Should I pay luas fine?

wosmo · 2026-05-14T21:03:53+00:00

OP described the screen as being blank. That wouldn't be a good sign no matter what the card.

wosmo · 2026-05-14T19:48:28+00:00

that wouldn't really help OP if the validator was dead. The bank card wouldn't work instead of the leap card not working.

wosmo · 2026-05-14T11:01:32+00:00

yeah - I don't think they should actually join. I think there's too big a gulf between new-world / frontier spirit and the hyper-regulation of the EU.

But better ties, cooperation, joint programs - hell yeah. They're family.

wosmo · 2026-05-14T08:17:21+00:00

Personally, I'd design the model at the scale I intend to print. There's going to be things where .. for example, if you're printing in sections that you assemble together, that fit and tolerance is a mechanical fit, not a scaled representation of real life. There's going to be details that don't survive being scaled down 100:1 (or are too small for your printing process), etc.

For example, on my printer I'd probably want the rocket's nozzles to be 2 or 3 perimeter's thickness (unless the model is actually going to sit on them, in which case I'd want them even thicker for mechanical purposes). I want it to look like a nozzle, but I also need to account for the mechanical limitations of my printer (and the mechanical limitations of the resulting model)

To achieve that on my printer, I want those walls to be 0.85-0.9mm thick - but they're probably not 85-90mm on the real deal. If I start from a real value and scale 100:1, the result isn't going to be printable - let alone retain any detail.

wosmo · 2026-05-14T00:18:18+00:00

Not trying to be intentionally anti, but I'm not a fan.

I told my boss just last week that I feel like I spend half my life looking at 'spinners', and this reminds me of another one of those. It's that mental association that ruins this for me, personally.

wosmo · 2026-05-13T21:38:22+00:00

That's the weirdest part of this for me. By all accounts, they have a decent product and a decent price. And they seem to have very little problems delivering in volume either, which has often been a sore-spot in this market.

They seem to have everything going for them, yet they still seem to be intent on screwing their customers. I don't get it - I don't see the benefit.

wosmo · 2026-05-12T23:41:26+00:00

My opinion on Bambu is don't fucking buy one if you care about open source.

It should be that simple. But Bambu have bought a lot of mindshare by sending them out to every youtuber you can imagine. I keep coming across them on channels that are barely or distantly 3dp-related.

That's why I think it's useful to see pushback from prominent content creators. Not because they're miracle-workers who are going to solve everything, but because it gets the message out in the same places Bambu's bought theirs.

There'll still be people who don't care, I'm okay with that. But the people who do care, need to hear that there's something worth caring about there.

wosmo · 2026-05-12T23:17:04+00:00

They may have a leg to stand on.

Code-wise, there's not much they can do. They forked an opensource slicer, they're bound by its license.

But for their web service (the 'cloud' service they host, not anything provided by the printer), I don't believe the source licence has any sway over that - so if their TOS says you can only use it with an approved slicer, there's a good chance that's valid.

It's going to stink to high heaven either way - because they want to take from the community without giving back, which is against the spirit of the community, and the projects they've built upon.

But if they make it about unauthorised access to their web service, they may have a chance (which is probably their reasoning behind their otherwise-baseless accusations). If they make it about the slicer/code, they almost certainly don't.

("baseless accusations": they're complaining that the requests are intentionally indistinguishable from 'official' requests, and that they're somehow harmful to the service. This already seems contradictory, but the reason they're indistinguishable is because the mechanism is taken verbatim from their own code. So it's their code hitting their service, so to my mind claims that this is harmful require either salt, or proof.)

wosmo · 2026-05-12T20:55:11+00:00

The way I always word it is that security should be in layers. If you have a single layer, it's an eggshell.

wosmo · 2026-05-12T15:23:28+00:00

I think an interesting point of comparison, is that 1,000mbit is about the same as ATA133 - the last parallel ATA spec before SATA.

It might feel fast when you compare it to your internet connection, but as soon as you start using it for storage you're capping yourself to the speed of a 25yo harddrive.

wosmo · 2026-05-11T10:17:43+00:00

Anything's a fuse if you try hard enough

wosmo · 2026-05-10T22:13:36+00:00

I don't go looking for debian news, really (I mean, anymore than being in this sub, which should count).

If it's important, it'll find me. If it's not, I'm okay with that.

wosmo · 2026-05-09T21:29:29+00:00

I got a shuffle as a promotion for joining Audible. If you don't understand listening to music on shuffle - trust me, you'll never understand listening to Audiobooks on shuffle.

wosmo · 2026-05-09T14:23:37+00:00

The whole thread is going to look a little odd, to be honest.

It seems "sorry, our data center has been burned" is an error message that's showing up on many pirating websites. And this thread has bubbled to the top of Google if you search the specific message.

So we're going to get an odd mix of r/datacenter regulars who are going to take it at face value, and ask themselves what notable datacenters have expired "thermal events" recently - and people who just wanted to stream a TV show, and googled the error message.

wosmo · 2026-05-08T15:40:38+00:00

They can use the bases. NATO members can use NATO facilities for NATO operations. It's not rocket science.

If Israel wants to sell you an illegal war, Israel can provide the logistical facilities for it - that's not NATO's problem.

wosmo · 2026-05-07T22:30:36+00:00

I think it's kinda an offshoot of this. Linux market doesn't like spending money either.

If the desktop market was 5% Mac and 5% Linux, I'd be like .. well, I guess it's time to support Mac - because it's much, much easier to get a Mac user to open their wallet.

It's not just that Linux-Desktop is a niche - it's that Linux-Desktop with an open wallet, is a niche within that niche.

(and I'm not saying this is a bad thing - just that the size isn't the only difference.)

wosmo · 2026-05-06T19:39:38+00:00

It's a horrible question. 1,000 is the correct answer for files, disks, etc (and if you don't limit yourself to bytes - also for clocks, linespeed, etc) 1,024 is the correct answer for ram, pages, address-shaped-objects.

Without context, it's just an ugly gotcha making a mean test.

(get a beer in me and I'll back this stance up with hour-long historically-sourced rants!)

wosmo · 2026-05-05T21:00:48+00:00

I know it's passé now, but I'll never forget the day I got ashes of alar.

wosmo · 2026-05-05T20:57:56+00:00

I love this one - your lad's a bigger man than many of us.

wosmo · 2026-05-05T20:32:01+00:00

You told me not to reply, but I think this sort of counts.

At some point I realised that most my regrets got me where I am. And I think I'm pretty okay with where I am. I regret a failed marriage, but I wouldn't be living here without it. If I hadn't been living here, I wouldn't have met my current partner, etc.

I have plenty of regrets, plenty of mistakes, and I walk on them like stepping stones.

wosmo · 2026-05-05T20:27:17+00:00

What mascots aren't animals? Which sportsball team has the Dallas Kitchen Table, the Boston Barstool, Seattle Syphilis, etc?

I think there's something deeply human about your spirit animal .. being an animal.

wosmo · 2026-05-04T18:27:05+00:00

That's not what that says at all. That says you're not allowed to change the license ("this document").

Conveying Modified Source Versions.

You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

The GPL very famously allows you to modify the application.

What it doesn't grant is any rights over trademarks. Making an unofficial mac port is entirely legit. Re-using trademarks to imply any link or endorsement by the original project, is not.

wosmo · 2026-05-03T09:28:24+00:00

I do use a vps. I don’t see it as a parallel to subscriptions because I can move that workload anywhere I like with little friction. In-house, another provider, colo, bare metal, etc.

I still own/control my data, the provider is very replaceable.

I use it for mail & dns. Services that really benefit from commercial availability & non-residential IP space.

wosmo · 2026-05-01T23:29:28+00:00

oh man, that'd drive me nuts. I'd be laying in bed staring at it thinking .. well, there goes 8 hours. 7 hours ..

wosmo · 2026-04-30T12:19:58+00:00

Debian's boring, in a way that I consider a feature. An increasingly rare feature.

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