John BS @johnabs@social.cleverlibre.org

@trinsec Sorry to hear about the slime 🤢 I've been there before: I had pneumonia twice as a kid and remember those weeks of hacking up gross gunk in the hospital all too well 😣.

At the very least, you should be able to craft loads of sticky pistons once you're feeling better, so long as you save the tissues 😂

And thanks for the info and maps! Here's hoping for an opportunity to put them to good use in the near future 😉

@trinsec Oh, and I forgot! I hope you feel better soon

@trinsec Oof, that's super unlucky :( Well, on the bright side, maybe it'll catch on in your town sometime soon?

Speaking of which, what towns offer this option? I'm slowly planning my "escape" and want to know where to investigate first, especially since my wife struggles with shopping in stores since they're so loud and overcrowded (at least in the US).

@trinsec I can relate to this on an almost spiritual level 😂

Do y'all have store apps where you can place a pickup order where you pay online and they'll just have it ready for you to grab outside?

In the US we have a "curbside pickup" for cars, and you can place your order in the app and they put it in your trunk (boot) at no extra cost. Maybe there's a rough equivalent?

@barefootstache in that case I would suggest soy lecithin

@barefootstache You can try it, but I doubt it will work since it's not really a surfactant. It's miscible in water, but I doubt it will form an adequate solvation interface around the lipid droplets to keep it in solution (like soap would, for example). It is also VERY hygroscopic, which doesn't bode well either.

I'm much more confident in the emulsion/foam idea, but try out glycerin and let me know how it goes! :)

@barefootstache You'll likely need an emulsifier for this, but that will change the texture of the coffee, as emulsions typically take on thicker forms like mayonnaise or aioli. If you don't use it, you'll get a suspension which will form two liquid phases as it settles.

My suggestion would be to get some espresso crema (or just a small amount of coffee), and whip that with egg whites to form a coffee flavored meringue (preferably italian style so it's cooked stabilized; if you want, add sugar and it will end up like marshmallow cream) and add any flavored oils to either the precursor or the the foam so you can have your stabilized flavored foam + coffee.

Otherwise, I'd aim for more water-soluble additives, not oils.

Actually, here's a way better pic thanks to my wife's camera.

Here's the buckeye burl one! The best of the bunch IMO.

I've been making pens! Here are three I turned on my mini lathe recently, the woods are (from left to right)

Bolivian Rosewood
Cocobolo
Macassar Ebony
(Buckeye burl in the works, it's gorgeous)

Each one is made with different embellishments, slightly different widths and grips, and an increasingly refined process as I make more!

The refills are by Cross, and if I can find kits for fountain pens, I'll definitely want to try my hand at making those too! These are really hefty and dense and have great balance to them, so I'm pretty happy with how they all turned out!

@trinsec At least if I'm crazy, I'm in good company ;)

Quick rant:

Clarity of writing should not be mistaken for simplicity of the ideas being expressed through the writing. It takes a LOT of work to explain difficult topics clearly and concisely, and I think that extra work should (ideally) be rewarded or encouraged in academic publishing as well.

Unfortunately, obtuse, clunky, and unclear writing is common in modern scientific literature. I'm at least partially convinced it's used as both a shibboleth, and to make sub-par ideas look better in a manner similar to "putting lipstick on a pig".

Don't get me wrong; precise, well-reasoned writing is absolutely critical. But precision does not necessitate prose that beats you with passive voice, nested appositive phrases with no delimiter differentiation, and frankly disgusting style.

As an added benefit, you may be able to increase popular scientific literacy of your field if you manage to write your papers in a way that doesn't require a master's degree in linguistics with a focus on cuneiform and Latin to parse.

Related comic:
https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=2049

@2ck
Well

Safety as in: highly resistant to malicious attacks or critical runtime bugs.

Cyber infrastructure: "systems that control the backbone of modern society such as electrical grid load balancers, banking transfer networks, etc."

Of course safety isn't ever guaranteed; however, it seems to me that many existing systems are reliant on legacy, non auditable code which could be exploited by increasingly sophisticated methods. Ukraine faced a MASSIVE attack recently and I am concerned similar attacks may happen but could be prevented or mitigated by switching to languages that make it harder to write unsafe/vulnerable code.

Should all critical cyber infrastructure be written in languages that seek to guarantee safety, such as Haskell or Rust?

So I got a lathe, and I made this! (not the wood part, but I'm working on it) It's a Paua Abalone shell inlay into a size 10 wooden ring blank. Polished up to 12000 grit, and while the images don't exactly catch the opalescence, I'm very proud of my first attempt

@wildgoose Thanks for the recommendation! I just found a nice, fairly cheap honeywell model I think I'll pick up! 😄

I replaced 4 (non functional and super annoying) ceiling fans this week and set them up with home assistant and smart z-wave switches so I can monitor their state and help control them from our phones without all the data harvesting.

I absolutely LOVE this improvement and the automations, and it makes wiring 3-way switches a breeze, since you don't need the common wire anymore! And even if the network goes down for whatever reason, I can still use the switches as normal.

Now if I could only find a thermostat with z-wave capabilities so I don't have to use any google products...that would be sick.

@trinsec If you like tea, I have to recommend pomegranate oolong; it's excellent! I kinda buy it by the pound every few months....pretty sure I have a *slight* dependence xD

I get it at the link below; I'm not sure if they ship to the Netherlands, but if they do, they have sample packets you can try, if you're interested :3

https://www.harney.com/products/pomegranate-oolong?variant=35000506950

@kreyren Interesting take; why do you think that
a) they have the responsibility to do this
b) they have the ability to do this

The GNU and FSF projects have written contractual agreements (their licenses) that prevents anyone, much less themselves, from restricting the sharing of their software. If they try to renege on this contract, not only do they lose all credibility, but they also may be liable to legal action being taken against them.

Even supposing they had the ability to restrict access without legal ramifications, how do you suppose they will be able to stand for their principles of free speech and freely shareable, accessible code if they restrict it for "the bad guys". What happens when that definition inevitably changes?

The FSF and GNU projects have always stood for these principles regardless of who stands to benefit, including minorities, disenfranchised youths, persecuted religious groups, etc. Unfortunately those principles also extend to anyone else, even though they can use, modify and share the code as they like, even for war. And let's be honest, the Russians can access these open repos via VPN or other internet services, how can the FSF or GNU project hold the pirating capital of the world accountable for accessing FLOSS software that has no DRM protections whatsoever?

I abhor what's going on with the Russian Ukraine war as much as, if not more than, most people. But putting blame on a neutral party in this matter won't help. Instead, let's leverage FOSS libraries and other tools to support Ukraine and thwart the Russians, yeah?