I don't understand. Blorp looks like another thing you host as a website to access & participate in the fediverse, just like lemmy, piefed and kbin. But you call it a "client". What are the differences? The project readme doesn't help explain this to me.
WaterWaiver
joined 2 years ago
Huh, it looks like the groups (of communities) are instance-specific. https://piefed.social/ has lots, https://piefed.au/ doesn't. Then there are "feeds" which... look like the same thing as groups? Of which piefed.au has Australian-specific ones (including a lot of auzzie.zone communities). I'll have to find out if any of these are portable across instances or not, or if I'm stuck using multiple sites to access the fediverse >:|
EDIT: Yess, feeds are a version that work across communities. Yay. BRB, gotta try this out. Although this does raise the question of "why bother with groups when feeds are the same but better?"
A good place to look are the whirlpool forums (not related to the washing machine manufacturer).
My experiences:
- AussieBB: reliable, phone support OK but mislead me one day at a client's place, not the cheapest. Public IP is sticky, only changed once during my tenure and that was because I was poking things on their online self-service system to try and diagnose a problem.
- Superloop: Was fine, but only stayed on them for a discounted 6 months. "Superspeed" temporary feature requires a new DHCP request & IP, boots your connection temporarily. Can't recall if my IP was sticky otherwise.
- Leaptel: Somehow they offerred $65/month for 12 months (not lockin) at 100MBit if I asked to be upgraded to fiber. Did that, still on it. IP is not sticky, if my router reboots (or if there is a midnight outage due to maintenance) then it DHCPs a new public address every time, which is quite annoying.
For all of these providers: they put you on CGNAT by default, you have to contact them to opt out and get a traditional public IP address. (If you don't know what this is then you probably don't have to care about it).
No ISP is good forever, history tells us they're good for a few years and then go downhill. You have to keep jumping.
I'll give it a strip. Could be interesting.
I also find the water in other places weird. I wonder if my tapwater normally reeks of something awful and I can't tell because I grew up on it, a bit like how you get used to smells and can't detect them any more.
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Shots fired.
Plumbed from Sydney Water, in the burbs.
:( Take care of yourself tom.
What's the conf? Anything exciting, or work required?
Ty Lodion. May I ask if it was malicious generic traffic or malicious lemmy-api-targeted traffic?
Direct metal liquid contact from pin to pin! I love it.
(Not to mention how satisfying it is to get a pile of undamaged ICs after recycling)
Literally just came from the doctor's office (Sydney) and saw a poster about AI transcription usage on the wall.
Pros I can see:
- More time back for doctors
- This may in turn lead to better patient outcomes.
Cons I can see:
- Higher rates of adverse medical outcomes due to inaccuracies & hallucinations in patient notes
- Higher chance of personal data breaches due to third parties holding and handling private materials.
There are so many issues here. The fact GPs are in a position of thinking this tradeoff is worth it is caused by a cluster of problems. The fact big companies are convincing them this is acceptable is another layer. The history of big tech companies selling such data off to special interest groups (anti-abortion, real estate, etc) a third.
LLM companies are desperate for people to buy their products because nothing is profitable in the AI industry (other than selling the shovels like Nvidia does).
TIL there are thumbnails in feeds. Cheers :)
Source: https://lcsc.com/product-detail/Vibration-Motors_Lian-Xin-Technology-XDMD-YB200-08_C47118014.html
Applying current changes the vertical position. You would glue a lens onto this and place it above your camera sensor.
Machine-translated page from the datasheet:
I was reading up on the life expectancy of different building materials when I came across this gem.
Screenshot is of page 122 https://www.portseattle.org/sites/default/files/2025-02/SEA-SIPP%20Technical%20Report%20Appendix%20C%20Life%20Expectancy%20of%20Building%20Materials.pdf
I guess the ethernet cables could last that long, but they rate house wiring to a lower lifetime. Ethernet cables are not "wireless", however.
The only other wireless systems I can think of are garage door openers, but they are definitely not expected to last 50 years.
You can do all sorts of nifty things when you're designing silicon. Including this abomination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Source: datasheet for LM161, a high speed (20ns delay) moderately high voltage (30V) comparator. I'm going to try and make a discrete version of some bits of it and see how well it works. Maybe not this triple-emitter NPN though, I draw the line at components that require livestock sacrifices.
FR2 is the brownish material that many cheap circuit boards are made of. It's a mixture of phenolic resin and paper. Apparently it's quite useful to make gears out of:
Phenolic Gears exhibits superior shear force, help reduce machinery noise, absorbs destructive vibration unlike metal gears, phenolic is non-conductive, protects the mating metal gear train, and are known to outlast metal gears under severe continuous service. (source: https://www.knowbirs.com/phenolic-gears )
Has anyone seen these used anywhere? I've read a hint regarding pool equipment, but I have never seen them there. I assume the fibres allow them to last longer than plastic/resin only gears.
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Two different sizes shown. Each has two inductors (grey bits) stuck to a capacitor (middle) with some metal end caps acting as terminals. There is a third terminal underneath the capacitor. Grid in background is 1mm, pics stolen from LCSC.
I think this taped picture is also really cool (stolen from here):
Datasheet: https://www.murata.com/en-global/products/productdata/8796766699550/ENFE0002.pdf
The thickness of the board beneath it gives deceptive scale. It's about 50mm tall and the toroid is 85mm in diameter.
https://www.lcsc.com/datasheet/lcsc_datasheet_2408061709_Ruishen-RSCM11548-5mH-3P_C37634003.pdf
I was looking for much smaller CMCs. Also the datasheet for this part doesn't have impedance-versus-frequency graphs so I refuse to buy it anyway :P
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ACDC?