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So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

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  • TL;DW: Bloomberg is using the same tactics to kill manufacturing that Meta is using to kill the open web and device ownership, and also potentially the entire open-source ecosystem if this 3D printing stuff extends to general software and to OSes like Linux as well, of using a bunch of shell organizations which look grassroots, to lobby for draconian 3D printing lockdown and age-gating laws respectively.



  • I still would rather at least have a dedicated camera because A) They’re offline devices so you don’t have to worry about a hostile megacorp spying on your snaps, and B) they tend to either have better glass, including true optical zooms, bigger sensors, or both, or even swappable lenses in the case of things like SLRs or mirrorless ILCs.

    Also, separate music players benefit from being offline too and some of them still have nice analog sections even by modern standards, such as the iPod Video and iPod Classic, plus both those DAPs can be flash-retrofitted and can have Rockbox installed on them.



  • That’s terrible, no playwright should kick someone out over a minor disagreement as long as it doesn’t boil over into physical altercations and cause safety issues, instead that disagreement should’ve been taken into account and addressed either by changing a line or adding in your suggestion elsewhere.

    I mean, sure if that disagreement boils over into frequent physical altercations and actually causes safety issues, then yeah, the guy in charge has every right to kick that belligerent person out and even get the cops involved if absolutely necessary and that person straight-up refuses to leave on their own accord, as it’s still a workplace at the end of the day, but otherwise, no.









  • The funny thing is, that ‘heavy duty’ badge is deceptive marketing, pick-ups at their heaviest are medium-duty, maxing out at class-3 with a GVWR between 10,001 and 14k lbs; true heavy-duty rigs are class-7 and class-8, with a GVWR between 26,001 and 33k lbs and 33,001+ lbs respectively, and those need a CDL to drive.

    For further reference, the heaviest weight class you can get away with on a normal license in the US is class-6 with a GVWR between 19,501 and 26k lbs. Pick-ups are class-1 through 3 with GVWRs ranging up to 14k lbs, medium-duty chassis-cabs are typically class-3 through 6 with GVWRs ranging between 14k and 26k lbs, and heavy-duty rigs are class-7 and 8 with GVWRs ranging between 26,001 and 33,001+ lbs, which need a CDL to drive, like I said above.

    But I guess selling pick-ups as their true weight class doesn’t move as much units as the deceptive ‘heavy duty’ badge on a light-duty or medium-duty rig.








  • It’s going to be hard to completely kill off the Fediverse unless you block all ways in which it can be hosted, to include meshnets and the dark web.

    On top of that, it’ll be really hard if not impossible to kill protocols which by their design are independently governed and completely open like ActivityPub and compatible protocols; it’ll be easier to kill ATproto because it has a centralized plc.directory ledger which if that gets taken out, the entire protocol goes down with it, that and even if you self-host a PDS, you still have to interact with Bsky corporate’s centralized infrastructure at some point, where with ActivityPub, each instance is independent of the other.