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  • Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

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  • I'm installing Graphene OS this Monday!

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  • F-Droid > Pipe Pipe

  • What's the best thing that happened to you this week?

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  • Today is the 12th anniversary of the day I was physically disabled by a fuckwit driver while I was riding a bicycle to work. It is the first year in several where I do not feel existential or super depressed. I have plenty of reason to be, but all of it is deflected at the moment.

  • If there is a doctor that only saves killers, and a killer only kills other killers, I wonder who would save/kill more people?

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  • military hospital doc versus special forces... Doc's more effective.

  • Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe

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  • Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.

  • Oi mates, I'm back.

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  • Gold of the gods. We are all spaceships for the microbes.

  • Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?

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  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • Check DNS logs. Discord is proprietary undocumented garbage that connects to dozens of raw IP addresses that have no documentation, rhyme, or reasoning. You have no clue what or who is connected in that mess of garbage, or why they are there.

    It is about like, I'm going to give you access to a phone, a special phone, it just works.

    It is a prison phone. You are in prison when you use it... technically. But you don't really "see" the "place". The other inmates are all around you. They see you, but you don't see them. Never mind that though, the phone just works. Lots of people love that phone. Nobody asks questions. Just use the phone and pay no attention to all the rest. It will be fine.

    Business model? Viability? Never mind all of that. Don't ask questions like that. The numbers do not add up in the slightest. That is the magic of prisons. Justice costs a lot, but it is worth it right. Magic phone is easy. Ask no questions. Expect no answers. Totally normal, everyone is doing it.

    The whole thing is a mass of clueless zombie morons that ask no questions and have no idea who what or why they are connected to with all those raw IP addresses. They all give trust blindly without accountability or understanding.

  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • Is fluxer as network f'ed up as Discord without the minimum democratic standard of human readable domains, or is it the slavery of dozens of undocumented raw IP addresses?

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    Almost there

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • I'm in a microclimate that is even more unique than most of SoCal. You would have to visit to really understand it. I would not have believed it until I moved here. The temp where I live is 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit different than the surrounding area even just a few miles away. It only exists within a mile or so of the ocean. Riding a bike everywhere for years was quite fun because the weather always gets better the closer I get to home. It could be in the low 40's F at night in Irvine, but it will be 55-60 F in San Clemente in the winter. It may be nearly 100 F in Mission Viejo in Summer, but it will still be 75 F in San Clemente. It has to do with the water, mountains, and how this area is situated at the edge of the LA Basin. It causes the wind patterns to be favorable here across both major regional weather patterns. If you go diving here, it also becomes obvious. There are three major thermoclines even at recreational diving depths and the first one hits hard at just a couple meters down. The cold water is why there are never hurricanes here. Any disturbances of the surface mixes the thermoclines and prevents building strong storms. When the air gets too hot, this area is covered in a marine layer at night because of the water temperature and that is what keeps it much cooler. San Clemente is where that phenomenon starts. There are actually cheesy little tourist shirts sold about the place in Peru that is supposedly the only other location with the same microclimate in the world.

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • I always have a window cracked open in my room, but SoCal coastal weather is best in the world year round. There are few locations with deep water upwelling AND onshore flow atmospheric patterns. Of those, there is only one other location, in Peru, where it is also a temperate desert.

  • Sometimes I wonder if my older brother and I both were in grave danger, who would my parents save first... 🤔

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  • Who would you want them to save first?

  • How will the Fediverse navigate a dying internet?

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  • I will disconnect from anything with age verification. My post history and content are more than adequate to prove who I am. I will leave the internet entirely out of ethical disgust. I despise this world of lazy cowards and exploitive criminals. I want nothing to do with it. I will not shrug my shoulders when people come to steal my citizenship, rights, and liberty. Pathetic slaves that roll over to this shit are no better.

  • Nevermind the drink I'm holding

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  • My ex wife. Bitch

  • Cup cake

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  • Why do I look like shit some days?

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  • Becoming a roadie and riding a bike everywhere for years fixed me feeling like this. I had to get over all of my insecurities being in public in a cycling kit. Being around other people riding and racing, it became my normal. Now... I don't have to look at me, so why the fuck should I care what anyone thinks. They are used to it or whatever, who cares. I'm more interested in inferring their real intelligence versus narcissistic stupidity based on their responses. Old people are all ugly. "For your age" is just an excuse for it. The vanity is boring. People who are judgmental are just projecting their own inadequacy and internal misery.

  • What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)

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  • Chemistry, math, physics, optics, metallurgy... The thing that is hard is how your needs for knowledge will change over time and what is accessible to you at each stage.

    For general electronics, The Art of Electronics is the goto book. For actually understanding practical stuff, you need to build a knowledge of the industrial revolution and how it evolved. The inventions of James Watt opened up steam. The Bessemer process scaled iron. Large heavy castings drove the potential for large lathes, but lathes are the key to everything. A lathe is capable of cutting a more precise screw than the one used to operate it. That old screw can be replaced with the new, until you achieve your desired precision.

    A reference flat is made using two granite stones rubbed together with water in between until the top one creates suction that can lift the other.

    Prussian blue and hand scraping are used to make machine flat surfaces.

    Automotive suspension components like springs and torsion bars are a good source of cheap tool steel. Engine heads are a good source of casting scrap and quality hardware. Wipers, window motors, and starters are great for building machines. Understanding how to repair and diagnose this stuff is a major skill. Knowing how to make real controlled heat is fundamentally important.

    I've never encountered single sources for this stuff.

  • Question: Humidity controlled cabinet

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  • My experience may or may not apply here... In automotive paint refinishing back 15+ years ago, 2 part epoxy primers are special. Most primers are (were) 2k urethane. These are similar to automotive 2k clearcoat in how they work. They both have similar thicknesses, leveling after wet coats, and to a lesser extent - drying properties. With drying properties, the surface levels within a minute or so but it forms a surface film and the back side remains tacky for longer. (Where they differ is that clearcoat takes much longer to fully cure, like weeks to months, while primer is workable within an hour or less.) Epoxy primers are high build fillers. They get hard as a rock and are a pain in the ass to sand down. The two main reasons for using an epoxy are for super rough large surfaces, and this the the relevant bit here, they are used to seal the surface.

    In paint, there are a ton of nightmare situations. Like let's say some brake fluid got on the paint in a crash, or some idiot used rattle can enamel on a car. Often what happens is that the repair I am doing is not the first time the panel has been repaired. While I would like to clean the issue completely and use typical 2k primers, the previous repair may have used epoxy and buried something terrible. I'm not going to strip the whole panel and have to spray additional adjacent panels to color match when I did not estimate this in the cost quote. Epoxy seals out EVERYTHING. With stuff like spray can enamel, the painted surface never cures. It remains reactive to the solvent of anything sprayed on top of it. If ABS trim or bumper covers are exposed to acetone, similar issues with reactions will happen, unless 2 part epoxy primer is used. Epoxy primer is impermeable in the context of automotive paint; it is the nuclear option. Everything else allows some solvents to pass through it over time.

    If you have ever touched the paint of new cars and noticed the softness, that is uncured clearcoat that is still venting solvents in small quantities. This is also why jams painting inside of the seals is kept to a minimum clearcoat thickness. The thicker the clear, the longer it will take to fully cure. As an ex pro painter, that softness tells me a lot about a finish too. It actually starts forming around 5 minutes after the clear is shot, just after the fingerprint test does not pull a string when removed. That is the first moment when I am able to barely graze the surface with fingertips and not damage the surface. It is still very wet underneath at this stage.

    Hopefully that illustrates how even the hardest of painted surfaces is still able to allow stuff to pass through it. If you want to stop that stuff, you need a paint that is made specifically to seal everything.

    That said, the seals and other materials also need to be up for the task. Most of those are likely just dust seals. How you deal with corners is critical. Just look at stuff like Pelican cases.

  • Little reverse engineering project - road bike indexed shifting designed to print

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  • Yeah. Got a kit of it from a thrift store years ago and try to use it in jigs to save printing when possible... 4.3mm bolt holes, 7×2.3mm square nut slots and 12.7mm pitch. I have it and M3 memorized.

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    Little reverse engineering project - road bike indexed shifting designed to print

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Crew 11

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Do you know of any tools for translating words into one of several languages in real time like a code completion drop down?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are the rules of popular content creators/creations?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is your meta thought process like when drawing your own handwriting?

  • Retro Computers @lemmy.world
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    6502/65816/Z80 on the same bus

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Do two orbiting black holes have a gravitational resonant effect?

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    If fiber infused material is abrasive to soft metals, it may be useful as a sanding medium

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    to the whitehouse! 🍾

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Filament drybox inlay by chwiede | Download free STL model | Printables.com

    www.printables.com /model/1462400-filament-drybox-inlay
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Got the ARRL handbook. Smells like a toxic dump site. Any fixes for new book smell of death?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Do you know of any good reference projects to calculate sunrise and sunset times from NTP?

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Quadruped V1.0 - Full Project by TomKnox

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How is it possible to access Arduino compiled code from another language like MicroPython or FORTH?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is on your end of the world data dump list?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Does piefed not have a modlog view?

  • Retro Computers @lemmy.world
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    Why doesn't everyone use battery backed SRAM for retro projects and breadboarding?

  • Retro Computers @lemmy.world
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    DIP 💩 puzzle game