So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

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  • Holmatro does as well, specifically with that injury being simulated using a ballistic gel arm with fake bones in it, at 750 bar/10.4k psi. The oil from that simulated 10.4k psi leak blew right through that fake hand.

    I kinda don’t wanna imagine how terrible that would be to happen to someone in the real world if they touched an actual leaky hose at those pressures in the field. Also…

    …you just had a bunch of hydraulic fluid shot into your bloodstream, which will create an oil embolism and kill you.

    • Or, you’ll lose a limb from infection, degloving (literally losing your skin) is also a thing from stuff like this, again, due to infection, this sorta thing is horrible to happen to a person.

  • Basically, if pressure from a stream of liquid is high enough, 100psi/6.8bar is enough to hurt a person, it’ll break your skin and there’s your injection; this is why for, say, anyone working in the diesel mech field, for example, never touching a leaking fuel line is rule #1 because of the immense pressures those are typically under, which will result in a hydraulic injection injury if ever touched, basically as Bytemeister already pointed out.

    Industrial paint guns or grease guns also operate under high enough pressures to cause an injection injury.



  • Basically it’s a freer YT alternative, it’s also decentralized in the back-end as it’s blockchain-based, which might understandably turn some people off, but they’re still better than YT for now.

    PeerTube is preferable though as it’s fully decentralized and not just on the back-end, and self-hostable, using ActivityPub and WebRTC to function on.

    As for Odysee, to directly quote them on what their platform is:

    Odysee is a blockchain-based media platform. We host all kinds of media such as images, articles, PDFs, audio files, etc., but we’re best known for hosting videos.

    Odysee seeks to recapture the spirit of the early 2000s era internet. Rather than favouring corporate content such as late night talk shows, network television, and TV news, Odysee is a place for everyone, including independent creators.

    Referring to Odysee as “blockchain-based” isn’t just sloganeering. All content on Odysee is hosted on blockchain technology, which Odysee then pulls from. For those interested in blockchain, this is really cool. For those who don’t know a thing about blockchain, that’s totally fine because Odysee requires zero blockchain knowledge to use.






  • If you can find one and have the cash and skills to do the mod, find an older iPod, such as an iPod Classic or iPod Video, and then SD-card-mod it and flash it with Rockbox.

    Those older iPods still have a really good audio section even by modern standards and operate completely offline; Rockbox just ‘unlocks’ them, as it were.










  • This feels intentional on the AI grifters’ part. Also it’s proof of how badly we need decentralized power generation.

    Also, this feels like the grifters moved on from EVs to AI, because not that long ago, EVs were threatening to cause this very event.

    Also, I’m of the opinion that if datacenters are to be a thing at all, that they need to be bound under the same rules as general industry, as in they need to be a certain distance away from residential development, in a dedicated industrial park, typically on the outskirts of a town and effectively in the middle of nowhere, just like a typical factory or metal foundry or whatever, and they also need to supply their own resources instead of leeching off the residential grid and residential water supply; if a metal foundry has to provide their own power, then so should a datacenter.

    Datacenters also IMO need to be bound under the same environmental restrictions as general industry if they’re to be a thing at all.



  • 'Ey, liberals: the US is just as bad as China right now if not worse, and in fact they are worse in one metric: unless that changed for the better, the US has a larger prison population than China, we’re locking up more people than China, when if you pride yourself as a free country, the number of people you have locked up is not a metric you wanna be #1 in, in fact, if a country sells themselves as a free country, they should be doing everything in their power to keep the number of people they lock up to a minimum, as in lock up the people who are truly dangerous to society like sex offenders or serial killers and the like, but don’t have years of prison be your first reaction for non-violent offenders that have a higher likelihood of being able to be rehabilitated.