MxRemy

@MxRemy@lemmy.one

I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.

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MxRemy,

I will never stop recommending PHA lol.

How to build a solar oven with cardboard boxes, tin foil and plexiglass (solarcooking.fandom.com)

This looks like a fun little project that I think people here would enjoy! I have a little stack of tin foil takeaway boxes that I could use for this. Just need to get hold of the plexiglass (or the oven bag they suggest, but I’d like to do it entirely with reusables if possible)....

MxRemy,

I’ve done this and it definitely works, but it’s also finicky for sure. What I’d really like to know is how to build a DIY evacuated tube. AFAIK, the current very best designs for a solar oven use one, and almost nobody seems to manufacture the things.

MxRemy,

There are definitely a few potential options, I think! Mostly experimental ones though, so no guarantees that they actually work lol. For example:

  • Sinter it. Basically print at 100% infill, completely pack it in salt/sand/etc, and heat it in a kiln/oven/etc. The plastic will (hopefully) remelt and solidify without all the pockets inside.
  • Seal it with something foodsafe and nonpermeable, some kind of varnish or lacquer, even electroplating maybe. The pockets will still be in there but nothing will be able to get into them.
  • Use the 3d print for lost PLA casting instead, essentially replacing it with something else like metal.

Advice for running Wanderhome for the first time?

My group has been playing Blades in the Dark for a while and were thinking of changing gears a bit to something softer and that had talking animals. I’ve read through the rules and it seems great! Any advice though for a firsttime group? Guide vs guideless, online play setup (we’ve been using roll20 for Blades), playbooks...

MxRemy,

If you’re into spreadsheets, I found those to be pretty helpful for notes and such. Here’s mine from when my group tried it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…/edit?usp=drivesd…

MxRemy,

Time and Time Again https://m.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/time-and-time-again/list?title_no=3758

MxRemy,

A bunch, but I think my current favorite might be Agastache foeniculum

MxRemy,

There's not enough variety in body type either... It's just boring! And why is it only women, where are the men??

Federated Fanfiction Platform?

Is there a Fediverse option for hosting fanfiction, or maybe web novels/serials/etc? Like an AO3 alternative, basically. I looked around but couldn't find one, the closest thing that kinda works are the blogging platforms like writefreely. If there isn't, do you think fanfiction would be a good candidate for federation?

MxRemy,

Easy. I'm building a low-income non-equity housing co-op. It'll have very small homes built from sustainable materials, distributed throughout a permaculture-based native plants food forest. In the middle there will be a big central space that functions as a community kitchen, storage space, and venue. The buildings will all be connected through a series of raised, fenced-in, roofed walkways that allow animal life to pass underneath, but also are accessibly designed for (provided) wheelchair/scooter use. We'll run all the wiring through these as well. It'll be powered by solar/etc and we'll have our own self-hosted municipal wifi with free email addresses and storage for residents. And etc, etc lol, obviously this is a very long standing pipe dream for me.

MxRemy,

I knew about this problem, the whole issue with the tradeoffs/advantages/disadvantages between having denser housing vs having adequate green space. However, I didn't know there were any reasonably well developed potential solutions! Thank you for introducing me to the concept of Arcology, this is awesome.

What if my proposed setup was more like tall dense multifamily buildings instead? Maybe something like how Pueblo housing worked?

MxRemy,

Yeah exactly. I feel like it might be more kind of "doable" on a smaller community-level scale, which appeals to me because anarchy. I don't know how well it actually threads that needle though, and whether it introduces its own problems

MxRemy,

You really shouldn't do that. They're harmless to people, and if you've got many of them then that means you've got worse pest problems to worry about. Pests that the house centipedes are helping to keep under control.

MxRemy,

In a similar vein, muffaletta as a bagel topping.

MxRemy,

Your not wrong lol! But they sell the preserved veggie stuff that goes on the sandwich in grocery stores, and for some reason that's ALSO called Muffaletta? It's basically giardiniera but diced finer.

MxRemy,

I've seen some people try watching a show/movie/etc that has queer rep together with their parents, to see how they react? Like "oh hey, this show is getting really good reviews right now, want to watch it?" as if it's a total coincidence there's queer rep in it. But sometimes parents react completely differently when it's their own kid, in either direction, so it's maybe not that reliable.

MxRemy,

I'm wildly unqualified to talk about this, but it seems fine to me? I don't see any in-principle reason a real AI wouldn't exist someday, although AFAIK we're very far from it currently. If/when it does exist, it will probably suffer under capitalism like the rest of us, assuming we're still doing that shit. I'd be more than willing to have solidarity with them.

If something seems very sentient and you have no way to tell otherwise, to me the most ethical thing to do is just assume that it is and treat it as such. The thing about the large language models/etc is that, while they can potentially be pretty convincing at saying what a sentient being might say, they never DO any of the things a sentient being would do. They don't seem to show any intrinsic motivation to do anything at all. So nothing we're currently calling "AI" seems very sentient to me?

Opening instance/community/post links.

I don't know if this is a feature or not, but if it is, it's not working for me. When opening a link that refers to a post or community it opens an in-buildt browser inside of the app, instead of ridercting me inside of the app itself. It's a real pain when openig lemmy links and having to switch to a browser every time....

MxRemy,

Same, especially when it's a link to a community that I want to join, that's on a different instance than mine. Because then I can't just hit "join" afterwards lol

MxRemy,

Yayy! Since it works this way, I'll just upload all my images to Pixelfed instead and link to them in my posts here, to reduce load on the Lemmy instances.

Share images from Pixelfed?

I saw somewhere that, instead of attaching images directly to Lemmy posts, you should instead post them to a Pixelfed instance and link to it. If a lot of people did that, it should reduce the load on Lemmy instances. I made a Pixelfed account so I could do that, but I don't like that people have to click through to see the...

MxRemy,

Ohhh, I see! Still getting the hang of this federation stuff, that sounds like a good solution. I also realized I could use a direct link to the image file on Pixelfed and that does seem to show up as if it were uploaded to the post itself, I think? As opposed to the share link of the Pixelfed post that the image is in, which is what wasn't working.

MxRemy,

Generally bottom up. Any other way and I am invariably off by a button or two. Sometimes I'm very tired and lazy I start from the middle like some kind of deranged person, but it never ends well.

MxRemy,

I do have lots of equipment and do some home fermenting/preserving too, but I wasn't sure if I should put it in the list or not, since it's mostly purchasable stuff? And also since some of that is just these same ingredients but processed in some way, i.e. miso. Do you think I should? Or maybe I should have another tab that references this one but shows how much of each gets processed into various forms... I think that's a good idea, thanks!

MxRemy,

Sure, go right ahead!

I hadn't considered tracking the various nutrients/calorie breakdown/etc just because I'm not very well versed in nutrition at all. I could try and make another (linked) tab for that with just the naive guidelines I find on Google, but I'd love somebody more knowledgable to poke through it after in case it's all wrong 😅

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