NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 5 hours ago

So, business as usual.

Patch Tuesday didn't become a thing for no reason.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think there was just a misunderstanding.

[–] NaibofTabr 28 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Punching Nazis is always morally correct.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NaibofTabr 13 points 15 hours ago

The genie is out of the bottle

This is a lot more like Pandora's Box - all the evils have been let loose.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 15 hours ago

I've thought about this several times. A makerspace seems like an ideal way to do this on the face of it - collect from the community, not just one person, and have the processing equipment at a shared location, and then you can have the recycled material at the makerspace for members to use for prototyping or whatever.

But you can't mix plastic types. Sure most of what you collect would be PLA, but not all of it, and you can't really identify the polymer just by looking at it. So now you have to get information from the donor - what material did you print this with? And hope they remember the right thing. Also inspect every donation for foreign objects like screws or blobs of glue. And then label and keep records on all the material until you can get around to actually processing it through the recycling equipment.

Also you can't mix the material you run through the recycling - a little bit of PETG in a batch of PLA will ruin the whole batch and probably clog up the filament extruder, requiring you to stop and clean everything out. So you have to either have completely separate processing lines for PLA and PET and whatever else, or you have to clean the shredder and the extruder out really well between batches, or just limit what you process to one material.

The whole concept doesn't scale well beyond one person, but it's also a lot of equipment and a lot of work for one person to operate by themselves.

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Feel like we should be able to keep on building high rises till its the most affordable type of housing and do it mix with shops on at street level while we are at it with a few floors of office.

"Mega City One. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one."

"You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's a fucking meat grinder. People go in one end. And meat comes out the other..."

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 22 hours ago

"We appreciate China's support for Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and we had a very substantive and pragmatic conversation."

How has China supported Ukraine's territorial integrity? They've been supplying Russia with war material since the invasion started.

In an official Chinese summary of their meeting, Wang said China was "willing to provide new humanitarian assistance to Ukraine" but made no mention of any invitation to visit Kyiv.

China is interested in establishing a foothold in Ukraine, with its own equipment and security personnel.

"We are willing to maintain communication with Ukraine and work with the international community to play a constructive role in achieving an early political solution to the crisis," Wang added.

How very gracious and noncommittal.

China has close economic and security ties to Russia and has refused to join international sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

No kidding.

[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I actually get the feeling that the US stock market is being turned into a pump-and-dump scheme, not piecemeal but entire.

[–] NaibofTabr 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So... there's a practical difference between rendering markup, which is handled by the browser engine and generally benign, and running executable script, which is frequently malicious.

Allowing your website to load JavaScript means that I'm allowing you to execute arbitrary code on my hardware. Hopefully the potential blast radius of any malicious code is limited by safety precautions in my web browser, but a web browser is not a security barrier and should not be relied on to protect the local system from malicious code downloaded from the Internet. The most pernicious and seemingly unavoidable behavior of JavaScript on most websites is device fingerprinting, and to get a better understanding of how much of a problem that is check out https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

The simplest step to prevent a lot of this malicious behavior is to block executable script. This is not really a new thing on the Internet, as extensions like NoScript have been around for 2 decades and have millions of users. This should be anticipated by the web developer as a completely normal use case.

Competent web developers understand that they have privacy-conscious users who block external executable script as a matter of course. Your website(s) should be designed to account for this, and should at least render and display information in a readable way without needing to execute your un-vetted code on the user's system. Maybe some dynamic functions of the website don't work, but that's OK as long as the majority of the site is accessible. A JavaScript-dependent website is no better than a Flash-dependent website, in terms of security, privacy, and professionalism.

NoScript frames this as a consent issue, and that's probably valid:

NoScript enables consensual browsing: your browser, your choice!

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 2 days ago

Oh I understand the word, it just seems like a lot of syllables.

[–] NaibofTabr 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

estadounidenses

people actually use this in conversation?

 

I'm dropping this in here for anyone who's interested in the background of where RWBY came from and what happened that turned it into the darling orphan it is today.

RWBY was Rooster Teeth's second major series. I think if you're a fan it's worth knowing about Monty Oum (RWBY was basically his personal project) and his influence on the company.

This video is the best summary I've seen of Rooster Teeth's existence, how they got started, their peak, and how it fell apart. They were internet trendsetters in a lot of ways. It's worth the time to watch.

 

My introduction to this was through the video, so it felt appropriate to share here. I'm sure this is a reupload and I saw it somewhere else earlier than 2012.

You can actually play with it on the creator's website:

https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg

 

Using only pieces from the original set.

 

This popular successor to the original Turbo Encabulator has now been itself succeeded by the impressive Hyper Encabulator. There seems to be no end to clever innovation in the important field of encabulation.

 

Don Hertzfeldt

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