TheYang

TheYang, 1 month ago

I wonder how you ever could “upload” a consciousness without Ship-of-Theseusing a Brain.

Cyberpunk2077 also has this “upload vs copy” issue, but doesn’t actually make you think about it too hard.

TheYang, 1 month ago

yeah, but it’s not nearly as good as it seems.

ion thruster with a tiny bit of extra thrust snd ISP because of fusion reactions.

TheYang, 1 month ago

well, doesn’t it make sense when the business-model is to recoup R&D cost of the console with expensive games?
DRM becomes much harder once you can’t trust the system anymore.

Nintendo tried to lock the system down, and got fucked by NVIDIA.

TheYang, 2 months ago

Looks like a partial clogged nozzle to me.

Just happened to happen at that height. If I’m right it should Start at the bottom on the next print as well.

Cold pull should be the solution.

TheYang, 2 months ago

It’s possible but is a lot more complicated with later switches.
First gen was super easy. I think current one needs a mod-chip installed to Boot custom Firmware (which you need for ROMs)

TheYang, 2 months ago

I believe sky mentioned that the jump-start sensors didn’t trip, indicating that he didn’t cross (or touch?) the line.

Basically he stopped far enough back that his movement did not leave his designated area.

TheYang, 2 months ago

Oh, I mean there’s nothing there.

A Court Document shows that Yuzu got a lawyer and will answer within 60 days of 2024-02-27.

The Answer will be the interesting bit. It may indicate if they wish to fight, or if they deem it not worth the effort.

TheYang, 2 months ago

I don’t think so.
But maybe Emulators need to change how they work.
Externalize a small, relatively simple tool to decrypt the ROM.
and a complicated, actively developed Emulator, that can only read decrypted ROMs.

With that, the Emulator shouldn’t be attackable the same way yuzu was.

TheYang, 2 months ago

Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.

I have some quite large playlists I’d like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn’t do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle “only” the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)

TheYang, 2 months ago

goddamn it, I really hope that Nintendo will get laughed out of court, but it seems to me (IANAL) that they may have a case. Although Yuzu will have some defenses as well.

Ars Technica has a writeup about this, that seems decent.

They expect that this won’t go to trial, because yuzu won’t be able to pay for it.
Maybe the community should think about changing that.

TheYang, 2 months ago

Emulation itself is legal, which is why the complaint is about circumvention of protections under the DMCA.
Nintendo alleges that Yuzu does that, and while it needs the help of prod.keys for it, yuzu does give instruction on how to obtain that. Nintendo argues that this shows how Yuzu is there (primarily) to break their protections.

Now, Yuzu has some defenses.

1. It may argue that the point “limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected” may be moot, as yuzu has no commercially significant purpose. The 30k they get per month in donations won’t help that case much, but a nice calculation about 212 contributors to the project over 10 years may soften that counter argument.
2. It may argue that Yuzu allows disabled people better access to games, as their controller configurations are way more open than Nintendos.
3. It may argue that they (or more specifically the prod.keys issue) is covered by Interoperability. I.e. they are making an Emulator for Homebrew (100% legal). Now that they have this work, for interoperabilities sake (of Yuzu with official switch games), they include instructions on prod.keys stuff on their homepage.

Most realistic outcome (as I expect):
Yuzu is taken down, the open source project continues, but at a much slower rate. The Case is dropped.

The outcome that I’d love to see (but seems way less realistic):
Yuzu gets a significant bump in donations from people angry about this, decide to go to trial and wins.
Result: Yuzu gets more money, Nintendo has cemented more protections for Emulation.

TheYang, 3 months ago

You largely can choose the provider of this service, but they will also choose you (or not).
And you can not refrain from the service while being in the community of those that don’t refrain. In practice there are (nearly) no places where the community as a whole chooses to refrain.

If you’re in a country with compulsory military service, make yourself interesting for other countries and leave.

TheYang, 3 months ago

Yes, most people are not interesting. True for Emi/Imi-gration as well as dating. And in both cases it’s tough to hear.

TheYang, 3 months ago

Doesn’t seem to be a flattering angle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAI_TF_Kaan#/media/File:IMG-TAI-TFX.jpg doesn’t seem as bad (but still wide).
Compared to the F35 from a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-35_Wind_Tunnel_Model.jpg.

But the twin-engine design on both sides of the pilot (unlike a J20) will probably just make for a wider body as well.

TheYang, 3 months ago

Did I miss the cost?

TheYang, 4 months ago

Seems reasonable for all involved imho.

Yes, Texas Parks and Recreation Wildlife should take time to think about the offer. Document the reasons why they take it etc. Nobody would want Protected wetland to be swapped for a Parking lot that nobody has the money to demolish to return to nature, or any suspicion of anything like it.

SpaceX is not going to withdraw the offer anyway, they can take the time, the Land up north is worth much less to SpaceX than the one adjacent to their Spaceport.

TheYang, 4 months ago

So Apple still wants to have the power to reject apps from third party app stores.

Curious if that will pass the EUs “Gatekeeper Law”, when they explicitly want to stay the gatekeeper, even if unpaid.

TheYang, 4 months ago

There are also still a lot of QoL issues with the GUI and no real attempt to bring in influences and widgets from direct modeling. FreeCAD is pure of heart and pure of thought, but I’m not sure I’m quite there, though I can at least imagine it now

fyi, there is now ondsel
based on FreeCAD, their release introduction reads:

So our thinking was: we should focus on a polished user experience and features that are essential to professional use. Let’s build something we feel good about recommending it to someone working on a deadline. And let’s build a service for vaulting and collaboration.

…

Our primary objective is to provide polish and sorely missing features — that’s a large part of the added value. We’ve made big and small changes in the upstream project, but the four vital projects for us have been toponaming, integrated assembly workbench, UX/UI, and collaboration.

full Article / release notes

So working exactly on what most consider FreeCADs weaknesses I’d say

Unfortunately toponaming is still not done for either. That will be a huge leap in usefulness for me.
(fixes models breaking when their topology changes)

TheYang, 4 months ago

Well, all of these companies intentionally try to lock the users into them, by making their files as unreadable as possible.

No Company wants to lose access to all of their models.

TheYang, 4 months ago

so I’m hoping we’re finally getting close to a version that’s a little more robust.

Well, the Ondsel team which (claims to? I don’t know) work closely with FreeCAD hoped in October 23 to maybe get Topological Naming done by February 2024 (FOSDEM 2024 is 03rd and 4th of February

We think that these goals are within reach and it should be possible to release FreeCAD 1.0 in time for the next FOSDEM. Here’s our thinking behind this goal.

Since FreeCAD still seems to be in the beginning stages of phase 3, I doubt they’ll make that target.

TheYang, 4 months ago

Infill has massively diminishing returns. I don’t think 100% is required. Usually it’s much better to increase the number outer layers.
That said, depending on the cost scaling, the possibly positive effects of extra mass, and how much I want to avoid a second attempt, massive objects can make some sense.

PLA becomes brittle with moisture (from your hands and/or air). I would recomment PETG / ASA / ABS (ascending order).

Yes, basically all CAD and slicers (3d-printer software) can mirror. PrusaSlicer for example can mirror and then save to stl again.

TheYang, 5 months ago

I don’t think it’s necesarrily nothing, as sending all of that data is so comprehensive it should be communicated clearly by bambu, and it seems (but I don’t know!) That it isn’t.
Sometimes you might want/need help and don’t want to send everything.

For a lot of stuff partial gcode / sensor data around the issue should suffice for example.

But it sounded way worse before the clarification, when I understood that it was sending those logs all the time.

The open source license issues will be interesting, but probably irrelevant. We already can be rather sure that they already are in violation with BambuStudio and no one wants to spend the money to do anything about it.

TheYang, 5 months ago

It’s not necessary.
At best it’s because this way they don’t have to differentiate between networks, and make the system a bit easier for Bambi themselves.
At worst they want to lock you into an ecosystem they want to build and steal a ton of models people make.

TheYang, 5 months ago

The only thing I think the Mk4 is missing is a camera / octoprint support, but I can live without those.

Firmware 5.1 enabled octoprint support.
Not as far as they’d like, but it works. From memory what is missing is some support when Local and Octoprint mix (i.e. when you print locally, octoprint can’t stop the print. Bit annoying but far from a dealbreaker imho)