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- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 3 hours ago:
Worked for the dotcom bubble. It blew up and we were left with corporate hellscape internet, not so/interesting independent internet, and the dark web.
AI will blow up leaving a few massive players, the Google/Facebook/etc equivalent. Some independent people doing interesting and not so interesting things. And a dark web.
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
No notes, that’s awesome!!!
I have zero intention of getting into 3d printing or back yard casting. But it’s cool that intersection has products.
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
That cutter is fucking art. The blades we ran had a ceramic core. Then the wax mould over the ceramic. Lose the wax, cast, then beat the shit out of it till the ceramic comes out the blade, now there are cooling channels built into the cast. Complex geometries too.
I was asking why the blades needed a ceramic coating before going into the turbine. Surely we could just heat treat the blades to whatever hardness required.
I was then informed that inside turbines it’s so hot the Hydrocarbons split up to free Hydrogen ions and the left over. The ceramic is there because it’s a highly acidic environment.
Actually that story is my go to “how to mentor story”. I asked why we coated the blades in ceramics. The engineer told me it was really hot in there and just waited for me to twig. I didn’t, then he said it was so hot hydrocarbons break up into free hydrogen and the rest, and then waited. Then I caught on, I have no doubt if I hadn’t then he would have said “free Hydrogen is the literal definition of an acid” and waited. Then “Acid eats metals like titanium alloys” wait. “Then Acid doesn’t eat ceramics” wait. I genuinely try to lead people to answers that way just because the way he made my dumbass feel like the smartest tool in the room. Actually, I asked why we pre finished the blades to near mirrors just to acid etch them dull again, and was told it was for the ceramic coating.
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
Is fine. Didn’t think I’d TIL on a shitpost comm, but you sent me down a wikihole. Always fun
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
It was me kinda implying it. Just making a shit posting comment in a shit post community.
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
Just a Lemmy shitpost comment, don’t think about it too hard Sure fine sand and a runny plaster, ceramic capture detail. But you still bulk it out with rougher stuff to give the mold heft.
Maybe not cement. But I also wouldn’t recommend doing back yard casting for Life critical parts if you’re asking what your detail capturing materials should be and what your bulking out materials should be.
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
Those orphans aren’t orphans any more… Progress.
Real talk I cast turbine blades for IGT and Aerospace (not an engineer, just a floor worker). It was my impression that inside those turbines is an incredibly hostile environment, and still we cast them. We did some single crystal stuff for the really demanding parts. Is cast metal really that flawed?
- Comment on genius 2 days ago:
3d print part. Finish 3d printed part. Cast the print in cement. Burn the plastic out the new mold. Fill mold with the alloy of your choice. Congrats, many 1000s spent on furnace materials for a 1.5k part.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 days ago:
I guess a third position is then that “gender is meaningless, but just play along”.
Thrice you’ve asserted gender as meaningless. Twice I’ve shown you it isn’t.
A house isn’t just a building. It’s society that gives the building meaning and power. Turning the construction of brick and glass into a “house”. Society gives the construction “House” meaning, it gives it power, it gives it protection. Just because without society all that meaning falls away, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have meaning at all. It has the meaning society is currently giving it. Now thrice I’ve shown you it isn’t meaningless.
Abolishing the idea of gender entirely seems more rational
Perhaps. It’s probably a good idea to try. If nothing else we can stop using gender to oppress people.
It might turn out that there is a “man” chemical/gene expression/brain structure. All I can tell you is that I am a man. Where my “Manness” comes from be it societal construction, or some biological function I don’t know. I’m comfortable being a man, I’m comfortable being labeled a man, I’m not forced to confront it.
I never said the trans experience was attractive.
I didn’t say you did. I said you said people want to be trans.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 days ago:
Sure, you can be assigned a gender at birth, but if gender is meaningless then why would you feel the need to change it?
But it isn’t meaningless. Society gives meaning to gender. Woman means dresses, man means beard. It’s discordant when you see a person with a beard in a dress. Less so now, as we’re pushing against gender being what defines fashion.
A house has meaning, there are specific laws and regulations that govern how you and I interact with it, but there’s nothing fundamentally “House"y about it. Remove all society and that building is just a building.
That doesn’t mean that “House” is meaningless, it isnt. “House” could be meaningless, but it isn’t currently. We give it meaning.
If men and women are equal in capability of skill, then I don’t see why you’d want to change it.
Taking the least gracious interpretation of transgender: gender is entirely performative. A person assigned Male at Birth grows up thinking that: how 'Man” is performed sucks, but how “woman” is performed is awesome. That’s still, as we agree, a valid experience.
Honestly, I don’t that Trans people want to be trans. What about the trans experience is attractive to you that makes you think people want it? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 days ago:
Sure, I can respect how other people identify, but if gender is simply a social construct, then I don’t understand how someone could be transgender.
I don’t understand how you can’t? Society constructed it, so it exists. Take a rudimentary construction.
A house. There isn’t a “house” partical/chemical/gene/brain structure. Does that mean the house doesn’t exist? Society didn’t have to construct a house, it could have constructed a road or a bus stop, does that mean the house doesn’t exist?
The house exists, we can point to it, we can point to the effects it has on the world: it’s a house now, you can’t just walk in without the owner’s permission or society will punish you.
I have no idea whether gender has a physical component particul/chemical/gene/brain structure/… But, even granting it doesn’t, it doesn’t mean gender doesn’t exist. Gender not having a physical componentcould mean gender doesn’t have to exist.
Like the house, it didn’t have to exist. It doesn’t have to be protected by society the way it currently is. It doesn’t always have to be a house. It still exists though.
- Comment on imagine 2 weeks ago:
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this
margincomment is too narrow to contain. - Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 3 weeks ago:
I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.
If I didn’t have the two big boxes I’d use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.
If I didn’t have my pis, I’d run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.
What I’m saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I’m also trying to say I’ve broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.
- Comment on The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates 5 weeks ago:
We know why Reform want access to young children.
- Comment on Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time? 🥚 5 weeks ago:
Why would there be a deviled egg, just left there on the windowsill for 12hrs, if not for you to eat it.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 month ago:
The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are closer to zero than they are the ultra rich.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 month ago:
I’m waiting for the price then checking the specs of the nearest comparable mini pc. I’ll lean valve over beelink/minisforim and then over everyone else. But I think that’s the closest comparison.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 month ago:
No earn, only spend.
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 1 month ago:
WAF has consistently held me down to earth. “What will that enable you to acheive that you can’t do already?” With a couple mini pcs and a rpi I’m good. I’d love shiny things, but beyond LLMs there’s not much it would enable me to achieve that I can’t already.
That, and other hobbies. I don’t want to be an amateur system admin during the summer. So all winter long while I’m tinkering I’m adding up how much it adds to my maintenance schedule.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 1 month ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t.
I only run it this way because a VPS had 0 WAF, and I’m terrified of opening ports. VPS is the well trodden ground, there’s tonnes of guides. Mines a hack job borne of necessity, it works though, and I am proud of what I cobbled together.
It was my first time solving my own problems. I had my meager skill set, a basic idea of what I wanted, some vague notion of how I was going to achieve it, and a thick forehead to smash against the problem till it gave way for me.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 1 month ago:
I use tailscale for my non-tech family.
I run a rPi with tailscale, pihole and nginx on it in their house. They connect to the their WiFi, get adblocking for free. They go to “homarr.sever” pihole captures this sends it to nginx and gets reverse proxies to a homarr LXC on my server. From their they can click links to the services which are at on “service/.######.xyz”. Again pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies it over tailscale to the appropriate LXC.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
There should be both. Minimal config + gui options for people just getting into the hobby or just want the thing. And a more open option for people who hit the limits of the first or sang to do interesting shit.
I go back and forth on my server. During summer I wish it was all Docker YAMLs so I can press “update” in Dockge and I can enjoy the weather.
But I also do non-typical things. Users have a rPi in their house that captures requests and routes them through Tailscale to my server for remote access without a VPS or opening ports.
I’m not too technical so I often struggle setting things up, and documentation can be less than helpful at times, sometimes I really wished there was a gui, but it’s doable.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
I’m in the UK therefore: no.
- Comment on Interesting effect when your BF is sucking on a peppermint 2 months ago:
Can’t say that I recommend the practice, particularly if she’s sensitive to changes. The lady I tried with had a cast iron microfauna though, never had a UTI in her life.
- Comment on Interesting effect when your BF is sucking on a peppermint 2 months ago:
You gotta Fisherman’s Friend a gal once in awhile.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
I prefer the Eldrich explaination. We are so much larger and more powerful, and smarrer, and more handsomer than ants, why would we care?
Perhaps there are are gods with pet species, but we are not one of them, or if we are we have a sadistic owner, or we just don’t understand what’s going on because we are ants.
All moot, I’m not religious, but it’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.
- Comment on We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation 2 months ago:
Parliament is soverign. No previous parliament can bind a future parliament. The right won’t be limited by words on a page.
- Comment on Just to make this clear 2 months ago:
You’re in a shitpost comm.
The joke is that men don’t know what chubby is. My joke is that men don’t know what women without makeup look like.
- Comment on jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy 2 months ago:
Omw, a replacement for Vikunja and Joplin? Sign me up!
- Comment on Just to make this clear 2 months ago:
When I say I like girls without make up, I mean the left too.