Arcanoloth

@Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet, Reinvented. Introduction to Reticulum.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to watch a video about it; But I assume the name is inspired by Neal Stephenson’s Anathem? That’d make sense…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As an autistic person that can barely cope with public transport (which is good in europe, obviously) and the associated density of humans without having a complete meltdown on a good day, a car greatly increases my mobility and quality of life. Not having one would also mean an increased frequency of grocery shopping (which, again, is quite a challenge most of the time, hence I try to go as rarely as possible) because neither an e-bike nor public transport offer the same carrying capacity. I could likely make do with a cargo bike, but I’d still have to relocate into a more densely populated area to have all the different shops I need (yes, I’m “picky” about what food is safe, what clothes I can bear, etc.) in bike-able distance, which would cost more money for housing and mental energy (“spoons”) to handle the increased population around me. Plus it’d cost a lot of extra time. As much as I’d prefer a car-less world in theory, it’s simply a fact that it’s an assistive technology for me, just like noise-canceling headphones are. I do hope we can move over to decent electrical cars though, no reason to run on fossil fuels (other than cost of the vehicles, and that is rapidly coming down).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A death prediction market would be a platform for crowdsourced assassinations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into “Assassination Politics” by Jim Bell ;-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usenet (and still there), mailing lists (hooray for any that use schleuder), a bit of IRC (though I was never one for quick fire & forget statements, today I’m good with Signal/Molly/Gurk and XMPP; Matrix never appealed to me), lot’s of Forums (mostly related to my favourite games at the times), some twitter (though I was never really comfortable with the hustle to gain more visibility through large follower numbers), switched over to identi.ca (and eventually many different ActivityPub servers, currently one Akkoma and one Lemmy; not interested in PixelFed, though it helps I dislike the dev’s attitude; PeerTube could be interesting as a consumer, but the UX still feels atrocious; I tend to leave my name/handle behind when switching, I’ll inform some people important to me, but I am quite happy not having to maintain friendships and a reputation, gotta do that in meatspace, and I find it taxing even there). Lurked 4chan a couple years, but was never comfortable engaging, too much “fake” being a horrible person. Was relatively active on reddit, but ever since the redesign I felt it was too cumbersome to use (yes, old., I know, but who wants to rely on a legacy version being available?), plus their corporate decisions were pissing me off more and more (Yeah, I’m a pretty stout software freedom person, down to using libreboot & canoeboot, though I no longer wish to associate myself with the FSF, given their tone-deaf handling of the whole RMS situation), so, yeah, eventually lemmy. I’m more quiet than I used to be, getting older, I suppose, but I was also never that into anything “social” in the first place (I’m an Aspie, who’d have thunk?), so I mostly lurk and only post when I feel I can actually contribute something meaningful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you like it :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Just the way it turned out (and then was applied to more and more things). Others write top to bottom or even left to right on odd lines and right to left on even ones (boustrophedon, “as the ox plows”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly stuff around the house, so replacement parts (broken stuff, missing caps, etc.,) or useful crap like a pen holder that fits into the hole left in my ikea desk from one of their qi-chargers that turned out to be less convenient than I thought :-P Turns out having a 3d printer one tends to find use-cases all over, just like one does having a 2d printer. You just didn’t consider those before you had one and now, poof, you can just make it when you have an idea.

  I mostly do very technical designs, mathematical curves rather than organic ones, if at all. I’m a programmer so the concept of “writing” my models instead of 'drawing" them feels more natural to me, hence OpenSCAD instead of the usual CAD tools or even blender (it certainly helps that I did a lot of raytracing stuff with povray years ago). It ain’t art, but figuring out the real-world strength of different geometries, how to design screw-holes that work even when sagging somewhat in one axis, creating an exact mathematical description of the thread for a nut and bolt that work despite the crude resolution of a FDM printer… all these tickle my brain and I enjoy them.

  As to learning there are many decent tutorials on designing “production ready” parts (think small-scale manufacturing runs), e.g. “Slant 3D” on youtube. But ultimately my answer has always been “becoming fascinated, trying stuff out, and trying to find resources on specific problems I encounter” Not because it is fast or efficient, but because I tremendously enjoy the experience ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Files⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  printables, thingiverse, but mostly I make stuff myself with openscad (I do mostly technical/functional stuff)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prisoners? No. Influenced to varying degrees by everything we have experienced, including, obviously, our upbringing? Certainly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL: Schrifterlass