I ordered maybe like $300 at end of stuff from aliexpress and I think saved like $60. Almost bought this great deal on a battery system. got some solar cells, Oneodio headset, netac ssd, tried buying some metals like titanium rods as a store of value, 1515 aluminum set, some LoRa/4G antennas for experimenting with mesh. a few other bits I made two orders and the second one finished like 30 seconds before midnight, it was crazy waiting for Honey to go through all the codes to get a really good discount. I was preoccupied with shopping for like a week, that was pretty stressful and with other factors in my life.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
hope I don't get in trouble for this
I look endlessly for parts on alibaba, rn for solar batteries. And I have tried to ship for parts like cooling fans but then I am bitten by shipping at the end.... Now I find myself having to inquire about each part because the prices listed aren't accurate. How to get what I need?
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
1, 2, 5, 6, 7
I see pro Russia people promoting these points but in those cases it's a lot more likely to be based in reality.
Cat climbed up on the counter and tried to mess em up.  I want to start an indoor and outdoor garden. Planting season is coming up. I'm also having decent success germinating some rice. I'm somewhat regretting my choice to buy pinto and black bean 'seeds'. Also I've been making trips up into the hills to dig up naturally occurring clay and that sort of thing and carry it down in my big backpack. Maybe I can try and make some dirt out of that.... I already went to home depot to get some garden fertilizer, but I prob need to get some high nitrogen stuff in bulk.
 from my twitter: > I started mocking up my DIY workstation enclosure case. I will make it with cheap aluminum extrusions from aliexpress and some plywood sheets, maybe acrylic if I can find that cheap. > expect it to def change once I'm done designing, it's late > this is in openscad > red = 450mm extrusion > white = 500mm extrusion > brown 'sienna' = 150mm extrusion > green = a 3.5" hard drive > purple = ATX power supply > black = my motherboard > beige = plywood sheet > blue = large radiator > light blue = 12cm fan > I can change the extrusion sizes programmatically if I need more space or can cut down on space. > issue is this radiator I bought is 15.5" long so that doesn't leave much vertical room for other stuff like the hard drive rack. > unfortunately might need a couple smaller radiators. [Workstation Thread 2022](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/372601) I think this will be the final design:  room for 3 hard drives and a liquid cooling reservoir + extra space between mobo and fans and above and below that. and there should be space on the exterior for vents, PCIe io, and whatever else. the code: https://github.com/greenempower/workstation/blob/main/casing/mockup.scad I count 4 red, 7 white, 9 brown extrusions. I'll get extra of each especially the 150mm brown extrusions. updates - Ok I ordered $80 worth of aluminum extrusions - $5 discount - $10 extra I prob won't use for this. Instead of ordering the 150mm precut I ordered 8x 300mm because they are tangibly cheaper per mm so I will cut them in half as needed and have a few left over. I will prob get plywood from home depot and plastic sheets (cheap PETG or acrylic) from mcmastercarr.
I thought to do this when I started reading the pinned post titled '[Listening-Reading Method and Spanish](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/401145)'. https://farkastranslations.com/bilingual_books.php I encoded it in 112kbps opus to an ogg file using ffmpeg (it's mono, ~731MB, 15:12:58 long): https://github.com/holdengreen/lingtool/blob/main/streams/center-earth-journey-es-en-original-botched.ogg I wrote the script to process the text file at: https://farkastranslations.com/books/Verne_Jules-Voyage_au_Centre_de_la_Terre-fr-en-es-hu-nl.zip Here is the script (https://github.com/holdengreen/lingtool/blob/main/src/center-earth-parallel.py): ``` import re import sys import torch import numpy as np MAX_WAV_VALUE = 32768.0 sample_rate = 48000 accelerator = 'cpu' device = torch.device(accelerator) class SpanishTTS: language = 'es' model_id = 'v3_es' speaker = 'es_1' def __init__(self): self.model, example_text = torch.hub.load(repo_or_dir='snakers4/silero-models', model='silero_tts', language=self.language, speaker=self.model_id) self.model.to(device) # gpu or cpu def apply(self, text): return self.model.apply_tts(text=text, speaker=self.speaker, sample_rate=sample_rate) * MAX_WAV_VALUE class EnglishTTS: language = 'en' model_id = 'v3_en' speaker = 'en_117' def __init__(self): self.model, example_text = torch.hub.load(repo_or_dir='snakers4/silero-models', model='silero_tts', language=self.language, speaker=self.model_id) self.model.to(device) # gpu or cpu def apply(self, text): return self.model.apply_tts(text=text, speaker=self.speaker, sample_rate=sample_rate) * MAX_WAV_VALUE spanishtts = SpanishTTS() englishtts = EnglishTTS() FFMPEG_BIN = "ffmpeg" import subprocess as sp from fcntl import fcntl, F_GETFL, F_SETFL from os import O_NONBLOCK, read fl = open("res/foreign/parallel-translations/Verne_Jules-Voyage_au_Centre_de_la_Terre-fr-en-es-hu-nl.farkastranslations.com/Verne_Jules-Voyage_au_Centre_de_la_Terre-fr-en-es-hu-nl.txt", 'r') t = fl.read() fl.close() errfl = open("log/err.txt", 'a+') proc = sp.Popen([ FFMPEG_BIN, '-y', # (optional) means overwrite the output file if it already exists. "-f", 's16le', # means 16bit input "-acodec", "pcm_s16le", # means raw 16bit input '-ar', str(sample_rate), # the input will have 48000 Hz '-ac','1', # the input will have 2 channels (stereo) '-i', 'pipe:0', # means that the input will arrive from the pipe '-vn', # means "don't expect any video input" '-acodec', "libopus", # output audio codec '-b:a', "112k", # output bitrate (=quality). 'streams/center-earth-journey-es-en-1.ogg', '-loglevel', 'debug' ], stdin=sp.PIPE,stdout=errfl, stderr=errfl, shell=False) #flags = fcntl(proc.stdout, F_GETFL) # get current p.stdout flags #fcntl(proc.stdout, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK) def readlines(): #print(proc.stdout.readlines()) #while True: while False: try: print(read(proc.stdout.fileno(), 1024)) except OSError: # the os throws an exception if there is no data print('[No more data]') break #print(ascii(t)) t = t.split('\n') max_ln = len(t) ln_cnt = 1 for e in t: print("processing {0}/{1}".format(str(ln_cnt), str(max_ln))) g = re.split(r'\t+', e) try: #spanish proc.stdin.write(np.asarray(spanishtts.apply(g[2]), dtype=np.int16).tobytes()) #1 second pause proc.stdin.write(np.asarray([0] * sample_rate, dtype=np.int16).tobytes()) # english proc.stdin.write(np.asarray(englishtts.apply(g[1]), dtype=np.int16).tobytes()) #2 second pause proc.stdin.write(np.asarray([0] * (sample_rate*2), dtype=np.int16).tobytes()) except Exception as e: print(repr(e)) print("occured for lines: ") print(g[2]) print(g[1]) ln_cnt += 1 ``` Run it with python3.9 and use `python3.9 -m pip install` to install the dependencies such as PyTorch. This took maybe five hours to generate on my i7 6700HQ laptop. And btw I counted 13 exceptions either `Exception("Model couldn't generate your text, probably it's too long")` or one was `UserWarning: Text string is longer than 1000 symbols.`. This means I think the text is too big or there were some symbols or something it can't handle. I will investigate. `ValueError`(s) don't seem to be much of an issue tho. There were 2155 translation pairs in total (most being large paragraphs) so missing 13 isn't a huge deal. The format of the file is separated by `\t` and `\n`. It comes in chunks where the paragraphs in different languages are seperated by the tabs and those chunks where the parallel translation moves on to the next set of equivalent paragraphs are separated by new lines. English is at index 1 and spanish at index 2. Can't wait to use this tomorrow on my walks.
from my twitter: "So I'd like two radios that I can put on a portable module. One that's high range low rate. Other is low range high rate. For a commodity mesh/peer to peer internet networking module. I'm no RF expert myself but I'm trying to find these to order and put on a PCB in a 3D printed enclosure with battery that could maybe be carried around in the size of a pocket. I think free internet is a right not something those sick lizards can gate keep. And if this is not something I can find easily available then I would like to know how to skillfully manufacture them."
 esa es mi método https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2000/2000-h/2000-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/996/996-h/996-h.htm
Months ago a ordered over $100 of components to complete a custom watercooling rig/loop for my workstation which I have begun to document in !gem and which should be completed shortly by the end of this year. But I am still waiting for most of them which have been stuck at the 'customs clearance complete" stage for quite a while. Now most of those have been marked as complete in aliexpress and I have 15 days to file a dispute. I will shortly try to pull up their tracking numbers and see if there is movement in the next couple of days. But I think I need to do the dispute. Protectionists stop being lil *****.
They offered $65 + $16 shipping. The Instinct MI25 is not much more, $130, and just better. I will prob not even use the S9150 much unless I need the FP64 for something because it's relatively slow and power hungry. I hope this community is ok for this site. Edit: wow unixsurplusnet (ebay) is selling it for $99. gonna wait till the end of the year prob when I finish the workstation. they have good hard drive and PSU deals too.
My parents say this is obviously fake. My mom has a lot of experience with newborns over her life.
They got banned but they are young I think so maybe they could be forgiven.....
If you are unfamiliar with the AV1 codec well it is the successor to VP9 which was in the same class of h.264 which was and still is prolific on the internet. AV1 is a big jump over h264... MediaTek was early to implemented AV1 in their Dimensity smartphone chips since 2019. And if you aren't aware those are in a lot of Chinese smartphones. There is now a decent chance you own and use a device that supports AV1 decoding. This means that AV1 I think is going to take over the internet in the next few years. Although AV1 is free and open source, it is a result of corporate socialism and Google's CIA influence. It probably wouldn't even be possible in the capitalist framework otherwise because big surprise intellectual property isn't actually good for innovation or much else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 - https://www.xda-developers.com/av1/ - https://www.androidauthority.com/av1-codec-1113318/ [The AV1 Video Codec - linux.conf.au](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubPzBcYCTw&ab_channel=linux.conf.au)
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
Lot of experience with westoids is many of them can't be expected to self regulate.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
Federated Ebay. Anything riscv. Middleware, tools for games and contribution to existing FOSS games and engines.
And there are probably a ton of little things out there... (specifically to make Linux and FOSS more competitive with proprietary brands in every day usage and specific niches.)
I think it's good to ask comrades these questions who may not have time or expertise on their own.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
I'm on California but there would likely be competition.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
It’s only illegal of you commit a crime while bypassing the firewall, like if you were posting on a Western porn site or something, in which case it could be used to increase sentencing in court.
Do people actually get sentenced in China for amateur porn? (not the stated context specifically I assume)
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
Yes there is some food, weapons, bibles, that sort of thing. But so much of what makes my life enjoyable like stuff from aliexpress will be completely inaccessible.
Atleast I can get a pretty good selection of used computer parts on ebay (but the corps are trying to take that away).
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
Lol these *ss holes think I'm actually gonna buy made in amerika products?
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
The national clown show should take up a very small fraction of your legitimate consideration imo.
But feel free to gum up the local scene. And if your orgs allies have a certain way to vote then do that.
en.wikipedia.org
My first computer as I remember. Great engineering, much innovation especially on the custom LCD which I'm surprised isn't in all the cheaper smart phones. Microsoft tried to ruin the software lol. > Don Hopkins announced that he is creating a free and open source port of the game SimCity to the OLPC that's what I remember the most
en.wikipedia.org
wow. I've been designing toys with these things and it's always scared me.
I'm putting together a shopping list on LCSC rn. So to understand what I should stock atm I will try to index some of my short/mid term projects. Also it's good to write and keep track. 1. Immediately I am designing a new LED matrix toy. I have prob around 2k 0603 green SMD LEDs that I got as a gift from a friend years ago... And I have a small assortment of Padauk microcontrollers, but only about 2 each for a given form factor/model and spec. I have cutout a breakout PCB for it, but have not expanded on that. I don't see a programmable variant of my PMS134 so maybe I need to try using an external flash or something... I don't have the proper resistors for this which would be 0-1k ohm and sub 0603. Voltage should also be dropped to like 2.2V but I seem to only have CR 2450s... These things use more power than a lot of coin cell applications. 2. I've been planning to make a board for fabrication machines like specifically very cheap 3D printers... I'm inspired by the Teacup firmware and RepRap project. It should only need a simple M0 or RISC-V with DMA and serial buses. Maybe a ESP32-C3. Or there are many simple ARM solutions instead or as coprocessors for special functions maybe including locomotion control... Also consider some type of DAC system. Additionally this project could be accompanied by a special power supply unit. 3. So also I want to make a high range mesh networking unit... So specifically I should find RF components for that. 4. Future matrices. Future matrices will tend to use smaller LEDs (0403) and RGB LEDs. I found some small RGB LEDs (closer to 0603 but square) and I don't have any 0403. I also prefer use smaller/cheaper micros with these with some buffered shift registers on the outputs. I'm interested in the Shenzhen Fuman Elec 74HC164D. Also future matrices will have larger LED counts and so they may need more extended memory, smaller components and more efficient components. 5. I'd like to make a special PCIe card with lots of accelerators and IO. Or it could do anything but it'd be cool to make a PCIe card. And I have programmable logics sitting around. 6. An SBC. An SBC possibly with a purpose in a product such as a handheld. Would be great experience to hook up an Allwinner or something on my own board if that is something I can do. 7. I am still waiting on specific parts for my workstation. Would like to do more work on GEM OS on that system. 8. I have a ton of stuff to do around the property. Need to put up a barrier and do landscaping and stuff and prepare for the planting season next year.... 9. Need to work on website stuff. I haven't touched my servers in a while but I did switch off of Cloudflare CDN. I should maybe put up a lemmy and work on the git, IPFS, email and some other stuff. 10. Should try to learn some softwares like Blender and FreeCAD. Maybe I'll try to learn some chemistry. And I've tried to study some languages. Also I've been reading history like California wikipedia but don't have much better than wikipedia. 11. Should clean up and develop my room some more. Need to develop the desk system and my shelving, make more room for the workstation cabinet. And get some better lighting and plants and scenery. 12. I'm considering prepping more and more. If I can farm decently enough maybe I can stash stuff and should order certain things while I can. I'm slowly running out of money and I need to consider things such as mining monero... I still want to make a stash in the mountains or something. And I can't reasonably afford some transport like a motorcycle. I'll think of more stuff rn and I have more research and shopping to do. I'm going to go deep sea fishing with my bro, dad and his boss soon.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
Peak crapitalism. This is war on consumers.
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
USA elite are just gonna keep isolating themselves. Everyone already hates them and they have no friends. Crazy they still convince people to do their dirty work for them.
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
So you came here just to tell us China is capitalist?
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
No. China is not a "capitalist" country by Marxist standards. That's my take as someone who has never been to China. I think the people who want to argue that China is capitalist are sus. If China went along with western capitalism then they wouldn't accomplish so much and it would be a great shame. What has the CPC been doing this whole time?
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
only if you have a lot of time on your hands. you can try funtoo (I haven't tried) or arch. why do you want to install gentoo on that? I've used it on my workstations.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
Is this actually real tho?
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
Where do you get decent arm servers for cheap? I'm building a xeon workstation.
holdengreen 2y ago • 100%
Whichever one doesn't end in nuclear exchange.
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
This is so bad it's good. Funny it's in open air.
holdengreen 2y ago • 0%
I think they just hate their low level boss but want to like Elon.