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wjrii

@ wjrii @kbin.social

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  • Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he is voting for Biden in November

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  • Politics can be a cynical, nasty game, but it's important that everyone believes that the game's rules matter. For a football (soccer) analogy, Nixon was hoping to get away with an intentional handball or studs-up tackle, while Trump is Suarez biting people, or maybe a pitch invasion by angry ultras. None of them are within the rules and should not be tolerated, but some are not even identifiable as football and are way harder to manage than the others.

  • Had this aluminum plate laser cut a few months back and hand-wired it with Box Navies and a RPi Pico, and oiled oak for the sides. I missed my numpad, though, so I used my own laser cutter and made an

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  • @RustyNova

    I’m not sure where it will live long term, but “southpaw” numpads are definitely a thing. They allow for mousing while doing data entry, and they mitigate one of the reasons some people do without numpads by allowing the shoulders to stay more neutral when the mouse is close to the right edge of the keyboard.

  • Our ancestors may have kept foxes as pets long before domestic dogs came on the scene

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  • A fox of the same species was found in a much older grave in another part of Argentina nearly a decade ago. It may also have been a pet but its diet was not analysed.

    As usual, it's more the article (and especially the headline) than the science. Here is the Abstract of the study.

    It's much more about the specific burial and the inferences that can be reasonably drawn about South America before the introduction of dogs from the north 5k years ago. It references multiple burials with non-dog canids from across time periods in S.A., including at least one from about 4k years ago, as well as many other remains scattered in with human burials. It seems to build on existing theorizing that pre-Columbian practices might have changed more slowly than post. Then there are the statistical arguments. If you occasionally find a fox in human burials, based on the number of human burials you didn't find, you can feel pretty confident that there were more foxes buried with humans.

  • Do the "Ernest needs to add more maintainers to KBin!" comments remind anyone else of the xz social engineering malarkey?

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  • Yes, there is some similarity. You're not wrong.

    However, it's much more likely to be due to the common experience of solo devs whose projects blow up than it is about bad actors on kbin.

    If you're so inclined, you can always check the profiles of those who were pushing for it and particularly those who were volunteering; the boehs.org link should supply some helpful red flags to look for. Ernest would be wise to check IP activity and even ask for IRL credentials of those he would consider giving any real level of access to. Beyond that, it's firmly in the realm of "mildly interesting."

  • Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!!

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  • Ha! I used it TWICE!

    Also, to OP, that definitely wouldn't have come OEM on a PC that shipped with Win 98.

  • Keycap sets for numpad

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  • Well, those are standard MX compatible switches. No big deal to find keycaps, but selection of numpad-only sets is more limited. Any idea what you want, style wise? Do you only want GMK or Signature Plastics or Drop, or are random sets and clones from Amazon/AliExpress okay?

    Some of the higher end stuff will sell numpad only, generally for way less than the base kit (to wit...), but a really cheap set will cost the same for the full set, or even potentially a good bit less if you go bargain hunting and aren't picky.

  • Rednecks

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  • These lift kits are getting out of hand.

  • Keycap sets for numpad

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  • Imperial units people, Do you sometimes get confused about time units as well?

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  • Not really. I would be curious if other people immersed in SI only have similar issues to yours. Minutes and hours are based off of multiples of 12, and with feet and inches that's already one we deal with regularly.

  • Putin doesn't really want a war with NATO because 'Russia will lose and lose quickly,' UK military chief says

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  • First, war is always a tragedy. Always. It is to be avoided until the reasonably plausible alternative is worse for human suffering. People who ignore this are asses (not saying you are one of them).

    Second, as long as it stays conventional and China stays on the sidelines, then yes of course NATO destroys the Russian military, or at least keeps it hemmed into existing Russian territory. That's been true for 30 years.

    Third, those are VERY big 'ifs'.

  • A lone orca killed a great white in less than two minutes. Scientists say it could signal an ecological shift

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  • Yes, but it's a little unusual that one orca was hunting alone, and the shark was a large juvenile. The scientists think that the ecological mess that has resulted in the killer whales pushing out all but the boldest teenager great white sharks could mean that the sharks are going somewhere else, possibly where humans fish or swim or where the local wildlife is not ready for the sharks.

  • Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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  • Wake me when they REALLY get back to their roots.

  • Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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  • Girl on the right probably killed a Spanish swordsmith back in the day.

  • Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)?

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  • There’s also the very nerdy Shakespeare version of the same sentiment: “when troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

  • Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)?

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  • In English, over time, “I could care less” has come to have the exact same meaning as “I couldn’t care less.”

    Some people get wrapped around an axle (i.e. irrationally angry) about it, but i just mentally fill in some context myself: “I could care less… i suppose… if i really tried… but that’s not going to happen.”

    There’s no governing body for English. If you communicate the meaning and social cues that you intended, then it’s “right.” Of course, communicating social cues is sometimes where you can get in trouble using newer linguistic constructions.

  • The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

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  • When you're trying to get into DPs, the outside can be slippery and the screw part can be tight! Very dangerous for the workplace.

  • The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

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  • I thought I had NSFW turned off... 🤣

  • Leap Day – The Jenkins

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  • But that's not a good joke, IMHO. It strains credulity even in the context of a comic strip and is so counterintuitive and unrelatable that no one here was in the cartoonist's head space.

  • VSO! Ikea Drawer Stopper Fix

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  • My very first "design" was cord wrangler that fit the exact number of things I needed to charge and was the exact thickness for my no-name pressboard nightstand with a gap that matched an opening in the back. It was exactly what I needed.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @kbin.social
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Just finished up this one. No-stabilizers, handwired custom 98% layout. 3D printed case and feet, plate laser cut from 3.2mm Masonite, blank XDA laser dye-subbed in a Josefin Sans Medium font. Not

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Finished my DIY keyboard with printed case, feet, and RPi Pico "caddy". Keycaps are not 3d printed, but the labels were DIY from my laser.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Finished the DIY build. Handwired, NO STABS, 3D printed case and feet, lasercut plates, Box Jades, and (kinda "meh") laser dye-sub XDA keycaps.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!

    blog.freecad.org /2024/02/08/freecad-ondsel-and-prusa-save-fosdem/
  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Stabilizers? Where we're going, we don't need stabilizers. (in progress build)

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Finished the 3D printed case for the keyboard layout I cut on my laser (project still in progress).

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    A weirdo tries some major CAD suites, but also a bunch of half-baked bizarre free CAD program out there...

  • Mechanical Keyboards @kbin.social
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Trying out this Mastodon/Microblog thing. Had a customized TKL keyboard plate laser cut, 3D printed and painted a case, hand wired the switches, and added keycaps. Geekhack link. #mechanicalkeyboards

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Used up the last of 3 Retro-inflected aluminum plates I had made. This one has a 3D printed case.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    3D printed keyboard case, feet, and cable grommet.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Handwired family reunion. It's like the tech-geek version of being an old man tying fishing flies in the basement.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Designed and printed a case for the aluminum keyboard plate I had made a while back.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Designed and printed an air assist nozzle for my laser cutter.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Completed my No-stabilizers FRL with numpad. Made my own layout, case, and keycap legends. Deeply imperfect, but satisfying.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    In progress build: DIY layout from KLE, Laser-cut plate using files from swillkb.com, DIY laser-dye-sub DSA using a few Glyphs I did in Inkscape.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Hand-wired twins!

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Messing around with infusible ink markers and a laser engraver.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    wjrii @kbin.social

    Handwired a custom layout TKL-like with elements inspired by various retro computers' keyboards

  • Music @lemmy.world
    wjrii @kbin.social

    The Evolution of Tyler Childers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

    bittersoutherner.com /feature/2023/the-evolution-of-tyler-childers-by-silas-house