Currently learning tech stuff to improve digital privacy. Not to a totally anonymous level, but better than completely oblivious. Attempting not to annoy my family with digital security info dumps. Finally found time to install Linux on an old laptop to mess around with. Also trying to find online communities via decentralised platforms because I deleted everything Meta. Neurodivergent safe spaces are the one thing I miss, so if anyone has any suggestions to check out please let me know.
I’m still hyper focused on reading, this is a life long thing.
This month my intense fixation is learning about GrapheneOS and looking at Pixel phones so I can mess around with that. Then I had to dive into researching Garmin watches because I rely on my Apple Watch a lot to keep daily life functioning (hello time blindness 😂).
Tell you what. These are my hyperfixations by decade of life:
- Stargate SG1
- Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Sociology of Sex
- Violence Prevention and Management in Psychiatry (actually became enough of an expert in this to teach)
- Esoteric Spiritual Practices including Tarot, Astrology, and Tea Leaf reading.
AMA, LOL
So I got interested in Tarot, coming at it from the opposite direction of learning that modern playing cards derived from them from my days of playing Magic: the Gathering and learning the phrase “Swords to Plowshares” is how we have Spades and not swords, but you still “cut” the book when playing spades as a trump suit in the card game.
So after that random run-on bit of origin, do you know of any card games that use the full 78 card Tarot deck? I’ve looked into it here and there, but never anything significant.
They’re mostly trick taking games similar to spades or hearts and there’s very few apps to get into them that aren’t in Italian or French let alone any local groups to learn that aren’t in France or Italy.
I’ve been trying to develop a solitaire game that uses the star chart of a chosen date-time/location as the board but I’m having difficulty working out the core mechanic of the 12 point solitaire game let alone the sign/house/planet modifiers.
And before you mention clock solitaire there’s basically no actual choice in that game all of the moves are purely determined by the state dealt at the beginning.
My hyperfixated interests tend to be about technology in general, and adjacent to that, ive recently started watching around 7 episodes of Star Trek (currently on the 1st season of The Original Series), and plan to keep watching it for a long while.
My previous fixation lasted 7 months straight, and it was obsessively researching into computer memory architectures, mainly the unified and universal memory architectures. I haven’t even become bored of it yet, it’s just something I research less in now since I did it so thoroughly that I might need a break haha.
Ive also had another one that started around 10 months ago, around the same one as the memory architecture one, but is still going, and it’s about diving into how my mind works and how I can make things easier for myself (as well as find more evidence of me being neurodivergent, which has been very successful). Ive found that I’m very likely AuDHD (if you haven’t already realised from the previous statements), and I’ve been tying in many factors, including daily behaviours, a concussion I had 3 years and 3 days ago, etc, and have compiled it into a shit ton of digital notes.
I’m getting hyperfixated on each one of these answers and it’s quite a shock to go to the next one. “Wait. How is a BASH script supposed to help build a garage workshop?”
(This is a really cool thread OP, thanks for this - favourited!)
I’m working to set up my new workshop. We moved into a new house a few months ago, and I’m finally getting to setting up the shop in earnest.
I’m setting up the shop in a 3 car garage. The garage has a one car bay and a two car bay. I want to be able to actually park a car in the one car bay. So I built a large wall separating the two bays. The wall covers probably 2/3 of the width. The rest will be covered by a curtain. The two car bay will be the actual woodshop area. The one car bay will be a place to park a car and will serve as a finishing space. The wall and curtain will keep sawdust contained within the two car bay. The wall also serves as a tool wall. Here’s what the wall currently looks like:
From the other side:
The wall is about 10’ wide and 12’ high.
In my old shop I had even more on the wall. But I’m trying out moving most of my bladed tools into a tool chest. I was going to build one, but I found this old steamer trunk by the side of the road. From the manifest glued to the back it looks like it was used by an air force airman in the 1980s to ship things home from Japan. I’ll be using it as a tool chest. I wanted to put wheels on it. But as it’s a bit of an artifact I didn’t want to actually modify the trunk itself or drill into. Instead I built a little cart for it to roll around on.
After I finish here, the last big step in setting up the shop will be installing the dust collection system. And I went overboard on this. This is very much a dream shop setup I’m building out. Currently in a bunch of boxes strewn about the shop is an entire Oneida Dust Gorilla and a network of piping to service the various machines.
I so wish I had a garage…
My workshop is in a (former) bedroom in a smallish UK terrace house and it’s so hard to keep the dust contained, and impossible to work with full sheet materials
Looking fab so far!
Mate I do sometimes wish I was American, or at least lived out in the country, just for the sake of S P A C E!
I love my little terraced house, but my little shed can’t hold that much and I want a workshop for my electronics
Thanks! The garage is nice. It has some real advantages. When it’s all set up, I’ll be able to back the pickup truck to the garage door and take a full sheet of plywood directly from the truck bed to the workbench. When the weather is nice, I like to open the doors and just work in the fresh air. Finally, while I do sweep and vacuum up, there’s always a little bit of dust left over. For that little bit of dust, I can grab the leaf blower and just blow the last bit of really fine dust out the garage door.
When writing BASH scripts:
- The
.shextension isn’t necessary. - Using
/usr/bin/env bashis better than/bin/bashas not everyone has their bash located in bin. - Try to use local variables when you can. If you use global variables that won’t be used anywhere else, unset them at the end of your script.
- Don’t use
set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road. - Functions are your friend. If your repeating code, put it in a function.
These are some of the tips I learned while learning bash.
Don’t use set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road.
Wait why? It’s dangerous if the script silently fails surely.
Also a cool tip
( Long Code here You want to track ) | tee -a log.txtIf writing a lot of bash scripts, I really recommend shellcheck. It’s a linter for bash that gives a lot of good advice and points out common issues/inefficiencies and errors. There’s plugins for most editors or you can just run it in a terminal. I also like that it has good documentation that tells you why something might be wrong or inadvisable.
- The
Its 100% worth it to clean and regrease the bearings in your bike’s axles (if they are open bearing). And it’s really not a hugely intensive process.
I’ve been going down a massive rabbit hole of bicycle stuff, and it’s really similar to the older days of pc building, lots of possibilities for upgrades, lots of brands, compatibility is pretty wide but also needs to be paid attention to.
It’s loads of fun.
it’s really similar to the older days of pc building
I assume that means someone will come along and enshittify it sooner or later
Believe me, companies are already trying. It’s an uphill battle, though. This is actually one of the few triumphs for consumers in this regard, really.
Thanks to the French the components of bicycles have become remarkably standardized and interchangeable and have been for probably more than a hundred years by now. Every few years like clockwork some idiot C suite denizen at a startup bicycle company decides they ought to invent their own tire valve, or their own seat post, or their own derailleur mount, or their own handlebar stem size, or whatever the hell else because they’re salivating at the prospect of “lock in,” and they all think they’re the first genius to think of it. The market resoundingly ignores them, they go bankrupt and implode, and we all laugh. Rinse, repeat.
Things are starting to backslide with electric bicycles, though. Motherfuckers are insisting on using proprietary plugs and connectors, battery interfaces, etc., and most especially apps as every goddamn e-bike apparently feels the need to be app connected now for some reason. In that space in specifically some manufacturers are getting away with it.
The backsliding can only go so far until consumers get fed up and invent their own solutions.
Batteries aren’t hard tech. Open up any bike battery case and it’s just a string of 18650 cells strung together with a BMS chip. All highly replaceable.
Pp ok x
I’ll rent you a chain for $7 a month if you’re interested
the 1980s and 1990s were a horrible age for shitty cheap bikes, not sure if it could be worse
I’m revisiting a project where, I’m trying to subtract vocals off of an old radio talk show I still listen to religiously. They use techno music from DI.FM in the 2000s and the reason I still listen to the episodes at all is because of what music is used. It’s a hard project to do because, first off, I have to find something to remove ‘vocals’ (in other words, the hosts talking in the show) and not only that, it is mostly mono. That’s why it’s difficult to do.
And someone before, when I was last on the Lemmy platform, was kind enough to DM me and ask if I sent audio snippets of the show so he can identify what tracks that was played. Since he claimed he had some archive of many tracks from that period. Problem is, I didn’t go through with it because this show would be considered incredibly politically incorrect, moreso by today’s standards and I don’t want to go through the trouble of being asked about ‘what the fuck is wrong with you’ in regards to the content.
Like, I’d like to stop listening to it too, least at the rate I’m listening it. But until I have those episodes where the talking is removed, only then will I begin trying to splice and upload pieces to see what people can identify for me.
Are you able to isolate the vocals? If so, invert the phase, and then subtract the result from the original recording.
As for isolating the vocals, I’d wager that it is panned to the center, so if you manage to isolate anything with a perfect 50/50 left/right split, what you’ll have should be the vocals. Use that as a subtractor, and the end result should be most of the music. Yes, the music probably also has something panned to the center, which you would lose in this process, but maybe it’s good enough for someone to recognize the track.
The phase inversion trick can’t be used with mono tracks, nor can other tricks that use the stereo field.
Norwegian train car designation shorthand (incomplete).
B: Class B (which is the only class these days. So, meaning passenger seats)
M: Motorized (implies S. See below)
S: Steering capability
L: cargo space (“Lasterom”)
C: Special capability of some sort, such as wheelchair ramp.
MU: Motorized car without driver capability (As in M without S)
P: Car with a pantagraph
R: Restaurant/bistroSo, for example, type 92 is a small set consisting of only two cars: A BM and a BS. Both cars have seating, the train can be controlled from both ends, but only one of them has a motor.
T93 is similar in layout.
T74 and T75 are both five-car trains, and I don’t remember all of the cars, but I remember the middle of them is called BCMU or something like that.
The older T3 trains (now retired, I think), has a car designated LCR (or a different order), which means cargo space, food service, and some sort of special amenities that I never figured out. This train type also had class A with seating of a higher comfort level.
All of these types are printed on the side, usually next to a number, which is an internal serial number. So a 9214BM* means “Type 92, number 14, motor carriage (with passenger seating)”.
*: I don’t remember the exact syntax, but it’s something like that.
EDIT: Un-fun fact I just realized long after using 9214 as an example above: It doesn’texist anymore.
My latest constructed language, Hearthsider (just started this week). None of this will make sense but here we go:
Verbs are a closed class. To form complete sentences you use an equivalent of “do”, plus a verbal noun phrase. This noun phrase can have determiners such as articles attached to them, which indicate things like whether the action was performed only once, repeatedly, etc. To say “X verbs Y”, it would translate literally to “X does Y a verb”. Plurality will likely not be indicated on nouns but will be in articles.
rMl t qb b sBsb zGK Light do 2sg a shine friend“Light shine upon you, friend!”
This is a fairly common greeting crosslinguically, so I have translations in my other two conlangs:
Outlander:
sg Bqqbsd rkr PLr sg Bqqb-sd PLr 2sg.AMI illuminate-OBJ lightCommonthroat:
L rLPq-p BCq-b sFsF-qn OPT light-3D illuminate-NA friend-2Here are the gloss abbreviations:
2sg = 2nd person singular pronoun
OPT = optative modal
2sg.AMI = 2nd person singular amicable pronoun
-OBJ = Object focus/trigger suffix
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix
-NA = Nonauthoritative verbal mood
-2 = 2nd person noun suffixVowel do a disappear why friend? Is there a vowel harmony type deal and they change, are you just listing root constents like a semitic language? Or have completely misunderstood and “rMl t qb b sBsb zGK” is not supposed to be the Hearthsider pronunciations?
Oh there are vowels, they’re just written differently. These are xenolangs, languages spoken by aliens, specifically These guys:
With a vocal tract like that they’re not going to be speaking the king’s English (or any other human language) any time soon. There are only eight qualitatively different noises they can make, and most languages only make use of six of them. Whines, growls, and grunts are “vowels”, and huffs (a quick exhalation through the nose), chuffs, and yips are “consonants”. They can also hiss, either plain or trilled, but only Hearthsider uses hisses in actual words.
They supplement this very meager set of sounds with contrasting vowel pitches (high, low, rising, and falling), but also volumes (weak, strong, weakening, and strengthening). Vowel length and “timing” are also important. There are long and short vowels, but also early (two-vowel sequences where the second vowel is held longer than the first, making the change “early” in the syllable) and late (holding the first vowel longer than the second, making the change “late” in the syllable)
Here’s a phoneme inventory for Hearthsider.
Vowels:
Phonation Tone Weak Strong Short Long Short Long Whine High d D f F Low b B c C Growl High j J k K Low g G h H Grunt High n N p P Low l L m M Hiss Plain t T v V Trilled w W x X And here are the consonants (edit: fixed):
Sound Symbol huff q chuff r yip s plain hiss y trilled hiss z Some random fun facts: Commonthroat has no pronouns. You have to either drop the word completely (very common on Earth) or inflect a noun in first, second, or third person (vary rare but not unknown on Earth, see Elamite). Outlander has a politeness distinction, with transactional, amicable, familial, and reverential pronouns in second and third person. Using familial pronouns to refer to coworkers or employees is considered vulgar unless they’re literally family. Last, Hearthsider has (or will have) a bunch of swear words drawn from liturgical vocabulary (cf Canadian French).
All languages use “to smell” where we would say “to feel” as in “feel happy” etc, because emotions are communicated through their musk. There is a rich set of “odor colors” that describe subjective olfactory experiences, rather than the typical (Western) human way of resorting to comparisons with sources of odors. In contrast, their color vocabulary works like English’s odor vocabulary. Other than “light” and “dark” they can only relate color sensations to familiar objects that are so colored, mostly fruits.
Ah! I wondered if it might be vowelless for such a reason. Fun! Big fan of Elam, but i don’t know many details of the language beyond the (increasingly solid, i believe) status as a sister-branch alongside Dravidian.
Thanks for sharing!!
I am planning to make a post on this to read peoples opinion.
Anyway…
Not hyperfixated on it but I have been thinking about how common sexualization/pornification has become, especially on women.It raises beauty standard to unrealistic levels, and usually makes people be ashamed of their bodies.
I have also been thinking about sexual assualts . Most victims are usually young girls and women.
Male victims are ignored, as if trauma wasnt a thing that everyone no matter the gender experiences in such crimes.
It is unfortunate that female victims usually have more consequences than male victims when it comes to sexual assualts. (They risk getting pregnant.)
The fact that porn(mostly consumed by males), movies, anime, and other forms of visual media are usually optimized( hypersexualized ) for “the male gaze”.
Not mentioning the dark industry behind it that only encourages sex trafficking of innocent souls.
It makes me disgusted, am I dirty for being a male?
Why are males generally more focused on physical appearance than women?
Why is the male gaze > female gaze??I dont know, makes me feel disgusted and ashamed of myself sometimes.
Perhaps I owe women an apology on behalf of all of the mess some men are doing.
I do realize that I am generalizing alot, and there are flaws in this thought, but I cant get it out of my head.
It’s also one of the reasons that encouraged me to escape porn and the dark industry behind itI wish more men would have this conversation. I’m raising 5 sons and I decided early on to have some really blunt, uncomfortable conversations with them (age appropriate of course), to combat this. It’s worked, as far as I know. One kid, now adult, sometimes struggles with it. Porn, and toxic masculinity traits. But he talks about it openly and actively combats it.
I do sometimes weirdly look at mormon’s or other religious groups who practice abstinence and think they might have the right idea.
Porn addiction is real, and it does set unrealistic standards on what men think women are, and debases them implicitly.
I’ve been touch free for about 2 months now, and my intimacy and satisfaction during sex with my partner has improved dramatically. She’s stunning, but I had to literally quit porn to not take her for granted.
You quit porn to show respect for your partner! Congrats. As a woman, whose ex husband was addicted to porn, what you did is commendable. This wasn’t the sole reason he earned the title of ex husband, but it was a massive contributing factor.
My guy that is amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing, I have escaped from porn, but I have yet to stop touching myself.
Good to know things are going well for you. 🤍
porn and the manosphere has made masculinity super toxic, toxic masculinity probably has its origin in porn too. not only getting pregnant, but SA, and POTENTIALLY getting maimed is pretty much out there.
manosphere, what is that?
Oh yeah, but it could also happen to some men too. Its unfortunate.
I’ve been reading up on the Salem witch trials for a personal project, and have listened to 3 separate audio books on them (In the Devil’s Snare, The Witches, and A Delusion of Satan).
The similarities to today are more than I imagined. But the similarities between Reverend Parris–the original instigator, and the mouthpiece for the trials–and Donald Trump are unreal. Descriptions of both sound pretty much identical. Unlike The Crucible depicts he was not sidelined, or made a reluctant participant.
Description of Parris (2/3 books were released before 2016):
- Received a large inheritance from his father, but a failed merchant and businessman in both Barbados and New England.
- Considered charming, well-spoken, and handsome–educated and likely acquainted with the theater. Dropped out of Harvard.
- His wife, Elizabeth Parris was widely considered one of the most beautiful women in the area.
- Deeply fixated on status, and compensation. Puritans generally considered material luxuries sinful. Salem Village was an offshoot from Salem Town, of the most pious members, and Parris was the first ordained minster.
- His hiring, and tenure were deeply divisive, and hiring done behind closed doors. Most communities hired their ministers very openly.
- some of his biggest supporters was an influential family who made 60 separate accusations, all against political or personal rivals. The father, Thomas Putnam, was involved in hiring him. The 2 girls, Anne and Mercy Lewis, and also Anne Sr. were some of the central afflicted, and they were all highly educated and intelligent enough to manipulate people, and coordinate.
- Hired with irregular demands, including ownership of the parsonage (minister’s home), and an unusually high salary.
- Constantly feuded with his congregation and named people in sermons. Generally who hadn’t contributed, paid respect, or attended church, and who opposed him. There were a lot of sermons.
- Encouraged feuds and factions even before 1692, and actively stoked fears and paranoia during the accusations, hearings, and trials.
- Granted irregular legal powers and authority to make arrests by the Governor. Supported the use of spectral evidence (ghost stories).
- Never admitted any fault.
I turned my hyper fixation into lemmy communities! You can too!
!carnivore@discuss.online - There are fives of us, fives!
!ketogenic@discuss.online - Dozens!
It’s not salt that hardens pulses (beans, lentils etc.), it’s acid. Salt your beans from the start, they’ll taste better. Also, most beans dont need to be soaked first, just cook them longer or start them hard for 20 mins then turn down the heat. Chickpeas, however, need to be soaked, unless you cook them with baking soda. But then you lose out on the aquafaba, so I say soak em.
