be based from an index of already available recipes online.
Minimising the necessary ingredients (and therefore potential waste, and shop complexity), whilst maximising recipe variety is hard to do without a lot of planning.
Combining this with the ability to favour and remove certain ingredients for example for preference, or intolerance would be really something indeed!
I ditched Signal in favour of WhatsApp given I believe the tech behind it was the same and the fact that a lot of my contacts are already on WhatsApp. The NYT article indicates that WhatsApp is still able to collect more information than Signal does collect.
This is an interesting point -
If Apple decided that the requirements set out by the UK Government were at odds with its ethos and chose not to comply -
Would this result in a sales/import ban?
How would this effect devices already in circulation?
This would certainly educate the populous that the conversations happening in parliament and the media do/are having a direct impact into their daily lives - especially if it means someone is considering banning their favorite phone.
This again leads to the disempowerment issue, each measure seems to have been systematically either compromised or weakened.
I look forward to new solutions such as the Dark Mail Alliance.
The issue i have is that any solution needs to be very 'consumer friendly' as unless both parties are using a secure system taking extra measures is almost pointless. eg. i take steps to chose an email provider who doesn't share their data, or is outside of the NSA/GCHQ jurisdiction but then i have to send an email to an @gmail address i know that those steps i have taken are compromised by the other party.
mailbox.org seems like another EU (Germany) based email startup.
Email is a very big hard-to-deal-with issue, however the Dark Mail Technical Alliance and services such as those already mentioned are taking steps to making email more secure.
It is interesting you mention Telegram, i have started using that with contacts of mine who have also adopted it, i'm not totally convinced it is secure, but does seem a better alternative to WhatsApp.
Further to this i've secured the domains i host content on, not because the content needs securing in terms of handling financial data etc, but because i believe that the wider encryption is used the harder it will be to operate global 'catch-all' surveillance.
Disempowerment is a common theme here - it is the case that the 'general public' (read majority non-technical) are concerned about the current and future ramifications of this surveillance but feel disempowered because of how widespread it is, and i think this is because it is difficult to make reasonable changes in the immediate term to effect anything. This is of course excluding publicising/talking about the issues from a political point of view.
If telecoms company A proved to be betraying the trust of its customers, customers might find it reasonable to move their custom to telecoms company B - however the issue is that if both telecoms company A and B are both guilty of surveillance there is no feasible choice for the consumer.
The same can be said about political parties. If all major political parties support mass surveillance there is no viable alternative to support.