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rusty

@rusty@ma.zcx.cc

Someone with too many irons in the fire. Network engineer by profession, photographer, 3dPrint designer and operator, some times hermit, gamer and streamer, ham radio operator, grandfather and great uncle. Sometimes I dabble in home automation, light programming and writing (not published.) Curious about many things, and just knowledgeable enough to know that the best way to improve that knowledge base is to share it with others.

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rusty, to philosophy
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- "What is the meaning of Life"" or purpose. Maybe their two different things, or they may mean the same thing. I'm interested in the idea that Meaning or Purpose are artifacts of living a life that allows one to contemplate such matters. Are both an emergent property of a life that involves a level of leisure.

Homeless or starving people, or someone in combat has more pressing concerns than life's meaning or purpose. Staying alive to wonder why later is the issue at hand.\

rusty, to random
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Reserving judgement on this. While at MicroCenter today, observed that on a Sunday, they had well over 20 Pi4's in 2 and 8 gig sizes in the cabinet. (More of the 8, than the 2.) I'd like to see similar stock of the Pi5, (I haven't seen one in store since it was released) as well as Pi0v2 boards, not sure if those will return. It looks like the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working to restore supply in the hobby market. We'll see if it continues to improve. @geerlingguy @Raspberry_Pi

rusty,
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@aallan While my post may be taken as a complaint, I mean it as a comment of hope that we'll see improvement at all levels. I agree that ramping up is happening.

As to alternatives to Microcenter, if someone within 10 times the distance to my local Microcenter (about 5 miles, so within 50 miles) that I can walk in and put my hands on a PiZeroV2 (any variety) I'll consider it. But I'm not stopping by Joe's garage down the street.

feliciaday, to random

I have a newsletter I've started to update monthly again. Check it out! (also I just completely lost it on Twitter so I might be hanging here more lol)
https://felicitations.substack.com

rusty,
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@feliciaday Always happy to see your posts, no matter what service you're using. Keep on keeping on.

stux, to random
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Hm.. when playing Cyberpunk 2077 it almost feels like the nowadays dystopia run by corpos we live in except without the cool cyberware

rusty,
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@stux Yeah, people working to complete that by building the cool cyberware. Kind of wish they would do more to take out t he dystopia run by corpos though.

stux, to random
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Trump should be in jail multiple times over..

The fact he is still a free orange walking around says he is simply above the law

A president should be an example not a cartel leader

"Justice" in the US only goes for people with no money but not in their favor

rusty,
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@stux It's a start that he, and most of his family has now lost their ability to operate a business and hold a business license in NY, but no, it's not enough. The wheels of justice grind slowly here, and sand easily gets into the works.

stux, to politics
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The question is not IF they are eating uranium 235 for breakfast but rather HOW MUCH :think_bread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyeiB0gmGw

rusty,
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@stux "Not enough." is all I can think of. But then I'm not exactly known as a fan of theirs.

stux, to random
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It ain't much but it's honest work :bloblaugh:

A red cube in ThreeJS with full-screen support

rusty,
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@stux I'm sr you don't need the kibitzing, but if you can register numbers to each side, you can have it role die for you. 😃

stux, to random
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Even though I do bash and laugh about failing cryptocurrency and NFT projects that have SO MANY red flags to begin with...

...I do feel kinda sad about it because so many people blindly trust cryptocurrency project x or y and put in a load of money and it disappears again or gets scammed

While many free open source developers that give away their work for free are struggeling to even keep the lights on

Cryptocurrency and NFT's are not about art or freedom anymore but rather greed again

rusty,
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@stux

I think there are several issues with cryptocurrencies and NFT's but they amount to people not understanding what they need to do to retain their earnings, and people not really thinking through the implications of a 'purchase' of something that the creator then makes freely available.

I like the idea of a digital currency. On the other hand I have a concern regarding it's purported untraceability, considering the fact that every transaction is recorded in the ledger that's available.

stux, to flying
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Why Does Flying Suck so Much?

Out of control fees for in-flight meals, checked bags, or even carry-ons.

Charging us $25 to print a boarding pass!

Why does flying suck so much these days?

It has a lot to do with power — and how greed has overtaken our entire economy.

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

rusty,
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@stux in the USA, most of the blame can be dropped in the lap of Ronnie Regan's heirs and assigns, even if they had nothing to do with it.

stux, to random
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Boop :blobcatboop:

Big black cat boops

rusty,
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@stux love Luna!

stux, to Starfield
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Huh. With all the bad reviews about I thought aah i'll be okay

But guess what..

It sucks soooooo very hard.. :amaze:

The UI is crap, gameplay sucks terrible, space is just a map without ground, it's all cut scenes, and the game is just dead and empty overall

It's not that it has a lot of bugs or is un-playable, the game in general sucks just very much :sadlinux:

Would have expected a lot more from

rusty,
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@stux well, I wasn't expecting to switch to it full time to replace me playing No Man's Sky, but I do want to see more playable space based survival games. They don't have to be procedural games, but a flexible map would be nice. If I want to play a fixed map game, doom has been ported already.

rusty, to random
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designed up a drill guid to center up a 3/16" bit on pretty much any stock up to 5" wide. Overkill for what I need, but I can use the design to make similar for anything that leaves enough stock on the 20mm frame for stability, I can also add a feature to allow it to handle even larger drills, but I'm not doing that often enough to do that yet. I Need this because when I drilled a 3/16" hole to mount the spinning whell to the vertical support freehand, it was not perpendicular.

rusty,
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@chrishuck

In ways it does seem like Overkill, but I think it's far less so than setting up a drill press to drill a hole square to the surface in a 2"x2". Not because that wouldn't be a valid solution, though for me it would involve moving a lot of heavy stuff around...

No, it's because what the activity did for me was let me work out how the tool should work, and how to set up an order of operations to design such a tool and ultimately implement and use it. And the wheel spins freely now.

stux, to random
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The fascist is back on Twitter

rusty,
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@stux That mug shot looks (to me) as if he's so scared he thinks he has to hide that with Anger, but isn't able to actually project that.

I've seen comparison's to how Kubric staged his Villains in their most desperate moments.

In any case he's working from emotions right now, and pretty much any reputable advisor will note that being this emotional is really a bad position to be in when others are going to be making decisions related to the rest of your life.

geerlingguy, to random
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My own magic-wormhole relay, for zippier transfers https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-own-magic-wormhole-relay-zippier-transfers

rusty,
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@geerlingguy

Have you considered breaking the file to transfer up into some number of fragments, and doing transfers in parallel?

My thought is that if you're not actually using the full available bandwidth at any specific endpoint or relay, you may have throughput and headspace available to do another transfer in parallel.

Major issue I see is that copy and paste of the receive command, but that's mostly message passing.

rusty,
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@geerlingguy

Depends on how you do it. Perhaps a block handler that grabs 512 bytes at a time, adds a header of either which 'block' this is, or how many bytes into the file it is, output to pipes for the transfer, far end goes into pipes, with a merge that uses the headers to re-assemble the file.

There are likely better ways, but essentially you would build a diverse routing file transfer. Networks have been doing this for decades with eigrp, OSPF and BGP, not to mention etherchannel etc.

stux, to random
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Currently my gf is taking driving lessons and we where just talking about driving big cars and trucks

Personally I do not feel safe driving a big car or truck simply because the bigger the vehicle the harder it is to controll it and my gf feels the same

I hear other people say they feel not safe in smaller cars because everyone around them is driving a tank and I also understand that I guess

At the end of the day I just leave the car I don't have and take the electric bike 🚲⚡

rusty,
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@stux "Feeling 'safe'" pretty much falls into 2 fields. The first is 'I've been in this situation, before, survived or was injured, so that guides my sense of safety. The other is 'I've been hearing bad things about the world around me so I will arbitrarily tag things as safe or unsafe, and disregard the views of anyone else.

What you describe seems to me to be the first variety, but I know plenty of folk who will declare it is the latter. Regardless, the e-bike option works for me.

geerlingguy, to random
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This is rich, coming from IBM: https://twitter.com/maximilianhils/status/1680193548212228097?s=46&t=u6IW5ZeTxOOP5ybPek9GoQ (don't hate on the employee though).

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (at the rebuilder communities).

rusty,
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@geerlingguy IBM (has / had) some of the very best software developers of all time at the time OS/2 was on the market. I'm having a hard time seeing them as relying on someone else's schedule for meeting challenges for deliverables, with the understanding that they can contribute fixes back to the dev team. Well, unless they have alienated their own developer community as badly as it sounds like they are trying to alienate this developer in this missive.

itnewsbot, to random

Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023 - Image by Alex Castro / The Verge

Reddit users have... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/15/23795883/reddit-chat-history-removed-protest-blackout-new-architecture

rusty,
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@itnewsbot What are the odds that all of it is available for legal teams to subpoena at any time should they need it as evidence?

itnewsbot, to ArtificialIntelligence

Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I. - Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers,... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/technology/artificial-intelligence-models-chat-data.html

rusty,
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@itnewsbot I keep wondering if a multi-=language pool of "script" needs to be created, or dynamically spawned, that simply uses Python's NLP engine to write prose that makes no sense. Either as a body of work, or as a stream that gets compressed and has to be decompressed by the AI learning engine to read and 'learn' from it.

itnewsbot, to random

Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in the America's hottest city? - A 100 days over 100F and a historic drought don't worry Microsoft or Google With more tha... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/07/15/cloud_datacenters_desert/

rusty,
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@itnewsbot I'm inclined to believe that both will be making use of large volume heat pumps to cool their datacenters. "But those take more power" yes but if they can solve that issue by doubling, or quadrupling, the size of their solar farm, I'm inclined to believe that they will also be selling power for a while.

wonderofscience, (edited ) to random
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A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.

Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. 'Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles.' DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620612114

rusty,
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@wonderofscience Would love to see a video of the wings being stowed under the shell, is it also effectively autonomous, or doe the ladybug use feet or mandibles to get the folds right for a later deploy.

And yes I understand that getting a slow-mo of that, isn't as easy. It's tough to get any creature to land on the focus point of any camera.

itnewsbot, to random

Your Smartphone Can Have Two Lines. Here's Why You'd Want That. - Add a second plan for work, international travel—or just better cell reception - https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-smartphone-can-have-two-lines-heres-why-youd-want-that-e811c035?mod=rss_Technology

rusty,
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@itnewsbot I have a second phone for when I need a work line, as my last company stopped providing either. Probably time to drop that line.

geerlingguy, to RaspberryPi
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GOOD NEWS! I can confidently say: the Pi shortage seems to be wrapping up. Don't buy from scalpers, you won't have to wait long for a re-stock from local resellers.

@rpilocator restocks rising, @Raspberry_Pi store limits lifted!

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rusty,
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@geerlingguy I've been regularly seeing PiZero-w boards at my local Microcenter (Minnesota) and very occasionally Pi 400's, and Pi 4 B+ Even picked up a Pi3A a couple of months back. (which I expect will end up on the back of a display as an almost-a-tablet. Pi pico's are reliably available over the past couple of months, and the PiZero-wh boards have also made appearances. It's good to see them occasionally showing up. Still want them all to be reliably available though.

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