What these channels like Primitive Technology's and his copycats don't tell you - or rather their videos don't give back that type of experience - is that all the stuff they make are a result of awfully lot of work.
Judging by a 10-20 min video one could think: "oh that's so easy, I'm gonna gave fun on the weekend recreate their projects" or worse: "I'll quit my job and live on my DIY, off the grid homestead built from scratch by the materials I find in nature" and off he goes. Then comes the frustration of the slowness of the work and the back pain from the crouching and lifting for hours and hours days after days.
Making over 9000 mudbricks to build a deplorable little cabin is no fun for 99.9% of the romantic minded delicate city dwellers.

So I wrote some (faily superficial) intro about GIMP and animation for our hungarobernd here >>17775 but that thread is mostly unrelated so I suppose I couldn't do worse by posting it here...

Well, actually not so much more to say but let's see, first I should say that I didn't actually use any of the plug-ins since what I needed was very simple

As mentioned, for involved animation work some plug-in is necessary because there's almost none of the typical animation devices built-in, for example there's no timeline. The most featureful one is GAP (which for my system comes in a separate package), though still not a typical animation system, instead more like a collection of animation-related tools. It's a relatively complex array of tools so I won't say more, you should read the tutorials in the official documentation. Then there's also this FAnim plug-in which is evidently much simpler, maybe too simple
https://github.com/douglasvini/gimp-fanim

actually, if you need to animate seriously perhaps should just use some other appropriate tool, maybe Krita or Synfig:
https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/animation.html
https://www.synfig.org/

however, if you just need to run through a few handdrawn frames then you simply make each one into a layer (bottom-most layer is the initial frame). You can use layers normally for editing but at the end of the process there should be one visible layer for each frame. Some remarks:
- you can control frame period (and therefore frame rate) globally in the GIF export window
- to override the period of individual frames you edit the corresponding layer's name so that it includes the text '(<period>ms)' where <period> is some integer duration in milliseconds
- similarly, you can override the 'transition method' between frames: if you put '(replace)' in the name then the frame replaces the previous, while '(combine)' merges the frame into the previous (the default is to combine)
- useful things under Filters/Animation:
* the Playback tool for previewing
* the Optimise for GIF tool for reducing file size: assuming the frames are combined, it will remove redundant pixels
* the few pre-made effects are mildly interesting but AFAICS they apply to the whole image, so in order to combine them you would need to separate parts of the image into different documents apply the filters and then blend the parts again into a single composite animation. this quickly becomes unwieldy doing manually and is the kind of process that GAP should help you manage.

So last Saturday I made a piece of cordage from stinging nettle then I tore the end so I stopped because I didn't have much more fibers anyway. Because I made it fresh it was full of water which soaked my skin and I got blisters during work. I think the technique is called reverse-wrap and it needs for me to hold the cord tight and twist it which was hard on my wet skin.
Next day I gathered more nettle and processed it into fibers (look at those hairs on pic #2) and let it dry for a day which also gave some time for my hands to heal. Then I started a new cord and made a little bit every day. Now I have 2m and 30cm long cordage and enough fibers for at least the double of it if not triple.
I primitive technology nao!

>>19630
>Also TOR INC (the company that receives the 6 figure donation$$$) is stuffed full of sjw loonies/feminist nutcases/slandering whores.

It is perfectly ok in modern IT world, especially in West. I'd be surprised if some known and popular software-related organization wouldn't be filled with these people.

It is more interesting why it works like this.

>>19641
>How viable is security via obfuscation, blending in, hiding in plain sight? Is there any options for this? I know user agent spoofing exist for example.

Every security-related question about internet must be started with some things in mind: what do you want to hide and from who you are hiding.

Because there is serious difference in methods of hiding and seeking depending on context. Tor browser already tries to obfuscate some your info (and sometimes don't: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27845 )

I got a piece of flexifoam. Does Bernd have experience with it?
It says CAO #180 which means it's ceramic coated aluminium oxide and 180 grit on their scale which compares with 400-600 grit sandpaper. According to them. And if I understand it correctly. It does have similar touch to the 500 paper I have.
I'm planning to use it for knife sharpening, tested briefly with a semi-dull pocket knife. Now it's semi-sharp.:^)

>>20681
>The biggest problem however is certain chemicals which can't be filtered or boiled out, even distillation can't help.×
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Common rainwater in suburban or rural areas must be pretty free from large amount of chemicals, especially if your reservoir stand far from roads and such places. Although cleanness of barrels and roofs (if barrels are placed near to collect water) matter. But I guess tap water with old pipes not really better.

Distillation must remove most of common chemicals except very rare ones, light fraction would go into air, many heavy things may became salts or so. There is also freezing technique, but it is harder to do with full barrel even than boiling.

>How to get 200 l water out of a barrel, standing on the ground without a tap on it

A pump? I use it at dacha to empty barrels.

Decided to make this. Just a bit bigger so it can accommodate the keg. So I resized length proportionately. Then I decided to make it more sturdy by doubling the cardboards because I had enough material. So basically I took a step, but remained unfinished.

Maybe it is not the good place to ask, but do anyone had experience with VW DSG-7 robotic gearbox? I need to finally buy a car, of course used (near 100k km), and VW group cars (VW, Skoda, Audi, Seat etc) with these gearboxes has best prices with best engines etc. But there is no warranty for used cars, so I worry about repair costs.

Reputation of this thing is worse than Hitler's (really), although I know two owners who had relatively unproblematic experience. But internet if full of shit about it.

>>26286
>>26285
>>26290

Yes, I know that German cars aren't that good nowadays, but it isn't only German problem, but global. Although it isn't fair to blame this only on postmodern capitalistic management with outsourcing mentality and planned obsolescence - there are plenty of much more obvious reason: complexity.

For example, that gearbox that I described first - DSG - is a pretty complex construction that combines two manual transmissions with robotic actuator. Why do this, if customer don't care much about internals? Fuel economy. Classic automatic transmission is much better in reliability terms, but uses more fuel than mechanical, and this couldn't be fixed. Same for volume, you can't get much power from 1.2l engine as in 1.6, but 1.2 eats 4-6 liters of petrol and 1.6 eats 6-10. But when combined with compressors and turbines, 1.2 becomes sometimes even better than 1.6. With price of complexity. Same for lighter pistons and other elements, they give more performance and less reliability.

Another reason is ecology, but it is paired with fuel economy. Other things like luxury reasons aren't that noticeable, they are mostly about interior components and electronics that don't matter much as drivetrain in long term reliability.

>peugeot 406 hdi is pretty much impossible to kill. vw passat b5 1.9 tdi or b6 2.0 fsi.

Yeah, they are good cars, especially passats - I see them occasionally on streets. But they are often very old and I don't like idea of getting 20+ year cars (although I had that once) for many reasons. Maybe if I'd decided to get old car, I'd choose some exotic like big American cars - I like them, but nowadays I'm practical (and maybe too old).

Diesels are rare here, fuel became better only recently, but stereotype about bad fuel still exists, so no one risking to buy modern diesel.

>dacia is owned by renault right? so quality cant be horrible but probably older stuff.

Yes, the most popular Renault cars here are Logan, Sandero and Duster - they all actually Dacias, also local made.

Almost every popular car here is local made because import taxes became pretty strong after 2000s. We have big VW, Renault and Ford plants here, and multiple small, from GM to Toyota. I've considered Logan as a target car but now unsure.


>>26293
>How urgent the matter?

That isn't urgent at all. I'm already consulted with every car owner I know and also with all local Google. So, if it will take your time, don't bother much. Thanks.

>>26295
>Suzuki. Cheap to buy and maintain, somewhat reliable than German cars,

Here it is foreign, so prices are higher than for local-made cars. Only some SX4 are in my price range and one-two rare Jimny. Last one is fun of course, but I don't feel that any SUV is for me now.

>>26324
>your luck will depend on the previous owner.

Thanks.

Sadly, it isn't easy to check how previous owner really cared about car, and I'm unlucky person overall, so I'd expect problems.

>>26337
>>26343
Considering old Russian cars:

>they are highly durable

Not really

>and easy to fix.

Mostly yes, but quality of spare parts forces you to repeat this often.

Overall, USSR had shortage of car service stations, so people repaired cars by themselves. Biggest monthly car magazine "За рулём" (behind the wheel) had almost half of it about maintenance and repair of vehicles by own means. Now situation is different of course.

I could write more about Russian automobile history, but it would be too big for this post.

Considering truly "local" cars, new Ladas aren't that bad as they were, but they already mostly Renault/Nissan designed and made (it is biggest shareholder) and have same price, so there is no real reason to choose them (except maybe cheapest Granta, but it sucks). Other local producers from old times are dead, except maybe UAZ with it's jeeps (not these poor Nivas).

>>26440
>cars in general is a horrible investment

Of course, especially with constantly rising fuel prices, lack of parking space and traffic jams.

But public transport has own flaws. It goes only where routes are planned, it has own timetable and it also shared with others and often overloaded. Some places are hardly accessible even in cities with large transport network. Going into some shops is also much easier with car, because moving large goods in full bus is a pain. Especially when shop is located in far place. And if you have some remote dacha, like me, car is almost required.

I.e. I know that car is overall loss of money and another source of headache, but whatever.

>in small town

Car in big town is more problematic than in small.

This book seems to make a lot of sense actually. I'm currently digging a 3x4x2m hole in the country. Progress is about 5cm/2hr of work/day, but recently I've hit clay or some similar material which is hard to scrap trough. Further digging will be needed for external stuff, but for now I need to focus on the main part before it gets too cold. I now live in a tent and it's prety comfy, weather is still summery and nice. I plan to live in my test underground house for a winter or two and then if it's livable get more land which is closer to city where I also have a place to stay and many friendo's as country is 100km away rn and that a bit exhausting on a bike. Any of you have interest in cheap diy underground living? pics from about half a month ago

https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=8gI6q4R8ih4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8gI6q4R8ih4 [Embed]
Watchin this video how Siberian natives (these are Nenets/Samoyeds apparently) set up their tent, which very much similar to a North American tepee. Makes me wonder if the yurt evolved from this form of shelter. The yurt is essentially a tepee placed on walls and the poles of the roof are bound together with a wheel (basically) on top.

Found something in Hungarian. Link it here so I won't forget to read it:
http://nyerscsaba.atw.hu/jurta/index.html
It's about the yurt and how it evolved.

>>42698
Repostin, should look better.

Another round of same old story: RMS Richard Matthew Stallman silently decided to return back into FSF board of directors after not so long absence.

Large amount of butthurt and backlash already generated, multiple organizations decided to drop FSF support, many developers of unclear gender also joined in. Even FSFE (FSF Europe) raised concerns and jumped in wagon. Old heroes of previous shitstorm (GNOME, OSI) also already there. And of course corporations like Red Hat also support this, they've stopped FSF-related donations until all FSF board will be reexamined and reelected. Everything like in 2019.

They'd published "letter" in form of github repo with signatures: https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io
Issues already disabled because of pro-RMS comments.

Some specific people openly displayed their intentions, like musl libc (lightweight glibc clone) author, who proposed to not only remove RMS, but also ban all GNU work (including glibc) until authors denounce FSF.

Counter letter was started: https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
It was first published on Russian-language sites, so half of supporters are Russian-speaking nonames from github. Others are mostly nonames too, so no one cares about that letter anyway.

I think we run out of space threads, so gonna post this here.
Hungary is actively participating in space exploration (and future exploitation).
A Hungarian space project is done by these guys:
https://pulispace.com/ (in English)
I'm not sure we have more such groups. Their name and the logo was inspired by one of our ancient dog breeds, the puli. They are cool dogs who can rotate their hair achieving levitation.

Not just the US but we also create our own space force, following that NATO declared space as an operational area. We are following suit since the expectation is from every member of NATO to make their armies capable of the operation of space equipment (I guess remote control sats and space lazors).
https://index.hu/belfold/2021/05/16/ezert-kellenek-magyarorszagnak-urkatonak/

In older news, we gonna send an astronaut into space by 2024. It was before recession (and covid) so not sure how are the plans going now. The project is made in cooperation with the Pokner POCKOCMOC. He would be our third astronaut, and the second who went to space. If the project gets realized ofc.
https://index.hu/techtud/2019/11/27/szijjarto_5_ev_mulva_ember_kuldunk_az_urbe/

>>43625
That's cool.

We also have one such project:
http://www.space.si/en/
They currently have a surveillance satellite up (NEMO-HD) that operates with a direct video link and can take high resolution photos in five bands: monochrome, blue, green, red, and near-IR.

We also have an organisation that runs a space museum named after the guy who first sketched the now common but never constructed (but featuring prominently in science fiction) concept for a space station with artificial gravity – a rotating wheel – Noordung (real name: Herman Potočnik)
https://www.center-noordung.si/en/home-page/
Looks like a fun place to take your space-crazy kids to.

>>43636
They're private, they only released a couple photos (I'm not aware if there was any later publication, this is just the first one) and a video.
Given the nature of the satellite there's probably "privacy concerns".

>>43948
So.
Bangladesh has ~20 million solar homes. The problem is, large chunk of their produced electricity is wastage, so this is what this company, Solshare tries to solve.
Here, on the Hungary, you can't just throw a bunch of solar panels up your roof, and run your appliances from that. That would be theft and anarchy!!!! Neither EU, nor our govt. can allow that! So here after over 9000 bureaucratic bs that would shame Brazil - the movie -, and paying all over everyone and their granma for other bs, after lots of waiting and frustration, one can set up his govt. approved and EU conform solar farm, and connect it right onto the grid. From there when you produce electricity it will be uploaded to the grid, and the electric company will buy it from you for peanuts. When you consume, you consume it not from your panels, but you buy it from the grid, for gold. Really great system of fucking you over. Just from this we can see Bangladesh is a way more free country than Hungary. As anyone had any doubt.
Their solution to the wastage problem is similar to ours, only in a decentralized fashion. They connect these solar homes with Solshare's Solboxes, creating micro-grids. People without panels can also join their home to the grid. This they call "swarm electrifying" and peer-to-peer electricity sharing. The box can show the balance of consumption, in currency. I'm not sure how they pay the bills.
The micro-grids are also inter-connectable, so in theory they can build a country-wide grid. Without electric company, government, and EU.

>>44919
>Maybe the simplest is to cut old wires at the connections, seal them off and leave them in the walls and ceilings, and screw plastic channels outside the walls and ceilings where the new cables can run.

Yes, that is "easy" solution but it is also looks more temporary than permanent. There is one cable that already made that way, for new washing machine.

>A more elegant solution: leave the old cables in like above, and cut new channels into the walls, where new tubes can be put for the new wires. This however a dirty work with dust and debris.

That is how most flats are renovated here. New cables in tubes are placed on ceiling then closed by fake ceiling with plates or such. Or same at floor if there is also floor-leveling work (adding few cm of new floor). Then wires go into cable channels under plaster in walls.

>>45143
The Tokamak one was the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a large collaboration in France. They had installed another of the coil magnets: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3663
Pics related

The laser one was about a National Ignition Laboratory in California. They had managed to increase the energy yield, but are still relatively far from efficient production (and still below Tokamak designs, I think). I don't have the original link anymore, but if you search you'll find lots of (so far unwarranted) hype about it directed to the "i love science" type of morons

Back in the 90s the Hungarian society was shocked in its foundation by a new product they advertised on telly. It was the toilet duck, a cleaning chemical sold in a plastic bottle shaped like a goose neck.
The idea is that cleaning part of the toilet hidden by the rim isn't easy (other cleaning apparatuses were invented too to solve this problem), and with the curved neck of the toilet duck, one can just squirt the cleaning agent to the area.
Now today it's one of the most common things to buy similar stuff, that ridiculous design mostly was left behind, or reserved by that one product as signature mark. Probably kids born in the 90s can't remember the times when no such things existed. Back then it was funny. Even made joke about it.

One kid to another:
- We have toilet duck, are you jelly?
- No. We don't shit under the rim.