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Prusa CORE One | Original Prusa 3D printers directly from Josef Prusa

Posted on 2024-11-19 by Published articles

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Article note: Oh look, Prusa has arrived at the local maxima (CoreXY over three point bed, Enclosed) Slightly more expensive than some of the competitors, but not drastically, and the ecosystem effects usually favor Prusa.
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Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw

Posted on 2024-02-29 by Published articles

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Article note: MQTT configured such that any valid credential could access every device. I quite like some Anycubic printers, but their level of software sloppiness has never been something I'd want plugged into a network, because this seems entirely expected.
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Dunkey’s Guide to Streaming Services – YouTube

Posted on 2024-01-05 by Published articles

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Article note: Beyond fucking satire. The Pokemon service-hopping example is _real_, because no one could have made it up.
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The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt – Priceonomics

Posted on 2023-06-21 by Published articles

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It really is more or less exactly the Reddit situation: A buisness that understood they were stewards of communities got profit focused and shit on their volunteers, and when the volunteers noitced it was a shitshow. This priceonomics piece from 2014 even called out reddit as a likely parallel.

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[Approved] Plasma 6 Proposal: incubate SDDM (#91) · Issues · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab

Posted on 2023-05-22 by Published articles

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Article note: Woo! SDDM is great, but hasn't had a release in like 4 years, despite major patches in git (like... working Wayland support major). Sending some resources their way would be awesome.
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Kentucky can’t reduce CO2 emissions with Bitcoin tax breaks | Lexington Herald Leader

Posted on 2022-04-21 by Published articles

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Hell yeah Dan, hell yeah.

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How Covid-19 Exposed the Cracks in a Public-Private Housing Deal

Posted on 2020-09-08 by Published articles

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This is some uncut "privatize profits socialize losses" bullshit. Private developers made bets assuming universities were an infinite source of an easily-abused captive audience. The pandemic made it not so, and now they're in a bind and looking for ways to make any and everyone else keep them solvent.

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Some Students Are Smarter Than Others (and That’s OK)

Posted on 2020-08-28 by Published articles

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Yesssss.

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Cheating rises with online education – The Washington Post

Posted on 2020-08-09 by Published articles

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Yup. Some of this is more systematic than even my cynical ass suspected. It's a hard problem because attacker controlled environments are unassailable, and doing intrusive things to discourage casual cheating punish the honest and give the serious cheaters more effect size.

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Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis – showPdf

Posted on 2020-08-06 by Published articles

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I think this makes a decent standard for current-best-practice, which I'm finding myself needing to refer to frequently.

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