Finally watched some tutorials and got myself off the ground with Nomad Sculpt! Which is funny, since my first project is a flightless kiwi. :3
Working on this lil guy as a potential enclosure for a #RaspberryPi running #Kiwix ✨
// #3DPrinting #Electronics #NomadSculpt #CAD
Belfast is a fascinating city. Today we will explore the downtown area on a Self-Guided City and Murals Tour of Belfast. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
@pluralistic : "Trump won office in part by insisting that America's institutions were not fit for purpose. He wasn't lying about that (for a change). The thing he was lying about was his desire to fix them. Trump doesn't want honest refs – he wants *no* refs. To defeat Trumpism, we need to stop pretending that our institutions are just fine – we need to confront their failings head on and articulate a plan to fix them"
Play the right game; keep playing it to the end.
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
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#climate #GHG #science #GoodNews
UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of LondonCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
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Unless a miracle occurs, Trump’s tariffs will keep driving up consumer prices and drag the U.S. into a 1970s-style stagflation crisis: high inflation, slow growth, and rising unemployment.
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Trump's delusional pursuit of economic nostalgia is wrecking the economy and hurting the very people he claims to support.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
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13 March 1917 | A Czech Jew, Valtr Roth, was born in České Budějovice.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He did not survive.
Kennett Square, Pa., is considered the mushroom capital of the world. The industry depends heavily on immigrants, who work physically demanding jobs in tough conditions.The Conversation
I sometimes (not often enough) write up crazy ideas I've had that I never actually got around to making... so here's An Automated Announcement System!
"An audio robot to do the work for you…"
There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016...app.thestorygraph.com
Of course.
“Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a former faith adviser to the #Trump White House, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he molested a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said”
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Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.Hank Sanders (The New York Times)
Our Backpack and Snorkel Bogota Travel Guide provides the best things to see in Bogota so that you can make memorable moments on a relaxing vacation in Bogota.backpackandsnorkel.com
Adam Curry,
former MTV VJ turned podcaster
turned Christian nationalist,
says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE
"are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."
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Adam Curry, former MTV VJ turned podcaster turned Christian nationalist, says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE "are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."People For
Jesus Christ (no pun intended) I followed some of his activities in the early days of the web. Then he and John Dvorak started a podcast and Curry was going down the loony tunes path with “don’t carry a phone, use an iPod touch on WiFi only”, and then prior to the 2016 election, I had to stop listening.
Seems he’s gone full batshit crazy.
A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding
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Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1950s, a curious and crafty group of enthusiasts invented their own global social network: on reels of magnetic tape…Hackaday
Setting up Nginx Proxy Manager was easier than I thought! A few hurdles at first (longer blog post in the works) but I got it all working without much issue.
I am seeing things timeout every now and then but it seems a common problem so hopefully I can get that fixed.
#nginx #proxy #selfhosted
I also managed to get docker running Nginx Proxy Manager on a Raspberry Pi, which had a few challenges but I think I've cleared all the hurdles.
The main issue was no clear direction on getting Docker and the container to startup at boot. Lots of forum post reading on that topic.
me, obvious genius: there's no trap that would ever work on me
also me: oh
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Ubuntu to replace classic coreutils and more with new Rust-based alternatives
After so much terrible tech politics news, let's focus on some nice, easy-going Linux news that's not going to be controversial at all: Ubuntu intends to replace numerous core Linux utilities with newer Rust replacements, starting with the ubiquitous GNU Coreutils.
This package p
Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…
A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025.SETI Institute
It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.
It's very quick and easy to do:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.
Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...www.simonandschuster.com
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What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325265/sudiksha-konanki-missing-dominican-republic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.
I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.
I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse #ProjectGutenberg
This is fantastic social.growyourown.services/@F…
Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.
(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)
(Via @rolle)
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...GitHub
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Using the shell command in CAD software might seem like an easy way to hollow out a model for 3D printing, but it often leads to inconsistent wall thickness and print artifacts. This post explains why the shell command falls short and introduces a more precise manual modeling approach to achieve uniform, high-quality prints.
I find it interesting what is happening to the polls in Canada.
What looked like an upcoming comfortable victory for The Conservatives has changed dramatically after the inauguration of Trump.
Should the Liberals end up winning the election later this year, the US president would be facing the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney.
We would then see the chaos president Trump fighting a trade war against a calculated, educated and experienced economist who has lead central banks.
Until then we will all experience a whole flood of tariffs and EOs....
Let's sse if the USA still "exists" by then. 😬😱
Just sayin':
Nobody ever has seen a sadistic destruction of a superpower before. Who knows what's gonna happen til fall.
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This happens all the time.
French fries are not French, they’re Belgian at best.
One of the most popular Chinese dishes in the USA is General Tso's Chicken. In China no one knows who the General Tso is and never tasted his Chicken.
This is not an exhausting list.
reminds me of the dutch "filet americain"
which 1) for whatever reason has a french name
and 2) is literally raw minced beef with some spices that you're supposed to put on a slice of bread (with maybe some onions/eggs/more spices).
I guess maybe because americans like meat and boneless things? I have no idea what the connection is here honestly
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first.
BIM:
Syres916 fixed two cosmetic bugs in the UI code,
furgo16 re-enab
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#DevelopmentUpdates
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a ne…FreeCAD News
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •Nice!
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •It's coming along :3
Learned how to use face groups and the mask/extract tool to create a hollow shell! youtu.be/HjyRowDESmM
And this is the tutorial that really got me started (had to slow it down to see some parts): youtu.be/q_iztd7IIKY
Nomad Sculpt - Hollow Objects - Tutorial (V1.84 - 28.10.2023)
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Robee? Na! 🌈
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •That turned out brilliantly!
Why do I suddenly want a chocolate 3d-printer? 😋
merlin / alex glow
in reply to AxWax • • •@axwax Haha, take it up with CocoaPress! XD
I'm excited to throw some textures on here, but will probably try and print a basic version first for Pi Day tomorrow~
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •Blog overview & update on my kiwi-shaped enclosure for a #RaspberryPi running #Kiwix ( @kiwix )! Predictably, I ran into scale issues: the current form is Huge, Actually, because I didn't really think it through. 😅 Might retry from an earlier version, or go with something simpler for now...
You can also see my first test project (warning: Butt) – glow-ahead.ghost.io/nomad-scul…
Nomad Sculpt: 3D CAD on the iPad
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •The Hat Fox
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in reply to The Hat Fox • • •@thehatfox Pretty intuitive! Much less intimidating after I learned what most clay artists would already know: start by sticking shapes together, THEN do the sculpting 😀
I'd also been trying to make myself sit through a 40-minute tutorial, and never got past the 9min mark... In post #2, I've linked the ghost tutorial that really clicked – a quick video that covers a ton of tools and techniques at once. Finally got a solid enough foundation to build momentum and get excited!
The Hat Fox
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in reply to The Hat Fox • • •@thehatfox Yesss! Fair warning: I had to watch it on 75% speed so I could screenshot some of the tools he was using, because the interface is completely new.
This man page is really useful for figuring out the precise differences between some tools (like Flatten/Planar): nomadsculpt.com/manual/tools
Also, I use a Paperlike screen protector and friction nib, which I got for drawing but IMO improve everything.
Tools | Nomad
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in reply to merlin / alex glow • • •Thanks again, looking forward to getting started!
I’ve seen Paperlike recommended before, often wondered about trying it as I do a lot of notes but find the bare iPad screen and pencil a bit slidey.
merlin / alex glow
in reply to The Hat Fox • • •@thehatfox Absolutely! I've been using the Paperlike for years now, and I prefer the matte screen for both art and glare reduction.
Recently decided I wanted even more friction for drawing, so I bought some "MJKOR Soft Paperfeel Damping Tips" and have really liked it for the past couple weeks. I also tried a silicone cover for the Pencil tip, but it reduced the precision, which ruled it out for me.
Curious to hear your experiences, if you go for it 😀