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Michael W. Moss | michaelwmoss.com

Writer, maker, and designer. Writer of fantasy, cyberpunk, science fiction, steampunk, horror, and hardboiled noir fiction. Typeface/font designer. Maker of 3D printed, laser cut, and microelectronics projects. Friend of cats and crows.

  • Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)

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  • It's a partnership and the INDX isn't a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it's not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say "completely" is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn't need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren't collaborations with the original manufacturer.

    If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus' ship of development?

    And that's not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They've been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.

  • Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play

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  • Ever seen The Prestige?

  • Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)

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  • Granted it's from a partnership, but the INDX extruder seems to be on the cusp, so the idea that Prusa is behind seems odd. And the fact that they're more open and consumer friendly than Bambu is great. There are a lot of affordable printers that have benefited from Prusa's development while Prusa is still dropping new developments, seemingly at a greater rate now than previously.

  • Happy 40th

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  • I've been doing some simple python scripts on a raspberry pi 5 that I'm currently using for a cyberdeck project (designing a printable bigger case for a 65% Bluetooth gaming keyboard and shoving the pi and other devices into a 3D printed skull that will mount on the keyboard case), but even then I at least plug the pi into a full screen rather than use the 7" display I have for it when I'm actually working on it. The 65% isn't bad though. Even came with a wrist pad.

  • Happy 40th

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  • It was definitely a nostalgia purchase. If I ended up doing any development for it, I'd still probably emulate and transfer files to it. But I never did anything more than play games on it as a kid, so there would be a time sink and learning curve if I wanted to do more with it.

    I've been showing it off in my makerspace to the college students who weren't alive in the 80s (or 90s). All the new features are welcome additions — USB, HDMI, WiFi, etc. And there are some modern chiptune applications included.

    I've vindicated my childhood by discovering that the games that were difficult and confusing back then still are, and maybe some of them were just poorly designed in the first place.

    I still love the soundtrack to Rock N Bolt and a good playthrough of River Raid though.

  • Happy 40th

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  • Not anti SA per se, but I learned to type on a Commodore 64 as a kid and recently got the C64 Ultimate, so the clunkiness of the experience is just fresh. This is a lower profile than the Commodore 64 though, so probably not as bad.

  • Happy 40th

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  • Do we celebrate with wrist braces or some other therapy for repetitive cramped typing injuries?

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    Is It Crow-maggedon? Why Crows Are Flocking to Bay Area Cities Each Winter

    www.kqed.org /news/12072433/is-it-crow-maggedon-why-crows-are-flocking-to-bay-area-cities-each-winter

  • Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

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  • I do this probably once a day at my makerspace. Sometimes it is the manufacturer's fault and sometimes it's just that the roll has gotten a tangle while being moved from machine to machine or machine to rack.

    I don't put my finger on the tangle, but usually the tangle isn't obvious in the spool so you can't even if you wanted to.

    It's really just a matter of spinning the filament around the roll enough to get some slack, then you pull it over the side and sort it out. Usually the fix involves pushing the filament around the spool to unbind it.

    This is another one of those issues that you typically detect by hearing an abnormal sound since you're not watching every print all the time across multiple printers.

  • This is my Jellyfin Cyberpunk collection - need more

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  • Dredd was good and deserved more attention, and a sequel, but Paul Leonard-Morgan's Dredd soundtrack was awesome.

  • Where would you draw the line between cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk? (Do you think post-cyberpunk exists?)

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  • I think of solarpunk as post-cyberpunk because it exists as a response to cyberpunk. But cyberpunk continues, so post- as a "hey it's done, everything afterwards is something else" declaration doesn't work for me. You can write and direct a film noir movie outside of the film noir time period. The problem with labels is that different eras are marked by different patterns, but also different years. If something is written using the elements of the 1980s cyberpunk but it's actually written in 2026, is it classic cyberpunk because of the themes or is it post-cyberpunk only because it was written decades later. The labels become less useful if you bind yourself to odd conclusions based on odd taxonomies.

    Cyberpunk means different things to different people, so some might consider it over because the things that defined it for them are done. But honestly it's even more relevant now because so much of the implied criticism in cyberpunk media in the 1980s has continued and arguably gotten worse with corporate hegemony, authoritarianism, surveillance states, etc.

    You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, because you're in one. It just is also sometimes a boring dystopia, but that's just how reality goes. Fiction is expected to be more believable.

  • WIP cosplay magic staff

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  • I used this Adafruit tutorial for a druid staff for the ren faire last year. The emerald lit up with the click of the button hidden in the handle and the speaker played sounds of the forest and then an angry crow call when it was hit on the ground or shaken. It was pretty easy to get working.

  • Question: To replace or attempt fix

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  • Definitely consider if you'll use it enough to justify the purchase, but buying a new one and spending the effort that you would have used trying to mod the old one could be better used on the new machine getting functional prints and advancing your skills.

  • Prusa MINI+ has been around for years — upgrade it or buy something new?

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  • The same amount of fiddling, accompanied with the uncertainty of the success or practicality of the mod, could be spent assembling a new printer and then printing and assembling new mods for the new printer that aren't as essential or structural. The appeal just depends on how much focus and patience you have.

  • Rabbit of Caerbannog Moss Terrarium

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  • In rewatching the movie while planning the terrarium, I kept thinking that I could easily make a Tim the Enchanter costume for the ren faire.

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    Rabbit of Caerbannog Moss Terrarium

  • Deceivers

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  • Yeah, it seems to be a name used for multiple species within the Laccaria genus. It might be like a metonym where one species name became the name for related species even if the trait that inspired the name isn't shared by all related species.

  • Deceivers

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  • Multiple sources seem to indicate that it's called the deceiver because its appearance is variable (cap shape, color, et al.), so it can be difficult to identify depending on which variation it presents.

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    Deceivers

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    Stick Decoration

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    Helvella Vespertina

  • Pissing them off is just a bonus

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  • This is one of those "technically true, but missing the bigger picture" pedantic gotchas.

    Yes, Hercules is the Roman name not the Greek name. Yes, barbarian as a term originally meant not-Greek or not-Greek-enough for some Greeks.

    But it's not like you're going for full historical accuracy already (or even could if you wanted to). It's just a subjective scale of how accurate do you want to be in what ways that you think are important.

    You're not going to speak ancient or koine Greek when playing the game. You're playing game rules that aren't based solely on Greek mythological cosmology. Barbarian isn't a term in DnD for non-Greeks the same way chai tea in English doesn't mean "tea tea," but rather "a spiced Indian tea." Words have multiple meanings. Those meanings can change over time. Those words can have a different meaning in a different language even if adopted from the same source.

  • Sometimes, writing poems, song lyrics, short stories, can be more fulfilling than actually writing an entire novel-length story... a better sense of acomplishment...

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  • I prefer writing short stories because it prevents you from wasting a lot of time with possibly interesting but ultimately superfluous world-building details. There's a balance to be struck between keeping the story moving and describing enough to let the reader's imagination take over and fill in their own details, even subconsciously.

    I've taken to starting stories in media res more often because it keeps the attention long enough to build curiosity and drop in the details as you go along.

    The older I get, the more I find I lose patience reading novels that spend too long with excess dialogue that ultimately doesn't drive the plot anywhere, serving as unfulfilled promises or red herrings at best.

    Even some otherwise good writers will let you get halfway or more through a novel before you understand where the plot is going. I wonder how much some novelists add primarily due to expectations for longer word counts, the way broadcast TV shows were constrained by half hour or hour long slots with commercial breaks and that dictated the flow.

  • Is there a term for the tactic used by some abusers to take away a person's sense of agency?

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  • It may not encompass all that you're referring to, but false dilemma is the informal fallacy they're using when they artificially try to limit the perception of choices.

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    Why LLMs Are Less Intelligent Than Crows

    hackaday.com /2025/12/10/why-llms-are-less-intelligent-than-crows/
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    Waiting

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    Waiting

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    Two Signs

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    Two Signs

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    Mouse Hunter

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    Mouse Hunter

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    Side Eye 2

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    Side Eye 2

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    Rail

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    Rail

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    Sleek 2

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    Sleek 2

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    Sleek