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1. Spacehuhn (spacehuhn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:00:02 JST Spacehuhn

   The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
   https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-state-of-open-source-in-3d-printing-in-2023_76659/

   • Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 19:59:51 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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     • jaseg

     @jaseg @Spacehuhn *nodds in agreement* like noone wants or should implement #timezones & #calendars or even worse: #cryptography.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

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   • jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 19:59:52 JST jaseg

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     @Spacehuhn I think a part of the negative effects of the system on open source is that it messes up the metrics people use to gauge success. A successful open source project is perceived to need many users and a pathway to commercialization, while in a healthy open source ecosystem unmonitizable semi-bespoke niche software might be just as valuable, perhaps because there is nothing else and its handful of users really, really appreciate it, or perhaps for the educational value in its design.

   • Spacehuhn (spacehuhn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:00:00 JST Spacehuhn

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     I feel like the discussion about the right way of doing Open-Source is missing a clear critique against capitalism. Getting rich by exploiting others is THE core feature of the system we live in, and it's built to be and stay this way. The solution cannot be being more closed-source, that's just symptom treatment. We desperately need a system change!

   • Spacehuhn (spacehuhn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:00:01 JST Spacehuhn

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     A reply to Josef Průša
     https://blog.thea.codes/a-reply-to-josef-prusa/

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:01:34 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:
     • jaseg
     @kkarhan @jaseg @Spacehuhn astronomical time worked for humanity for thousands of years. I'm convinced
   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:09:12 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:
     • jaseg
     @kkarhan @jaseg @Spacehuhn we've created the problems we need to solve
   • Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:09:13 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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     • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:
     • jaseg

     @thatguyoverthere @jaseg @Spacehuhn that may work for the average user but once you worked for a payment processor which has to handle transactions strictly FIFO and recordkeep transactions in auditable logs for both legal purposes and being able to detect and handle fraud, you kinda need precision.

     https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110117553442393995

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:29:37 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Kevin Karhan :verified:
     • jaseg
     @kkarhan @jaseg @Spacehuhn I will say also that he mentioned in the previous video that astro time is drifting from coordinated time. To me that means we're doing it wrong. If we are "keeping" time, then our time keeping **should** align with the actual observable time. If a person frozen in time 500 years ago could be brought to the modern era they could still use their tools to approximate what he referred to as astronomical time. Perhaps we would need local synchronization for time sensitive transactions (make sure a comes before b).
     
     I think I would feel differently about precision time if it weren't for all the fudge factors that suggest it's not really all that precise. In his video he says oh threre's "A" leap second to account for, but this happens quite regularly.
     
     One utility we gain from our different from observable time keeping is we can more easily detect things like rotational speed changes. I think those changes could be used to predict other factors down the road (cyclical patterns), but I don't think we're really using that data for anything other than observation at this point, and most people don't even realize it's a thing to track. Every now and then people get a glimpse in some scientific magazine or something. I think 2020 and 2021 had consecutively the shortest days on record (in terms of seconds in the day) due to the earth's rotational speed. Interesting, but it's one of those things that most people if they even see it will read and forget all about.
   • Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 20:29:38 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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     • jaseg

     @thatguyoverthere @jaseg @Spacehuhn yes and no...
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0xC1ynaT8