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  1. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Final Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    No movement this week. I'll keep working on it, but it is not going to be ready in time for the showcase. :(

    No movement this week. I'll keep working on it, but it is not going to be ready in time for the showcase. :(

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Week 3 Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    So. Much. Winding. Wire. I've still got a bit more to do, but most of the little toroids are wound, soldered, and tested for continuity. I also assembled the Really Weird Twisted Sister...

    So. Much. Winding. Wire. I've still got a bit more to do, but most of the little toroids are wound, soldered, and tested for continuity. I also assembled the Really Weird Twisted Sister Transformer (yes, that's what it's called) and soldered that on as well. Here's what the main board looks like now, minus a couple more things I added since taking that picture.

    Scout saw me winding wire playing with a shiny wobbly string and decided to help. I'm glad Mittens was taking a nap or I would have made no progress at all...

    This was the first time I used the multimeter I put together from another kit. (I never did properly calibrate it, but it works fine for basic continuity testing.) Using things you made to make other things feels cool.

    Right now I'm about halfway through the assembly instructions, so I'm pretty far behind if I want to finish this by the end of the month, but I think there's still a chance!

    Edit: lol nope forgot my father in law was going to be in town this weekend. Well, I'll do my best.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Similar US govt-related take: the 17th Amendment was a grave mistake and should be repealed. If we're going to have a senate to represent the governments of each state, then those governments...

    Similar US govt-related take: the 17th Amendment was a grave mistake and should be repealed. If we're going to have a senate to represent the governments of each state, then those governments should decide who their senators are (ideally by a top-two vote in each state legislature in my opinion, but that's another take).

    I believe, deep in my heart of hearts, that if the 17th Amendment had never been ratified, we would never have learned the name "Ted Cruz".

    16 votes

  4. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Week 2 Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    I've been on vacation! No progress whatsoever.

    I've been on vacation! No progress whatsoever.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Week 1 Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    October turns out to be a really inconvenient month for me this year. Most of last week was taken up by a family thing, so I made less progress than I wanted, and there's more coming up too. I...

    October turns out to be a really inconvenient month for me this year. Most of last week was taken up by a family thing, so I made less progress than I wanted, and there's more coming up too. I might not finish this by the end of the month, but I still plan to try!

    Here's the QMX+ radio's main board, before I got started. Thankfully the kit starts off with a lot of smaller components attached already, or there's no way I'd get anywhere (my soldering skills are basic, but hopefully enough to take on this project). I'm following the assembly instructions provided, which describe the assembly process as "quite straightforward, but very detailed". (Follow along if you want!)

    Here's where I'm at so far. Got some of the simpler components soldered on, and that was really all I had time for. No you cannot see the back of the board 😳

    Next steps involve a lot of winding wires, as I need to assemble an output transformer (that comes with its own sub-manual!) and a whole bunch of toroidal components.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Roll Call in ~creative.timasomo

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    Months ago, I bought an HF radio kit from QRP Labs. And then work and life got in the way and I never built it. This Timasomo, I plan to fix that!

    Months ago, I bought an HF radio kit from QRP Labs. And then work and life got in the way and I never built it. This Timasomo, I plan to fix that!

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Timeout when connecting to a local webserver through the internet, but only on WiFi in ~comp

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    As in Tildes-tagged noise, I would guess. Read as: "This is probably bogus, but:"

    Likely Noise

    As in Tildes-tagged noise, I would guess. Read as: "This is probably bogus, but:"

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Announcing the seventh annual Tildes' Make Something Month (Timasomo)! in ~tildes

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    I can't decide whether I want to make: An HF radio. I bought a QRP Labs kit months ago, and then never got around to actually building the thing. Or, A PICO-8 game. Not sure why, but something...

    I can't decide whether I want to make:

    • An HF radio. I bought a QRP Labs kit months ago, and then never got around to actually building the thing. Or,
    • A PICO-8 game. Not sure why, but something about the PICO-8 system caught my attention this month and it'd be fun to give it a try.

    Other things that I need to "make":

    • Time for reading books. My tsundoku stack is getting out of control.
    • Room in my office, which is a disaster area I've needed to deal with for a while.
    4 votes

  9. Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation in ~tech

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    Replacing it with cmd does, yes, as long as the attacker is able to decrypt the drive and boot into recovery (both are common). Replacing utilman is not a normal troubleshooting process, it's a...

    Replacing it with cmd does, yes, as long as the attacker is able to decrypt the drive and boot into recovery (both are common). Replacing utilman is not a normal troubleshooting process, it's a privilege escalation exploit.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on This is the group that's been swatting US universities in ~news

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    Hot take: The only reason swatting is even possible as a tactic is because of an over-readiness to respond to noise. I know that actual mass violence happens far too often and that law enforcement...

    Hot take: The only reason swatting is even possible as a tactic is because of an over-readiness to respond to noise. I know that actual mass violence happens far too often and that law enforcement needs to be able to rapidly respond to it, but it shouldn't be possible to cause this level of disruption with a single, unverified phone call.

    19 votes

  11. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

  12. Comment on BlackBerry Classic returns in 2025 as Zinwa Q25 with updated hardware and software, conversion kit available in ~tech

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    I would be stoked if I hadn't just swapped my fire hazard Pixel 6a for a 9a. I much prefer a physical keyboard, and loved my KeyOne until the software support dried up.

    I would be stoked if I hadn't just swapped my fire hazard Pixel 6a for a 9a. I much prefer a physical keyboard, and loved my KeyOne until the software support dried up.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn’t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear

    A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn’t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear

    Most cat owners dread their pets bringing home mice or birds. But for the owners of one felonious feline in Auckland, New Zealand, there’s a worse shame — being the unwitting accomplice to an unstoppable one-cat crimewave.

    His prolific laundry-pinching from clotheslines and bedrooms in the placid beachside neighborhood of Mairangi Bay has turned 15-month-old Leo into a local celebrity and earned him a new moniker. He now goes by Leonardo da Pinchy.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Today is Overshoot Day in ~enviro

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    Sorry to be a downer, but I'm feeling down. It's the earliest ever Earth Overshoot Day. At least the rate at which it's getting earlier and earlier has slowed since 2010-ish, and I guess that...

    Sorry to be a downer, but I'm feeling down.

    It's the earliest ever Earth Overshoot Day. At least the rate at which it's getting earlier and earlier has slowed since 2010-ish, and I guess that passes for good news.

    10 votes

  16. Comment on According to online poll, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream in Israel in ~society

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    My ad-and-nag blockers seem to be working okay for that site, so I can post a few quotes. These are auto-translated via Google. Headline and sub-hed: Quotes pulled for stats: The authors' conclusion:

    My ad-and-nag blockers seem to be working okay for that site, so I can post a few quotes. These are auto-translated via Google.

    Headline and sub-hed:

    Yes to Transfer: 82% of Jews in Israel favor deporting Gaza residents
    Twenty years ago, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, the spiritual father of the Hilltop Youth, outlined a vision for the elimination of democratic institutions and the establishment of Jewish supremacy. After October 7, it seems that this vision is coming true precisely before our eyes.

    Shai Hizkani and Tamir Sorek
    May 22, 2025

    Quotes pulled for stats:

    Just how appealing the apocalyptic language offered by Ginsburg is to Israeli-Jews from all walks of life, who are thirsty for a "solution" to the Palestinian problem, is shown by a survey conducted in March, which sought to examine a series of "impolite" questions, the place of which we would not recognize in surveys that are regularly conducted in Israel. The survey was conducted by one of the HMs at the request of Penn State University, among 1,005 respondents who constitute a representative sample of the Jewish population in Israel.

    To the question "Do you support the claim that the IDF, when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, that is, kill all its inhabitants?" 47% of all respondents responded in the affirmative. 65% of those surveyed responded that there is a contemporary incarnation of Amalek, and of these, 93% responded that the commandment to wipe out the memory of Amalek is also relevant to that modern-day Amalek.

    It seems that Ginsburg and other Haredi rabbis can be especially proud of the change that has occurred in the Jewish population: 82% of those surveyed expressed support for the forced expulsion of residents of the Gaza Strip, and 56% supported the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. In the 2003 survey, the positive answers to these questions were “only” 45% and 31%, respectively.

    Further evidence of Ginsburg's great victory can also be seen in the widespread adoption of positions supporting ethnic cleansing and genocide by the secular public, which has failed to present an alternative to Messianic Zionism in the form of an organized alternative anchored in the pursuit of human rights: 69% of secularists support the forcible expulsion of Gaza residents, and 31% of them see the extermination of Jericho residents as a precedent that the IDF should adopt.

    Researchers in the education system point to a sharp shift towards an ethnocentric nationalist direction in the curriculum since the second intifada, and this process has led to high support for deportation and extermination, especially among those who completed their law studies in the last 20 years. 66% of those aged 40 and under support the deportation of Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF do what Joshua did in Jericho. A generational gap in political positions is not an unusual phenomenon, but in Israel it has widened greatly since the beginning of the 21st century.

    Only 9% of men under 40, the main group from which regular and reserve servicemen in Gaza come, rejected all the ideas of deportation and extermination that were presented to them.

    The authors' conclusion:

    The Haredi movement, of which Ginsburg is one of the most prominent leaders of the current generation, offers Israelis a religious cover for erasing Palestinian indigeneity. It provides a language and a plan of action for religious and secular people who sought a "solution" to the conflict that would not force them to give up the privileges granted by a regime of Jewish supremacy. The use of biblical language to justify war crimes is also not a novelty for Zionism: the Puritan settlers in America, Ireland, and other places seized on the Bible and compared the indigenous populations who opposed them to Amalekites and Canaanites, and accordingly resorted to ethnic cleansing and genocide against them.

    It is important to clarify: this process is not deterministic. Messianic Zionism does seek to block a process of decolonization in Israel and Palestine, but it does not make it impossible. The opponents of Messianism had several junctures where they could have chosen a different path, but the price was that they would have to reinvent themselves as Israelis. In the absence of a willingness to do so and to establish an orderly change, the essence of which is the dismantling of the regime of Jewish supremacy and the colonial mechanisms, the door was left open to the impetuous spirit of Ginzburg and his ilk. If there is any chance of stopping the gallop toward a Spartan and outcast society, it lies in the complete rejection of the idea of ​​Jewish supremacy and Judaization, even in the version currently accepted by secular Zionism. The alternative vision to suicidal Messianism is a true equal partnership between the sea and the river.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on Introducing Claude Opus and Sonnet 4 in ~tech

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    Related article on "scheming" behavior from the new model: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk It's hard for me not to read things like this as evidence of a...

    Related article on "scheming" behavior from the new model: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk

    It's hard for me not to read things like this as evidence of a self-preservation instinct. I think questions of AI sentience need to be taken seriously, urgently, though I'm sure people here will disagree.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on The Great Tildes Archipelago Randomizer - May 8th YAML thread in ~games

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    I'll be running SM64, with cannons and Mario's moveset thrown in as randomized items along with the stars, caps, and keys. YAML name: Areldyb game: Super Mario 64 description: Generated by...

    I'll be running SM64, with cannons and Mario's moveset thrown in as randomized items along with the stars, caps, and keys.

    YAML 
    name: Areldyb
game: Super Mario 64
description: Generated by https://archipelago.gg/ for Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64:
  progression_balancing: '50'
  accessibility: full
  death_link: 'false'
  completion_type: last_bowser_stage
  area_rando: 'off'
  buddy_checks: 'true'
  exclamation_boxes: 'false'
  progressive_keys: 'true'
  enable_coin_stars: vanilla
  strict_cap_requirements: 'true'
  strict_cannon_requirements: 'true'
  enable_move_rando: 'true'
  move_rando_actions:
  - Triple Jump
  - Long Jump
  - Backflip
  - Side Flip
  - Wall Kick
  - Dive
  - Ground Pound
  - Kick
  - Climb
  - Ledge Grab
  strict_move_requirements: 'true'
  amount_of_stars: '120'
  first_bowser_star_door_cost: '7'
  basement_star_door_cost: '25'
  second_floor_star_door_cost: '42'
  mips1_cost: '12'
  mips2_cost: '42'
  stars_to_finish: '58'
  start_inventory: {}

    I may not be on for very long on Thursday night, but I don't want to miss the opening rush so I'll try to get in at least a little time.

    I'm looking forward to this!

    5 votes

  19. Comment on The great Tildes Archipelago multiworld randomizer! Interest thread! in ~games

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    I've never been big on randomizers, but I'll give this a shot! Would probably play either Super Mario 64 or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.

    I've never been big on randomizers, but I'll give this a shot! Would probably play either Super Mario 64 or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Donald Trump administration must ‘facilitate’ return to US of man erroneously deported to El Salvador, Supreme Court says in ~society

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    I hadn't seen that article about the MMA coach before. I want to point out that it appears he was taken to a US detention center, not to El Salvador. As far as I'm aware, no one imprisoned in...

    I hadn't seen that article about the MMA coach before. I want to point out that it appears he was taken to a US detention center, not to El Salvador.

    As far as I'm aware, no one imprisoned in CECOT has ever been released.

    8 votes