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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 11:49:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Why am I typing all this, when I should have been smart and slept two hours ago?
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:08:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ I should be tired enough to buy that.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 15:41:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     wtf still awake

     goodnight friends

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 00:35:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Kermode Swedish language lesson: Swedish has different forms for the infinitive and the imperative.

     "sleep well" as in "[It is important to] sleep well" is "sova bra"

     "sleep well" as in "[Hey, you there,] sleep well!" is "sov bra"

     That's grammatically correct and understandable, but then of course there's an idiomatic expression that decides which synonym of "well" fits the best.

     The native-sounding translation of "sleep well" is "sov gott".

2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 00:09:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   South Korea uses euro plugs! Cool. It's like going to FOSDEM. 😃

   (or, you know, to visit my parents, but I try to combine the two 😁 )
3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 11:19:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Re: How amazingly empty modern mother boards are

   libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-5…

   If you go back 15 years, there'd be a south bridge, a north bridge, memory slots, some other stuff. Go back 10 years more and there'd be an audio chip, a video chip, USB controller, capacitors everywhere ... go back another 10 years and they wouldn't even be surface mounted, they'd be in sockets.

   Go back to the 80s and you'd even have rows and rows of dumb logic gate chips! Just a handful of NOR gates taking up a whole chip, like two square centimeters of space! And your parallel, serial and IDE ports would be on an expansion card!

   It makes me feel old to have seen all this pass, but I'm not old enough to have seen the old IBM mainframe computers where even the CPU itself was too big to be a single integrated chip.

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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:46:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     Where are our Forth processors, our object processors, like those Lisp and SmallTalk processors with gc and type affordances in hardware, our clockless asynchronous processors, our Transmeta-like fluid lines between hardware and software, between microcode and ISA-targeted machine code, etc.

     How weird do our high-level languages need to be to benefit from an exotic CPU?

     JavaScript and even more so Python are embarrassingly non-weird, so imperative and linear that they trip up anything that wants any assurances, but my go-to expectation is that functional languages might do cool stuff with immutability, upfront data dependencies etc. And packages within meh languages might do cool stuff, like pandas and numpy within Python.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:52:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Angry Sun I hear that ARMs have some exotic behaviors and instructions that C needs to work around when some other languages might not have to, but I don't have the details.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:55:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Efraim Flashner
     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I don't know enough about them, but I guess GPUs and shaders are doing very non-PDP stuff, and what cryptography and machine learning people are doing with GPUs is something rather different from linear C code.

     @Efraim Flashner @Angry Sun

4. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:48:59 EDT Michael Vogel
   Ich mag den Pferdesport eigentlich nicht - aber die Begeisterung, die Carsten Sostmeier beim Kommentieren verbreitet, ist ansteckend.
   Sportschau Olympia 2024: Der Goldritt von Michael Jung in der Vielseitigkeit - hier anschauen ardmediathek.de/video/sportsch…
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:30:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   I wonder if chartodon supports me sending it limited-scope messages? Does it respond in kind?
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:37:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     It responds, but it responds in public.
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 22:55:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Now where was that place I managed to get a covid vaccination half a year ago ...
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:10:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Found the receipt.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:09:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Kermode No.
7. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:32:01 EDT Michael Vogel
   Es gibt mal wieder eine interessante Online-Abstimmung. Diese hier dreht sich um ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen: mobil.org/umfrage-zum-tempolim…
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:22:36 EDT Michael Vogel
     Der gesamte Club scheint ... etwas anders zu sein.
8. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:05:11 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   "We're in the DC universe. Marvel doesn't have supervillains this stupid."
   -- an internet
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 04:15:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "They're calling everything AI these days!"

   The A* path-finding algorithm is 40 lines of pseudocode. You can find it in "Principles of Artificial Intelligence" from 1980.

   Ever since the 1960s, if it came out of a math department that needed grants for Lisp development, it's AI.
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:46:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    One of the shops in a nearby mall was playing Alan Walker's "Faded", but it was a version with another singer, and with more focus on the vocals.

    I'm looking around a bit to see if I can find it.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:50:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Not it, but also cool: Julia Wu, Chinese-Australian singer, performing "Faded" and "Different World" together with Walker at KKBOX Music Awards in Taipei.

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=n03IDJcsy5…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 15:37:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Not it, but what I heard was more in this direction, with prominent vocals. It started out like this, but then shifted over to a bit more of a beat after the first refrain:

      Sara Farell: "Alan Walker - Faded"

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=2jZFsQS8Ve…

11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 16:23:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    When you look back at old posts, some of them are very local to that timeframe, like "Andersson steps down as prime minister" or "Pirates win two seats", while some are timeless like "Conservatives promise more police" or "Covid is not over".
12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:24:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The computer was suddenly revealed as palimpsest. The machine that is everywhere hailed as the very incarnation of the new had revealed itself to be not so new after all, but a series of skins, layer on layer, winding around the messy, evolving idea of the computing machine. Under Windows was DOS; under DOS, BASIC; and under them both the date of its origins recorded like a birth memory. Here was the very opposite of the authoritative, all-knowing system with its pretty screenful of icons. Here was the antidote to Microsoft's many protections. The mere impulse toward Linux had led me into an act of desktop archaeology. And down under all those piles of stuff, the secret was written: We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

    
    -- Ellen Ullman, "The dumbing-down of programming", part 1 of 2 salon.com/1998/05/12/feature_3…

    /via social.coop/@eob/1124701033935… @Éamonn

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:41:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Every visual programming tool, every wizard [ . . . ] [makes] the suggestion that the wizard is only taking care of things that are repetitive or boring. These are only tedious and mundane tasks, says the wizard, from which I will free you for better things. Why reinvent the wheel? Why should anyone ever again write code to put up a window or a menu? Use me and you will be more productive.

      
      26 years later, we are busy taking the collective forgetting to the next level and eliminate even the human-written wizard, replacing it with the matching of two statistical models; one of what the collective of other programmers have already written (and forgotten), and one of what we're in the middle of writing.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:53:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      TIL a "palimpsest" is an old manuscript that has evolved over time, as people have scratched things out or added new things.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 14:08:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Jez 📚 Aha! Thanks for the correction and clarification.
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 14:06:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Hahaaa! I found a still running old school GNU Social that has a shadow profile of my old #quitter.se account!

    chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

    Thank you for hanging in there, Professor Steve. 🥰

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:40:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
      @murph :anAmigaBall: :fedora: @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @Angry Sun I think all the posts are technically there on identi.ca, but everything changed URL in the migration and I think some issue was stopping me from forever-scrolling all the way back to my first post.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:40:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Stephen Sekula Lucky I found it when I did then!

      Would you have any objections if I try to download it all while it's up? I could rate-limit myself.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:59:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Michael Vogel
      @Michael Vogel As you or someone noted on github, it appears that Chirp runs a StatusNet that should support AP. I just verified, it does in fact implement AP. 😊
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:59:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    This is a hilarious text, but unfortunately the aesthetic choice of writing it all in Unicode small caps makes it ... not quite text, not ASCII text anyway. It's unreadable to someone with a screen reader. I was curious and tried: "Read aloud" on my phone says "... 200 ... 705 ... X ... X."

    outerheaven.club/notice/AkaYEg…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:05:12 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      The ascii-compatible text is here, and reads well aloud:

      outerheaven.club/notice/AkcRsn…

      But before I had found that, I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to translate the small-caps text into text-text.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:09:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      So I tried just translating to English using the nearest translation tool. Maybe that would read the small-caps just fine, and output nornal text? It didn't. 🤣

      Autodetected language: Vietnamese.

      Output to English:
      ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱɴ’ᴛ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ 200 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ ɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴇᴅʏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀꜱ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋ.
      I'm a 705 year old man. The first episode of the "Sunset" show was held in Seoul on April 14, 2018. I'm a Korean woman, I like to play sports. ɪ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟɪꜱɪᴏɴ-ᴅ ᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɢʟɪᴛᴄʜ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀꜱᴇʏ. The word “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ” means “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ”. English ꜱ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ.

15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:33:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    It was an exciting game between two very strong and technical players, both Wunderkinder who were winning medals years before they were 20, but Fan is 5 years older and the longer experience shows. His performance was consistent and disciplined under pressure.

    Möregårdh made some really impressive plays throughout the game, but only the first two sets were even. Once he started losing he started making more mistakes.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:08:48 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      I'm watching the ping pong final, males' singles.

      The Swedish guy is wearing Uniqlo. As a Uniqlo-wearing Swede, I can relate.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:48:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Oh wow, speaking of Wunderkinder, the French bronze medalist Félix Lebrun is only 17.
16. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 03:13:55 EDT Tobias

    • Berliner Luft

    Morgen Abend treffen wir uns in der c-base zum Fediverse Stammtisch in Berlin. Um 19 Uhr geht es los, alle am Fediverse interessierten sind herzlich willkommen um über Friendica, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed und Co zu palavern und eventuell mal Gesichter hinter den Profilen kennen zu lernen.

    Die c-base findet ihr in der Rungestraße 20 am U+S Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke.

    !Berliner Luft #Berlin #Fediverse #FediTreff #Feditreffberlin
17. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 18:38:00 EDT Michael Vogel
    Die Clickbait-Videos bei Youtube werden auch immer extremer ...
    pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/imag…
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 16:35:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio [ . . . ] has led a right-wing crackdown on industrial independence — which is blatantly hypocritical behavior coming from the purported party of “free enterprise.”

    
    It's modern-day McCarthyism.

    msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-…

    Are you, or have you ever been, the CFO of a corporation that is party to Climate Action 100+?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 17:00:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Angry Sun Blackrock is among the investors that the Committee is implying left the coalition because of pressure from Jordan's investigation.
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 05:39:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    World #1 male ping pong player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chuqin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chu… from China is only 24 years old!

    World #26 male ping pong player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls_Möregårdh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls_M%…, who beat Wang in the semifinal yesterday, is only 22!! He won his first Swedish national championship as an adult when he was only 17.

    #PingPong #TableTennis #OlympicGames

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 16:07:20 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      My bad, Möregårdh beat World #3 Hugo Calderano from Brazil in the semi, he beat Wang already in the round of 32 last week.

      Calderano is 28, which sounds more normal to me.

      Mikael Appelgren and Jan-Owe Waldner were world players almost into their 40s, but looking them up now, I see they started taking international medals already before their 20s. I never realized they went for that long. The inspiration from those two basically made Sweden the ping pong nation it is today.

20. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 10:17:16 EDT Brian Ó

    I found this barrel on the side of the road outside a marina. I called them to make sure it wasn't used to store anything nasty, and they couldn't tell me for certain, but it's free of residue/smell on the inside, and the bung was sealed with caulking, which makes me pretty certain it was used as a dock float. The faded print on the outside says it was originally for apple juice concentrate, so I know the plastic is food safe. I'm confident enough, despite its uncertain provenance, to use it as a rain barrel. I got it set up in it's future home and 3D printed a cap where it was missing one. Now I'm just waiting for the spigot and diverter I ordered to arrive. Unfortunately, due to where the downspouts are placed, I had to put it on the opposite side of the house to my garden. It'll be good exercise, I guess,

    #rain #water #3dprinting #gardening #diy #upcycling