AnyOldName3

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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're already doing better than a whole lot of people if you're getting invited to parties. Of the people I was at school, university, or work with, I'm the only one who bothers hosting parties, and that won't broaden my social circle as I already know everyone. Most people don't have enough living space to have more than a few people over and can't afford to cater for a bunch of extra people. Even for attending parties someone else hosts, travel and accommodation can be a pain. If you're not within taxi range and there isn't abundant late night public transport, you'll either need to not drink and then drive home, find a hotel, or hope the party is small enough that there'll be space to crash.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Just like how if people want to be billionaires enough, they find ways to change themselves or their circumstances to make it happen. People only have partial control over who they are and the circumstances they're in, and the changes they're able to make don't always make a difference here.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

If you've got a magnifying glass, your phone will be able to autofocus much closer if you put the magnifying glass between the camera and the object.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Most software is like this, but you also don't get to look at the source code either.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It looks like the change happened nearly a year ago, and no one's kicked up a fuss, so either it was done properly (i.e. past contributors were contacted and consented to the licence change, and any that didn't had their contributions replaced), or there's a big problem once a past contributor notices.

It doesn't make it any more legal to fork the project without going back to the last GPL3 commit, though, as any contributions after the license change have to be assumed to be covered by the new licence, so the combined work would be under an invalid licence (as the old and new licences aren't compatible) rather than being still covered by the old licence.

Normally, I'd completely dismiss the possibility that a licence change like this could have been done properly, but Stenzek is associated with Dolphin Emulator, which did manage to pull off a switch from GPL2 to GPL3+ by emailing lots of people and replacing a lot of code.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The licence doesn't permit derivative works, so no forks and no downstream packages.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Sometimes the ones that are a fifth the price on AliExpress are the ones that failed QA testing for the whitelabeller, or they're the same board with lower-rated components attached, so they're not necessarily identical.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

A trick is to weigh the filament before you start drying it and then weigh it again every few hours to see if it's stopped getting lighter. If it's been hours since it lost a single gram, then it's probably close enough to as dry as it's going to get, and if it still doesn't behave, then there must be a second problem.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Someone doesn't understand the Windows design language. Anxiety would be a yellow warning triangle. That's a red error circle, so something really has gone wrong and you're right to be panicking about it, and better remember what it is before the consequences become too dire.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The pun doesn't even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don't already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This is untrue. I can't do this because I can't convince the verification tool that my phone really has a camera, so I can't show it Norman Reedus.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the moment, they're already at risk of being removed by the government, who can make them illegal, and simultaneously at risk of being removed by payment processors, who can prevent the stores from operating. It makes no difference to the government whether they're also the payment processor. They could remove them anyway. Having two entities with unilateral power to remove something can't be worse than just having one of them.

 

I've just been switched from Freestyle Libre 2 to 3, and (at least in the UK) these need to be requested directly from Abbott instead of via regular NHS prescriptions that go to a pharmacist. To do this, you have to use their patient portal, so you need a password and need to go through their password reset process. The listed requirements are a minimum of eight characters, five lower-case letters, one upper-case letter, a number and a symbol, but there's either also a maximum number of characters (I typically use way more than eight) or a restriction on which symbols are permitted. If you don't meet the hidden extra requirements, you'll get a 404 during the password reset process (which isn't even the right error code for this kind of thing).

It took a lot of tries before my password manager came up with something the website was happy with, and no one seems to have written anything on the searchable parts of the internet about it, so I wasn't sure it was going to work and thought I might just have hit outages on both days I tried, so I'm writing this here in the hope that the next time someone sees the same error, this will show up in a search, and they know they need to change the password they're trying to set.

I'm not going to go into what eventually worked and which characters were allowed, as obviously that'd give away more information about the password I ended up with than I'm comfortable disclosing, so sorry for not specifying precisely what the real requirements are.

 

I've got a 3D printed project, and went over it with a couple of airbrushed coats of a 50/50 mix of Tamiya X-35 (their alcohol-based acrylic semi-gloss) and Mr Color Levelling Thinner. As far as I can tell, it looks good so far, but now the room next to the one I sprayed in smells of solvent a few hours later, despite extractor fans running. I knew the lacquer thinner was nasty, so bought a respirator, and haven't been in the room with the model without it (hence only knowing that the next room stinks), but would like to know when I won't need it anymore. The best I've been able to find with Google is the ten-minute touch-dry time, but I'm assuming the VOCs will take longer to be entirely gone.

 

Edit 1: I'm attaching the image again. If there's still no photo, blame Jerboa and not the alcohol I've consumed.

Edit 3: edit 2 is gone. However, an imgur link should now be here!

Edit 4: I promise the photo of some plugs does not contain erotic material (unless you have very specific and abnormal fetishes). I can't find the button to tell that to imgur, though. You can blame that on the alcohol.

Edit 5: s/done/some/g

Edit 6: I regret mentioning the dartboard, which was a safe distance below these sockets, and seems to be distracting people from the fact that one's the wrong way up. I've now replaced the imgur link with a direct upload now I'm back on my desktop the next day.

 

When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
 

Test post for @testman@lemmy.ml to test posting.

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