Shinji_Ikari [he/him] @ Shinji_Ikari @hexbear.net

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Operation, ie an intelligence operation, psychological operation, etc.

I made a point to go see the pandas in DC before they were gone and they really really needed a sign saying this. Every couple of minutes I heard someone asking "why are the pandas leaving?".

I bought a kasa power strip for individual switching thinking TPlink kept around the no account local API.

They fuckin trashed it and I need an account to use a goddamn power strip. I'm going to have to rip this apart and see if I can reprogram it or something.

Oh don't worry, their kids will take their place.

I'm undeniably pro-gulag so thanks for letting me know this source is for me!

The endless packaging solutions for python is exactly the flaw that they're talking about.

Packaging a python application to work over an air-gap is extremely painful. Half the time its easier to make a docker container or VM just to avoid the endless version mismatch pain.

I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.

I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.

It's absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.

Yes, vim is a command line program.

If you look up "Cli file manager", there's a bunch that you can check out and try.

Tree, grep, and find are usually my three go-tos. Tree to get a general view of a ton of nested files/folders, then if I know a name I'll use find . -name "filename", if I know a bit of contents, i'll use `grep -re "content string" to find files containing that.

I recommend reading the man pages because you can often chain together these in fairly powerful ways.

It comes from a disregard of Civility politics. So often Liberals will come to us with bad faith, poorly researched takes, and demand an argument.

Hexbear generally embodies a disrespect for the civility politics and bad faith concern trolls. As an instance we typically act as a single unified unit, which is rare for an online community.

It's nothing personal, but a lot of the members are very well read in theory and history, and propagate that to other users with well sourced arguments. If someone comes in and demands that their propaganda based opinion is the only truth, some will try good faith reasoning. If that good faith attempt is lambasted as being a bot/troll/brigade after effort put in to educate, we'll become hostile.

An internet argument is rarely for the participants, but for the people lurking through. Often times, this method is effective at getting people to question the generally accepted narrative.

I hope you have a good day and please consider logging off for a bit. It's really nothing personal.

Love my manual transmission. Toss er in 4th, hold slight pressure on the gas, cruise at the speed limit without any interference. If you let off you even slow down instead of coast.

That's great and all, but this is a federated comm, it appeared on my home page under active. I don't know if it matters if I personally shared my XMonad config and custom volume widget or commented on yet another custom tiling wm. I always exclusively lurked on the subreddit. I lurk on this one too. Discussion isn't usually that insightful besides "wow!" and "theme?".

This time, there was actual discussion and I decided to join in. Much more interesting than the 900th i3 gaps with an 18 pixel gap and 15 lines of code visible in the terminal.

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

Is this brigading?

Damn had to call both my senators. I always hate calling because I have no doubt that it wont do anything.

I watched a lot of youtube before I dove in. There's a LOT more content on watch repair now after covid so it should be easy. Pay specific attention to how the seasoned watchmakers use their tools. You should never have to force anything in a watch. Go as slow as possible and really savor each movement.

If you don't have a camera with good macro abilities, grab some of those cheap clip on macro lenses for your phone.

Take a pictures at every step until you don't need them anymore. I specifically was interested in 2-3 movements but you start to see the commonality between them if you're just working on a simple hour/minute/second/calendar watch without extra complications.

I really suggest buying one of those little plastic trays with a clear dome on top that have dividers. With that, I divide the parts and screws by the aspect of the movement. ie I'll use one compartment for the automatic winder components, a compartment for the stem and winding mechanism, one for the main drive, and another for the date complication. I repair a lot of misc things so I have a decent memory for where parts/screws go. If you dont, take pictures of the screw next to the hole you took it from so you can compare scale. Screws inside watches are usually at most 2-3 sizes, if not all the same but its good practice to ensure you put the right screw in the right hole.

Also check out the forum watchrepairtalk. Its an international group of old men who love to help out. It has a completely different atmosphere to watchuseek and is an endless fountain of knowledge.

God the sovteks. I also like soviet watches and two of my interests are directly fucked from the war.

I mostly play acoustic stuff now, I have an alright manouche style guitar that I play more than most of my guitars now.

I struggle with frontend too, it was a super basic jinja templates with html and a plotly js applet that I just fed data to. Its ugly but functional.

I Started to re-write the server in Go, I have like 90% feature parity with postgres instead of mongo, but I need to figure out vue when I have a chance to make something a little nicer. I have an old obsolete ipad with a bunch of touch deadzones I'd like to load up in kiosk mode for a nicer data display.

I really liked the ESP32 ecosystem. I figured out the ESP-idf and really liked the build system and freeRTOS. The examples given are really exhaustive and super useful. I basically did format strings into static HTML headers to send the data to the server since it only has like 3-4 readings.

Interfacing with any common hobbyist sensor is mostly a matter of finding a basic C driver and adapting it for the ESP build system.

History doesn't occur in a vacuum though.

Why is it also present in Indonesia, a Muslim nation colonized by the Dutch

Please read the Jakarta Method. Indonesia was trying to build up some kind of socialist system after Dutch rule. The democratically elected leader was a member of the Communist party but overall was not forcing a hard revolution. The US manufactured a right-wing military coup that would go on to execute nearly a Million members of the communist party, imprison over a million more, and lead the country down a right wing reactionary path. Indonesia pre-coup was is almost unrecognizable compared to modern Indonesia.

Iran was never directly colonized

The 1953 coup strengthened the shah and changed power to be far more pro-west interests, imperialism in a mask. The later Iranian revolution was again, a reaction to the more or less puppet regime. I don't think anyone on the left has more than a critical support for Iran to self govern. Of course not all changes or revolutions are a blanket good.

Generally the support for Islam on the left is a counteraction to Islamophobia in the west, where Muslims are written off as terrorists due to the multiple decades of war waged in the Middle East.

I personally know non-muslim brown people called "Terrorist" in predominantly white school districts in the early 2010s. This racism didn't go away, and it won't go away by demanding people to surrender their religion in the name of anti-homophobia. Doing so, claiming they're generally homophobic is the same as generalizing them all as terrorists.

Do you ever have odd volume behavior? For example, I'll turn it on one day with the clean volume around 2, it will be loud. Then another day I'll turn it on, settings unchanged, and it will be half volume and I'll have to bring it up to 3 or 4, which normally is enough to shake the drywall, just to get a normal level.

I have so many old tubes, I've considered turning them into Christmas ornaments by soldering a hook onto the feet. They're too cool looking to toss but are no good in the amp.

Life is also a lot better with an attenuator between the power out and the speaker.

Absolutely, I've decided to accept my amp is just haunted when i hear reverb with the knob turned to zero.

I've had to reflow connections, replace load resisters, replace all the tubes and re-bias the amp. Broke out the schematics and went through test points and everything.

Its an awful little goblin amp and weighs 50 pounds but it was the very first big thing I bought when I started working as a teenager and I cant seem to let it go.

Its really relaxing after a couple drinks. My #1 tip is don't cheap out on the basic tools like tweezers, screw drivers, and oils. A lot of things you can find cheap, ie pith wood, finger cots, a little squeeze blower, etc. The tools you use to manipulate the pieces are basically an extension of your hand and makes a worlds difference.