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Written by James against the machine on 2025-01-18 at 04:55

[#]Linux_Pro_Tip Always name your test file “butts.txt” because then you get to write

cat butts.txt

This has been #linux #pro #tip #namaste

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-12-08 at 23:57

"This is the Lockpicking Lawyer and what I have for you today is a mechanical keyboard built by James. Nothing on 1; 2 is binding; little click on three, 4 is binding..."

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-12-04 at 22:59

Choose your team:

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-11-05 at 00:07

I drew it in, I dunno, @FreeCAD I think? Then etched the design into the layout dye with my laser engraver thingo

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-11-05 at 00:05

I needs me a bracket for this here rotary encoder

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-10-17 at 02:07

I want a bigger lathe so that I can make parts for my smaller lathe.

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-10-04 at 00:03

I made a little fly cutter. I’ve always wanted a fly cutter!

[#]unimat #unimat3 #machining #emco #mill #milling

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-10-04 at 00:00

CARBIDE! This is steel, a 1mm depth-of-cut on a Unimat 3

😙👌

[#]machining #unimat #unimat3 #emco #lathe

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-30 at 02:32

I'm grateful that the steel centre core threw off the drill and made the part unusable!!

I think this was originally a sacrificial anode for a water heater.

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-30 at 02:07

Remembering the time I accidentally made a heat sink from magnesium.

Pro tip! A heat sink should not have an ignition temperature.

It should especially not have an ignition temperature that's lower than the source can provide 🔥

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-25 at 06:24

That would be CRAZY.

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-25 at 06:23

Me: wow, this aluminium turns really nicely! It sounds almost like brass? Ha ha! Imagine if I was turning magnesium without realising!

IMAGINE IF I WAS TURNING MAGNESIUM WITHOUT REALISING.

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-24 at 02:29

Giant Corporations™ are scraping my little git server to feed their ever-hungry, planet-destroying plagiarism machines.

So now, instead of getting my code, they get a 10GB treat.

Fucking THIEVES.

edit: This was inspired-by-and-based-on this post https://rknight.me/blog/blocking-bots-with-nginx/

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-20 at 00:59

alias vi='nano’

[#]poweruser #linux #beastmode

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-17 at 01:19

I don't know what Ansible is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-09-09 at 21:11

I’m stoked that this works so well. Cut ALL the threads!! #machining #unimat

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-08-22 at 05:20

Wheremst are the rest of my #3dprinting folks?

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-07-28 at 22:00

The drill wandered a LOT. There’s something in there…?

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-07-28 at 21:58

I don’t want to buy a heatsink

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Written by James against the machine on 2024-07-24 at 04:35

I made my own smart assistant! It sits on my desk and occasionally says, “sorry I didn't understand that” in response to unrelated things

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