Summa Cum Laude maybe?

The thumbnail of this image looks like a singular eye observing spaghetti.

It was fixed by removing residue from the print bed which reduced adhesion for the first few layers, pulling the filament up, which gets stuck on the nozzle and is being dragged across the bed.

Clean your bed regularly every couple of prints.

I don’t think invasive data collection via black boxes is the way to go. I’d say better driver education, speed traps, and better education for civil servants (such as traffic cops) might be a better solution.

Additional data about your driving behavior is also collected, completely unrelated to cameras. In fact, this data is the majority.

There certainly would be a market for a network camera ecosystem provided by a company that people can trust. I don’t think it has to be all or nothing, plenty of people really are in no position to self-host.

I’m not sure if there is anything out there that regular consumers currently could migrate to in case they want to get away from questionable companies. There are completely local systems (local recorder, no remote access), but those are lacking the home automation features / notifications, and well-respected brands that have been around (let’s say, Axis?) that are still closed source, not cross-platform and with pricing often not aimed at end customers.

I didn’t check out this project, so I’m certainly not saying this is it and there habe been various criticism of this particular project here, but I’d love if a decent project would emerge in the space.

Would you consider using a managed cloud solution + app if it’s open-source and properly end-to-end encrypted? How would a hypothetical company have to behave to be trustworthy, while still being allowed to profit? People here seem to like e. g. tuta.io for encrypted mail, I don’t see why a similar model could not work for network cameras.

These are genuine questions btw., I myself am really annoyed at the status quo with its data breaches, blatant lies to customers about encryption, and corporations willfully cooperating with fascist governments by proactively providing video data. I’m not even going to talk about AI training.

I’d probably set up some firewall rules / a VLAN to isolate the cameras. I generally don’t trust any company to do the reasonable thing, and apparently, these days, we live in a world where many companies are outright malicious.

You can trust them about this much:

https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera-answers-encryption

That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.

I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.

Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.

I’d never have expected Jenny to let herself go like that.

Wait, there is an audio book version of this?

This has existed long before the AI hype. Dialog systems were around in the 80s, operating off of tapes. The concept itself is even older.

I ran an Asterisk server with speech recognition 20 years ago. Sure, TTS didn’t nearly have the recognition rates it has today, but it was enough to figure out the caller’s intent from the email message that was delivered after the fact.

I still run a very similar setup today, except I no longer self host and pretty much ever component has improved. Honestly, its a godsend to be able to deal with people or businesses that still rely on phone conversations, something I will never tolerate. I simply don’t do phone calls.

The latest Raspberry Pi cameras have decent sensors, variants with night vision are available. Axis makes reliable, network attached cameras.

Open-source software like Frigate or ZoneMinder exists.

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate

https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder

Still, would you really want that? A half-baked device in your network, a device you suspect would constantly betray you, if given the chance?

I personally can’t imagine getting used to that. I’d despise the device (and myself probably).

I’m 100% sure I can wash that throw.

In the 40s, fluoroscopy became available, basically giving you a real-time, animated view of an X-ray picture. And yes, it did have all the associated dangers of prolonged X-ray exposure.

Let’s not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.

We’re already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.

https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide

If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you’ll understand why that sucks so much as it does.

Cosplay is by https://www.instagram.com/strawhiskey/

In fact, the German government operates a dedicated website offering information for farmers who want to do exactly that:

https://www.bundesprogramm.de/foerderung

Additionally, federal options exist:

https://www.oekolandbau.de/bio-in-der-praxis/bio-verarbeitung/unternehmensfuehrung/foerderung/staatliche-foerderprogramme/

I’d argue that you see a lot more people having no clue about audio and doing a podcast / stream use the SM7B.