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Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.

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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • They barely even fact checked him in the first place. They called him on a total of, what, three things? As opposed to the probably dozens of other complete untruths he uttered, not even just about policy and so forth but actual empirically verifiable elements of reality?

    Here’s just what I spotted:

    • Lied about not being involved with Project 2025 and not knowing what it is. We know he is acutely aware of what it is, and in fact some members of his staff were involved in its framing.
    • Lied about the number of immigrants coming into the country.
    • Further lied stating that other countries were “sending all their criminals and mental patients.”
    • Claimed people were “aborting” babies after birth (called out by moderators).
    • Claimed Harris said she would ban fracking in Pennsylvania (called out by Harris).
    • Lied about crime rates going “through the roof” (called out by moderators).
    • Responded to this by claiming FBI crime stats were falsified by “leaving out problem cities.”
    • Lied about migrants eating people’s pets (called out by moderators).
    • Lied about inflation numbers post-pandemic.
    • Lied claiming that “Biden” built the Nordstream pipeline.
    • Distorted the truth by claiming he won more votes than any sitting president in the last election, failing to mention that Biden still got more.

    There were probably others.

    He also essentially admitted that his plan for the war in Ukraine was to just let Russia win. That should be pretty damn worrisome for anyone.



  • I can do you one better: My GPD laptop has a charging indicator on the center type-C port indicating that this is where the power supply goes, but it can actually be charged from either port regardless of the icon. Both ports are USB 3.0 or 3.2 or whatever the current fast standard is this week, but only the center one supports video out via an external GPU enclosure. So if you want to use it docked with an eGPU, it’s actually required to not plug the power supply into the port that says you should plug the power supply into it.

    So not only is the marking meaningless, it’s arguably worse than meaningless because in one of the headline hardware setups for the machine it is actually 100% incorrect to do what the marking is telling you to do. Wrap your head around that one…






  • If the US government bitching was enough to get the flight simulator easter egg removed from Excel (allegedly), I can’t imagine a similar stern glare from the Pentagon would not cause Recall to magically turn out to be uninstallable after all. At least from any US government owned computers originally so equipped.

    Anyway, isn’t this only going to roll out on “Copilot” compatible PC’s with the requisite AI acceleration chips in them? I would be furthermore immensely surprised if it could not be locked out in Group Policy for corporate customers.