For the record, you can just adjust voltage and trash your steppers.

any one have the gcode?

We should start sending it to these printers,

i use privacy badger from the EFF peeps, along side ublock origin. it works well enough for me.

Switch to Firefox!

what’s a bit of snuggling between friends?

Honestly… even before the meltdown, content was mostly crap.

For kbin/lemmy to be useful; it needs to be its own thing. Emulating crap is just crappier crap.

the only content on reddit is bots reposting shit… and Spez playing the sad trombone.

wait… you can do that?
Can I learn this power?! how does one learn this power?

next, you’ll tell people the door close button in elevators doesn’t actually work.

macgyver always carried a few slices… in case he needed an industrial sealant…

I mean selling emulators or something is a way to make money.
I’d buy a gameboy repo in a heart beat. Or, maybe something with an SD card/chip that ran the roms; and if it came from nintendo, chances are pretty solid it’d acutally work 90% of the time.

He didn’t start out smart. The only thing that changed is he fired his PR team.

The thing about it, though… all the pride merch, lattes, beers were not because the corpos care if your lgbtq and being disenfranchised and harassed and all that.

They just wanted to sell more merch and lattes and beers. “Slap a rainbow on it- they will eat it up!” Was literally their thought process.

but is it really inconceivable that aliens visited earth? Or that they influenced our culture?

Actually. yes.
Okay, so lets take this one thing at a time.

the solar system is actually quite boring. It’s pretty typical. there’s no surprising elements. there’s no materials that we haven’t detected in several other worlds and such. as far as we know, it’s a pretty bog standard star, with a pretty bog standard system. the ONLY thing worthing noting- that makes this system unique is us. More specifically. Life. it has life. As far as we know, it’s totally unique. (we don’t know all that far.)

This means, we’re the only reason any society would come here. it’s easy to assume there are resources much closer to home, much more easily harvested and exploited.

now, establishing that, lets look at how they’d know we’d exist:

• the JWST is our most sensitive space borne telescope. it’s capable of identifying atmospheric compounds of exoplanets. some of those compounds, we associate heavily with the presence of life; it’s reasonable to assume any species capable of coming here would have such technology. It’s detected such things on several worlds over the past year that it’s been active; and has been answering questions and opening new ones for that year.

It’s therefore possible that some hypothetical society could identify our presence from such a similar telescope. This gives the outer bound of detection of life at something like four million years. Lots of stars exist in that bubble. Lots. I mean, I don’t know that we actually have a count on how many. JWST is finding more all the time

This assumes they’re looking at it. maybe those ‘earliest life’ compounds are… how shall we say super common. Maybe they’r emore interested in say industrial pollutants? The industrial revolution started in 1760- about 250 years ago. Lets say those pollutants weren’t really concentrated enough to be highly obvious, until 50 years after the start. that would mean 200 lightyears is the minimum distance to know that humans were altering the enviroment, specifically.

• alternatively, they could have detected our radio transmissions. We’re a noisy species. the Arecebo message was sent to messier 13 in '74- about 50 years ago. it wasn’t a serious attempt to contact anyone, but it’s a powerful signal that could attract attention. We’ve been broadcasting into space for about a hundred years. here’s a picture of just how small 200LY’s is,

but that article fails to talk about detectability. Most signals we transmit would be indistinguisable from background radiation. probably the oldest signals that would reliably be detectable are military radar signals intended for detection of ballistic missiles.- creating a bubble with a 60ly radius. 40 for a steady stream of soaps and reality tv.

lets be honest hear. aliens watching Days of Our Lives Reruns probably get a bad impression. And lets not talk about all the, uh, premium, channels.

ALL THAT to say, it’s extremely unlikely they actually know we’re here.

Now, we need to consider would they come here. Hypothetically, they could be curious about us. Hypothetically, they want to know how Land Before Time Saga ends. (hey, the last one was in 2016. unless they’re at proxima centauri, no chance they’ve seen it yet!)

it would be a serious undertaking to even have the ability to get here in a reasonable time frame… it would take a shit load of energy. Like, on the order of global annual energy consumption. And that’s just for the payload. Forget about the size and mass of the fuel tanks necessary- and just to get up to speed. This doesn’t include the whole ‘slowing down so we can moon them’ thing.

basically… any species capable of getting here, and motivated by curiosity about us enough to get here, is probably going to abstain simply because they have the ability to realize we’re psychotic fucks who nuked ourselves. multiple times. It’s extremely unlikely that any society capable of getting here won’t have enough social control in place to prevent idiots from joyriding and mooning the psychotic primitive apes. because if you think nuking people is bad, we won’t even need nukes. Just take their giant rocket and point it at the planet- no need to even slow down. (actually, it works better if you don’t!)

Do I believe aliens Exist? I believe it’s probable.
Do I believe they’ve come here- ever? Highly unlikely.

you have to understand, my dad’s a unix sysops guy. it was quite a lot of spare parts… (mostly machines older than my 486, which was also hand-me-down.)

Also, that imagery might be closer to reality…foam sword and all.

they’ve never pretended to care, though.

Hehe, that might actually have been more of the Uncle’s influence.

He’s the one that started me on the science fiction addiction- when I got into his (then-complete) collection on VHS. I found them and started. Binge watching them. Got to Trouble With tribbles when I was found out- and then it was my Uncle who was like “oh! That’s my favorite. Rewind it while I go make popcorn!”

I can’t tell if you’re just being honest, or being sarcastic. or like… you know… both.
you have no idea how depressing this is.

well, if it’s your personal mac and you’ll be taking it with you, it’s difficult to see import taxes being a necessary thing.

It’s more the… if a group of people can’t get “good” hardware because of export controls … legally… some might take a shine to yours.

my first beowolf cluster, I built because I wanted to improve my pentium 486’s chances at doing well in some random FOSS benchmark (PiMark? it calculated pi… and you could ‘donate’ cpu runtime to help calculate more digits of pi.) It was cobbled out of my dad’s spare part’s rack.
Should have seen my dad’s face when he realied why i built the beowolf… “You mean… you did this. FOR PI??”(“Okay, that’s actually cool.”)