bitofarambler
@bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
I like to travel, learn and tell stories
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 4 days ago:
you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 4 days ago:
only if the corporate citizen promise really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 days ago:
just started journey to Savage planet, which is a lot of fun.
the humor reminds me a lot of outer worlds and the exploration feels a lot like outer wilds, coincidentally.
I’m having a really good time playing it and will probably check out the sequel when I finish.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 4 days ago:
really good article with a couple surprises in there.
"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.” "
Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”
“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”
- Comment on How strong is fermented bean curd supposed to taste exactly? 5 days ago:
if you’re talking about the fermented bean curd that I’m familiar with, the flavor is insanely strong.
and despicable, haha.
describing the spiciness of fermented bean curd as superfluous sounds accurate to me.
- Comment on Why can I get a credit card for $2,000 at best buy for dumb shit but can't get a care plus card for dental work? 2 weeks ago:
You’re accessing a system meant to profit rather than provide care.
medical tourism means you choose which country has the medical procedure you’re looking for at the price point you’re looking for.
I get all of my dental work done in Thailand: same technologies, same expertise, much lower prices, often 50% lower even at the best international clinics, cheaper if you go to the local clinics instead(many still speak English)
the Thai government heavily invested in medical infrastructure 20 years ago and it paid off for both their local economy in terms of medical tourism and for people like me and you who don’t want to pay obscene amounts of money for medical care.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 3 weeks ago:
hi, I’ve been living abroad for 15 years or so.
if you want to move, you should move.
most countries have a very low cost of living, so you can teach math or English abroad(what I usually recommend for first time travelers who want money) and save thousands per month, in a country like Thailand, which is very welcoming to trans people and has great, affordable medical care.
if you can get any remote programming job that pays more than $500 US a month, you can live abroad and immediately start saving any income over that 500, which covers your own apartment and food for the month.
and it is awesome out here in the world, btw.
you can live and save abroad for a couple years and if for whatever reason you want to go back to the US and buy a house, you’ll have the money to do that.
I’ve helped other people move and would be happy to go into any details you’re curious about.
- Comment on bit of a rambler is a travel podcast and general travel Q&A community 1 month ago:
I appreciate it, he got back to my dm too and I’ve already added my RSS feed via his bot. if this works you definitely are owed a case of beer!
I had no clue where to start so I am amazed that someone has set up a simple feed infrastructure for know-nothings.
- Comment on bit of a rambler is a travel podcast and general travel Q&A community 1 month ago:
thank you, good to know. I sent him a message
- Comment on bit of a rambler is a travel podcast and general travel Q&A community 1 month ago:
thanks, I did check that out when the developer posted it and it’s definitely my backup if I can’t figure out how to sync my feed.
I’ve been able to automate most social media posts, so I’m assuming there is a way to do it with lemmy and I’m just not technically minded enough to know how yet.
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- Comment on Here is not good. I don't want to be here. 1 month ago:
unfortunately, the exact location is not really the problem for people detained it in Guantanamo.
- Comment on Here is not good. I don't want to be here. 1 month ago:
you can probably get all the way to Cuba soon with that strategy.
- Comment on Here is not good. I don't want to be here. 1 month ago:
tickets out start at 21$.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 month ago:
I say “US Americans” to differentiate, works well
- 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? 2 months ago:
correct.
there’s also the maybe more important scientific literature ban that is forcing scientists whose job it is to make sure crops grow correctly in the US out of their jobs because they aren’t able to talk about the gender of the seeds they are breeding.
or the physicists who can’t talk about the “status” of the material they’re using, because that word is banned.
country is don’t want to buy American military equipment anymore because they rightly cannot trust the US, which is a huge source of revenue for the US.
the disastrously policies already enacted are going to economically and socially reverberate for decades.
the scientist who goes to another country rather than the US to practice physics, agriculture, anthropology, anything, that’s an entire career of innovation and scientific benefit lost to the US.
and those scientists are already avoiding the us, that’s already happening.
the market numbers are the tip of the iceberg here.
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
“…that molten glass was involved…”
yeaj, the process you actually go through is even more impressive than the already incredibly difficult fantasia-sequence molten glass process I imagined, haha!
creating a 40 piece picture frame or 60 piece or whatever it is, jeez, that is very cool, and to get it so smooth.
the podcast is called “bit of a rambler”, it’s everywhere podcasts are, main page here: www.spreaker.com/…/bit-of-a-rambler--6571124
the first two episodes are out and new eps will be coming out every Wednesday for a long time to come, travel stories and information.
those paints came out great, very vibrant colors, and the car polish you added is such a smart idea, they’ll probably look that way forever.
the nail polish in UV lamp are another good idea, what’s on hand is the way to go, I ended up using strips of old pool noodles lying around as sound insulation for the office I record the podcast in just the other day.
I’ll be on the lookout for whatever you post here next. or I’ll remember you from Lemmy when your YT shorts blow up!
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
“…she is a true inspiration.”
wow, what a stellar gift, and something that you can throw your appreciation for her into.
do you have a finished picture of the “we can do it” piece you can share?
haha, i remember soldering headphone wires for the first time and ending up with a crazy lumpy Boulder of solder and burnt wires by the end.
to which, of course, I shrugged and rolled electrical tape around and accepted.
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
Whoa! That is a legitimately fascinating video, thanks again for sharing. “We Can Do It” is such a great image too.
Youtube shorts might net you a little extra revenue if you have a bunch of these clips, btw, if you aren’t way ahead of me, haha, i just learned about shorts.
How long did it take you to develop such a steady hand for the solder?
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
So there’s no glue and the metal doesn’t fuse into the glass, but the overhang of the solder once it’s cooled acts as a picture frame for each shard and then a complete frame for the whole piece? That’s amazing.
And you definitely did great work on the smooth part of the soldering, all of those front-facing lines look very even and smooth.
Ha, easy to bump projects, i got all excited about these t-shirt designs but after four designs i started up a podcast and got super distracted throwing myself into the episodes. It’s great to feel that inspiration though when you like a project so much you can be reasonably assured it’ll develop into something you’re proud of.
Well, I’m excited to see the new piece, thanks for sharing all this information with me, I would have no idea how something like this worked otherwise.
Are there special glass paints to use for the colors?
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
oh wow and it’s a time-lapse, you legend!
that definitely gives me a better idea of how the process goes, thanks a lot for sharing, that was very cool to see.
so that’s the copper foil at the end and then do you use a blow torch or something to melt all the pieces together?
that must be so much fun for you also, do you have a lot of projects going on at the same time or do you tend to focus on one at a time?
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
Ha, that’s awesome, thanks for explaining. Yea, I’ll definitely check out the video when it goes up, sounds like a nail-biting, rewarding process.
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
Very cool, it came out great.
I coincidentally looked up glass cutting recently and found videos of people cutting window panes by scoring a line and then smacking the scored section off. Is that what you do for cutting glass curves also? Your work looks too technically precise for the smacking method I saw.
- Comment on 1312 2 months ago:
wow, that’s very cool. so you have to cut each piece of glass for each finger bone like that?
- Comment on How have I never thought of the parody cryptid Bigfart until now? 2 months ago:
plus how to reheat pizza evenly…good point
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