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The seriouspost state of the union. (aka what do we do now?) PLEASE READ.

I mean, I like it here.

  • old 196 is reopening -> most likely less traffic
  • AWS is really expensive apparently, mostly image and transfer

Text is cheap to serve, but images (and video) are a PAIN. If a significant chunk of expense can be mitigated if I use Imgur or some other service and link my silly memes rather than direct upload then yeah sure, but moving the community around tends to lose people.

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Command line tip of the day

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I was introduced to homelab by trying to figure out how my uncles setup. It ran for 4 years after he died, 11 years uptime. The estate probate prevented anyone from touching the equipment for the legal fights, and I get a kick out of thinking of how smug he would have been about it.

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ruullleeee

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7.5/10 not Shawshank Redemption, but if you've got time, it won't be a waste IMO. The story covers a lot of ground regarding gender identity and what it means to be perceived as 'good'. Keep in mind that when the source material was written, gay marriage was still illegal in US.

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What the fuck

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Poorly shielded inductors in switch mode PSUs/old CRTs for me (Very common in older devices, low current causes the switching frequency to drop into the audible range.)

You can build your own tinnitus inducer with a cheapo 100kHz buck ic, put an air coil inductor on it, and then decrease the current until failure.

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This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.

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Good luck adding drm to a microwave to prevent it from microwaving "fish and fish adjacent shapes". 3d printers consist of a couple of motors and a hot bit. No computer in there, unless you go for the high end stuff and even then they can't run that sort of software. MCUs are clocked in MHz, but even a 10 year old computer is clocked in GHz. Even with a cloud connections, how much money have companies poured into "AI" only to have it still get things wrong? Do lawmakers expect a podunk garage team to figure out what Google, Meta, Apple, and literal billions of R&D haven't?

Since this is effectively a ban, it would result in "healthcare CEO shot by wooden ghost gun" if gun kits are still sold, because 3d printers don't print guns. They print the "lower" that has the serial number, which is legally, but not practically, defined to be the "gun". Any gun that doesn't have a serial is a ghost gun, but the point is moot.

More realistically, it would result in: "healthcare CEO shot by a 2026 special edition 9mm VEHHFU746582 on sale for 1984$, get it before it is banned" because for some reason the legislature is running on rich people feelings, and this shooting is special because of the gun, and not because of EVERYTHING ELSE.

Not super into guns but I'm a bit frustrated with the technical ineptitude of some of these lawmakers. Gun control existed before 3d printers did, this is just half assed. Feel free to correct me if I missed something.

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monster high rule

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Can confirm, got halfway wrecked in my upper div statistics midterm during COVID. 24 hours, open everything. Even the Internet can't replace real understanding.