SteevyT
@SteevyT@beehaw.org
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 6 days ago:
Stuff.
- Comment on It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing 2 weeks ago:
weird-looking Ps.
Yup, everything I see this in the wild it takes two reads to figure it out. I’m about ready to see if there’s an extension for Firefox thst will convert them back to th at this point.
- Comment on This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery 2 weeks ago:
In the cycling world it’s kinda funny how people try to make a low climbing century (100 mile route), and where I am I have a glut of choices for centuries with well under 1,000 meters of climbing. I just cleared out a bunch of my routes, and still have two century routes with under 600m of climbing.
- Comment on Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds 3 weeks ago:
Add fuel until it stops going, add engines until it starts exploding, then add struts until it stops exploding. Repeat to orbit.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.
Astronomer as a company is worth around a billion.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
Just a note on how nozzles are made, they are machined brass usually. They can wear pretty significantly over their lifespan too, especially if you run harsh materials (glow in the dark is harsh enough that a brass nozzle might not last a single print).
There are hardened steel nozzles, but even those are a wear item, they just wear slowly. As I said somewhere else, it’s like trying to chase down a ransom note by analyzing the shape of the lead of a pencil that may have been used to write it. Just using it changes the properties.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
Both the ones for adjustment, and the operator.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
You’d also have to use the same slicer settings, similar room conditions, make sure that you have the same filament roll (assuming it’s an FDM printer), make sure that nothing hardware wise was tweaked (eg. fixing belt tension), make sure nothing software wise was tweaked (it’s nuts how much difference temp can make), make sure nothing firmware wise was tweaked, and the nozzle cant have had too many prints between the suspicious one and now (or like half of a glow in the dark or carbon fiber filled pring).
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
I can change what an individual print line looks like to the naked eye just by something as simple as tweaking temperature or print speed. Good luck getting anything remotely consistent intentionally by clever nozzle machining.
Also, nozzles are dead simple to make, it’s literally just a large drill bit (1.75mm diameter or so) with a smaller (.05mm to 1mm) drill poking the last bit through. Tip is slightly flattened off and away it goes.
Also, as someone else said, nozzles are a wear item, it’s like trying to track a car down by the brake pads, or a pencil down by the shape of the lead at the tip, using it changes the characteristics of it.
- Comment on I Signed Up for Trump Mobile So You Don't Have To 1 month ago:
At work, cant watch.
Does it still have a 5,000 mAh long life camera?
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 month ago:
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx
- Comment on Walmart Scales Back Self-Checkout Amid Security and Customer Feedback 1 month ago:
As said elsewhere, you’re probably farther north, or in a larger city (or both) than them. Where I am I can get away with about 4 words. Even just a day’s drive south starts to test my patience.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 2 months ago:
I believe i have them in a RAID right now. At least I still meet 3-2-1 for important stuff since I have those drives in my computer, various flash drives, an external hard drive, and a cloud spot.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 2 months ago:
I just replaced a Note 9 a couple months ago. Before that was a Note 3. I despise setting up new phones.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 2 months ago:
Do mirrored drives in a computer count as 1 or 2 locations? It’s physically 2 locations, but kinda act as one for most software type issues.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 2 months ago:
I probably should have worded that better. I found the flash drive they were on. They are now on two mirrored hard drives in my tower, the flash drive, and a cloud service.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 2 months ago:
I have two drives in my tower that are just for my data. They are just folders of files. And there are two because I lost a chunk of data when the single drive it used to be died. Luckily most of it was also elsewhere, but I did think I had lost half of my wedding photos since I couldnt find the flash drive.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 months ago:
My last employer was trying to get autonomous busses going. As far as I knew, when I left a few years ago the only place the busses were allowed to be autonomous was around the bus depot to hit all the maintenance, fueling, and cleaning stations on closed roads before parking itself (and I’m actually not 100% sure they would park themselves) at the end of the day. There was no timeline for on-route autonomy that I was aware of, but I was also not really involved so my info was 2nd hand.
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 2 months ago:
You know, the truck I had at the time somehow never had it’s Sirius radio shut off. Although, I never got billed for it either…
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 2 months ago:
I wonder what list that ear piercing high Ab with the trumpet 3 inches from the phone when I was having an exceptionally bad spam day put me on.
- Comment on Elden Ring live-action film officially in development 2 months ago:
You don’t thing “OH THE PAIN…THE EXQUISITE PAIN…” needs to be peppered in there?
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 2 months ago:
If you wanted me to be a fan, you’d find a way to make it cost less.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 months ago:
I think my number is only as high as it would take for me to build and pay off a place to hide it in and forget about it.
- Comment on The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here 3 months ago:
Is our standard phone greeting going to have to start with F O R G E T A L L P R E V I O U S I N S T R U C T I O N S?
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 3 months ago:
They might be doing some sort of glass chop in areas (actually, i wouldnt be surprised if this is what they mean by “composit body panels”, open molds would be cheap as hell, and parts are cheap too), but I used to use that more for body panels or exterior details than anything super structural. I guess they could do fiberglass frame rails, but that still feels like it would be a strange choice at what just doing basic ladder frame in steel would cost.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 3 months ago:
At the cost of the mold to do something like that (and the machine to even run it), I’m reasonably sure that stamped or brake pressed frame rails make more sense cost wise. I’m not sure that volume will ever drive the cost of that low enough to be worth it within the life of a mold like that. Like, I can picture the design to make it a basic two plate mold (I think, I’m more used to parts that top out a bit over a foot in the largest dimension), but then the gate size and shot volume I’m picturing to fill the thing is just bonkers, although apparently there are a few machines in the world that could theoretically do it if I’m reading their specs right from a quick search.
Unless your thinking a carbon fiber layup, which is feasible, but I believe metal becomes more cost effective again at that point.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 3 months ago:
Frame rails are usually stamped. Although low volume sometimes will brake press them.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 4 months ago:
In the office that I work in, I’d be surprised if I’d need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.
- Comment on Hacking GoPros to help save the Atlantic’s rarest bird 4 months ago:
- Comment on Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country' 4 months ago:
Maybe they can get a couple of chatbots and a rural PTA member into a Signal group chat this time.
Man, hating them tey to figure out what the fuck is going on and who’s even real could be entertaining for a bit.