cazabon

@cazabon@mindly.social

I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.

I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.

#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights

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Lockdownyourlife, to privacy

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    cazabon,

    @Lockdownyourlife

    Perhaps a list of their names and company associations would help them see the error of their ways...

    Lichtenbergian, to random
    @Lichtenbergian@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

    If you are like me — and like most of the people I’ve worked with over the past decades — the only thing stopping you from accomplishing your work is the fear that it’s not going to be perfect. (p. 122)

    cazabon,

    @Lichtenbergian

    ➕

    ... oh, and meetings. So many ...

    cstross, to random
    @cstross@wandering.shop avatar

    DO MY WORK:

    Currently brainstorming aliterative terms of disparagement for Bob to use in the next Laundry novel.

    So far I have disallowed:

    — Tangerine Shitgibbon ❌ (because Fuck That Guy)
    — Useless Fuckpigs ❌ (too much Dominic Cummings)

    But also:

    — Demented Felchsquirrels
    — Impotent Wankpandas
    — Pathetic Puffinfellators
    — Turd-polishing Terrapins
    — Stupefied Swivemonkeys

    And now I need more.

    What have you got for me?

    cazabon,

    @cstross

    "Useless fucknuggets"

    lauren, to random
    @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

    BREAKING: Trump insists he's never read "Mein Kampf". (But apparently didn't say anything about audiobooks and movies). Actually, I don't have difficulty with the idea of Trump never having read it. It's not written at a third grade reading level, after all.

    cazabon,

    @lauren

    Indeed. Remember, he's the man who couldn't be bothered to read "his own" book, much less write it.

    cazabon,

    @lauren

    You've just reminded me of Jack Palance in his most scenery-chewing performance ever. Thank you for that.

    cazabon,

    @lauren

    Indeed, Herr Hitler was a truly gifted orator. I understand he obsessed endlessly about the smallest in his for hours or days before giving them. Much effort, evil intent.

    He definitely did not put that kind of into Mein Kampf. That was virtually , complete . I barely struggled through it (pun not intended...). I think college students are probably lucky it's not assigned reading (much) anymore.

    cazabon, to Seinfeld

    From the news...

    > Jerry Seinfeld meets with freed Israeli hostages,
    > families of captives in Tel Aviv

    Oh jeez, haven't they been through enough already?

    LockEx, to random
    @LockEx@ioc.exchange avatar

    I received a gift from a friend today. Opening this card starts playing "Never Gonna Give You Up". It doesn't stop playing. 1/3

    cazabon,

    @LockEx

    Your friend is awesome. Tell them that.

    lauren, to random
    @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

    BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot. Personally, I believe the probability of the U.S. Supreme Court going along with this is essentially zero. He'll be on the ballot in the end.

    cazabon,

    @lauren

    Wow. I agree that it's unlikely to stand, but more importantly, will this be The Thing that sends him over the #edge?

    Given his "normal" behaviour, I'm having trouble imagining what that would be like.

    #OverTheEdge #normal

    jwz, to random
    @jwz@mastodon.social avatar

    Rajat Khare doesn't like people writing about him.

    An Indian venture capitalist is mounting an international legal campaign to pressure major media outlets to remove his name from articles or take down the stories altogether:

    Reuters published a...
    https://jwz.org/b/ykHc

    cazabon,

    @jwz

    I figured he would have just had it deleted, but I don't see a history for it either. There is a (very short) one about his company:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appin_(company)

    I hope he gets a good, close look at the Effect over the next few months.

    koz, to 3DPrinting
    @koz@chaos.social avatar

    When building extruders, make sure you properly tighten the grub screw to attach your gear to the motor shaft. If it's loose, it'll gradually work itself free, and then your extruder will jam.

    Ask me how I know.

    @3dprinting

    cazabon,

    @koz @3dprinting

    While you're at it, it's a good idea to put a drop of NON-PERMANENT threadlock in the hole before putting the grub/set screw in. Set screws suck no matter what.

    Get "medium" strength , or it's not coming back out without the help of a , which tends to affect the life of the plastic components...

    cazabon,

    @koz @3dprinting

    I'm not familiar with Gorilla's - I use , but and other brands are all similar, but I don't think that one is what you want. Red generally means the permanent stuff, and the fact that the packaging says "heat resistant" points in that direction too.

    So if you use that one, it's probably never coming loose. That may not be a good thing :)

    Medium-strength is generally blue, but Loctite uses red with a blue stripe on the package...

    cazabon,

    @koz @3dprinting

    Interesting. Reading between the lines, you printed extruder parts from ABS - my extruders have only been and , no other . I'm curious why the Gorilla stuff would be better suited to ABS than Loctite or others? Gorilla's red still seems to be methacrylate-based, like the others.

    And , yes "extruder" is too a word.

    Edit: typo fix.

    cazabon,

    @koz @3dprinting

    Ah. I'm interested to hear how it goes. Always room for another bottle of threadlocker on the shelf 😜

    Tevis, to Rabbits
    @Tevis@mastodon.social avatar

    Decided to learn and wound up recording a theme song for my .

    A song plays to a montage of photos of Decaf Cappuccino, the brown rabbit.

    cazabon,

    @Tevis

    So many fantastic photos - very photogenic!

    cstross, to random
    @cstross@wandering.shop avatar

    Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author

    Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

    ... Welp, that was a thing and a half.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/copyright-claim-against-tolkien-estate-backfires-on-lord-of-the-rings-fanfiction-author

    cazabon,

    @cstross

    We now clearly need someone to AI-generate some art of Multichron Wudaboudit leading a marching band through the front gate of . Bonus points for oliphants with colourful accoutrements.

    erinwhalen, to Canada

    Here we goooooo!! Canada is expected to announce this week that all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035. Only 12 years left to buy a gas guzzler, people!

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/canada-announce-all-new-cars-must-be-zero-emissions-by-2035-report-2023-12-17/

    cazabon,

    @erinwhalen

    Let me guess, you live in a large centre? Or perhaps a suburb of such?

    When you live somewhere where there are no fast chargers, and possibly no chargers at all, along your 750km drive - and there will still be none there in 12 years - "just go " starts to sound a little like "Hi, I live in Toronto and/or Ottawa and/or Vancouver, and I don't care how it affects you".

    Add in drives which require ICE cars to have the heater full blast the whole way... bye, battery range.

    cazabon,

    @cass_m @erinwhalen

    I'm not sure where you live, but here things can be a whole lot more . I used to do a 750km drive where there was exactly one place you could stop for gas on the way, around the middle. It consisted of one gas station / convenience store combo, and half a dozen houses.

    There was no way to build a charger there without running a new power feed to the "town" hundreds of kilometers, which isn't going to happen in my lifetime.

    It ain't like urban Canada.

    cazabon,

    @jaimevisser @erinwhalen

    Oh, no, it's nothing remotely . The : ~= 430 people / km^2.

    My province: population density ~= 1.7 people / km ^ 2. And the population here is concentrated heavily in the southern third of the province - up north, it's 0.2 or 0.1 people / km^2.

    For large areas of my province, it will never be feasible to build infrastructure for .

    cazabon,

    @cass_m @erinwhalen

    And ... ? That would cover one line from Alberta to Manitoba. Doesn't help with any of the routes I'm talking about.

    Why is it impossible for advocates of BEVs to admit that in this country of ten million square kilometers, there are large parts of it that are quite unlike the fifty-square-kilometer area that they're most familiar with?

    A solution tailor-made for urban centers and the main highways that connect them is never going to cover even a majority of Canada.

    cazabon,

    @mackaj @cass_m @erinwhalen

    > This couple have just completed a drive from the North Pole to the South Pole. Something
    > no one has ever done before. And they did it in an EV.

    And they had to have a with panels and turbines to be able to do it, because there is no electric charging infrastructure for large parts of the journey.

    Are you suggesting you'll give everyone who doesn't travel within close proximity of a fast charger station one of those trailers?

    cazabon,

    @mackaj @cass_m @erinwhalen

    > [...] 2045 [...] then it'll be a non issue. Range options will be massive
    > and charging infrastructure will be solved.

    Maybe where you are. Charging infrastructure will definitely not be solved for large parts of my province by 2045 - or ever, possibly. Remember the bit where I said the population density up north was perhaps 0.1 people / km^2?

    Many of the places up there don't have electricity. At all. There goes your "just slow charge when you get there".

    cazabon,

    @SheamusPatt @mackaj @erinwhalen

    Hybrid isn't going to do a lot for highway drives in the cold here - cruising at high speed (with serious headwinds...) doesn't give regenerative charging a chance to do anything. So it means relying almost purely on the ICE -- but a pure-ICE car would weigh 0.5-1.0 tonnes less and do the same thing, so the hybrid would produce more CO2...

    Tevis, to Rabbits
    @Tevis@mastodon.social avatar

    What a face.

    cazabon,

    @Tevis

    And !

    Cats and rabbits look so when they sit with all four together. I think our rabbits tend to be too to do it well.

    mattblaze, to random
    @mattblaze@federate.social avatar

    Checked in to a hotel yesterday afternoon. Settled in to take a nap. Shortly thereafter, what sounded like a 727 engine started up outside my door. Tried to ignore it until the periodic banging on the door started about 15 minutes later. Turned out to be this little fella, “Rosie 1049” which ran into the room as soon as I opened the door. I quickly got dressed and carried it to the elevator.

    The robot uprising is going to be amazing.

    cazabon,

    @mattblaze

    I'm pretty sure "Robopocalypse" had a scene like this one near the beginning.

    I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Hopefully my electronics skills can be useful...

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