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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

A squadron of military planes is a bit hard to come by as a private person.

But I wonder if people would also be that fascinated after 25+ years if I flew some DJI drones at 1-2km height in the night with bright LEDs on their bottom and dropped some pyrotechnics from them.

This has been confirmed independently multiple times as two groups of A-10 military aircraft dropping flares with parachutes for training purposes.

And still you see videos titled "Still no answers 26 years after the lights appeared over the valley". Well, no answer that these guys want to hear.

And what it looked like is quite easy to check, since there are tons of photographs of that incident.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There are two issues with that:

  • The GDPR notice on feddit.de is not GDPR compliant, and the link isn't even visible on mobile.
  • If you request deletion, they can't guarantee that the data is deleted on federated servers. They can send deletion messages, but federation is constantly not working correctly, other instances can decide themselves whether they do delete stuff, and if an instance is unreachable for a while, the deletion message will be dropped.

Lemmy, or even ActivityPub are designed to be non-GDPR compliant. (Probably not on purpose, but the way it works makes it basically impossible to be GDPR compliant.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That already exists. The person who created a post or comment can delete it. But it only works sometimes, since federation is constantly not working correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub.

Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I said: Code changes are easy, all the other things in regards to supporting playing on Linux (anticheat, support requests, testing, ...) is hard.

You said: But code changes are easy because steam has libraries to unify distribution.

Do you see the problem here?

What are you going to tell me next? That code changes are easy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And the content of private messages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How about private messages which are also unencrypted?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (10 children)

It's actually not wrong if you look at it in another way.

  • Big tech will abuse your data, but it will do within legal constraints, and there is actuall (though weak) accountability of these companies due to the legal system.
  • On federated services like Lemmy, instances are hosted by anonymous individuals. Most social media laws don't apply to them, and their legal accountability is basically zero.
  • Lemmy, for example, does not comply with GDPR. There is no legal notice, no privacy contact person, no banner asking whether you are ok with the fact that your data is sent to unknown servers in random nations, no nothing. Private messages aren't even encrypted, so any admin can read them without issues.
  • There is no way to actually delete your data, as the GDPR requires. Deleted posts are only marked as deleted and you can see their plain text content by just pressing the "reply" button in any of the apps. There isn't any kind of guarantee, that your post will be deleted on other instances. If federation has problems, the post will remain on other instances and is now permanently undeletable by the user.
  • There are no moderation standards. Some instances will delete nazi content, some basically require nazi content. And some instance admin might even edit your posts to say something completely different. It's all possible and in the hands of random people on the internet.
  • Hobbyist-run services are much worse when it comes to availability and reliability. If something happens while the admin is on holiday, nothing will get fixed. If the admin runs out of money, doesn't care anymore or even dies, the instance with all it's content and users is just gone.

So there are very real risks attached to a hobbyist-run service with no legal accountability and no transparency at all.

We all know the downsides of Big Tech though, so it's everyone's personal choice to figure out which disadvantages hurt them personally more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Emails also go to other's servers.

But you could just host an IRC server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

But as soon as you interact with literally anyone (or anyone interacts with you) your data is still replicated on other servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's more due to need than due to technical difficulty.

Even in 2024 it's still common that you have to print out documents to sign them or tickets for some event or something like that. All these (quite relevant) use cases just don't work if you don't have a 2D printer.

As much as I like my 3D printer, and as much as I recommend everyone to have one, is not nearly as necessary.

In regards to how difficult they are to make, consider the price.

2D printers have an advantage due to their much higher sales numbers (economy of scale) and they are subsidized by the manufacturer selling expensive ink. And still, a half-decent inkjet costs €100 or more, and a color laser easily costs €300 or more.

3D printers usually have much lower sales numbers and people usually buy 3rd party filament, so the printer needs to be expensive enough to generate money for the manufacturer. And still you can get a decent Ender 3 for as low as €150.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's different? Basically the whole thing.

A 3D printer (talking here about FDM because SLA really shares nothing at all with a 2D printer) is basically a tiny hot glue gun being moved on three axies by stepper motors. Of course, the temperature and extrusion controls are much more accurate than a hot glue gun, but that's the basic principle. You got a single "printing point" that gets moved around and it only extrudes filament from that single point.

An inkjet printer has one stepper motor that moves the paper and another that moves the print head from left to right. So there too are axies moved on stepper motors. A very simple trait also shared by e.g. CD and disk drives, slot machines, camera lenses and many other things. All these things are as close to a 2D printer as a 3D printer.

The real magic of an inkjet printer is the print head. A print head doesn't have a single nozzle but an array of many nozzles. This way, a printer cannot only print one dot at a time, but instead a few lines at a time. These nozzles are much tinier that the nozzles on a 3D printer, and they also are much more complicated to operate.

A 3D printer just uses a stepper motor to push filament into the printhead, where it melts and is then pushed out of a hole.

On an inkjet printer, you need to either rapidly boil the ink, so that a single vapor bubble appears that pushes just a tiny drop of ink on the paper, or you have a tiny piezoelectric transducer that creats a vibration that then pushes out ink.

This is orders of magnitude more difficult than a 3D printer, and much tinier. You won't be DIYing a working 2D printer from scratch, while that isn't all that hard for a 3D printer. With access to a decent toolshop, you can make all relevant parts of a 3D printer. The same is not true for 2D printers.

To rephrase your question: Why is it that so many people build DIY desktop PCs, but nobody is making a DIY flagship smartphone? What's the difference?

Basically everything.

 
 

Someone forgot that bike lanes should actually have space for a bike. And maybe not cobblestones.

Legally, combined footpath/bike lanes over here should have a minimum width of 2.3m. Between line and tree there is less than 0.8m.

 

Triple the print speed with much better performance. Flexible filaments (I tried a super-soft Shore A88 filament) are no issue at all.

I adapted a mount I found online, I'll put my modification up somewhere if anyone is interested.

Never going back to Bowden.

All other similar extruders (super light Nema14 motor, dual large gears) should perform similar.

 

I randomly stumbled across the linked Wikipedia article. At the bottom of the article, there is a list for each state.

Quite a few states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming) have an age of consent, which is higher than the minimum marriage age.

How does that work out? Does that mean if these legally married people have intercourse it's statutory rape?

(Weird side fact: California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Washington have a minimum marriage age of 0, which is just wrong.)

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#Marriage_age

This article paints a much more disturbing picture of this practice:

According to Unchained At Last, the youngest girls to marry in 2000–2010 were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25, and 31 in 2001. The youngest boy to marry was an 11-year-old, also in Tennessee, who married a 27-year-old woman in 2006.

I am getting physically sick when thinking of this.

 

Weil mich das blöde Zangendeutsch ("Las(s)es", "Unter", "Selbstie", "Lassmich", ...) so sehr nervt, hab ich kurzerhand einen hingehackten Fork von Jerboa erstellt, der Zangendeutschwörter durch die englischen Originale ersetzt.

Da ich mich mit Zangendeutsch allerdings nicht so recht auskenne, sind da noch nicht so viele Wörter in der Wortliste. Wer gerne noch mehr Wörter ersetzt haben will, postet es doch hier rein.

(Disclaimer: Es gibt von mir keinerlei Garantie, dass der Fork in Zukunft auf irgendeine Weise gewartet oder aktuell gehalten wird. Der ist rein zum Spaß da.)

 

 

Blöde Frage, weil neu hier. Es gibt wohl zwei unterschiedliche Communities für Österreich hier, nämlich Austria und Österreich. Beide haben nur eine Handvoll Nutzer. Statt die beiden fragmentiert zu halten, wäre es eventuell sinnvoller, eine der beiden Communities zu schließen, so dass alle Nutzer in der gleichen Community enden?

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