Volunteers are using mules to deliver food and supplies to isolated mountain communities in western North Carolina, where roads remain impassable due to Hurricane Helene's damage.
Mountain Mule Packers, an organization specializing in mule transport, deployed a dozen mules to carry essential supplies to these hard-to-reach areas.
Attackers exploit critical vulnerability recently patched in Zimbra servers
When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliably is another matter.
arstechnica.com/security/2024/…
Lilbits: PineNote, Office 2024, Snapdragon X2 Elite, and a fanless Intel N100 mini PC made for networking
The PineNote is a tablet with a Rockchip RK3566 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 10.3 inch, 1404 x 1872 pixel E Ink display with support for pressure-sensitive EMR pen input. First introduced in 2021, the tablet began shipping to early adopters in early 2022. But it’s been unavailable for purchase for a while now.
That’s because the pace of software development was slow. […]
#chips #fanless #firewall #glymur #goodtico #lilbits #microsoftOffice #miniPc #networking #office2024 #pine64 #PineNote #qualcomm #router #sc8480xp #snapdragonX #snapdragonX2Elite #windows11 #windowsInsiders
I've been playing with AI to turn important documents into podcasts. Here's a surprisingly engaging discussion of exceptions to the first amendment, drawn from a CRS report on that topic.
One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.
When is a retweet an official act?
Earlier this summer, SCOTUS ruled that Trump is “absolutely immune” for any official acts on January 6. In an October Non-Surprise, prosecutors are arguing that Trump is being charged for unofficial acts.
A partly-unsealed brief asserts, among other things, that Trump used his Twitter in a personal capacity while attempting to overturn the 2020 election, by tweeting and retweeting conspiracy theories and attacks on public officials. Although Trump sometimes tweeted about official White House business,
> ... he also regularly used the account to post on unambiguously private matters — for example, when he posted a picture of himself golfing with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, and re-tweeted a Trump Organization post about the Trump New York hotel being “named the # 1 ‘Best Hotel in the World!’”
Dozens of #JDVance's former Yale Law classmates spent Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate donating money to a fund for Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, raising more than $10,000.
#USPolitics #Election2024 #trump
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Remember those Frog Saunas? That helped frogs resist an infection by raising their temperature above that preferred by the infectious agent? Well, along those lines, I bring to you: Bat Freezers!
Many bat species in my neck of the woods have been affected by the "white nose syndrome," a fungal infection that causes bats to become dehydrated and waste away while hibernating. But scientists noticed that some species were rebounding after being infected, after choosing colder, drier hibernation spots. The fungus likes it warm and damp! So they started bringing cooling devices to areas where bats are known to hibernate, and have seen positive results.
There's so much work to do and so many people are doing bullshit jobs. Frog sauna attendant and bat freezer technician (or local disease-impacted species equivalent) should be well-paid entry-level jobs across the world.
#Bats #BatAppreciationMonth #FatFrogFriday #FrogSaunas #BatFreezers
Judge unseals new Trump Jan. 6 election interference evidence
Prosecutors provided the most detailed look yet at their election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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If you just print shit you download anything will print them.
If you design your own start with PLA+, and get at least three Ender 3 or 5. Install one with 0.6 stainless nozzle, one with 0.4 and another with 0.4 but to print flexible PLA.
Then learn OpenSCAD. It allows layer-by layer control of your models.
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But I gather that I might get something useful at $500 that is good to know.
It is not dirt cheap and it is not way out there.
I saw the original Ender 3 below 100 a dozen times at Microcenter. I still use one of those every day, and I love to listen to the control board sing. Silent boards have no character :D
If you are serious about this you spend your money on the Enders when they go for a deep discount, and you stock up on some quality nozzles for them, get some extra silicon heat shields and even the PTFE tubes. Replace the plastic filament gears or at least buy some aluminum spare because they will break.
You are not going to need anything "decent" for your first years.
Here is the OpenSCAD model I am currently working on. Once I model the CMUs (Construction Masonry Unit) I can use them to create all sorts of models that enclose them, insert into them, attach to them.
Instead of working on a hundred model I only need to get one model accurate - the actual COTS.
Then the models attaching to this COTS will automatically be accurate and precise.
I use Rhino because that is what I learned in design school and then I just stuck with it.
I understand that there are many intuitive programs now. Probably better ones.
But I have also helped out some friends... over the phone. I tell them how to do with their software that I have never used.
Because they are all based on basic principles. It is just about finding a way.
So I don't even know what software they have but they still understand me 😅
Most software are an overkill, as nothing is built as one big monolithic model. The art is to minimize your models and learn to assemble composites - use COTS or build around COTS. Like using PVC pipes for hinges, or mosquito screen spline for sealing.
I used from paperclips to 9 inch nails, to concrete blocks everything to print into or print around. OpenSCAD is the best to do this sort of work, you model the COTS and then simply difference()
"A recently released CNN poll indicates that roughly a third of Americans believe diversity is a threat to American culture. While some might say this number isn’t shocking, it shows the impact of Trump. The number in 2019 was 11%, far below last week’s number. Two-thirds of Americans believed that diversity enriched our culture in this poll. In 2019, 82% believed that society was enriched by diversity."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #immigrants
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Sure is pretty though.