This month's Repair Cafe Urbana was a blast!

August Repair Cafe – Makerspace Urbana

It's effectively the second month we've existed. We're still figuring out how to make things run more smoothly. Just got connected with the international organization and got a bunch of great info from them. Should help us get more fliers put there, press release remplate to hit the traditional media, logos, suggestions on photos to post on the fliers... it just goes on and on.

I'm so excited! Giving away 12 #meshtastic nodes to 12 different people today. Can't wait!

Fam, I'm worried about my cherry trees. What is going on at the tips and what should I do about it? We lost an apple tree to cedar apple rust a few years ago and a pear tree just last year to some kind of blight (pruned it too much, spurred too much growth, and got infected). All there trees are in different locations, but they are all in our front yard. We REALLY don't want to lose another fruit tree! They take years to get established and we aren't getting any fruit. #AskNostr #homesteading #fruit

I'm giving a class on #Meshtastic tomorrow. Target audience is the general public. No expectation that they have any prior knowledge of the topic. In your opinion, what are points that I should make sure I don't miss? What is the most cool or interesting feature about meshtastic?

@The Canny Couple Do you have any tips on how to speed up the prepwork for dehydrating? For example, we got some Asian pears from a friend and most of the touch time was washing, coring, cutting out sections that were bad (mushy, bug infested, etc.) and slicing. And it's not just prep for dehydrating that takes up a bunch of our time, it's just prep work in general. Washing kale and bok choy also takes forever. Just curious if we are missing out on some pro-tip that could save us some effort.

A man was arrested for posession of a gardening trowel. After being held for hours, he admitted to the offense of "suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon" so they would let him go. Now he has a mark on his record. The UK is bonkers!

the Guardian

Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester

Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon

A note inspired by @Daniel Batten's latest newsletter: Dear Bitcoin evangalists, If you want to be effective, don't preach to the choir. When it **is relevant**, casually mention why you are excited about it to people in other areas of your life. Maybe that's your mountain biker crew where you're splitting the check at lunch. Perhaps you hear a friend gripe about prices going up. It does suck, and don't act like it doesn't affect you just because you save it bitcoin. Be humble. Acknowledge that. Bitcoin helps, but it could help a lot more if people accepted it more widely. Or maybe it's at a meeting of environmentalists who are concerns about the electricity usage of AI generating straining the grid, and the demand gas peaker plants that results. Or the rollout of solar being not as fast as needed/desired. If you are in any groups who are anti-fascist and sending money to others comes up, warn them that PayPal, Venmo and all the others might be watched by their county's leader. Advise sending cash in the mail, or bitcoin if it's a large amount or you want to get it there faster. If you know people who are anti-capitalist, find common ground. They don't like getting fleeced by the top 1%, and I bet you don't either. Undermining bankers ability to use your money for their personal gain is a common goal. Bottom line is to be humble. Only mention it if it happens to come up, don't act like it'll 100% solve every problem, and make it easy for them to ask questions. Try it and see if you don't have more genuine conversations. If I'm wrong, you can always go back to the hard sell.

Are you Y2Q compliant? Will is happen by April 14, 2030?

This year, I'm automating self-hosting. My goal is to have all the services we use done by the end of the year. Nextcloud, jitsi, gitlab, matrix, element, bind, djbdns, the PKI/CA server... all of it. Sone of the things I've done have already starting to get reused. It's getting easier One I've got that rock solid foundation, it'll be time to rip. 🔥

GD mates. I'll try to fill that time between you GM and GN posts with this lovely picture I snapped today. Or is it AI generated? Can you even tell?

Some people still can't tell the difference between CDN #vulnerabilities and HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities. 🤣 I guess the ol' saying is still worth its weight in gold... "It is difficult to get anybody to understand something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair

HTTP/1.1 Must Die

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I've finally started to get some intuition with #3dPrinting issues. I was at our local #makerspace today and the Lulzbot Mini 1 was failing to bed level. I watched it closely snd saw the nozzle never made context with the corner pad. I though, "it doesn't seem to know where the bed is" which immediately led me to "z-axis offset wrong?" A few M851 commands later and lots of testing and I was able to get it high enough to pass the leveling process, but low enough to maybe print okay. We'll see. I also think I understand how to fix it so the nozzle passes the leveling process but isn't so high off the build plate when it goes to actually print (lowering it more causes the leveling to fail). So next time I'm in, I plan on trying to print some shims to raise the entire bed assembly. The only concern I have is the belt drive, as the shims will not raise the height of the stepper motor. It felt pretty good to be able to deduce the problem from first principles instead of guess & checking!

Scotch #Peatstr