Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Gotta say, I'm positively surprised about the result! Slightly less clean print than my Ender 3, but pretty close. The bottom layer is clearly junk though, and it really does look like a slicer issue.

Installation: complete

Well, I sure didn't expect to find "OpenStreetMap contributors" in the credits of a TV show

So I've been told that the QOTO admin is also planning to sue Eugen over their removal from joinmastodon.org (presumably over the toot about the reason for their removal specifically). I do not have further context to confirm the details here, but here is the receipt.

Well, apparently it's time to talk about QOTO again. Sigh. They've now started a "cancel culture"-themed disinformation campaign under the name of "United Federation of Instances" (https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/tree/master).

Their claim, once you poke through all the lofty wording, is essentially that defederation is "out of control" and that's proven by them getting defederated from other instances over the behaviour of a single user that they banned.

Just one problem: that is complete bullshit. They were defederated for many reasons (some receipts attached) that had nothing to do with that users, and everything to do with their moderation policies or rather lack thereof.

A couple of weeks ago, they mass-mailed instances asking them to unblock their instance, with the same sob story. They claim that they did this by the book, "only manually contacting instances with published contact information".

The reality is that their e-mails clearly weren't appreciated by many instance admins (who had blocked them for very good reason), and that they also clearly hadn't looked at the block *reasons* on the instances which blocked them.

They were told all of this, repeatedly, by many different people (including me), through multiple different platforms. Yet they continue to claim in their UFI "proposal" that it was just about that one user, and everything was by the book.

No mention of any of these issues whatsoever. No mention of how they were effectively harassing instance admins who very clearly wanted nothing to do with them. Not even so much as a private apology.

Their "proposal" also includes some very problematic wording that I can only read as politically conservative norms of moderation (and I hopefully don't need to explain why that is bad). Again, receipts attached.

This whole thing reminds me a lot of the Libre Monde misinformation in the Matrix community. That document was likewise very formally written, and managed to convince a lot of people of things that were somewhere between misrepresented and outright false. Several years later, it continues to make the rounds, despite having been debunked over and over again.

We should be extremely careful that something similar doesn't happen here. They seem to be taking a similar "make it look official" approach to spreading misinformation, and there are entirely too many people who will happily believe anything that looks official...

If you didn't have qoto.org blocked yet, this would probably also be a good moment to consider that.

And the rest of the contributor list may also be worth a look: https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md - I don't know whether the non-QOTO folks just bought into misinformation or are deliberately spreading it themselves, but either way something probably needs to be done about that.

And let's all keep an eye on where this goes, please, so that it doesn't become a long-term source of harassment.

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This is what the support pillars looked like earlier

I'm finally successfully printing my tool-less stackable HDD rack design \o/

This is using some *highly* sketchy manual support structures (specifically, millimeter-thick support towers, sometimes even without a skirt) to make it a single-piece print. They didn't fall over this time!

#3DPrinting

My datasheet scraper has an uhhhhh very interesting performance profile

Today, I am working on my VPS panel project

Solved!

I'm very happy right about now that I built a good debug output feature into my parser generator library... that 'abc,32' is definitely wrong

So apparently Nix can just, like, transparently fetch whatever thing you're trying to run if it isn't installed on your system yet. What

TIL

Did a syntax crime and now I have a really neat abstraction for parsing text/line-based formats

Giving a whole new meaning to "getting screwed"

I just realized that I haven't graced the fediverse yet with knowledge of the amazingly cursed software that is pMusic: a music player from the Puppy Linux project that is built entirely in Bash(!), yet has a GUI with fully-featured playlist management and advanced features like discography management and automatic YouTube searching and streaming!

A picture I snapped in my garden yesterday

Found a picture of myself (and my cat) from back in 2013! Honestly it feels a lot more 'me' than how I look now...
(CW indirect eye contact)

My scraping server now has much nicer dry-run output \o/