A person can be smart, but people can be outright stupid.
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#WIPWednesday: I have continued to work on that reproduction lace. I think the size is right now, but I don't have a measurement of the original.
This is 90/2 linen thread, but the thread is slubby and I'm not keen on it. Would like a nicer thread and will try to find better ones at the upcoming lace retreat.
(Embroidered baby cap just for scale of cap size for reference. Not my work, donated to our lace group.)
Child's cap trimmed with bobbin lace, drawn together in the back and joined with twisted insertion stitches which continue down insertion; double hem stitching at edge …
I'm getting to help design the set for our next play the the theater, Harvey.
The play happens entirely in a Victorian mansion and a mental hospital, but there is a lot of switching back and forth between them. That's a lot of scene changes, and a lot of work for the stage crew to do quickly over and over again.
So, I'm proposing a design like this where the major pieces of the set are double sided and can be rotated in place to show either their mansion side or their loony bin side.
Fingers crossed the producer and director go for it!
@the_spc in the winter they are almost completely white apart from a black line across their eyes. The male has a red wattle above his eyes. In the summer they have an intricate pattern of greys and browns that match the colours of the surrounding rocks and lichens. They are harder to see in the summer! Hope this helps.
For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hackaday Europe in Berlin, there was a feast of hacks at our disposal. Among them was [Vladimir Divic]’s gradients game, software for an M5Stack m…
EU accuses Google and Apple of stifling competition under Digital Markets Act Apple will have to open iOS up more, and Google could face steep fines. arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/…
I believe it is a good thing to be there and actually listen. Though do not expect immediate results. Healing takes time and you do not heal from years of trauma in a discussion. If we expect more than what is realistic then we could become jaded and believe we cannot help. This would be unfortunate.
Though regarding
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It is a thing. Just not the thing they think.
I agree completely. Often times people say "It happened for a reason..." and they are right. Just not the reason they suppose. Confirmation Bias is extremely hard for us to get past even with the best of intentions.
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when we visited paris, we ate at Le Progres. fortunately, my wife was there to speak french for us. otherwise, i would have been lost. aside: i really need to add french to my languages list after the time spent there.
"People leave all kinds of things in motel rooms. Dirty T-shirts. Toothbrushes. Sometimes, it's a wallet or a set of keys. But at the Pine River Motel in Cheboygan, an animal handler accidentally left his 3-foot-long dwarf alligator, Wally." #weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #newsfreep.com/story/news/local/mic…
You have a right to cite any resource you use. It does not matter who authored it or who distributes it. That does not mean you have a right to distribute the content. Check the copyright.
Merely linking to a document that is publicly accessible, unless you entered into an agreement not to, is not illegal. Downloading and then redistributing the content could be a violation.
Disclaimer I am not a lawyer and am offering advice on the premise that if you have a reason to believe your actions could violate a law then you will seek the advise of a lawyer.
Plex Pass monthly, yearly, and lifetime subscriptions are getting a price hike on April 29 for the first time in a decade. But you can lock in a fixed lifetime rate now. pcmag.com/news/plex-pass-strea…
Minnesota State Senator Eichorn introduced a bill recently to make Trump Derangement Syndrome, or “TDS", LEGALLY an identified form of mental illness in t...
It's almost as if the Qanon smears against democrats were only ever a distraction to make people look away from the numerous pedophiles in republican politics and the very real associations with Trump.
Musicians: How to Receive More Money for Each Track Sold
TL;DR: Musicians can make more money for each song sold by reaching out to their payment processor. After giving some context this article explains how to go about it.
I’ve just finished putting together the tenth NHAM mixtape which will be released on April 1st. In doing so it occurred to me that when I pay the small fee of £/$/€1 to buy a single track from an artist, no matter what fee the platform fee is (even it’s nothing as could be the case with
Musicians: How to Receive More Money for Each Track Sold
TL;DR: Musicians can make more money for each song sold by reaching out to their payment processor. After giving some context this article explains how to go about it.
I’ve just finished putting together the tenth NHAM mixtape which will be released on April 1st. In doing so it occurred to me that when I pay the small fee of £/$/€1 to buy a single track from an artist, no matter what fee the platform fee is (even it’s nothing as could be the case with Mirlo (@mirlo) or on promo days on some platforms), it is likely that at best only two thirds of that would make it to the artist anyway!
Why? Because the payment processor takes a ‘small cut’ of each transaction. The trouble is, that ‘small cut’ is not small in percentage terms when the transaction is so small. Roughly speaking the payment processors’ small cut is something along the lines of 3% plus 30p / 30c per transaction. That 30p / 30c is only 3% for a £/$/€10 purchase (and less for greater) but of course it’s a whopping 30% for a £/$/€1 transaction.
This poses a problem for musicians when £/$/€1 is standard price for a single track.
So last week I had a chat with @benpate at Bandwagon, aware that he is looking to set up the payment feature on Bandwagon imminently. I wanted to see if we could find any kind of remedy or solution before he began implementing a payment feature in to Bandwagon.
I had already had a sniff around but the best kind of solution I could find was digital wallets, which wasn’t ideal because you’d be requiring the buyer to take the effort to set up an account with the digital wallet platform. Not ideal.
Then Ben told me about ‘micro transactions’ being a buzzword in the industry. As such I added that to my searches and found that hidden deep in the back pages of the major payment processors was information that they do give exemptions within certain ‘markets’ for sellers to be eligible for micro transaction fees.
I was curious as to whether the music industry might be one of those ‘markets’. The two major payment processors used by most fair music platforms appear to be Paypal and Stripe. Paypal’s small print said you’d need a Business Paypal account before you could request eligibility for micro transaction fees. Stripe were ambiguous, saying to reach out to support with questions about availability.
What are micro transaction fees?
Micro transaction fees are where smaller purchases (e.g. a single purchase lower than £/$/€5) are given a different transaction fee where a few more percentage points are added but the flat fee comes down to something like 5p / 5c instead of 30p / 30c.
For a musician selling a song at £1 this means a difference of losing 10p (5% + 5p) instead of 33p (3% + 30p) per transaction*.
*Please note that the actual amounts I’m giving in this article are for illustrative purposes only and the actual rates can vary slightly between different payment processors as well as for different currencies.
How can musicians register for micro transaction fees?
Stripe
This is how I managed to obtain micro transaction eligibility for my personal Stripe account. I hope any musician with a Stripe account is able to follow this same process to achieve the same:
First I went to Stripe live chat and chatted for 15-20 minutes with a support client. I said I’m a musician hoping to sell songs for £1/$1/€1 at a time and wondered if music sales was a market that could be considered for micro transaction rates as a result.
They asked me to wait while they raised it with the specialist team before saying someone would get back to me within 24 hours. I’d had no response in three days at which point I replied to the email with the chat transcript that had been sent to me after the chat finished. I asked whether anyone had tried to reach me because I’d not yet received anything. Later that day the positive response came:
Hello Sam,
I’m pleased to inform you that the micro-transaction fees have been successfully applied to your account. The new rates should be reflected in your account within the next 24 hours.
The rates are as follows: Transactions under £5: 5% + £0.05 For all other transactions, standard rates will apply.
If you have any questions or need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
As I don’t have a Paypal Business account I didn’t try this with Paypal but it does look like a similar process for them. As per this page you’d need to contact their customer support team to apply for the micro transaction arrangement. Follow the same method as above for Stripe and hopefully you’ll be eligible.
Best of luck to all musicians out there hoping to make a little more from each track sold. Let me know how you get on by replying to/commenting on this post. It will be interesting to see whether we’re deemed eligible across the board or if there will be some cases where other musicians are deemed ineligible.
Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.
A la luz de los acontecimientos actuales en Palestina, un gran número de cineastas han puesto sus películas sobre Palestina a disposición en línea de forma gratuita.
En este post, compartimos los enlaces a las películas, que puedes ver y compartir para difundir nuestro mensaje al mundo:
US tries to keep DOGE and Musk work secret in appeal of court-ordered discovery Judge's discovery order is too "intrusive," Trump admin tells appeals court. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Between 1966 and 1970, a San Francisco-area photographer captured thousands of images documenting civil rights demonstrations, protests against the Vietnam War, Grateful Dead concerts in Golden Gate Park, and so much more.
The problem, though, is that no one knows who the photographer is.
Right now, the only way I can find to re-orient a part or draft clone is to use Compounds or the KiCadStepUp addon workbench.
Is there really not an easier way to reset the origin of a part after placement?
I am trying to create clones so that I can export with proper part orientations. Part placement is not preserved on export and this KSU addon step seems like a needlessly complex process.
@chrishuck if I have python for dummies level skills, how much of a swing would it be to mangle the KiCadStepUp Reset Placement tool into your LastSTEP macro?
I have no idea… I don’t really know much about KiCadStepUp. I would have to play with it to try and understand what you want to do. Or, do you want to try to implement it?
I’m not trying to put work on your plate. I just need to run a tool from that bench (or replicate its functionality) before export to reset the origin of the STEP file.
I’ll try and look at your code and the workbench code and see what I can come up with.
Can you fill me in on what tool that you’re using in that workbench and what your ultimate goal is? Even though I don’t know anything about the workbench, I have been poking around looking for something that seems relevant to your description, but I’m not seeing it.
If I place a part clone in the correct orientation, then export using a manual export or lastSTEP, it doesn’t retain that orientation in the STEP file unless I run ResetPlacement.
Edit: deleted the last bit. I need to look at it on a real screen
Thanks for the link to the code. It seems like I might be able to implement that function call and make it a checkbox option when you choose the file naming scheme. (With a note saying it requires the StepUp workbench)
I’ll have to play with it later this week as work travel will get in the way…
I don’t think I can directly use the ResetPlacement function in the StepUpTools. It only allows you to have one object selected at a time. I thought I could trick it, but I can’t pass arguments to that function. It directly looks at the active selection and parses it. However, I might be able to just create a function in LastSTEP that I can pass a single selection object to, reset the placement, and then export it. Might be best to do it on clone objects? Would that help you?
Ok. I was thinking that you were looking for a way to automate the reorientation as part of the STEP export process. As I thought about it, I realized there would have to be a lot of assumptions made, which didn’t seem reasonable. Like, if you went back to the parent file and assumed that the modeling orientation was the same as the printing orientation, which isn’t always the case.
ah. No. The problem I have is that if I do a placement to set the print orientation, the step export still assumes the original as modeled origin and the placement data is lost.
Using the kicad bench tool resets the local origin for the clone so that it exports with the orientation that I selected.
Ok. I’m going to continue to investigate this, because I think it’s possible to “trick” the function into doing this for multiple selections even though the function can only technically do one at a time.
In some independent methodology testing, I am able to select multiple bodies and make it run the ResetPlacement function on each body. Now, I just have to migrate that into LastSTEP…
I uploaded a version that does the ResetPlacement on multiple bodies before exporting them to individual STEP files based on the naming scheme. Let me know if this does what you want.
I gave it a simple test, seems like it works great! I dumped all five of these models at once and they all came into OrcaSlicer with the correct orientation.
The Trump administration is silencing government-funded news outlets, including Voice of America. Voice of America chief national correspondent Steve Herman joins Ana Cabrera to speak out about the dismantling of his organization and share more on th…
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she won't stop criticizing Trump's methods, despite Elon Musk potentially using Starlink revenue to fund primary challengers against her and her colleagues.
I was looking at Google Maps in the area where I have to go next week in Louisiana for work.
Out of the corner of my eye, I happened to see Siracusaville. Perhaps some of Southern branch of @siracusa’s family? If you zoom out, it is damn near on an island, which lends credence to that hypothesis.
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: eff.org/document/eff-border-se…
Fuck ICE. They will never get my passwords and can just SUCK IT. I will take a burner phone with me. Like an old school flip phone. Calls only no internet.
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, don't. Most places in the world are now better places to be than the US, and it's getting worse daily.
What I’m getting from this is you should propose to be harassed and all you can do is grin and hope they use lube during the body cavity search. An alternative, despite it sounding like hyperbole, would be to find and use ways to enter and leave the US illegally. Leaving and entering legally means interacting with assholes. Probably not a method we can discuss here safely, though.
I'm not sure having the device powered down is a good idea. I was forced several times to open a laptop to show it's indeed a laptop. And when it'' locked, with a good password, I think high tech attacks would be very hard.
thank you for this! Although I appreciate a neat guide, it also doesn’t help much, especially for foreign visitors. If they ask anything, I have to provide, otherwise they’ll suspect and deny my entry
I like how this guide basically just states: If you want to make sure that your devices are not taken away from you, while you're being arrested at the border, do not travel to the U.S.
And that is solid advice - don't! (This isn't a Trump thing either, these laws have been in effect for decades at this point)
A French scientist was detained and sent back to Europe after CBP searched his belongings and found messages critical of Trump's science policy, which CBP argued could be interpreted as "terrorist intent."
"Graphite" software from Paragon, which has sold its high-end phone spyware to the U.S. government and holds itself out as more ethical than peers, has been found in the devices of Italian migrant rescuers close to the Pope, according to Citizen Lab and WhatsApp. Gift link: wapo.st/3Y2t8KK
I really can't get over how irresponsible it is for MS to tell people to throw away or recycle perfectly working computers. There are so many machines people *could* keep using for much longer if not for Windows 11. mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/…
You could use ChromeOS, which I am not recommending, as they are pushing for people with older computers to migrate to ChromeOS.
You could use any of the many great GNU/Linux distros. Unless you have a really old computer, which is doubtful seeing you are presumably using MS/Windows 10 now, you do not even need to get a so called lite version.
On the one hand, latest Smithsonian Magazine has a good piece on Dr. Barbara Stimson, the first American woman to serve as a doctor or surgeon during WWII. On the other, the author (or the editor) is “longtime companioning” it so hard, it’s like the last few decades never happened. So she lived with another female doctor for decades, was referred to as “sir” by the men and could have starred in a prequel to “Ode to a Gym Teacher” but we’re not using the “l” word here? smithsonianmag.com/history/tal…
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