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I use bambulab, I haven't come across any spool refills from other brands that ship to me.

Figured i should post an update on my tree core scanner project again. I renamed it from Forge to FieldWeave and added focus stacking and area scanning. Currently training a ML model for core surface detection for more accurate alignment and focus.

english is my first language yet I fail at it

I swear I am better at programming languages just dont interview me

I think most people can agree that its unnecessary, but they can't agree on which time to switch to.

I went to the park without my glasses on and saw someone taking their pet armadillo for a walk. At least, I can only assume that's what it was, on account of not having my glasses.

Post by hikari 🌟, @hikari@noyu.me so apparently if a hacker compromises your google account, they can just make it into a "child" account managed by a "parent" account they control, and this completely takes away your ability to recov...

well this is horrifying

I didn't even know that was a thing you could do with google accounts.

It's interesting that it can even do this type of work. It makes me wonder how difficult it would be to make a tool that could do this in a deterministic manner using OCR as using an LLM for this feels like overkill. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about designing PCBs to make such a program.

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet YouTube video by Jeff Geerling

Open source maintainers already had enough to worry about before the ongoing agentic AI revolution... my thoughts on recent AI-induced problems in open source development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7...

Asked one of my friends since this interested me too and they recommended the PineTime watch.

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

Discord Confirms Users Hacked — Photos And Messages Accessed Discord has sent users an email confirmation of a hack attack that has leaked personal and payment data, along with some photo and message content.

i will absolutely delete my discord account rather than give them personal info to verify age. that company has had so many hacks. they've /already/ had a hack which revealed scanned photo IDs.

i'm not giving them my personal info.

reverse the policy decision.

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

A picture of part of a basswood stem ~2.5mm in diameter. The sample has been dyed a bluish color to enhance the contrast between cells.

Forge, a machine I've been developing for the past year to automate the process of taking gigapixel pictures of lab samples. There's a tracing pad on the bed of it acting as a backlight for a microscope slide.

I was experimenting with using a microscope lens on Forge again, and made this image of a Basswood stem ~2.5mm in diameter consisting of 257 pictures all focus stacked then stitched together. I'm still working on getting this to be automated.

#microscopy #softwaredev

I love it when I make code that I'm confident in adding to my library of reusable code snippets.

#Programming

Plus, it's always a joy finding dead imgur links. I seem to be finding them more often recently.

Found out that Windows has really crappy support for exif data on images. That had me really confused for a while on why it wasn't showing up in the image details.

going to the .DS_store, anyone need anything?

On the bright side, I can buy several cheap rails before it comes close to the cost of a more expensive one.

Just got done cleaning and re-lubing them only for them to still make the sounds. I think I just got bad carriages especially since a known good carriage performs well on the rail.

Got some cheap linear rails to upgrade Forge again, but they make this awful grinding sound. I'm gonna try cleaning them with IPA. If that doesn't work then I'll likely either have to get new ball bearings or new carriages.

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Commissioned @aroma031416.bsky.social to draw my character Rin. I'm really happy with how it turned out!

OK, I haven't considered that some of the arguments I find myself in these days are coming from people who still think solar energy and battery storage are expensive.

Already the LCOE from solar+storage is cheaper than anything else.

Seemed like the obvious outcome to me since the sun is free.

i bought a 30 watt solar panel that can charge a tablet in cloudy conditions then fold up into a laptop bag. for 50 bucks. solar is cheap and powerful.

On the bright side, it creates job security for my contract job because the person I'm a subcontractor for uses AI a lot and often runs into issues that the AI is unable to handle in which the problem then gets kicked my way. Most of the time its just a little above average problem in complexity.

Can confirm that editing takes more time and quality suffers. The only time editing is faster is if it's in a topic you're unfamiliar with, but even then that's only like 2% of things programmers deal with. Even then, the code isn't that good.

Looks like it was a magnitude 3.1, but only 0.1km deep which is super shallow for an earthquake.

I'd imagine that comparing AI to VR is a better comparison as there are definitely tasks that AI excels at that no other technology really does a good job at replacing.

ah sadly the expected outcome.

sure social media exposed me to things I should not have seen, but also my gosh I would not be alive today without it and relationships formed through it and support networks.

Comic. Standard 16-Part Epoxy. [Epoxy applicator with multiple labeled chambers in different colors: resin; hardener; filler, softener; rosin; stuff that bonds permanently to skin and nothing else; stuff that will turn white and crack over a few days, for decorative appearance; placebo; minced duct tape; acetone Fragrance; powdered bar magnets; polyethylvinylesteracetate; 2-polyethylvinylesteracetate; salt and pepper to taste; blood sample from the Gorilla Glue gorillas; stuff that bonds to every known material except yours]

16-Part Epoxy

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