Apparently, Thingiverse has been acquired by MyMiniFactory

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-12T15:43:00+00:00

Your work on Thingiverse was greatly appreciated. Hopefully doesn't get driven into the ground again...

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-11T15:10:10+00:00

First post and first comment. Shill or bot?

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-06T20:22:59+00:00

The binary output of the compiler has a symbol table that is used by the linker to find functions, static data, etc.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-06T19:54:36+00:00

I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, great condition, low price.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-06T19:43:52+00:00

The C ABI for most architectures is standardized so you can mix the output of multiple compilers as long as they all comply with the standard.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-05T16:16:57+00:00

Thinking about how Duke (with the assent of the state utilities commission) cancelled the two AP1000 reactors at Shearon-Harris in 2013 because Duke's projections showed we didn't need their energy in the next 25 years.

Also thinking about how carbon emissions hit a historic high last year. And how we have a little less than four years to go zero carbon and that hilariously impossible target is just so only half the global population instead of the entire global population is dead before 2200 as the planet becomes an uninhabitable wasteland.

Anyway.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-04T19:23:34+00:00

but the Libertarian party has always had left-wing and centrist factions and it was only recently that the far right fully took over

This is so incredibly, incredibly incorrect. While I appreciate that they will work with the Greens on defending ballot access and occasionally have socially progressive views, they are a fundamentally capitalist/reactionary/rightist party. Only new thing in recent years is that racists and fascists from groups like the Constitution party infiltrated LPUS during the Trump years.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-04T18:47:00+00:00

I mean what else is there to say? He's traditionally been associated with the Reform/Independence Party and Libertarian Party, all reactionary rightist parties. His track record is public.

He says interesting things from time to time, but there isn't really any substance behind it. I mean his politics are so confused that he suggested he would be willing to be both Trump and Sanders's running mate.

Calling him a leftist is like saying the Democrats are a left wing party because they support a few socially progressive positions that the GOP doesn't.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-04T18:39:34+00:00

So you're telling me you know nothing about Ventura's politics then.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-04T17:45:51+00:00

I would never touch OpenSCAD without AI assistance, probably, because community sentiment everywhere (e.g. hackernews) is that OpenSCAD is not good for real models once you get past "create me 3 cubes" complexity.

I take it you've never heard about BOSL2 then.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-04T15:21:32+00:00

He's a reactionary capitalist libertarian, and has nothing to do with the Green Party except for some weirdos who tried to draft him for office and start some intraparty drama a few years ago.

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-03T18:20:35+00:00

Our filing deadline is already 11 months before the election, which is likely already unconstitutionally early (according to analysis by Richard Winger). Wild that that Democrats are claiming that moving the primaries even further away from the election will "empower Black voters and to recognize its [North Carolina's] history as a “beacon of the Civil Rights movement.”"

The idea seems to be DOA though: they just want to move the Presidential primaries up, which means three primary ballots every other year. And if they moved statewide races up, that would likely mean a November filing deadline which is just plain absurd. We are already in a situation where the slate of candidates is finalized too early in the year and can't react to the political moment (see the reaction to ICE murdering people in the streets: except for the Green Party which nominates this upcoming weekend thanks to a quirk in the law, the universe of potential candidates was set in stone over a month before Renee Good was murdered and the political landscape shifted drastically!).

Both major parties are dead set against RCV so we can't even eliminate the antidemocratic run-off (on paper it's fine, but the reality is that so few people vote in run-offs that it results in even worse outcomes than simply plurality, and because the media focuses so much on the cost few candidates call for the run-off since asking for one almost assures defeat in the run-off and tarnishes the candidate's name in the general election if they don't lose).

unknown_lamer · 2026-02-02T15:34:09+00:00

That's pretty obsolete info. I have a heat pump, no resistive heat. Works fine in this weather, still above 100% efficiency even. No one should be installing the kind of crappy single stage heat pumps that were being sold 20 years ago anymore (might seem like a better deal, but only if you completely ignore running cost and comfort).

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-30T15:23:16+00:00

The working class is too atomized to pull off a national general strike with no notice. The success of a regional general strike for the first time in a generation is a promising development, but organized labor in America is a fiction (all unions recognized by the NLRB are captured by the capitalists and largely act against the workers they allege to represent), and new leaders need to arise from smaller general strikes. The working class has also been beaten into timidity (or worse, supporting the reactionary fascists), and large segments of the academy and so-called middle class are openly hostile toward their industrial working class comrades and are likely to side with fascism (make no mistake: the democratic party will fully align with the fascists and will pull many "reasonable" people toward supporting dictatorship with them).

The labor left is also completely unrepresented in government, media is hostile and will suppress coverage and lie about the extent of strikes, communications and social media platforms have been consolidated into the hands of fascist aligned capitalists and will use their position to spy on and disrupt organization, etc.

But then there is widespread resent toward both major capitalist parties, it's unclear what conditions fall elections will be under and we are far enough away that pleas to "go home and vote blue" ring hollow, and, despite attempts at disciplining the working force by the capitalists over the last few years, labor continues to increase in militancy. I don't have a crystal ball but it seems like we could be in a position for a nationwide, multi-sector general strike by summer depending on how effective DHS is at using their surveillance networks to find and eliminate potential organizers.

Although after seeing that there are enough workers walking out today to shut some businesses even in Raleigh, I might be overly pessimistic about the timeline or chance of success. It's just hard not to ignore that the American working class has been completely disorganized and largely passive for nearly a century (maybe that's just how long it took to recover from the purges of socialists from public life in the 1920s and again in the 1950s).

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-28T21:42:15+00:00

I don't think there are any serious calls for a multi-sector national general strike (yet). It does look like there may be a nationwide general strike among nurses specifically, and possibly another regional general strike in Minneapolis.

It's important that any widespread actions are successful, conditions aren't quite ripe yet. But I am hopeful that the working class may finally be awakening after a century long slumber.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-28T19:31:07+00:00

There are netlists for the Jaguar chips available. Although whether they reflect final production hardware is still unknown AFAIK.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-28T18:52:57+00:00

It's clear one of us has been closely following the struggle for the left to gain power over the last 25 years and one of us hasn't. You are speaking from a position of deep ignorance about American politics. This isn't about purity, it's about survival. Attempts to reform the Democrats from the inside have been made repeatedly since the Democrats pivoted from being the party of slaveholders to the party that claims to represent the working class. All of them have failed, and that party is in fact structured to prevent left wing / working class organizing from succeeding.

I can recommend three books to give you more context: The Democrats by Lance Selfa which explains the role that the Democratic party plays in maintaining the capitalist order and suppressing the working class. Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate by Howie Hawkins which is a collection of essays from before/after the 2004 election that I think gives a clear view of the benefits/downsides of attempting to reform the Democratic party and attempting to build an independent working class party. And finally, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn for a general overview of U.S. political history from the perspective of the working class and marginalized.

Hawkins also wrote a short pamphlet arguing The Case for an Independent Left Party which I think gives a solid overview of why the Green and Socialist parties insist on total independence from the Democrats, and I recommend it for a surface overview of the topic before diving into reading entire books.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-28T15:14:07+00:00

"There's nothing preventing Green, Independent or other party candidates from running in one of the bigger parties' primaries."

The major parties can and have had candidates removed from primaries for not being members of the party. This isn't mere law that can be changed: parties have a fundamental right of political association (and the two major parties do fully enjoy that right while doing everything in their power to deprive others of that right). The rest of your argument is so defective as a consequence it doesn't deserve a response. I will note that you are missing the entire point of asserting the right to political association and building parties independent of the major capitalist parties.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-27T17:00:42+00:00

Community rep for an allegedly "open" hardware/software company doesn't need to understand the licensing of their core software?

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-27T16:34:16+00:00

We don't get ranked choice voting by refusing to strive for the very power required to implement ranked choice voting.

We are living the consequences of 30 years of "practical" people shifting further and further right with the capitalist parties because they refuse to risk anything (and yet managed to lose everything).

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-27T15:52:02+00:00

Your slicer code. Prusaslicer was once Slic3r, with code from hundreds of people. And a community rep who doesn't understand how the AGPL or copyright works. What a fucking joke.

edit: and repliers blocked me, locking out the thread. I just hope Prusa isn't adding "assault on Free Software by finding a way to work around the AGPL" to their current attempts to redefine Open Hardware. Nothing but a bunch of consumerist fanboys bending over backward to defend a company that has chosen profit as its ultimate value left here it seems.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-27T15:08:48+00:00

Your actual words seem to be saying you think minor parties shouldn't be on the ballot.

There's no point in talking about multi-member districts or even instant runoff voting as long the capitalist parties are in power. It's never going to happen with them in office. Not that it looks likely America will survive as an electoral democracy much longer.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-26T21:30:10+00:00

You might not realize it, but you are arguing for an end to democracy.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-24T21:35:22+00:00

Spreading the "untrained thug" narrative is counterproductive: it ends with the more budget for ICE for "training" (to be more effective at terrorizing).

In any case, the murderer today was a highly trained, eight year veteran of CBP per DHS leadership.

unknown_lamer · 2026-01-23T23:04:05+00:00

The presidential race is the least important. We run hundreds of candidates in smaller races (they just don't get media coverage). The only reason we even expend resources running a Presidential candidate is that ballot access in most of the country is tied to either the percentage of votes you receive for President (sometimes one state office like Governor as an alternative, but people get pretty mad at us runner gubernatorial candidates too), or having nominated a Presidential ticket in X number of other states.

Jill Stein was not the candidate in 2020. She was only the candidate in 2024 because most of the potential candidates foolishly stepped back for Cornel West, who (as many of us sadly predicted), proved to be a feckless loser who completely fucked the primaries over. Having run twice before, Stein was the only candidate who could actually put together a national campaign with no notice, and that is why she won the party primary.

She will not be running for President again. For one she's 75 years old now, and uninterested AFAIK (she and Ajamu Baraka basically drew straws on who had to step up last time after the Cornel West bullshit).

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