you think that’s bad? wait until you find out all the places where electron has been installed … :P

I couldn’t understand Microsoft’s motivation here at all, until this reminder (from the linked article):

This development doesn’t bode well for Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, who saw the company miss the platform shift to mobile devices and tablets and desperately wants to avoid chalking up another failure in yet another momentous platform shift.

it makes so much sense to me now

emphasis on “desperately” for sure

it’s a shame because there’s legitimately good technology for blocking advertising in Brave, there’s just so much else that is questionable/indefensible

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ :)

slightly off topic:

do you have the bed start at e.g. 60 for the first layer and then 65 for subsequent layers?

does raising the temperature mid print like this help with warping or something?

it’s a good point about pessimism, I should try harder to not spread it

you’ve put together a pretty useful table there!

RE voting with our wallets, I was mostly referring to this: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-13-consumption-choices-marginal-benefits-66edd5d9a82e

there’s the lockdown or similar feature at the phone level in Android and iOS

if you’re in a situation where you don’t want someone to access Bitwarden, then you probably also want to stop them from using your browser with all the cookies and logins it currently has

so temporarily block all biometric access on your phone in such cases, and merrily enjoy biometric access when you’re physically safe again

on Android, it’s Power + Volume-Up, then Lockdown

Use one service for one thing, so that when it gets disabled, only that one thing is affected.

https://ignorethecode.net/blog/2025/06/11/stop_uploading_your_data_to_google/

oh, sorry, now I understand the question

yes, devices available in CrowdSupply tend to philosophically align with my values: owner is in charge, no subscriptions, cloud connectivity is not a thing or completely optional, schematics are open, drivers are open, etc

so they aren’t usually interfered with at a functionality or technological level

but they’re popularity and availability are subject to interference: we’ve already had multiple governments ban or consider banning the Flipper Zero for various reasons

and we have various media codec patents and DRM requirements that prevent truly open devices from being able to be used for popular purposes like streaming video content which pretty much guarantees that only industry-approved devices will ever gain wide distribution and popularity

I don’t think it’s too tin-foil hat to suggest that if a truly open device did gain popularity somehow, that we’d see IP lawsuits or import restrictions or mandatory modifications (e.g. countries attempting to mandate a government-operated surveillance app preinstalled on over smartphone)

seems good?

I bought my Precursor on CrowdSupply :)

I’ll probably buy more stuff in future there

and I’m also a big fan of https://mntre.com/ although I’m waiting for the next model that’s currently in development

what’s frustrating is that we can’t really vote with our wallets, and any right-to-repair or consumer-is-in-charge movement is going to be limited by intelligence agencies, corporations like John Deere, Apple, and the entire entertainment industry

really, unless it’s a Precursor-style open chip and able to be verified by the consumer that it hasn’t been tampered with, then we’re already putting an awful lot of faith in the primary CPUs in our systems, anyway

• https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
• https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system

there’s also so much mistrust of TPMs that every verified damage wrought by them ought to be very well documented by now

TPMs are certainly worthy of our vigilance, but it seems like we should be spending more energy pestering CPU and GPU vendors for better behaviour

ah yes, I have a similar issue on my spouse’s computer

I’m still contemplating something that fits within my design skills for that, haha

yeah, I did print it face down with grid supports

oh, yes! if there was a 45 degree transition between those 2 faces, instead of 90 degrees, it probably wouldn’t need supports at all

i’ve been pretty disallusioned with Mozilla leadership

i’ve jumped back to Chrome for the time being

i’ll be moving to servo/verso as soon as it meets my needs

i am weary of absolute statements, because it’s rare to encounter something that is 100% good or 100% evil (but i won’t rule it out, because that in itself would be an absolute statement, haha)

i agree with disliking corporate babysitting in general, but i think context matters and i won’t rule out the possibility that specific examples of corporate babysitting might align with my values or (by my own measure) seem to be a net good

for example, the UK laws requiring ISPs to block pornography except where users have opted-in is a great way for the government to produce a list of people they can blackmail, because use of pornography is considered embarassing and shameful (clarification: i consider this net-harmful babysitting)

but i consider this gambling lock to be net-positive

I’m curious to discuss reasons why having to opt-in to commercial gambling is a net positive/negative

sorry, I had no idea they’d be weird and gate access to support documentation

Self service locks

We’ve introduced a digital self-service gambling lock to support you if you want to take a break or stop gambling on your credit or debit card.

In a few simple steps, you can lock your card from gambling transactions via either NetBank or the CommBank App.

As an added support, once a lock is switched on, there’s a 48-hour cooling-off period needed to turn it off.

and

How it works

The CommBank credit card gambling and cash block applies to:

• Most gambling transactions, such as TAB, online gambling sites and lottery tickets
• Other transactions we consider to be cash equivalents, such as money transfers or travellers cheques
• Money withdrawn or transferred by you or an additional cardholder at ATMs, online, or over the counter at any CommBank branch

If you ask us to apply a block, we’ll stop most cash advances and cash-equivalent transactions, including gambling transactions that come to us for authorisation.

to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol

saying “Wayland broke X” is like saying “HTTP broke X”, which is possible but not likely to be what you’re actually trying to say

rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself

e.g. “HTTP broke X” -> “Google Chrome broke X”

e.g. “Wayland broke X” -> “GNOME broke X”

i’ve had a cursed spool of filament, too

same brand and type as known-good spools, but it was extremely resistant to me actually getting any results at all

i’ve not had anywhere near this level of trouble with a spool before or since

does changing to a different dark vim theme help?