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I should make a thing that plays a different song depending on how the cable is rotated.

in reply to Kevin Santo Cappuccio

Might be cool for an escape room prop, providing you can also buy the matching jack.


Lately, I've been messing around with adding modern 3D elevation relief to historic maps. This is the original GLO survey from 1859-60 of the Grand Marais, Minnesota area.

Learning how to do this has been challenging. I've been using QGIS > Photoshop > Blender > Photoshop as the workflow.

#Minnesota #Cartography

in reply to Bryan Hansel

That is actually really cool! I imagine aligning the coordinate systems of the original map with modern terrain maps would be one of the (many) challenging parts. Your result is amazing, and since you mentioned blender, I imagine you could draw this out from any perspective? Very neat!
in reply to Curt Olson

@clolsonus Thanks. As best as I can figure, these were American Polyconic using a datum that isn't available in any gis program. Maybe something prior to but based on the New England Datum. This is before NAD. I've been using NAD27, but it's usually off. I just fix it in Photoshop after I get it close in QGIS.

With Blender anything seems possible. I like this view and the overhead views the best so far. Here's an example 3d view up Devil Track River Canyon.




Risotto is the greatest. If you’re not making chicken stock* and then risotto tonight, what are you even doing?

*if you’re able to decant the fat the same night, you came out better than me. (I usually just decant after cooling overnight. I’ll get that tomorrow.)

in reply to Emily Velasco

@MLE_online I’m always evangelizing for it. My unsolicited tips are:
-use your own stock
-all the pressure to stir constantly is bullshit

I can give more, solicited tips too if ever requested.



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Trivial Einstein reshared this.





When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.

Matthew Dockrey reshared this.









Hobart had the privilege of hanging out on top of the garage door this afternoon


Sometimes you think of the starwhale from Doctor Who and draw a little whale friend as you remember the episode. At least that is what led to the creation of this tiny whale.

I draw each of my flat 3D prints in Procreate, upload them to Maker World's "image to keychain" tool, download the file, and then print it. It's a quick way to make hand drawn art into something you can hold. I guess you could also print our your art as stickers but I enjoy the 3D prints.

The second image (video) shows my drawing process. I hope you enjoy this friend!

makerworld.com/en/models/12105…

#3dprinting #2dart #whaleart




Building a Fully Automatic Birkeland-Eyde Reactor

hackaday.com/2025/03/15/buildi…



Apparently now any person of color is being profiled as looking “undocumented”



Voice Of America — silenced.

#BoycottAmerica and buy local or European.

nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/poli…




@geerlingguy macOS + Ansible weekend project thanks to your video and galaxy collection. I am happy with how it turned out. Equally useful for a new system bootstrap or just adding a package.

github.com/jtbrough/macos_ansi…



Dog sitting Solana (a good girl ... sometimes) #dogsofmastodon
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🇺🇸 A double standard. Trump won’t sanction Russia (yet) because he wants peace talks, says Sec. of State Rubio.

Sanctioning the aggressor? ❌
Blocking weapons to Ukraine to force talks? ✅

Meanwhile, Russia keeps making demands with zero consequences. Why is only Ukraine being pressured to compromise?



⚡️🇪🇺 The EU has no plans to halt arms supplies to Ukraine even if a 30-day ceasefire is agreed, DW reports, citing diplomats.

dw.com/ru/v-slucae-vremennogo-…



Ukraine is running out of missiles for its Samp-T air defense systems, Corriere della Sera reports. Kyiv has urgently asked Italy & France for at least 50 Aster-30 missiles to replenish its stocks.

corriere.it/off-the-record-giu…



🇺🇦 Zelensky: Ukraine's missile program is making major strides. The "Long Neptune" has passed tests & seen successful combat use—precise strikes at a 1,000 km range. A huge step for our defense. Kudos to our developers, manufacturers & military. We keep working to secure Ukraine.


🇷🇸 Massive student protests erupt in Serbia against President Vučić. Demonstrations, ongoing for months, are now escalating nationwide. Protesters demand the removal of Vučić & his party, calling for a transitional government. The movement intensified after a deadly incident at Novi Sad station killed 15.

in reply to lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

patch: source.mnt.re/-/snippets/14

some notes:
—geometry shaders are afaik not used anymore, at least there was a big effort to replace them in UI
—not sure if multiDrawIndirect is still used (reference: projects.blender.org/blender/b…)
—multiViewPort: projects.blender.org/blender/b…
—gl_ClipDistance is used in a few shaders
—dual src blending mostly in eevee, otherwise rare: projects.blender.org/blender/b…

cc @kusma

in reply to lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

btw my hunch about what's slow here once i drag the points of that cube is actually the text that's overlaid on top once i do that, not the 3d model itself


Another ride find. I guess it's an industrial strobe. I'm curious to see if it works

#ridefinds

in reply to Emily Velasco

I have just managed to find some COVID era large magnetic sheets. I have a colour laser printer, some adhesive vinyl paper and very little shame.

I think I'm going to out fridge magnet my Wife and then make up a load of "you park like a teenager in his first sexual experience" magnets.



L'œuvre de Hannah Arendt est aussi exceptionnelle que conséquente.

On peut l'aborder de manière simple et efficace grâce à ce petit bouquin. En ces temps troubles, les réflexions de cette grande philosophe sont - malheureusement - toujours pertinentes. Je recommande, absolument!





was out papering teslas on my dog walk, a practice that has got me looking closer at cars and noticing how ubiquitous the mega tall & blunt front grille has become. the hummer-ification of the US auto fleet is shit design for safety, aesthetic, and air resistance/mpg reasons
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in reply to wet forest moon folklorist

This has bothered me for years at this point. Decades.

Also: if you view the front of the car as a face, what emotion is it conveying? Once you start seeing it, it’s hard to stop.

in reply to Paul Cantrell

@inthehands Those photos don't include the huge pickup truck fronts that are a 5 to 6 foot tall wall, especially when the truck is lifted.
in reply to Paul Cantrell

@inthehands

My youngest would always comment on what the cars were feeling when he was little, and now I see it all the time too! … and there are few happy cars on the road anymore 😞

@seachanger

in reply to David Mitchell

Back when I was a kid, I really really liked the Dodge/Chrysler Neon, because the front looked like it was smiling.

@DavidM_yeg @inthehands @seachanger

in reply to Jess👾

@JessTheUnstill @DavidM_yeg I had one of those things! My friend tried to give it to me for nothing, and I argued her up to $500 even though she said she felt bad about that. It had problem after problem. My rule was I’d only fix safety-related things, and only under a certain (fairly low) repair cost. It lasted for •years• that way: it was just barely holding together and always on the brink of undrivable…yet somehow it never quite died. Finally donated it for parts when the clutch had completely filled with engine oil.

It was by any standard a terrible car, yet it stuck with me for longer than it should have. And yeah, it looked happy doing it.

in reply to Paul Cantrell

Yeah, when I got a little older I learned that they really weren't particularly good cars. But they still made me smile every time I saw one because it was small and cute in the era that the SUVs started taking over the roads.
@inthehands @DavidM_yeg @seachanger

in reply to Randahl Fink

Good night Randahl and thank you for this beautiful picture!


Thank you again to @rimu for joining me as my #special #guest on #FiresideFedi.

#Episode 6 of the #FsF will be at the following links when they're done processing:

#VOD #Peertube - video.firesidefedi.live/w/t4M5… (Now with automated Transcriptions!)
#Fedicast #Podcast #Castopod - audio.firesidefedi.live/@fires…




There isn't any reason passports need to mention gender. I didn't know about this but some of you mentioned it last week, then I stumbled on this article.

thedailybeast.com/how-the-rise…

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in reply to mcc

@mcc

I use my passport because I live in a theocratic state.

But the same faction at the federal level would have a more difficult time. Because the Real ID Act shifted the responsibility for an ID onto the states, they can still issue accurate documents, as they choose. As such, places like Texas will have to accept an ID from places like Illinois, according to Article IV of the Constitution. The patchwork of state systems would overwhelm ideological enforcement by anti-LGBT forces.

@mcc
in reply to Richelle Sparrow

@mudd0359 The full faith and credit thing is an odd thing. There seems to be a "bigotry exception"* that was previously used to reject interracial marriages, and we never got a decision on whether it applied to same sex marriages because Obgerfell happened sooner than expected. I'd be curious to see the full faith and credit clause truly tested for trans recognition.

* Sorry I mean "public policy exception".

in reply to mcc

@mudd0359 and by "I'd be curious" I mean "I'm highly concerned about this because my birth certificate is held by the state of Texas"
in reply to mcc

@mcc

Obergefell's case against Ohio was a full faith/credit case: Maryland marriage vs. Ohio record keeping.

Article IV could open options for transfolk. The problem is living in a regressive state, like mine. Existing residents must produce a (corrected) birth certificate to the DMV; new arrivals can use other forms, like passports or the old state's ID. If a court in one state (residence or birth locale) were to correct one's gender, would the state be forced to accept it?

@mcc
in reply to Richelle Sparrow

@mudd0359 that's interesting… was the full faith and credit question *resolved* though, or did they bypass it by going right to equal protection?
in reply to mcc

@mcc

The equal protection and due process claims (14th amendment) seem to be the explicit basis for the Obergefell decision. Buried within the ruling text is an implied appeal to full faith/credit:

"In light of the fact that many States already allow same-sex marriage—and hundreds of thousands of these marriages already have occurred—the disruption caused by the recognition bans is significant and ever-growing."

@mcc


someone wrote drivers to run Windows 3.1 in HD

github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv

#retrocomputing #usenetfind

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