Steamymoomilk

I hate flock, it fundamentally uses your rights like an onahole.

Ive watched so many videos talking about this privacy nightmare thats getting too close to home.

LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT FLOCK AND PUSH BACK.

ITS YOUR TAX PAYERS MONEY!

Many people are oblivious to what they are or what they do.

I like alot of people have fell into the rabbit hole which is LoRa. No this is not a AA meeting, this a release announcement, for the last month or two i have designed and prototyped a fully modular and open sourced case,

i go more into detail on printables, but ill keep it short here

1.Public Domain license I did this because i love LoRa and the meshtastic community, its just so cool to be able to find other people in the wild whom are also turbo nerds like myself. However when i got into this hobby, it left a bitter taste in my mouth knowing that the most popular cases all have very restrictive licenses. Some of which not allowing Remixing, which i think hampers innovation and RepRap culutre. So i designed a 3d printable case for this!

2. Interoperability I see a lot of other cases have separate designs for the RAK, Heltecs and T breams. So when designing this case my main goal was to make it separate parts allowing different components to be swapped. I did this by making it 4 main body parts.

3.Objective

The main reason i made this was because i wanted a FULLY open alternative, it honestly kills me as a maker. When i find a really cool project or model but it doesnt allow remixing.

4. Story

about 6 months ago i bought myself a heltec v3 and became obsessed with meshtastic. This obsession like many others eventually made its way into my friend group, so i showed my friends.This awesome and potentially ground breaking technology, So my heltec then became 3 RAK's. I 3d printed one of the most popular cases on printables for meshtastic (you know the one) and i liked it. but then i had all these IDEAS! what if i made a flap to cover the USB port? What if i made a molly webbing and belt clip??? but i then realized the license doesn't allow remixing or modding the design, well all these crazy ideas plagued me, until i decided to do some modeling. It took over 30 revisions to make it the way i want, and its not 100% perfect but i feel it has good bones. So i printed 3 of them and a few weeks ago myself and friends assembled our radios.

To be genuine for a second, i really could not care less if somebody take this design and sells it, remixes it or makes something infinity better than my original. I JUST WANT A BETTER ALTERNATIVE!!

https://www.printables.com/model/1447093-the-wallop-meshtastic-rnode-case

I have alot of CD's that were sitting around, and yes marker gets the job done on labeling, but it just feels wrong. I mean these are OPERATING SYSTEMS, so they deserve a case like windows or a mac release (rip windows 10)

so i used my laser cutter and etched some card stock to make some custom cases,

i also enjoy shitposting on the back on some of the cases

if you want the SVG's get them at my codeburg https://codeberg.org/Steamymoosmilk/Unix_like_CD_cases/src/branch/main/

what a ~~fucking~~ dumbass, Tylenol?? Really?

cheers to everybody on the spectrum!

I feel dating kinda sucks, a large portion of my generation is chronically online and i feel many don't know how to socialize in person.

I recently was eating at a local dinner, and saw somebody eating by themself. I walked up and ask if this seat was taken and they said no. But looked like a rabbit in a wolfs den, i introduced myself and we both got to know each other. I gave her my number but never got any call or text.

I feel lots of people around me are unappealing, yes i know that sounds seminaristic. Ive tried a foss dating app called alovoa, because i feel every other dating app would steal your liver if they legally could. The app has brought me miniscule success, i have made one friend whom i occasionally chat with.

But it kinda leaves me in a state of i want to meet new people, because at least where i live. The dating pool is really small, and my job isnt a public facing job (machine shop)

Any advise from the elders of lemmy?

This is some black mirror,

So ive recently fell DEEP into this hobby, and have a few RAK boards. my friends and i have been working on our nodes, and we originally were going to go with the OLED display, but we all are BAD at soldering. Plus i find RAK charges alot for the screens. So we found out that RAK sells an e-ink display! I also found a feature request on github, asking if they can add the 14000 E-ink to the firmware. They said they did, as of 2022, BUT I SWEAR FOR THE LIFE OF ME. I cant figure out how to enable the screen! ive tried all the OLED-Overide settings ive tried diffrent CPU boards ive tried diffrent baseboard and screen.

IT HAST to be somthing im being stupid about right? i cant find anything online other than the black and white screen is suported and a 18 second video of some guy getting it working. but no instructons or breadcrumbs to make it work.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41026064

Good day, or good evening privacy people! So as many lots of people may know there's 3 ways to build a world for yourself. Start your own business, go into the trades and apprenticeships or go to collage. There is no wrong choice because it is for you to make, i mean its your life after all! But any way today i wanna talk about number three on our roster, i have a very close friend who has chosen to go to collage . He is a pretty smart person as well has immense empathy and sympathy and has decided to follow his intuition to go seek further education. To become a substance abuse therapist, and recently he is getting closer to the end of his collage degree. However for some of the final exams they require a software called "Secure Browser" by Respondus. This is in fact not a Secure browser, wheres the TOR?? This browser is meant to kill all background apps and to eliminate the possibility of cheating, by you guested it SPYWARE!! Now one of the description from my friend is that you MUST use this software to take the quiz or kick rocks and get a bad grade. So we read the TOS which is about what you expect.

"Respondus collects data to operate effectively and to strive to provide you with the best experience with LockDown Browser. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you contact us for support. Some data is obtained by recording how you interact with LockDown Browser by, for example, receiving error reports or usage data from software running on your device. Some data is obtained by how you interact with the assessment delivery system, such as the amount of time spent answering a question. The data we collect within the Help Services depends on the features you use, and includes the following:

Webcam & Microphone Check. The webcam and microphone check streams video and audio from your webcam to the Respondus servers. The video and audio can then be played back by you to ensure the webcam and microphone are working properly. The video and audio recorded during the webcam and microphone check is stored in temporary cache on the Respondus server and is automatically deleted in about an hour. Persistent storage is not used for these recordings, and Respondus does not provide a way to electronically identify the recordings as being transmitted from a specific user. "

aswell on a separate webpage for a general TOS not for secure browser but in general for using any of there software

they collect Webcam & Microphone Check. and System Check. unique System Check ID. Basic personal data (first name, last name) Authentication data (user name) Contact information (may include postal or email address) Pseudonymous identifiers (student ID code assigned by LMS, if applicable) Device identification (IP address) We may disclose your personal data to partner companies where you have agreed to have that information shared

System Check. The System Check gathers certain information from your computing device, the networking environment, and the institution's Learning Management System.

So obviously like any sane person living in the year 2025, and not wanting a data company have, voice, video and as much data they can get out of there ~~Secure Browser~~ RootKit. We both decided and or was predetermined, that it doesnt ~~run~~ infect linux. Because its only for PaidBSD (MacOS) or Windows, So we thought about running a virtual machine of windows 10, but the idea was quickly thrown out because odds are it probably checks for hypervisors. So we decided to take out "old reliable" the 14 pound billet of a computer from circa 2008 aka my lenovo T440p with libreboot and a de-soldered webcam and microphone. Some of you may think im paranoid at this point, but i havent trusted windows since windows 11 came out. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo anyhow

We installed windows 10 and installed "secure browser", we ran a test for the software to make sure it would function without a webcam or mic. And it did!

So end of story right? malware and scummy business solved by FOSS software and soldering iron?

Well for my friend it is solved but for those who are not tech savvy or paranoid they still got con'd. So enough about the past lets talk about the future, My friend has decided to complain to the teacher whom runs the class and requires them to run this software. That there should be alternatives, we have constructed a email which as of writing has been sent. This is paraphrased but the points are all made the same,

" I disliked having to use Lockdown Browser. Since I run Linux it was hard for me to get it to work. I ended up having to get an old laptop and install windows 10 to get it to work. Lockdown Browser does not support Linux. I also disliked the TOS because they are able to use your microphone and camera and that "we may disclose your personal data to partner companies..." I feel as if this is an invasion of privacy as a student. I think colleges are becoming so focused on academic integrity that they overlook what students' information is given towards the company (in this case Lockdown). Like I said before this is forcing students to take video and audio recording of themselves or else they cannot take the test. They also say in the TOS that for the microphone and video the test run is deleted, but they never say what happens to the quiz video and audio. If I would have known this class was going to use Lockdown for its test-taking I would have had second thoughts. https://web.respondus.com/tou-ldb/ "

I am proud of my friend, as he also wants to fight for digital sovereignty, privacy and a better digital world. we discussed this email back and forth onto what it should say. He asked me what i would add, and i flat out gave my rather blunt opinion on the matter. "There should be another option, i understand the microphone and camera requirement because they don't want you to cheat. But it never says whats done with that data on there website, it says what happens to the demo data but not the quiz data! they leave an open ended "we may share your data" which im 99% definitively means there selling it to partners. That end of the day you should say what you think about this software, respectfully and precisely. Its your collage degree, its your collage, its your money. Let them know that you are displeased with this choice."

he then added the part about if he knew this software was going to be used in this class he would have reconsidered taking it. which i think is very fair and to the point of the matter.

To close off this very lengthy post, i want to thank my friend for sharing his experiences with me. And to let other people know about the evil that infects collage software, like Pearson. Which is another topic for another day.

Cheers Steamy

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40679506

So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!! going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!! going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

So those who know me IRL or cyber stock me. Know that in my free time i do have a very small laser cutting business, i started off with a really crap diode laser and eventually made enough to purchase a full size C02 Laser. Now one of the most important thing that machining has thought me. Is that WORK HOLDING IS BASED. Why indicate a shitty piece of bar stock each time when you can just make a jig/fixture and run thousands with minimal work. So i very much took this to heart and instead of spending 20 minutes to frame a coaster in my laser cutter to make sure it is 100% straight. I took a ratty piece of sheet metal (that i paid WAAAAY to much for $90USD) and made my "ghetto bed". now it was handcrafted the same way a child makes a macaroni picture. Very imprecise, and not flat at all i tried my best at making it flat but well, im a machinist not a metal worker. which truly shows my 1/1 piccaso's masterpiece. So i hear you WHERE IS THIS GOING!! this "ghetto bed" worked very well for small stuff, when family and friends would order something i would quickly throw in my jig load up my file and BAM its ready to go. This bed was purely a proof of concept, from the post i saw on light-burns forum of a guy doing something similar with sheet metal. So fast foward 3 years later and i bought plate 3/4 plate stock (which i paid out the ass for) order it to size and draw up a CAD model. a few thing i learned from the original "ghetto bed" was that the exhaust is underneath the bed and needed some way to quickly slurp up the smoke, for this i have a snorkel i am 3d printing and running downward (still work in progress as we speak) and secondly and most importantly! I wanted threading, i originally drilled 7/16 holes to which i just vaguely threaded bolts and nuts through. But now i have 1/4-20 spaces 1.30 inches across the bed, which will make setting up fixtures more solid and repeatable unlike the original bed. i did go with 1/4-20 for a few reasons, first off its standardized and very cheap for bolts, second and most importantly its a small hole. Which then allows me to drill and re-tap if i strip a thread and it also gives me alot of mounting holes. However having tons of holes were also a nightmare to hand tap and debur the backside.

The keen eyed among you may notice slots on the edges of the bed, i decided to go with slots purely because the original mounting holes are not concentric or symmetrical. So F it slots!

im very happy with the bed, i plan to paint it black to make it not reflective and have played around with the idea of open sourcing/selling bed like this, if people are intreasted of course!