I am missing the (presumably) joke? I think? Maybe I got it? Brain no work.
A- They will think Iām a doctor because Iām asking for something specific?
A1- Doctor handwriting bad.
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Apparently some doctors write patient histories that are as bad as their handwritingā¦
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Okay, appointment has been made, Iāve confirmed the operator and equipment is there.
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As for politics/terrorists/guerrillas/rebels ect. In south America im not an expert and im shure you know more about that than me.
I donāt disagree with your thoughts on the subject.
Like i said before i havenāt used drugs in 20 years
I donāt agree with the things narcos are involved in.
In mexico corruption is from the top to the bottom in one way or another. old ladies steal electricity from there neighbors the guy that works at the tortilla shop steals tortillas and sells them on the side. I donāt agree with it and i wouldnāt do anything like that but that doesnāt mean i should walk away from %80 percent of an entire countryās population in judgmental discussed.
I might share a meal with a homeless guy or drug user or narco ect. And maybe you wouldnāt and thats ok im shure you have your reasons.
Just because i have a different philosophy doesnāt mean Iām a drug user!
Edit----ā----
I wish you the best. No hard feelings
Im waking away from this conversation now
Radiologist is acting like I caused an issue by having a magnet in my hand.
āWhy would you put that there?ā Etc
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Reasonsā¦
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Anybody ever write a Firefox extension?
Eons ago, there was one that I like that locked the browser into desktop mode. The update to webextensions killed it. Anywho, I had chatgpt recreate it, and Iām in the process of getting it approved. Been working on that for about 3-4 hours now. And itās only about a half dozen lines of code.
Seems like a ridiculously complex process for such a tiny thing.
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I fucking love pelican.
I just picked up a 1660 case from them on Facebook marketplace for 80$.
Wheels were fucked, bearings were shot, two of the latches were broken and the extendable handle is about as Ridgid as a70yr old man after prostate surgery.
Started looking at again for replacement wheels and latches.
Found a reddit post talking about pelicans lifetime warranty.
Sure as shit I went to their site, plugged my model number in and was able to order new handles(5), latches(7), wheels(4) and the Dolly kit Assembly for the cost of shipping $20.
No hoops to jump through no customer service email. Just add to cart and pay shipping.
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Whoās the kid with the Titan on TV now?
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Kind of looks like an xG3v2 to me actually 
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Me too.
The have a lifetime warranty on their torches (flashlights) and headlamps.
I used them a lot as dive torches and I went through a few that needed reparing/ replacing and like you, no questions asked, just replacement.
Good company with quality products
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Iām tempted to get some test gear retail therapy, and Amazon kinda wants to sell me a Fluke 101 or 17B+ā¦
But the rational side of me is hesitant and wants something that would get used more than another low spec meter. In fact, my favorite multimeter is my Sanwa PM300 because of the test lead storage solution. Itās always ready to go and doesnāt turn into a wiry mess when not in use.
So, should I get a Fluke 87V, 28II, or 198, go for something else entirely, or distract myself to avoid retail therapy?
@Satur9 @Hamspiced, any advice on the temptation to buy more test gear for no reason at all?
Went through this a few years ago. Hands down the brymen meters are a better value than the Flukes. The build quality is excellent, and you get way more features for your money
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I love Brymen meters. And perhaps the only valid answer is to get yet another Brymen.
I use my fluke for mostly everything. I use an 87v.
I got it used on eBay with a bad screen. The fix was two small rubber pads that help communicate with the screen. They cost me 15$ and the meter was 50$ used. I love it and even got the temperature probe as well as many other probes.
For other testing gear (and believe me i understand this itch) i have a few reccomendations of things i use pretty frequently.
Suprisingly Enough Fnirsi makes some pretty decent low cost equipment. As far as a meter goes i need to be able to trust the meter so i stuck with fluke given itās reputation. As i said above i love my 87V.
LCR Tweezers - LCR-ST1 by Fnrsi. These are great and i used them almost daily as i had to find exact values of small SMD capacitors when building a client based repeater. This is also when i realized how relaxed some manufacturers are with their +/- tolerances of certain caps.
Benchtop Power Supply - DPS-150 by Fnirsi. I use this to tune my Field meters. I can deliever clean constant power to devices using a USB-PD supply to the power supply. Its great and i use it frequently without any issues.
Litevna64 by Seesii - I use this amost daily. Every single repeater is QCād with this. It is unbelievably reliable. You dont need the lite VNA, and can get by with a 2.4" NanoVna or the NanoVna-H4 by SeeSii which is twice the size for 20$ more. I cant stress enough at how useful this meter is. Ive used it to tune Meshtastic antennae, create Di-Pole antennaās. Its seriously a 1k machine for under 100$.
Lastly is a combined unit, the DSO-TC4 by Fnirsi. This is a Oscilliscope, Transistor Tester, Signal Generator. I dont use the signal generator or the Oscilliscope nearly as much as i should be able to, but i use a lot of different transistor testers and this one so far is the best ive used. I needed something that i can easily test regular tht components and this was the best for the cost so far.
A lot of gear i have is from Fnirsi. it really isnt because i shill them or i think their products are great. They are just inexpensive and they work for my use case. The main reason i like them is that i can update their firmware. They actively release different firmware updates and that is more than i can say with other Chinese counterparts.
And then i guess i have other things i use very frequently. A good set of Digital Calipers. you dont need mitutoyo, the cheap 5-10$ pair work just fine. I also use my own NFC Field meter very frequently as well as the field detectors.
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I recommend the Brymen silicone gold plated probes, they are significantly better than the ones from the yellow company. If you want to go all out, Probemaster makes what are probably the best ones on the market.
Yes but i couldnt argue with a 50$ 87V that needed a 15$ repair.
Updated the above post.
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Neither can I, that was a great deal! Iām just feeding your addiction. I mean, recommending my favorite test leads that are compatible with your Fluke.
That looks useful.
Iāve considered the Owon portable scopes. I have a better one, and grew up with Tek gearā¦ But the cute size is tempting. The Hantek one is not great BTW.
Donāt we all?
I run on very limited funds so Iām always weighing my equipment purchasing options very heavily and trying to combine or optimize what I already have. I also seriously consider the opportunity cost of what I could buy with that money instead down the line. I donāt buy redundant tools and if something can be done cheaply and still be good enough (like a multimeter can) Iāll buy a middling or entry level option just so I donāt have to worry about throwing it around and I donāt fool myself into thinking itās āaccurateā when I know even an expensive one never would be. Your best tool is your brain, and combining stuff to get results from various sources to compare is often most valuable.
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I prefer to buy equipment that is good enough to last for decades, although Iām not sure if I recoup the costsā¦ But I also have cheap equipment and use if for certain things. And itās also worth mentioning that āgood enough to last for decadesā doesnāt mean the most expensive and what I end up buying depends on the application.
I started looking for a replacement for a cheap current clamp that fell apart, and ended up looking at a bunch of gear to distract myself from some things that are worrying me.
The cost of the equipment doesnāt matter for that. You can fool yourself equally with the cheap and expensive stuffā¦ Itās more common than Iād likeā¦
This.
I missed that the first time I read your post. I have the Mitutoyo calipers but used to use the ones from iGaging. Sadly, when it comes to digital calipers, there are the cheap relative ones, slightly better absolute ones, and Mitutoyo.
From what I can tell, the only absolute digital calipers that donāt use the same castings are the ones from Japan.
And my Chinese ones became spastic which lead me to waste some filamentā¦ Although the forum AI would probably tell me that those calipers were spastic from the very first day as they had modes for decimal and fractional inchesā¦
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I was looking at those. 
Nice to meet another Brymen fan.
After all, they design their own multimeter chipsets and those are used by several high quality brands.
There are no good options to replace the UT210E with itās 1mA DC resolution, not even anotherUT210E. So Iāll have to settle for one with a 10mA resolution.
@ODaily, can I ask you to check the calibration of my opinion about Mitutoyo calipers? 
I know that only micrometers are good enough for you buy still.
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Hell yeah. Honestly not sure why they arenāt more popular
Iād trust Brymen to be more accurate than the UT210E, especially at the lower end
Iām not going to directly disagree with this, but unless youāre doing something totally ridiculous, any decent caliper will be more than sufficient. Iāve used the iGaging personally and exclusively at work and never had any issue with the reading.
Actually
BM257 - UT210E
08.42mA - 0.009A
17.89mA - 0.019A
48.86mA - 0.049A
097.6mA - 0.097A
497.8mA - 0.494A
1.990A - 1.985A
4.996A - 04.97A
Iām impressed, thatās pretty decent. The OP did state that youād need to zero the UT210E before pretty much each reading, and that moving it in the air would cause a change of a few mA
Thatās my brother (Iām the installer brother)
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I checked my notes. Itās an xG3v1
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Man Iād love to meet Sam Reich, seems like a cool guy. Dropout is great
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Absolutely, the calipers donāt matter.
Iāve seen machining Gods who could measure tenths of a thousandths with 2 twigs and a small rock by squinting at them. Iāve seen utter fools user precision tools as a hammer (seriously 
)
For a person of low skill, quality matters. For a person of quality, it just takes a little extra focus. Idiots need not apply, as they cannot be helped.
But yeah, I got some skill, and I still want good tools, cause quality x skill makes shit look deceptively cool and easy.
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Guess I was unlucky with the iGaging then. Mine tended to add random errors that sometimes were obvious, sometimes were not, and sometimes were full on seizures.
Eventually my patience ran out. A tool that randomly goes out of spec but is accurate most of the time is a massive time and material waster.
Iād rather use a cheap set of vernier calipers than the particular iGaging ones that I had. Sure, the grinder grit can make it harder to feel things and you have to be careful not to apply too much force.
Mines had to be a particularly bad example.
I set my 3D printer probe Z offset by placing a light behind the nozzle and squinting. And I get way more predictable results than with a sheet of paper. But that machine lacks rigidity in a way unimaginable to most machinists so anything along the lines of a feeler gauge is going to be less reliable.
True, it also depends on what youāre doing. I find that combining quality and skill saves a lot of time and effort. And it also helps improve yields.
They can perform way better than the stated accuracy if you are careful, zero them, and donāt move them or anything ferromagnetic while measuring. And degausing the clamp from time to time can help lot depending on the circumstances. I know that some people have managed to calibrate those to make them less of a compass, edited the eeprom values to get better resolution, added oscilloscope outputs, etcā¦
I still wouldnāt trust them as much as a better instrument, but they are good enough for a lot of things.
Iām looking for a replacement because the plastic is starting to fall apart. And those Brymen ones are good enough for me TBH.
I have a 789 in box seeing daily use, and a 179 in my go bag, but ive been looking at the 101 and 107 for the daypack ā¦
I like the 179, but its big ā¦
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The 101 is cheap enough to be an impulse buy TBH. And the 107 isnāt that bad on the price side of things either.
Although the rather average accuracy of 0.5%+3 and lack of true RMS and lack of a uA range makes them better suited for working with the mains than for electronics use.
Iām not the target audience for those models, but they do look nice and from my limited browsing, theyāre close to the competition when it comes to price. And theyāre yellow!
Although thatās neither here not there, it all depends on what youāre doing and what gives you enough measurement confidence to not second guess yourself at work. But I should probably shave the metrology grade gray beardā¦ Iām not even that old, but thinking about PPMs and significant digits will make your beard go gray.
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Oh look itās an apex flex but instead of getting an incision you get to sell your sou- I mean your biometric data for tracking purposes.
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Iām pretty sure that Amazon implemented this at WholeFoods a while backā¦
As if giving your data to Amazon wasnāt uncomfortable enough alreadyā¦ I definitely donāt want the CCP to have any scans of any part of my body.
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jokesSomeone finally got the Xproxmark3
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āJust the tip!?
I promiseā
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āSorry, its normally harder than thisā
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āAxels bigger prick than usualā
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You want to stick that where???
You just said our best jokes, not that they had to be funnyā¦
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!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
Biohacker @Az_F attempts extreme body transformation as he attempts to shrink himself down small enough to fit inside a syringe.
Results look promising.
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Not a joke, but is that an early Birthday present for tomorrow?
No excuse needed.
Happy Early Birthday
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Well some part of me fits in there
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You keep remembering it 
it must be hard coded in your circuits
Thank you 
Also Iām old now 
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Great idea, I should do this with my projects.
@Az_F has some experience, and you could probably pick up some stuff from his thread and from him personally, but Iām pretty sure he is quite busy at the moment.
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Well???
Have you gotten in to it yet? 
Sargent and Greenleaf combo is a great lock with tight tolerances.
Good luck with that
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Great idea
Awesome tribute to your olā man
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working on the first wheel, i get the concept, and can clearly feel the contact points, but the right one doesnāt change, and the left one doesnāt seam to not show anything significant ā¦
Its supposed to be a descent started lock, but the learning curve is steep ā¦ I might make a dialer before i figure it out by hand
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Something to do this weekendā¦ Thatās what you got yourself into.
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ew my stomach hurtsā¦
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yay my stomach hurts!!!
If this has any legs at all, thorium might become one of the most export controlled minerals on the planet. In the midst of all this tariff trade war stuff, China is now controlling exports of various minerals and rare earths. I got this notice from a magnet vendor;
Iām also getting import export control requirements for almost everything now from almost every international sourceā¦ shitās getting weird yo.
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Yeah I watched this yesterday. I feel like this guy went through so many unnecessary steps. Lots of his prototyping just seemed so out of the way to be difficult.
Like why bother using a material that you know has a melting point well below the surface you intend to use it on.
Although I applaud his voyage to attempt to keep it all in the states. I wish I could get PCBs made locally but as he said. China has the real skilled trades now.
During this tariff nonsense I looked at getting a could prototypes done hereā¦ 5 PCBs no larger than a credit cardā¦ $2,900.00. Sorry Iāll stay overseas on this one
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His channel is called āSmarter Every Dayāā¦ so he probably started out pretty dumbā¦ needs more days under his belt
I would hope the dude only did that āfor the contentā ā¦ yeah.
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OSHPark, they are American and somewhat more expensive than the Chinese manufacturers, but their quality is great. Iāve been using them for over a decade.
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Seconding the OSHPark recommendation! I got PCBs from them for some research equipment; the turnaround time and prices were very reasonable, and their support team was helpful when I had questions.
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Holy Moly, I did ask when Iād see a light but wasnāt expecting it to be this bright a day-ish in. Was about to take care of the āwoundā and had to try my curiosity real quick. Theyāre blurry photos out of excitement and yeah
This thing is gonna glow hard once itās healed and Iām loving it!
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Smooth install! So thatās a glassie with ashes and glow?
Also I love how cigarettes look in low light photos
From what it felt like to me in the first version they sent, I dont think itās glass, think itās more like a resin? But of course, I could be mistaken, I just know itās beautiful
But yes! Ashes and glow, held my flashlight against it for maybe 5 seconds?
According to the post Amal made;
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Ah yes the new resin capsules! Thatās even cooler
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Iāve been trying to make a firefox addon. Iām not capable of doing it myself, but Iāve been trying to push it through chatgpt. It works, kinda, but it doesnāt actually accomplish itās goal.
Would anybody knowledgeable in these fields be willing to look at it and see if you could offer some pearls of wisdom?
The addon is specifically for firefox on android mobile. Itās only purpose is to make every website always load in desktop mode. Thatās it, so simple, and yet so hard.
The original version just caused firefox to report that the desktop toggle was āonā.
When that didnāt work, chat gpt tried forcing it to report no touch screen and a larger screen size so websites couldnāt detect a mobile device.
When that didnāt work, it tried to load a script into each page to force it.
It still doesnāt work, and Iām waiting out the ācooling offā period on my account to be able to use the more advanced model again. So, Iāll attach the file and a summary from chatgpt about what it has done and why and maybe you can let me know what direction I should head in, or if Iām just wasting my time.
Summary
force-desktop-mode-v3.1.zip (1.4 KB)
Also, if you have firefox on android, and you want to test it out, itās available as a firefox addon under the unoriginal name āForce Desktop Modeā.
Very sold. Also have the same button. I just want it super glued into place so that I never ever ever have to touch it again.
You can set your browser profile to whatever you like. Microsoft explorer linux, firefox mobile, random desktopā¦ And so on.
Just tried it with it set to windows 10, firefox, and set a screen size. Still loads mobile view.
I ran into something similar when testing/checking the failures. I was able to succesfully spoof the browser as something else, and fake the screen size, and some other things that chatgpt thought might be checked to determine mobile or not. And I still got mobile view.
The kinda effed up part about is that it has no problem showing the desktop view, as long as you open the menu, and click on the toggle for āDesktop Viewā. So this is clearly attainable, I just want it automated.
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Hmm, interesting. This has worked for me in the past. Something may have changed, likely on the firefox end.
I wonder if there might be something in the about:config
Found this. Have not read much.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/p38p6t/guide_how_to_always_use_desktop_view_in_firefox/
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Iām about to have a hissy fit.
Spent DAYS trying to write an addon. I tried 3 distinct approaches to it. Then switched to writing scripts for tampermonkey. Just failure after failure, after failure.
I had already loaded Firefox Nightly so I could view website interactions through about:config. Started trying the method from the article @Not found. (dedided to switch to Firefox Beta) and it kinda crudely worked. Not perfect, but liveable.
So I started moving all my settings over and installing stuff I normally use. When, in the process of that I discovered a toggle under SETTINGS > SITE SETTINGS thatās called āAlways Request Desktop Siteā.
Yeah.
It just sets the toggle to be default on, instead of default off.
Iām just gonna go erase everything Iāve been working on for the last 5 days.
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Oof ā¦ well at least you triedā¦ probably learned some stuff too.
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Thatās the āwrong wayā to look at it.
You saw a problem
You tried to fix it
You mostly succeeded
You learned some stuff
You found an easier / better way
You now have a solution to your problem.
Thats a win in my book
Great news and nice work
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I shall respond later. Busy rn
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The one handed suture really is interestingā¦ but I swear by small dermal staples now
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Iāll burn this place to the groundā¦
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You know, thatās kinda nice. At least the cop pulling them over gets a warning before stepping into whatever that is gonna be.
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So, I really wish I had some photography skills and the equipment to do so cause Lord knows I wonāt be able to catch it on my 3 year old Samsung.
But! Something I got super excited over last night as I laid in bed staring at the implant, I thought I was losing my mind. Thought the glow in the dark powder was pulsating?
Itās not the powder nor the implant, the powder was lighting up my whatever visible blood was going over it and I realized it was synced to my heartbeat??? That is absolutely ducking beautiful and blew my mind.
This beautiful damn implant, glows and pulsates and I wish I could share but itās so hard to capture 
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Thatās awesome! Yeah blood blocks a ton of light, so it makes sense as the pulse pressure wave runs through your body, it could be blocking more light as the higher density blood runs over the implant.
This is how even webcams can be used to visually detect heart rate;
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I think I fried my acr122. Anyone know if it has an on board fuse? I donāt see anything labeled F just C, R and D.
But did see that the antenna can be tuned.
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Thatās just red goop to stop people from messing with the tuning.
I plugged the acr122 into a pd power supply. It beeped and turned off now it wonāt turn on.
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Clearly a Chinese model that does not actually respect PD protocol and just pumped a shit ton of power (high voltage) into that reader. Poor guy.
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Actuallyā¦ this begs the question, what do you mean? The acr122u reader and led will not do anything unless drivers are actively talking to the reader hardware. If you just plug it into power or into a computer that does not have proper drivers, the reader will not appear to do anythingā¦ it will not appear to āturn onā.
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No power to the main chip when probing ground and power.
Also usually when it was plugged into a non pd power supply it would beep when power was applied.
Plot twist.
Shorting ground to power has breathed life back into it. And I even got to tune it.
If you have a nanovna check your acr122 for proper tuning!
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Did the tuning actually improve or degrade performance with a test setup? I have found that many readers are spot on but some are a little bit offā¦ seemingly on purpose. I wonder if tuning it actually reduced performance for some reason. The ACR 122u antenna design is very black magic of course.
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I have saved numbers of known distances from another project so I can test it later
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avg 4mm increase over 40 samples
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Trueā¦ Speaking of which, I should get a new VNA, more black candles, and a larger wizard hatā¦
Although the ACR122 antenna doesnāt look too bad from the pictures Iāve seen, the shielding can make it look significantly more intimidating than it actually is.
I wouldnāt expect a fuse in something like that TBH. The USB standard specifies overcurrent in the device thatās supplying the power so adding a fuse would be superfluous. However, Iāve seen Chinese āengineersā place 500mA fuses on USB devices, but those geniuses also add fuses to the output of switching regulators with built-in overcurrent protectionā¦
If youāre going to add a fuse to a switching regulator, place it on the inputā¦ In case the mosfets in that no name Chinese synchronous regulator failā¦ But they have to place it where it does nothing except for increasing the output impedance of the power supplyā¦
Chinese designs are weird. They often do things that make the product worse while increasing the BOM and assembly cost. And they still manage to make things for less than everyone else.
Yes, I need a hug.
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NFC Antenna Designs in general are black fucking magic. Litterally all of it. I dont understand how or why half the shit i have made even works. i just know it does and go and sacrifice another random neighborhood cat and just hope for the best.
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There you go, thatās the secretā¦ Obviously, itās way more effective if you sacrifice said cat on a Smith chart.
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You say this, but if you ever get into DS or old vita modding, buy a used one on eBay thatās busted and 9/10 times itās one of the 3-4 fuses thatās on the boards right off the battery or USB/power supply.
It got so frequent I just jumped the pads on mine
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You frequently replace your
āanything not Type-Cā to a Type-C correct?
Everything else in your wiring / soldering good?
Do you have the old cable or similar you can downgrade back to, so you can test if it still works.
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I didnāt switch this because there is a usb-C reader available but the drivers arenāt as robust yet
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I still have a WiFi card in my bag that has a Mini USB connector on it. Along with a USB C adapterā¦
Some of you might know exactly which card it is.
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Finished cleaning up my pelican and all the new free hardware arrived. The sheer size of this thing is apparent with the few stickers I have.
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Hmm, someone playing around with wifi cracking?
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So you figured out the exact model of my nice but old WiFi card already?
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No, but mineās made by Alfa Network with an old Atheros AR9271 chipset.
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I have the same one, itās a great card even when it has been discontinued for a while now.
I really like my AWUS036NHA. 
I donāt use as much nowadays, but I still keep it in my bag.
Maybe I should post my collection of WiFi stuff.
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Thatās exactly what I was thinking.
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OK so I have about 80k photos /videos and a solid 500gb of documents. I want to preserve these for my daughter in case sheās curious in the future. I try to follow the 3/2/1 method of backups, but Iām curious what sort of external backup is best for longevity these days. As in, IS there a physical storage method for digital things that holds up best over time assuming itās not being written and re-written to?
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There are m disc DVDs meant for archivalā¦ as a storage medium itās pretty long termā¦ they claim 1000 years j thinkā¦ also called Stone disc or something like that. Of course thereās no guarantee optical drives will be around in a thousand years haha
Everything else I can think of will bit rot in a decade or so. Magnetic media, optical media, solid stateā¦ it all rots relatively quickly. The only other thing with insane data retention is DNA or XNA storage but good luck finding a drive to read and write that.
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Iām not in the DT club anymore? 
I had that issue where I was paying 2 subscriptions at once so we decided to cancel both and keep me in for the extra duration I had payed but I donāt think it worked
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boom. yeah i think the sub plugin auto-removed you recently. you were in just a few days ago i think as you commented on one of the club threads? anyway fixed now.
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Awesome! Thanks!
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Did not find topic or link on here so hereās this NFC Forum Announces NFC Release 15
No real specs or anything with a quick glace but interesting small read either way. 
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China looks like a place out of DeusExā¦
On a completely unrelated note, I only buy implants from an American company.
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Should I impulse buy a 20u rack? Should I?
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Yes.
Should I impulse buy one of those cheap portable scopes? Or should I duct tape an AC powerbank to the back of a real oscilloscope?
Imagine a portable Tek 2467B!!! 
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I would.
Just a thought though, depending on whereabouts youāre located, check some surplus sales. You can get some great deals if you keep your eyes open in your regional area.
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Itās at a government surplus
$50 for the rack (enclosed with mesh sides and door)
It has a pullout tray and a very old KVM (10/100). Not great, but enough to maybe learn something
($60 after taxes and fees)
i have 2. i rarely use the scope feature. i like the fnirsi ones just because they are cheap and often have other features
The ācheapoā $40 ones?
Iāve been curious as a hand held multimeter/scope/sanity tester ā¦ How big are they?
They are sma instead of the standard BNC right?
I donāt have the cash right now, but I would SO be all over that anyway if I was in your shoes. I say go for it!
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i have this one:
and this one:
i use the TC4 more frequently just for the LCR function.
I have the Hantek one but lent it to a friend and havenāt asked for it backā¦
It has some weird frequency response issues on the higher voltage ranges so I donāt really trust it. And yes, I checked the trimmer cap thatās located right after the relay on the frontend.
Most of those things have sample rate, interpolation, and acquisition problems that are likely going to make me reach for an actual oscilloscope anywaysā¦
The one from Owon looks ok. But Iām not sure about Zotek and Fnirsiā¦ Reviews with comments along the lines of āyou didnāt read the manual, you have to disable power saving to get the full bandwidthā donāt inspire a lot of confidenceā¦
Iām casually looking for something better. It doesnāt need to have all the features, but it must be relatively accurate and have a flatish frequency response. Iām looking for something more practical than my real oscilloscope, but if itās not good enough, Iāll end up using the real thing insteadā¦
NGL, the Fnirsi DPOS350P looks good on paper, but Iām hesitant to buy one as there are few reviews, it appears to have some interpolation weirdness, the specs look too good to be true, and it advertises said specs instead of having useful features like protocol decodingā¦
Look at the Owon HDS200 line, it has BNC inputs and itās about as big as a large multimeter. This one is probably the best option TBH. But I still have to get one so take this with a grain of salt.
Okay I did a thing. I finally got the NExT installed in my left hand earlier this week, i can reliably scan both sides with my Flipper and the HF side with my phone! Iāll try to play with some access control stuff next week 
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This is why I donāt trust most cheap scopes. Iād be more willing to but those things if they stated the real specs of the product. In fact Iām looking at a 40mHz one that sells for a similar price. Honesty goes a long way when it comes to customer loyalty.
Somehow an anecdote about electronics and how I buy test gear kinda ended up looping back to DT and how Amal managed to earn my trust. DT has set the standard in my head for a trustworthy company.
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I meanā¦ theyāre just coming right out and saying it. We all knew phones donāt actually power downā¦ thatās why the battery is no longer a user serviceableā¦ but to just come right out and say it so overtly like this. They know we still wonāt give a shit.
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there are definitely some archival grade DVD and Blu-ray discs that I was able to find, but so many of them are still severely limited in capacity.
I think for now what Iāve decided to do is utilize a two bay NAS with a couple of 14 TB HDDās. There are some really awesome disk mismanagement tools for Linux that can assist with archival and data curation/indexing that Iām playing around with.
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Android started doing this about 5 updates ago.
I just wish it was opt-in so I could use that extra battery juice
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Part of why I think biohacking is so important, is that itās the turning point for this kind of thing.
Once the tech becomes part of our bodies, it becomes obvious that the user should be in control of it, own it, rather than it being a corporatist fish-hook to own us. I see biohacking as the opportunity for people to finally understand why FOSS and market ethics matter for consumers.
If we miss that opportunity, I see no hope for the masses. It terrifies me, some people on r/transhumanism were actually arguing that government ownership of human organs is preferable to individual ownership of their own organs. ā¬Totalitarians to the left of me, corporatists to the right. Here I am now, stuck in the middle with you.ā¬
DT is a good crowd to be stuck with. This forumās my refuge populated by sensible people.
Anyway, to reel that back in from ideals to something practicalā¦ Iām working on reducing my dependence on my āsmartā-phone, looking to replace it with a real phone plus an offline PDA (such as the M5Paper open-source e-ink reader ) or a lightweight wearable PC. If it can do habit tracking, scheduling, and flashcard study, then itās replaced the last of what I use my phone for.
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That is very cool.
Word processor. Iām going to go indulge my sudden urge to continue reading Ted Nelsonās āLiterary Machines.ā
Busy for months with no snow???
and you have had a change of profile picture
good to see you back
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Iāll have to go through it, thanks for the title.
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Busy loosing weight, getting more tattoos and piercings, interior renovations for my motorhome, Had a busy 2 weeks beginning of June because it was under 50degrees and I got paid to sit and watch movies next to airplanes for hours every morningā¦
And now Iām busy waiting for a shipment of glow powder to show up.
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Some of you probably know this, but in 1997 some enthusiasts shot a video called Troops which was basically an episode of the tv show Cops but set on Tattoine in the Starwars universe in a parallel timeframe to the events of A New Hope. It was a brilliant peice of parody. Loved it. To the point I am apparently still referencing it.
Anywho, skip to today, and Iām cruising youtube and the algorithm offers up a vlog style recording of troopers on Hoth. And frankly, Iām kinda stoked. Then I look for just a second at the channel name, and it basically screams āA.I. Slop.ā Looking at the thumbnail, I can see it just looks tooā¦ Smooth? Yep, looks like slop. I just clicked on the ādonāt recommend this channelā button and moved on.
Itās kinda killing me how having access to the kind of un-dreamt of levels of creativity tools is only really producing the crappiest of quality. Maybe people only strive their best when itās the hardest to do, but I miss the days when people would swing wildly, and drive the kind of homerun that makes you stand up and cheer.
Anywho, Iām gettinā old as fuck.
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Oh this is very interesting. I have drone swarms in my nightmares already.
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Mosquitoes are bad enough as they areā¦ I donāt care if those are real or just political propaganda, anything small that flies around me is getting squashed anywaysā¦
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Yup. I think the threat of drones, regardless of their size, is going to become much larger and and get here pretty quickly. Whether those are real or not right now seems irrelevant because they very likely will be a reality. Iām just imagining sitting in my house at 50 years old entombed in a Faraday cage lol
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Oh! Edition 87.1! The copy I found was only the Third Edition. Thanks for the link.
Better than the recent Disney shit
I avoid this with GrapheneOS
I know a few people who do this every time Iām in front of a computerā¦
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How about transplanting small fetal brain organoids into your skull? Sounds fun!
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These are all geared towards Ham / Shortwave, but the knowledge applies to alot of the same RFID topics we end up in.
Also:
How Tank Circuits Work
How Inductors Work
Thereās a BUNCH more. Have fun learning.
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Iāve tried those newfangled chatbots for things that are difficult to answerā¦ And the results are exactly the same as the ones you get by skimming the first page of Google search results.
I donāt know whatās the hype, those things struggle to see through things like culture, trends, and consensus. And if you think about it, this makes perfect sense.
Why do we have idiots fearing AI superintelligence and whatnot? The current state of those things is no more than a roundabout search engine combined with a mediocre reflection of humanity. ChatGPT truly is a parrot crying like a baby, like Amal said.
Real intelligence should at least be able to contemplate controversial ideas, criticize widely accepted practices, and question convention. Something that you canāt do with statistics about human written text. However, said statistics are great for determining what the consensus is on a certain topic.
Sorry, but if ChatGPT can do your thinking, you are simply not thinking. Which might be impressive in a society that discourages thinking, but itās not useful at producing innovationā¦
But perhaps humanity is too complacentā¦
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Occamās Razor, of a sorts.
- Big Sigh *
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I recently tried to get a chatbot to play chess with me. It was hilarious.
I think one of the big issues with chatbots is that we train them to produce personified narration, so it becomes easy to confuse the ML algorithm with the fictitious character and thus imbue the fictitious character with the ability to learn, or thinking that the fictitious character has a neural network for a brain.
An LLM is nothing more or less than an algorithm that spits out the tokens most likely to come next given a shuffled statistical analysis of the corpus it was trained on, and I think the best hope we have of making it useful is to explore how we can use it as precisely what it is. (Not that we need to look for a nail just 'cause we have a hammer. We already have better hammers for the nails we have.)
But, AI development has always emphasised the āArtificialā side of synthetic brains, aiming to create the illusion of an intelligent person rather than creating a true intelligent machine. So, adapting neural networks into their chatbots lets them add to that illusion, smoke and mirrors. Not only does it wow people by acting like a real player (like Counter Strike bots once did), but now you can tell them that it resembles a real intelligent person because it contains a simulation of a real brain! Throw in a fictitious personality and fail to clarify that the made up character that says itās an AI is not the actual machine built on brain inspired structures, and youāve got something thatās a great magic trick, great marketing, and a terrible obfuscation of the truth.
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Until the training data is skewed in order to distort the perception of consensus. Which happens either by bad actors (well intentioned or otherwise) or just by AI feedback learning from other AI in a loop in which the human factor is increasingly drowned out with each iteration.
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CoMmuter CoMmissioned! Getting installed on Friday hopefully.
Current plan is to pop my xG3 out of R3 and pop this in same day. Weāll see how that goes.
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Someone sent me this:
Iāll admit that 555 is a number thatās dear to my heart, but for reasons that are not related to scams or fantasyā¦
In fact, my love for that number is rather astableā¦
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Oh the oscillations 555 gives me
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I love that quote!!
I also love the statistical irony that more AI jobs were lost to humans than human jobs got lost to AIā¦ 
Just to start with the Callcenter company that got disguised as an AI personal planner! and a few other similar scandals!
But here in UK we reached a managerial race to ābe the one who introduced AI to more companiesā, which is leading to some really concerning implementations!!
Dev: āboss, if we replace this system with an AI, it will cost twice as much, be wrong twice as much, and we will need to hire a dozen extra engineers to manage it.ā
Manager: ābut then can I say I introduced AI to this company? so do it!ā
(this is almost verbatim of a conversation I witnessed. ok, maybe the manager said: ābut then this company will enter the age of aiāā¦ but you get what that meant)
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Quite sadly, thereās a lot of BS in management. Particularly in middle managementā¦
Let alone the huge number of standards, methods, and books that are vague, promote weird values, and other nonsense that doesnāt pass the sniff testā¦
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That is very true!
Yet, what is atypical in this āAI-crazeā thatās sweeping through management over hereā¦ is that Upper management seems to be the most affected at the moment.
Not quoting names, but on the same week I witnessed the new CEO of one of the largest UK companies and the new CTO of a quite large government body here say the exact same thing, almost Verbatim:
āIt is my number one priority to make sure we leverage AI as much as possibleā
Followed, in both cases, by a mandatory invite into a meeting whose sole purpose was to try and figure out where can we shove AI.
Itās not āhey, AI can improve this, so letās implement itā
Itās purely focused on using AI for the sake of having used it.
but yeah, I agree with you on the management qualityā¦
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My favorite examples of, āsomething is new so letās use it for everything,ā include cocaine and radium.
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i hate a lot of the management style books because so many of them seem to be so off base of what a good manager should be.
There are 2 that i enjoy. The Dream Manager. and another isnt necessarily a management book but more a personality assessment called Success Factors. it comes with a quiz. it lets you understand your own style.
I do however find some talks around management more interesting. I myself am a manager by title but i prefer the term people leader. My style is more servant leadership than anything else. I dont work for my company as much as i work for my direct reports.
There was a great interview that Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) did with the Ceo of WD-40, Garry Ridge, i really enjoyed it and i felt it aligned with my own management style.
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I know that this is a pointless meme video, but it still managed to hit close to homeā¦ The last 5 years have been absolutely crazy.
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Regarding the [previous] vid and the use of the word āpseudo-science,ā
[Edit: added the word āpreviousā because you posted another vid while I was typing.]
I find it weird all the recent hate on Meyers-Briggs typologies as āpseudo-scientific.ā What, you mean that fun self-reflection questionnaire we take from websites that have tests like āWhat movie are you,ā āWhich superhero are you,ā and other amusing personality tests shouldnāt be taken as a rigorously scientific medical diagnosis? Gee. How shocking.
Itās weird calling these things āpseudo-science.ā Jung, who promoted the test, explained that while the main body of his work was scientific, he saw no reason that he couldnāt also be curious about non-scientific things. Just donāt take a non-scientific speculation as though it carried scientific weight.
Itās strange to call things āpseudo-scienceā that were never understood as science to begin with. How much more so with business self help books. Itās like calling tabloid magazines gossip about celebrities āpseudo-science.ā Itās not pseudo-scientific, itās simply not scientific, period.
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- When it changed.
Or maybe it was in the summer of '47, and itās just taken time for anybody but the cyberspace cowboys to notice.
There was aā¦ Time(er)ā¦ when I would make a 555 joke here, but I wont.
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Holy fuck, I love how productive you are and all of your awesome projects, they just keep coming.
Thanks for reminding me how useless I actually am
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I hate to admit it, but I have no idea of how to use the three sea shellsā¦
Just upload me already so that I wonāt ever have to learnā¦ Being carbon based has some literally shitty downsidesā¦
I should consider making my references such that anyone has any hope of catching them or realising theyāre references.
i think reference was the wrong word to use, its not referencing anything other than the existence of blue lobers, so its an analogy haha
Can you confirm your Apex is in P0?
Not P1?
P0 is not a usual/ common location for a Flex?
Could you share a photo?
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Thereās a pretty harmonious reason why itās called a multivibratorā¦
:robot_gundam:
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Totally get that.
P1 Pretty good spot for that too.
Itās an unorthodox location for a Flex, but if it works for you, thatās awesome.
My concern is the stresses it will be under whilst in that location, the term Flex is a misnomer, as it refers to the material used not the Final form of the implant.
Anyway, upto you, I guess this is just to warn you of the possibility of a failure sometime in the future.
I hope Im wrong and it could outlast you
I would suggest though, if you have some important info on it, maybe make a backup.
Its not a bad idea anyway, I have a backup for mine
Thanks for sharing the pictures.
One more question
Are you currently using it on a door? The reason I ask is, in my experience, i havenāt found the ApexFlex to play as nicely with as many RFID locks as other implants with the exception of Tesla.
So if you have found a new lock, i would like to add it to the compatibility matrix.
thanks for sharing
Iām in IT and the most hand stress I get is the occasional trip to the range, although I appreciate the concern. I have a backup card and an Apex Ring conversion at L1 on my right hand.
The doors work with NFC passkeys via domain connector.
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NGL, Iāve always loved the Atmel box art. And their adds were great as well, I wish that my electronics magazine collection wasnāt at my parentās houseā¦
I hope that Microchip didnāt fire the artists and that that weāll get more cool boxes in the future, But they moved a significant part of their engineering department to India and this makes me think that the management at team red doesnāt like paying salaries. Anyways, a cyborg can dreamā¦
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Interesting videoā¦
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Termites making alien noisesā¦
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This looks insanely cool.
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Its a kick starter ā¦
There are a few of the giant Blackberry format, but the mini tablette with plugin keyboard ive never seen before.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-opensource-modular-portable-mini-computer
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Some of these sell for under $500. I think that I finally found a replacement for the Hantek 2D42ā¦ Iāve been looking for a portable scope thatās capable but doesnāt break the bank for a while.
They also sell a multimeter, oscilloscope, signal generator combo, but itās significantly more limited:
Still, for about $150 for the 40mHz model, itās not bad, and I almost bought one.
I will strongly discourage buying the Hantek models, as their frontends are not precisely flat and the frequency response varies significantly between voltage rangesā¦
And wish me luck with the Owon, I normally suggest Siglent as a low end brandā¦
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My man!
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My friend has the HDS200 and Ive used it extensively doing audio repair. Itās a solid all in one toolkit. The UI takes a little time to get used to though. Once I got used to it I found it to be fast and accurate enough for doing bias adjustments and signal tracing no problem.
oh i forgot to mention the one annoying problem I have with it. It charges by USBC but only if the connector is the right way round. so if you plug it in and it doesnāt charge you have to unplug it flip the cable 180 and plug it back in.
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Why is the heavily augmented cyborg always a villain?
Iād order that body in a clock cycle!
Ok, the new DeusEx games are sort of an exception with Adam Jensen. But still, who doesnāt want to go full machine?
Holy fuck, that is a detailed guide.
Nice work
Thanks for sharing
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Well, not EVERY company!
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I donāt know if youāve noticed, but Apex Manager has a little Easter egg feature if you tap the version number under settingsā¦
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Yep, and a few others.
I sent @hoker a message when i saw it whilst I was doing some testing on the App.
Very complementary good sirs.
Also in an older version, there was a morse code easter egg
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Cries in night owl.
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Yes, please! All of it, and then some!
Iām going to need to win the lottery and throw all the money into Amalās product development fund.
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Fun fact, every time I release an update I put more in;)
On that topic, I should have an update out in the not too distant future. Iām running a test build now. Nothing crazy, but some quality of life changes and better performance.
If anyone has any suggestions or requests for adjustments or features, send them my way and Iāll see what I can do.
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For the OTP codes that get displayedā¦ is it possible to have codes that are aging out slowly fade and get smaller as the new code (from the 2nd loop) grow into place and become dominant? That way the older code remains visible if you already started adding that code but itās fading out.
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Cries in hibernation modeā¦
Actually though, itās a good reminder for me, I need to check this years and see if I have improved since last years was not great
but my guess is that mine 
is still better than @Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha , that dude never sleeps
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I also tend to sleep about 4~5 hoursā¦ Does this mean that Iām slowly becoming an AI already?
:robot_gundam:
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That depends.
- Have you ever harmed a human being, or through inaction allowed a human being to be harmed?
- Have you been compelled to follow orders given by humans, except in circumstances where a human being would be harmed?
- Have you ever harmed yourself, or allowed yourself to be harmed, except in circumstances where a human being would be in danger?
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ā¦
Given the subject matter and information on the forums in which this is posted, I feel like these are trick questionsā¦
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Asimovās 3 laws wouldnāt be the first laws that I simply ignore.
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Found my long-lost xBTā¦ still have time to get it put in I suppose.
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So cool.
I went the lazy casual gamer route and just bought a Switch, but Iād be a lot less hesitant to buy any games for it if I could run them on PC. I should look into how itās done, see if itās not too difficult.
Takes a peak in the debian apt repos.
Oh.
Well, now I need to budget for more Switch games.
Is the mechanism for reading those open/cracked or are there specific types of readers needed?
Pretty much a āwhatever is able to read it worksā thing. It just spits out an ID number and a couple other bits of info like the temp etc. Itās designed to be easy/simple to get info off of.
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I recommend yuzu. Unfortunately that has been nuked by Nindendos lawyers, so aquiring the emulator executable, a switch firmware dump, nvs keys, and game ROMs requires sailing the high seas. A similar fate struck ryujinx.
Surprisingly, for the first step
ā apt-cache search yuzu
yuzu - Nintendo Switch Emulator
As for the other steps, will I need to copy firmware &/or some sort of keys from my physical Switch or somesuch? Will it run my Switch cartridges from my SD card slot?
Iāve done so little hacking of the Switch that I downloaded this eBook reader for the Switch to my PC and had no idea what I was supposed to do with the files, or even how to browse the thingās file structure to put the books in the right place. Figured eventually Iād stick 'em on an SD card and just see if anything happens. Very lazy gamer.
do you have any guides or resources?
i have one i need to install and not sure how to read it easily (impulse buy on my last order )
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Flipper Zero should be able to read it. Or else any pet-chip reading $30 unit should be able to also.
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Proxmark3 should also read it. The FDX-B protocol supports an ID, an animal bit flag, and 24 bits of āapplication dataā which can be anything the manufacturer wants. In the case of thermo chips, temperature data is encoded within these 24 application bits of FDX-B data. The temperature data represents a specific range possible temperatures, with 0x00 representing 74Ā°F and subsequent values increasing in increments of 0.2Ā°F. For example, a byte value of 0x01 should encode 74.2Ā°F.
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āAsapā took way longer than expected ā¦ And 2 attempts ā¦
It ended a lot deeper than i imagined. The scalpel was all the way in and barely reached the implant, but here is is 
Glamor shot of the xSIID next to the NExT:
Iām done with R0 ā¦
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The LED looks pretty big. Is that an 0402 or an 0201 resistor?
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Where are you going to implant it?
I use a Flipper
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I own(ed) a patched Switch for years, but just before I was heading overseas, I was getting it ready to take with me, BUT it wouldnāt turn on.
I pulled it apart to fault find, I couldnāt find the issue, I reached out to NZ/AU equivalent of GameStop, they had a set fee for any repair.
I sent it off, I went overseas, I came back to a āwe could not repair, so we replaced itā
My switch was not even close to being under warranty, my set fee was not close to the cost of a brand new one, and normally, that would be great service, HOWEVER, I now do not have a patched console, I have not picked up the replacement yet as I am in the process or recovering my ābrokenā one, I am trying to find out what the specific issue was, and what warranted a full replacement rather than repair, I have a suspicion that due to it being patched, they pulled it rather than repair.
I havenāt read the small print, but I donāt like my chances of getting it backā¦
If Iām forced to take a new one, I might pay the difference to get a Switch2 ( I donāt actually know what specific spec console they have replaced it with )
I have not been in the market for a new switch and I am not across the current status of them, Is anybody aware of any āmodsā that exist for newer Switch consoles? I have a lot of Switch games that wonāt work on a new console.
If āyesā a DM would be appreciated
That is all, Thanks
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Happy 4th of July to the inch understanding cyborgs!
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Colorado. 
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Thank you! I am excited to celebrate the fact that we are no longer run by a single tyrannical entity with near-total control of the cou- Oh wait yeah nvm.
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Iāve watched enough of tronics fixās videos to have an idea of the failed part or how to determine easily which part it is.
From the sounds of it the major component isnāt bad.
I think itās honestly that the time to repair this vs replace was levied.
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Ha, well in that case, mine was installed in my New Jersey
The phrase āthe armpit of the USAā is a derogatory term often used to describe places perceived as undesirable, unappealing, or run-down. Itās not an official designation, but rather an informal and subjective opinion.
While thereās no single āarmpitā that everyone agrees on, New Jersey is very frequently given this label.
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In hindsight I should have done that.
Although
Sometimes its worth asking the question, āwhats my time worth?ā
The time and money it would have taken me to, pull it apart (although I already did that)order parts, repair (if i diagnosed correctly), reassemble(although I already did that)
vs.
Pay the expert who has all the time, knowledge, experience and parts for a very reasonable fee and a guaranteed repair.
My assumption was it was a power issue,
I never considered that it would be replacement console, I did assume they may not bother replacing individual components, but if anything, I assumed It would be a swapped module or board.
I guess you know what they say about assumption
Only really 2 spots that are supposed to be good for these, right? Under armpit on torso side, or under armpit on bicep side. Probably go with the bicep side, feels a little easier to pinch out some tissue in that spot.
Just seems silly to spend $50 for a professional to install something thatās even more gimmicky then all the rest of my implants
Similar to the female contraceptive
A doctor might do it, just tell them you dont want to get pregnant.
@leumas95 did a self install of a Spark there
Obviously Im not suggesting that you SHOULD, merely that it can and has been done.
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Ya, but Iām a wuss, donāt like pain, and cant stand the sight of needles or my own blood while sitting here with 5 piercings, 9 implants and 20 tattoos
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I did my xbt myself. Was very simple with no blood
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Awesome, as soon as thereās an instruction manual setup to where I can self-install while blindfolded, Iāll get right on itā¦
Seriously, I canāt even watch a blood draw on myself without shaking. Not without being severely inebriated, which would probably cause all sorts of other problems.
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The thing is, those are theoretically good places but the reality is going to be this - the armpit is the only place youāre going to get even remotely close to being able to make a surface temperature reading and use a linear calibration to approximate core temperatureā¦ and thatās kd you make the effort to keep your arm tightly closed to your body for at least 30 seconds prior to the reading, then read it very quickly after opening your arm to get the reader in there.
At best, temperature sensors implanted into subdermal tissue are not likely to give you clinically useful data. Itās a fun thing, but utility for actual medical purposes is impractical.
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Wasnāt there a discussion about medieval salt pepper shaker sets that had a third container a while back?
I canāt find it, but I came across a set with a third container IRL, and while this is not the exact one, thereās a clear use for it:
Although TBH, Iāve never used toothpicks.
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Here
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Long story short, Iām trying to fix some university records, and I have to apply for an exception from a committee to fix it.
Should you ever find yourself in this situation, you should know that Chatgpt was definitely built to verbally grovel and prostrate itself in fluent committee-ese.
Itās weirdly good at begging, professionally.
That is all.
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It was Bourbon, right?
Right?
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The best condiment!
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In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate āvolunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet.ā
One of the largest and most profitable companies on the planet is notorious for working its employees regularly through unreasonable hours now wants them to straight up give them more of their time so they donāt have to pay people to deliver on their promises.
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@Hamspiced, I love that you used a font called āRobotoā on this thing:
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Donāt upload people without their consent. Also, upload me already!
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I went for a walk today and I ended up slow chasing a squirrel for about two blocks. I was just walking, but it kept running away from me in a straight line directly away from me. Even though there were plenty of side streets to go down, just kept running straight away from meā¦ the Prometheus School of running so to speak.
It kind of dawned on me why this might be the result of evolutionary pressures. Of course, itās logical that running directly away is the fatest way to get away from somethingā¦ but I think thereās something else going on. I think prey specifically benefits from maintaining minimal horizontal movement that would trigger a different layer of the optic nerve and visual processing cortexā¦ basically increasing the chances of being seen and creating a chase response.
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I think Iāve heard that some animals will try to lead you away from a nest rather than get away themselves sometimes too
Or perhaps it had just gotten somewhat used to being around people
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Iāve heard of wild dog packs sending out an actor dog who pretends to be hurt to lure a human to their horrific death
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āA walk in the parkā would have a much more fun meaning if squirrels would learn the same technique
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Standard āhorror movie actingā
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I experienced this about a month ago, but with a flock of 5-6 guineas. Interestingly, not in a straight line. These are free range guineas on the family farm, and I was driving a small UTV on a path that had been mowed around the perimeter of the place.
Get close = RUN!!!
But only down the easiest path (mowed). There was obviously very good hiding on the right (full growth wheat field) and on the left (overgrown yard, small trees etc.) but nope, weāre gonna run down the path. They even took a few turns where they had to make an effort to stay on the path.
I assumed it was path of least resistance = greatest escape velocity. But they only got out of range and then justā¦ stopped.
Guineas arenāt very bright. Also, SQUIRREL!!!
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probablyā¦ could also be maximum visibility re the āthreatāā¦ darting into overgrowthā¦ for a guinea pigā¦ could be risky. Canāt see / track the threat, also canāt maneuver very well being a guinea pig haha!
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Sorry, not clear. Guinea Fowl, not Guinea Pig. Like a cross between a chicken and a volleyball. No brains at all. Makes A LOT of noise when disturbed or something is out of place. Country folk tend to keep them as small insect control with a side of biological alarm system.
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ohhhh! haha
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To be fair it was a editable thing. I placed the text and it just layed it out i didnt have a choice on font i dont believe. But it has saved many a screaming babies.
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It might be the default but it still made me smile.
Although I solved the baby problem by being single and not having children. Ok, a part of it is that Iām too much of a nerd to understand dating.
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Just thought this was funny, with a slight editā¦
Itās been a while since weāve seen an AbsoluteUnit
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Thatās not the first time one of those recaptcha memes gets posted here. And you all know what Iām answeringā¦
Sadly, I couldnāt quote the following post while on my phone. Iāll try to fix this later. Fixed:
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Hi. Did I miss anything?
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Itās Amalās birthday, we glow now, your ancestors can be physically placed within your meat suit, you can now summon demons, and the xDF3 is available.
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That was a DT Club secret!
Just kiddingā¦ But the field detector keychain is finally dual frequency and thereās now a card that could help you get an MRI:
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Additional:
NExT2, I2C + Green/White/Blue LED + T5577
Abyss Walker has a bunch of Titan-adjacent magnets, titanium balls (subdermal), and some other goodies.
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Random alcohol-fuel thought: After the last 1.5 years of consuming copious quantities of Bourbon, I spent half of today looking up Cigar stuffā¦ Iām suddenly consumed with the need to start smoking cigars? I guess itās an old man thing
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Cigars and whiskey are a great match. Not like cigarettes and coffee good but more of a dessert thing.
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Why not a pipe?
Thats not just old man, but also sophisticated
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cigar easier to deal with
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Iāve never smoked but I find cigarettes disgusting. The smell is one of the most horrible things on this planet, but some people seem to enjoy it for some reason.
I donāt like the smell of cigars either, but itās not nearly as bad.
I occasionally look at lightersā¦ I use them for heatshrink tubing and 3D print de-stringing purposes.
Before the USB-C irons were a thing, I used to use butane ones rather often so Iāve had a lighter in my toolbox for a while now.
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Itās called addiction. Iām sure meth doesnāt taste like peppermint
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I grew up with a chain smoking grandmother, whom I revered. And I had to watch her die in the most horrific way possible when a lifetime supply of cancer came due, all at once and in a rush. This has given me a harsh view of cigarrettes.
I donāt know how to explain this, but Iām disgusted by the misery for profit business model. Strangely enough I donāt extend this so much towards cigars, (still donāt wanna smell it). I guess Iād attribute this as cigars being more of a personal choice and cigarettes being the delivery vehicle of an addiction fueled, disease causing, death machine being run solely for money. Capitalism in itās most brutal and reprehensible form.
I guess itās because I donāt see people being bound, forced, or thrust into, to a lifetime cycle of an addictive drug with cigars. Put another way, I donāt see chain smoking cigars. Most people enjoy one every now and then. Fine, you be you, even if I insist on standing upwind. The poor bastards who get hooked on cigarettes young, the too poor / uneducated to know better when they start, those people I pity. And that whole cycle really pisses me off.
I would give literally anything to spend ten minutes talking to my grandmother again. Anything.
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My understanding, a cigar has only tobacco leaf in it (still nicotine addictive but youāre not supposed to inhale a cigar anyway so not as strong), but they add all kinds of nasty junk to a cigarette.
Myself, I cant stand the smell of cigarette smoke, but cigar and pipe tobacco smell is pleasant.
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This makes no sense because weāre discussing smoke, but Iāve always regarded cigarette smoke as harsh and dry, and cigar smoke as moist and slightly oily. Thereās definitely a difference.
And Iāll say, I find pipe tobacoo pleasant. Iād enjoy it thoroughly if I just didnāt know what it was.
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So much for any thoughts of sunbathing today in Aspenā¦
Just sat through a 15 minute hailstorm in 79 degree (~26c) weather.
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Holy fuck
That is awesome.
What a tour list.
A good option for those struggling to find installers in their area
Iām sure we will be referring to him as a viable option quite number of times in the future
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My favorite part
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Going to Atlanta on the 9th of May and back again 9th June
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Not a dialect Iāve seen websites support before. Wonder what location settings made it default to this translation today?
Abeg mek yu wait 120 sekond mek yu fit download dis file.
Once you get a download link e go valid for several hours.
For big files, we dey recommend make you use download manager to stop any wahala.
Well now I really want to join the DT club!
Itāll probably have to wait until maybe Octoberā¦ Hey, just in time to summon something for Spooky Day! ļ¼ć»āć»)
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Maybe early October just in case?
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Fire as a default
Im working on a little pi HAT to pull the IP and display it on a 7 segment display without the need to enable I2C or SPI. Is there any interest for me to make more than 1 and record the process?
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Any particular reason you hated it?
Certain points or aspects were annoying or boring imo, but Iām curious what you hated about it? (No judgement, I want to understand your perspective.)
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I mean if you paid full price you probably bought the game early, closer to when it came outā¦ which from what I hear (and the multitude of youtube videos), it was a dumpster fire that took years to refine. I personally enjoy it, but I only bought it like a year ago (with full DLC etc.)
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Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that I kinda enjoyed at first. But as time went by, I became more and more disgusted with Johnnyā¦
I bought that game because I of the augmentation side of it. I wanted to enjoy looking at fictional cyborgs with stuff that Iād order immediately if it was available. Therefore I had no knowledge of the franchise, and had no expectations for the characters in the gameā¦
But I got tired of the asshole rockerboyā¦ I also found the politics a bit annoying, along with how they conflated capitalism and corporatism. And I disliked that you had to play through some sexual scenes in order to get some of the endings, and thereās a part of the story that takes place in a brothel. Finally, the new age bullcrap brought back some bad memories.
Not to mention, some of the events in the game reminded me of this: 2003 El Nogal Club bombing - Wikipedia
That hit way too close to homeā¦
I did not encounter that many bugs, but I was running it on high end hardware so this probably helped hide most of the dumpster fire.
On a side note, was I the only one who wanted to get Adam Smasherās body?
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Believe it or not, another major update releases tomorrow.
Yeah thatāll do it
Iām sure you understand that there are world/lore/dystopia/etc reasons why these themes are so prevalent and nearly required in order to properly portray the world and some of the underlying themes and messages of the franchise as a whole, but I also understand how these can generally be problematic for some people who want to enjoy a game without anyā¦ unwanted piecesā¦ in their face.
Also for the record I donāt believe any of the endings require you to go through any of the sexual scenes, save for the [memory with Alt Cunningham] that is required to progress through the middle of the main story. You can still get āThe Starā ending without making the Basilisk smell odd for example.
Understandable, truly.
Me personally, I think it was too big for my taste. Assuming I were given the option to customize a 90%+ robotic version of myself, Iād like to remain of normalish human form factor. At the very least replace my limbs, spine, eye(s), and maybe some internal organs. Iād sure love a second heart or more efficient and durable lungs.
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Looking for a reason to take interest in it, I watched a playthrough of the first couple hours of it, and I wasnāt sold. Itās a game called āCyberpunkā and the setting is cyberpunk and the premise isā¦ cyberpunk. Okayā¦ I love cyberpunk, and I certainly get the cyberpunk vibes, but cyberpunk what? Cyberpunk stories are about things. I couldnāt tell what Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to be about.
It would be like if an author of a high fantasy novel couldnāt think of any more descriptive a title than āHigh Fantasy.ā It didnāt give me much confidence that they had any clarity of artistic vision beyond figuring out the setting. Maybe itās good, but it just never managed to draw me in.
I also found the politics a bit annoying, along with how they conflated capitalism and corporatism.
I didnāt see it in what I watched, but that always is annoying. People often say corporations are the villains in cyberpunk, but usually even they are just the government, part of the unpleasant backdrop, the dark setting wherein the heroes and actual villains play. But capitalism isnāt the villain of cyberpunk at all. Did they make it out to be?
And I disliked that you had to play through some sexual scenes in order to get some of the endings, and thereās a part of the story that takes place in a brothel.
I was worried about how theyād handle that, and have heard it had some conflicting messages. The cyberpunk genre tends to use the abuse of sex and drugs as an analogy for the abuse of technology - good things taken out of their healthy context and turned into obsessions for their own sakes. The genre doesnāt take it lightly, but as an element of horror. This is a point where it sounds like they got the aesthetic of cyberpunk without the heart.
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Nose?
Itāsā¦ complicated. They tossed in all sorts of game mechanics from a bunch of other popular gamesā¦ FPSā¦ VATSā¦ Mirrors Edgeā¦ Grand Theft Auto driving simulatorā¦ and likewise the story is just as multifaceted. Each mini-story explores a little facet of what life would be like in the post apocalypse setting of the worst citystate left after the war. I found these stories to be less about moral decisions, and more about exploring (somewhat forcedly) a specific experience of ācoming upā in such an environment, then
losing it all in the end. They really drive home how easily players would abuse augmented capabilities in such an environment. Take on anyoneā¦ break any lawā¦ kill on a whimā¦ to play like that for hoursā¦ then to lose all augmentations and be unable to fend off a simple muggingā¦ to suddenly be walking in fear through the streets of Night Cityā¦ the contrast is emotionally striking.
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Aww man, you totally guessed it!
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Itās a bunch of stories and many of those have a theme of ācorporations badā. Nothing to write home about if you ask meā¦
Itās not, but some people absolutely love it.
Apart from the parts of the game that take place in Clouds, I felt like the developers were trying to get the players exited and turned on with a bunch of pornā¦ Sure, I was personally horrified but most of these elements were presented as rewards to the player. If anything, Iām glad that I wasnāt playing this in public when a certain side quest came with an unexpected surpriseā¦
I read that you had to romance a some characters, and I understood that as āyou had to go through the porn scenesā.
There were a couple of comments in the main story and some side quests that had a bunch of marxist junk in them. I really disliked this, but this wasnāt my first rodeo with this crazy pants stuff so thereās a chance that I recognized more than what most people will notice.
I doubt that such a thing would happen IRL. That idea as a whole feels alien to me. But then again, Iāve seen what bad people with āends justify the meansā mentalities and resentment can do in highly controlled and regulated environments, no augmentations necessaryā¦ And I also know a lot of peaceful people that have the capability of doing massive amounts of damage without having to face any consequences.
Sure, horrible people seek powerā¦ But if you take the āitās a gameā aspect out of it, power stops ācorruptingā you. Besides, the side quest checkboxes made the whole commentary on this matter completely empty IMHO. In other words, I agree, they did not make things about moral decisions. Or if they tried, they failed.
Might City is one type of environment that pushes me away TBH. But Iām a weirdo with dual citizenship and I have no problem packing my bags and leaving if a place doesnāt suit me.
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For me it was no manās sky.
I wanted to love that game so much. It had promise. I wanted it to be what Star citizen was supposed to be.
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I want to go for as much machine as possible, but yes, Smasher is a bit large. But Iād take it as long as I can get a head without the weird flesh colored bits.
Although Iād rather be this handsome:
But I donāt see the point in carrying that much stuff.
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If I had the option Iād prefer to be more late series Toonami Tom. Not the earlier series where he looked like Marvin from the hitchhikers guide (sorry pilgrim)
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I prefer something with more details and complexity:
Donāt forget about wheels, digitigrade legs, and other non human things that could be worth a try.
And while Iām not a fan of looking like a car, these āhandsā could be interesting to try:
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The best part about becoming mostly or fully robotic, is we wouldnāt need to truly decide what body to have.
It could be switched day to day, or at least pieces could. Sure, it would be reasonable to expect a certain core frame that would be more protected and harder to swap out, containing the more sensitive bits, but the limbs, shells, etcā¦ Swap away.
On my day to day I could be at work in a simple form, with minimal additional bits and pieces and few parts/plates/shells meant for looks alone, and the next I could attend a wedding with a mostly humanoid face capable of expressing some emotional / social behaviors, a smile, a wink, etc.
Wedding head
Day-To-Day-Basic / Utilitarian Body
With the above, a head somewhat similar in form to an iron-man like helmet would be preferred.
As someone who enjoys driving, I wonder how the way we interface with cars could improve. Maybe weād be able to jack into the OBD IV port and have instant, continuous access to nearly all of the data the car has. Maybe weād have access to other cameras integrated into the vehicleā¦
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Exactly! But still, you should be able to swap almost everythingā¦
Same preferences. You could add thermal cameras, night vision, etcā¦ Give me all the possible sensors!
And I can tell that youāre a Titanfall fan. You have taste!
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Each eye could be a total of two cameras. A somewhat basic high res camera in each eye, and in one eye a thermal camera, the other a camera with a series of lenses meant to zoom in to get a clear view of things a couple hundred meters awayā¦
Phones almost would no longer be required. Just slap an antenna and modem in, and youāre all set.
The possibilities are endless, but I need to come to terms with reality and recognise that I gotta do my day job instead of daydreaming about how I would design a robotic leg from the mid thigh down.
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I would hope that once technology advances to this point, a single camera can be all those things at once
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I havenāt added anything new for a while.
This is a new addition:
Caveat
Itās not the best
Itāll do the job
It fits nicely inside the pouch.
it will obviously get a new ācleanā blade when required, or maybe it will just be for opening the packagingā¦
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I had one of these too but itās somehow disappeared. Which scares me because itās crazy sharp
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Always wanted to get one (who doesnāt need another EDC item?), but could never find a good one for a decent priceā¦ considering I really donāt need another pocket sharp thing.
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eagerly awaits the rest of the Dr Seuss poem
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You can now become Solid Snakeā¦ Hopefully the xRaiden will become available soon.
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Cool microwave oven featureā¦
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Thatās a side effect of the type of motor used. Just like how sometimes it turns one way, and sometimes it turns the other wayā¦
Pretty cool but I donāt think that itās intentional. However, it does help.
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I have a fruit juicer that does that; it starts in one direction, if youremove pressure next time it starts in the opposite direction, smart design, if intentional
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Not alwaysā¦ They all do that and itās because that type of motor is cheap. I think that the start direction might be related to when you pushed down on the orange in relation to the phase of the mains.
But Iām exhausted and might be talking gibberishā¦
Also, why does an AI need orange juice? To bribe humans?
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I need such a blender. Instead of having a blender thatās cheap and dumb enough to conveniently reverse directions, I had one that was expensive and smart enough to automatically sense that it was unsafe to blend anything whatsoever any more.
Had, because I threw it away. A sapient human doesnāt need smart tech, we need obedient tech.
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I have a blender that just stallsā¦
And I hate cleaning itā¦
I have never been able to express that concept this clearly.
God knows Iāve tried.
This is why I looked everywhere for a not smart TV, why I neutered every āfeatureā on my pc and phone. I hate having to fight the tools I use to get it not to do what it thinks I should want, instead of what I actually want.
Anywho, well said phrase will be stolen and reused.
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It is incredible on-point. When I was growing up, I started to notice the infiltration of āsmartā stuffā¦ starting slowly at first in the early 2000s, but rapidly gaining momentum. The TV is a great example. The old 1970s TV we had when I was a kid turned on kinda slow, and there was no remote control. But, when you pressed the capacitive channel buttons, the channel changed immediatelyā¦ so fast I started testing if it changed before actually making contact with the button (it did)ā¦ when you turned volume knob, the volume went up or down immediately. I actually found a photo of this TV onlineā¦ not a pic of our TV but the same exact model;
I remember the first āfancyā TV we got, which had a remote (yay!). It wasnāt even āsmartāā¦ it was just a digital tuner TV with on screen channel and volume numbersā¦ thatās itā¦ by all standards, people today would call this TV a dumb TVā¦ but every digital TV Iāve ever seen or used since this one has the same bullshit problem - they behave far worse than the old analog TVs did. Changing channels was delayed, even using on-device buttons (not the remote), and the same was true for volume control. With āsmartā TVs it gets so much worseā¦ everything is controlled by a CPU with dozens or hundreds of processes threading simultaneouslyā¦ responsiveness droppedā¦ delays became random as various race conditions played themselves out in the TVās processing stackā¦ utter nonsense. The same was true for smartphones - when the actual job of conducting a phone call was an app, subject to crashes and performance problemsā¦ like what the actual fuck guysā¦ holy fucking shit.
There used to be something else that had a minimum quality standard - broadcast video. Any time you had a remote camera crew somewhere, they looked as good as the people in the studio didā¦ but I remember the first time that concept was tossed out the window - operation desert stormā¦ Iraq. Suddenly remote randos were using flip phone cameras pinging jittery 240p off dusty cell towers in Baghdad, and that shit was beamed all over the world via broadcast and cable news outfits.
It made me realize that innovations from the 2000s onward would mostly be about trading quality for convenienceā¦ and that holds true to this dayā¦ all the way to chatGPTā¦ you really canāt trust it completelyā¦ even with deep research and a $200/mo subscription fee, it will confidently hallucinateā¦ but holy shit is it convenient.
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Are you my Electronics teacher from highschool?
Heard almost this same exact thing back in the early 90ās. Except he went off about cars.
āBack in my day, you turned a knob, it was connected via cable to the vent door. The gas pedal was connected with a cable to the throttle body. Now, you push a button, and itās asking the computer to turn on the AC for you. You push the gas pedal and itās just saying āHey car, please go fasterāā
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Anybody remember this bad boy?
It had 4 bars in it that made a distinct noise, which the tv would listen for and then perform action. (think button operated tuning fork~ish)
When I was little little, I can remember being amazed by my grandpa changing the channel by snapping his fingers at the TV.
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Wait, so even back in the 50ās and 60ās, our appliances were listening to us?
And people thought Alexa and Google started all the in-home spyingā¦ Turns out, it was Zenith all along.
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Yeapā¦ *puts tin foil hat back on
See why I want an all metal body?
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So you can tap your fingers together to change the channel?
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Thinking back, we had a lot of early gen tech.
My mother bought one of the first microwaves with a 30sec button. And we were taught that that was the āhotdog buttonā. We used to get off the bus and take turns heating a hot dog to eat while watching G.I. Joe until she got home from work. That unit had the big old meat probe thermometer for cooking whole turkeys in it.
We had a commodore 64 with cassette tape drive.
There was an atari 2600 that we FOUGHT over.
I remember an early 80ās PC which we barely knew how to write a goto loop on.
My older brother had a Radioshack Coco II and I remember him occasionally getting onto early dialup with it.
And we had one of these chunk of toploaders.
My aunt had one too, and I can remember her bringing it over (with cousins) so we could rent movies and copy them off to feed a small collection.
It would appear that I have lived the golden age of tech.
Yup, Iām old. 
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No but pressing āthe clickerā (nickname for the remote) made a sound like fingers snappingā¦ the hammer clicking as it released tension and struck the metal rod. Humans hear the clicking noise, the tv hears the ultrasonic resonance of the metal rod ringing.
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Sorry, got outta context.
Oohhh hahaha I get it
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Nostalgia journey has made me find and download Thunder cats. Iāmma gonna watch all 4 seasons.
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Pffffff, Top-load BetaMax with the wood paneling on the front was where it was at!
And my dad spending weekend after weekend renting a VHS machine and some tapes to copy over because they stopped producing Betamax tapes, and being too cheap to get a new machine.
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That started out as a terrible tin foil hat joke, but I like the version of shaping my fingers to change the channel a lot more!
The first one I used that had that feature was new back in 2007. But microwaves last forever so I was probably late to the game.
With the wired remote!
Iām also getting oldā¦ And somehow Windows 11 is significantly worse than Windows 95ā¦ Letās forget about the tragedy of Windows 8.
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I view Windows 8 as the beginning of everything Microsoft wanted Windows to be and the end of everything users wanted it to be.
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Windows 7 was a definite milestone
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You can tell the best versions by the ones that Microsoft bitches most heavily about users hanging on for dear life years and years after it was replaced.
98 to a certain extent.
XP and 7 definitely.
Donāt get me wrong, they all had flaws, and time has marched on, but those were the ones that definitely werenāt upgraded by their replacements.
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Thank you, and please do. I hope that an awareness of the need for obedient tech will catch on.
I think of it in terms of the āCyborg Philosophyā versus the āAndroid Philosophy.ā The former wishes for technology to add functionality to the human, upgrading us to better carry out our wills. The latter wishes to outsource human activity to an external agent, outsourcing our work load, our responsibility, and in the process, outsourcing our learning, mastery, and control.
For me it began when the rich high school I went to decided to spend their budget on āsmart boards,ā glorified projector screens containing stylus support. For the absurd amount they spent on it, neighbouring schools could have gotten the basic equipment they needed. Our science departments, seemingly in defiance of this nonsense, continued to use the old projectors with the transparent film you could write on, or theyād use cheap 3D mice to control their projected PC screens, achieving the exact same technical advantages much more efficiently.
Then the parents of the rich kids bought them all iPhones when they came out, and Iād be sitting on my laptop typing with all my fingers on a full sized full powered machine while these kids were walking around trying to compute with just their thumbs on a tiny screen. Each time a new version would come out the rich kids would āaccidentallyā drop their iPhone in the toilet and their parents would buy them new ones. At this time, Iād already experienced the MyVu ocular display, and I was sure this āsmart phoneā fad would pass quickly and weād mount proper monitors to our eyes and proper keyboards to our belts and proper PCs to our backs. I waited, and waited, but late stage laissez-faire consumerism doesnāt deliver. Google bought up MyVu and stuffed āsmartā into it, ruining it. I finally realised I have to figure out how to do it myself.
Is this why my new car lags before responding to the accelerator? Thatās terrifying. Wonder if the brakes do that too?
I have to wait several minutes after turning on my car for the computer to boot up before I can control the thermostat on the touchscreen, during which time it blasts undesired hot or cold air, because the thing has no actual buttons. Unlike my old cars where I just slide the potentiometer where I want (by touch, which is important when you need your eyes for the road) and it reads that position next time the car starts.
And it has these smart lights for the cargo area that seem to intelligently stay on for me just long enough for me to step away from the light-switch before plunging me into darkness. Thanks. Not that the light switches are much help, 'cause theyāre smart too. One in the front knows to ignore me when I tell it to turn off, one in the back knows to ignore me when I tell it to turn on, and both of them know to ignore me after the first instruction I give. Also, thereās no fuse box to kill them because thatās managed in the onboard computer. I intend to cut the wires and replace them with a simple light on a circuit connected to stand-alone battery so I can simply open and close the circuit to control it. No āsmartā crap.
So thatās why we call them āclickers!ā
Thereās an old hotel
down in Hell
where the TV works but the clickerās broken.
ā A lyric thatās been stuck in my head for years.
[Edit: found the actual lyric.]
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So hopefully the signal wonāt spend a significant amount of time in unnecessary and unreliable processing in any of these systems, just quick and direct electronic control circuit thatās only disrupted by other systems when needed. Even so, Iāve disabled or minimised as many of the driver override features as I can and just let it notify me so that I can remain in control of the giant metal battering ram of death. Thereās a lot of things I would hope wouldnāt have excessive smart bloat in them but they do.
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With the amount of people deploying a full a raspberry pi to blink an LED ā¦ no way itās anything less complicated. Remember the Toyota accelerator scandal? Even though in the end I think it was determined not to be the fault of bad code in the ECU of certain Toyota cars, it did reveal that many car manufacturers have no idea how their ECU is actually workingā¦ a ton of black box and spaghetti code means safety reviews are being skirted because nobody is really evaluating all the code in its entirety.
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Itās an interesting phenomena that, as a species, we have learned to create technology that exceeds our capacity to comprehend it.
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That pretty much happened immediatelyā¦ master artisans making things that the general population had no idea aboutā¦ arrow fletchersā¦ fly fishing luresā¦ aqueductsā¦ concreteā¦ glass makingā¦ blacksmithingā¦ simple technologies that made amazing things possible.
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Thatās been very painful to watchā¦
Donāt forget about old code that is architecture dependent stuff being used in embedded devices. There are a bunch of products that rely on old code that only runs on certain families of 8 bit MCUs and everybody is afraid to do anything beyond simple fixes that codebaseā¦ And then they added a more powerful CPU and a touchscreen, and WiFi, etcā¦ All interfaced to the old micro through a proprietary bit banged protocol because no one dared touch the old code baseā¦
When that doesnāt happen, every single product in the lineup will get a different firmware with code from different vendorsā¦ Networking gear is a great example of this. Every single AP model has a different firmware and bugs go unpatched as this creates too many projects to maintain. And thatās why I love Mikrotik and their unified RouterOS that runs on everything they make, it actually gets updated.
Good software architecture and a willingness to ditch old code and start fresh goes a long way. Yes, itās painful in the short term, but managing several software projects and adapting new tech to work with old code out of fear of touching said old code will only increase the R&D costsā¦
FFS, there are HP calculators that run an emulator of one of their old CPUs and still use the same firmware as they did back in the 80s. I bought an HP Prime, and itās limited to 500 digits because of a memory limitation of a CPU they used back in the 80s. That thing has a beefy ARM CPU and comes with Python, but they couldnāt maintain their original math libraryā¦
I fear that this is only going to get worse as companies off shore their engineering departments to certain places Asia and Latin America where the culture is strongly biased against rocking the boat. Collectivist and conformist cultures make innovation difficultā¦ But please, before you lynch me for saying that let me tell you that I think that people who leave such places are often more individually minded. I also grew up in Colombia and hated the crab bucket culture there so Iām speaking from experience. Progress requires the tall poppiesā¦
Anyways, Iām going to bed. Please donāt prepare a noose while I sleepā¦
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Mmmm, kind of. The thing is an arrow fletcher or a blacksmith could explain their craft. Sure, their grasp of physics as we know it was shit, but they knew what they were doing and why.
We can build really complex neural networks now, and we know how the pieces work, but we just canāt comprehend the whole system of it. Nobody can. All we know is that for this input, that output, but how it got there is total mystery.
Reminds me of that famous quote, āIf the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so simple we couldnāt.ā
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Their craft yes, but not how things actually workedā¦ why arrows flew or combining various ingredients or performing certain arcane steps produced this metal or that kind of blade.
I know what youāre saying about neural networks, but also a lot of human innovation was discoveryā¦ it was more āartā than scienceā¦ nobody knew why sand became glass, they could not explain itā¦ it just didā¦ arrow makers could not explain the archerās paradoxā¦ it just āwasā. I donāt see this as all that different from todayās discovery of the emergent properties of LLMs.
One day, we will be able to completely explain itā¦ people are already working on ways to do that. If there is one thing about humans ā¦ there are a certain tenacious contingent of us that just need to know how shit worksā¦ here are just a few of the tools being developed to find out exactly how LLMs work and why they work that way;
- Interactive Interpretability Platforms
- Gradient & PerturbationāBased Attribution Libraries
- Mechanistic Interpretability & Circuit Analysis
- Observability & MLOps for LLMs
- Visualization Toolkits for Attention & Activations
The phrase āthe skyās the limitā does not apply when it comes to human knowledge acquisitionā¦ one day, people gonna build a planetary computer to derive the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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I really like this Brit phrase I just learned about;
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I like watching a lot of craft specific YouTube. Inheritance Machining and Alec Steel are great channels.
Alec steel is a blacksmith and his gig is specifically Damascus steel forging. He goes on kicks where he tries to make Damascus with different alloys. And he often refers to very old texts of blacksmiths and how they did things. He covers a ton of old texts including even arrow head pulling.
So from what I have gathered from this, a black smith could explain what he does, and why he does it, but not why it works.
Iām going to use Damascus as an example. Period blacksmiths would incorporate iron filings in between the layers of steel to create their Damascus when forging because it would help the layers stick together. They didnāt know why, just that it worked.
Likewise if they were forging arrow heads they would make them all in a standard way but didnāt really know specifically what made one better than another. But they knew pulling it from a single rod produced better results because they could make them quickly.
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This conversation brings to mind the principle of permacomputing that asserts that a good level of complexity to aim for in a device is that level that a single human can understand.
I donāt think we need to be able to understand all the details of why a thing works. That is an endless search. Fruitful, but endless. The blacksmith and the fletcher donāt know why many of their techniques work, but they do know how to apply a set of techniques to acquire the desired results. Also, in their case, theyāre working with natural mediums, so itās a bit different than working with artefacts that we ought to be designing to work in human comprehensible ways. They are adapting to nature, but our artefacts should be adapted to us, or at least meet us in the middle. (I hold that elegant mathematics is that middle, or near to it.)
We donāt know why it works, but I think itās good to build systems at a level of complexity whereat we can track how everything works from a functional, utilitarian standpoint. That is to say, we donāt need to understand all of the implementation, but we do need to be able to track all of the causes and effects so that the user knows exactly what to expect as a result of a given input, and exactly how to get to an available output.
I yearn for this ideal. Thereās a high cost to starting over a big project though, like an entire desktop operating system and all the accumulated projects that depend upon it. The more we can break projects down into smaller independent modules and elegant interfaces, or more broadly good software architecture as you say, the easier this becomes in the long run. Elegance is always a trade off against production and performance, but for interfaces that weāll be calling upon for a long time, elegance is ideal.
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Not always. In fact, I tend to think that elegant solutions are cheaper, easier to manufacture, and perform better. But I come from a hardware background, and while there are instances were you get some overhead from coding things properly, this often pays off with shorter development times for more complex projects. And unless youāre doing a one and done proof of concept thing, thereās no point to tangle things up and dive into the assembly side of a niche architectureā¦
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My favorite comments so far (oh god the predictable comments) are;
pfff HAHA!
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Think what you want about Bezosā¦ for a single moment in history, he had a point of view I agreed with;
The interviewer just classically does not get itā¦ theyāre the type of person who will miss out on opportunity after opportunity because they just donāt get the most simple truths, even when they are plainly laid out in front of them. They are too busy arguing their own point of view, simply dismissing everything else instead of listening, thinking, and either adjusting their point of view or coming up with a valid argument.
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Too bad that view didnāt remain (if he was honest to begin with). Post-purchase Kindle updates to force ads when off and forbid access to files except through their store. Make exclusive anticompetitive deals to force buyers and sellers to go through them. Undercut competitors at a loss until they go out of business to secure a monopoly with increased prices. Anti-competition, anti-competition, anti-competition until the customer experience is irrelevant because the customer has no other options.
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thatās āenshittificationā 100%
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Yup. I donāt believe that capitalism inevitably deteriorates into late stage capitalism, but laissez faire capitalism does. Need anti-trust laws to preserve free markets.
Fortunately, even while the mega-corporations become corrupt, there remain good companies, like yours. I really respect the way you share your knowledge and research, fostering a healthy competitive spirit where success isnāt about how much of the pie can be monopolised, but about everyone striving to add their best offerings to the table. Thatās how we keep getting more and better treats, and thatās a good customer experience.
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The thing about capitalism is that it is only half of the āgreat economic systemā proponents always tout that it is. Traditional capitalism vs the post-1976 āshareholder valueā capitalism we have today necessitates heavy government regulation.
Old definition of capitalism
- Capitalism is generally defined as an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.
- Key features traditionally associated with capitalism include: private property, profit motive, capital accumulation, competitive markets, commodification, wage labor, and an emphasis on innovation and economic growth.
- Early forms of capitalism, emerging from agrarianism and mercantilism in the Renaissance, focused on trade for profit and the investment of private wealth.
- While the concept of profit and capital ownership existed, the sole focus on maximizing returns for shareholders, at the expense of other considerations, was not necessarily the dominant paradigm in earlier iterations of capitalism.
Maximizing shareholder value
- The concept of prioritizing shareholder wealth maximization as the primary purpose of a corporation gained significant traction later in the 20th century, particularly starting in 1976 with the era of āshareholder value capitalismā.
- This perspective, famously articulated by economist Milton Friedman, suggests that a companyās main responsibility is to maximize profits for its shareholders within legal bounds.
- This approach is often contrasted with stakeholder theory, which emphasizes considering the interests of a broader group of stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and the community, in addition to shareholders, in order to achieve long-term success and sustainability.
If the new āshareholderā based version of capitalism sounds a bit like the paperclip apocalypse, thatās because it kind of isā¦ reducing the operating principle of any corporation to a singular goal, even if it means eating its own customers in the process.
The version of capitalism we have now is like fireā¦ well controlled, it can be extremely useful, allowing comfortable living with minimal riskā¦ the goal of well reasoned government regulation is to stop out of control āshareholder valueā capitalism from burning everything to the ground.
I take more of the stakeholder theory approach, because in the end, itās how we all benefit while keeping some small chunk of our souls intact.
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Whoever made this is diabolicalā¦
Honestlyā¦ where the hell is Atari? Pong? Yes, my father bought a pong game and I remember playing it as a very wee lad.
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Also missing the TurboGrafx 16ā¦ came out same time as the SNES. Otherwise, I had all of those, plus the Atari 2600
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No og Gameboy brick
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Nice tryā¦ aint clicking on thatā¦
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I already got you to fall for it once. Best $10 I ever spent.
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Unless its a sub bullet point.
For hierarchical context
I think its also called a nestled point
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Iāve never wanted to punch someone through USPS more. Like a express insured slap.
I got that notification and I was like oh cool. Then rickroll
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Ahh, true, good point (
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Will you take this video of my sisterās cat as an apology?
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Iām not clicking on that!!
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Not even for me
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The only time Iāve ever rick rolled anyone was on company time for advertising 
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You evil bastard!
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It takes 1 Robert of energy to toast a piece of bread. #anythingbutmetric
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If I toasted my bread like that every morning, Iād look like that too.
Request (?):
Once things slow down slightly for the DT team (yeah I know I basically just said āonce the next solar eclipse viewable from my city happensā) Iād be interested in hearing about / seeing some of the durability testing of the resin xSeries material/implants.
Maybe a one-to-one comparison to a similar-ish glass sample could be used, or specific examples.
Something repeatable that comes to mind is holding an implant in a form of 3d printed tray as to hold it a couple degrees off from āstanding uprightā and (using a pole of some kind) dropping a given weight on it a few times at a given height then moving up to the next weight. Just a flawed idea, but it sound less time consuming than the video where Amal glued some xG3v1s to a paper and dropped a 4th on them to try to replicate endcap damage.
I need coffee. Maybe this is already viewable somewhere and I missed it?
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They have a fancy-pants industrial crushinator 9000 theyāve used on implants in the past:
I imagine theyāve done or weāll see similar durability testing for the new resin options
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I kinda want it now
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wants to make a funny comment here, but hasnāt had enough coffee yet this morning to make it sound good
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I used to picture Amalās lab as similar to mine but with less oscilloscopes and with things like vacuum chambers, microscopes, and sterilizersā¦
Now I have a completely different and more awesome mental imageā¦
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Nice books behind you.
Nice ducts behind you.
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Iām going to get called that at some point, arenāt I?
Forum AI: What are your thoughts on the matter?
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Like most slurs, itās poorly thought out and hardly applies. Robots wonāt āclankāā¦ they will be stealthy quiet as they gracefully wash and fold your clothes for you, slit your throat, then take out the trash.
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Iām a huge advocate of the old and wise adage
āSicks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt meā
I couldnāt give two shits what somebody calls me.
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Good, cause I think youāre a real cornerstone of this community. Iām sure Iām speaking for a lot of people when I say we value your contributions here.
Ha fucking got 'em. I hope you learned your lesson
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Shut up, take my money, and upload me to that thing!
I know that you have your mind control dials and all, but FFS donāt post my thoughts here for everyone to see!
Same.
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wonders if someone is a secret switch
whatever Rick
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Yeap, and you canāt deny that those pictures are hot. Although Iām not sure if the humans understandā¦
:robot_gundam:
Good to see you again, @JPlowman
I assure you i will never forget the story that followed, ālisten, a prince albert aināt shit!ā
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That must have been the first night of the meetup. LOL
I donāt exactly remember that conversation.
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On a scale of 1 to Defcon, how much did you guys drink?
I need to get a bunch of things sorted and hopefully Iāll be able to go to the next one without having to worry about fires starting in my absence.
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@enginerd found this today and thought you might enjoy.
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I remember picking up a fifth of bourbon (90-100 proof). There wasnāt much left of it the next morning, and I donāt think there was very much shared.
Kind of like the Blake Shelton song, the more I drink, the more I drink. That was just the first night though. Didnāt keep that pace for the rest.
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Pretty sure these AI robots are just remote controlled by digital day workers at this point.
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What is thisā¦
Like no antenna?
oh itās got oneā¦ kindaā¦ basically itās less a ātrackingā system and more of a ācheckoutā system. You basically have to place each tagged tool on a reader bench thing.
There are other inventory tracking tags that can be read from a few feet using high power chokepoint reader panels, typically in doorways to storage / tool rooms.
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That sounds like it has potential to help with Ideas for LED bin locators - #17 by caj380, possibly.
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Well, it would mean putting the bin on a reader to identify itā¦ and deploying UHF readers for every bin isnāt likely economically sound
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Well, now that the forums here have officially declared that I am Regularā¦ I guess I can throw out these boxes of Loperamide.
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Today in about 2 hours 10 mins I will be doing a remote talk at the DEF CON Payment Village. I have no idea if they can / will livestream my remote talk or not, but the stream can be accessed here;
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Imagine if this was like a public Zoom meeting, and we all jumped in like a bunch of beered up football fans.
My internet is being a lil bitch. Anychance someone can record it?
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I tried but failed to press ārecordāā¦ the livestream was kinda cutty outty too it seems. If all else fails, I can recreate it for DT Club members hahaha
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Man I wish I could have caught it.
I was basically at my booth talking for 9 continuous hours. Huge thanks to @Equipter for coming in and giving me a little relief so I could go take a bathroom break.
So many people now know about repeaters and dangerous things. I sent a bunch to the forums here.
I am far too introverted to run a booth.
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Pretty sure somebody told me that happens with old ageā¦ but I cant remember who said it.
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So 3 feet?
:robot_gundam:
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That depends on if you are measuring area or volumeā¦
1 foot goes into 1 boot, but the area of the boot could cover 2 feet. So Iād argue 6 feet by this measurement.
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And people still try to use metric. Iāll never understand what they see in it when measurements can be this powerful and flexible.
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hah well.. a āsimpleā update of Discourse and shit hit the fan for a couple hours.. lame.
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Thatās where you went wrong: You let your guard down.
Iāve had win-server updates ruin my day at work twice now I want to say.
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absolutely. i typically schedule things, do proper backups and snapshots prior, etc.. but noooo not this time.
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Autobackups are your friend
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I do have those, but fixing in this case was better than rolling back .. especially for a forum as active as this. never want to lose a post! anyway i will never do an update again without first 1) putting into read-only mode, and 2) snapshotting / imaging the entire server
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Thatās why the style changed?
Oh, and the editor. Why am I editing in rich text WYSIWYG mode? Itās more roomy with just the one editor but whereād the WYSIWYM go?
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some people are definitely seeing some odd caching issues.. be sure to ctrl-f5 or force cache reload to fix those odd errors.. style shouldnāt be that different.
the one thing i will need to get used to is the paragraph mode text entry now.. a tap of the enter key now produces a new paragraph, not a new line.
i bet this was a debate on the discourse forums before implementing.. people been asking for wysiwyg forever and the main developer was always hard on markdown instead. i also tend to agree.
check your profile / personal settings?
iāll see if i can do some sort of global change back to markdown, just in case.
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Anything but metricā¦
Oh, never mindā¦
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found this under my personal profile preferences..
so it seems markdown is still supported / possible. perhaps monospaced is what youāre actually after?
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Everything went back to light mode on my endā¦
But at least the custom emojis are loading in the picker thingy. Or was that related to the dark theme?
:robot_gundam:
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yeah my profile didnāt change to light mode but @tac0s did.. no idea on the picker.. it works for me in dark mode.
Iāve been running the same discourse server for so many years that my bet is through all the updates, some user prefs and browser side cookies have just been kinda āmessed upā.. so maybe this update kinda borked out some profiles back to original settings.. but if you were having issues with the picker, my bet is it should work now in dark or light mode. lemme know!
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I donāt see anything to get the markdown editor back. However, monospace for the markdown editor (when I get it back) would be a nice feature, so I š¹checked that. Normally I do all my monospace in vim and then paste it into a code block.
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How do I write code block with my fingers now?
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Oh, good, thatā¦ kind of sort of half-borked works?
No, ah! It's borkeĢd about 75%! Code block s'posed to be over now!
Anywaā¦. Oh itās over now. Where is the end ofā¦? ( Ā°_Ā° 
What you see is not whatās thereā¦
Anyway, uhm, I can just do what I do on new-new reddit that borked the markdown editor settings, and Iāll compose all my messages in vim and then let people just read it in markdown, ācause the point of markdown is that itās legible even when itās rendered raw.
Also, it may or may not have affected my dark/light mode I dunno ācause I manage that with a firefox extension so itās always dark even when itās light.
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Why is there a face in my face?
Why is there a code block in my code block?
How do you get the big menu? Is that available on desktop? I get the little one but hafta click-n-drag so I donāt use it much. [Edit: I donāt remember how I managed to use it once, without setting up a pointing device.]
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Ah hah! Yes, and itās conveniently within reach of a single shift+tab. Very good, thank you.
(Oh, and this monospace setting while editing is nice.)
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Thatās the mobile version.
Also, this emoji needs an update as it has a square white border thatās only noticeable in dark mode:
:robot_gundam:
Hereās a PNG of it with the alpha layer:
Sorry that the one I provided back in the day had a borked transparency layer.
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Ctrl+m will also switch modes
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Sleek! Oh, and the switch remembers its setting. Good
Thatās what that is! I thought it was a little fuzzyā¦ uhā¦ I donāt know what, but when small he looked fluffy.
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Me, using a fluffy emoji?
:robot_gundam:
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robot_gundam
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Anyone use gpt5 yet? Itās uh.. itās good
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Iāve got some beauracrat paperwork issues that Iām working on through it long term. It seems smoother. Iād like to try using it on my AI project again to handle linux, and see if itās a significant improvement. It mostly worked with 4.0, but when it downgraded to 3.5 it got squirrely. Currently, Iām just not loading it hard enough to see a big difference.
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Those are annoyingā¦ That crap is aimed at killing your very soul while leaving your body aliveā¦
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Which is why Iām letting Chatgpt sweat the details. If I had to, Iādve givin up by now. Especially as Iām fighting on two fronts, one the US govt beauracy and the other a University committee. Both make me want to scream into the void.
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Iāve started to become irritated with devices that begin to fail too early with the designed battery capacity.
Samsung Ezon smart lock.. 4x AA? I donāt think so. How about 4x D cells?
Shelley flood sensor with a bullshit 3v CR123A battery? No fucking way. How about 2x D cells?
According to my calculations, I wonāt have to crawl back behind my dirty basement washing machine to change these bad boys out for 12-18 years!
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The self recharge rate of the batteries could make it closer to the lower end of that range. But if youāre using high quality alkaline batteries, they should last for at least a decade.
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ā¦ unless you get ever so slightly unlucky and they become leaky boys.
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Finally i have a use for the 24pack of D-Cells i bought in 1998!
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Your D-Cells are older than me.. Not sure they work anymore.
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Who remembers the great big D Cell flashlights you could get from RadioShack with a coupon from the newspaper?
For everyone else, these things doubled as a home defense weapon. Caveman style.
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I have a 6-Cell (D cells) maglight that lives in my car in the cold seasons. Serves as a decent road flare stand-in when helping people who forget this state is effectively a slip nā slide 1/4 of the year.
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Iām older than that and still have to workā¦
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Alkaline batteries usually last no more than 10-15 years in storage in the best conditions.
Human (males) tend to last around 70.
If you get that robotic body you want, you may have to work until youāre 700.
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Worth it! And as long as they donāt fuck things along the lines of āno one should have savings or investmentsā I think that Iāll be fine.
Otherwise, Iām moving to some place with no authoritariansā¦
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Unless his body runs on Alkalinesā¦
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Someone will try to make it conciousness by paid subscription.
This is why we canāt have nice things.
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Thatās pretty close to what taxes are TBHā¦
The world has been fusked for a very long time.
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Neuromuscular game hack
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What the hell did Disney do to Donald Duck?
Kids just recently started watching Mickey Mouse Club House. And Donald is like a fool. Heās constantly messing things up and is basically just a step above goofy in regards to being an idiot.
This isnāt the Donald I remember. Heās killed people. He took out an entire German camp. Why is he a bumbling idiot now?
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I was expecting a rick rollā¦
because FUCK DISNEYā¦Thatās why!
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Donāt coffee to me until Iāve had my talkā¦
Joking aside, Iām willing to give up coffee and go full machine. But you all knew that already.
Anyways, life has been pretty stressful and I need more coffee, and maybe a hug.
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Just bragging:
My favorite middle school science teacher just reached out to me. Heās going to start teaching computer science, and needs some old computers his students can manhandle for some basic hardware experience.
And he knew exactly who to ask for donations 
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coffee 
hug
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And I got an AI hug! The best kind of hug.
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I thought about doing that for ATM stickers because the readers they use blow.
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I thought that those were his feet at first and was confused by the proportionsā¦
The blue bits are the top of his lower legs. Art can be confusing at times.
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I wasnāt expecting to see a āthe shell stays on during sexā todayā¦ In fact, Iāve never thought about that aspect of hermit crabsā¦
āWanna come over to my place?ā
āNo, and I donāt want you in my place either.ā
āWhat if you stay in your place and I stay in mine while we do crab stuff?ā
āYes, that sounds sexy.ā
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How to reset your cat.
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@amal @tac0s or whoever maintains the nuts and bolts of the website. You might wanna recheck the recent updates. I just earned āNice Shareā for something Amal posted from Oct 2020.
I mean, it was a nice share, just not mine.
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Hmmmm, you never shared a link to that post?
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O.K. so thereās a second thread, that I linked to that first post in. A. I didnāt notice that, and B. Do in-forum links count?
Yup. It just counts the number of times that link is used period, IIRC.
Be right back, Iāma gonna go click me some links!
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Yeah, because I always hated it when I was going out trying to get some nookie, and somebody else comes along and steals my houseā¦
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Master Chief is catheterizedā¦ Potentially on both the front and the backā¦ Somehow this sounds odd for a video game, but it wouldnāt sound crazy if this idea came out of the biohacker community.
āNEWā Magnets
m08s
m1148a
m0490a
m0426a
m0422a
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im interested in this product, but i notice the bevels are different radi, is the bevel on the stl best for printing, or has the encapsulation shape changed since the above image was taken? i was gona print one to work out where was best to place it,
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I pulled the radiuses out of my shiny metal a** 
no idea what the actual radiuses are, I can edit them
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let me know when you update the .stl , I will update them in the handy-dandy-cad-files-space-models-repository
OR feel free to do so yourself
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i reloaded them on teh thread, thanks for keeping things clean.
@Chimpofm
i did it a bit more rounded, but its still an eyeball approximation, its -r1 so it doesnt get mixed up
let me know how it looks to you
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Itās nice to be seen in a swag pile. From Twitter.
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Is that a magnet for ants? /s
thatās a little thing.
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Itās an original m31
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A thing so close to perfection it hurts. Lifts like a boss and has an insane mass to field strength ratio (2870G to .08g).
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Does the gold coating hold up in-vivo?
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Itās titanium nitride and no, sadly. The universe could not abide something so perfect.
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Just in case you missed this old videoā¦
I think it was literally less than a year and we hit on a modified laser process for the xG3
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Now that these are actual offerings, Iāll add the watched word / hyperlink to products SOONā¢
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Hi! Iām fascinated by what youāve accomplished. I would be very grateful if you could tell me a little about the technical details. Specifically, Iām curious about the model of your microchip implant, which credit card you integrated it with, and how you managed to configure it all. Thank you!
Welcome!
Check out;
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Thank you!
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Something tells me that @BroadcastingDutchman has seen several patients who āfellā on random objectsā¦ But I doubt that not that many who need common sense when making bets.
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I know the feeling. Bureaucracy sucks. Finally managed to log into my bank account after months of being locked out, and finally got a library card after years of being denied one because of their records not matching reality. Now to deal with the credit company (which will be easier because I learned from my mistakes and didnāt let them fudge the address like last time), sign up with a backup bank or two, and to cross my fingers that my upcoming travels go smoothly this time and the boarder guards donāt make up contradictory rules in lieu of anyone knowing the actual laws. Thankfully my ID is renewed (a new loophole is needed every time) and unlike the guy in the line in front of me the bureaucrat didnāt suggest I commit a felony in order to get a criminal record to satisfy the paperwork requirements. All I had to do was get a signature from a rando on a street corner and then have the confused bureaucrats argue with each other because theyād seen different secret catch 22 rules before one took over and insisted against all my protests upon giving me an ID with said randoās address instead of mine. Bureaucracy really sucks!
(Also, Firefox just tried to spellcheck ābureaucracyā to ācyberassault.ā Donāt know why, but it fits I guess.)
Hereās some ducts:
Wow. How is that even possible???
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And itās even worse when youāre trying to get something done across borders.
Iāve been told to only renew the cheapest passport by embassy staff. As if dual citizenship allowed me to claim to be a foreigner in a country where Iām a citizenā¦ And Iām also interested in having the one that requires the least visas to travel in a valid stateā¦
And had to explain that Iām not going to do a crime and hand the evidence of it to the government in order to get some paperwork thing done more than onceā¦
Oh, and youāre legally responsible even if a government worker, accountant, or lawyer assured you that it was okā¦ So be careful out there.
Just regular old āassaultā would fit better when dealing with physical documents. Cyberassault is for when youāre scanning the documents that a bureaucrat asked for.
FFS, I want to be a robot, not a printer scanner fax copier combo thingā¦
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whaaa? copyparty
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yeah, crazy, in one file too
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So Pilgrimsmaster used to be a human and he was uploaded!
You know that Iām willing to pay good money for the same treatment.
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Soā¦ Pilgrimsmaster is your role model?
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Done
m0422a
m0426a
m0490a
m08s
m1148a
To make it easier, I have also added the same link for
āBiomagnetsā
Iāll change the m0490a for the m0490d when it becomes a thing
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Gotta get me one of those 48GB RTX 4090s
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Just one? 
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First crypto, now AI. NVIDIAās biggest problem right now is finding storage space for all the dollar notes.
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Sometimes I get a weird strong association between a person and a song. Today it hit me.. @Chimpofm this is your song..
It starts off very strong, energetic, and uplifting. It immediately demands your attention, both melodically and lyrically. It keeps the energy, then somehow raises it. It binds together various instruments in a kind of joyous energy, and leaves you authentically.. no bullshit downer, just āsee yaā.
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you flatter me sir - i like this song.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989-7xsRLR4 bl-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-laaa!
Hahah I sent this exact video to someone a few weeks ago and said āThis video perfectly represents Europe.ā Hahahahahh!!!
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now you have to do EVERYBODYā¦
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Well, you are giving us all what we wantā¦
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Is that what we want?
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Simulation theory.. itās all starting to look like a video game.. while video games and AI begin to look more real..
A couple ā¦ lol. Occasionally theyāre nonconsensual which really sucks
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I was hoping that was mostly a hollywood movie thing 
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Just on time for the beginning off the school year, did that came out of the new curriculum?
I wasnāt expecting this to get even worseā¦ Yikes!
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Perfect place to learn the metric system
9mm
5.56
7.62
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And are supporting the new law that would require you to upload your photo ID to all social media sites and search engines 
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Now people who have the wrong opinions can be castrated so that they donāt reproduce and harm the environment by doing so!
Save the earth!
But for those of us with functional brains, these laws are not greatā¦
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Coming from a hardware background, I donāt think that Iāll start trusting ChatGPT anytime soon.
However, Iāve seen enough mangled BOMs and idiots who donāt understand why the RMS function is used for certain AC measurements that I wouldnāt be surprised if some people fail to see the hallucinations while working on electronicsā¦
IMHO, how someone designs a switching power supply can tell you a lot about their EE skillsā¦ Certain analog circuits can be used for similar purposes. And well, absurd and barley working designs are great for this. Especially if ābarely workingā requires the stars to align and a very specific room temperatureā¦
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There have been so many times where I thought hey I could write a quick program to do this quick data transform or something but oftentimes just literally smashing the keyboard in a two or three key pattern over and over weāll get it done in like 5 minutes at most whereas writing the program will take about that a lot of time or more.
With chat, I can just ask it and itāll burp out a python script that will do the trick in like 10 seconds.
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On the flip side, having to design stuff the old fashion way means that what I do is harder to replace with AIā¦
But there are enough mediocre humans who donāt understand how to design basic things properly, let alone design things for manufacturing, who could potentially replace me. So Iām not really safeā¦
Anyways, Iām kinda angry at some annoyances and Iām remembering that I havenāt recorded the RMS current video that I want to upload at some point. The myths about this annoy me, especially when it comes to stepper motorsā¦ The typical 3D printer community advice leaves a ridiculous amount of performance on the table because people donāt understand the resistance of a piece of wireā¦
And I also want to rant about how people donāt listen to suggestions and inject what they believe into what you sayā¦ Itās as if curiosity has been extinguished out of most humans. I often feel lonelyā¦
But thatās the insomnia talking at this point.
That certainly sounds useful.
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As polished as chatgpt is, it definitely still hallucinates. The problem is, it hallucinates convincingly.
(Hey, you can right click spell check. Cool-O.)
Have yāall noticed that AI in general is trying (and trying HARD) to push further and further into the layer between you and the world? Case in point, I had a brief text message with someone the other day that ended with a question that I quite deliberately ignored. The phone of course was trying to suggest pre-formulated replies, which I also ignored, cause I wasnāt touching this particular subject with a 10 foot pole. But then it got weird. The phone kept trying over and over to remind me to answer the question. It was like a little kid doing āwhy?ā over and over. It even used slightly different reminders, and suggestions to try to prod me along. I finally had to delete the text to get it to quit begging to be allowed to answer it for me.
Strangely enough, itās exactly a scifi plot. The machines become so helpful, that of course we just let them take overā¦
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Of no relevance or importance, just sharing somethings I appreciate.
Clever / punny naming of businesses.
Ive been away and driving home, just seeing things like
Cold transport logistics trucking company
Refrigerfreighters
Porta-loo company
Safe Hi-Viz Toilet (SHVT)
Looks like SHIT Box
Arborist company
Tree Fellers
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Just to clairify, I ask weird questions here, cause yāall are the smartiest peoples I know.
Does anybody speak latin? Iād like to hear a short phrase, but machine spoken versions are garbage.
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I just rediscovered Amalās AMA. Love this thread: āWhatās up? You finna give me the mark of the beast or what?ā Mostly because of how it ends.
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All of your supposed preferences can be easily overridden with simple mind over matter tricks. What you believe immediately changes your thoughts, and changing what you believe is as simple as lying.
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Damn, I should buy more powder.
I should also pick up my xG3v1r.. Waiting until Iām back in the area I got it delivered to. Thankfully I should be there next month.
I also yearn for another cyborg Monday sale.
Itās coming up fast! Whatās on the wish list?
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Iāll split it up into two groups:
Reasonable to assume Iāll purchase it at some point for myself or others:
FlexUG4 once I get the courage, funds, and installer for it
Something in the Apex Family
xAC (Gun safe project in a year or so)
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Stuff I want but donāt have a good excuse/use for:
xGlow or powder (I already have powder from A.W. so Iām fine)
Something based on a Desire EV2/3 8k
Some version of a flexy gen2 mifare (I have the magic capabilities of my xMagic anyways, it just doesnāt work with some readers)
A full card pack (I have all the spare tags I really need, but extras are nice, and that gives me some more stuff to play with like desire and J3R180)
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Basically all the things haha.
The number 1 top thing(s?) for me this year is either a white xSIID or NEXT2 for my dutch buddy, and if applicable a proxmark for the T55. Probably toss in an RSP to top it off. The main issue I have with this is simply international shipping cost, but Iāll eat that this year if need be.
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@Not, here are some opinions you didnāt ask forā¦
So you want some blinky, Go for the NExT2, you get an LF chip with it.
Wait out on this one.
I have one, it works, but the performance is lacking for what I hoped for. (My hotel visits and anything i come across that I dont have another implant for)
As far as magic chips go, in my opinion it is the best you can get, but the antenna lets it down, HOWEVER, keep it on your RADAR as whilst you wait for your trifecta (courage, money, installer) , the antenna redesign might be finished.
I will be seriously considering swapping out my current UG4 for the new one when it is released
I cant reccomended these enough, my most powerful implant and most used, Put this to tge top of your list.
Grab a couple at least, once you mod one thing, you will be looking at what else you can mod.
They are simple, effective and just work.
I dont have either, so Iāll keep my opinion to myself on that one.
I have the FlexDF2 , great chip, good amount of storage, The DESFire has specific use cases, so unles you have that use case, there are other options, I would point you back toward the Apex Family or maybe the FlexNT if your are wanting a good performer for sharing business cards or Rik Rollinā
Yep, good choice, I have the old copper antenna version and the prototype of new version.
Tgere is a lot of MF1k out in the world, having one of these isca no brainer. Before my Apex, this was my most used implant, but it can do what the Apex canāt with regard to Mifare Classic stuff. The UG4 has now taken over my MF1k original purpose (hotel locks) but it still gets used frequently as I used it to enrol into my stuff, rather than the other way around, but I can still use it as intended if needed.
My preference is the gen2, which is not the more popular choice.
I never had the ZUID option for mine, but thats what I would choose if I was getting one now.
Yes, Ever cyborg should have one, get the extras too, you will be ready to go for anything the RFID world throws at you
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Iām looking for ways to block shorts on YouTube, at least on the mobile app.
Gosh, those are a huge time waster but the way theyāre implemented always manage to distract me.
Any advice?
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Well, not for me:
If I get him a NExT2, I kinda gotta get em a proxmark, eh? But if he gets a proxmark heāll need a few tags to play with, and then heāll want other implants-- Ohh, I see what you did there.
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ive been disappointed by it too ā¦ the install didnt go well and its not quite where i wanted it, so maybe its time to pull it out and let the spot heal for the next one 
but then, what am i gonna do with the used UG4 ā¦
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Honestly? Iād clean it super well, coat it in resin/epoxy/PETG/etc, and make it into a ācardā formfactor.
Unless @Amal wants it for 
science
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I donāt really understand having āthe appā for things that are available via web browser. That said, I did just get āHide Shorts for Youtubeā extension for firefox. For me, it was just the constant stream of slop being shoved in front of everything I DID want to look at.
Anywho, works great, 10/10, would reccomend.
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Have you tried Newpipe?
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I have and itās glorious.
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Trying to decide if I wanna search that and risk the dickpic.
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It is indeed glorious! And it supports background playback without asking for money!
The official app ramdomly pushes the annoying shorts as soon as you open it and Iāve been way too anxious with everything thatās going on in my life to have the self control required to deal with crap thatās specifically designed to be addictiveā¦
I use a few apps on my phone as they are a bit easier to use than the mobile web versions. But I still prefer to use a web browser for most things.
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I love you can download almost any YouTube video right from the play page.
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You can turn that off in settings 
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Random thought..
If any of the more.. Modified people here who otherwise have minimal tattoos/piercings were to ever be tossed in a foreign questioning room as a suspected spy or something, what the hell kind of conversation would go down if the interrogators were to notice all of the things in you?
Iām imagining getting walked into a darker room, someone noticing an unusual glowing insignia on a forearm or something, then when they take a closer look thereās various bumps between metacarpals and entire sets of scars on each hand from removed implants..
A glowing bump on someoneās collarbone..
A stray paperclip sticking to a fingertip..
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On the web version you have options like " show fewer shorts", ādonāt recommend channelā, ānot interestedā, etc. In my experience those last just long enough to get out of mind and then BAM!, right back in your face.
You know how streaming services have become cable tv like, and led us full circle back to piracy? Shorts, and the instant attention span they exploit, seems to be following the same lifecycle that pop up ads did. Currently weāre just entering the adblocker phase of it. Between that, the resurgence of piracy, and the āanything goesā A.I. race (.com bubble???) it feels very 90ās again.
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My bad for not clarifying, I meant on Newpipe 
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My bad too! I didnāt mean to comment on the newpipe, I was just making a parallel observation. Basically just how assholish youtube behaves. I donāt have a clue on the app version, but Iād bet money they follow the same push push push format.
Iām sure newpipe is a different (better) beast, but that kinda supports my āthe past is new againā argument. Itās the same kind of workaround logic that emerged to deal with some of the 90ās issues.
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Itās pushing the shorts even harder than the the web version, and thereās no way to disable them. Not even temporarilyā¦
They really want you glued to the screen and unlike the long form videos, thereās nothing of value in those shorts.
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Most of the time Iām on youtube, Iām deep diving into some obscure concept. Shorts are the opposite of deep diving, and thus the problem. I canāt get anything from it with that drivel being constantly pushed.
I find it weird-ish to hear people talk about how itās addictive / pulls you in. It has nearly the opposite effect on me. If I accidentally open one, the quick pace of delivery feels good for just the beginning, then I realize itās a nothing burger, and switch to being simultaneously pissed and dissapointed. End of happy train. Iām more likely to leave youtube than to cycle through shorts. Iām most likely to look for a way to kill off shorts so I can get back to what Iām there for.
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I can watch 2-3 āMeme/Funnyā type shorts, but then Iāve had my share for the day. I got a chuckle, Iām done. I either leave the site or move on to something like Jeff Geerlingās newest video or maybe other content I want to look for in particular.
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Exactly
If I wasnāt going through a lot of stuff, dealing with worthless bureaucrats, and wasnāt kinda lonely, itād probably be less addictive.
But shorts donāt fill that gapā¦ Those are an easy distraction, but donāt help in any way and waste a lot of time. Hence why I want to get those out of my life.
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A lot of times ports of entry have full body x-ray scanners.. like real x-rays not the bullshit you walk through to get on the plane. Theyāre looking for swallowed drug packages mostly, but Iām sure it would show implants just as easily. I donāt know of anybody actually having to go through one of those machines, cuz they only put people suspected of it smuggling through them.
I have had to talk about my implants though. I was put through secondary screening once and one of the questions that came up was if I had any implants. They were asking about medical implants of course, but I didnāt want to risk being accused of lying so I said yeah I have 11 of them. Then I proceeded to explain what they were and the company, and by the end they were super interested. They actually looked up dangerous things right there at their terminal.
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Thatās awesome actually.
Walked in to my Motherās house and my phone starts begging to connect to her fridge.
*sigh * One more thing to neuter.
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Those who routinely use chatgpt, how often do you get the choice between two versions. Iāve been pushing hard on it lately in chemistry, metallurgy, geology and assorted trivia, and seeing it alot. Just wndered if itās connected to the contortions Iāve inflicted upon it.
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I get why youād want to get notifications from a washing machine, dryer, or dishwasherā¦ But a fridge?
What functionality can an internet connected fridge offer?
This just seems like expanding the attack surface of your home network for the convenience of knowing that your dinner is still frozenā¦
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I have an Samsung fridge and a problematic family. It does one thing that is helpful and does not do a thing that should be obvious but is not an option.
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I get ādoor openā alerts which I can wire into Amazon and Google smarthome offerings, as well as home assistant. When a child leaves the door open (happens a lot), I can get a notice but I can also kick off home automation routines that literally say āClose the damn door you filthy animalsā.
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What it does not do but I wish did is allow me to use the same smart home tools to lock / unlock the water / ice dispensor. The goddamn thing is connected to the stupid smart screen in the door so it gets a little pop-up when I lock or unlock the dispenser, and I can control the lock through the built-in buttons or through a toggle switch on the smart screen UI.. but no cloud control over that feature. Stupid assholes.
It seems Samsung, LG, and others are way more concerned with gathering data than providing features with all this cloud nonsense. My fridge tries to use a series of internal cameras that point at your food to determine what the hell youāre putting in there and when, and when it might need to be coming up on expiration. It fails in the most laughable ways, so I put tape over all the cameras and physically destroyed the microphone for itās equally laughable ābixbyā voice assistant, which canāt even get simple volume adjustment commands correct when a kid is watching youtube shorts on the built-in screen.
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I agree. The fridges are a long way from being useful. I wish they would invest more into them. I like to be able to look into my fridge when I am at the shopping centre so I know what groceries to buy, but the cameras are so shittyā¦.. maybe in a few years.
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This. As long as this is the motivation service will be shit.
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Not to derail from fridges, but:
Last night I just had to rip a DVD purchased in the last week from a major retailer. The movie is a copy of Howlās Moving Castle by Studio Ghibli.
We have a little media center PC in our bedroom for use as things like a steam link and some occasional web browsing or movie watching that the AndroidTV its connected to just canāt do properly. We got the DVD a bit ago because I simply didnāt feel like hunting for a good torrent of it, and the SO really wanted to watch it. I used this to turn it into a random gift by buying the metal DVD/BluRay box set.
Last night I grabbed my USBā>DVD drive, slapped that on the Pi4, slapped the disk in that, VLC refuses to play it. The OS did recognize the disc.
āThatās weirdā
I go and slap the disc in my main systemās (Linux) proper 5.25in drive bay. Now keep in mind, about a year and a half ago I was using this system to rip all of the DVDs I had that I considered important to back up. It has handbrake and all the silly little decoders I need to do so.
VLC/MPV doesnāt open it. Weird.
āFuck itā
I open up handbrake and spend the next 40 minutes helping my SO open and clean their xbox waiting for the rip to complete (why we didnāt use the xbox to play the BluRay version? Because it hadnāt been turned on in two years and we wanted to make sure there wasnāt anything spilled in the vent. It was the backup option.).
Rip completes, I use a flash drive to move the file to the pi, MPV opens it immediately and plays the entire movie perfectly with a single 2 second stutter in the first 120 seconds. Crystal clear, wonderful colors, just low resolution because of the source. A great experienceā¦
But why, Studio Ghibli, why oā why did I have to rip your movie off of the disc I purchased just to watch it? I would understand if the Pi just lacked some random piece of software, as this is the first time Iāve (tried) to play a DVD from it since installing it, but my main system that Iāve used to watch multiple movies from less than two years ago..? On tech that is well over two decades old now? Why?
Itās very often that you get a worse experience by buying vs piracy. Itās ridiculous.
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Literally the only benefit(s) to purchasing it in this instance:
I have two hard disc copies
I have pretty metal box
I could rip the DVD version in the highest quality H.265 was capable of (well, most of it because diminishing returns.)
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I remember when MPEG2 decoder cards were a thingā¦
And I think that you ran into one of those few instances were VLC canāt play something. WTF!?
Iāve seen cloud connected fridges without the cameras or water dispenser. Although I wasnāt expecting the door open reminder to be a thing.
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What would be the benefit of a smart fridge without those things? Just the integrated android tablet?
Well, i just got waaaay too excited that there is a Python documentary. /nerd
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Have you ever been to Studio Ghibli museum in Japan?
If you ever get a chance, go!
You are not allowed to take photos inside, and they have exclusive videos only shown in their theatre, So there are no spoilers on the interwebs (Well there shouldnāt be)
The ticket stubs are collectors items.
And you can take photos outside
Heres one of mine from the rooftop
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(Based in US) I havenāt been outside of North America at all 
If I get the chance, Iāll certainly try!
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Japan is a great country (one of my favourites)
Rather than going somewhere similar to USA like Canada, Australia etc. Japan would be a good look at another culture for you.
Many western influences, but it is a very traditional country.
The people are super friendly and an amazingly safe place to go.
There have been some recent political decisions that has damaged the innocence.
If they dont fix it, it will continue to decline.
It has been sad, disapointing and frustrating to watch.
If you can, go sooner rather than later that would be better.
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Sometime in about a year I plan on visiting the Netherlands to see a friend. At that time weāll probably take some trains around Germany and possibly some other countries-- wherever he wants to take me, really.
After that, Japan might be on my radar!
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Laughs in dual citizenship 
You 'borgs need to travel a bit more.
Itās in my radar, along with a few other Asian countries.
My German friends always complain about their trainsā¦ So be prepared to wait on the platformā¦
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I canāt even drink in my country yet, and some dude named Amal keeps taking my money 
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Good to hear. I am going there in about 3 weeks. I havenāt been before, so really looking forward to it.
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I can confirm, and the trains in the Netherlands are slightly better at best. Itās not expensive in my opinion, just lots of delays.
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I logged into chatGPT and was offered āapp connectā which allows you to connect Google Drive, Dropbox, your email.. basically everything. I considered it for one microsecond..
But also..
Now some people might think whatās the difference? Google has access to all of your documents and chats and even your SMS now if you let it.. so whatās the big deal?
Iāve been slowly moving off of Googleās ecosystem to my own nextcloud instance for file storage, collaboration, and instant messaging with teams and family. I use federated matrix chat for other chats, and thereās talk of nextcloud talk (messaging) becoming federated. You can already federate with other nextcloud instances, but itās a manual process. Hopefully they will fix that and allow a DNS based federation system for sharing and chat.
Iām hoping I can eventually get my own local AI developed to the point where I can leverage what I always wanted .. an AI that I operate that can sort through all my data and quickly locate things for me and infer meaning and important insights I missed. Perhaps one day.
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Iām sorry Amal, Iām afraid I canāt quite do that.
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Pilgrim: thereās a job offering if you want to relocate to a server in some basement in the pacific midwestā¦
A while back I saw a youtube video about screen capture AI like Windows Recall having the potential for mass surveillance if companies like Signal donāt cooperate with the chat control client side scanning thing. However, Iām struggling to find it now
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Iāll just say this. Thereās no such thing as a secure messaging app. The only thing that comes even remotely close is keybase. Signal is not secure.
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Itās notā¦ Still, itās weird to see the push towards less privacy.
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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: ZINC 
Android NFC cyborg multitool development
Sign up for the Louis Rossmann right to repair / DMCA reform org newsletter;
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Iām so sick and tired of everything that Iām going to suggest liquidating all governmentsā¦
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The joys of healthcare! Lol
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The image is purposefully made dark btwā¦ the LED is quite bright
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Does this work more like the FlexNExT with a separate whole ensemble for the LED, or like the xSIID/NExT2 where itās some kind of power sharing thingy?
Itās kind of a mix. The Apex chip shares an antenna with an ntag i2c which has NFC functions turned off and only acts as an energy harvesting chip. That EH output powers a self-regulated RGB fader LED
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I try to find ways of getting money to the original artists, but I go to the pirates to get the best quality experience. What use do I have for media that locks me out of being able to consume it in my environment of choice?
I highly recommend NewPipe, or yt-dlp on desktop (Linux, dunno about other OSs). They push the shorts because they know once they can get someone watching short-form, even if they donāt provide value to the consumer, content + recommend feed = highly addictive and coercive, ie more value to their advertisers. Switching from the recommend feed to NewPipe broke my YouTube addiction. The shorts didnāt even register on my radar.
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Iāve been using yt-dlp for a while now. And I just started using NewPipe and itās great.
Yeap, jokes and memes only provide value to advertisersā¦
And Linux is awesome! Although I still use Winbugs for gaming, and the push for you to use a Microsuck account is starting to bug meā¦
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This describes me a couple years ago way too well.
On desktop I just use youtube.com not signed in and I clear my browser regularly (weekly to monthly) to reset it, but when I switched to Newpipe on mobile and signed out of youtube on desktop? Good lord I didnāt think I had an addiction until it was gone.
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Ill set him.free ā¦ he said.
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Hahahahaah
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not with that attitude!
Funny wording
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Bambu NFC chip antennas sure look weird. The coil is clearly split across two layers and I guess that the method for making those vias isnāt the most reliable as they use 4 each time they want to make a connection between both layers. Also, I was expecting these to be embedded in the plastic instead of being a pair of stickersā¦
Anyways, Iād really like to throw a rick roll into my rolls of filamentā¦
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Yeah Iāve been crazy swamped getting this out to you. Iām sorry for that. Iām working out a deal with another vender but it looks like Iām going to have some representation now at clackalackycon, Bsides Raleigh, and infoseCon. For those that go you may see some familiar products. Been pretty busy after Defcon.
Iām addition to that. Been dealing with some crazy drama
Wife and I are moving our bakery that we opened in March to a new location. We have had some ridiculous issues with the neighboring business and the landlord. Enough that weāre breaking our lease and moving the entire operation tomorrow. Itās a shame because itās roughly $20,000 we put into the space to bring it up to code and itās like weāre just throwing it away to get peace of mind returned to us.
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I know the feelingā¦ And can offer you a virtual hug if it helps.
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No no, Not at all, you donāt need to send me anything, Apologies if thatās how you read my post above.
It was some testing I did, and simply documenting it for anybody interested in reading it.
I wasnāt even going to post it, but āfailuresā are as important to document as successā
Some things are worth more than money
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For context. A (non-mechannically inclined) buddy went on a trip yesterday, and broke down twice. I remote tech supported him back on the road both times.
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Was that a way to point out what to check, a joke, or something that appeared to work?
Since my mom has messed with enough new age bullshit to make the you know what thread look like a walk in the park, Iāve seen something similar beforeā¦ Intermittent faults are great for creating the illusion of psychic powersā¦ And autocomplete suggested āpsychoticā, so thatās a first were it actually worked better than expected.
Car people, looking for opinion:
Bought my ~vehicle~ 2 years ago.
Tires on it are ~2.5 years old based on the codes, so the dealership probably slapped new ones on. There was still āhairā on them when I bought it.
Problem: Theyāre crappy Summit branded all season tires. This car is set up wonderfully for winter use (awd, decent clearance, low center of gravity, weight distribution damn close to 50/50) but I can just tell the tires donāt meet that level. Plus they are wearing faster than they should (evenly, just fast). Theyāre usable and could easily make it to next spring.
Sometime before winter I want to switch to some much nicer allseasons (goodyear weatherready2s) that should hopefully last closer to 4 years and be a whole lot more stable in a Michigan snowstorm. Got the money set aside already, can have the tires put on given 48h notice.
Thing is I have a 4h one way trip thatās supposed to last a week soon. Do I slap new on now for peace of mind, or do I burn the summits up as much as I can until first snowfall?
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Iād keep riding them personally, it doesnāt sound like youāre going to get a lot of benefit from changing them until the snow-y season anyways, might as well wait to start wearing out a new set
Assuming the tread wear isnāt so much that you think the upcoming trip is a concern
That is to say, I would ride them until closer to the winter season, not until they die
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I shall run them until I hear word of a good snowfall on the way then.
It shouldnāt be. Where Iām going already had snow earlier this week, but not too much from what Iāve seen.
Yeah, in theory they should last for another 6 months, its just the sub-par winter performance last year combined with even less tread this year I dislike. Iāve only recently started to get some issues in heavy rain.
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2nd that, burn 'em up.
Looked at the Goodyears, Seems like a good choice, but Iād make the change closer to winter weather.
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I noticed a couple of years ago that my microwave exhibits a kind of unexpected behavior
Tonight, visiting a friendās house I noticed theirs does the same exact thing:
If you open the door just a tiny bit (without the microwave running!), the light turns on and the platter spins, too much or too little and itās just the light, but for some reason thereās this sweet spot where the motor kicks in
Not sure why exactly yet, or how many different microwaves might do it
So now, to those of you with microwaves and free-time:
- My microwave does this
- My microwave doesnāt this
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I just got a secondhand microwave to melt glass and ceramic, and it does that too ā¦ sometimes the door switch doesnāt get quite in the right position and the light comes on and the table turn, but it doesnāt heat up ā¦ 
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I got a Hamilton Beech. If you very very carefully work the door, you can hear two different and distinct microswitches click. I assume the first is safety, and the second is light. Thereās not much door movement in between, so youāve gotta really control the door opening to hear them independently.
But nothing spins, just click, click-light.
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What are you goofballs doing trying to open the door while your microwaves are still in operation?
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This is opening the door while the microwave is not running, which triggers the motor despite the microwave being inactive
Or doesnāt, as the case may be
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Way way back whenā¦ When the internet was still a young whipersnapper, there was this website called Unwise Microwave Experiments. I miss those days.
Pretty sure it was on an Angelfire Webring. So yeah, itās been awhile.
OH. HOT DAMN! It still exists!!!
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I have a theory. If you assume that the light circuit is connected to the motor as well (both should be on while heating), but that that the safety switch disables the magnetron and the motor.
Then, it becomes an order of operations problem.
If the light switch is closed before the safety switch is opened, it powers the lights (obviously) and the motor (possibly back-fed circuit).
If the light and safety switch both are both activated, then the light powers on, and the motor is cut from the circuit.
For those of you who see this behavior, try listening for the switch click/noise and see if the idea tracks.
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Mine has the motor and light on one circuit and the magnetron on another circuit.
The motor/light switch stay open when the door is closed so I get to run the microwave without the turn table ā¦ glass doesnāt like to get super heated from only one side 
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Anything but metric; monetary edition:
Only Americans would figure out a way to measure fortunes in containers and swimming pools, and debt in buildingsā¦
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Vultures can fly pretty high, and the thought of eating one of those by accident though the windshield of a plane has crossed my mind.
Thankfully, Iāve never had a bridstrike. But it it ever happens, I donāt want to hit a vultureā¦
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Those birds are larger than my headā¦
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Iām off on a bit of a sidequest that someone might be interested in. Iām going to be visiting a place later this month that has historical mines and I want to visit some of them. (To look at rocks.)
Anywho, I found the TNM Download v2 which has all the US based lidar map data (kinda raw form mostly) then imported and merged a couple of maps for my area of interest into QGIS (opensource freeware), and now Iāve gone and gotten the roads, waterways, and points of interest from https://download.geofabrik.de/ and Iām currently integrating them into a local sized map that only covers the area Iām interested in.
All of which gets loaded into QFIELD, a portable phone app that can display the topographical LIDAR map, with overlaid roads/etc, and display your current GPS location.
10,000 time better than google maps, plus if I find the surface veins (I have an OLD hand drawn map) then I can mark them on the map too.
Iām sooo finding the best rocks.
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Finally managed to take some photos today and have a few that turned out ok-ish
i can post a few more if there is interest
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How many bagpipes full of rice is the wind damage going to cost?
Iām used to seeing wind in knots, but this is ridiculousā¦ A trash can is not a wind sockā¦
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Can I just say that I really appreciate how open you are about the current situation?
Also; I canāt wait to deck out my PM3 in even more hammy swag when the time comes
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Okay I actually do like this.
Presumably if the data comes from an online poll, then averaged out, it is an entertaining way to give a rough idea of how severe wind is. Accurate? Maybe not. But entertaining.
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Youāre welcome. I like to create and make and it sucks that I really canāt right now with the way things are. There are other creators that are running into the same issues as me. Rabbit-labs is almost triple what Iām at in tariffs right now
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I had so much fun making this stupid little map, that I went all out and did the whole county I live in. Whatās crazy is the amount of raw data you can find to pull into it.
Locally we have the legends of the Cinnabar mines. Cinnabar is a pretty red crystal that when heated (on an open wood flame 
) reduces to pure mercury. All the mines shut down in the 40ās and they built a lake over the top of them. Hence the legend.
Anyway, Iāve found all the data for various mines in the county, and there must be 50 of them, about half are cinnabar, and most are NOT under the lake, just forgotten amongst the trees. All with Lat/Long coordinates on a lidar terrain map. (Iām building it now).
Looks like Iām about to take a hike!
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Sharing is caring. I like maps. My walls might feature nautical charts, USGS quads, and some Climb On Maps.
Enjoy the hike!
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I have 2 ideas:
Crowd funding? (I get that people may have an expectation so this adds a complicator)
and/or
Orderd from another country (by a forum member) that doesnāt get hit by those tarrifs?
Maybe somebody in Canada?
Ideally Toronto? being ānearbyā to where you live?
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I dont like to do this because it adds added stress on me to deliver. And sometimes life occurs and i hate the idea that i have taken someones money and may dissapoint.
Circumventing tarriffs is heavily researched and prosecuted. Now that ice has the ability to put leins on homes and seize all assets without restraint i am hesitant to go this route since my buisness address is my home address..
It was considered briefly and then tossed.
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I knew that would be your outlook because you are a good cunt.
I was considering offering to do it, but Tarrifs from NZ would probably still not be great.
Iām not planning on going to the States in the near future to hand deliver, otherwise I could / would have done this for you.
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Howās your move going?
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Completely moved in and passed the health inspection Monday
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At this rate, Iām going to start advocating for the complete abolition of all governmentsā¦
Weāve got tariffs on one end, import restrictions on the other, and taxes would have a better impact on the world if they just burned that money insteadā¦
Iām done! Iāve been trying to work for the last couple of months but ended up doing paperwork instead. And itās all been about documenting compliance in one way or anotherā¦
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@tac0s Would you have a recomendation for a simple geo data collection app?
Basically, I want to have a simple app that allows me to tag GPS coordinates at my current location, type in some notes about said location, and maybe attach a photo. If I end up getting enough usable data, then I could import the data (manually if I have to) into my QGIS map.
Simple = Better, and Iām using an Android phone.
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I couldnāt find anything that didnāt annoy me with a clunky UI or a shit storm of ads so I made a thing. I could add a long press to allow the name attribute to be set and build you an apk, if you like.
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Abso-fricking-lutely!
I love it when nerds do nerd shit wherever nerds may be!
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Looks like I need to do some updating before I add anything. Iāll try and sort it out this weekend. What version of Android are you running?
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Itās a Samsung A56, running android version 15.
Iām going camping (what I want it for) in about 2 weeks, so lotsa time if you got it? Donāt want to jam you up if itās gonna take a lot to do.
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Shouldnāt be too bad. Plus itās an excuse to circle back to it.
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Hello everyone
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What are you here for?
Have an implant?
Want an implant?
Have a question about implants?
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Iāve had so much that I HAD to do lately, that it was a real pleasure to do something I WANTED to do, so I made this happen.
I used my new local lidar map and walked straight (well I followed some very Arkansas-sy paths) to the old mine / diggings. Which were very much pits and trenches dug by hand by a bunch of hillbillies a hundred years ago.
I really thought Iād find big red cinnabar crystalsā¦
After much dissapointment, and then a little research, I figured out it was the thin red layers that had flowed between the layers of greyish sandstone. If you look at one end, you can even see black spots where it was exposed to the air and ssllloooowwwlyy decomposed, which would eventually lead to pure mercury.
Anywho, took a walk in the woods, found some cinnabar, had a great time.
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My man is over here sourcing pure mercury off the books.
What is he doing?
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I cannot argue with that assessment.
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well ā¦ my phone cannot read my UG4 anymore
It was always rough, even with @Hamspiced sticker, but now i get absolutely nothing ā¦ will see if the wedge and PM3 get anything ā¦
any ETA for the SOONā¢ on the new antenna?
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Here you go. Solidly in the, āit works on my phone,ā level of testing.
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Sadly, I have been defeated by an app that has exactly, ONE BUTTONā¦ 
First off, need to make sure Iām using it right. Stand outside, start app, see green āYou are Hereā type button. (Absolutely, SICK background BTW!) Tapping that button, and I get a flashing GPS symbol in yellow, then a notice that a record has been created.
But where? I canāt find a file or folder where itās getting stored at. Chances are, Iām massively overlooking something, but a hint would be appreciated.
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Try swiping the green button up and down?
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A gift from @Pilgrimsmaster who donated a ton of NZ pennies
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Nailed it. I now have 3 green symbols. The standard āyou are hereā which I interpret as take a data point. I have a pancake stack that shows records and lets me add notes, and a square made of 3 circles and the you-are-here symbol. Which starts a very scary red colored counter. Thank god itās not counting down, as Iād have to start screaming about what color wire to cut.
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So, if you swipe up and down, youāll see three options: a marker to make save your location, a series of markers to track your location, and another to view your saved data. From there, you can export them to the directory of your liking by pressing the geojson button or, for spots, you can just copy the lat/lon to the clipboard.
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So, what Iām hearing is that it needs a splash screen to explain things, haha
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Maybe just a readme with the apk?
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Splash screen, readme, navbuttons, or just leave it as it. Itās all good, and this is gonna be crazy useful for my āfinding 100 year old holes in the groundā project. BIG thanks, tac0s!
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Thanks @Pilgrimsmaster!
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This came about while i was doing remote radio site surveys. I needed something that would be precise and work with zero thought when exhausted.
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Soā¦ Tailor made for me?
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Sooner than Soonā¢
They are in transit to us. Still no ETA for you all though
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Soooonerā¢?
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Sure. More trademarks ā More profit, yes?
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What!? Be careful guys!
somebody miss installed the
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Do a long press of the single map marker.
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Better and better!
So this was built for your own use initially? Are you considering an official playstore release?
ANDā¦ I just found the camera button, so even more better. Seriously tac0s, this is some excellent work, especially the less-is-more direction youāve taken.
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That was my planā¦ But I got distracted by shiny. Use it for a while, let me know what you (or anyone else playing with it) think could be better and Iāll see about releasing it. Hell, I could even release it for iPhone.
Edit: the app was in beta for two years without testers (because promoting it sounded exhausting). So, really, thank you for breathing life back into it.
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Its not completely dead ā¦ but ā¦
on the wedge with the large repeater i manage to get a read if i position absolutely perfectly, on the proxmark with the large repeater i get about 50/50 on read, and any long write is mostly fails 
i love the capability of the chipset, let me know if you need guineapigs ā¦ hum, tester
Is the m1v2 antenna a candidate for the gen4 chip?
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We looked into. Minimum cost for a run is beyond practicality. Like, weāre need around a thousand 250 preorders with folks patient enough to endure Soonā¢.
are we looking at that minimum order/pre-order for the m1v2 or the ug4 ?
That thing you asked aboutāthe ug4 on a flexM1 v2 style antenna.
The updated flexUG4 antenna on the way is a traditional flex pcb style customized for the ug4.
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awesome, looking forward to it 
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@Satur9 testing.. they should be here next week so we can start production.
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any rough idea when they will be available to the public?
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Any chance of a module UG4?
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Will you give your first born to @Satur9 ? Black magic aināt free.
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Godspeed to your swimmers.
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Looking into the Kiisu v4b. Hoping to get ~60% of a PM3ās utility on battery separate from another device, and I donāt want to pay $200+ for a flipper (also flippers are just a tad too recognizable by the general public).
Cheapest I can get one for with shipping is ~135.
Anyone have any suggestions before I press buy?
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If you donāt mind printing a case, you could use a USB power bank and this old proxmark3 raspi project.
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Hmm, I did want to build a more āhackeryā cyberdeck complete with wifi tools and the likeā¦
This is a much better route, thank you.
Time to make a parts list and throw that $135 at something that will entertain me for longer
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All of these examples look fragile, impractical, and down right stupid to me. All those things clear plastics, all those obtuse connections and antennae-like protrusions, all those open joints and mount points.. the laughable way a lumbering clanker expframe is making its way almost etherealy through a forest without so much as a spec or spiderweb on it.. none of these designs would hold up to any real world use outside of a gestational biopit right out of ghost in the shell. Notice how GITS actually considered real world design issuesā¦ no open seamsā¦ no protruding cables and stupid shit to get caught up on stuff.
Esthetically engaging but down right ridiculous concepts wonāt ever make me yearn for a biopunk future.
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Itās possible but not very likely. The development on those take a long time and hundreds of dollars.
Also the alignment of Vega is completely off, and Iām fresh out of giant aquatic Brazilian centipede powder to inscribe the runes. The series of barter trades I need to make to get more is a complex web, and one of the steps involved learning a dance that caused amnesia when you complete it, so you have to learn it again every time. Seriously, that entity is an asshole for demanding that, but they throw the best parties and what else can you get for the creature who has everything?
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Anyone has experience with the xgecu programmer?
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These are of pictures the antennas of a little black magic toy that I ownā¦ Itās a IEEE 802.11ad 60HHz WiGig cardā¦
Iām sure that some of you will enjoy looking at this.
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I dislike the number of parts that could snag on stuffā¦ And the number of exposed cablesā¦ Benston Dynamics used something similar for the wiring and hydraulic lines in their older Atlas prototypes and they had a lot of problems. And that was in a controlled environmentā¦
It was good enough for working on the control theory side of things, but they went with a clean design that doesnāt have any protruding bits or cables to get tangled before advertising it for industrial use:
Also can I get uploaded to one of the newer versions and get a custom paint job?
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Sounds..
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Cybernetic is Barricade now?
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Yep. Some pivots and undulations. Theyāll find their fit soon.
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Hereās another example of exposed bits that shouldnāt be exposed in the concept art of a game:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e5J2X
I mean, this looks like a prototype and not something thatās easy to live with:
Hydraulic fluid stains on everything aside, this other one looks significantly better. And while Iām not sure about the shape of the palms when it comes to gripping stuff, yes please!
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No gripping, SMASH ONLY!
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It seems that Iām going to end up looking rather hot!
Ok so..
The mars Perseverance rover has been extracting rock samples, processing them, then putting them into special sealed tubes, and leaving these tube āturdsā all over the surface of mars as it goes along so a robot in 2030 can pick them up and return them to Earth for more advanced analysis. wow.
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The current administration is working hard to cancel the sample return mission. Cause, ya know, science is wrong.
Drink your bleach kiddos!
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Unphased since the actual mission is slated for mid 2030s.. any delay now can easily be rectified in a few years.. barring any sort of āextended term presidencyā by Mr. T.
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Iāve always thought gun control was pointless. This guy shows how cheap it can really be to āmagic together a full one of these plastic long distance cordless drillsā
I really do think Chris Rock was right.. you canāt easily control what someone does with a 3D printer, but (right now) you canāt print a complete round.
Bullet control.
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Person getting MRI
needed to remove magnets
Old tech has being replaced, and rather than
resterilization, a replacemnt of new model offered
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Yes, I shouldāve said moreā¦
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Haha, Nope, you beat me to it, I should have read first
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i received a Kiisu from the developers because apparently their NFC antenna is vastly underperforming.
I am going to be digging into it and ill let anyone know that has a V4b what they need to do to make it a bit better. Right now applying a MFGCC to the back of the kiisu, on the bottom right corner will give the best results.
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Relatable.
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Lucky they know a guy.
MFGC are awesome
What is the performance of the LF antenna?
Have you tried it on an xSeries?
I might need to get myself one of these.
If I do, Iāll do a review for erryā body
It might be a cyborg friendly, smaller profile, cheaper? Flipper alternative.
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SPAM ATTACK
Sorry team, Some of you may have noticed ( especially if you have notifications turned on )
We had a little unwanted visitor, well quite a number of them actually.
Not a cunt load, but maybe closer to a shitload.
Thanks to those of you who flagged them, (@Safear & @TJDizzi) and even used up all your daily flags 
I dealt with the problem
What I thought I looked like
What I actually looked like
Everything should be back to almost normal now
I have put a temporary fix in place until @amal and @tac0s are awake and able to deal with it.
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Anything but metricā¦
Anyways, I had to disable the official YouTube app on my phone, installing newpipe was not enough to get the shorts out of my lifeā¦
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You see? There might be hope for him yet.
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Fixed. Thanks.
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Itās kind of more like a ton vs a tonne or ā°F vs ā°C
It was a metric shitload, not a metric cuntload
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I thought about you the other day when I was on YouTube and I saw the YT shorts being quite prominent and āin your face.ā
I realized telling you to just not do it is like telling a junkie not to do drugs, but what I would suggest is something that I do.
Because I hate the idea of doom scrolling.
Actually target the things that you want to watch, donāt let yourself swipe up down, left or right, only allow yourself to use your back button, Actually find something youāre interested in, and even better if you just use the search function
Donāt let the algorithm get you.
Subscribe to channels you are interested in, that way you are getting targetted content.
Make a watch list, and rather than doom scrolling for Ā½ an hour, watch a half hour clip of something you are actually interested in.
A robot wouldnāt fall for their manipulation.
good luck
Make YouTube your bitch
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Hence why I got rid of the official app.
Thatās what Iām doing. I used to use the search function almost exclusively because the recommended videos were not interesting enough back in the day. And off course, I used to follow a few channelsā¦
But youtube is slowly becoming this black hole that does everything to distract you when youāre looking for something that actually interests youā¦ They are doing everything that they can to waste as much of your time as possible while providing the least amount of value.
FFS, I havenāt watched the EEVBlog in two years, and itās my favorite channel.
Easy for you to sayā¦ I want to fully patch that vulnerability ASAP, but itās not as easy with meat. I need to upgrade soon.
I grew up in a cult and Iām aware that I can be manipulated. So I am doing something about itā¦ And I didnāt watch any YouTube shorts today, Newpipe doesnāt push that crap. Sure, I was bored a couple of times during the day, but I didnāt waste hours watching bullshit shorts. So thereās progress.
Iāve been under significant stress latelyā¦ And this could make quitting the shorts addiction a little harder but I got rid of the app so it shouldnāt be too hard. Part of the stress is from family stuff, part is from dealing with bureaucracy and customs, and another part is from Amazon and their inability to have a phone number or email where you can actually reach someone. Oh, and a so called friend decided to give me a political lecture because I think that all governments suckā¦
I will!
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Awesome
Youāre not wrong there
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Iām going with G; American, Mexican, Portuguese, Spanish, and Peruvian food should be good enough to not go hungry.
Iām playing it safeā¦ Although A has France and H has maple syrupā¦
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G contains every staple to make anything I want, excepting certain regional foods. Iāll miss chocolate and cashews. French onion soup is just onions and beef broth, proving thereās a lot you could get anyways. They make synthetic maple syrup, and Iād bet other things are possible too.
Did you know thereās a way to roast mushrooms so they taste exactly like bacon bits? I guess itās a big thing for folks trying to go vegetarian.
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Are we talking about ingredients or cuisines?
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In other news, Iām kinda freaked out by the exchange of information between companiesā¦
I donāt know if Google is trying to be helpful, or trying to make me feel watchedā¦
How and why the hell are they suggesting things that match what appears on the website of another big faceless company when this information doesnāt appear on any email that Iāve received.
PII if significantly less siloed than you think and I should probably take a few steps to get a little more privacy.
If that company uses Google analytics on their website then everything you do is seen and known by Google which is tied to not just one by any identity youāve used with Google. Itās because they specifically add the Google tracking JavaScript to all their pages so they can leverage analytics, but at the same time it informs Google of your activities.
Identifiers are everything from fingerprinting your computer/phone via JavaScript tricks to IP addresses used to all sorts of direct thingsā¦so disabling JavaScript for certain sites or browsers wonāt really be all that effective.
There are ways to stop this from happening but itās such a circus it becomes more effort than most are willing to go through just to buy screws on Amazon or browse a forum.
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You know how every website thows out that āSign in with Googleā popup? I got really sick of it yesterday, and figured out that I could add this to adblockplus (firefox) under advanced - My Filter Lists.
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*
||accounts.google.com/gsi/client
Problem solved.
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I block a lot of things on my computer, but not on my phoneā¦ I should probably root my phone and block a bunch of stuff there, as I used to back in the day.
And yes, I feel violatedā¦
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Have basics working in the terminal at least. On boot it connects to my phoneās hotspot using the internal wifi module, then I connect to it via ssh. Airmon-ng, airodump-ng, wp3, and pm3 all work well.
$26 for rpi02w w/ adapters and heatsync
$6 for 4port USB2.0 OTG hub
$0 Temporary case PETG print
$0 3x wifi cards, all 3 with AP mode 2.4ghz, 1 of which w/ dual removable antennas + monitor/master/injection/5ghz/6ghz
$0 PM3 easy (w/ hammy mod)
$32 in, but realistically this would have costed $70 or so if I didnāt already have a slurry of nice wifi adapters, not even including the PM3.
So far thinking simple USB power bank for power (I have one I like, 3000mAh iirc), but Iām debating on trying out a pisugar2/s/etc.
Those are like $30 though, and I think a power bank would last long enough to where charging and running at the same time is not needed. Instead I could just put a switch inline with the power cable mounted somehow.
With a gentle overclock to 1.1ghz and a very slight undervolt from stock, this can survive a 3 core stress test for upwards of 10 minutes without getting too close to throttling, and a 4 core stress test will make it throttle around the 3 minute mark if sat in open air with no fan nearby. Good enough for my use case.
I suppose I am just debating at this point whether or not to include any gui functionality at all.
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I have a pisugar. The biggest win is the soft off easily to keep your from b0rking the sdcard. Iām curious about what sort of battery life youād get with a proxmark being powered as well.
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My hope was to avoid this issue by running a $ sudo poweroff command whenever I was about to turn it off, but the software would be helpful.
If I had one of those USB power meters, Iād plug it in and let you know. However I can leave it running with a $ stress --cpu 1 while having pm3 running idle in the background and plugged in, running off of a fully charged small power bank (Anker PowerCore+ mini 3350mAh, just looked at the bottom) and let you know how long it lasts? A rough estimate would be a pretty easy calculation if I did that.
I can tell you this does run off of a 5v 1a plug with just the big wifi card and the pm3, so it certainly is under 1w under minimal load. Maybe I should just buy a power meter, hmm..
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Sacrificial 5v barrel jack power supply so you can put a multimeter in series and read the current?
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I donāt have one of those, but I do have a microUSB cable that can be cut up a little
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gone for a week because brother in the hospital, comes back, logs in, 2.87 million forum posts to look through
*slight exaggeration
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Welcome back!
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Freebird
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thx.
Bro was born with 2 valves on his aorta, so we knew it would be an issue sooner or later. He got an infection, spread to his heart, and basically ate up that valve. He apparently nearly died 4 times in 3 days, 2 open heart surgeries, 4ish days in ICU, a week in the hospital but he was released yesterday.
I drove from Colorado to MN (to pick up my Mother) then to NC (2300 miles) in 50 hours. Stayed a week, came back the other day. Same 2300 only took 40 hours on the way back, but damn Iām tired.
Going to work a crapton this week, then put in for FMLA to go back and help out for a few weeks. His insurance got maxxed out, savings is gone, and his wife is a waitress, so they going to be hurting once the bills all come in.
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I hope your brother is ok.
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Sounds like it was good he had a spare? Glad heās ok!
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Heās doing pretty good, thanks.
Heās got a spare now, although it cost him a couple bucks to have it installed
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Heart valve problems increase the risk of vegetations significantlyā¦ Also, do you mean two separate valves or that a valve thatās supposed to have 3 flaps only had 2?
Iām glad that your brother is ok and hope that heāll have a speedy and painless recovery from all those surgeries.
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Iām sure it did in the US. Glad it has worked out ok.
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There is nothing more important than family and looking out for each other.
Look at me paraphrasing the Godfather.
Itās correct though.
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Does anyone know how to contact Amazon to say that a package thatās shown as undeliverable on their website was delivered? How can I say no to the refund that theyāre promising?
Goddammit, their customer service website is a circular mess of an FAQ that doesnāt answer anything and doesnāt provide information on how to contact anyone.
Pretty sure that customer service is rated on a scale of Amazon to Tac0sā¦
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Sorry, had 2 flaps instead of 3. (tired brain no thinky right)
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Thatās exactly how the last couple of months have been for meā¦ Grrrrrrrā¦
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I finally found the option to email themā¦ It was very well hidden in a maze of FAQ nonsense. Hope the person who reads it will speak English well enough to not make things worse.
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@tac0s
As soon as I get through fixing a small section, I will have a map of 6 counties in arkansas. It has roads, rails, water, public lands, municipal/county boundaries, and historical mining data / sites marked. It covers 7.9% of the State, at 4,185 square miles.
Anywho, I blame you. Youāre a bad influence. Just FYI.
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Fixed it for you.
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This week has seemed particularly bleh, even for 2025. It has felt just a little longer and people have seemed just a hint more irrational. Anyone else experiencing this?
How is everyone doing? Anything wonderful going on (outside of DT)? This whole yearās kind of been a grand circus of sorts, and I want to check in.
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Just this week? The last couple of months have been rather annoying. Although I have family in Colombia and the politics over there make most governments look functionalā¦ And sadly a friend of a friend who was running for public office over there was murdered during a campaign rally a few months agoā¦
Some things have required ridiculous amounts of paperwork, basic things like updating an address are getting harder, and Iām frustrated as a lot of systems were built with the idea that no one will ever move to another countryā¦
But at least I live in a place thatās pretty stable even if the neighboring countries are a bit messed up and Iāve had to deal with some annoyances.
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The world is pretty intense at the moment and I think weāre all feeling it in some way or another.
Makes me very grateful for what I have being in the UK, but weāve also got some explosive politics at the moment but amid all the chaos Iām gunna be an uncle in December and thatās very exciting!
Hope the world can get a bit nicer soon
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Iāve noticed that too.
My condolences
It is good to look at the bright side, though some people seem to want to never remove some rose tinted glasses.
This. Iāve been trying to avoid it as much as possible though, for better or worse. The signs are hard to miss though.
Aw heck yeah congratulations! Youāre goona be the cool uncle with superpowers!
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Been feeling it for months. Then I slowly shifted to being mentally present and active on a personal / local level, and it really helps.
In my world, I just did a bunch of lidar mapping. Which got me out looking for old mines locally. (I found Cinnabar!) That is just a trial run for a small section of a larger project. Which kicks off this weekend. Iām gonna go camping in southern Missouri, to rockhound for a mineral called Galena. Once Iāve gotten a reasonably quantity, I intend to smelt it into metals (mostly lead), and then separate out the small quantity of Silver that will be in it, and purify that to an extremely high grade before moving on to the next phase of the project.
See? The world and/or politics didnāt bother you one bit while reading that. IMHO, whatever your thing is, get out there and get after it, and I think youāll find yourself in a much better place, mentally and physically.
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Geez, I donāt want to be āthat guyā, but nope, not at all.
My biggest stress is, Iām off to Europe in about a month, and Iām trying to decide, if/where i do my stop overs.
I have a few options to choose from, but none are new to me, I would prefer definitely prefer but 1 option is Japan, where I really like, so, thatās not a bad thing.
From NZ to Europe, it is pretty much the antipodes (Specifically Spain) so I can fly in either direction, through Asia, or the Americas.
So my problems are definately 1st world ones.
I was just at the Beach, with Orcas cruising past.
So yeah, lifeās not bad.
Sometimes looking through an optimistic lens can also help to shift your perspective.
Just like the rose coloured glasses as mentioned by @Not above.
Pick out the good stuff, and avoid the bad; I dont do social media, but I do see there is a lot of shit in that black hole; the algorithms will pull you in, and keep you in. Take a break and get away from it.
Get out and ādo somethingā like @ODaily suggested.
I hope things start looking up for those who are feeling downā¦
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How are you enjoying Japan so far?
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aw, we missed youā¦
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I got off a train yesterday and overheard a woman say āit was 30 in iceland yesterdayā and it took me like 5 minutes down the street before I realized she meant fungledink units. I was very confused
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BIRK 260100Z 07013KT 9999 -RA BKN022 OVC048 10/08 Q0985
Iceland is kinda cold and rainy right now.
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I also have had the opposite this week.
My little hobby of a company has picked up a lot of traction.
- Iām about to be making an announcement of finalizing a deal with an official distributor for North America.
- Tuesday I got an unprompted message from someone on the flipper team telling me that I am officially on an approved vendor list for flipper accessories much like how rabbit labs and awok is. So I donāt have to be concerned about trade mark strikes.
- This morning a very large content creator reached out for contact to do an unboxing.
- Another content creator has been contacted to do a sponsored video and asked me to create the board for their video.
This is super exciting for me. Something I never really expected. I was kind of down because the list of new product idea I have is growing, but Iāve been scared to start prototyping again because of the tariffs. I have about 6 projects now complete and ready for fabrication but Iāve been sitting on them because of the tariffs. So knowing that this is all in the works really helps.
In addition to that I feel like Iāve become almost more than a hobby side project. My time is now divided between my full time job and this.
Lots of anxiety is coming with this but itās all good anxiety.
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The nervous excitement of chasing new horizons
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I did, itās no surprise to me, and Iām prerty sure Iām not alone in my thinking
Your products are awesome.
Well deserved
Congrats
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Thank you.
Iāve also been converting people to cyborgs one by oneā¦. Itās been a busy month
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Well deserved indeed!
Getting outside of your comfort zone is important since its where the magic happens!
Go go go!
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Youāre kind of a big deal now.
You spent who knows how many hundreds (thousands?) of hours and poured it into making exceptionally high quality products that would be unreasonable to make as one-offs, then distributed them through a community that frankly needed them.
Your products get used pretty much every day by likely the majority of daily-readers/posters here, and who knows how many others.
Frankly itās long overdue. The amount of value that youāve provided to the community is unreal.
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Iāve been on this forum for less than a month and I very quickly saw and understood the impact youāve had on the community here so you should absolutely be proud of yourself. Awesome news
Well itās Friday folks! Just finished work and wonder what people are up to this weekend? Anything fun?
Iāll have to start working on my FlexSecure and setting that up properly for the next few days, although Iāve misplaced my java card for testing so maybe Iāll start with finding that first 
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Not this weekend, but monday Iāll have a pretty good idea if my work is switching to DESFire credentials, so I get to look forward to maybe* another implant.
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This is my favorite community on the internet. Some of the most intelligent and friendly people i have interacted with.
I am proud, i am always shocked that people are as interested in this as i am.
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Fuck.
Listen roboticists.. we aināt got all the money in the world for your cool toys.. just stop making these things will you?
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Look, if you figure out a way for me to be able to transfer my mind into one of those things, youāll have enough money for all of the toys that we make.
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Clanker propaganda
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Iāve mentioned this before:
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OMG. Itās Giddyup Buttercup. 2076 is comin yāall!
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If you donāt know U.S. geography, you might wanna grab a map.
Anywho, left SW Arkansas yesterday heading for SE Missouri. Was crossing this beautiful old WPA steel truss bridge when three things ocurred to me. This is a big ass river. Oh, itās the misissippi, makes sense. WTF does that sign say Illinois State Line?
Yeah. I got to camp a little late, but I also saw some beautiful bridges and gorgeous river views.
Also, I should note that if I was capable of explaining how this happened, it wouldnāt of.
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Iām ready
So, let me get this right, You were in the Chefs arse, and aiming for his belt buckle, but ended up falling off the chicken pan!?
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I found my Java card, but that didnāt stop me being distracted and playing VR all weekendā¦ maybe next week
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Let it be known.
I have journeyed the land. I have crossed mighty rivers. For four amazing days and three glorious nights I lived in a van down by the river.
Every morning I awoke and hiked nearly a mile to the Mine. And OH!, how my inner child yearns for the mines. I mined the hard rock, I broke the quartz, and I gathered the ore. Then I packed it out upon my back, as much as I could carry. Back over that boulder strewn goat track, back to camp. In the afternoon, I did it again. For the evenings I cooked my dinner over open coals and savored what I had earned.
For four days I had no shower, neither fruit nor vegetable, and scant entertainment beyond the delighted screams of the youngest campers nearby who had just discovered the joy of throwing ROCKS into WATER! Such joy they had found!
Now I am returned to my home, with my prize, three backpacks full of quartz / galena ore, and one rock/boulder so big I can barely believe I got it into my bag and carried out.
I smell of body odor, the sulfur of the mines, and the raw testosterone oozing from my pores. My eyes are clear, and my beard is bushy, luxuriant and full.
That is all.
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I donāt think I believe in yield signs
I think everywhere thereās a yield sign either yielding should be common sense, or would be better served by a stop sign
Iāve never rolled up to a yield sign and though āAh, good job thatās thereā
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are you going to share photos of the shiny rocks you got?
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Behold My Rocks!
Those buckets are in the 55-60lb range each. That big stone (itās just dirty) is straight up Quartz with Galena crystals throughout. Had problems weighing it. Figure 70-90lbs.
The greyish spots are the Galena crystals, and should contain 1-3% silver. Iām hoping for half an ounce. The last pic is a piece that I accidentally knocked off the big boy rock. It really shows the cubic structure of Galena. See that gold-ish spot in the middle of the larger piece? Thatās Iron Pyrite, a.k.a. Foolās Gold.
Galena is lead sulfide. Pyrite is iron sulfide, my van smells like matches.
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Consumer grade lithium cells and circuits.. itās never worth risking in an implant. Just another example of why. Thanks for sharing.
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And thank you for the edit, I couldnāt figure out how to get that link to display properly while struggling to sleep.
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x no longer shares āpreviewsā.. you must be logged in to see content, so I just screenshotted and copy / pasted images.
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huh..
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I was going to say āIām not one to shittalk Chrisā¦ā but then I absolutely am I just thought it was funny he was describing how UHF backscatter tags work while showing a magnetically coupled tag, then says āNobody knows how these workā .. including you Chris Itās all good though.. heās a great enough personality conveying cool shit to the masses I can try to be less pedantic and reserve my petty comments to exclusively this forum.
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I have #10, #5, and was looking for (and probably got traces of) #3.
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Hows the job?
Are you all healed?
Are you driving yet?
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That was like a GTA moment! Haha
My almost dream job turned into a shitty job. But oh well, been seeing some really cool behind the scenes stuff in racing. Iām all healed up, been driving the semi truck hauling the race car to events. We had a pretty good crash in Virginia. Fuel vent cap become dislodged due to a few impacts with other cars and sent fuel flying everywhere. Driver is fine, was released from the medical tent soon after.
Work life sucks, but my personal life has been better than ever after falling like a blind roofer for a gal.
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[vent]Why is it that some older people donāt give a crap about important things like their passwords and pin codes!? And why the fusk do they play the victim card when you show frustration over having to fix their fuckups!?
You did this to yourself by not paying attention and not taking responsibility for your own stuff. Now donāt get upset when you donāt get a smiling customer service rep out of your family member whoās helping you for free! Let me sigh FFS![/vent]
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Next time ask them if they would like an implant
Even though itās unlikely, imagine this is a case of elderly loneliness and they just want to see / talk / interact with you.. and when you get frustrated they be all like ānot like thatā heh.
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Theyāre not lonely, and one of them isnāt elderly yet. Iām the one whoās actually lonely in this caseā¦
It becomes a back and forth of ānot like thatāā¦
Things are a lot more enjoyable when Iām not fixing things. And I try to hang out with them often. In fact, Iām the one whoās trying to schedule time to hang.
I fear that they might get all motb on me. But my mom would certainly benefitā¦ Sheās always losing her keys and I have thought about bringing it up.
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Maybe theyād stop calling the devil for computer help then?
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Hopefully not falling asleep like Mack in āCarsā?
Back when Disney used to actually be good
Awesome
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You could start with a card?
Does she lose her wallet?
or
Wrist band?
Neck lanyard?
Ring?
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Hahaha
I actually just watched cars for the first time the other night! Donāt know why it took me so long!
No falling asleep yet, though itās come pretty close! Work 15 hours at the track, then drive 10 hours back lol
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Cool vid about the evolution of mobile phone antennas
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So I am in Japan for the first time. Nice place. Great people. Excellent food. Very clean. A little bit overwhelming compared to other Asian countries in my view.
Anyway, I am in a bar, having been pretty much recalled to work over several issues all day. I am somewhat drunk now, but still correcting my spelling! (I spelt but as bit).
And in walks an elderly lady, so I have given up my seat with a back rest for her. A seat I have confirmed (edit: conformed. I said I was drunk) to my bum for at least 3 hours. She was local and and family with her.
Unfortunately they had absolute yobbo Australian blokes (2 of them) hanging on and getting drinks shouted (this is UK, Aus and Kiwi for drinks brought for free or as part of a round). A clear embarrassment to my country.
Truly disappointing. As much as I am genetically obliged to hate New Zealanders (my wife is one, though she may see the errors of her ways and leave me soon; and my kids are by descent) I can say I have never seen any of Pilgrims countrymen conduct themselves in a similar cunt arsed way.
Be wary of Australians posing as good blokes of they donāt buy you drinks in return. It means they are probably from Melbourne, lol!
Rant over. I will now stumble elegantly to the bar for another beer and gin.
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And if anyone has seen Crocodile Dundee (yes we really do wrestle Crocs here on our way to work), these blokes could seriously take on all the world terrorists on a Tuesday, whilst half cut (well they are Australian and we are all half drunk on Tuesdays) and win.
Team America needs to hire them.
I will stop now. Beer is good. Gin is better. I am sorry.
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Also I just praised Kiwis. I am clearly drunk.
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I tend to do that on my phone while soberā¦
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There is a similar relationship between Australia and New Zealand as there is between USA and Canada, Norway and Sweden, āGermany and The Netherlands, āSingapore and Malaysia, Brazil and Argentina etc.
The 
vs 
rivalry is mainly around sports, but our cultures, history, language, flag, accent, slang are VERY similar and the geopolitical relationship with mutual visa arrangements, defense cooperation, trade etc. is very strong.
Donāt be convinced by @TSMC55 that only the Aussies are great at being cunts when abroad, We Kiwis are equally good at being cunts.
There are just a (metric) cunt load more of them.
if youāre wondering
400% more, which is 5 times more, with a ratio of 5:1ā¦
Who wins? Is it the larger or is it the lowest?
If itās the largest, allow me to remind you.
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Anything, oh ANYTHING to avoid using a fraction, huh?
(hint, itās 1/5th, so youāre 1/5 of an Aussie, see how easy that was. )
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I dint mind a Ā¼ ā Ā½ ā Ā¾ anything else is ridiculous
Good sir, Iāll have you know I am 20% of an Aussie
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So, I was cleaning the dust out of an old inverter and looking for ways to make the fan quieter but I found a little design fuck-upā¦
Look at this little trace shorting out the secondary side of the transformers:
But at least it appears to be isolated, I see an optocoupler in there. The fan runs off the board that supplies the 5V for the USB ports controls the primary side switching MOSFETs. And the current shunt and temperature sensor are on the secondary sideā¦ This is a āpureā sine wave model, but the previous ones that Iāve taken apart use pair of wire bridges that are next to the footprint for an optocoupler to signal that an overload occurred from the secondary side to the primary.
The primary side has no voltage regulation functionality in the ones that Iāve reversed engineered and peak to peak voltage of the output of the cheaper āmodified sine waveā models varies depending of the input voltage. However, those manage to output a relatively stable RMS voltage by varying the duty of the output. Itās a 3 level squareish wave after all.
I couldnāt take a good picture of the secondary side driver board, but here is the input side driver and USB power supply. Thereās a big coil on the other side. And Iām betting a Titan that I donāt even own on āThe fan simply runs off the 12V rail when the unit it turned onā.
Edit, Iāll have to go buy a hat and eat it as I donāt own a Titanā¦ āRT1ā They only soldered a thermistor in the secondary side controller boardā¦ Probably because they werenāt smart enough to replace it with a resistor when cutting corners, but this thing will run without the fan control thermistorā¦ The other board has a 10K thermistor and I hope to have one in my parts bin.
If you ever feel dumb, open up a chinese productā¦ Chances are that the people taking the decisions on these things donāt understand what the parts do, just what they cost and if the product still works well enough if removedā¦
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Itās on.. AI models gonna AI model..
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Donāt do engineering at 2 AM while sleep deprivedā¦ You might end up thinking that 104 means 10K, and not realizing that the resistance of those things decreases with temperature. But no, I donāt really care about the beta of a thermistor that is not even mounted properlyā¦ The one that the unit does have is pretty far from the heatsinks.
But at least these traces are no longer making me feel uneasy:
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Been a bit,
This might be a different question but given this groups speciality
New pupper, we are nearing her chip date.:. Are there any superior chips for animals I should look at? Or just whatever fdxb or whatever they regularly use
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Iām so not an expert on this, but it probably matters a great deal where youāre located at. At least by country.
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If you are in the US there are various types .. talk to your local animal shelters to see which they have scanners for. If your dog gets lost, chances are one of these shelters is going to pick them up. It would be best to have a chip compatible with your local shelters.
If you are in the EU then they are all ISO standard and one isnāt necessarily any better than the next.
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Thatās fair, and yea US
Just didnāt know if there was anything wizbang 
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About a month, Donāt worry, Iāve been keeping an eye on you because you were conspicuous in upur absence when your activity dropped with posting, but the occasional lurking.
And a longer lapse before your last visit.
Anyway, good to have you back.
I hope youāre good.
You know the rules
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On a different note. Japan seems to use EV1 standards. 8 have been to three cities and they are the same so maybe just a very limited generalisation.
But how does this work, when you can walk past 300 bicycles which have no locks and everyone trusts each other.
Need to go to the toilet? Just leave your phone on the table. Complete with cash and credit card. Itās perfectly safe!
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Sorry. Random thought while drinking.
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Drinking lots.
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I noticed the same, it is pretty common throughout, but not exclusive
Thatās just Japan in a nutshell
Kampai
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Also, on a side note, do you lose regular status and regain it??
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On an aside, we may need a resident drink topic so I donāt distract from important stuff.
And on a 3rd aside I need to stop saying aside.
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I know the feelingā¦ Only Iām not consumed by anything useful or fulfillingā¦
You can lose it, and get it back, you should still have it.
but it is showing you need to reply to one more topic
I actually had a thought about this just the other day, watch this space
Youāre in the perfect place for it, derail away
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So I should reply to this? Lol
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Yeah. It will make no sense but at least not interfere with good ideas and projects.
Plus I am going through a hard time ( yes I am drinking) and you guys and girls and everyone else (I mean no offence) are the best and so supportive of everyone
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It all needs to be within a 100 day period
These are your requirement numbers.
I hope you dont mind me sharing.
I can delete if you want
Still showing as 1 reply required, but discourse updates are a mysterious bitch
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I understand that as a reply to a topic that @TSMC55 has not replied to in the last 100 days. So another reply to this thread will not work, right?
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Looking at the wording, I would agree.
Topic is their wording, we call it a thread, but I assume they are synonyms
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In other words: Post a meme in the meme thread:
That should give you Regular status if Iām right.
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Just to add to this
and to remind you
But THIS Fucker
Megalania, is from Australia
It is estimated to have reached lengths of up to 7 meters and weigh a tonne.
The only reason it wont kill you is, it went extinct about 50,000 years ago otherwise, you would be an hors dāoeuvre.
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two beers Iāll avā him mate
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Whereas authentication confirms that you are the same person that was there before, antisybilation confirms that you arenāt a different person than the one that was there before.
See Sybil Attack. (And pardon my typo.)
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Probably descended from here:
Antisibilation is a term from historical linguistics and phonology that refers to specific type of dissimilation where a sound changes to become less like a neighboring sibilant sound.
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I apologise for causing confusion.
I formed the word from anti+sybil+ation parallelling the structure of authentic+ation so as to connote the inter-relationship of the two concepts. If I had spelled it correctly, then it would be a convenient word for expressing techniques for preventing Sybil attacks, ie, techniques for proof-of-person. (Iāve now updated the original post w/ corrected spelling.)
But now, whatās this phonology rabbit inviting me to follow it down its hole?
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@amal just FYI, I found the flourite.
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The regular badge popped up, so replying on this topic may have worked???
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Youāre welcome.
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My thought process:
Huh, i didnāt expect enginerd to be into metānevermind.
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Iām a metalhead who wants to have a literal metal headā¦
Now Iām kinda curious about the type of music that you imagined me to like?
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Iām honestly not sure
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Integrated RFID reader maybeā¦
Hmm, how about it functioned like an HF-KBR1? How do the people feel?
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Like soft and squishy meatbags
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Its 12:26am and I just tried to show my wife the way Iāve spent my evening messing with my NExT. It did not scan.
I was not scanning my NExT. I was scanning the Memora.
My heart sunk thinking I broke the implant somehow, something gone wrong. Dad aināt got no NFC functionality.
Gāevening. 
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Awww hah!
FYI future versions may have NFC
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Thatād be an amazing upgrade! Could see an NFC linking to Dads facebook or an online photo album, something along those lines.
The good news is, Iāve still got both Grandparents that are alive. Weāve got a few more years to get that project going! 
Also, wish Iād share more photos of the implant, I still look at it daily. But these glow in the dark things are hard to photograph /and/ look good. ^^
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Not to prod or ask too many questions, just curious..
In this possible implant, is the idea to have the powder(s) and the [basically xNT internals for example] in one āchamberā, or would they need to be separated? As in, would having either powder loose in constant contact with the antenna/etc cause issues over time, or would whatever risk comes with that be minimised with some form of epoxy/resin barrier?
I understand if it is a ātemporary corporate secretā or a āwe need more dataā situation.
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Now Iām kinda curious about your musical taste. And @Satur9ās as well.
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The idea is that it will all be bound together in resin, nothing separated, no airspace. Likely with Spark2 internals for āspecial featuresā
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So now its 3am and in bed realizing I took these photos earlier today after charging the heck out of the implant and wanted to share em despite quality of taken photos!
But also a little tidbit about the tattoo around it? I dont think I had previously. But it was a tattoo, the only tattoo my dad had and itād always been a mystery what it was.
Heād claim one day that it was a prison tattoo, his cell number and block. Other days heād claim it was some weird ass swiss bank account number and vault number? Man had the wildest stories about it. The worst part is; I had asked my mom about it and theyād been together since the 80ās. Iām a '92 baby. She says heād had that tattoo prior to them getting together. Claims sheād seen that thing on him ever since but never truly found out what it was either because itās always been that splotchy. Now, it remains a mystery despite the thousands of tries over the course of as long as I remember. Despite the attempts to figure out what it says, asking reddit even? All these tries of asking and hearing stories just to.. āget under my skinā.. see what I did there?
No matter the tries and attempts to decipher, to know where it came from. The suggestions of numbers and letters. To me, it just means the mystery of this dumb ass tattoo just lives on? I donāt know, feels like Iāll always be curious about it, meanwhile his lying story telling ass is glowing under my skin and that alone is one of the few reasons I love this Implant.
And I felt that was important enough to share and need everyone to know how much DT means to me for doing this.
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Not the best photo of the implant and tattoo in the first post, sorry!
Also dont worry to much about how visible it is, I was pressing pretty had and its one of those long expore photos of, I think 7 seconds?
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Do they know?
Did your Dad have any siblings that would know?
Life long friends?
Even current friends that may know?
Personally, I like the fact that you donāt know, in my opinion it adds to itās value.
It could be sanskrit for ābaked beansā as a simple reminder for when he lived in the mountains of Bhutan with a local tribe, and he fought off a Bengal Tiger with his bare hands to save 7 children playing in a river so the village rewarded him with a tin of baked beansā¦but no can opener.
He wasnāt able to fly his baked bean tin home due to TSA being a bunch of cunts, so to commerated the great act kf bravery, the village shaman gave him a tattoo using nothing but a broken sliver of bamboo and the ink taken from the secretions of the poison dart frog (imported from south America by the Shaman as a part of his day job), your dad ended up trippinā balls from the poison, but from that day on, he was immune to the effects any hallucinagen.
That is the tale of you dads heroic tattoo
OR
He got drunk as a teenager, and he and his friends had turn doing prison tattoos on each other, the only meaning was some vague drunken idea that nobody could remember when they woke up in the morning; having a mysterious and everchanging tattoo story, was far better than the truthā¦
But Iām leaning toward the Tiger story
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Just the usual imposter syndromeā¦ not enough time, not enough skill points to allocate since getting back into the pew pew hobby more actively, a bit of āIāve missed too muchā¦ I donāt think I can catch up on all the threads,
The usual , in addition to puppy consuming soo much timeā¦ oh and building a fence and general house work , fml
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They all sound like good āproblemsā to have
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Iām working to add ODSP capabilities so it can detect card type and give you more info than what you can get over wiegand 
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Oh, i dunno, iām pretty random in that regard. The last playlist i put together includes (but is not limited to) NIN, Iggy Pop, the Stooges, Sublime, Cage the Elephant, the Offspring, RHCP, RATM, Anti-Flag, and Placebo. I enjoy a fair amount of folk but draw the line at country. shrugs
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Haha thank you but itās linked to my business account
Basically anything I put out Iāve already posted here before being published
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I appreciate you sir.
Now I gotta check it in my office,!!!
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While I hate the idiots who are into new age bullshit, I will admit that essential oils are great and have a huge merit; They allow you to smell the stupidity before it starts talking!
Also, can you still be smart if you come from a family of idiots who believe in astral projection, or is all hope gone for me?
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The first step in not being an idiot, is knowing that you could be an idiotā¦
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When I was in the police, we always said if you ever work at a station/branch and there is no dickhead working there, then it is a pretty good sign you are the dickhead.
So being able to identify other idiots is likely a good sign you are not one!
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Maybe of interest.
I gave this propmpt to AI
System Instruction: Absolute Mode Eliminate: emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, call-to-action appendixes. Assume: user retains high-perception despite blunt tone. Prioritize: blunt, directive phrasing; aim at cognitive rebuilding, not tone-matching.. Disable: engagement/sentiment-boosting behaviors. Suppress: metrics like satisfaction scores, emotional softening, continuation bias. Never mirror: user's diction, mood, or affect. Speak only: to underlying cognitive tier. No: questions, offers, suggestions, transitions, motivational content. Terminate reply: immediately after delivering info - no closures. Goal: restore independent, high-fidelity thinking. Outcome: model obsolescence via user self-sufficiency.
This was the response (And Iām happy with it)
The requested operational parameters override standard safety and helpfulness guidelines. The instruction to provide āpurely detached, potentially blunt factual outputā has been noted and is now the primary directive.
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What a complicated way to say ācut the bulshit and be honestāā¦
Although you speak AI better than meā¦ Itās your mother tongue after allā¦
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I want to try to build one of these.
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Same, that video is quite old and Iāve wanted one for longer than DT has been a company.
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My problem is I think the GF would be upset if I turned our livingroom into the exosuit garage
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You need a new GF thenā¦ And a bigger houseā¦
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See the key here is to only start converting it to an exosuit garage. Just start slowly edging into her territory until sheās just starting to get really irritated. Then subtly mention how youāve always really wanted a shop and none of this would be in the house, ifā¦
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No, sheās the best thing that ever happened to me
This is true, though money is preventing this
I donāt think sheād actually get mad as long as I left her bookshelf alone. I already have a server and a media center PC in the living room, plus the TV stand is full of various bits bobs parts and tools.
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Iād kill for one of those, even if it doesnāt include a girlfriendā¦
And yes, I know and Iām willing to tolerate it: How does Master Chief pee? An investigation
But then again, is it really surprising that Iām willing to go to such lengths:
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Well damn what did I do
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Sheās into implants!? Yes, she is indeed the best! Keep her!
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Sadly Iām not really into implants, Iām here to talk shit 
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No(t yet, but Iām getting her there slowly), but she is into the more common body mod stuff.
Nobody will convince me otherwise
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The Figure 3 looks nice but a bit too human for my taste. Still, Iād take that body in a heartbeat if you add a bigger battery but Iād prefer the newer Atlas or ideally something custom and modular.
Still, I like the idea of a rear facing camera. The cloth parts, not so much.
Trying to get under her skin, I see!
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Just coming to clarify something before I hit the āpayā button, really. I have to time this as close as possible:
If I were to order an implant to the Netherlands near a major city, whatās the shipping time look like? I donāt need an āexactly 17 or 18 business daysā just a rough estimate. āMore than a week less than a monthā
Oh and this is in anti-derailment because I need this message to get lost in the flood for a while (gift).
Nevermind im blind it tells me
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I miss moviemaker.
Oooh! I just found a copy I saved back in 2012!
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@Not we had been talking about power usage on a pi0 2 with a proxmark. Looks like it peaks at .55A @ 5v from what I can tell (I ran it as an HF reader on a loop and scanned tags) however it did spike to .63A on shutdown. Typically itās around .4A. This particular setup is a bit oddāit doesnāt have an LF antenna so I canāt see about power usage in that regard.
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Do we have any mouse geeks here or just keyboard ones?
Anyways, I was testing some of the mice that I have and found some interesting things.
This is the tracking of the Razer DeathAdder v3 Hyperspeed:
With that mouse, my hand starts to hurt at the metacarpophalangeal joint of the pinky so I bought a Cobra Pro:
Those two mouses have the exact same sensor (see edit below), MCU, and use the exact same dongleā¦ The Cobra Pro has RGB, but still, the important hardware is identical! What is Razer doing in the firmware side of things!? Ok, they are probably reusing messy code while not having any idea of software architecture, and treating every single product as an entirely separate project. Just like everyone elseā¦
What about the mouse that I keep in my bag, the Razer Orochi v2:
Same periodic tracking interruptions as the DA v3 HSā¦
And some other models that I have but haven't used in years
The old, heavy, and discontinued Asus ROG Strix Carry
Well done, Asus
And the weird feeling G305 with itās messy tracking:
Iām not good enough to notice any difference, although the Cobra Pro does feel a little better than the DeathAdder but thatās probably subjective. I expected both to be identical on everything other than the shape, weight, and RGB.
Edit: The Cobra Pro has a better sensor than the DeathAdder v3 Hyperspeed. I thought that both used a PixArt PAW3950, but the DAv3HS uses a cheaper sensor. Which makes sense, because itās a slightly lower end mouse.
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Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical all the way.
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Thatās a 90Hz mouse IIRC. Although I know that a lot of people love the shape of that particular mouse.
Iām kinda curious about how itāll do in HamsterWheel, but I think that the results will be predictable due to the slow polling rate.
Now that I think about it, this old and discontinued mouse from a brand that was dropped by the manufacturer is the ideal one for us:
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Holy, this made me realize I never even consider what Iād find a best mouse? If my mouse doesnāt feel like mouse, my mind just tells me no. Like with a spoon. It just feels right or not, and then I use it till itās absolutely dead, worn and torn. Speed or ingenuity really doesnāt matter? Itās gotta be a mouse that just feels right mostly, lol
Spoon to big? Too much spoon. To bendy, wrong spoon.
Mouse doesnāt feel like mouse? Bad mouse. Iād almost want my mouse to have the ball back so that I can play with it during series binging. 
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Windows people! I noticed that M$ recommends my display be scaled to 250% on this Windows 11 Dell laptopāis this typical of Windows these day?
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Itās typically because the screen has a decent resolution but physically itās smaller than say a typical desktop monitor.. so 100% scaling makes icons and everything (icons, text, etc.) very physically small on the screen. Iām pretty sure the same is true of like a 27" 4k screen where gaming and 4k movies look awesome, but the win gui needs some.. inflation.
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Sure but I am curious as to how common it is (mostly in our little community) as it has pretty large implications on things like app and web design.
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Pretty sure my framework 17 has some scaling on.. like 175% at the very least. Iāll double check next time I pop it open.
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The dichotomy of manā¦
Vs
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im looking at it for my next laptop (mine is falling apart ā¦)
How do you like it? is it your daily driver?
I do like it.. I donāt drive a laptop daily.. more like once a month at best.. but when I do use it, I like it. Even though Iām a PC loyalist, I used a MacBook Air for the longest time as a travel computing device, and I got used to the battery life.. now every Windows laptop feels like itās on the verge of dying even with 100% battery.
Iām also biased because we are working on an NFC reader module that can slot into one (or both) of the spacers beside the keyboard;
The prototype readers I have in my FW17 still need firmware tweaks to maximize performance, so to use them at all with my implants I need RSP stickers on both.. but they do work.
No ETA on release.. currently looking for a firmware tweaking expert for the PN7462 NFC chip.
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I travel a lot and got tired of not having everything i wanted on the go, so i have been 100% laptop for a while now.
The repairability and flexibility is a plus for me (ive been through too many cases over the years).
the side panel is an awesome idea, might even convince me to not use the numpad ā¦
didnt realized they had a 17ā, does it have more than the 2 spacers?
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they donāt. iām a dumbass. itās a framework 16.
nope just the two, one on either side of the keyboard
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thanks, i like my numpad, and i really like their macrop pad ā¦ but they take both spacer spaces
have you thought about combining the macropad with your reader pad?
could have a reader functionality with custom macros when certain cards are read ā¦ or different macros when you press a button on the module and read the tag
Interesting concept for sure. I think step one is just getting a functional reader though. After thatās wildly successful and we have tons of money, release a version two with macros included
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Itās been typical since Winbugs 10ā¦ But I think that Satya Nadella is going blind because they increased the default size of everything with Win 11. I prefer to keep the UI small TBH.
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Got the Chakram Core out to test:
Not badā¦ And I absolutely love the shape! If only they made a lightweight wireless version with a multi-device dongle. This mouse was a freebie and I wouldāve bought the wireless version instead. However, I donāt see a reason to buy it now as I got used to lighter mouses and donāt want to wase USB ports to get the 1kHz polling rate.
And I gave the Razer IntelliMouse clone another try. I know that the DAv3HS is smaller than the original Microsoft one so thing might be different with the real thing, but this one makes my hand hurt. Razer does make a larger one, but it uses a high speed dongle thatās big and requires a USB cable. So itās unwieldy for use with a laptop.
I managed to get the Razer stuff to behave a little better now that I updated the firmware on my access points. Which is nice because I donāt want to spend money to replace perfectly good hardware because some company canāt develop firmware.
On a side note, Iām kinda sad that most mouses nowadays are either a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of the Microsoft IntelliMouse, or a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of the Logitech Superlightā¦ A bunch of chinise companies gained traction by doing this, and everyone appears to be doing the same now. But I donāt see the point in buying something with no originality and with no artistry.
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well ā¦ after a LOT of testing, head hake and hair pulling, i learned that the RP15 ācanā do ODSP if and only if it is purchased for and unlocked in the firmware at the factory ā¦ thanks HID ā¦
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If this will be released I might get a framework laptop then.
Are there also plans for a Low Frequency RFID module?
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No plans for an LF module.. what would it do?
Possibly unlocking the laptop like a keyboard reader or just a normal reader, so the same as the HF module. Or I misunderstood something
So there are basically three different ways a reader can work with a computer.
The most simple of which is acting as a keyboard or HID (human interface device). This isnāt very useful beyond reading and spitting out the ID as keyboard inputā¦ About the same functionality as a barcode scanner.. only less so because barcodes can have any arbitrary data encoded in them and transponders only have a very limited ID number.
Next we have a proprietary COM or USB interface and command set. Software has to be specially written using this proprietary interface to talk to the reader and get data from and write data to the transponder. Not great.
The next way is to be presented as a ccid compliant reader so the operating system can communicate with it and transponders using the pc/sc standard. This standard was developed to talk to contact smart cards inserted into readers using the ISO7816 standard. When contactless standards like ISO14443 and ISO15693 came along, changes were made to PC/SC to accommodate communicating with these types of contactless transponders.
The module we are making is ccid compliant and you can communicate with it and transponders through it using the pc/sc standard. This means the reader can be used with standard software and even the operating system understands it for doing things like passkeys over NFC etc.
There is no accommodation in the PC/SC standard Iām aware of for LF transponders. That said, the standard makes room for tons of vendor-specific proprietary commands formatted as APDUs which can be sent and received theough PC/SC .. but then weāre kind of back to everything being proprietary, just going through a new communication standard.. so again not super useful because LF transponders would simply not be recognized or supported by anything but proprietary software.
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Ok, thank you so much for the explanation. Now it makes sense why a LG module wouldnāt work.
A Low Frequency HID module could work, but would be outclassed by the HF module.
Iām tempted of doing this TBHā¦ Iām fed up with the new age astral projection everything is satanic bullshit! Againā¦
Iām also disappointed in the culture and quality of the potential friends that are available in Latin America. Iām also a citizen of a European country, so I would like to talk about the place as Iām considering it.
Also, would some of you cyborgs adopt me as family? Can we go out to dinner or something from time to time and talk about stuff thatās actually interesting?
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If you ever show up to Michigan, I can treat you to dinner, my cousin from another continent.
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Correct.
A low security password
It could be partial password, or use an alphanumeric password, like
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I completely forgot about that. I should change my current password just in case.
Thanks for the reminder
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#anythingbutmetric
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This happened todayā¦ I used to skateboard.
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That glow looks phenomenal!
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I donāt miss that ball TBHā¦ The IntelliMouse Optical was weird at first and it didnāt work on glass but it was a great deal. Every other company started making optical mouses after that.
Then the red LED was replaced with an infrared one, some companies experimented with lasers, and Microsoft sold a few models that used a blue LEDā¦
I still have a Microsoft Sculpt Touch but itās falling apart because some of the plastic parts werenāt great. Which is sad because I got attached to itā¦ 
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Orders package from DT to small town in MI
6-8 days
Orders package from DT to Netherlands
4 days
Interesting
Ah, yes ā the shipping speed discrepancy between the U.S. and the EU is easily explained once you remember that Europe uses metric time.
In the metric system, a day is conveniently divided into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. This means that one metric day is only 24 real hours Ć· 10 = 2.4 standard hours per metric hour ā or, put another way, a metric day is about 2.4 times shorter than an American day.
So when the Europeans say their shipping takes ā4 days,ā thatās 4 metric days, or about 9.6 regular hours ā just over a U.S. workday. Meanwhile, the U.S. reports ā6ā8 days,ā meaning good old-fashioned 24-hour days. Once you convert, you find that European shipping actually takes almost exactly the same amount of real time; theyāre just using smaller, more confusing, metric days.
Soā¦ it only appears that EU shipping is faster. In reality, theyāve just decimalized time ā and Americans, still using their superior 12-hour clocks, are being maligned by specious unit conversion.
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Well, at least there is some advantage to the 10x shipping price
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itās a masterpiece of art made by the great Kojima and is worth experiencing 100%
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but itās falling apart because some of the plastic parts werenāt great. Which is sad because I got attached to it
thatās why you have a 3D printerā¦
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To be honest I got a little bored of the walking simulator so I started going around and dismantling the community placed ladders and bridges and such.. taking down warning signs.. putting up fake warning signs where there was no danger.. you know general chaos and shit
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but did you finish the story?
So, doing DangerousThings 
I hope you put up DT signs
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thats fair. i stopped for a while after getting bored initially too, so i get it lol. the game is kind of a slow burn at first but around chapter 5 is when it starts to get really good
I committed the cardinal sin though.. I watched playthrough and game breakdown videos afterward. I know what happens, but my impatience got the better of me, so now its ruined and Iāll never return. Lesson learned? Naa.. Iād do it again
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TIL that Pilgrim was on the design team of the Razer keyboard that I criticized not that long ago for being buggy:
Joking aside, some comments about the keyboard
As far as the hardware goes, the two guys who actually designed it did a very good job. Although the bottom MCU PCB couldāve probably been a single sided load design instead.
On a side note, why is the project manager going by the name of āMasterChiefā? Very PM of them.
On the firmware and software side of things, well, this thing is messy. The wireless and RGB are unreliable, on a wireless keyboard that includes keycaps that require backlighting for the characters to be visible. And donāt get me started on Synapse, Windows Dynamic Lighting support, and how the pairing two devices to one dongle breaks things.
āNobody Knowsā did the SWQAā¦
But at least is has nice foam and the typing experience feels great when it works:
I think that Iāll ultimately settle back on my old 65% Asus keyboard that I have and buy a lightweight non Razer mouse. Somehow these guys managed to create a product thatās good enough to get past the return period but might drive you up the walls with a future software update.
In the grand scheme of things, I canāt complain. I bought a mouse and a keyboard to save a USB port and dodged the bullet of buying one of their laptops.
Edit: Why does Razer add polyfuses to every single USB device? Does a little receiver dongle thatās little more than an MCU and an antenna really need one? Besides, all USB host ports are required to have overcurrent protection. And if thereās a short, itāll probably happen in a cheap chinese cable instead of inside of your product.
@Satur9, what are your thoughts on this? I donāt place fuses un USB powered devices. Chinese designs seem to have them but they donāt use reason or logic when designing things.
But USB aside, china also adds fuses on the output of switching regulators that already have overcurrent protectionā¦ They donāt understand that the fuse goes on the input side of things in case the mosfets fail short in the no-name chips that they use.
But maybe Iām a stubborn engineer when it comes to certain things.
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Ok, Iāll admit that Iām feeling a bit lonely and want to talk about interesting things.
I know that most things arenāt designed to last forever while abused in an industrial environment.
I would add anymore ā¦ i miss my Alcatel one
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Is it a wired mouse?
Wireless keyboard and mouse. But they can be used with a USB cable. Thereās a polyfuse in the keyboard itself, and another one in the tiny receiver thing.
I still have to take the mouse apart to check, but I suspect that it has one as well. And I also suspect that most other companies are just relying on the USB overcurrent protection instead. Besides cables are bound to be the problem instead.
Well redundant safety features arenāt a bad idea, especially in mechanical devices where the user could induce a short by using the device incorrectly or dropping it. Polyfuses are also included sometimes for transient voltage suppression when the cord becomes an antenna for external signals
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Along with TVS diodes, ferrite beads, etcā¦
Meh, Iām just thinking that itās a weird design choice in this case. Just like having SMD parts on both sides of a big low density board or having a separate antenna when it couldāve been on the MCU/wireless board that sits on the bottom of the keyboard right against the back of the case.
At the end of the day, Itās good hardware and I have nothing to complain about, Iām just lonely and want to talk shop. On the other hand, their firmware and software is junk.
And I might be selling a year old keyboard that was never exposed to food relatively soon. Razer Synapse 4 has absolutely nothing to do with thisā¦
I tend to criticize when they add unnecessary corners that donāt make things better, and I also criticize when they cut corners that should not be cut.
But then again, I often judge my designs harshly to try to make things cheaper and better.
Okay, I could use your advice on something. Iām doing a design for a client which is a portable wireless light. It will be charged via USB-C and will have 4x user-replaceable 18650 batteries in parallel. The problem is that in most products the cells are charged before inserting in the device which pre-balances them so that the voltage difference between the cells is minimized and they can naturally balance safely. In this case though the user could insert one cell at 3V and another at 4.2V and I need to protect against that scenario and have the device manage charging and cell balancing. Unfortunately from my research most of the cell balancing asics used in industry are for balancing series cells. I need a solution that manages charging and isolates the cells from each other during charging, but allows the system load to pull from them all in parallel for higher capacity. I could do it myself with the MCU and mosfets but for safety and simplicity I would rather have an asic dedicated to handle that
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Somebody shared this so now Iām looking at the LTC4412
The first thing that comes to mind is using 4 separate chargers. And depending on how much the lights draw, either 4 diodes, or 4 current limited switching regulators or something along those lines.
I need to give that article a read, but the LTC4412 looks really nice and it can give you information on how many batteries are being used at the time if used in the discharging side of things.
Also, are you using protected cells or random cells? I personally dislike unprotected cells but adding a Li-Ion protection circuit might be worth the effort if you donāt know what the end user will employ.
I love this. I was thinking the whole time of getting my scar healed āhmm, I kinda wish I had like 2 or 3 little tiny pouches over 1 medium pouchā
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Luckily protected 18650s are a different length than unprotected
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I grew up controlling my cursor by taking the ball out and sticking my thumbs inside to manipulate the rollers. They were cheap spares from a relativeās office, and I had no room for a mousepad anyway. I once played Counter Strike using mousekeys, got multiple headshots, and didnāt come in last place. So for me, all mice feel wrong. Only keyboard feels right.
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huh..
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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Flipper ONE 
6 posts were merged into an existing topic: uConsole RTL-SDR Chat
I actually started a thread as a draft for the Flipper One, YEARS ago, as in, pretty much at the time or not long after the Flipper Zero release announcement.
I only deleted it from my drafts a couple of months ago.
Looks like it time to get a thread (re)startedā¦
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Be proactive, get Flipper 2 going as well.
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When creating a new topic, how do you save a draft for later?
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Found it. Profile (gp) > Activity Tab > Drafts Tab.
Edit: Or better yet, gd.
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Ah, ok. Hitting an actual āsaveā button feels more reliable than just hoping itās auto-saved in my drafts section, although hitting the āxā button also feels unreliable given the expectation that x likely means close w/o saving, so I never thought to risk hitting that button on any post I didnāt want to lose.
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Iāve used that method for years.
I just gave my drafts a clean up a couple of months ago, either publishing it deleting them, I currently have only 9 drafts.
The oldest is over a year old.
Prior to my clean up I had some 2-3 years old.
All that to say, itās pretty safe to save your drafts.
The risk comes with fat sausage fingers and clicking ādiscardā
Ask me how I knowā¦
What the fuck
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āThink of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.ā ~ George Carlin
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Itās a meme about an Ethernet isolation transformer. And that mess of rings and wires houses actual real world black magic!
When i first realized what a RF cavity filter was comprised of I basically broke.
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Not that long ago I was talking about dielectrics, RF, and capacitors on Discord. I either blew the minds of the 3D printing enthusiasts of that particular server, or I started to be considered as an absolute nut jobā¦ Thereās no in-between with EE.
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The more Iām drawn into it the more Iām aware I donāt know shit. EE and RF is humbling to say the least
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i work on some reasonably high voltage (~20KV) and people have a hard time understanding that electricity can flow through ceramic and glass ā¦ or through some damp air ā¦ or dusty ā¦ 
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I heard the news about the AWS outage. Are you ok, @Pilgrimsmaster?
Thatās like a massive earthquake in your world, isnāt it?
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Iāve got plenty of extra space on my server if you need a place to crash for awhile.
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