chkno

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[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Say more?

NixOS supports headless LUKS, which was an improvement for me in my last distro-hop. The NixOS wiki even has an example of running a TOR Onion service from initrd to accept a LUKS unlock credential.

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] chkno@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

Download over TOR / run your podcatcher from Tails.

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the lead!

It looks like the Buddy Read feature does in fact start with a specific book and organize a group around it, but it invites me to specify all the people that will ever be in the group right away, at group creation time. I get three ways to invite people:

  • "Machine-learning powered reading buddy recommendations" - Unspecified voodoo. Three users are shown.
  • "Community members who have this book on their radar" - Probably folks that have this on their public 'to read' list. Three users are shown.
  • Specifying users directly by username

This doesn't quite fit the "I'm up for this, let me know when it starts" mechanic.

I could create a new group & invite all three of the users with this book in their public 'to read' list, but I think folks treat the the 'to read' list very, very casually -- not at the "I'm ready to commit to a reading group" level. These three users have 723, 2749, and 3771 books on their 'to read' lists respectively. I see that I somehow have have 46 books on mine, & haven't been thinking of it as a 'ready to commit to reading group' list.

 

I have a specific book I've been meaning to read for awhile. I've heard that while it's a great journey, it's a dense / heavy / slow read along the way. It sounds like it'd be fun to read it together with a group of likewise interested folks.

Is there a service for pulling together reading groups around specific books, rather than the more common way of gathering a group of people and then selecting books? I'm imagining a website that has a sign-up page for ~every book and when ~10 people sign up for a book they all get an email introducing them to each other. Like if there was a bus stop for every book & when enough people had gathered, a bus appears & they depart together.

Given list of all the books, this seems like a pretty easy thing to make. Does it exist yet?

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Regulation is slow, full of drama, scales poorly, & can result in a legal thicket that teams of lawyers can navigate better than the individuals it's intended to advocate for. Decriminalizing interoperability is faster & can handle most of the small/simple cases, freeing up our community/legislative resources to focus on the most important regulatory needs.

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's normal. That's the seam -- where each layer starts/stops. Yours don't look any worse than mine.

Sometimes you can tweak settings to reduce them a bit, but the only way to avoid them completely is to print in spiral/vase mode (which is very limiting: 1 contiguous perimeter, no infill).

More importantly: You can control where they appear on the part! Your slicer may have settings like 'nearest' , 'random', 'aligned', 'rear', or may have a way to paint on the part in the UI where the seams should be. Seams are clearly visible when they're in the middle of an otherwise-smooth expanse like the side of your boat there, but are barely noticeable if you put them on a corner.

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

X11 for xdotool. ydotool doesn't support (& can't really support with it's current architecture) retrieving information like the current mouse location, current window, window dimensions & titles. Also, normal (unprivileged) user ydotool use requires udev rules or session scripts and/or running a ydotool daemon & many distros don't yet ship with this Just Working.

X11 for Alt-F2 r to restart Gnome Shell without ending the whole session. This is a useful workaround for a variety of Gnome bugs.

 

Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you can get state boundary image data coincident with height map data (such as by taking two screenshots on the USGS website, one with the heightmap data opaque and with it translucent, without panning or zooming between), you could use a normal image editor (eg: GIMP) to mask the height map data so that it's zero (black) outside the state boundary and at least slightly gray inside the state boundary. With OpenSCAD's surface, this would give you a rectangle that's flat outside the state and at some minimum height inside the state. You could then use one difference or intersection to cut across the model by height, trimming off the flat rectangular base.

(I.e., doing the trimming the image seems much easier than trimming an STL, & would totally work.)

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