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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Close the fediverse, we already had a solution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nice eye, expression, and the subtle details that support that direction of gaze

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Drive to your local LKQ distribution center with stock and an extra $100. You won't make it past the 3rd installer you see show up in a van before someone will take your $100 with a new windshield installed within 30 minutes. Never buy a car unless LKQ makes reproduction parts. That is where 90% of auto body repair parts come from in the USA. Anyone can walk in and pay cash too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Abolish digital slavery and publicly code and fund the public commons with no scraping or exploitation whatsoever. Restore the rights of autonomy and self determinism required for a citizen in a democracy and people will return to the culture that existed before google won its privateer piracy charter to digitally enslave everyone in exchange for free email and search results because the US was too backwards to fund the fundamental public commons required for real democracy and was itching for slavery again at the first opportunity of going unnoticed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

You're a god. I worship you.

I have never found someone that can say what exactly is wrong with my broken neck and back. It doesn't even matter to me any more. I simply can't hold posture for more than half an hour at a time, and am always in pain at noise and light sensitive levels. No one seems to know what to do with me. Like I don't care, cause me harm under supervision and watch how I fall apart. It is blatantly obvious to anyone that actually watches me do anything physical. I REALLY want to do stuff and will throw myself into anything, but my body just fails me. It is as real as lifting weights in a gym to the point of failure. If I push way past my limits I will fail in a similar extraordinarily painful way that can take months to recover from. I did it once when a friend visited. I was on the floor of a Yard House bar flopping like a fish in tears. MRI shows nothing. It doesn't matter how hard I push in advance to try and hurt myself thinking it will show up in the scan. The pain goes away entirely when lying flat. The time it takes to calibrate before the scan is enough for all of the discomfort to fade until I am upright again. There is no apparent way to monetize this with a scalpel. What god do I need to sacrifice to?

Do you still condemn me to hell's hounds of social security limbo oh great authority? ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm simply questioning my childish assumption that catastrophic mega events are relegated to the past. The assumption is based on the scopes of the existence of complex extant life and the relative calm of the present Holocene. I grew into the perception that mega events were of a bygone era because geologic time is not intuitive to children, and until recently I have not had the casual curiosity to expand my awareness and question said assumptions.

The existence of protohumans up to the present seemed grounded in some underlying truth of ongoing stability that now seems totally at odds with geological reality and timescales. The question here is grasping at straws in a way; hoping that perhaps this connection is wrong as I realize the finite potential of complex life as it exists presently.

I mean in all likelihood we have tens of millions of years and an ice age or two before a true mega event pushes life into much simpler forms from the immense pressure of planetary cataclysm. If we manage to master biology as an engineering field, we may escape such a planetary bound fate in the distant future, but as long as we are trapped in this planetary gravity prison, we are perpetually sentenced to death row by the judge of geologic time.

In other words I'm realizing the full extent of geology as a study of the future where no event present is relegated to the past. My mind then races to questions of what it would be like and the building signs of eminent cataclysm. I do not mean this like the emotional hype doomsday psychosis nonsense in clickbait media or the discovery channel. I mean more like from a hard science fiction (extremely amateur hobbyist) writers perspective. Even if most of humanity migrates to cislunar space or elsewhere, there will likely be a large population present on the planet. How that plays out across generations and how diversity of life is valued becomes interesting to me under the premise of biology as a fully mastered engineering field.

Of course it is mostly speculative within my interests and curiosities. Still I think there are a lot of people that share the assumption that the geologic past is not the future; that something fundamentally has changed; that we are masters of our own fate where we are the greatest and only risk to ourselves in perpetuity, perhaps only short of an astroid impact of sufficient magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes the Boom Boom Boomer Plan

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It is a question about the evolution of planetary cooling. Obviously, the Earth is not going to spontaneously return to molten Earth on the surface short of an external cataclysmic encounter. Eventually it will cool to near absolute zero if it survives Sol's demise. There must be phases to that evolutionary path and a timeline specific to vulcanism but also in other areas.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Dude does anything for a spotlight so even this hitting news is a positive validating his relevancy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Simultaneous situational straw sucking sounds sus

 

Like if someone wishes to disclose pronouns, or relationship status, mental health disorder, age, or disability, these should be options where a person may choose to display them all the time, only to others when interacting, or only if others choose to look at some background profile.

For instance, I don't want to see a tag reminding me that this place is my only external human contact, but it might be good to have an asterisk pop up with my name for others to see if I choose and they care to look at what is disclosed. Like a "." At the end of a name for disclosed info, or an apostrophe for preference, or a colon for both. Something like that.

Years ago I started calling out broke neck disabled guy passing when I do my physical therapy routine on the bike trail. I dislike being invasive, and the psychology of having to say I'm disabled, but my safety and overall bike trail etiquette of others changed drastically to the point it is my normal. Regulars on the trail have even become quite friendly and supportive making my only time out of the house and life in a bed more pleasant.

Yes, such a disclosure makes me more vulnerable in a place like here, but it potentially focuses a lens on people that should be weeded out. Admin, and to a much lesser extent mods, have the responsibility to act as the social feedback mechanism normally played by social peer pressures in person to hold strangers accountable to social norms.

My actual shower thought, was a combination of how all robots in Asimov's universe have R- prefaced to their name, against my experience on the bike, and how others here like to add their pronouns. It should be an internet cultural standard to add disclosed nuance as standard without stigma as part of what it means to be human and real. It might even be a good way to weed out more simple bots, AI, and people with agendas.

Anyways, maybe a crazy idea. It conflicts with my ideals on privacy but the benefit to cost seems maybe viable. My thoughts are often abstractions that encompass far more complexity when I try to explain what seems simple to me on the surface... or maybe I'm just dumb; not for me to say I guess.

 

It is more flexible in tight spaces without collapsing. The color and texture remind me of RTV gasket making silicone in automotive applications, but these (very old) tubes do not have any hint of the pungent oder of RTV gasket maker, or anything else for that matter.

I'm looking for a hose that is more flexible than typical rubber (like automotive) and PVC (gardening/aquariums) hose in a 1/4in or 6mm ID for ethylene glycol at pressures between 1 & 2 bar and at 30-100 C. I need to turn around a 50mm radius reliably with flexibility and without substantial (~15%+) constriction... If any experts are around – TIA

 

I mean if every variable aligns with any possible edge case that can bleed off velocity including three body interactions with the moon. Is there ever a situation where some substantial (car++) or enormous (skyscraper+++) size rock lands on the surface without explosive energy? Align stars, consult math mediums, play some ZZ Top, piss off Bary the narcissist, or conjure a primordial black hole, just land me a big rock in my yard Science Santa. I want an m-type for Maymass, but any type will do if you can land it.

 

I have a small hard drive that is making a constant high pitched sound that is typical of the drive, and not very noticeable to the average person, but I have pain induced noise sensitivity. I am curious about how to calculate damping potential. As an initial guestimate, the frequency is very near to my maximum audible range and likely around 12kHz-16kHz. It is a little higher than the switch mode power supplies that I can also hear if it is dead silent in the room, although the drive is a higher amplitude. Addressing the noise with a solution is probably beyond the scope of anything I would actually do, but knowing how to solve it is far more interesting to me. (ELI15 )

 

Porn is up right now with trolls and ~50 down votes in 2 posts. I don't recognize any of the mods. I don't care to take over, but I will catch any flags in these off hours as I stay up late most of the time in California stretching into this time of day when peak evening hours are over the empty Pacific.

[email protected]

 

Got this one from ddg images but I think it was posted on reddit by someone.

Save the image to:
/.local/share/icons/

Save the modified .desktop file to:
/.local/share/applications/

This is mine, including the execution command modifier to make the window frame adwaita dark for gnome:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DOOM Emacs
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text
MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
Exec=bash -c 'GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs'
Icon=doom-emacs.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Emacs

and one I made for the Terminator terminal

 

It is not in the list of combinations. Most of the LLM packages seem to lack an easy way to run a llama.cpp server with the load split between CPU and GPU. Like Ollama appears to only load a model simply with the whole thing in the GPU. The simplification pushes users into smaller models that are far less capable. If the model is split between the CPU and GPU one can run a much larger quantized model in GGUF format that runs nearly as fast as the smaller less capable model loaded into the GPU only. Then you do not need to resort to using cloud hosted or proprietary models.

The Oobabooga front end also gives a nice interface for model loading and softmax settings.

gptel is at: https://github.com/karthink/gptel or MELPA

Oobabooga is at:
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

With a model loaded and the --api flag set the model will be available for gptel.

In packages.el:
(package! gptel)

In config.el:

(setq
gptel-mode 'test
gptel-backend (gptel-make-openai "llama-cpp"
                            :stream t
                            :protocol "http"
                            :host "localhost:5000"
                            :models '(test)))

This splits the load to easily run an 8×7b model. Most probably already know this or have other methods. I just thought I would mention it after getting it working just now. Share if you have a better way.

 

I've never messed with this layer before. I usually play with Arduino or FORTH, the first with the IDE, and the latter with a simple UART connection after using the Microchip toolchain to load the FORTH interpreter.

I was looking at putting a new (to me) version of FORTH on a MSP430F149 that I have had lying around for years. I have a homemade Goodfet 42, so I can technically use it to program through JTAG. However, it would be more fun to see how far I can get into the hardware from scratch. Perhaps I might connect another microcontroller to do the I/O through the terminal within emacs. What is the simplest path to sending byte data and manipulating a couple of I/O like the additional pins of a CH340 or RS232?

I just got Doom emacs running. I would like to get as far as developing a filesystem and tree to write assembly. I also dabble in AVRs, Espressif, and Micropython on STM32s in addition to FORTH on AVRs and PICs. If anyone has any advice please share. Call me a noob in all of them though. I'm doing good to make a cat excited by a servo and LED.

Any advice or references are welcome.

 

Really only interested in something like Graphene, Lineage, or a Linux mobile tablet that can work with a typical Linux distro and display over USB-C. It is just a casual conversational ask. Maybe one of y'all has tried or knows the answer. I won't use anything that runs google stuff or is a pain to load a custom ROM.

 

An actual person that makes money with 3d printing and a product between TikTok and Teleport/Slant 3D's print farm service. Plus a product I didn't know was a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHY6LNxY8Q

Original YT description:

Scaling a 3D printing business can be difficult when a viral moment strikes—unless you have the right tools. When Craig’s Little Ouchie exploded in popularity, he faced a massive challenge: fulfilling thousands of orders in just days. With TikTok Shop requiring fast shipping, he was at risk of losing everything… until 3D Print-On-Demand saved the day.

Using Teleport, Craig connected his store directly to a fleet of 3D printers, instantly tapping into mass production without any upfront investment. No need to buy more machines, hire extra help, or stress over logistics—his viral success was fulfilled seamlessly.

This is the power of 3D Print-On-Demand. No inventory, no warehousing, just on-demand production at scale. Watch how Craig’s business thrived instead of collapsed and learn how you can do the same!

Check out Little Ouchies: https://littleouchies.com/

I think it is an interesting story, PTSD/Autism sensory product, and service to be aware of if one ever needed it. However, this is easily construed as marketing. If you watched and feel that is the case, down vote this post or better yet, leave a comment. I want to know how the community feels about this grey area between usefulness/informative post and marketed products. As far as my present mod stance, user account history is how I determine whether a post is guerilla marketing. Low engagement or lots of low effort interactions are indicative of a potential shill account.(original thumbnail was clickbait so I grabbed a screenshot of the numbers for ref)

 

1k lines of code, 5 main functions that are scalable in complexity. Small code to run agents, not small models. Tools plugins framework and tools sharing hosted on huggingface. Runs with open weights self hosted or proprietary inference models.

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Starlit Abyss (cdna.artstation.com)
 

Doing some exploration and kitbashing, relaxing my braincells while working on some personal sci-fi story called "Starlit Abyss" that I will share at some point in the future.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8Bw6y6

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