Siff

@Siff@mstdn.social
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Nerd. Geek. IT consultant with more than 40 years of experience. 3D printing enthusiast. Photography lover. Amateur tennis player.

I don’t know what will be funnier — if Trump himself starts using one of these, or if he doesn’t.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/16/trump-mobile

Trump Mobile — The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone

Link to: https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-mobile-wireless-phone-service-launch-1236431690/?ref=platformer.news

Daring Fireball
WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.G1Jy.5fcLP_rl3lYC

Daring Fireball
Trump Mobile — The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/16/trump-mobile
Trump Mobile — The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone

Link to: https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-mobile-wireless-phone-service-launch-1236431690/?ref=platformer.news

Daring Fireball

For what feels like months, I’ve been wanting to make this accessory for the crevice tool of my vacuum cleaner. Whenever I use it on a rug or furniture, I hate when it gets sucked down to the surface and stops suction. So, fire up #FreeCAD and a 42 minute #3dPrint later, I have what I need.

It’s hilarious how the model on my 32” monitor dwarfs the real part.

Something tells me that no human made this coloring sheet on the back of a menu…

#AIslop

Anyone out there using @FreeCAD for CAM and have any good tutorials?

I’m trying to figure out if there is a free software workflow for CAD/CAM or if taking machining up again will require setting up my Mac for Fusion.

#freecad #cam #machinist

#stem #science #space #art #cool #nasa

Yo dawg, I heard you like APOD, so for APOD's 30th birthday we tiled 1,836 APODs into a mosaic APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250616.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

APOD: 2025 June 16 – APOD is 30 Years Old Today

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

Full-size image: https://storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family-crypto-projects.png
Disclosures: https://oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1cyqoue16cillsi9srmfu

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

If you're like me and are trying to study and inspect the new Liquid Glass effect, I've built a small utility app for you!

Test Liquid Glass with all the different options, tinting, sizes, and backgrounds — only for macOS Tahoe for obvious reasons.

💾https://rafa.design/glasshole

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its alive! will prolly go into detail on this build sometime soon!

its fully made from #FreeCAD #3DPrinting parts, e-waste and cheap #Arm64 computers

i had some more posts in this thread, but auto delete ate them 😫

ill try and do a #video on it sometime in the future, so please follow me and stay tuned ✨

#sysadmin

the scary part about this build has to be the fact that i built my own power supply, from off-the-shelf parts (didnt design the PCB or anything)

however, its the first time i wired something higher than 12V (its 230V AC), but it works!

its just done in a somewhat sketchy manner that probably is ill advised by electricians, either that or i'll learn that most electronics are a lot less safe than i think

i basically added two screw terminals to my design and started hooking up all of the cables i need to these terminals, and my temperature camera is telling me one of the terminals reaches 32 degrees celcius 🤔

nothing bad has happened with 8+ hours of running thusfar, but now i've removed the (optional and not required) cooling that i added, to see how it performs with 0 cooling

it runs fine and nothing weird is happening, but it does make me a bit nervous

@bram this looks awesome. I want to build something like this but I don’t have a need/real use for it, and can’t justify the money (hard drives alone are 🤑).

So I’m living vicariously through you!

@shieldsy05 the harddrives were cheap! they're the e waste part, they're decomissioned laptop harddrives at 17 EUR a piece ✨

@bram this looks so cool but I have no idea what I'm looking at 🤓

Also, keycaps look yummy. I bet it is a thocky keyboard.