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BillySmith

@BillySmith@social.coop

I'm an engineer/musician/artist/designer/bricoleur/womble. :D

Now blogging at https://write.as/billysmith/

Currently working on #OSHW for the primary industry sectors; #Agriculture, #Aquaculture, #Energy, #PowerGeneration, #PowerStorage, #Sustainability, #Regeneration, #Resilience, #TerraForming.

You can't solve a #SocialProblem via TechnicalMeans, so i've focused on creating solutions that people can choose to build themselves. :D

#ADHD #TeamADHD #Womble :D

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abcdw, (edited ) to random
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I got a reject on Turkey residence permit application. I'll lodge an appeal, but chances are very low, so my plan B is to go to Georgia than to Armenia to apply for Spain Schengen visa.

If somebody knows any conferences, summer schools or other events I can contribute to and get an invite to support my visa application with, let me know, please.

P.S. Spain Schengen in Armenia is an only option to apply for Schengen visa available without residence permit I know at the moment.

BillySmith,
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@abcdw

It's also worth looking at the E-Residency in Estonia.

https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/

Working via this route would qualify you as an EU-based contractor, so remote work would become available.

In theory, you could parlay that work into being resident in an EU country, as you could show that were already working within the EU.

Though I don't know anyone who has tried this method, but it's another potential route towards EU residency.

noondlyt, to random
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It is not going to be JUST the 737 Max or 737s. Think about it. The policies were in place for all aircraft.

Southwest Airlines Plane Loses Engine Cover During Takeoff | HuffPost Latest News https://www.huffpost.com/entry/southwest-flight-engine-cover-emergency-landing_n_6612f8b6e4b0d81853f99d9a

BillySmith,
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@Eka_FOOF_A @olav @noondlyt

So it's the aeroplane manufacturers AND the airlines that are cutting safety for increased profits. 🤦‍♂️

CommonMugwort, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Can anyone recommend an entry point to Wuxia for a middle-aged European steeped in Western Historical Fantasy - a great story, well-translated and easily available?

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@CommonMugwort @bookstodon

It depends upon the translation you find.

Some of the translations come across like radio plays without the incidental background noise, so always feel a little incomplete.

That said:

"Cultivation Chat Group" is a cultivation-based story set in contemporary times.

"Martial Peak" is a great tale that would suit a fan of Western fantasy.

"I Shall Seal The Heavens" is also very good. :D

"Top Tier Providence, Secretly Cultivate For a Thousand Years"

BillySmith,
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@CommonMugwort @bookstodon

They're all web-novels with manga/cartoon versions.

"Martial Peak", "I shall seal the heavens", and, "Top Tier providence" are all complete.

"Cultivation Chat Group" is still in progress.

The web-novels fit really well with the format created by Charles Dickens. :D

BillySmith,
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@CommonMugwort @bookstodon

It's the same as Oliver Twist was originally a weekly release, published chapter by chapter. :D

But using a website instead. :D

BillySmith, to solarpunk
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This is very solarpunk :D

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

18+ Vaccinations in Book Form?

A while back, I set myself the project of figuring out how much of the MIT undergrad physics curriculum could be taught from free online books. The answer, so far, is more than I had anticipated but much less than what we deserve. But working on that, along with a few other conversations, has got me to wondering. We’ve seen...

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@gerikson @zbyte64

The guy with they eyes in his lab was just one of the specialist manufacturers.

He was the person that put the replicants in touch with the "genius tinkerer", who then gave the replicants access to Tyrell. :D

J12t, to random
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The second failed disk in one week. Entirely different type of SDD on an entirely different computer. But stopped showing up in the BIOS entirely.

What is going on here? Is the SDD chaos monkey hopping around my home office?

BillySmith,
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@J12t

When were the chips manufactured?

If they all came from the same manufacturer, then it's a symptom of the whole batch hitting the bell curve of the End-Of-Life.

You won't be alone for long... :D

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@J12t

Ok.

Scratch that idea. :D

I don't know enough about the failure modes to make any other suggestions as to the cause.

Any external environmental causes around you?

mcc, to random
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Behold! Despite FedEx trying very hard to just take it and keep it for themselves, I now have a tiny weird computer. It is running RISC-V and the RISC-V has an FPGA in it. This means this computer has more Freedom than other computers. The RISC-V/FPGA microchip is made by a company named "Microchip" which sounds fake.

Either this will enable me to do strange and beautiful things, or I will waste ~2 months on trying to install Linux on it unsuccessfully then sigh and put it in a drawer.

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@mcc @kcarp

I was at one London Hardware Meetup in the early 2010's.

There was one speaker talking about FPGA's, and he did manage to get Doom running, though at a low Frame Rate. :D

jonny, to random
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Can you imagine being a boss and trying and get someone back to work after having a baby. Anything aside from "holy shit you just had a goddamn baby go ahead and do whatever forever" is just unimaginable behavior to me

BillySmith,
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@jonny

☝️ This is the successful long-term professional approach. :D

gregggonsalves, to random
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Donald Moynihan at Georgetown has talked about how you bring down the administrative state--it is also a template for how to destroy public health in America. Delegitimize. Deconstruct. Control. 3 horsemen of our slow motion public health catastrophe in the US. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/undermining-public-health/

BillySmith,
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@gregggonsalves

The UK's current PM, when he was Chancellor in Johnson's Cabinet, was meeting with exec's and C-suite staff of healthcare companies in the USA.

They were explicitly talking about the "opportunities" within the UK's NHS.

The pattern described has been used over here as well.

There's an excellent fictional description of the techniques to be found in "The Delirium Brief" by @cstross

RadicalAnthro, to ADHD
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Study comparing health and genetic differences in settled and nomadic groups of the of N. . A mutation associating to may be favourable for the nomads.

'In modern children diagnosed with ADHD, the genetic mutation generally correlates with restlessness and distractibility. And in those Ariaal children who had settled into sedentary Western behaviours, the gene was linked to poor health and distracted classroom behaviours. But in those Ariaal who still practised a traditional nomadic life, the gene mutation was linked to strength and better nutritional health.'

https://newatlas.com/science/adhd-evolutionary-benefits-foraging-explore-exploit/

BillySmith,
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@RadicalAnthro @passenger @HeavenlyPossum

I'm another ADHD-person, and i concur.

The improved reaction times and, increased situational awareness, are very useful in melee combat.

One possible reason that there's an increased levels of ADHD in populations that are genetically descended from Norse stock, is that ADHD was selective in surviving battlefields.

cstross, to random
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Apple wouldn't be doing this—at considerable expense—if they didn't consider such attacks to be plausible within the relevant lifetime of currently intercepted and retained messages (ie. not necessarily today, but within the statute of limitations of any crime you might be confessing to in an iMessage).

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079081/apple-imessage-pq3-post-quantum-cryptography

BillySmith,
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@SteveBellovin @TheLancashireman @cstross

Varieties of the Enigma machine were still being used for diplomatic correspondence during the Cold War decades following WW2.

GottaLaff, to random
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“Hundreds of infants’ lives would be saved and millions of children would breathe easier across the US if the nation’s power grid depended on clean energy and more drivers made the switch to zero-emission vehicles, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/health/electric-vehicles-air-pollution-kids?cid=ios_app

BillySmith,
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@lednaBM @GottaLaff

Those are always externalities.

BillySmith,
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@lednaBM @GottaLaff

There are no externalities.

We only have one planet.

Crazypedia, to random
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Might start keeping a list of societal and cultural quirks or blind spots that really irk me as an Noticer/truth teller/autistic person. Maybe something to traumatize a therapist with

BillySmith,
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@Crazypedia

One bit of advice i got from a now-healed person who was recovering from extreme psychological damage:

"Never work with therapists who have been through less extreme damage than the patient, as they won't be able to handle their own trauma and help the patient at the same time."

StillIRise1963, to random
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You know, when I look back on my life, I think it is utterly fucking amazing that for most of it, I had to literally argue with people as to the actual EXISTENCE of racism in this confederate ass hellhole. My whole fucking LIFE in white spaces. Holy hell. It's hard to be sane in this bitch, I'll tell you that.

BillySmith,
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@thepoliticalcat @StillIRise1963

Remember Jackson.

The organisers of the protests were gradually murdered over the next few years, as well as the 60-year-old curator of the museum of Black History, whose body was found in the trunk of her car.

The stories need to be told, but be discrete about it, so you don't get deliberately targetted.

kirk, to random
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for @SocialCoop - hello, all!

I'm Kirk, an engineer researching the conversion/storage of clean energy: batteries, converting CO₂ into useful chemicals, etc. I'm from St. Louis, USA, did my PhD in UK, now living in France. I'm a lot of things but anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian are good catch-alls.

I plan to transition away from academia and start a worker-owned enterprise around these technologies, with open-source at the core. Here to learn from others and find community.

BillySmith,
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@edumerco @kirk

Chewy ideas. :D

Two projects that i helped with:

https://r-urban-wick.net/events/learn-to-build-an-anaerobic-digester

An anaerobic digester that fits inside a 20ft shipping container, powered by two PV solar panels and one solar-thermal panel.

Inputs are food waste, and outputs are fertiliser, and, tankable methane. :D

And

https://wickcuriosityshop.net/collection/plant-regulated-growing-system

Crop-growing system that gives 300% of crop-yield-per-acre, using 50% of the soil and 20% of the water.

Bonus is no weeding. :D

yogthos, to random
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“If you don’t like it, get a different job!” is quintessentially liberal response that focuses on improving the situation of the individual in question while ignoring the systemic problem that caused it.

BillySmith,
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@yogthos @davevolek

It's never "No one wants to work!", but more that "No one wants to be exploited." :D

atomicpoet, to random
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I swear, there’s more rabbits in Richmond than rats.

And these rabbits have no shame. The literally hop right up to you and beg for food. Which they don’t need because they eat everything.

Trees are dying because of them. Grass is continuously torn up. It’s got so bad that landscapers now have to plant rabbit-resistant vegetation.

And no, these aren’t wild rabbits, they’re feral. They’re taking over the city because people abandoned their pets.

BillySmith,
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@atomicpoet

If they're living on common land, then catching them for food should be ok. :D

Rabbit is really tasty if you cook them well. :D

BillySmith,
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@atomicpoet

When i say cook them well, i mean cook them so that you kill the parasites they'll carry from living around lots of humans.

"Parasites are the fine controls that alter the predator-prey ratio's."
Mark Stanley :D

bitprophet, to random
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That annoying “the more you read up on <high quality object>, the more you notice all the deficiencies of your current <low quality object>" phenomenon.

BillySmith,
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@bitprophet @petrillic

Never skimp on the quality of food, tools, safety equipment, and matresses. :D

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    BillySmith,
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    @jonobie

    This sort of behaviour has been going on for decades.

    Remember the Albini Rant?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20190715020040/https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

    While this was re-published in the mid-2010's, it was originally written and published in 1994.

    It exactly describes the same behaviours used.

    Still trying to re-find the link to the leak of the Simon Cowell contracts.

    danilo, to VisionPro
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    Haters gonna hate, but I'm actually pumped as hell for .

    Apple is adamant about their “Spatial Computing” frame because they badly need to position themselves away from the clunky headsets that came before.

    Thing is, I think they've actually done the work to earn the distinction.

    https://visionprototypes.com/resources/why-spatial-computing/?ref=masto

    BillySmith,
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    @danilo

    It depends... :D

    I've seen many different versions of VR come-and-go since the mid-1980's.

    VR still hasn't found it's killer app.

    With mainframes in the 1960's, it was databases.

    With the late-80's/early-90's, the killer app was spreadsheets in the business sectors, and gaming in the entertainment sectors.

    The VR for manufacturing support, is one niche where it sort-of works, but that's only a niche, not a full market-sector.

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