A tool to anonymise those little yellow dots your colour laser printer is probably adding to every page it prints:

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

#infosec #security #anonymity

Oh this is neat and adorable and seems exactly like something @ajroach42 and @djsundog would appreciate 😁 a little iron filing magnet pet

https://youtu.be/koN1SnLldGU

A feel-good story in the news today...

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one

The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

My fellow xennials, Stabbing Westward is on bandcamp. https://stabbingwestward.bandcamp.com/music

I haven’t kept up with star wars at all - haven’t even seen the last three movies of the trilogy of trilogies tbh - but if they did a Jawas spinoff I’d be sucked back into the fold prolly. Those li’l folk were the best bit in the whole dang story. Gimme that shit, lemme make some shit out of it, no? oh fuck off. Jawas rule.

daily affirmations

if pressed, I could prove pretty reasonably that I am not seven Jawas in a trenchcoat, but you might need to give me a couple minutes to prep.

not trying to build a fabrication empire. not even a fabrication fiefdom. just the wildest most jank fabrication shop full of weirdos willing to work with you on the planet. set achievable goals and shit. y’know.

Found this on a Discord...

If you need to move from a #redState to a #blueState because you are #trans or #nonBinary, etc. these folks are offering interest-free #loans.

Keshet-HFLS “Move to Thrive” Interest-Free Loan Program

Applicants do not have to be Jewish and can be moving from any state in the U.S. to any state in the U.S. (but not outside of the country).

To qualify, applicants must meet the following requirements:

- Have plans to move to a different state within three months of receiving an HFLS loan and be able to submit documentation of their move OR plan to move no later than six months from the time they receive the loan.

- Have annual household income sufficient to support loan repayment, and no higher than the HFLS income limits.

- Have an active checking account.

- Provide one guarantor who meets the two requirements above.

Initial funding for this program is provided by the Jewish LGBTQ Donor Network.

https://www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/

plugging psu#2 into the server hosting our instance (cool guy in sunglasses indoors in the datacenter full palm slams a ryobi 40v hp battery into a receiver (very obviously hot-glued and wired into place) with an exceedingly satisfying clack. a green led flickers to life)

these are enterprise toots now fam

Every now and then I remember that the first person to isolate phosphorus had a process that started with “take 150 barrels of horse urine and leave them out in the sun until the maggots appear” and then I look at whatever I’m working on and think, maybe this isn’t that bad, maybe this has more potential than I realize.

this dang ol’ topo map print at 0.18mm on the 0.6mm nozzle with the default slicer profile has nine dang solid bottom layers and we’re almost halfway through number five after just over seven hours of printing hahaha

QUEER UP

and our new bookbinding machine bound its first book this afternoon!

so many fun things happening at the Ellijay Makerspace lately!

and upside-down Nosferatu is starting to make himself seen in our block of aluminum being ablated by a fiber laser, streaming at https://communitymedia.video/w/mRHVWvh2XarauLFYt1CdK4 with just under 18 hours remaining on this half of the mold set!

2.5 hours to go on my Kickstarter?

I would say "please give me money for this weirdly wholesome crime against humanity," but the standards for crimes against humanity have gone up in the last couple months, so, uh... I got nothing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/mwls-next-1-april-book

Also got the pneumatic vise conjoined to the pneumatic injection molding machine today!

LNS 150 manual lever pull injection machine for scale.

so what if we just printed a big honking cube on our big honking 3D printer at the makerspace…

to whomst it may concern: anycubic sells a webcam accessory in their store for fifteen bucks. it shows up over usb as a valid video4linux2 device and looks fine. for fifteen bucks, it’s great if you have a way to make a case you want for it (anycubic published a case for connecting it to their printers that could be easily adapted)