[-] alleycat@feddit.org 8 points 8 hours ago

The Merkel and Scholz governments prematurely shut down twenty gigawatts of nuclear power.

This is misinformation, like the rest of the article.

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 8 points 23 hours ago

So, also baroque, renaissance, medieval and ancient music?

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Good news, I guess. I wonder how the extreme drought will affect Q3 growth...

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

Where is the owl? And why does the gravel have eyes?!

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

This is the 10th

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

This is a community for sharing artworks. Op made a traditional painting that compares people who willfully listen to AI to goldfishes, essentially calling them stupid. I understand and share your visceral hate for AI, but try to not piss on people who are on your side.

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 16 points 6 days ago

I think most people just didn't understand your anti-AI message and downvoted simply because you have "AI" in your title.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by alleycat@feddit.org to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

I constructed everything in Fusion360 and cut the wood layers on a CNC. The parchment layer was cut with a foil cutting machine. Here are the individual layers:

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by alleycat@feddit.org to c/artshare@lemmy.world

Medium is oil paint on 30x40cm canvas.

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submitted 1 month ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/birding@lemmy.world

Shot with an old Pentacon lens. Here's the male:

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!HistoryInstruments@feddit.org

A community for posting and discussing historic and traditional instruments.

I already made few posts with photos, links to museum catalogues, and sound samples. So pay this community a visit!

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submitted 3 months ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

From the guy that gave a snake legs: a 3D-printed prosthetic tail for chickens!

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 46 points 3 months ago

Furthermore, these groups do not hold a favorable opinion of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which came in second place in the last election, behind the conservatives. “When I’ve asked about the AfD, they’ve described it as a kind of ‘useful idiot.’ The party and its leaders are despised, but they are strategically used to gradually shift the boundaries of what can be said further to the right, so that, at some point, even more extremist parties can emerge,” the journalist explains.

That is actually an interesting insight. So the right is not as unified as I thought?

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submitted 3 months ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

A first set of forms for this year! It’s a cnc cut solera + outer mould + side bending form, made of plywood, MDF board, aluminum pipe, threaded rods and PLA.

Apparently CNC machines don’t like long, continuous splines, like the parts of the outer mould. At one point the controller couldn’t handle the huge amount of commands and slowed down, resulting in vibrations piling up and pulling the milling bit out of the spindle. The bit made a hole in the surface of my 1000€ vacuum table before exploding.

No lasting functional damage, except for the milling bit, but it hurt like hell - emotionally.

I plan to make a set of forms for a Torres guitar next - with optimized settings, so this mishap doesn’t happen again.

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submitted 3 months ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/luthier@lemmy.world

A first set of forms for this year! It's a cnc cut solera + outer mould + side bending form, made of plywood, MDF board, aluminum pipe, threaded rods and PLA.

Apparently CNC machines don't like long, continuous splines, like the parts of the outer mould. At one point the controller couldn't handle the huge amount of commands and slowed down, resulting in vibrations piling up and pulling the milling bit out of the spindle. The bit made a hole in the surface of my 1000€ vacuum table before exploding.

No lasting functional damage, except for the milling bit, but it hurt like hell - emotionally.

I plan to make a set of forms for a Torres guitar next - with optimized settings, so this mishap doesn't happen again.

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submitted 4 months ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

CNC cut from 12mm plywood. Maybe I should send a job application to IKEA?.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by alleycat@feddit.org to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

DeskProto Website

So, I spent the whole day researching ways to ditch Autodesk Fusion360 and moving to native Linux alternatives. FOSS was not a requirement.

The CAD part is sufficiently covered by FreeCAD since version 1.1, but it lacks 3- and 4-axis CAM functionality (it can mostly do 2.5-axis). So far Deskproto is the only software that covered all my requirements:

  • native Linux support (Appimage)
  • perpetual license
  • not cloud based
  • relatively affordable (145€ - 995€, depending on functionality)
  • 4-axis support

The drawback of this software is that apparently the generated toolpaths are not accurate enough for engineering parts (e.g. injection molds), it's more geared towards woodworking and model making.

The company is located in Utrecht, Netherlands and the software can be paid via bank transfer, no American payment provider required.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by alleycat@feddit.org to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Big tech claims that Artificial Intelligence will "remove the drudgery" from our daily work. But did you know they’ve been making this promise for 80 years?

In 1957, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred in Desk Set, a Hollywood romantic comedy that accidentally became one of the most prescient films ever made about office automation. 70 years before ChatGPT, this movie perfectly predicted our modern anxieties about AI - from corporate spin and system meltdowns, to the bizarre reality of "AI hallucinations."

In this video, we explore how Desk Set exposed the "Productivity Paradox" decades before economists gave it a name. We also look at the true nature of today's AI job crisis: why highly skilled workers aren't just losing their jobs, but are being pushed into the exhausting, monotonous world of "data annotation" to train their electronic replacements.

If you think the fear of machines taking our jobs is a modern problem, it's time to meet the EMERAC.

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submitted 4 months ago by alleycat@feddit.org to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

For maximum stiffness, I printed these without infill, all perimeters. The filament is Greentec Pro CF.

I got the general specifications from the book "Mastering the sound of the acoustic guitar" by Giuliano Nicoletti.

These are mainly for playing a test tone and generating chladny patterns at different stages of guitar making, but they also sound surprisingly good as desktop speakers!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by alleycat@feddit.org to c/historyartifacts@piefed.social
[-] alleycat@feddit.org 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes and no. This install script works well, but it breaks every few months (not the fault of the script, but Autodesk). Then you have to wait for an update and reinstall everything.

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Set your slicer to only use one wall for the top layer. Edit: also, calibrate your extrusion. This looks like slight underextrusion to me.

[-] alleycat@feddit.org 38 points 1 year ago

He still thinks that if he out-fasces the fascists the Afd-voters will start voting CDU.

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