Small selection of ruru (Ninox novaeseelandiae) in care at Wildbase Recovery NZ 💛 #owlsintowels
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Quan Gin by 5martist
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart #dndart
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A thing I've been thinking about a lot is how, whether, technology like computers and computer screens could be made "locally", i.e., within a limited area and without access to global trade in parts and minerals, even if you have to make drastic trade-offs to get there
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A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market
Elecom’s Na Plus sodium-ion power bank is safe to use in extreme temperatures and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
New advertisement push from US Veterans
VOTEVETS | Stop Elon Musk's War On Veterans | Perry
"I did not put my life on the line to put some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come here and try to destroy our country"
I caught her four more flies today because she still seemed hungry, but they kept escaping from her. I caught her a pantry moth, too, but a smaller spider I was previously unaware of caught it before she could. Eventually I caught her a pantry moth that she caught.
That was a lot of hunting by me to feed her two bugs
you must have enjoyed this song at some time in your childhood. youtube.com/watch?v=EoN14e8CCW…
"Spin, Spider, Spin" by Patty Zeitlin
Patty Zeitlin -[8]- Spin Spider Spin
VA Fuzzy-Felt Folkhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1800CCE1DC218B3EYouTube
Something about shepherds.
Oh yeah, that.
youtube.com/watch?v=fnFlusOzjZ…
The Shepherd's Deathline (Remix by Flesh Field)
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesThe Shepherd's Deathline · Robert Smith · Aiboforcen · Flesh FieldSons Palliatifs℗ 2001 Alfa MatrixReleased on:...YouTube
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news laughingsquid.com/sledding-cat…
A Bundled Up Cool Cat Loves Snowy Sled Rides Provided by His Beloved Human
A cool cat named Fitz who lives in Canada, loves to get all bundled up in a warm coat and his oversized "bat-eared" hat to go for sled rides.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
#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.)
Original lace: collections.mfa.org/objects/69…
Infant's cap – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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 …collections.mfa.org
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!
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
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#news #tech #technology #AI #scam #fraud
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Judge extends deadline for deportation flight details as DOJ continues to resist
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/g-s1-54748/deportation-flights-judge-boasberg-justice-department-tren-de-aragua-el-salvador?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ptarmigan
A male sitting in the spring sunshine, high on the hills of the west coast of Scotland today.
#ptarmigan #scotland #wildlife #birdphotography #highlands
This M5Stack Game Is Surprisingly Addictive
hackaday.com/2025/03/19/this-m…
This M5Stack Game Is Surprisingly Addictive
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…Hackaday
Apple will have to open iOS up more, and Google could face steep fines.
arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/…
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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
Blaise wrote:
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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In this edition of "Advances in Computing," one researcher takes stock of the benefits and challenges for the AI ethics field. Also featured in this edition: two articles on the impact of generative AI on data annotation tasks and working with co-pilots,
In this edition of "Advances in Computing," one researcher takes stock of the benefits and challenges for the AI ethics field.ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (www.linkedin.com)
In a restaurant in Montmartre, Paris.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Montmartre #Paris
I never understood these small "bistro" tables...
I wanna massive table if I'm in a place that serves food! 😂
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'He was a real friendly gator': Detroit man leaves behind alligator in Cheboygan motel
Wally, a 3-foot dwarf alligator, was visiting Cheboygan elementary schools before his owner left him in a motel room, thinking he had escaped.Liam Rappleye (Detroit Free Press)
Trump administration extends opioid emergency as fentanyl deaths drop
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333651/opioid-trump-fentanyl-emergency-overdose?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies
By Toby Sterling
How do I cite a paper Microsoft has written and published on Google Drive?
Asking for a friend. The friend is me.
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.
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Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.nham.co.uk
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:
Judge's discovery order is too "intrusive," Trump admin tells appeals court.
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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.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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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.
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#photography #sanfrancisco #streetphotography #candid #anonymous #history
Who Shot Me? Help Identify the Anonymous Photographer Who Captured 1960s San Francisco — Colossal
More than 8,000 photos capture San Francisco's counter culture and pivotal moments in history. But who was behind the camera?Grace Ebert (Colossal)
These scientists are building a cat database to understand why they act like that
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Question for @FreeCAD users:
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.
@3dprinting #3DPrinting #FreeCAD
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.
I’m not at my workstation at the moment but I peeked at this and didn’t get too far.
I need the ResetPlacement tool from that bench (or an equivalent). github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMo…
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
kicadStepUpMod/kicadStepUpCMD.py at 414edc57a79115142a26bfc54040d1730d2e7ec1 · easyw/kicadStepUpMod
kicadStepUp: ECAD to MCAD FreeCAD WorkBench. Contribute to easyw/kicadStepUpMod development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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…
For my last model I cloned all the objects fixed their orientations. Ran ResetPlacement on each, then ran LastSTEP.
It’s not the end of the world, I can spend a few minutes on it to export.
Thanks for taking a look.
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.
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 just wanted to let you know there is some hope.
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.
github.com/chrishuck/LastSTEP/…
LastSTEP/LastSTEP-31MAR25.FCMacro at main · chrishuck/LastSTEP
A FreeCAD macro to batch export multiple bodies to individual STEP files - chrishuck/LastSTEPGitHub
Sweet!! I’ll have to make a few administrative edits to the code and update the README to make it official.
Glad I could help you out with this. I now see where it would be useful. Keep me posted if you run into any issues.
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