It's holding a hammer!
WaterWaiver
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There are some youtube videos of people machining them (sadly my browser does not support smell). Looks like you treat it like any other solid material: hobb or mill the teeth. This is much more expensive than 3d printing.
You might be surprised by your 3d printed gears. If you keep the detail size large they work really well, but backlash is definitely an issue.
I swear that I read that white lead oxide is water soluble, thus happily sticks to your fingers and then gets on your food. I must be misremembering.
Maybe it was something about the solid lead object turning into an (oxide) powder that can then be easily ported as tiny particles on greasy hands? Hearsay science and safety information from me today :)
The fun thing about Pb is it's relatively safe in pure form. Unfortunately the oxides that appear on its surface are water soluble and love entering our bodies.
Welcome to security news theatre :(
I don't think espressif would bother suing, these kind of misshapen claims get constantly made against popular projects all of the time. It's just unusual to see so much coverage about this particular one.
Not so say that externally attackable vulnerabilities in an ESP32 don't exist, they might. Bluetooth devices have an awful track record. But making them up doesn't help the world.
I happily ran THUGPRO under wine, so I assume rethawed would be the same. Dunno.
Where am I even supposed to buy it if I wanted to, which I don’t really,
Looks like it's abandonware. Yeah, publisher dropped the ball.
Bleepingcomputer's title and article are very misleading, the presentation did NOT reveal a backdoor into an ESP32. It looks like Bleepingcomputer completely misunderstood what was presented (EDIT: and tarlogic isn't helping with the first sentence on their site).
Instead the presentation was about using an ESP32 as a tool to attack other devices. Additionally they discovered some undocumented commands that you can send from the ESP32 processor to the ESP32 radio peripheral that let you take control of it and potentially send some extra forms of traffic that could be useful. They did NOT present anything about the ESP32 bluetooth radio being externally attackable.
Another perspective that might help: imagine you have a cheap bluetooth chipset that is open source and well documented. That would give you more than what the presentation just found. Would Bleepingcomputer then be reporting it's a backdoor threatening millions of devices?
Changing virtual desktops works for me, no patches needed. I have to use it often because of how many games don't understand multiple monitors.
Technically they have some differences, but the biggest from a user's perspective is how they are delivered and by whom. Wine is manually installed by you from your distro's package repo. Proton is provided by steam when you install a windows game on a Linux steam instance. If one breaks then you complain to the relevant party.
Might be worth checking out ReThawed.. You can choose the physics models, UI, characters, tricks and maps from all of the old THPS games.
I tried THUGPRO previously (another community mod in similar vein) and it was fun, especially the mods to the park editor (overlapping objects!) and Sonic Adventure maps.
If you end up buying some flux then I'd recommend you also buy and try a block of violinist rosin:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/315948528490
You break it up and then dab chunks onto your joint whilst soldering. Some will melt off and then burn. From there it acts just like any flux: reduces the metal oxides, makes the solder suddenly flow (behave) a lot better and provides some level of temporary oxygen shielding with its off-gassing products.
Pros:
- Cheap
- Doesn't smell awful
- Long working time (easy to use)
- Very simple ingredient (distilled pine tree sap) made by many manufacturers, so it will never go out of stock.
- Residues are non-conductive and can be safely left on your boards
- Residues are reasonably easy to clean (isopropyl & most board cleaners work; ethanol also works but tends to leave ugly white streaks)
Cons:
- Smoke is still harmful (smoke = incomplete combustion compounds)
- Residue is dark, unlike the transparent residue of many no-clean fluxes, so it can hamper inspectability for mass manufacture.
- Best handled with tweezers, otherwise your fingers end up feeling sticky (pine resin compounds are slightly sticky)
- Not Modern or youtube popular, so people will tell you that it's therefore bad or worse than other products.
I use it often, it's my favourite for both big joints and fixing smd work. Grab some and try it :) The worst you will be out of pocket is a few dollars.
I've had some issues with other flux products I've used because of their alcohol content boiling off & cooling my board whilst I'm trying to heat a region up to work on it. Solid rosin doesn't have that problem, you can dab it on whilst the iron is still covering some SMD joints (eg QFP pins) on your board and it will work instantly.
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The Lost Powers of Childhood: "James, don't trust the adults, look at what they've been hiding from us!"
(aussie.zone)
The real reason we warn kids to stay away from the tracks. It turns out that confectionery is cheaper than gravel in some parts of the world (and resists water erosion better because of the wrappers). Sadly they didn't anticipate anthropomorphic erosion events such as this leading to extended rail line outages.
Once the secret was out it became a nation-wide phenomena for kids to raid the tracks.
Railway engineers have been attempting to address this problem by tweaking the infill composition. A recent experiment involved infilling with only licorice, however it turns out some kids still like it. Local newspapers claim the railway engineers were quite confused by this result.
On the right the girl's hairdo reveals she had a recent near-miss at one of these railway digs. The adults now keep an eye on things -- if you pay close attention you will notice that there is actually an adult (or at least teenager) in this scene. Analyse the image closely and you might spot it.
An aspiring railway engineer at the top of the sketch, wearing blue, is pointing out a flawed sleeper. Either that or he's making a fat joke about one of his friends sitting on it.
The dirt desire-paths around the tracks show that locals regularly walk this line. Maybe it's safer than you think? These kids might not have been the first to raid this spot (how did they lift the sleepers?), I suspect the adults cracked it open sometime last night. Usually rail workers cover these sites with a tarp and signposts within a day of reporting.
Prompt: "The lost powers of childhood. Group of children in a park next to a rail line, discovering flaws in the world. Chocolates are everywhere." Generator: Bing DALL-E
Just some kids enjoying the outdoors. Someone must have split a pinata. One of the human kids is helping his aquatic friends get some of the chocolates.
Kids are kids and there's enough chocolate to share. It's the parents you've got to be worried about. "Hanging out with warmbloods again Rexy?" "No he can't visit later! We're going. Now.".
I guess the true power of childhood is not fearing new people. A 5yo family member of mine once got lost in the park, it turns out she had joined a random birthday party (and no-one had blinked an eyelid).
Prompt: "The lost powers of childhood. Group of children in a park next to a rail line, discovering flaws in thez world. Reality is tearing apart and monsters are streaming in, stealing the chocolates." Gen: Bing DALL-E
Prompt: "Mk II Austin 1800 competing in the London to Sydney Marathon. Driver has long grey fuzzy beard and steam is coming out of his ears." Gen: Bing DALL-E.
The drawn car is nothing like an Austin 1800 (but possible some other Austin model instead)
I promise I did not ask for the Australian to be captured and then wrapped (blindfolded?) with a flag. That was purely the interpretation of our inter-cultural antics by the model.
Prompt: "Confused American trying to communicate with Australian" Gen: Bing DALL-E.
Not sure if this is something the community here has interest in.
A section of the creek bank has fallen away, revealing that all of the soil has been recently deposited (~ last few decades). The garbage inclusion likely spreads for dozens or maybe hundreds of cubic meters of earth. We don't want to disturb the soil to clean this out so we're limited to surface level cleaning.
On the flipside: it's lots of deep fertile topsoil. The fast growing weeds, like lantana, absolutely love it.
Stand back, I'm carrying a budgie smuggler.