[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 23 hours ago

Those discussions largely resulted in "FOSS", and a basic peace treaty. The two tended to use the same techniques and licenses in practice, and nobody really wanted to have that fight.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unpopular opinion: "Open Source", spawned from Netscape spinning off Mozilla, laid out in definition by the OSI organization, and advocated for by AnCaps like Eric S. Raymond, was always fundamentally capitalist. Devs spending a lot of free time doing free work for companies was not an accident. Capitalists borrowing ideas from the left and twisting them for their own uses is not new, either.

Free Software is more rooted in communism. You're doing this to help your community. RMS might have always denied it--probably because it wasn't a good idea to advocate that way during the Cold War and after--but it's a better philosophical fit.

It's past time to divorce the two.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

I tried to make blowjob videos that don't suck, but nobody wanted to watch them.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Picard swapped his brain into an android body. It wasn't very good writing.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago

"As fast as you can turn the crank". Which isn't very fast at all because it's janky as fuck.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

Toner isn't that hard to source.

The real issue is precision accuracy. Keeping things to 2D might sound easier than 3D, but 3D printers don't need the level of accuracy and precision that 2D printers do. 300dpi means dots every 85 microns. A very carefully tuned FDM 3D printer can get around 50 microns, but see below for the gory details:

https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/10349/do-3d-printers-really-reach-50-micron-0-05-mm-accuracy

Either way, 300dpi isn't particularly impressive for a paper printer. Usable, but there's going to be some blockiness to text, and graphics won't be good at all. 600 or 1200dpi is more like it. Which means we take that 85 microns and cut it in half, and maybe cut it in half again.

If we're talking color, than our difficulty increases 4x (because there's four cartridges for CMYK). They all have to be aligned properly to mix the colors to get a good image. We're also definitely headed towards 1200dpi at a minimum for good results.

Now, an open source plotter would be interesting. Not great for text documents, but useful for diagrams.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 30 points 2 days ago

A lot of places like this don't want you using your own devices inside. I'd guess that they've disabled the cameras, or at least made it difficult to send photos outside of the device?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 26 points 2 days ago

The term "historyporn" implies I would take some kind of enjoyment from the photo. Not this one.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 2 days ago

Any level of tyranny is fine as long as states are doing it, not the federal government. This makes all the difference, for some reason.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 3 days ago

I believe so, yes. Every 802.11 frame is effectively ACK'd. Makes a mockery of OSI layering, but so does everything else.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 31 points 3 days ago

And nicotine. If you didn't smoke yourself, you still got it secondhand. Most of the post-WWII era in America had everyone at least mildly on a psychoactive substance 24/7.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 3 days ago

That may end up being correct. The models predicting the most catastrophic effects are often showing that for 2100, which would be nearly 200 years from the publish date.

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