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  • Cleaning salvaged bicycle parts non-destructively (for non-bike projects)… reusing enzymes?

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  • product 1:

    • maintenance: 2 caps/week (a cap is big, looks like ~100ml if i eyeball it)
    • clog clearing: 500ml (½ bottle)

    product 2:

    • maintenance: 25ml/2 weeks
    • clog clearing: 300ml (⅓ bottle)

    product 3:

    • maintenance: 25ml/week
    • clog clearing: not mentioned for this purpose

    Going from memory I rotated between the products and I think I poured in about ⅓ of the clog clearing doses on the first two every few days.. because I was a cheap bastard and just wanted to constantly have the enzymes in there. But yeah, probably a mistake. I think I tried a 300ml dose of product 2 just once. But I probably should have tried a full dose more often.

  • Cleaning salvaged bicycle parts non-destructively (for non-bike projects)… reusing enzymes?

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  • Right, but these were specifically for cleaning drains. One of them was kitchen drain specific, and the other two were for drains in general. But indeed it’s possible that the clog was not even organic.. perhaps calcium deposits from hard water.

  • Cleaning salvaged bicycle parts non-destructively (for non-bike projects)… reusing enzymes?

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  • I documented a drain horror story here, which involved 3 different enzyme-based drain cleaners. They seem to have a dual purpose: pour a small amount down the drain every 1 or 2 weeks as a maintenance task, or pour down a large amount to work on a clog.

    I had a very slow drain and the enzymes made no apparent difference. But I know in general enzyme cleaners are quite good. It’s amazing how well they work on the oven. I had a general purpose enzyme based cleaner that worked well for things like food spills that dried on a wall.

  • Cleaning salvaged bicycle parts non-destructively (for non-bike projects)… reusing enzymes?

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  • I guess proteins is a little over my head. I just saw on the label a bunch of pac-mans gobbling up stuff. I understood that.. and hoped I could multiply them. So IIUC, I just have to keep buying them and not reuse them much? Do they degrade in the original bottle just the same as if they’re in dirty water?

  • Need to fasten/glue roofing shingle type of stuff with something that actually hardens

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  • I don’t have anything specialized like simple green, but wouldn’t acetone or denatured alcohol make a decent primer? I think priming the smooth rubber surface should be the easy part but it’s the bitumen band that’s tricky. It has a sandy texture and sand crumbles off when I rub it. Perhaps I should steel brush it where it needs adhesive.

  • Need to fasten/glue roofing shingle type of stuff with something that actually hardens

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  • Thanks for the suggestion but in my case there is nothing to nail to. A shingle must be attached to thick (~2mm) rubber that’s just formed to be vertical. Perhaps I need to rivet the two rubber pieces together. Or I might try construction glue again but also get a couple metal plates and screws to clamp them together as a permanent clamp.

  • feature request: give users a cancel Cloudflare config option

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  • Which git repo is used to host the article doesn’t matter. That project is mirrored on ½ dozen other repos. Did you follow the links of the citations? The article is well cited but sometimes the links go stale (or become cloudflared). If you had trouble reaching the cited sources plz let me know & I'll get the author to fix it. Or you can file a bug report in the issues tab.

  • feature request: give users a cancel Cloudflare config option

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  • The bug is most likely in the scenario of a default Cloudflare config. Cloudflare pushes a captcha to all apps other than the Tor Browser that come over Tor (in the default config). This would of course cause the #Lemmy javascript to go apeshit.

  • feature request: give users a cancel Cloudflare config option

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  • Better or worse depends on who you ask.

    I boycott Cloudflare and I avoid it. Some CF hosts are configured to whitelist Tor so we don’t encounter a block screen or captcha. For me that is actually worse because I could inadvertently interact with a CF website without knowing about the CF MitM. I want to be blocked by Cloudflare because it helps me avoid those sites.

    The CF onion (IIUC) cuts out the exit node which is good. But CF is still a MitM so for me that’s useless.

    Some users might not care that CF has a view on all their packets - they just don’t want to be blocked. So for them the onion is a bonus.

  • Fixing my drain required breaking laws, pissing off IRC users, breaking tools…

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  • The drain is working well now after the sulfuric acid cleanse. But I suspect it’s double trapping or something because after draining water some gurgling goes on for a while. I suspect the pipes are embedded in a concrete slab on the ground floor, so rework would require lots of demolition.

  • feature request: give users a cancel Cloudflare config option

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  • W.r.t CSAM, CF is pro-CSAM. When a CF customer was hosting CSAM, a whistleblower informed Cloudflare. Instead of taking action against the CSAM host, CF doxxed the ID of the whistleblower to the CSAM host admin, who then published the ID details so the users would retaliate against the whistleblower. (more details)

    There is no way to “disable” cloudflare if an instance has chosen to use it. It will sit between you and the server for all traffic.

    Some people use CF DNS and keep the CF proxy disabled by default. They set it to only switch on the CF proxy if the load reaches an unmanageable level. This keeps the mitm off most of the time. But users who are wise to CF will still avoid the site because it still carries the risk of a spontaneous & unpredictable mitm.

  • Trying to register on another instance. Spinner runs infinitely

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  • wow.. that is terrible. You should not have had to go on a dig for such a simple limitation. All this fancy javascript and it failed to do a simple field length check.

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Anti-nuclear is like anti-GMO and anti-vax: pure ignorance, and fear of that which they don’t understand.

    (emphasis mine)

    First of all anti- #GMO stances are often derived from anti-Bayer-Monsanto stances (as there is no transparency about whether Monsanto is in the supply chain). It would either require pure ignorance or distaste for humanity to support that company with its pernicious history and future intent to take control over the world’s food supply.

    Then within the anti-GMO camp, you have people that are anti-all-GMO, and those who are anti-risky-GMO. Apart from boycotting a bad player, it’s pure technological ignorance to regard all GMO equally safe or equally unsafe. GMO is an umbrella of many techniques. Some of those techniques are as low risk as cross-breeding in ways that can happens in nature. Other invasive techniques are extremely risky & experimental. You’re wiser if you separate the different GMO techniques and accept the low risk ones while condemning the foolishly risky approaches.

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • I really cannot stand that phrase because it’s commonly used as poor rationale for not favoring a superior approach. Both sides of the debate are pushing for what they consider optimum, not “perfection”.

    In the case at hand, I’m on the pro-nuclear side of this. But I would hope I could make a better argument than to claim my opponent is advocating an “impossible perfection”.

  • Is Lemmy bandwidth heavy even when images are turned off?

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  • Ah, well if the front page is 80kb that might explain it. So apparently there’s just some really heavy text especially if each subsequent page is anywhere near 80kb.

  • Is Lemmy bandwidth heavy even when images are turned off?

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  • thanks for the tip. Yes I can see that there is an attempt to load images but there is a little prohibited icon. So I’m not sure what that really means. If images are disabled in the browser settings, then I think there should not even be an attempt to fetch them. I wonder if javascript is bypassing the config and fetching the image, but then the browser is simply blocking them from display.

  • There are no kbin apps in the Debian repos

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  • I appreciate the link to the RFP page. But to be clear, I was surveying to find out if there even exists any kbin client to speak of. AFAICT, there are none.

  • Introducing lestat.org - Lemmy instance status monitor for all popular instances

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  • I think this project has some tools that might automate that:

    https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare

    They ID and track every website that joins #Cloudflare. It’s a huge effort but those guys are on top of it. A script could check the list of domains against their list. There is also this service (from the same devs) which does some checks:

    https://karma.crimeflare.eu.org:1984/api/is/cloudflare/html/

    but caveat: if a non-CF domain (e.g. example.tld) has a CF host (e.g. somehost.example.tld), that tool will return YES for the whole domain.

    Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don’t want to open

    I would suggest not bothering with any complex math, and simply do the calculation as you normally do but then if a site is Cloudflare cap whatever the calculated figure is to 98%. Probably most (if not all) CF sites would be 100% anyway, so they would just be reduced by 2%. Though it would need to be explained somewhere -- the beauty of which would be to help inform people that the CF walled garden is excluding people. Cloudflare’s harm perpetuates to a large extent because people are unaware that it’s an exclusive walled garden that marginalizes people.

  • Lemmy bug: notification not given when a previously read msg is edited

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  • If the message is edited for typos/grammatical errors, then there’s really no need for a notification as the message displays the posted time in italics (e.g., ✏ 9 hours ago).

    I’m not sure why the relevance of the posted time in this scenario, but indeed I agree simply that typos need not generate an update notice, in principle.

    If the message is so reworked as to say something else, “Bob” (your example) should do the right thing and post a new, separate reply to “Alice” in the same thread, donchathink?

    This requires Bob to care whether Alice gets the update. Bob might care more about the aesthetics, readability, and the risk that misinfo could be taken out of context if not corrected in the very same msg where the misinfo occurred. If I discover something I posted contained some misinfo, my top concern is propagation of the misinfo. If I post a reply below it saying “actually, i was wrong, … etc”, there are readers who would stop reading just short of the correction msg. Someone could also screenshot the misinfo & either deliberately or accidentally omit Bob’s correction. So it’s only sensible to correct misinfo directly where it occurred.

    I get what you’re saying though, that there should be some real integrity toward post/reply history, like diff maybe.

    It would be interesting to see exactly what Mastodon does.. whether it has an algorithm that tries to separate typos/grammer from more substantive edits. I don’t frequently get notices on Mastodon when someone updates a status that mentions me, so I somewhat suspect it’s only for significant edits.

    (update) one simple approach would be to detect when a strikethrough is added. Though it wouldn’t catch all cases.

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
    diyrebel @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    “view context” broken b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ (and) lemmy.world has just joined Cloudflare (unrelated)

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
    diyrebel @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Client hangs in Ungoogled Chromium

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
    diyrebel @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Fixing my drain required breaking laws, pissing off IRC users, breaking tools…