i think since bamboo entered the market everything changed and the entire industry kinda went warp speed :p
i’ve had a few printers, but until i got a bamboo i was “excited by the possibilities” more than actually doing things
now im printing loads, and have been since i got the printer a couple of years ago
detail resolution is amazing on 3d printers these days to!
the arachne wall generator is incredible for resolving fine details in things like text
Arachne settings allow the extruder to adjust its extrusion rate based on the model’s line width. This way, the extrusion rates change according to the model’s requirements, resulting in precise printing of the model’s varying shape.
You can choose this setting if you want to print thin features with more delicacy, and your print needs a smooth transition between wall counts.
yeah it’s a very common feature among slicers these days
if it’s not multicolour then you can just make the printer leave indents for the letters (or print extra material to have it raised)
no need for post processing or extra equipment which slows down the process and adds extra work
i think the latest is that china has managed to create a GPU that’s ~7 years behind. i’m not sure that’s “a GPU from 7 years ago” or “it will take them 7 years, acknowledging that there’s a known path so will take less time”
AFAIK they’ll have to figure out EUV or some other method of lithography at that scale, which they’re trying really hard at but it’s one heck of a difficult thing to do which is why only TSMC currently actually has it working
given the complexity of doing in hardware, and the simplicity of doing it software, you’d hope yes (in which case perhaps there will be firmware hacks) but you can never truly count out the stupidity of hardware companies
new ones sure but there are a bunch of these broken machines out there now: far more than there otherwise would be, because microslop forced the upgrade for windows 11
well that’s what they should have done but now that it’s implemented there are a lot more parties that need to come to the table to fix the mess… some hardware might not be able to fix the mess, but i’d be surprised if this shit show were implemented on hardware rather than firmware
well see when you’re too lazy to design a schema and just want to throw broken data into a black hole where you may or may not be able to retrieve it and deal with the repercussions in production - or better yet let the ops team handle it at 3am - then that’s when you’d choose mongodb
i’m not a member of a church, i’m very atheist, but also i kinda put churches around the same place as sports clubs… they’re largely non-profit entities that exist for the benefit of members… kinda like a co-op too
i think given that - ie their mission isn’t based around making money, but providing free services - it’s fair to put them on the same level as other membership-based orgs
all of these orgs have a “not for me” crowd, but just because it’s not for you doesn’t mean that they don’t provide services to their members in the same way that sports clubs, maker spaces, car clubs, youth clubs, etc all provide things and shouldn’t be taxed in addition to the income tax that their members already pay
Maybe fix the way taxes are spent and I’ll support
not the way taxes work mate
don’t want to see the money people give out of their sense of faithfulness to be used to pay for
why does faith give them an exemption from participation in civilised society?
i’d love for tickets to various pride events not to be taxed, but they are… so why do i pay tax for participating in my culture and “faith” is exempt?
taxes largely only apply to profits, so if you’re being an actual charitable organisation, you won’t have too many profits and thus not a large tax burden… right?
yall already have 501c7 which is membership organisations like sports clubs
well, it’s probably a similar thing to a 501c7: membership organisations like sports clubs
they’d still have to pay various payroll taxes and things, and they still buy things: tax exemption in australia for example means you neither have to charge GST (our version of VAT) to customers, and you get to claim it back from any purchases you make
since GDPR came in TBH i haven’t heard of any EU data leaks… like sure they happen in the US all the time, but where the fines actually happen
same with australia: we’ve had pretty good privacy laws since like the 90s, and really we haven’t had a whooooole lot of breaches. there have been some high profile ones, but security is never a 100% kinda thing yknow
well then they get massive fines for any data they leak
yeah… here we are: Europeans with right to be forgotten and opt out of data collection
so now you’re paying a private entity in this round about bullshit way for a service that isn’t actually the service you want but the service you want kinda is a side hustle for them in order to bring down their costs
insurance may be the way forward because the situation is so far beyond fucked it’s incredible
… but insurance shouldn’t be the answer
saying Microsoft requires that you go out and obtain a signed certificate that proves your identity as a developer
clearly that’s not the case if this was exploitable… again, N++ has an auto update mechanism that they current use. if they used a microsoft signing key to sign a builds hash, this hijack would not be possible
thus they have an update mechanism that works around microsoft signing… how is irrelevant. that is the current state of the software
The update mechanism was successful hijacked because integrity checks and authentication checks were not properly in place
that part we definitely agree on
Notepad++ even said that they moved hosting providers after this happened to them
side note: doesn’t remotely solve the problem… software updates should be immune to this to start with. it’s a problem that the hosting provider was compromised, but honestly we’re talking about a state sponsored hack targeting other states: almost no hosting provider would include this in their risk assessment, let alone shared hosting providers
Can you point out an existing open source application that runs on Windows that only uses GPG signatures?
again, that’s irrelevant… the concept that we’re talking about isn’t even specific to GPG. signing a hash using a private key is basic crypto, and GPG is a specific out of the box implementation
if we remove microsoft signing as an option for whatever reason (which we have) then it’s still very possible, and very easy to implement signed updates into your own custom update mechanism
it’s absolutely true actually… whatsapp are the key holders and there was a leak a few weeks ago that showed meta staff can access anyone’s messages: they just need to raise a ticket and they get access to an app that allows them to pull up any user the like