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New comment by silveira in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

silveira — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:19:13 +0000

What about Elegoo Centauri Carbon? I've had my eye on this for some time.

New comment by silveira in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

silveira — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:05:37 +0000

It seems that it's quire more complicated than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...

New comment by silveira in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

silveira — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:22:47 +0000

I bought one yesterday from AliExpress. I hope I'm able to install new firmwares on it.

New comment by silveira in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

silveira — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:38:53 +0000

And sometimes 3 can be "every other CEO is doing it, let's do it too. At least we already have the narrative.".

New comment by silveira in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

silveira — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:06:53 +0000

At least they had a decency of avoiding the ambiguity of doing this during April 1st.

New comment by silveira in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

silveira — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:48:28 +0000

Thanks, I had deleted the app from all my devices but not deleted the account. I have deleted my account now too.

New comment by silveira in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

silveira — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:09:06 +0000

I really like this setup:

iPad + Korg microKEY-37 + KORG Gadget 3 + all a bunch of KORG apps

No subscriptions. Keyboard is wireless but no noticeable latency. In my workflow I pretty much never need more keys but if I do I just use a MIDI adapter and plug a larger keyboard.

KORG apps go on 50% sale several times every year.

New comment by silveira in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

silveira — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:04:20 +0000

iPad Pro (4th generation) 2020 here. Life was good then updated OS with liquid glass. Big mistake.

New comment by silveira in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

silveira — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:52:18 +0000

I still remember using Palm OS for the first time and having my little mind blown away because there was no save buttons (at least in the version and apps I was using). You edited a document and that's it, it was saved. Like writing on paper.

Nowadays a lot of applications behave like this but back then it was a very different from everything I had ever used.

New comment by silveira in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

silveira — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:19:40 +0000

I have been playing 0ad, single player, medium/hard difficulty, round-robing all maps, for years now. Great game. I have to try mods one of these days.

New comment by silveira in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

silveira — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:11:41 +0000

The same article in german has some nice animations: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith-Schneider-Antrieb

New comment by silveira in "A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers"

silveira — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:12:07 +0000

I'm deep in the Gridfinity rabbit hole but this seems a good compromise since my 3d printer broke.

New comment by silveira in "Proof of Corn"

silveira — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:25:57 +0000

https://farm.bot/ exists.

New comment by silveira in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

silveira — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:14:51 +0000

This made me think about another contrast, Hayao Miyazaki. His characters ("heroes" or "villains"), usually are more morally complex and nuanced than the ones you would find in the works I typically see depicted in Hollywood. They are not just good or evil. You may not agree with their actions, but you understand the logic of it.

New comment by silveira in "OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S."

silveira — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:24:53 +0000

Let the enshittification begin.

Then you move to the paid plan, then they move ads to the paid plan, then you move to the premium-extra plan, etc.

New comment by silveira in "Apple Creator Studio"

silveira — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:22 +0000

Thanks for the info, I was looking for this. I have the "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" that I bought years ago and it is an fantastic deal.

New comment by silveira in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

silveira — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:33:33 +0000

If you unlock a lock, that's still a lock.

Also, in light of everything that is happening, is incredible that the top comment on this thread is about some minor semantic definitions.

New comment by silveira in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

silveira — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:41:58 +0000

Oh, I wish I could do something like that for my Nokia N800.

New comment by silveira in "Making a Small RPG"

silveira — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:19:04 +0000

Awesome. I while ago I was playing around some JS graphic/game engine/frameworks and came across Kaboom (now Kaplay) and it stroke me as a really different approach to the whole thing. I am now again playing with it and it's really impressive and fun.

Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

New comment by silveira in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

silveira — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:45:41 +0000

Just watched a podcast on this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-death-o...