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by neltnerb 3y ago
"Logical server not found" happened 132 times while out of town for two days. I also use an Ubuntu LTS pretty recently reinstalled with minimal network customization, so I guess that other person was very lucky. This happens on tw
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by neltnerb 3y ago
It's amazing how many new products Proton manages to make while still barely supporting their VPN on Linux. On the one hand, nice work proton team. On the other, you lost a VPN customer today.
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by neltnerb 3y ago
And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" articles at this point. Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured it was good arch
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Yes, that was what came to mind for me. My Element UI has organizations (servers) and rooms and people in them, surely Matrix would support all the features this has as well? Perhaps you used it before this was supported. Or maybe Matrix ha
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by neltnerb 3y ago
The reality is that every server will have some local version of a bunch of the most popular things, and that will eventually reach a steady state with a tail. A few big ones, more medium size ones, decent number of small ones... There&#x27
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by neltnerb 3y ago
If servers stay at a size that they can be handled by volunteer staff, I don't think you'll see defederation as any kind of normal thing to do. I think the worry is overblown. Same as any other service, if you're willing to f
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I mean, I have no huge interest in this battle but if you are on neither you can certainly federate with both. This is a huge advantage of a large number of smaller servers, defederation as a policy decision by your instance administrator c
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by neltnerb 3y ago
There is a footprint wizard, like EagleCAD had. That's usually where to start if it's at all possible. I personally don't think I'm good enough at KiCAD to draw one from scratch. I could probably make it okay, but it wou
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by neltnerb 3y ago
You can also upload a local file which was what I did. It didn't have a shareable link though so I assume it was local.
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by neltnerb 3y ago
That seems reasonable. I found the digikey list bom export tool the other day and it looked awfully close but it was using the value for the part number because that's where I usually put them (with real values for passives). So it did
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Yeah, I used freecad to fix up a screwy stp model for one of the parts, it was confusing but sufficient for that for sure. Weird how hard it was to move a solid body to the origin though. If you meant in the other direction (and bidirection
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by neltnerb 3y ago
They definitely don't care, or at least Miguel got ignored. Fusion 360 is so slow and bloated it's an embarrassment on Windows. Takes minutes just to start. Loading it in VMware is a joke (my best computer is Ubuntu). I was willin
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I've at this point needed to convert projects between Eagle, KiCAD, OrCAD, and a few others. I've seen Altium do decent at open EagleCAD. I've seen KiCAD do much better at opening EagleCAD. I assume KiCAD and EagleCAD work de
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Did you use Altium BOM tools? I found them to be incredible, does KiCAD have something similar to handle BOM generation via something like octopart? I miss that, it made my BOMs so much more trustworthy.
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by neltnerb 3y ago
wow, kicanvas looks great for sharing designs, is the idea that you use github for versioning your kicad folder (probably better than my current lazy dropbox option) and then you can just share the designs with people? that is a cool websit
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I saw the writing on the wall for EagleCAD once they stopped releasing any kind of bug fixes despite charging subscription fees and started ignoring the forums other than triaging the complaints. It was clear they were going to do this and
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I mentioned noticing it several months ago, but it sounded like others hadn't seen it yet. It's always hcaptcha (or at least the atrocious ones are, maybe the others are just super good). I have the same thought at first, it'
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by neltnerb 3y ago
heh, yeah, I was going to say -- I don't use twitter and have used mastodon for years and do not expect it to become the next big thing. is that important? I put it like this. If you expect 1-to-1 mapping of your twitter social network
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by neltnerb 3y ago
It sounds like even in this case it's the context (on a bottle of whiskey) and that they trademarked their own product which made it need to even look at these other tests. And it still might be fine. Kind of read to your comment and
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Definitely not a secret, totally agree that food security and making sure that our farmers stay in the black are the actual reasons for the corn ethanol thing. Plus Iowa has a senator and early primaries, I don't think you should disco
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I'm out of the loop, I don't know much about grazing pastures. But some grasses, grown intentionally, grow extremely fast (giganteus miscanthus was the big one at the time I was researching actively). https://en.wikiped
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by neltnerb 3y ago
For some additional critical context here, switchgrass can be grown in "marginal" soil that is too salty or otherwise can't handle food crops well. In this case it really doesn't need to be a trade-off, and we've kn
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Yeah, and the sad thing this is definitely not news. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11053-005-4679-8 Don't even need the article, the abstract says exactly the same as this result from 17 years la
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I'd also assume this is just a psyop, though more in the more general propaganda sense. You want other countries to both overestimate and underestimate you. If other countries think there's a serious possibility that the US has al
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by neltnerb 3y ago
SBIR grants will see it as a positive if you have a potential monopoly. They want you to have a successful business and a valid exit strategy is to sell out the IP or license it. Require is a strong word, it's just a strategy they reco
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Ah, so I made two mistakes that I guess ended up being right. Pleroma is a fork of Mastodon, it's not the site I was thinking of though. I was thinking of Parler, which has nothing to do with Mastodon. Truth Social, on the other hand,
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I use Mastodon for social networking. Not for consuming news or media. Things where it being a two way street is nice. I actually just have manual bookmarks to Twitter pages of the like half dozen people I think are at all worth reading. An
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Good thing it's open source so that they can just cite the line where the hard coding is. I assume pleroma (sp?) or truth social or whatever it was that uses Mastodon code posted many articles about the evidence they found when they re
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I believe that in this case we are talking about a not very scientific measure of how many followers still log in to their account, get exposed to this organically (in a time based feed where their followers definitely see their post with n
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by neltnerb 3y ago
There are definitely comedians and authors and artists on Mastodon, but perhaps not name brands from NBC who make it a brand home. Expecting a one to one drop in network swap seems like a consistent barrier, no shade intended. I don't

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