remotelove

@remotelove@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse. We are reverting back to the age of lügenpresse and hearsay comes in short-form video formats.

  Many people simply do not care (or are even aware) if a source is trusted if the message aligns with their own bias or the message is presented as a new “fact”. Trust is irrelevant, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heineken and pot go together well, because they're both so skunky.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a dark art to growing in small spaces and it’s super fun! Run 12-12 lighting from seedling and you can get a single mega bud, with proper care. The plants will only develop its main cola, basically. Unfortunately, small grows and screwing with their growth cycle causes stress and too much stress causes herms. Small price to pay, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China detonates non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, blast creates 1,000°C fireball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Noobs. I have a MAPP gas/oxygen torch that burns at 2900° C in my garage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that is not what he said at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Social Media.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “real” is subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you are saying that everyone on Lemmy is on the spectrum. That kinda tracks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secrets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would look into something like Doppler instead of Vault. (I don’t trust any company acquired by IBM. They have been aquiring and enshittifying companies before there was even a name for it.)

  Look into how any different solutions need their keys presented. Dumping the creds in ENV is generally fine since the keys will need to be stored and used somehow. You might need a dedicated user account to manage keys in its home folder.

  This is actually a host security problem, not generally a key storage problem per se.

  Since you are going to using a Pi, you should focus on that being a restricted host: Only run your chosen vault solution on it. Period. Secure and patch it to the best of your ability and use very specific host firewall rules for minimum connectivity. Ie: Have one user for ssh in and limit another user account to managing vault, preferably without needing any kind of elevated access. This is actually a perfect use case for SELinux since you can put in some decent restrictions on the host for a single app (and it’s supporting apps…)

  If you are paranoid enough to run a HIDS, you can turn on all the events for any type of root account actions. In theory once the host is configured, you shouldn’t need root again until you start performing patches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg had a 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevance: Make everyone start from scratch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would force everyone who still wanted to use Facebook to upload more fresh data and get hooked again in the process. It’s not a relevance play. It’s a “we want all your new data” play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help interpreting benchmark results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help interpreting benchmark results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Resins have a typical use-time for within a year. Some may last longer, some may not. Some may start to show exposure issues. Some just start to separate or solidify partially. Some resins don’t care at all. (It should be written somewhere on the bottle when the resin was made and when it should be used by.)

  This is a helluva “unknown variable” you are working with, is my point. Resin is the absolute core of any printing functionality (obviously) and print settings are highly dependant on the resins qualities.

  Just because I am so damn picky during my testing and learning process, I would abandon testing with that resin completely and be thankful it even printed a calibration test at all. (I would get a fresh bottle, is what I am saying.)

  However, in the interest of using the resin, I would YOLO the exposure time (increase it) and start printing prototypes or other strange experiments. There is a bunch of things I could test even if using a sub-optimal resin.

  You could spend time with the rest of that bottle and tweak the settings into partial-perfection. How reusable are those settings for future bottles though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help interpreting benchmark results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a lot of inconsistent exposure, which is super weird.

  How old is the resin? New? Was it purchased at the time you got the printer? Was it well shaken?

  The biggest issue I see is the gap in the outline at the very top of the print. That shouldn’t happen that late in the print at all. It’s iffy resin or there are small solid chunks floating around in your tank.

  My first week with my resin printer was spent testing exposure and probably did about a hundred or so “cones of calibration” ( tableflipfoundry.com/…/the-cones-of-calibration-v… ) with a few different resins.

  While a person generally needs to be a little on the crazy side to do that much testing, it was effective. After all of the that testing, what I found out is that comparing two prints with different settings is more valuable than just printing one single calibration test.

  See if you can manage to print at least 8 tests at 8 different exposure levels. (I prefer 16, but you do you.) You will quickly learn how to interpret calibration tests and how exposure works.

  But, back to your question and my official interpretation: You have a printer that is capable of printing! Yay! I ain’t being sarcastic, actually and this is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday's mystery print revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a precursor to butyl tape that I am thinking of specifically. It was more clay-like and just as nasty. (It would have been easier (subjective) to pinch off balls of the stuff and cram it in those screw holes.)

  No mind. You had the correct solution, me thinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday's mystery print revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely agree and the goal is to extend that time for as long as possible. (But yeah, anti seize is actually a really good idea.)

  Sounds like you have never had the “pleasure” of working with coax junction sealants before. It’s not too bad, but it’s also not fun either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday's mystery print revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would personally cram in something related to COAX-SEAL into the screw holes. Having setup a few cables outside for antennas (ham radio) I have learned to never trust metal to metal connections when exposed to weather.

  Coax-seal might be a bit hard to work with, so maybe some silicone caulk would work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing better than a match in a high oxygen environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly by Indian and Vietnamese slave labor: androidauthority.com/where-are-samsung-phones-mad…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How and where should I keep backups of system configurations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what you just got shown: Shove the configgy bits into Git.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar panels are more efficient closer to the equator because of the most direct light from the sun. At higher or lower latitudes, there is more atmosphere for the light to pass through. The actual distance from the sun is basically irrelevant without an atmosphere. There might be a measurable difference based on distance alone but not much.

  Efficiency does not generally equate to optimal power generation. There are probably hundreds of other variables that directly translate to maximum power production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my opinion, but yeah. It’ll take some time.

  The biggest issue is that money has moved to safer for investments. Those new investments may take time to mature and/or avoid tax penalties.

  Another component is that hedge funds are likely the ones taking money out of the market in a huge way right now. Hedge funds normally specialize in short selling and there is no better time to close or massively reduce those short positions. (They have other strategies, but their main function is in their name.) They can’t close their positions rapidly, or it will trigger a faux rebound in stock prices. (Short sales are weird like that. It may be one of the reasons you see short bounces in price as a stock price is cratering.)

  Unfortunately, the tarrifs are shifting investment policy against the US now from other countries. This will take years to recover from.

  What will really suck is that I have always speculated that these tarrifs are just the worst kind of insider trading strategy you will ever see. If the intent was to temporarily dump stock prices for the benefit of a few, I really don’t think it’s going to work like it did during COVID. COVID didn’t force massive global policy changes against the US the same way. Even if orange man decides to reverse course and lift tarrifs tomorrow, the damage has been done and there is no reason to restore previous investments. The risk is too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do! Success is awesome, but failure is important. Enders are pure hobby printers, after all. Half the fun is tearing them apart, rebuilding components and learning what works and what doesn’t for your own use cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just thought I would add that there is nothing to be embarrassed about having a probe going where you typically wouldn’t want one. The doctors should have a very mechanical view of the human body and they shouldn’t care about anatomy. I am a huge proponent of getting a colonoscopy when needed. They can save your life. Most of all, you need them at regular intervals. Thankfully, they should be a few years apart.

  I actually woke up during my last colonoscopy, to the weird feeling getting poked at from inside my body. (Get your giggles out of the way, kids.) My recovery time from anesthesia is super-quick usually, and will mention that for my next colonoscopy. I’ll be on my feet in about 10mins from when I open my eyes. The experience is always different from person to person. (I also was a serious drunk for a number of years, so operating at 25% was kinda normal, I suppose.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of /c/economics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can jump in as a mod if needed. I am the quiet mod type, but can quickly mitigate any issues that pop up. Was a mod of a couple large subs on Reddit and exist as a mod on 196 to help mitigate larger issues when they happen. For the most part, I don’t deal with user to user issues since voting can rectify those problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. There is heat from repeated deformation, but I didn’t explain how little heat it was, so I clarified in a later comment. All motion creates heat, etc, etc. (TBH, I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Oh well. I let that cat out of the bag, so it’s too late.)

  But also yes, I have experienced PLA “cold flowing” on some parts as a well so I can confirm that for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that any heat created from stress on plastic will still be minimal and it will just take lots of time to create visible deformation. You can mitigate this mostly by printing critical parts at 100% infill.

  I always over-engineer parts that are mechanical. That is just my preference. If you look at the original part, it is likely designed to be strong on only one axis. This saves money and time for bulk manufacturing. (Compensate home prints with better materials or bulkier parts is my own rule of thumb. Everything is a trade-off, is my point.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say it was a combination of being too tight and the tensioner being made as cheap as possible. You don’t need the belts “rock solid” and I would check the bearings/bushings on the other end for damage too. Any kind of wobble is going to amplify enough to show on your prints, but if that matters is up to you.

  Also yes. It’s more than possible to print a replacement and I wuld check if there are better designs on Printables. Ideally, you want a metal one unless you print one out of PC or another strong, high temperature plastic. Repetitive bending creates heat and heat will eventually deform PLA or PETG. You will get a lot of repetive motion on a tensioner. However, nothing really needs to be perfect, just temper any longevity expectations based on what you are willing to invest in time and materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could not upvote on another instance [please explain for noob]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances don’t have to be federated and instances federate and defederate from each other often enough. The goals of instances may not align, and to keep conflict low(er) it’s better if some instances cut ties.

  TBH, this sounds like a technical issue between ml and nl.

  While I thought it was basically an on/off switch for defederation, I suppose there could be a way to block updates from instances without fully defederating.

  I am not going to get into the drama, but ml is defederated at a little higher frequency, but it’s not as high as some others. It’s because reasons, and is not relevant to this particular thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)

  And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.

  Good try though. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)

  So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some actually movies feel.