I mean… what is your threat profile? Are you a LinkedIn engineer with an unpatched Plex install and access to the company file server?

Are you going to do something that would attract the attention of law enforcement or nation-state threat actors?

Are you going to be using this mini PC to do your taxes?

Is it going to be in a DMZ with open access to the Internet?

Are you going to use it as an authentication server for other critical assets?

If you aren’t assessing your risk level with some realistic idea of what threats actually apply to you and weighing that against the possible consequences of a breach, then you’re pointlessly worrying about low-probability scenarios. Operational Risk Management right? Judge your risk by probability of occurrence and severity of impact and then make decisions based on that.

I think he got away in this case, but he was definitely close to fucked. Apparently hippos kill about 500 people every year.

As one of the Mastodon users pointed out, it’s very likely that those cells are still producing some current when exposed to light. The electrical contacts would be a hazard.

I would also expect this thing to get pretty hot in sunlight - after all it’s designed to absorb energy.

It’s adorable.

Yep, yep… until the teeth grow in.

Such a cutie.

This is a constraint designed into bitcoin to produce artificial scarcity so that the volume of tokens doesn’t massively inflate and destroy their value. A blockchain doesn’t have to operate this way if the goal is to produce unique tokens as identifiers rather than as currency.

There probably is such a conspiracy theory, or many based on the same theme. Occam’s razor applies though - it’s far simpler to just assume that Putin is a self-aggrandizing dictator who dreams of conquest (what do you get for a girl who already has everything?). After all, if it looks like a selfish asshole, and it swims like a selfish asshole, and it quacks like a selfish asshole, then it probably is.

Of course, there are many groups within the military-industrial complex who are happy to take advantage of his behavior.

The difference is scale. The larger they are, the longer they last, the more people they collect. More people means greater sociocultural presence which means more widespread acceptability even with non-believers. More people also means more money and other resources which means more power, the capacity to bend the society in which they exist. The larger “religions” label the smaller religions as “cults” as a form of basic anticompetitive practice.

So, like, which one goes in first? And if you need that, do you have to pull everything else out of your pocket to get to it?

Russia, the best recruiter for NATO.

Only one thing matters to Trump: Trump. Everything and everyone else is disposable.

Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with blockchain technology, but Surprise! the people most interested in unregulated financial systems are thieves and scammers. Who could have guessed.

Ford exec is somehow ignorant of how many people live in apartments or rented homes where they can’t install car charging circuits.

In the current market, you want a printer that runs Klipper. The system will typically include a web application that controls the printer (Fluidd, Mainsail, or Octoprint) running on an embedded RPi. You just access this through your browser, it’s not necessary to install anything on your PC.

You will need to install a slicer software. The slicer is sort of the equivalent of a document editor - it’s how you prepare the 3D file for printing. Your printer manufacturer will probably recommend or distribute a particular slicer, but the file format used for 3D printing (G-code) is an open standard published by NIST. Any slicer software can be used to output gcode for printing - you can use whatever you feel comfortable with.

Personally I reccomend Orca Slicer or SuperSlicer but there are many options.

By the way, the entire market of home 3D printers grew out of the RepRap project that started 20 years ago. The original project was open hardware and software, and so almost all of the software in use today is open because open source principles were the foundation of all of it. There are some companies in the field who keep their stuff proprietary, but frankly I avoid their products and consider them to be anathema to the 3D printing community.

Q: Is it shut the fuck up Friday?

A: It’s always shut the fuck up Friday.

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It can recognize tracks based on a profile of the audio content in the file, so even if they’re not labeled properly it can (usually) identify them. The biggest problem I’ve had with using it is that many artists have re-released or rerecorded songs, or released the same album in different years in different countries but maybe with one track missing or with the tracks in a different order, and sometimes Picard will pick an album release that you know is incorrect. It will reorganize the files, and there are lots of options for controlling how it does that (e.g. file renaming and tagging, output to the same folder or a different one, automation of bulk processing). But you may have to guide it a little, especially if you have many albums from the same artist because then you’ll have overlaps.

I’ve found the best approach to handling this is to work on one folder/album at a time and make sure it picks the correct release year for metadata reference.

The plan is to have a plan.