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- Comment on This shit's stupid as hell 2 days 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 2 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days ago:
No, I’m banned on Tesseract.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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] 1 week 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] 1 week 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 1 week ago:
He gots dere first becuz da red wuns iz fasta.
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Aww, it even has training wheels.
- Comment on On my way to steal yo girl 1 week ago:
Not if I get there first!
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 1 week ago:
And that, you see, is the crux of everybody’s objection to it.
- Comment on The Tesseract Question 1 week 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 1 week ago to support@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Could heating oil subsidies be reduced or replaced with subsidies for installing electric heating and houses.? 1 week ago:
Because there are inevitably licensing and especially permit application costs, the major cost there being the time and aggravation required to get the permit from your local authority which is usually an intentionally dysfunctional Kafkaesque bureaucratic edifice to hell that makes the DMV look like the teacup ride at Disney World.
Fun fact: In my county you are required to pull a permit (with a three to six month typical application wait time) to “install” any heating or cooling equipment, which technically also includes plug-in space heaters and window mounted air conditioners. To rub salt in the wound, you also need to pull a new permit to “uninstall” said equipment, that is to say to unplug it and put it away for the season. Yes, the system is certainly working as designed! (You also need a permit to install or replace a water heater. I’m sure every homeowner with a water tank that just blew and is now standing in a basement 12" deep in water with every other resident of the house screaming at them that they can’t take a shower is absolutely thrilled at that prospect. I predict the compliance rate with both of these requirements is as close to zero as mathematics will allow.)
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 2 weeks ago:
What, like how Obsidian made a better Fallout 3 than Fallout 3 with New Vegas?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to support@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The Ol' Switcheroo 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 3 weeks ago:
Unless it’s vacuum sealed it will absorb water from the air and eventually go kind of manky. I don’t know how it is in all parts of the world, but most pasta here other than the exceptionally fancy stuff is just packaged loose in cardboard boxes that are in no way airtight.
If you stuck your spaghetti in one of those vacuum pumped storage containers to get all or most of the air out of it, it’ll probably last until the heat death of the universe regardless of what the packaging said on it.
- Comment on This is my boomstick 3 weeks ago:
Handy note: This is real. Something very much like it, anyway.
- Comment on Flirtation 3 3 weeks ago:
She’s taking a flash illuminated picture through the plughole, which is shining on his face. He is what’s living in her sink.
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that there are very few well built appliances anymore, even among the expensive options. Some catagories just have no option that’s competently designed and manufactured at all, from any brand.
You are correct that adjusted for inflation/portion of yearly average income, appliances used to be proportionally much more expensive, though. Manufacturers could afford to build them to last back then.
- Comment on Interesting bathroom design 3 weeks ago:
Truly, the throne.
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 4 weeks ago:
Modern ranges/stoves do this also, and some of them even have the concrete blocks bolted to the outside where you can see them. Albeit on the back.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
Consumer burnable CD and DVD disks often have an astonishingly short storage life, especially if they are not stored very carefully. They’re not an archival medium. Competently pressed commercial (aluminum) disks meanwhile have a storage life that is near as makes no difference to infinite provided they are not physically damaged in some way.
I’ve got tons of burned disks of pirated old games from the early aughts that don’t read anymore. This is highly annoying from a preservation standpoint as I can’t get them to play despite possessing them on disk, and they’re now unpopular enough that they’re likewise difficult to impossible to pirate again.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
Who the hell has a built-in CD player or even a BD-player in this time and age?
The answer is nerds. The specific answer is the type of nerds who would buy this sort of thing.
You’re looking at one right now, in fact — I have an internal 5.25" Blu-Ray burner in the lone singular bay in my current case. (The machine with the conga line of nearly every type of floppy drive ever created down the front of it lives in the basement.)
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 4 weeks ago:
To get clear ice you have to freeze it slowly, basically just at the freezing mark (32°C/0°F) which is a warmer temperature than most people have their freezer set to. It’s not difficult in an objective sense, it just requires rubbing a couple of brain cells together and a tiny morsel of effort which is apparently more than a lot of people can muster.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 5 weeks ago:
I twigged to that immediately, also. Canonically according to the Internet the Arwing is supposed to be 28 “sm” long in its SNES incarnation and 18.5 of them thereafter, only raising the question of what the hell the “sm” is as a unit and how that translates to real world ones. But assuming that Fox and his furry pals are roughly the same proportions as humans, the way the Arwing is consistently depicted is with a single seater cockpit that one of them fits in to handily, roughly analogous to a real world fighter jet. Thus we an assume they’re about the same proportions. So, like 18 to 20 meters long, which makes Star Fox’s units (maybe they’re “space meters”) seem pretty comparable.
I think the Arwing’s on the wrong page, here.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 5 weeks ago:
I feel like President Skroob and his luggage, here. This encapsulates what’s already on my own ban list nearly verbatim. Incredible.
