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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it is. But rust devs have more time to think about other security issues as they don’t have to worry anywhere near as much about the memory safety ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any way to prevent letters being "crushed" on first layer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought shaking the bed would cause adhesion issues 🤔 always thought it was far more the head crashing/clipping or scraping the surface of the part while printing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Restrictive tech never works when you apply it from the start. You need to capture the market first before you can start to apply that. And that is the road Bamboo labs looks to be heading down. It is the classic playbook:

  1. has some true innovation in some product that people will actually want to use your products for ✅
  2. mass market your product and get loads of people singing parse about how innovate it is ✅
  3. slowly start to lock down your product, typically behind the guise of safety and security ✅
  4. start to squeeze your customers for as much money as you can with DRM or subscriptions You wont succeed if you skip straight to step 4. But Bamboo have been slowly working their way up to it. It might take a few more years but I can see them eventually wanting DRM filament.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One step closer to DRM filament spools. Just like the overpriced ink cartridges of 2d printers. The safety and security arguments are always bullshit. This is only about control over what you can do. No other printer has ever had an issue with safety or security with vastly more open designs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company you work for will likely not like that. Needs a special case license to be drawn up would probably need to involve lawyers and cost far more then is worth the hassle. Vastly easier just to give it a MIT license.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is good reason to think it is not just rust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People seem to forget that most of the open source language library code out there is written by people working for companies, being sponsored by companies or writing it so they can use it where they work. Some might start out as hobbiest projects but if it survives and grows it eventually will be sponsored in some form. Even if indirectly by some guy that wants to use it where he works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But there are more numbers between 0 and 1 then there are whole numbers. So are the countable many angles or uncountably many?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. - Adrian Bott

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC pushes the enforcement of its 'click-to-cancel' rule back to July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is just double speak for it will adversely affect our bottom line so we don’t want to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yen also pointed out how such a court decision could help cut inflation in the US, too, “by dropping the price of a significant chunk of digital purchases by 30% overnight”.

  I bet most companies will just take that extra 30% as profit rather than giving it back to their users like proton has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  *Any bird

  Lizards are not dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never argued that. Only pointing out its decent into fascism. All bets are off at that point as to what will happen to its industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They were a beneficial strategy. They made Trump and his buddies massive amounts of money from manipulating the stock market. They were even bragging about it after the fact.

  Oh, you meant for the country and its people… Nah, that was never the point. If they were thought out at all it was only how it benefits Trump and his buddies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is supposed to be in office for only 4 years, at best,

  That assumes America is still a democracy in 4 years. We are only a few months in and it is already not looking great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it is opt in. Why would it not be? Microsoft have opted in automatically on your behalf. Soon you will only be able to opt in, for your convenience, as too many people were accidentally opting out. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when you make it expensive to import anything and don’t have any domestic manufacturing for computer components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a bit more expensive and complex. Looks like this is configured with a couple of resistors for 5v from USB which is simple to get and a voltage reg to drop down to 3v3 optionally. Full PD requires a chip and active negotiation for higher voltage levels. Though there are chips that do that it does increase the complexity and cost and soldering skills a bit. Might not be worth it if all you work on is 5v or 3v3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figuring Out The Most Efficient Way To Reuse Bags Of Desiccant⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but doesn’t damages dessicant.

  As quickly*

  Some damage still occurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the RFID chips on their spools.

  They do quite a lot of things that are fine atm but are gateways to giving them a huge amount of control if they every want to flip that switch - like if they get brought out or their investors start wanting to squeezing them for all they are worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sovol V8 is a nice printer, especially for its price. Based on the voran v2.4 but pre-assembled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably nothing. This is more steamdeck related stuff since the steamos is based on ArchLinux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch normally immediately updates to the latest version of every program

  This is not true though. Arch packages new program versions as soon as they can - for popular stuff this happens quickly but not everything updates quickly. And when they do publish a new package it goes to the testing repo for a short time before being promoted to the stable repos. If there is a problem with the package that they notice it will be held back until it can be solved. There is not a huge amount of testing that is done here as that is very time consuming and Arch do not have enough man power for this. But they also do not release much broken things at all. I have seen other distros like ubuntu cause far more havoc with a broken update then Arch ever has.