Notices by Wanja (muvlon@hachyderm.io)

@dalias I'm not yet convinced. Software isn't hardware, and what makes sense for one doesn't necessarily make sense for the other.

Swapping out a part in a hardware design for another one meeting the same specification by potentially a different manufacturer is very commonplace. And it makes sense, sourcing hardware components in the right amount, in the right place and on the right timeline can be a real challenge!

Sourcing software, by comparison, is usually trivial, at least in FOSS. You can get a bit-for-bit copy of the exact thing the original creator of the software used, within seconds, and make a million copies of it at essentially no cost. Yes there are still valid reasons to swap out dependencies (I've sure done it myself), but they're much more niche.

@dalias It might be doable with some secure multiparty computation shenanigans. You can still break the crypto used for *that* instead of RSA2048 but if set up correctly that's probably harder.

@dalias @GroupNebula563 I see. Maybe look for RC car ESCs? They run drone-ish RPMs and voltages and they often have motor breaking not even because they need regen but because they get to skip having mechanical brakes. And I think there are some that can put out ebike levels of power (couple hundred watts).

@dalias @GroupNebula563 *much* lower for an ebike? I know the Grin baserunner controller can handle 24V (very much not cheap though), but I'm not aware of anything that goes lower than that. Maybe there are things intended for electric scooters though?

@dalias @mjg59 I also only did it once, and it was for a shitpost. I dumped my laptop's UEFI firmware using flashrom, did s/Intel Rapid Start™ Technology/Intel Rapid Fart™ Technology /g and flashed it back. It worked great!

@thomasfuchs I fucking called it, exactly! https://hachyderm.io/@muvlon/115927571978440906

I wished I'd be proven wrong but no, they did exactly what we knew they would with the results of that survey.

@dalias Ah, got it, thanks for taking the time to explain. I think it's a kind of spline bearing, probably a ball spline (assuming you're using ball bearings, which I can't tell from the photo).

@dalias This looks really clever, but I can't quite wrap my head around it yet. Might be a language barrier (I don't know what a "slider gear" is).

The double cardan joint takes care of angle issues, but what about height/distance issues? Is that what the "slider gear assembly" does?

@dalias This is a seriously cool project! However, I have severe trust issues from prior exposure to delta printers and will be hard to convince to give them another chance. I've yet to see somebody who's not an advanced printer magician pull anything resembling an acceptable print out of one.

@dalias @astraleureka It was also designed to become ubiquitous on the internet, being a mandatory feature in IPv6 initially.

That's a real doozy, how the hell would that work? "Before connecting to an internet peer, discuss and troubleshoot the intricacies of their IPSec configuration via e-mail for 1-2 business weeks"? I connect to dozens of new internet peers every day!

Out of all the naive IETF designs of the Blunders Era, this is easily the silliest, beating out IGMP and original IPv6.

@dalias @astraleureka No joke, I have worked on some IPSec stuff professionally and it's so fucking arcane. There's a billion knobs and if you mess one up you get to spend two weeks in network debugging hell chasing random errors.

Wireguard is really nice and I don't need anything like wg-quick for it. Just use wireguard normally and whatever your distro gives you for managing interfaces and routes.

@dalias Oooh you mean the magnifying glass! Yeah that is obstructed by the silly popup, very annoying.

@dalias Wait, my Mastodon PWA on Firefox Android doesn't even have the URL bar at all 🤔

@dalias The discovery of the smoke stack layer pause skip ushered in a new era of WR hunting in the benchy 30% category

@dalias If that's all it takes, that's a low price to pay. I mean, the preprocessor

- Is a computer algorithm
- Can generate a lot of text fast
- May output awful buggy crap
- Doesn't have an understanding of the semantics of the actual programming language
- Can't really do math

so that has to be enough to call it an LLM, right?

@dalias Can we skip this entire ordeal if we say the C preprocessor is AI and we can make the 90% quota just by abusing enough macros?

@dalias I mean at some point we had some of the top nuclear physics in the entire world "tickling the dragon's tail" with the demon core and dying as a result, so this isn't exactly surprising. Still maddening, though.

@dalias I have written a ton of code in nano, and I could write the code I write today the same way. I do use an IDE these days however, not because of necessity but simply for comfort.

It hardly helps with writing code - I have autocomplete and such turned off - but I find it makes it easier for me to navigate code. "Go to definition" is probably 90% of the reason I bother with an IDE today.

@dalias I didn't really think of this, but you're absolutely right! My Tineco vacuum *does* take forever to charge, and it's infuriating.

Are there any that don't have this provlem?

@dalias En dash means you're a typography nerd which is nearly as bad. You'll take my all-purpose hyphen-minus from my cold dead hands you uptight snobs!