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- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
The US it is federally legal to manufacture your own firearm. There are some state level restrictions depending on which one of those you’re in. In the rest of the world it’s probably considerably more regulated, but then again in the rest of the world it’ll be tougher to get your hands on the all the other parts you’d need as well.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
3D printed guns do not “get past metal detectors.” This is not nuance. It’s not a matter of techicalities. You just told a bold faced lie, and you did it speficially to try ro fear monger.
Printed guns still require metal springs, metal pins, metal bolts, metal barrels, and metal ammunition.
- Comment on Maybe it's time for Penguin 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hyperpigmentation 1 week ago:
Because you’d be in jail.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 week ago:
It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.
I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.
- Comment on I'm interested. Any ideas? 1 week ago:
Knife monopoly is when you go around the board and try to collect all the knives.
So far, I appear to be winning.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 2 weeks ago:
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 2 weeks ago:
Some tools do have specific pressure requirements. You can try running an HVLP paint sprayer at the full 120 but you’re really not going to have a good time doing it. Low pressure is right there in the name, come to think of it.
If you’re using a nail gun with smaller nails you’ll probably need to wind down your pressure, too. If you’re using little brad nails and give them the full Monty you might find that they don’t remain in the workpiece but have rather affixed it to your bench instead.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Allow me then to introduce you to Rock of Ages, an Atlus game (and its sequel) where this is the whole idea.
Sisyphus has had it exactly up to here with this shit, and realizes that he has at his disposal a large round rock and an even larger hill. Which by definition most of his enemies are located at the bottom of. Hilarity naturally ensues.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 2 weeks ago:
it decreases the load on the motor as it starts up.
Uh. How, though? The regulator is on the output end and has nothing whatsoever to do with how the motor and pistons put air into the tank. The compressor is going to pressurize its tank up to its pressure shutoff setpoint as fast as and indeed at the only speed it’s capable of running. If the pressure setpoint is even adjustable (it probably isn’t), diddling with that is only going to accomplish making your motor start and stop a bunch of times as you stairstep it up to whatever your maximum pressure is.
Big time commercial or industrial compressors rated for constant duty cycles may and sometimes do have variable speed motors, but I’ve never seen a consumer model with one.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 2 weeks ago:
I set the regulator on my compressor when I got it, and I haven’t had any occasion to touch it since. It’s set to 120 PSI, and it’s been somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty years.
Unless your compressor is either especially precise or especially crap I think you can safely ignore that whole song and dance. In the exceedingly rare instances I do need a lower pressure output I have a dinky little inline regulator I just attach to the bottom of whatever tool I’m using, which is inevitably a spray gun. The impact gun, air chisel, needle scaler, die grinders, drills, air chucks, strafer, and golf ball cannon get the whole enchilada all the time.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 2 weeks ago:
Luckily, it most certainly is not. Tesseract is a (probably now very defunct) third party client.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help either that the default web UI doesn’t actually clear off your notification bell even if you’re marked all replies as read until you force refresh the page. That’s kind of annoying.
Other interfaces like Alexandrite and I presume Photon do it a little better.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 2 weeks ago:
Or get sick of the avalanche of replies in their inbox, since you can’t turn off notifications for responses to a post or comment unlike on reddit. The only way to make it stop is to delete whatever it was.
Also I’m pretty sure by default if a user deletes their Lemmy account most clients also automatically delete all of their posts and comments. If a user gets fed up with us or decides the Fediverse is not for them, when they take their ball and go home that’s really what happens.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.
- Comment on This shit's stupid as hell 3 weeks ago:
While we’re at it, then, let me point out that cynical Chinese knockoffs of the Leatherman Tread bracelet are totally things that exist and nowadays are readily available for suspiciously small amounts of money.
I’ve got one. I had to remove one link from it to keep it from falling off of me all the time, but it is indeed boss. I would not advise getting into a motorcycle wreck while wearing it, though.
- Comment on Pool of data 3 weeks ago:
It works. I was having trouble getting my emails, so I consulted my magic eight ball. It said:
Outlook not so good.
- Comment on What, all of you? 3 weeks ago:
Defects is right. The seriffs on the text at the top in particular are problematic. I really should get a 0.2mm nozzle dialed in one of these days, but I have other projects to contend with at the moment.
I also can’t figure out just what the fuck Arachne is doing with the top layer perimeters in the 11 and 12 o’clock positions. Something about the text causes it to insist on shaping it that way, wheres the rest of the radial area is a nice geometrically consistent starburst pattern that catches the light nicely with that silk PLA. Oh well, it was only meant to be a physical shitpost anyway.
- Comment on What, all of you? 3 weeks ago:
It’s very much real. The other commenter is correct; here is my post in the 3D Printing community about it. That contains the link to Printables where you can download the model, and also the link to my shop page (nudge, nudge) where you can buy one if you ain’t got a printer.
(Before everyone gets mad at me, I have these priced at basically cost to keep myself in filament and electricity. I “ship” these by bunging them in an ordinary envelope, and postage alone is 82 cents out of $1.50.)
- Comment on What, all of you? 3 weeks ago:
No, I’m banned on Tesseract.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He seems to fall back on the “death threats” claim regularly, as if it’s some kind of default. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any evidence presented to the effect that these purported “death threats” were ever real, or common, or an actual issue beyond the usual background level of Internet ribald. It seems like it should be a pretty trivial thing to prove.
Come on, man. Post some screen shots. Name some names. Instead it’s all just allusions and stereotyping and fictionalizing and trying to paint entire instances or groups of people with a wide brush.
Isn’t it a big thing that private messages and the ilk are not actually secure here and are theoretically visible e.g. to instance admins and operators? If said threats were sent between two .world accounts (and at least two of his alt accounts that I know of were local lemmy.world accounts) it ought to be trivial to verify these, yes?
Actually, it’s been quite incredible to see just how level headed everyone’s response to this entire debacle has been, at least insofar as I’ve encountered. Overall people seem to either be bewildered or amused by their presence on his list, surprised by it’s discovery or baffled as to its purported necessity, or highly skeptical of its alleged purpose. But all of the tirades, rants, insults, and crash-outs I’ve seen have been only coming from AdmiralPatrick himself — not anybody else.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of users who don’t even know what the Eternal September was, and I guarantee you there will be a multitude of them whose first exposure to the term will be your comment, right here.
Some of us were there.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“Dignity and grace” apparently also meant going around defending his actions in the third person and insulting other people en masse using one of his alternate accounts.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 4 weeks ago:
He gots dere first becuz da red wuns iz fasta.
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 4 weeks ago:
Apparently it also includes opinions such as, “penguins are cool,” and “check out this silly knife.”
- Comment on On my way to steal yo girl 4 weeks ago:
Aww, it even has training wheels.
- Comment on On my way to steal yo girl 4 weeks ago:
Not if I get there first!
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 4 weeks ago:
And that, you see, is the crux of everybody’s objection to it.
- Comment on The Tesseract Question 4 weeks ago:
Also that said blocklist is implemented in a rather underhanded manner, to put it mildly. I can get behind the theory but not in this case the contents or especially the execution. If they wanted to maintain a filter list for the Fediverse it should be a project explicitly described as such which users/instance operators can implement at their own discretion and will full disclosure.
Of course now that he’s been called out, Mr. Patrick is getting even more secretive than he already was which is not the sort of thing that is going to engender much in the way of confidence from the community. The project may be “open source,” but that doesn’t mean much when there is now an established history of it pulling code and content from external sources at runtime apparently specifically in an attempt to evade inspection of its behavior, plus it also presents error messages as a result of this behavior that are deliberately crafted to be misleading. That presents a major trust issue.
The developer’s attitude towards the community has been consistently combative, condescending, hyperbolic, and yes, untrustworthy. Obviously my personal take on matters at the moment is that it’s a danger and a liability for lemmy.world to continue to host and run his code. New users especially should not be exposed to the Tesseract client without the very explicit understanding that it’s silently censoring a lot of content and potentially doing who-knows-what-else behind their backs — either now, or in the future if the developer gets some new bee in his bonnet.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to support@lemmy.world | 6 comments
