AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK My favorite locks are Lock Out Tag Out padlocks. 6 security pins with 4 spools and 2 serrated. The keyway is a little difficult but it's the dead core that's the fun part. There's no real feedback from setting a pin. It's like a military padlock but possibly more difficult.

@igelsQTs I like the roller delayed blowback operation of the G3.

@thor It's an immediate turn off.

@thor I don't know what type of diagnostic connectors are used but I'm fairly certain there's a standard like OBD-2 or J1962. It would probably have a reset mechanism built in.

Computers in everything is unnecessary and adds many more problems than it solves. Many vehicles are drive by wire and have been for almost 20 years. The steering, the accelerator and the brakes are mostly just for show. The computers take the input and, using tables, output the corresponding action.

@thor Yes. One must continue to put out work and publications or they will be forgotten. The project I'm working on is mostly to live up to my word but also to show how flexible I am. Hacking is my background but I'm a developer too.

I haven't put out anything in a year or so. I was looking at what I've been doing and it is using parts of three different sciences. I need to document everything and go into detail about the design. It won't get me a degree nor help me in any way. I just want to do this. Working in research and being turned away didn't sit well with me.

@thor This type of view has been rather harmful. I wanted to learn to program with Rust and I liked a lot of the features of the language.

I read the statement by the developers of the language that memory management wasn't needed and could be discarded. I still have that book and I stopped learning Rust on the 23rd page. It was a meme language from that point on.

@thor Proper form and clean code should be the standard. I've only been involved in a few projects and the code being submitted was the last task. I do generally take pride in minimal and properly nested code. It makes it easier to read and understand.

@thor I'm in a similar situation. If you don't stop trying, then you will eventually succeed.

@PawelK They can have that platform.

@thor It's a position that many people find themselves in. You just have to get back up and find that thing you enjoy. Your code is pretty damn slick, it would be a shame to let a bad experience take that away from you. That culture is not good for one's health.

@PawelK ASK is pretty good but I think I used Hackers Keyboard more because of the utility of it. What features do you want to implement?

@PawelK Gboard should be open source as part of AOSP. I could be wrong though.

@PawelK Those paw type latches are really easy to get out of alignment or something bends. A half circle pick works wonders on the wafers but a good hook will work well too.

I want to say it's 4 or 5 wafers by the key hole shape. I usually just use graphite powder on stubborn locks. The rotating paw mechanism is more robust and can handle more damage than the other designs. I've seen where people tried to force them open and the paw had partially ripped through the sheet metal.

Locks are lovely.

@PawelK A wafer tumbler cam style lock. Bypass or picked?

@thor I felt the same when I was homeless, I had back up plans but they fell through. I ended up homeless on my birthday and I remember hot tears going down my face as I tried to get some sleep. I've been homeless a few more times since then.

Making the right choices, doing what I was advised to do and doing what I was told led me there. This is why I am so insistent on not ending up on the street. Something inside me snapped and I got to see a lot of the bad side of humanity. There's no scrubbing it from my mind. I still struggle with that experience and what I had to do to survive.

@thor I have PTSD from a long time ago and it seems that people know how to set me off. I need to be around people so I don't forget how to live in a society. Part of me just wants to get away and work on heavy equipment or operate it. To be around people who respect the talk shit and get hit ideology.

@thor I had some shit happen around 2015 and it's been a lot of hardship and trauma since then. Employment is difficult for me too. I'm a good employee but getting in a position is the difficult part.

@thor I don't have an official diagnosis as that is a painful process to go through here. I've been through the gruelling 8-10h interrogation sessions before for other things.

One doctor implied that I had an anti-social disorder and something else.

@thor Hahaha same here. My HFA wasn't diagnosed until a doctor got something wrong about medicine and I lost my mind. No one suspected it or believed it.

@thor I've only heard of it in reference to Autism and later ADHD.