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  1. Comment on Donald Trump is safe after Secret Service opened fire at suspect with firearm near his Florida golf club in ~news

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    Oh. Thats less exiting than what I think of when I hear weapons of mass destruction. (after all, if its not a city killer, is it really a WMD?)

    Oh. Thats less exiting than what I think of when I hear weapons of mass destruction. (after all, if its not a city killer, is it really a WMD?)

    10 votes

  2. Comment on Donald Trump is safe after Secret Service opened fire at suspect with firearm near his Florida golf club in ~news

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    What sort of weapons of mass destruction does one have a criminal history with while still walking free???

    What sort of weapons of mass destruction does one have a criminal history with while still walking free???

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Share your personal dotfile treats and Unix tool recommendations in ~comp

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    qalc, a command line (and GUI) calculator that can do algebra, unit conversions, and a ton more, while still being easy enough to use for quick calculations. It should be available in your package...

    qalc, a command line (and GUI) calculator that can do algebra, unit conversions, and a ton more, while still being easy enough to use for quick calculations. It should be available in your package manager as libqualc

    5 votes

  4. Comment on The Modern CLI Renaissance in ~comp

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    Good point, I was mostly focusing on them as grep replacements, probably because I still havent learned ack. (also, I had no idea ack was so new!)

    Good point, I was mostly focusing on them as grep replacements, probably because I still havent learned ack. (also, I had no idea ack was so new!)

    6 votes

  5. Comment on The Modern CLI Renaissance in ~comp

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    Thats too bad, I love CLIs more than GUIs to the point of seeking out CLI tools over their GUI equivalents. Though I agree that older CLIs dont exactly have a reputation for being new-user friendly.

    Thats too bad, I love CLIs more than GUIs to the point of seeking out CLI tools over their GUI equivalents. Though I agree that older CLIs dont exactly have a reputation for being new-user friendly.

    12 votes

  6. Comment on The Modern CLI Renaissance in ~comp

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    This is by far the longest thing Ive ever written on my blog (both in length and time it took me to write!), and the first thing that I feel pretty proud of. Previous entries have more or less...

    This is by far the longest thing Ive ever written on my blog (both in length and time it took me to write!), and the first thing that I feel pretty proud of. Previous entries have more or less been writing about something Ive done, this is about a broader thing Ive observed in the linux community.

    Id love to hear what people think of this. I dont write a huge amount, and this took me almost 6 months to write according to git log, so I apologize if its a bit disjointed.

    22 votes

  8. Comment on Any other 3D Printers here? in ~hobbies

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    Heavily modified ender 3 pro here, belted dual z, old micro swiss direct drive extruder with custom fan shroud, klipper in an external electronics enclosure, and cable chains installed. (just...

    Heavily modified ender 3 pro here, belted dual z, old micro swiss direct drive extruder with custom fan shroud, klipper in an external electronics enclosure, and cable chains installed. (just about the only thing original on this printer is the aluminum extrusion and the xyz stepper motors)

    I mostly print PLA and PETG, PLA for cosmetic stuff, PETG for anything structural, such as printer upgrades.

    Currently, due to an international move in progress, Im having to try to pack this thing up in a way that will make it somewhat safe to ship overseas. Its proving harder than expected.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Looking for portable keyboard recommendations: must have USB-C connectivity, not just bluetooth in ~comp

  10. Comment on Looking for portable keyboard recommendations: must have USB-C connectivity, not just bluetooth in ~comp

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    Understand Im coming at this from the background of someone who was not comfortable soldering, but was comfortable 3d printing and using microcontrollers. That out of the way: Choose a popular...

    Understand Im coming at this from the background of someone who was not comfortable soldering, but was comfortable 3d printing and using microcontrollers. That out of the way:

    • Choose a popular design: The more popular the deign, the better documented it is likely to be, and the more the community will be able to help you. I got a lot of help from the low profile keyboard discord server, in part because I was using a design that a lot of other people had built. I was even able to get someone to verify that my shopping cart contents was correct for the build I wanted.
    • Dont go handwired for your first time: I havent actually done a handwired build yet, but there is a lot more that can go wrong with a handwired build, and if you arent comfortable with compiling and flashing QMK yet, you want to ensure your not second guessing whether an issue you have is a wiring problem or a programming problem. As long as your soldering is half decent, the chances of an electrical problem on a PCB board are much, much lower.
    • Triple check your parts list: You will be buying stuff from smaller suppliers rather than amazon. Shipping is expensive, so the fewer 'oops, forgot this part, time to make a single part order' moments you have, the better. Again, if you have a community resource, doesnt hurt to reach out and just say 'hey, did I forget anything?'.
    • Get a switch tester: IDK if your going for a low profile or a traditional cherry-mx socket build, but either way, even if you are making a hot-swappable build, it sucks to buy a full pack of switches only to discover you dont like their feel. Most retailers will sell a 'switch tester' pack with one of each of the switches they sell in it. Get one before you buy a full board of swtiches.
    • use a usb-c microcontroller: I used the elite-pi, a rp2040 microcontroller in the aurdino pro micro footprint with a usb-c port. I chose it because 1: I really like the rp2040 as a chip, 2: the board I was using needed a pro-micro footprint and 3: It had usb-c. The footprint is dictated by your design, the micro has some choice, but is dependent on your firmware, but usb-c is just a good choice. micro-usb is a horrible, horrible thing, and the committee that designed it should be forbidden from doing any engineering work ever again.
    2 votes

  11. Comment on Looking for portable keyboard recommendations: must have USB-C connectivity, not just bluetooth in ~comp

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    So its almost certanly not what your looking for, but on the off chance it is, I use the Ferris sweep that I built myself for work, including lugging it around in my bag to connect to servers (now...

    So its almost certanly not what your looking for, but on the off chance it is, I use the Ferris sweep that I built myself for work, including lugging it around in my bag to connect to servers (now if only there was a portable screen of a similar size I could hook up as well...). I wrote a bit about building the sweep here

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git in ~comp

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    I used to host Gitea, and I tried to host Gitlab. (Github cant be hosted as an individual). Gitea had some drama that led to Forgejo being created as a fork, where, to my understanding, Gitea's...

    I used to host Gitea, and I tried to host Gitlab. (Github cant be hosted as an individual). Gitea had some drama that led to Forgejo being created as a fork, where, to my understanding, Gitea's trademarks were transferred to a private company. Gitlab is an order of magnitude more complex to setup, and consumes much more server resources for the same set of services. Forgejo/Gitea is much easier to manage, and much lighter on server resources.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git in ~comp

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    I host my own forgejo server, and its pretty smooth to administer, one of the lower maintenance things I host. Its pretty nice having my own git server, though I do mirror most repos to github...

    I host my own forgejo server, and its pretty smooth to administer, one of the lower maintenance things I host. Its pretty nice having my own git server, though I do mirror most repos to github (which forgejo makes easy).

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Looking for an Android keyboard app in ~tech

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    I use unexpected keyboard on f-droid. It uses swiping in different directions for special characters, allowing each key to have a main symbol and up to 4 other symbols. It does have the ability to...

    I use unexpected keyboard on f-droid. It uses swiping in different directions for special characters, allowing each key to have a main symbol and up to 4 other symbols. It does have the ability to enter unicode emojis, but its a secondary mode acessed by swiping down and to the left on the fn key of the keyboard, so its pretty out of the way, and I think you can also turn it off in settings.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on Mercedes EV fire causes power outage, hospitalizations, 140 cars damaged in ~transport

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    No matter what type of energy storage we use, energy storage is energy storage. Any damage that causes that energy to be released quickly will create a dangerous situation. With chemical storage,...

    No matter what type of energy storage we use, energy storage is energy storage. Any damage that causes that energy to be released quickly will create a dangerous situation. With chemical storage, a-la fossil fuels and chemical batteries, thats a fire. With flywheels, its a fragmentation explosion. Superconducting energy storage? Also explosions. Theres no reason to expect any battery chemistry to be less volatile, by the sheer nature of high energy densities.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent in ~tech

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    Speculative execution has lead to so, so many hardware bugs, it seems.

    Speculative execution has lead to so, so many hardware bugs, it seems.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords in ~tech

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    Cisco is the brand for enterprise routers and switches. For a long time, cisco was synonymous with enterprise networking. Your internet traffic assuredly goes through hundreds of cisco products...

    Cisco is the brand for enterprise routers and switches. For a long time, cisco was synonymous with enterprise networking. Your internet traffic assuredly goes through hundreds of cisco products between your house and whatever server your connecting to.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on The rise of strategic corruption – how states weaponize graft in ~misc

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    tbf, outside of the US, a state is roughly synonymous with a nation, most countries use a different word for internal provinces. We use states because the original 13 were nations/states in their...

    tbf, outside of the US, a state is roughly synonymous with a nation, most countries use a different word for internal provinces. We use states because the original 13 were nations/states in their own right, and the original idea of the US was more an alliance between nation-states rather than a nation-state of its own.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Factorio: Space Age releases on October 21st 2024 in ~games

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    Ive never taken time off for a game before, but I plan on taking a week of PTO for this one.

    Ive never taken time off for a game before, but I plan on taking a week of PTO for this one.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on What gaming genre could use a renaming? in ~games

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    cogmind, caves of qud, ADOM, CDDA and the entire traditional rougelike tag would like a word. There are plenty being made, they are just niche.

    There are no games like rogue in the genre anymore.

    cogmind, caves of qud, ADOM, CDDA and the entire traditional rougelike tag would like a word. There are plenty being made, they are just niche.

    5 votes