solbear

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[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bluetooth can be turned off, but for security issues in the modem, welll… Not if you want to use it as a phone.

I often hear this and other comments like "If you don't upgrade your system software immediately you are already hacked" etc. But I've never seen any description of what actually can happen with a phone that goes without updates for some time - how often are vulnerabilities in the modem found for instance, and have there ever been a widely exploited attack?

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind!

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh, that is a very good tip - didn't think of that. I did find what appeared to be an older pile during a "recon", and found quite some worms there then. How long since the deworming treatment would you consider safe? They have a larger depot of manure around the corner, with fresher stuff.

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I have a bunch of salads growing in some self-watering containers that is working well. Four different varieties, of which one is a spinach that is currently flowering and I'm going to collect the seed from, the other three I use for salads and as additional greens on bread. Other than that I have three different kinds of cherry tomatoes growing, two of them (Garderner's Delight and Venus) are producing fruits and the last kind (Ildi) is flowering, but not yet any sign of fruiting.

I have a bunch of chilis and peppers, the chilis yielding a bunch of fruits and the peppers flowering, but no fruits yet (they were started from seed about a month and a half after the chilis).

I also have some fava beans coming up, but no where close to yielding any beans quite yet.

Will be cutting down my blackcurrant bush this week end. Can't get rid of the spider mites. Also have them on my chilis, but they are more manageable there. No fun... :( No berries this year either, got the bush last year.

Indoors I have some borage growing as microgreens. Not the best taste in my opinion, better mixed in with a lot of other greens than as stand-alone garnish. Just finished of eating my tray of red cabbage microgreens, and will be setting a couple of new trays this week end. Got some other herbs coming: new batch of basil and cilantro, some thyme and rosemary (if I can get it growing this time, last time they were very difficult), some chives and some summer savory (never actually tested or knew about this until recently).

Will also be finally setting up my vermicomposter when I go out and fetch some worms. Got a horse farm nearby, and been tipped off by a biologist that horse manure (or at least close to where it is not so warm) is where it's at for these guys! First time doing that.

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Cheers - seems there are multiple things I could have done. I would rather avoid having to do a reprint, but it may be necessary.

Upon closer inspection, I think the geometry of the bottom part is designed in such as way that it comes out with a lot of cavities (it is slanted, requiring multiple steps). It could be that it will be very difficult print properly to begin with.

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Oh no, don't worry - it was a great suggestion, and I'll check it out for myself, just asked in case you already knew :) Thanks!

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would have assumed that dentists do not use the same consumer-grade stuff you buy in your local shop. Do you know for sure that they do?

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I personally would not consider superglue harmful enough to worry about plants seeping enough of it to affect the health of me eating the plant, and it’s not food grade. I’ve used it to fix cracked humidifier reservoirs in a greenhouse for example.

I would want to avoid something that leeches off into the water. That said, I am going to dilute it quite a lot since the stuff will be very concentrated. Super glue could be a little expensive for this though? I think coating the whole bed would take multiple small containers.

That being said, most epoxy resin dries food grade. I don’t think you’d have to search hard for a very well performing Resin with food grade search term swapped with dining surface or some frequent use that requires food grade.

I know very little about epoxy resin, but that is what I often see - but is it really basically the same stuff that is used to repair boats as people use for decorations? The safety data sheets for the components are always pretty rough, but they of course say nothing about the cured state.

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, that is an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. I might be able to buy it from a local beeskeeper, and I think I have a small amount lying around somewhere I could test with.

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am using PrusaSlicer. Not sure if that check box is present in that, or if it was added in OrcaSlicer or BambuSlicer.

I might've printed with only two walls, I will need to check tomorrow when I'm at the correct machine. And thanks for the video recommendation, I will be sure to check it out!

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't think of aquariums. Would assume this should be food safe, since it will be in contact with environment of living things. Would you happen to know whether it has any good adhesion to PETG?

[–] solbear@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I might've printed with only two. But I'd like to avoid having to reprint, if possible, and instead fix it with some post-processing. I think the leakage is actually concentrated on certain points near the front leg slot, so it does not seem to generally seep through the entire bed.

 

I recently printed a vermicomposter in PETG. It consists of a bottom reservoir which is supposed to catch leachate from the above compartments. I'm not sure the rate at which this will fill up, but the leachate is supposed to be diluted with water and used as nutrients from plants.

However, the reservoir leaks from the plug and from the front leg slots, at least when the reservoir is filled completely up with water. The leak from the plug I seem to have fixed with a combination of an o-ring and some PTFE-tape, but for the other leak I've been thinking of coating it with epoxy resin.

My challenge is actually finding such a resin, where the finished, cured product is food safe (since it will eventually find its way into the plants I intend to eat). Locally, I've not been able to find anything that is certified food safe, only various epoxy fillers and primers for boats.

The local 3D-print shop recommended this product which I could get through them: https://siraya.tech/products/siraya-tech-aegis-coating-systerm-for-resin-filament-prints But I've found some less than favorable reviews for that one in particular.

Anyone with experience water-tightening containers like this?

 

Last year I experimented with a self-watering system for some containers to grow primarily salads and potentially some herbs. They are placed in a way that makes watering a bit cumbersome, and I am typically gone for days at the time during Summer, so that such a setup is very useful to me. It consists of two containers: a top container containing a soil mix and a bottom container filled with water. From the top container, I have a couple of baskets filled with perlite dipping into the water that wick moisture up into the soil mix (I originally used soil for this, which ended up with some nice mold growth :) ).

This worked reasonably well, and I had some good harvests of arugula and some regular green salads. But I found the moisture level of the soil becoming too high, especially towards the end of the season when the Sun and temperature were not as aggressively evaporating the water.

The soil mixture I used then was a general purpose plant mix mixed with perlite. I was planning on adding even more perlite this year as an attempt to lower the average moisture level, or simply go down to the beach to get some coarse sand and mix that in instead.

Any other things I should consider?

 

While English is still the de facto lingua franca, with the US burning bridges to Europe like there's no tomorrow, and the UK having left the EU, should they adopt an easy-to-learn auxillary language?

I'm thinking of an language like Esperanto, but not necessarily that. I was intrigued by Esperanto and went through the course on lernu.net and found it easy to pick up (though I am by no means fluent yet). While it is constructed, it was developed without any modern linguistic knowledge, so another option could be to construct a new language for this purpose, or adopt another already developed language that would serve the purpose better (I don't have an overview of what is out there).

I know there are several official languages already, but I imagine that leads to a lot of overhead. An auxillary language could make communication easier, and make it easier for citizens of any member state to participate in the Union, and would to some extent remove any power asymmetry resulting from native mastery of a language.

Good idea? Poor idea? Why? Why not?

 

There's so much so-called "news", but most of it is just noise. In this situation, it seems easiest to either A) get consumed by it, trying to follow everything and reading every "he said what?"-piece posted or B) become more or less apathetic and avoid news altogether.

To be able to make proper choices and help move things in the right direction, B) is not an option, as you need to understand current events to at least a minimal level, but A) leaves you just as clueless, overflowing with useless information, with a heavily worn-down ability to be source critical, not remembering where you read any given "fact".

So how do you keep up to date with current events? Have you found a good way? Am I mistaken in my above assessment?

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