This is actually pretty interesting. I wish I could pin someone else’s comment. Thanks.

That would still be two layers. Although folding all the corners would allow four fold to equal two.

But that would be two folds, and arguably two layers if the area of the middle section is bigger than the outer sections added together.

What’s even more annoying is when their refinements end up putting an objectively wrong answer as the authoritative record.

I found a question where someone new to electronics was how to get more current from a USB power supply.

The “correct” answer that was posted before the question was closed was that a source can’t limit current and the questioner should learn more about electricity.

The actual correct answer - and probably what the questioner was looking for - is to short the data lines together because a compliant USB charger will only supply 500mA by default, not it’s stated max current.

Check the whole path of the filament, or maybe rotate the part before printing. Sometimes a combination of factors can cause just enough friction to under-extrude in just parts of a print. I sometimes get it when the filament roll rubs on the holder. This looks like it could be that it’s doing a fast bit while twisting the Bowden tube.

Maybe I’ll actually get round to implementing my ideas 🤷

I guess there’s no harm in making it work even if nobody uses it.

I know the peertube one is sorta broken at the minute because the WASM POW script doesn’t accept difficulty as a variable. Maybe I should check up and see if anyone has fixed it.

A lot of crypto projects are ready for implementation right now, but they all have their own unique problems and one rather large shared problem.

I made a peertube plugin a while back that will tip XNO to any creators you watched based on watch time.

The user journey for everyone was as simple as could possibly be imagined. Viewers added a few quid to a browser wallet and forget about it. Creators added an XNO address to the video description and the plugin would automatically pay like 10p a minute or something. Nobody even needed an account to make it work and there was no issues with federation as long as you were watching from the instance with your wallet.

I’ve even been writing my own fedi-first blog engine and been thinking about adding paywalls. It’d be super easy to do technically and the UX would be as good or better than any existing services.

You’d just set a cookie when people look at a post and generate a new wallet on the server. If a reader wants to view a paywalled post, they click a link or scan a QR code to send payment, the payment clears in two seconds and refreshes the page. Server checks the cookie and that the new wallet has the fee in, sees the article is paid for and serves it.

The thing is that this project is targeting a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.

The deepest niche is why XNO? It has JS wallets, is feeless, actually decentralised, clears within two seconds and the project leader seems to be ideologically driven to create a functional currency above all else. The problems are that it’s not anonymous, it’s premined, and that it’s deflationary.

Already this is a hard niche to get out of. I can already see that people will be arguing to use alternatives like monero because it’s more secure, but it also has fees, is difficult to exchange for real currency and will probably get you on a no fly list. Or SOL because the fees are really low and a lot of people already use it. But I’m wanting to do instant transactions with no fees so sending pennies is feasible, so this makes me a statist spy wants to push my shitcoin because I’m a massive bag holder.

The next niche is that we have a small user base here that’s incredibly sceptical about crypto. The whole crypto sphere is incredibly toxic. It’s mostly environmentally destructive and the vast majority of what it holds up is fraud, organised crime and gambling.

The majority of pro-crypto people here are cypherpunks who put their ideological commitment to monero or bitcoin above usability. The majority of anti-crypto -and overall majority- of people here are jaded by crypto nonsense and won’t give a new project a hearing.

The next niche is marketing. We don’t do that here. It’s uncouth and immoral. A spam campaign would be annoying and get the spammers banned and is just generally bad in everyway. Alternatively if any of the influencers on here decided to sell out to help us reach a critical mass where crypto payments aren’t entirely stagnant, we wouldn’t have the money to pay them. Crypto kind of has to be unprofitable to move on from being another form of gambling.

The last niche is onboarding. The market we want for microtransactions really isn’t the market that centralised exchanges want. A decentralised payments network really should be competing with netflix and substack. We want high churn, low volume for people to be able to feasibly make an income. That’s going to be ruined by the fact that people wanting to pay a tenner a month are going to lose most of that money before they even get it into a wallet, and the people recieving that money might just lose 20% of it at any given moment due to market movements.

So after narrowing it all down this leaves us with maybe a dozen people on here left to support it but they aren’t even going to cross paths enough to make any transactions.

I’m all for scamming scammers, but I’m quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.

Tribler has it’s own in-built onion routing. That might be difficult for your ISP to identify. Idk

A very silly but useful hack I did to get the MS flight sim install down to about 40GB (normally ~270GB) before I gave up on windows was this.

Set up a nextcloud server on a raspberry pi.

Install the client on your windows machine.

Add your games install folder as a connection on the nextcloud client and enable VFS (virtual filesystem)

Once synced, right click the folder and select “free up space…”

This will basically delete the file data from your local machine and redownload it whenever windows tries to access a file.

Now launch your game and it’ll take a while to start as it has to redownload the files it actually needs to run, but it won’t bother getting what it doesn’t have to.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a Lemmy UI without JS because it serves up JSON not rendered pages. You could sign up on a kbin/mbin instance though to get a static frontend.

I bought a convertible car that was completely ditched once. The canvas roof was in such a state that it consisted mostly of black bags and duct tape.

I ring a friend and ask him what he’s doing and if he wants to go for a drive in said car.

He said he’s too busy 'cause he has a bunch of jobs to apply to and wants to spend the day handing out his CV. I say that’s a perfect excuse to drive the new car round.

Get to his house and show him the car and we decide we should drive round with the top down because it’s sunny. The top is made of duct tape and bin liners though, so we grab a kitchen knife each and set to work on getting it off.

First place he wants to go is a job for a theatre tech. We drive over to the next town and I pull up and he runs in with just his CV and leaves all his possessions (coat, phone, wallet, etc) in the car.

Unbeknownst to me, the guy he handed his CV to gave him a tour and a bit of an interview on the spot so I’d be stuck there for an hour in the same parking space.

Also unbeknownst to me, the theatre was at a high school so I’m now suddenly surrounded by kids leaving at the end of the school day.

It’s awkward enough that I’m a guy in my late 20s parked outside a school in a convertible, but it took me a few minutes to realise that all the staring I was recieving from the kids was because the back seat was covered in black bags and duct tape held down with the two biggest knives I could find in my kitchen.

The police even came and I was hoping they would stop so I could explain but they just kept driving past me at walking speed.

It’s integrating as best it can. It has an embeddable player and LDAP logins. It’s kind of a failure on the part of other platform Devs to use it.

I’ve used TH72 a bit. I’d describe it more as shock proof than flexible. It’ll certainly make your miniatures robust, but it’s nowhere near as soft as something like TPU.

it’s pretty good for things that I can eye scan and verify that’s what I would have typed anyway. But I’ve found it suggesting things I wouldn’t remotely permit to things that are “sort of” correct.

Yeah. I haven’t bothered with it much but the best use I can see of it is just rubber ducking.

Last time I used it was to asked how to change contrast in a numpy image. It said to multiply each channel by contrast. (I don’t even think this is right and it should be ((original value-128) * contrast) + 128) not original value * contrast as it suggested), but it did remind me I can just run operations on colour channels.

Wait what’s my point again? Oh yeah, don’t trust anyone that can’t tell you what the output is supposed to do.

There are sections of both the right and the left that have anti-authoritarian tendancies.

The libertarian right tends to view things purely in terms of government over reach, whilst the left tends to view things in terms of the power of capital.

Leftists saw Facebook pushing propaganda for the highest bidder, Reddit trying to be safe to sell to investors and twitter basically becoming a project to reflect Elon Musk’s personal opinions.

Out of that came a bunch of attempts at creating new social networks. The right wing attempts were not cognisant that the aforementioned were the natural result of trying to get rich off it, while the left attempted to make it impossible to get into that position.

Solar panels on cars are thought of the wrong way. The responses in this thread really demonstrate that.

It’s true that they’re kind of pointless on EVs, because they’re never going to supply enough power to not need a proper charge, which makes the panels redundant.

Where they could be useful is hybrids, sold as something that makes the engine 10-20% more efficient.

Right wing free software users love from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs until you point out what it is.

Then you get whatever this lemmy-wide tantrum is.

I disagree with Dessalines about some stuff but the guy is a don.