What does the CPUID instruction say?

Same price as the cheapest iPhone I think. It tells you something.

GPS itself is receive only but if you’re really paranoid, don’t trust your phone to not store the location data and upload it someplace afterwards.

It will be great if this reaches the Moto G series. I’m sure the Fairphone is nice but it’s 4x as expensive–no thanks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ffmpeg+normalize+audio

I have found gitit easy to install and use though not all that featureful. It uses git as a backing store and there is an apt package for it (apt install gitit).

I use it, I hate GNOME.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html :

Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.

If this is US social security numbers, they only have 9 digits so there can’t be billions of them.

Thanks, yeah, my friends use Fusion 360. I don’t have a working Windows machine right now but maybe I can set something up or run under Wine.

Yeah right now what I want to do is duplicate a shower door guide which is a 3 inch plastic part with some specific grooves and a screw hole. It’s incredibly hard to find the right one online or tell that it’s right. Home Depot doesn’t even have that kind of thing in their store any more. I do at least have a reasonably intact one that I can measure with a caliper.

Yikes, a 28 minute video, but I guess I’ll watch it during some downtime at some point. Thanks again.

Hmm, ok, so much for that idea. I had hoped it wouldn’t depend much on ambient temperature and humidity. Thanks.

Do you recommend any FOSS CAD software for designing parts? I’ve played with OpenSCAD a bit and maybe that suffices, but I wonder what else there is.

Thanks, that sounds good. I saw a Prusa review a while back that was positive, so that also weighs in favor. I will shop around.

Thanks, yeah, I like the idea of an enclosed printer so that I can print outdoors (with an extension cord or portable power station) and not get my living room full of fumes. Is that a reasonable thing to want to do?

Oh boy, what’s a good not too expensive 3d printer to buy right now, preferably all FOSS? It hasn’t been on my short term shopping list but I figure if I’m ever likely to want one, better get it now. I remember the original RepRap. I think modern stuff is a lot better, but might have more closed source software.

Nokia N900 from 2009. Question is when we’ll get a new one.

Article isn’t paywalled for me. Headline is ok. 3d printing a whistle supposedly costs under 5 cents. OTOH, that type of plastic might be less safe to put in your mouth.

It’s a reference to A Fire Upon The Deep, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge. One way to describe it is that a superintelligent computer virus tries to take over the galaxy. It is great, try a web search.

Is that something like a “class II perversion”? For example the Straumli Blight.