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attilakinali

@attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com

Expert on chocolate consumption

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mansr, to random
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Instead of scary cancer pictures (that don't work), fag packets should have swastikas on them. Then nobody would want to be seen smoking.

attilakinali,
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@mansr You would be surprised....

mansr, to random
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It's stuffy inside, but if I open the window, it rains on the carpet. Bloody weather.

attilakinali,
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@mansr No Kippfenster?

(sorry for the German, but any English word for it just sounds goddamn awful)

attilakinali,
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@flameeyes @mansr Oddly, that was not listed as one of the alternatives.

attilakinali,
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@mansr Yes, but I usually not check out the windows of someone's home, unless I want to come back later to break in. 😛

attilakinali,
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@mansr Nah... just that it's too heavy and bulky to carry all the way back from the isles.

TerryHancock, to random
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It would be a lot easier to avoid phish, if the people who ran services we depended on gave a damn about security.

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock So it isn't just Germany who is still in . Good to know.

attilakinali, to random
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Today in the office:

Oscillators and cookies.

attilakinali,
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@penguin42 Bits? What kind of engineer do you think I am? No, I keep my bits on quality hard drives!

No, that Lady Grey can contains more cookies. I run out of cookie boxes and had to use alternative means.

attilakinali,
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@penguin42 Hehe... the reason why I have these Twinings boxes around is to put sensitive electronics in them. I do a lot of high precision measurements and I often need something that keeps air currents away and has some shielding against electric fields. But this one got used for food before it could get used for electronics 🙂

evelynefoerster, to Cats
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Pfoten des Grauens - Rebirth II
Paws of Horror - Rebirth II

Graue Katzenpfoten von .li, getigerte Katze, Grey colored cat's paws from .li, tabby cat
Graue Katzenpfote von .li, getigerte Katze, mit getigerten Schwanz Grey colored cat's paw from .li, tabby cat with tabby cats tail
Graue Katzenpfote von .li, getigerte Katze, Grey colored cat's paw from .li, tabby cat

attilakinali,
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@evelynefoerster

penguin42, to Futurology
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A new Boston Dynamics video or Spot doing useful things; they've taught it to use a Ratchet power tool and let it loose on switch boards which would otherwise need people in flash protection and/or the downtime to avoid electrocution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjYIgnsIeY

attilakinali,
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@penguin42 Which can be done with an appropriately designed tool for a fraction of the price. Not everything needs a robot, sometimes just adding a motor is enough.

attilakinali,
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@penguin42 Yes, unless you want a good chance for the thing to explode and take half the room with it, you want to switch everything off.

But my point is that what the robot does is nothing more than being a remote controlled motor to pull the breaker out. Things that have been automated by putting in a motor into the cabinet like... 50 years ago.

attilakinali,
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@penguin42 either that, or you have a socket were you can just plug it in. And no. these things don't sit around for decades. Electric components of this class need to be serviced every few years, lest they fail to do their job.

halfy, to random
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What. A. Week.

"...It's only Thursday"

:halfy_sleepy:

attilakinali,
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@mansr @penguin42 @halfy @cawhitworth There is nothing more sacred than cat duty!

bleeptrack, to generative
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On rainy days it's time for Chai

video/mp4

attilakinali,
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@bleeptrack You know, I love these short videos!

TerryHancock, to random
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Assigning any kind of overall social character to "the Fediverse" (or "Mastodon") is a fundamental misunderstanding of its nature.

It's like assigning it to "email" or "the world-wide web" or "the world". It's either nonsense (certainly not true everywhere), a truism (e.g. "it's decentralized" -- part of the definition), or trivially true ("a thing exists on it... somewhere" -- yeah, that's why we have a word for it).

It's a "category error":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock This has been the case way before facebook, twitter etc were conceived. Even back in the good old IRC days, people would call it "mirc" (for the most prevalent windows client in the early 2000s) and attribute specific characteristics to it, by which network and channels they were on.

The only difference is, that "social media" back then was mostly nerd dominated and Joe and Jane Average did not know or talk about it.

bleeptrack, to random
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Hot take: swabian fluffy pretzels > dry bavarian pretzels 🥨

video/mp4

attilakinali,
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@bleeptrack If you make it to Switzerland, try out Brezelkönig! Best pretzel ever!

penfount, to fountainpens
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of the day:
What is your favorite pen of all time? What makes it your favorite? (For this question, it doesn’t have to be one you have owned, or in current production, it can be any pen that has ever existed.)

attilakinali,
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@penfount My current top three are

  1. Diplomat Aero with F nib. Best out of the box adjusted pen I ever laid my hands on. This is my main note taking pen
  2. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 with MF nib. Great writer with large ink capacity. This pen I use for long texts.
  3. Pilot Custom 912 with Music nib. Wonderful pen to write letters with. Especially great for sheen inks because it's a really wet writer.
mansr, to random
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Is it normal to have a box full of power supplies and another (smaller) box for the most frequently used ones?

attilakinali,
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@mansr Just two boxes? No, that's definitely not normal!

attilakinali,
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@mansr Ah.. that sounds more like how it's supposed to be.

stux, to random
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Demonstration of how vibration can cause an improperly torqued fastener to come loose

It will zip zap right off within seconds.. imagine this on airplanes and such

attilakinali,
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@stux Vibration can cause even properly torqued fasteners to come loose.

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock @stux It's because the up and down movement of the nut is not symmetric. It's like shaking a box of cereals: the big stuff rises because big and small pieces don't move the same way up and down.

TerryHancock, to random
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Wow. I'm testing the mini-split A/C now. It's SO QUIET!

I had to stand really close to make sure it was working at all. The outside condenser unit is quieter than the crickets, even when I'm standing right in front of it. I think it has plastic fan blades, which probably helps with that.

So far, so good.

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock Noise in fan units (or generally stuff that moves) is mostly a function of precise manufacturing and care for details. If you just slap some fan on, without even balancing it, it will be noisy as hell. But if the fan is designed to be low noise, correctly balanced, using good bearings, etc, then you will barely hear anything.

flameeyes, to random
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I can't believe something like this doesn't exist, but it might not, what do I know?

Is there any tool out there that, given a SWD connection to an MCU (with a Segger J-Link in my current case) can give you a full state of registers parsing them semantically?

I assume there has to a structured description of those registers that could be used to parse them out, Kaitai Struct style, and a programmatic way to connect to the J-Link to get the right memory area.

But I can't guess the keywords.

attilakinali,
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@flameeyes I never used such a tool. If I needed to know the internal state of a specific unit, I usually wrote a few lines of c that would dump the contents out through the debug interface. This has the advantage that I also knew which state my application was in, which SWD would require some additional parsing.

I don't think I ever needed more than a few register settings, so dumping a whole lot of them was never an issue for me.

TerryHancock, to random
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Today's project. Make a hooded weathertight port in the corrugated steel side of an ocean cargo container. That took some figuring, but I wound up making it out of galvanized sheet metal with a neoprene gasket compressed with some screws. I'm reasonably confident that "it will do".

It's not all playing with Blender or even building servers. It's also construction work.

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock Why didn't you weld it? That would make it seal pretty well and last forever (until the container rusts away)

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