manicdave

@manicdave@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a question in regards to 3d modeling for a filament slicer addon to my hotend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit confused by the wording of this post? Is the problem that you have two .stl files that you want to edit and munge together into a new object? If that’s the case, then as @AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world you can import them both into openscad, subtract what you don’t need or intersect what you do and place them into a new part for export. You can also do this in prusa slic3r if openscad is being buggy which it sometimes is with stl imports, but it’s a massive pain in the arse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not from hexbear and I agree. It’s absurd that we let anyone who’s primary interests are in another country dictate what our government does. That also goes for China, the US, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and anyone else too. The British government should act in the interests of Britons.

  I’ll also note - while we’re accusing people of astroturfing - you spelled labour wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a failure on the part of mastodon. I don’t really care about whatever drama dansup is embroiled in. Mastodon shouldn’t imply a post is only readable by followers when it’s just a public post that doesn’t show by default in their frontend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly pixelfed should have just not fixed it. It’s a fediverse problem that can be fixed and mastodon is just misleading people.

  Platforms should either make it clear that it means just that the post isn’t advertised by default on all platforms but is always accessible to anyone that wants it or actually implement e2e encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As funny as this is, I’d rather people understood how the AI actually works. It doesn’t reveal secrets because it doesn’t have any. It’s not aware that Musk is trying to tweak it. It’s not coming to logical conclusions the way a person would. It’s simply trying to create a sensible statement based on what’s statistically likely based on all the stolen content that it’s trained on. It just so happens that Musk gets called out for lying so often that grok infers it when it gets conflicting data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d go for syncthing over nextcloud for your specific usecase. Nextcloud isn’t good for unreliable connections and they’re sticking with the annoying decision of not supporting server to server synchronization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol why are people such dicks? My vets sent pics when my dog was recovering from an operation. It’s a pretty normal thing.

  Anyway, if it was me I’d just set up a stream of the webcam on peertube via OBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working below minimum wage to save the planet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also openSCAD if you struggle to get your head around normal CAD programs. Everything is written as a script and it’s surprisingly intuitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not difficult though. They just can’t be arsed and are making excuses for being comfortable and lazy. If there was a $100 million marketing budget and their favourite celebrity was here, they’d sit an hour long entrance exam. The best we can do is make it fun enough here that people want to comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No good excuse to still be on Xitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microcis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running deepseek-r1:14b on a 12GB rx6700. It just about fits in memory and is pretty fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’ll actually get round to implementing my ideas 🤷

  I guess there’s no harm in making it work even if nobody uses it.

  I know the peertube one is sorta broken at the minute because the WASM POW script doesn’t accept difficulty as a variable. Maybe I should check up and see if anyone has fixed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of crypto projects are ready for implementation right now, but they all have their own unique problems and one rather large shared problem.

  I made a peertube plugin a while back that will tip XNO to any creators you watched based on watch time.

  The user journey for everyone was as simple as could possibly be imagined. Viewers added a few quid to a browser wallet and forget about it. Creators added an XNO address to the video description and the plugin would automatically pay like 10p a minute or something. Nobody even needed an account to make it work and there was no issues with federation as long as you were watching from the instance with your wallet.

  I’ve even been writing my own fedi-first blog engine and been thinking about adding paywalls. It’d be super easy to do technically and the UX would be as good or better than any existing services.

  You’d just set a cookie when people look at a post and generate a new wallet on the server. If a reader wants to view a paywalled post, they click a link or scan a QR code to send payment, the payment clears in two seconds and refreshes the page. Server checks the cookie and that the new wallet has the fee in, sees the article is paid for and serves it.

  The thing is that this project is targeting a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.

  The deepest niche is why XNO? It has JS wallets, is feeless, actually decentralised, clears within two seconds and the project leader seems to be ideologically driven to create a functional currency above all else. The problems are that it’s not anonymous, it’s premined, and that it’s deflationary.

  Already this is a hard niche to get out of. I can already see that people will be arguing to use alternatives like monero because it’s more secure, but it also has fees, is difficult to exchange for real currency and will probably get you on a no fly list. Or SOL because the fees are really low and a lot of people already use it. But I’m wanting to do instant transactions with no fees so sending pennies is feasible, so this makes me a statist spy wants to push my shitcoin because I’m a massive bag holder.

  The next niche is that we have a small user base here that’s incredibly sceptical about crypto. The whole crypto sphere is incredibly toxic. It’s mostly environmentally destructive and the vast majority of what it holds up is fraud, organised crime and gambling.

  The majority of pro-crypto people here are cypherpunks who put their ideological commitment to monero or bitcoin above usability. The majority of anti-crypto -and overall majority- of people here are jaded by crypto nonsense and won’t give a new project a hearing.

  The next niche is marketing. We don’t do that here. It’s uncouth and immoral. A spam campaign would be annoying and get the spammers banned and is just generally bad in everyway. Alternatively if any of the influencers on here decided to sell out to help us reach a critical mass where crypto payments aren’t entirely stagnant, we wouldn’t have the money to pay them. Crypto kind of has to be unprofitable to move on from being another form of gambling.

  The last niche is onboarding. The market we want for microtransactions really isn’t the market that centralised exchanges want. A decentralised payments network really should be competing with netflix and substack. We want high churn, low volume for people to be able to feasibly make an income. That’s going to be ruined by the fact that people wanting to pay a tenner a month are going to lose most of that money before they even get it into a wallet, and the people recieving that money might just lose 20% of it at any given moment due to market movements.

  So after narrowing it all down this leaves us with maybe a dozen people on here left to support it but they aren’t even going to cross paths enough to make any transactions.