If you do not have museum wax in your home you are missing a basic necessity that you may not realize you need, like a replaceable-bit screwdriver. This stuff is very cheap, $10 will get you like a 30-year supply. If you ever do tasks such as "put an object on a shelf to display it" or "plug in a device to a charger horizontally" trust me you will not regret purchasing museum wax.

I usually post tech jobs when I find them, but noticed this RSBP conservation role for a social sciences postgrad that 🚨may offer UK visa support🚨

15 month contract, regular extended fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Liberia

https://app.hireroadrecruit.com/careers/rspb/jobs/w-LdmJHugNfuPjiaQ-bRi

#FediHire

Tutorial: The G1 Garbage Collector

#garbagecollector #java #jvm #oracle

https://dev.java/learn/jvm/tool/garbage-collection/g1gc-overview/

@nirak @AccordionBruce @blogdiva Very possible, there are some coal rolling folks around here who might go chasing cyclists for sport

@ProPublica
Bill Gates has no interest in saving the climate any more than he wanted to make good software. His Foundation only serves to a) make him more money and b) make him look good doing so.

Billionaires are not going to save us, nor would we want them to, because they are not beholden to the people. Governments at least *can* be, theoretically. They are not the best solution, but far better than relying on rich people and "the market".

@PatrickHerd of course 0.8 gets me under 3000 RPM which lets me use more polishing discs and that should? still shut off the starter winding?

at least from what i'm reading?

#tools #BenchGrinder #Worksmith

> it's all gone right gas town

Sorry, best I can do to s Secret Satan

@PatrickHerd [reads up]

huh. so...

no matter how i slow the motor down electrically to like half speed, the secondary capacitor-driven starter winding (which it has because single-phase) won't ever shut off because the centrifugal cutoff switch won't ever be triggered because the motor won't be spinning fast enough for that to happen

probably? i took the bottom off and it's got a big cap in there that makes sense if it's driving a secondary winding

so uh

dang?

i guess it's mechanical divider time for me if i want other speeds?

i don't hate that it's just more work and less compact

#tools #BenchGrinder #Worksmith

@ai6yr
Clarifying: they voted for a heavily promoted zoo initiative and a reduction but continued funding for the library

And rejected a what looked like a larger tax increase for fire

Which I would have voted for obviously

But I can see why tax-fearing voters would do it

Wonder how heavily the fire initiative was promoted?

Most appear on our ballots with no comment

Because of course you vote for them, otherwise they show up demanding payment like the old days

Baby butcherbird was very interested in me this evening
#photography #birds

It is important to make distinctions:

• as politicians they can use and campaign in whatever platform they want.
• As Government officials, they must be forced by legislation to use a Government Federated instance so everyone has access to their communication and no Big Tech oligarch has the power to decide how these messages reach the population.

@ai6yr What if we raise the temperature of the Earth by two degrees centigrade instead?

> oh i see the play is to just not make "reverse-engineering" mean anything

@amcooper Thanks 😊

We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.

Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!

Act now: …openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must…

#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative

Je note que la presse quotidienne régionale ne parle absolument pas du mouvement social quand il n'y a pas de poubelles qui brûlent.

@Fragarach@vivaldi.net KOBO is a great choice IMO, been using them for years. I use Calibre to manage mine. The KOBO is much more forgiving of formats and openness than anything else.

I am afraid I can't help with other software / services but the end result is definitely a great platform.

I have bought a few books on their marketplace but I tend to buy epub from more indy sources and just upload.

HTH