Currently learning tech stuff to improve digital privacy. Not to a totally anonymous level, but better than completely oblivious. Attempting not to annoy my family with digital security info dumps. Finally found time to install Linux on an old laptop to mess around with. Also trying to find online communities via decentralised platforms because I deleted everything Meta. Neurodivergent safe spaces are the one thing I miss, so if anyone has any suggestions to check out please let me know.
I’m still hyper focused on reading, this is a life long thing.
This month my intense fixation is learning about GrapheneOS and looking at Pixel phones so I can mess around with that. Then I had to dive into researching Garmin watches because I rely on my Apple Watch a lot to keep daily life functioning (hello time blindness 😂).
I am in this rabbit hole too! I recently discovered that 3/5 of my external drives are still using inferior LUKS1 encryption instead of LUKS2 so I have to figure that out. Also I just got a yubikey and set it up with challenge-response so now my laptop needs the yubikey inserted, and a password and you have to press the button on the yubikey to unlock it.
All of this is very unnecessary because I have no data that is of any use to anyone else, it’s just become a fun project to see how locked-down I can make my laptop.
Edit: also posting this from my phone running GrapheneOS lol
Unnecessary but fun, same here. Literally no one would gain anything interesting by hacking into my laptop. Maybe they’ll learn that I’m autistic af then run away scared from the evidence of adhd hyper fixations that have been loved, then abandoned? Yubikey is on my list to explore. Then there’s the whole self hosting rabbit hole. So much to see, so little time.
How are you liking your GrapheneOS phone? Which one did you get? I’m eyeing a pixel 10 pro.
I have a pixel 8 pro currently, but I was running it on a 4a before that. It’s a bit of a trade-off, you get more privacy obviously and some more manual control over stuff, but also you lose some convenience. I’m kind of used to it now though.
It also depends on how deep you want to go with de-googling and stuff too. Currently I’m trying to avoid Google as much as possible (which sounds weird to say when using a Google Pixel lol) so I’m using things like Aurora Store and Obtainium as app stores.
I’ve already degoogled, I’m on an iPhone 15 pro and have mostly deappled as well. Only iCloud remaining, because I can’t decide which alternative to go with. Ente probably, I mainly use it for photos. I just keep reading all the threads I can find on Pixel/GOS. I think the only hesitation I have left is the camera quality. I read mixed opinions. At first I was horrified at having to buy a Google phone in order to degoogle, but I’ve come round to finding it kinda funny that it can be done!
I also got mine refurbished, so that way Google presumably doesn’t get any money from me, at least not directly.
We are the same person. I recently discovered Michael Bazzell’s book Extreme Privacy back in February and going through all 600 pages methodically has been my personality for the past few months. That book is an incredible feat.
I have the book! I am currently waiting on my new prescription reading glasses so I can bloody well read it 😡. I lost my reading glasses in December. Wanting to read this book finally moved me from denial into making an eye test appointment 🙄🤦♀️
Its 100% worth it to clean and regrease the bearings in your bike’s axles (if they are open bearing). And it’s really not a hugely intensive process.
I’ve been going down a massive rabbit hole of bicycle stuff, and it’s really similar to the older days of pc building, lots of possibilities for upgrades, lots of brands, compatibility is pretty wide but also needs to be paid attention to.
It’s loads of fun.
it’s really similar to the older days of pc building
I assume that means someone will come along and enshittify it sooner or later
Pp ok x
the 1980s and 1990s were a horrible age for shitty cheap bikes, not sure if it could be worse
Believe me, companies are already trying. It’s an uphill battle, though. This is actually one of the few triumphs for consumers in this regard, really.
Thanks to the French the components of bicycles have become remarkably standardized and interchangeable and have been for probably more than a hundred years by now. Every few years like clockwork some idiot C suite denizen at a startup bicycle company decides they ought to invent their own tire valve, or their own seat post, or their own derailleur mount, or their own handlebar stem size, or whatever the hell else because they’re salivating at the prospect of “lock in,” and they all think they’re the first genius to think of it. The market resoundingly ignores them, they go bankrupt and implode, and we all laugh. Rinse, repeat.
Things are starting to backslide with electric bicycles, though. Motherfuckers are insisting on using proprietary plugs and connectors, battery interfaces, etc., and most especially apps as every goddamn e-bike apparently feels the need to be app connected now for some reason. In that space in specifically some manufacturers are getting away with it.
The backsliding can only go so far until consumers get fed up and invent their own solutions.
Batteries aren’t hard tech. Open up any bike battery case and it’s just a string of 18650 cells strung together with a BMS chip. All highly replaceable.
I’ll rent you a chain for $7 a month if you’re interested
Norwegian train car designation shorthand (incomplete).
B: Class B (which is the only class these days. So, meaning passenger seats)
M: Motorized (implies S. See below)
S: Steering capability
L: cargo space (“Lasterom”)
C: Special capability of some sort, such as wheelchair ramp.
MU: Motorized car without driver capability (As in M without S)
P: Car with a pantagraph
R: Restaurant/bistroSo, for example, type 92 is a small set consisting of only two cars: A BM and a BS. Both cars have seating, the train can be controlled from both ends, but only one of them has a motor.
T93 is similar. In layout.
T74 and T75 is a five-car train, and I don’t remember them all, but I remember the middle of them is called BCMU or something like that.
The older T3 trains (now retired, I think), has a car designated LCR (or a different order), which means cargo space, food service, and some sort of special amenities that I never figured out. This train type also had class A with seating of a higher comfort level.
All of these types are printed on the side, usually next to a number, which is an internal serial number. So a 92BM14* means “Type 92, motor carriage (with passenger seating) number 14”
*: I don’t remember the exact syntax, but it’s something like that.
When writing BASH scripts:
- The
.shextension isn’t necessary. - Using
/usr/bin/env bashis better than/bin/bashas not everyone has their bash located in bin. - Try to use local variables when you can. If you use global variables that won’t be used anywhere else, unset them at the end of your script.
- Don’t use
set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road. - Functions are your friend. If your repeating code, put it in a function.
These are some of the tips I learned while learning bash.
If writing a lot of bash scripts, I really recommend shellcheck. It’s a linter for bash that gives a lot of good advice and points out common issues/inefficiencies and errors. There’s plugins for most editors or you can just run it in a terminal. I also like that it has good documentation that tells you why something might be wrong or inadvisable.
Don’t use set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road.
Wait why? It’s dangerous if the script silently fails surely.
Also a cool tip
( Long Code here You want to track ) | tee -a log.txt
- The
It’s not salt that hardens pulses (beans, lentils etc.), it’s acid. Salt your beans from the start, they’ll taste better. Also, most beans dont need to be soaked first, just cook them longer or start them hard for 20 mins then turn down the heat. Chickpeas, however, need to be soaked, unless you cook them with baking soda. But then you lose out on the aquafaba, so I say soak em.
My latest constructed language, Hearthsider (just started this week). None of this will make sense but here we go:
Verbs are a closed class. To form complete sentences you use an equivalent of “do”, plus a verbal noun phrase. This noun phrase can have determiners such as articles attached to them, which indicate things like whether the action was performed only once, repeatedly, etc. To say “X verbs Y”, it would translate literally to “X does Y a verb”. Plurality will likely not be indicated on nouns but will be in articles.
rMl t qb b sBsb zGK Light do 2sg a shine friend“Light shine upon you, friend!”
This is a fairly common greeting crosslinguically, so I have translations in my other two conlangs:
Outlander:
sg Bqqbsd rkr PLr sg Bqqb-sd PLr 2sg.AMI illuminate-OBJ lightCommonthroat:
L rLPq-p BCq-b sFsF-qn OPT light-3D illuminate-NA friend-2Here are the gloss abbreviations:
2sg = 2nd person singular pronoun
OPT = optative modal
2sg.AMI = 2nd person singular amicable pronoun
-OBJ = Object focus/trigger suffix
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix
-NA = Nonauthoritative verbal mood
-2 = 2nd person noun suffixVowel do a disappear why friend? Is there a vowel harmony type deal and they change, are you just listing root constents like a semitic language? Or have completely misunderstood and “rMl t qb b sBsb zGK” is not supposed to be the Hearthsider pronunciations?
Oh there are vowels, they’re just written differently. These are xenolangs, languages spoken by aliens, specifically These guys:
With a vocal tract like that they’re not going to be speaking the king’s English (or any other human language) any time soon. There are only eight qualitatively different noises they can make, and most languages only make use of six of them. Whines, growls, and grunts are “vowels”, and huffs (a quick exhalation through the nose), chuffs, and yips are “consonants”. They can also hiss, either plain or trilled, but only Hearthsider uses hisses in actual words.
They supplement this very meager set of sounds with contrasting vowel pitches (high, low, rising, and falling), but also volumes (weak, strong, weakening, and strengthening). Vowel length and “timing” are also important. There are long and short vowels, but also early (two-vowel sequences where the second vowel is held longer than the first, making the change “early” in the syllable) and late (holding the first vowel longer than the second, making the change “late” in the syllable)
Here’s a phoneme inventory for Hearthsider.
Vowels:
Phonation Tone Weak Strong Short Long Short Long Whine High d D f F Low b B c C Growl High j J k K Low g G h H Grunt High n N p P Low l L m M Hiss Plain t T v V Trilled w W x X And here are the consonants:
Phonation Tone Weak Strong Short Long Short Long Whine High d D f F Low b B c C Growl High j J k K Low g G h H Grunt High n N p P Low l L m M Hiss Plain t T v V Trilled w W x X Some random fun facts: Commonthroat has no pronouns. You have to either drop the word completely (very common on Earth) or inflect a noun in first, second, or third person (vary rare but not unknown on Earth, see Elamite). Outlander has a politeness distinction, with transactional, amicable, familial, and reverential pronouns in second and third person. Using familial pronouns to refer to coworkers or employees is considered vulgar unless they’re literally family. Last, Hearthsider has (or will have) a bunch of swear words drawn from liturgical vocabulary (cf Canadian French).
All languages use “to smell” where we would say “to feel” as in “feel happy” etc, because emotions are communicated through their musk. There is a rich set of “odor colors” that describe subjective olfactory experiences, rather than the typical (Western) human way of resorting to comparisons with sources of odors. In contrast, their color vocabulary works like English’s odor vocabulary. Other than “light” and “dark” they can only relate color sensations to familiar objects that are so colored, mostly fruits.
Ah! I wondered if it might be vowelless for such a reason. Fun! Big fan of Elam, but i don’t know many details of the language beyond the (increasingly solid, i believe) status as a sister-branch alongside Dravidian.
Thanks for sharing!!
Well. Let’s see…
My local community is dealing with a 150MW BESS facility that is scheduled to be built over the next 18 months so I’m trying to educate my other half on that so she can inject a little stability into the current group of doom and gloom. We have a ton of windpower nearby and a data center being built about 20 miles away with a few other BESS’ being built within about 40 miles.
I’m in the process of prepping the install of a new meter base, Enphase System Controller 3, Enphase IQ5 Combiner, and all the wiring for the system to function properly. I did some initial work last week to rebuild and insulate the exterior wall which has gained about 6 inches of thickness and is now insulated to R29. Hopefully on the 20th I can get the next portion done and everything finished for solar panel and battery installation.
I’m also working on a little project that will kind of recreate and reimagine one of the little slow MMO browser games. There was one I used to play called Aargh that was basically a big square map you could move around on and do little things or send messages to people. My version will have visuals for people using IPFS and more plain for regular users, and run almost completely using free Cloudflare services outside of IPFS assets. They are called slow MMO’s because you have a limited number of movement actions per day and you can not bank actions for later use. I’m still in the preliminary planning stage but I’m looking at two environments, one with actions that can move large distances around the map and another environment that is more limited and has a debuff which will prevent more actions if you do something wrong. It may never work and I doubt it will be popular but I think it will be interesting to try and build.
I’m working to set up my new workshop. We moved into a new house a few months ago, and I’m finally getting to setting up the shop in earnest.
I’m setting up the shop in a 3 car garage. The garage has a one car bay and a two car bay. I want to be able to actually park a car in the one car bay. So I built a large wall separating the two bays. The wall covers probably 2/3 of the width. The rest will be covered by a curtain. The two car bay will be the actual woodshop area. The one car bay will be a place to park a car and will serve as a finishing space. The wall and curtain will keep sawdust contained within the two car bay. The wall also serves as a tool wall. Here’s what the wall currently looks like:
From the other side:
The wall is about 10’ wide and 12’ high.
In my old shop I had even more on the wall. But I’m trying out moving most of my bladed tools into a tool chest. I was going to build one, but I found this old steamer trunk by the side of the road. From the manifest glued to the back it looks like it was used by an air force airman in the 1980s to ship things home from Japan. I’ll be using it as a tool chest. I wanted to put wheels on it. But as it’s a bit of an artifact I didn’t want to actually modify the trunk itself or drill into. Instead I built a little cart for it to roll around on.
After I finish here, the last big step in setting up the shop will be installing the dust collection system. And I went overboard on this. This is very much a dream shop setup I’m building out. Currently in a bunch of boxes strewn about the shop is an entire Oneida Dust Gorilla and a network of piping to service the various machines.
I so wish I had a garage…
My workshop is in a (former) bedroom in a smallish UK terrace house and it’s so hard to keep the dust contained, and impossible to work with full sheet materials
Looking fab so far!
Thanks! The garage is nice. It has some real advantages. When it’s all set up, I’ll be able to back the pickup truck to the garage door and take a full sheet of plywood directly from the truck bed to the workbench. When the weather is nice, I like to open the doors and just work in the fresh air. Finally, while I do sweep and vacuum up, there’s always a little bit of dust left over. For that little bit of dust, I can grab the leaf blower and just blow the last bit of really fine dust out the garage door.
Mate I do sometimes wish I was American, or at least lived out in the country, just for the sake of S P A C E!
I love my little terraced house, but my little shed can’t hold that much and I want a workshop for my electronics
I’ve been reading up on the Salem witch trials for a personal project, and have listened to 3 separate audio books on them (In the Devil’s Snare, The Witches, and A Delusion of Satan).
The similarities to today are more than I imagined. But the similarities between Reverend Parris–the original instigator, and the mouthpiece for the trials–and Trump are unreal. Descriptions of both sound pretty much identical. Unlike The Crucible depicts he was not sidelined, or made a reluctant participant.
I am planning to make a post on this to read peoples opinion.
Anyway…
Not hyperfixated on it but I have been thinking about how common sexualization/pornification has become, especially on women.It raises beauty standard to unrealistic levels, and usually makes people be ashamed of their bodies.
I have also been thinking about sexual assualts . Most victims are usually young girls and women.
Male victims are ignored, as if trauma wasnt a thing that everyone no matter the gender experiences in such crimes.
It is unfortunate that female victims usually have more consequences than male victims when it comes to sexual assualts. (They risk getting pregnant.)
The fact that porn(mostly consumed by males), movies, anime, and other forms of visual media are usually optimized( hypersexualized ) for “the male gaze”.
Not mentioning the dark industry behind it that only encourages sex trafficking of innocent souls.
It makes me disgusted, am I dirty for being a male?
Why are males generally more focused on physical appearance than women?
Why is the male gaze > female gaze??I dont know, makes me feel disgusted and ashamed of myself sometimes.
Perhaps I owe women an apology on behalf of all of the mess some men are doing.
I do realize that I am generalizing alot, and there are flaws in this thought, but I cant get it out of my head.
It’s also one of the reasons that encouraged me to escape porn and the dark industry behind itI wish more men would have this conversation. I’m raising 5 sons and I decided early on to have some really blunt, uncomfortable conversations with them (age appropriate of course), to combat this. It’s worked, as far as I know. One kid, now adult, sometimes struggles with it. Porn, and toxic masculinity traits. But he talks about it openly and actively combats it.
I do sometimes weirdly look at mormon’s or other religious groups who practice abstinence and think they might have the right idea.
Porn addiction is real, and it does set unrealistic standards on what men think women are, and debases them implicitly.
I’ve been touch free for about 2 months now, and my intimacy and satisfaction during sex with my partner has improved dramatically. She’s stunning, but I had to literally quit porn to not take her for granted.
You quit porn to show respect for your partner! Congrats. As a woman, whose ex husband was addicted to porn, what you did is commendable. This wasn’t the sole reason he earned the title of ex husband, but it was a massive contributing factor.
My guy that is amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing, I have escaped from porn, but I have yet to stop touching myself.
Good to know things are going well for you. 🤍
porn and the manosphere has made masculinity super toxic, toxic masculinity probably has its origin in porn too. not only getting pregnant, but SA, and POTENTIALLY getting maimed is pretty much out there.
manosphere, what is that?
Oh yeah, but it could also happen to some men too. Its unfortunate.
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Are you able to isolate the vocals? If so, invert the phase, and then subtract the result from the original recording.
As for isolating the vocals, I’d wager that it is panned to the center, so if you manage to isolate anything with a perfect 50/50 left/right split, what you’ll have should be the vocals. Use that as a subtractor, and the end result should be most of the music. Yes, the music probably also has something panned to the center, which you would lose in this process, but maybe it’s good enough for someone to recognize the track.
The phase inversion trick can’t be used with mono tracks, nor can other tricks that use the stereo field.
His picking technique in particular.
For those who didn’t play guitar, if you search him in YT most of his video are of him playing to a backing track and just do an improvised performance on the spot.
Most agreed and regards him as one of the best. You’ll find the “Jesus/God” or “Gandalf” jokes thrown because of his mastery of the instrument.
Unfortunately (for me personally), the man is reluctant to spotlight. He is a private person and seems to didn’t enjoy interview. So a “clinic”/lesson type content by him is far and few between.
I’ve been studying his right hand for years, and it still boggle the mind. If you watched the video I linked and watched it at like 35% speed, you can kinda see how he make decisions in the moment and it make sense, but at full speed ? WTF
Not much I can say about my latest readdiction to Mindustry that isn’t pretty basic stuff. I suck at the game, so my strategy is basically “random bull go!” at various points and hope I am good. My conveyor management isn’t the best, so it’s an absolute mess that would make a lot of people cry. Same with how I do factory and power management. Wouldn’t put up any videos because it would make people generally angry. Basically the same reason I don’t show my cable management.
As for my very on and off furry obsession that is becoming more on than off, I have been playing through New Super Lucky’s Tale. I really like how simple yet charming the main character design is. Got to the 2nd hubworld. Pretty good platformer. Combines my all time favorite game genre with anthro animals, so I approve wholeheartedly! Been thinking of getting the full release of KilaFlow, which is furry adjacent enough for me to have played and LOVED the demo! It’s a fast paced 3D precision platformer where you have to replay the levels multiple times if you want all the level clear rewards. Has a computer theme because it’s basically you being a program written to clean up infected files in the form of animal like creatures.
I have nothing new to show on the music or Linux front other than I have been recently obsessed with a CD I got last month. Artist is KZlivetune and the CD album is と. It features various artists instead of livetune themselves singing, similar to Zedd never singing himself AFAIK. Is currently the album I consider to be my crown jewel.
Mindustry is fun! I haven’t played in a while, though. Protip: Ctrl+click a router :)
(This is a really cool thread OP, thanks for this - favourited!)
yea I think this is a great idea too
I’m getting hyperfixated on each one of these answers and it’s quite a shock to go to the next one. “Wait. How is a BASH script supposed to help build a garage workshop?”
