My wife is excited about a Fantasy Ball and now I'm looking for resources for customizing N95/p100 masks? Any good cosplay tips?
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I hate when people talk about hobby tools as like "if you value your time"
1) fixing is a skill you should hone
2) fixing can be fun
3) hobbies are not something to optimize
Discussing valuing someone's time spent on hobbies in dollars is the worst grindset babble imaginable
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I sell products ready-assembled, and do-it-yourself kits for building the same products. Some of my customers buy the kits because they really like building kits, and that's great.
But others buy the kits because they think they're entitled to the finished product at a lower price, and they begrudge every second of effort they must put into building the kit. Those people really exist and they are the market for tools that purport to save "the value of your time."
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@Matthew Skala Yeah, that's valid. If you're doing it to save money - that's fine.
But this is a criticism of the *argument*, not the sale. People can and should sell preassembled things, kits, and more! Not everyone wants to build! But if someone is building on purpose, don't tell them to value their time.
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@Hypolite Petovan It's just fucking weird.
Why are they doing this?! my rep wont tell me!
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once, years ago. I think they sent an email out a few days later saying sorry it was a bug. That obviously doesn't stop the panic.
Can it be translated and tied to a legitimate communication that got hit by a similar bug?
@j_angliss So they've done three in simplified Chinese so far, all with an English translation. They're about changes to Lambda in various APAC regions.
I don't know why as we have those regions disabled and nothing in use in them - but I definitely freaked the hell out.
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@Hypolite Petovan The normalization is mostly a matter of fighting the process of seeing security as a cost center and underfunding it.
So - the core thing is complexities around risk and access. Part of corporate culture is risk appetite. Corporate culture loves accepting risk, and so security teams kinda don't have a lot of leverage. And that's where the problem is, ya know. I don't know how to fix that.
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Google Docs has been randomly deciding to not let me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it pops up the popup that tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste.
This feels like another anti-competitive thing against firefox.
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> Google Docs has been [...] not letting me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it [...] tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
I've been getting that for months. My solution is to switch to @nextcloud with @collabora as soon as this organization acquires another #SelfHosted server.
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Google docs spreadsheet used as a database
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Been there. But #SpreadsheetAsDatabase isn't Google's fault, and won't get fixed with @nextcloud
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V ā Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V *is* Google's fault, and can be fixed by eliminating Google.
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You can't scale a single-threaded process by adding more logical CPUs.
Why is this something that confuses people?
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out of order operation isn't just about changing the order of the operations. It lets you (sometimes) pre-compute the result of future instructions as long as they're not based on the output of the previous ones enabling you to parallelize what would otherwise be a single execution thread. I imagine there's a point of diminishing returns though.
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all the out-of-order execution occurs inside a single CPU
adding more CPUs won't help speed up a single-threaded program
picture a call center
an attendant is like a CPU
the attendant can pay attention to one customer at a time. the customer may issue multiple requests/instructions, and an attendant with out-of-order operation may be able to look into and satisfy some of the requests before other earlier ones
however, adding more attendants wouldn't help this one customer get faster service, unless the customer started multiple calls (threads or processes), or the attendants could pass customer requests and context on to each other (that's not permitted by the call center design; they can only transfer entire calls)
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my friend wrote a really good article about this
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@Alex P. š¹ Ooooof I felt that blogpost hard.
Today it was literally "the entire devteam is down, but the CEO doesn't like how a document that's gone through three approvals and been in use for two years looks, so that's higher priority".
So kinda the opposite
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Forever Knight (1992) was a better show than Moonlight (2008)
But seriously, they are very similar.
I think I like Moonlight better, but I want a LaCroix show rather than a Nick Knight show.
The problem with the Eulogy for DevOps is that the last 20 years has been a series of ways of defining sysadmins away and then having them re-emerge from the muck.
We'll never have DevOps disappear because it'll just be yet another beast.
Sysadmin, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineer, it's all the same thing, it's just that people need to try to put us in new boxes to try to get around the fact that *making your systems reliable* is a hard and different job.
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I've been at the same place for the past 4 years. My title has changed 3x. I'm still doing essentially the same thing, just on a different level of abstraction.
What makes it even funnier is that you haven't even listed my current job title: Platform Engineer. What will it be in two years? Who knows, it's all based on vibes.
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Got my Stadia to connect to my Mirage Solo VR
Give me a few more days and I'll be able to run my entire computing life off "things google made, abandoned, and tried to turn into ewaste and I bought for $10"
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The two protocols I need better tools for are RSS and IRC
I hate irssi and I don't want a webapp for RSS
@hotsoup RSS to an IRC room would be great, if I had a good rss
IRC over RSS sounds like a bad enough idea for me to take it seriously
I have invented a drink I call the St Lawrence Crossing
It's absinthe with maple syrup instead of sugar. (See - it's a Canadian Ferry and absinthe is the Green Fairy)
It's tasty
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My brain just thought the words "Etsy but ActivityPub"
Basically just - do ActivityPub, add a shopping cart, and try to manage the bots - so you can have art and craft and so on focused instances with sales inside them. I... have no idea how to make this work non-evilly.
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But ok - if you want to *scale* activitypub with commerce - this means that the question is one of community.
Building a community with a store is really fucking hard. You have all the problems of Ebay, Etsy, and Twitter. This means building spaces like systems for Art, Writing, or whatever. And that means supporting those people. This means figuring out how to discourage advertising and brands, while supporting people who create.
I don't think this is a needle I can personally thread. I should not try.
But someone should. We should try to figure out how to do capitalism without as many siphons in the middle, at least until we can get rid of capitalism.
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Fuck
I just realized that this is literally OnlyFans in a lot of ways. A social network for following creators who can sell things to you easily.
And course that - that immediately got moved toward Sex Work because that's the most tech savvy and mobile group, but I think there's something valuable here.
@Jay Hannah So in this case we're looking at small vendors - so this means that you're probably looking at:
Shipping is going to be integration with the local postal service
API integration with Stripe/PayPal/whatever is pretty simple
If you want to directly take payments that's PCI DSS and also other stuff
But that's all technical detail. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's all mostly solved problems with very common answers. But the "build a community based on selling without being a hellhole" is not even slightly solved.
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Holy fuck
I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!
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This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.
And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!
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@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage
I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good
this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out
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watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan Kinda off the fairy tale vibe
Also thinking about tips for painting and other mods without compromising efficacy
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in reply to silverwizard • • •N95s are a working surface of the whole and function by grace of a LOT of industrial design. I would avoid customizing one if I needed it to work.
Respirators, well, docs.google.com/spreadsheets/dā¦
has some material information and you could go from that to paint compatibility.
(My gut-level flinch response is that the fate that finds you for altering safety equipment will be strange to mercy. This is plausibly excessive and as specific consequence of my misspent youth.)
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in reply to silverwizard • • •Appreciate the reassurance!
In 2020, I thought that respirator masks would be full-on Fashion by now.
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in reply to Graydon • •@Graydon We gotta make 'em fashion
I'm still peeved the Razor light up fashion mask was a scam
Tunguska
in reply to silverwizard • • •I'd second Graydon's take on n95s: just don't. The electrostatic properties that make it effective are tricky, the entire surface is filter, the straps are delicate...
Starting with an elasto & gluing wispy weightless trim on... maybe. On a practical note, the only thing I've found sticks to silicone is silicone caulking.
Start with a full-face elasto and it's *much* more forgiving about hanging decor off of it, thanks to the multi-strap head harness holding things in place. Of course, whatever you make out of it has to work with the fact that there's a full-on gas mask under there. (And they ain't cheap.)
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in reply to Tunguska • •@Tunguska yeah - an elastomeric feels like it'll work
add vines and flowers more to cover
that's within time and budget I think
thanks
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in reply to silverwizard • • •I can highly recommend magnets and lacey fabrics as good ways to decorate or customize respirators, specifically the disposables.
The DrƤger 1950 N95 is arguably the best on the US market right now, and it has the most robust structure to handle added decoration without collapsing. The plastic anchors for the headband on each side also allow for hanging/mounting decorations.
For magnets, there are lapel pins and needle minders, but to customize/add on to, look at hijab magnets.
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in reply to Texan_Reverend • • •PS: the DrƤger 1950 is what I'm wearing in my profile photo - along with a magnetic lapel pin.
Also, the small size of the 1950 fits the most people
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