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  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • I'm kinda sad to see it enshittify, for gamers and for those who find it fits their actual collaboration use case, but I also really hate the number forum-format communities that Discord has displaced or prevented from coalescing. Discoverability on Discord is terrible, as is having help available long term, as well as older advice and other content that helps newbies get the culture of a community. Even where the functionality exists, the general "real time" transitory feel of it reduces the quality of content and encourages people to be dicks, since it will all scroll by or be forgotten (if streaming) in a few moments anyway.

    Horses for courses, and my old-ass X-ennial self thinks Discord has been pressed into service on a lot of courses where it's terrible.

  • The Affinity and Canva Pledge

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  • This all feels a lot like any low- or mid-range CAD suite that gets acquired by Autodesk, Siemens, or PTC. Promise enough to avoid a revolt, but start eroding with the next release.

    The educational licensing for lock-in is also par for the course. It can be done well (Rhino 3D is legendary for letting small-shop designers use their cheap edu license forever, even commercially), but generally it's just there to maintain the supply of baby drafters and get subscriptions from employers.

  • Putin doesn't really want a war with NATO because 'Russia will lose and lose quickly,' UK military chief says

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  • First, war is always a tragedy. Always. It is to be avoided until the reasonably plausible alternative is worse for human suffering. People who ignore this are asses (not saying you are one of them).

    Second, as long as it stays conventional and China stays on the sidelines, then yes of course NATO destroys the Russian military, or at least keeps it hemmed into existing Russian territory. That's been true for 30 years.

    Third, those are VERY big 'ifs'.

  • A lone orca killed a great white in less than two minutes. Scientists say it could signal an ecological shift

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  • Yes, but it's a little unusual that one orca was hunting alone, and the shark was a large juvenile. The scientists think that the ecological mess that has resulted in the killer whales pushing out all but the boldest teenager great white sharks could mean that the sharks are going somewhere else, possibly where humans fish or swim or where the local wildlife is not ready for the sharks.

  • Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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  • Wake me when they REALLY get back to their roots.

  • Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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  • Girl on the right probably killed a Spanish swordsmith back in the day.

  • The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

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  • When you're trying to get into DPs, the outside can be slippery and the screw part can be tight! Very dangerous for the workplace.

  • The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

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  • I thought I had NSFW turned off... 🤣

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • No need to go crazy with the first one. That first step from laptop keyboard or membrane pack-in is the biggest jump you'll ever make in typing experience. a brown-switch gamer board with the RBG turned off and some cheap Amazon "CSA" style keycaps might be all you'd ever need. Of course, even that type of thinking can lead to certain... rabbit holes.

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • I never truly learned to type, though I had a few weeks instruction in school, and did a few levels of Mario Teaches Typing when I was a kid. None of it really stuck, and typing remains an exercise in hand-eye coordination for me. I topped out at around 70-80 WPM if I'm composing rather than copying, but that's been good enough for a lifetime of office jobs, and certainly for writing school essays. There is definitely a lower ceiling if you don't get proper instruction, but simple practice is still helpful.

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • Drawing an imaginary factory- and they wanted kids to do this before teaching them the parts of the cell- isn’t going to help you learn what mitochondria are.

    That sounds like it's an exercise meant to get the kids thinking about a multi-faceted system existing inside a single structure, with parts that are interconnected but distinct, and will lead into a common metaphor teachers use to teach about biological cells. Not being graded means they're not judging the kids on what they know or don't, but want to evaluate where they are with this sort of thinking and figure out what they will focus on. Also, your kid may be smart and already know where they're going with this, but others in the class may not. If she does, she could probably knock that out in fifteen minutes. Even if you decide that she doesn't need to do it, I don't think it's stupid busy work, at least not necessarily.

    Some teachers are dumb; we need too many of them and pay them too little for each and every one to be a superstar. The ones coming up with curricula and lesson plans usually aren't, though.

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • Britain Confronts Fears of a (Gasp!) Tea Shortage

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  • Pigeon sweat.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Finished my DIY keyboard with printed case, feet, and RPi Pico "caddy". Keycaps are not 3d printed, but the labels were DIY from my laser.

  • TIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.

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  • The local cryptid in my home town was the "Humanzee" reported to have been created at the "secret lab" of a Yale psychologist/primatologist/eugenicist.

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    TIL the original Star Wars trilogy was influenced by the Vietnam War

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  • Influenced, yes, but it's also important to keep in mind that Lucas was working with a lot of influences, including some that make no sense if viewed as a cohesive allegory. For instance, the power relationship of the Rebels to the Empire has parallels of the Viet Cong to the US military. In a cut scene, though, Biggs specifically (and tediously, hence the cut) cites the Empire's nationalization of private industry as influencing his decision to join the Rebels.

    Lucas has always been a well-meaning, left-leaning, white American boomer. He includes relevant ideas based off that worldview in his work, but he's not making grand political statements or really even engaging with political thought in a serious manner. Star Wars is probably more timeless and better for it.

  • China’s yuan replaces US dollar as ‘primary’ currency for Russia’s foreign trade

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  • I mostly agree, but I'm sure the Chinese don't mind seeing what happens when the West is faced with an ambivalent-to-hostile nuclear power, with deep commercial ties, going to war to press questionable territorial claims.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • The sense I get is that it is more lazy than anything. The verbiage feels like the fact that designs were public documents was tacked on last minute to satisfy some desire for market segmentation or to create a parts and design library to draw traffic. It would make sense that the company hosting the software would not want the headache of being unable to use your stuff commercially or even of parsing what they could use, since in some sense they always are using everything commercially. Refusing the to thread the needle with their verbiage, though, has left a situation where the Terms of Use say clearly that (1) a design is Content, (2) a free user's Content is a public document, (3) a free user cannot use their own public documents for commercial use, and (3) a free user grants EVERY OTHER USER a license to sell their public documents.

    1. "End Users’ files, designs, models... (collectively, “Content”)."
    2. "All documents created by a Free Plan User, and all Content contained therein, is made public and therefore considered a Public Document."
    3. "If you intend to use the Service outside a trial context to create and/or edit intellectual property for commercial purposes (including but not limited to developing designs that are intended to be commercialized and/or used in support of a commercial business), then you agree to upgrade to a paid subscription to the Service."
    4. "For any Public Document owned by a Free Plan User... Customer grants a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to any End User or third party accessing the Public Document to use the intellectual property contained in Customer’s Public Document without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Document, and to permit persons to whom the Document is made available to do the same."

    The only possible wrinkle is that the ToU distinguish between a "Customer" and an "End User," so maybe you the customer can grant you the End User the same commercial rights that Joe the slightly shady CNC machinist in Peoria has when he downloads your widget to fabricate and sell. Something tells me that PTC's license compliance folks don't interpret things that way, though.

  • TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

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  • ...but that’s about it

    That's not how people work. You think Americans are stubborn about our customary units? Try damn-near everyone (including many Americans) with SI.

    Time in particular is unlikely to be significantly reworked because you can only push the inconsistencies out so far. So you divide the day into a thousand beats. Great. A year is still not an integer number of days, and weeks and months are only loosely based on physical (lunar) phenomena at all.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • The issue with FreeCAD is that all the workarounds (so far) are manual. Other apps may well be doing similar things, but they're doing them behind the scenes and the user doesn't have to (for instance) specifically set up a datum plane offset at the exact same distance as the face you want to sketch on and either manage it by hand or use an integrated spreadsheet to set up and reference variables.

    I like what I see coming out of FreeCAD these days, but stuff like that is... umm, a lot.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    A weirdo tries some major CAD suites, but also a bunch of half-baked bizarre free CAD program out there...

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    3D printed keyboard case, feet, and cable grommet.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Designed and printed an air assist nozzle for my laser cutter.