j4k3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, but it stays shut off until the next person pays or uses the button. It is just a microswitch on a flap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave the thing on the ground so the next car kills it properly. Nonconsensual ads are digital rape. It is the same moral scope as buying and selling a person’s digital presence to manipulate and exploit them is digital slavery.

  Any company with an advertising budget for spamming and wasting my time is clearly indicating that their competition has a product with better value and reputation. Ads are public service announcements of what to never purchase.

  I will not watch ads for anything at all. My time is not subject to that nonsense. I’ll go read or do other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Life was way way more dangerous.

  Most likely, people were sadistic, but also accidents happen. You just happen to get hurt in some way, make the best of it, and someone wants to copy it. The sadistic part is likely branding and slavery. Marking people so they cannot escape without getting caught.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I may check out this GOG eventually. Accounts, subscriptions, micro transactions, and criminal proprietary extortion are why I stopped gaming for the most part. For me, it has been full-source or fuck off for a long time. I cannot fix stupid in anyone else but me. I will not support criminal extortion and bank account skimming scams. They only exist because people have no real moral depth and self respect to say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do the shaky thing too, but I think it is just psychological tbh. At calorie crash levels of no blood sugar during extreme endurance sports, it is totally different. It is like someone straps lead weights all over your body. Everything feels heavy and nearly impossible to move.

  There is probably some kind of dynamic regarding different types of sugar in the system that cause the shakiness.

  Your brain ONLY works on sugars. So calorie crashing, like hitting the wall, is when your body has to start cannibalizing your own muscles for sugar to fuel the brain. I’ve never been anywhere near that level except on a bike after 4+ hours and 60+ miles. You feel like a puddle, and joints are like bending copper wire. There is no shakiness in that state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you see I wrote that comment into a spoiler to shorten it in the post replies so it is not a wall of text? Sorry if my thoughts are hard to follow at times. I write in an abstract rough draft like format. I wrote several tips and how I approach a problem like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it is a bit of a noob design, and I do not mean that in any kind of negative or insulting way whatsoever. The main issue here is how you are thinking in terms of other materials and processes. Every product is primarily constrained by the manufacturing process. The design aesthetics are constrained by this process. The trick is to understand these constraints well enough to make something aesthetically pleasing within the process. To be fair, ~95% of designs shared and printed have this type of issue. Your design here looks like something I would make out of brass sheet and brazing. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the approach. I see what you were trying to do.

  The floating thin sections on layers, lack the flow consistency to maintain temperature regulation of the heat block. The heater cartridge in the print head is managed by a PID control loop. This will always have some overshoot and undershoot of temperature when the flow changes substantially. There are a number of contributing factors to this issue in the printer hardware design. I could go into a lot of depth here but that is an aside.

  I would not use thin floating sections. Let’s say the whole backing was solid in a FreeCAD design body. I would then do something like an egg shaped ellipse pocket out of the middle. Another option might be a % like shape with the thinnest section offset so that the layer lines are still substantial.

  My most advance approach would be to print the face of the frame on the bed, and the rear face of the backing plate also on the bed as a second part. If designed well from the start, and if the bed is large enough, you design the print to finish the backing plate before the face is completed. Then you add a print pause, remove the backing plate, insert it into the front plate, and continue the print to encapsulate it as a single part. This makes any 2D pattern for the backplate possible, and you do not need to deal with fasteners or whatnot. You end up with a perfect picture frame slot using this method.

  A total aside, but this idea can also be used to make your own printed supports manually for perfect overhangs. You print the support to size, add a pause, and remove the printed support shape. Ideally, you add a ~0.1mm-0.2mm clearance gap, paying very close attention to how your slicer layers height and first layer correspond to the support dimensions, or rotate the support to utilize better x/y dimensional accuracy if possible in some designs. You can even create a printed alignment jig on the build plate just to hold this manually created print support. The trick is to then apply gluestick to the interface between the manually printed support and your overhang. This can produce nearly first layer like print quality on an overhang with dimensional accuracy too.

  Another super advanced trick: let’s think if the picture frame standing vertically upright in Cartesian planes. It is facing forward on the X-Z plane (X = -><- = >< = left to right). Let’s assume the origin 0,0,0 is properly centered in the frame. Now if we look at a X/Y Top, section view, we are looking at the picture frame as if someone had used a hacksaw in the middle of the sides of the frame. In other words, we are looking at the frame’s profile view. Now typically, people approach this like a [. Now this takes a lot of practice, but it is possible to design a profile something like ɭ̅̅̅ ̅ ̅˻ ̅ ̷̅ – the print bed is ↓. If you design this just right, the left side is the frame and the right is designed with a small connection to the bed and an angle where this connection is close to the rest of the frame. The thin bridge overhang is going to contract and shrink towards the larger heat mass of the frame, especially because of the printed layers above the bridge. This contracting force will be set into the part like a spring, but will remain compressed due to bed adhesion. You may want to add a small first layer connection or inner skirt to hold this section in place firmly throughout the print. When the part is removed from the bed, the bridge spring will pull the right section back. This will create the slot for your picture and potentially a way of holding other types of backing, while not worrying about conforming to other types of manufacturing process constraints like a wood router or sheet metal profile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use linux-hardware.org to search for a relevant kernel scan. I think that should have some kind of potential hardware identification for the USB hub and PCI trees. That may clue you in about the architecture and devices. I’m no expert on motherboards or the evolution of hardware devices. However, it could be as simple as a USB hub chip on the board. I only know that these things exist from around 5 years ago when I was researching how I might make a USB 3 to PCIE adaptor for an Intel Core Duo machine. I was looking into adding a faster external drive port to libreboot hardware.

  From what I recall, the CPU has a ton of connections on its various I/O pins, (like you indicated checking for bent pins). However each register port has a ton of compromises to make at the board design level. Like, the hardware spec of the CPU says it has way way more stuff than is actually possible to implement in practice. The base CPU spec may say it has a half dozen USB ports and three 32 bit PCI lanes or whatnot, but when one gets into the weeds of hardware design, one quickly finds stuff like one USB port is hardware available in practice in the same hardware register as something like the Ethernet controller, but if you use it, the Ethernet speed is halved, and the other five hardware USB ports are only available if one disables all the PCI lanes. So instead, the hardware designer uses a GPIO pin against the enable pin of a USB hub to PCI converter chip that sits on the same PCI bus as all other external hardware. This was also very common in older generations of laptops. There was often a small daughter board that had a set of ports for USB, SD cards, Ethernet, etc., and this worked in a similar topology where it was a PCI device.

  The first rule of troubleshooting is “thou shall check ground”. Beyond this, if you happen to discover that the USB ports are handled by such a controller, if you look up the datasheet and pinout, the Enable pin in the first to check after confirming power is present. Also be sure you have the kernel module or driver necessary to identify this device. Worst case scenario, if you identify there is an external controller, you could simply replace it. There is no programming in such a chip. It is just a simple hot air rework swap job. Alternatively, maybe try an external card or adaptor on one of the other ports or on PCI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot chick jealousy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said that. You are crazy. You have no grounded scope of the subject as a whole. I’m talking about far more than you realize, but have no way to fix your ignorance because you have multiple errors stacking and have not given me enough information to diagnose those issues. I do not mean any of that as an insult or to be mean. I was young and ignorant too. You have made assumptions that are incorrect, and I would like to help but cannot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone can detect any transmitted radio signals. The ARRL books explain how. I’m too lazy to go look at my copy to photograph the section of the physical book in my room. The frequency licensing is totally irrelevant here. That will just be changed and noise will get broadcast over the band. If you keep trying to transmit, someone will find you. You are literally creating a beacon in all directions that points at you. Everyone will be listening, but one by one there will be no one to listen to. This is standard stuff. Every military unit has radio counter measures. You are very limited in real output power already. The big boys will blow you away because they have no such restrictions. It is one of the reasons why there are power limits. Now if you can hide something useful and encrypted near the noise floor, that is one real possibility, but in this age of software defined radio, you are still going to get caught.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meshtastic is still radio just the same. It is a transmitter and will get triangulated, but that is irrelevant to what I said. What I am talking about is how all radio devices you actually use are easily logged. Cell towers are one way, but the device is easy to log more locally. For instance most big retail stores are logging people in the door and their movements. Heck, it has been a few years since the papers about how people can be tracked based on changes and response times within WiFi coverage using standard consumer hardware. It would not surprise me if this is used by some now. The air tags nonsense, that is the same type of thing. The real reason you do not have removable batteries in mobile devices is so that you cannot turn them off. They are never fully off. That is how stuff like air tags still work. Stuff like Intel’s ME, AMD’s PSP, and ARM’s TrustZone are the systems that are used. It is a whole extra operating system running in the background on your hardware. These have a lower root level access to everything on your hardware. It is trivial to log signals from all mobile devices that pass a given point. It may still require some coordination to correlate cellular and video manually but I highly doubt that. In all likelihood, the current generation of hardware is already collecting this data. Look at all the stories of people getting caught a few days after crimes. That was unheard of 2 decades ago. Now it is practically a given. If you are in public and transmitting radio signals now, you are fucked. We would all need to dress up as Tusken Raiders to have any chance at anonymity now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Radio is trivial to triangulate the broadcaster if someone tries. You can receive anything, but not transmit. If you have line of sight, lasers can be focused to some extent to limit scatter.

  One of the biggest changes in Ukraine has been attaching a very thin fiberoptic wire to drones for their connection up to a few miles away. That is evidence of what is truly required and pragmatic. So, start running similar lines if you really care and can come up with a way of hiding them. The only real option is to go dark in practice. There is no way to stop from being forced into becoming a slave in all but name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not now with Flock like bullshit. You can count on that data getting triangulated with cell service signals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the trauma you experienced is actually just you being bored and thrill-seeking in an immersive VR story, and you'll wake up and everything will be fine... right? ... Right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah dude. Love ya man. It will get better one day. I need you to so you can help me when I genuinely start falling apart. Totally selfish of me but I have faith that you’re my hero and there is no going back without dragging me down too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t knock the dogma out no matter how hard I throw it cave timmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A halfwit shill buried in their own failures at the prisoner’s dilemma and game theory is not a person I have any reason to trust. You are a primary tether holding back my neighbors and community. I fucking hate you with a passion you worthless POS. "Trust you," lol, I want to purge you because that is all you deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a halfwit speaks for another by writing the words of their narrative. It is a clear indicator of dogma. Dogma is wholely irrational. I have no idea who you are voicing here but it is not at all related to me. Your imaginative fiction is comical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re the smartest person in the room you are in the wrong room.

  When pushing the smartest people out of the conversation, the manipulative goal is to convince them that they are the smartest person in the room so they leave. Therefore it is my duty as someone that genuinely cares about my neighbors to say, no, this is simple, it is rational. You are a halfwit or shill. I know what I said and its rational grounding in simple logic. I cannot fix stupid in anyone other than myself. Wasting energy worrying about such things is an irrational waste of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OMFG. explain all the baby stuff or die here… Humanizing immigrants and grounding their struggles in a parallel rational logical scope where the same systems are oriented in the opposite ethical alignment. Highlighting that contradiction and humanizing the plight of immigrants is actively pushing back against the regime of populist hate and prejudice. You are a tool for the Right. Whether you realize it or not is irrelevant. Your voting history clearly indicates you know what you are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More junk stalkerware getting pushed. Try putting up a DNS white list (default blocking) firewall and then try white listing their servers. There are many many connections required to make it work and most make no logical sense. You’re running a ton of stalkerware junk in the background. Trusting that BS is a mistake IMO. Like if you need it for some reason, a virtual machine or separate hardware device and network are pragmatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go troll someone else for your pay shill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The halfwit responses here shows why. Too many irrational people lack fundamental independent logic skills… or it is all bots and convenient idiots as such an idea is potentially powerful against a failing system run by an autocracy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abstract rational logic seems to be very poor in this place. I often forget how the elementary must be tediously explained.

  Governments fight undocumented immigrants for essentially the same functions as proprietary software. The software works, but does not mesh with the source of the host system for changes and ongoing evolution of a dynamic system.

  The undocumented foreigners ultimately work and contribute to the total economy just the same, but it is the mystery of how they are compatible and what their I/O really is in practice that is so off putting and a scape goat when the host system is failing in ways the establishment is unwilling to rationalize objectively. The undocumented foreigner is ultimately adapting and evolving along side the host, but these changes are proprietary and masked from the host that is unable to plan and incorporate changes as an integrated whole.

  This is a fundamentally simple abstraction for anyone on a rational logical plane of thought. Perhaps it is hard if English is not your native language.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know if you are rational? Or rather, what is rational logic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have someone in mind, or a more generalist’s question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start with Plato’s writings about Socrates. Republic, is widely considered the best. You can listen to lectures like this old (one from Professor Sergue of Princeton YT)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rf3uqDj00A] from the 1990’s. Note that the late Professor passed a few years ago, so naturally YT promotes it because it is high quality content, in medium/low resolution, and no one is likely claiming the revenue. In other words, do not feel guilty about using Pipe Pipe, and perhaps just download a copy to keep on hand. That is a rather good 3 part lecture series. This is something your local library will have in book form. If you search for “mass market paperback” with Plato, you are likely to find new books at around $5 too. These generally have more updated text than gutenberg.org, but that has several options too.

  Developing a philosophical mind and independent ethos like Socrates will do much to help you develop in very useful ways, both inside and outside your bedroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bikes are anonymous, especially road. No one is watching or paying attention… Part of the problem too, but still. I’ve been through some shit on a bike, but honestly still recommend it 10/10. The odds of you encountering some political refugee with a third grade education and a four page long driving record are nearly zero. You will never learn an area like you will on a bike. I have been all over Orange county and have ridden a lot of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego, all from just starting from home. I know places on a different level than most people, like I know the bike trails, back roads, fire routes, parks, military bases, and all the way down to connections that are not intended like through golf courses, sidewalks and stuff. I know of a bunch of eclectic pastry shops too because I would make them destinations to push up my miles. Like, today I’m going to hit up a Persian place in Tustin, then a French shop in Huntington Beach before heading home for an 80 mile day. It takes awhile to build up that kind of strength, but only around a year. It is the ultimate freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Light follows the inverse square law