I once ran out of contrast spray on a job, ended up using Tinactin. No shit, it produces a very scannable white matte surface.

I used to work for a company that would have been your best chance to get this done, but the business didn’t survive the pandemic.

3D scanning is perfectly plausible; hell it’s not that difficult to rig up an old Kinect (from an Xbox) to do it. Bespoke 3D scanners can get expensive but you can probably find someone to do it. Some 3D scanners will only catch the shape of an object, some can do color as well. The tool I would want to use for this is a structured light scanner, like an Artec Eva.

Most 3D printers would be up to the task of making a little helmet shaped object, but not get the color, especially the signatures. Common FDM or SLA machines aren’t up to that task. The only tech I know of that’ll get you a full color 3D print with the signatures and such will be a color SLS machine.

Selective Laser Sintering is a process where a thin layer of fine plastic powder is laid down, and then a laser shoots the plastic to melt some of the grains together to form a solid object. If you hear about 3D printed metal, this is how that process is done, just hotter. Some SLS machines can also either spray ink or drop colored powder in order to form a more or less full color model. These machines aren’t user friendly, so you’re really only going to find them in professional settings. We didn’t even have one, so when we used one we contracted with a service that had them.

Back when I was working for this company, I would have done the 3D scan and the prep work to turn the raw model into a printable model in-house, and then sent the file out to the fab shop. I’d expect this to run at least a thousand dollars maybe more. And I don’t know who I’d send you to these days, especially not in Canada.

Are the British allowed to have knives and forks?

I haven’t seen this fuckery, but the Gmail account I log into Youtube with was created in 2006, so from this they might deduce the user is at least 20 years old.

NEVER respect your elders. None of them have earned it.

The squiggle lines mean “water” or the N sound. When there are three of them like that, it usually means it’s the noun, and that it is plural. Draw what conclusions from that you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPN5g-AMDU

There were wireless Atari 2600 controllers. RF ones, that had a big telescopic antenna that stuck out.

No, she’s a Star Trek character.

There was actually a “flying car” certified in like the 1950’s, they only ever made like six of them though. It was a car that you could snap wings, a tail and a propeller to and it would fly. There’s one in the EAA museum.

The most practical “flying car” I’ve ever seen was a dune buggy that also functioned as a powered parachute. Designed to be an offroad vehicle that, if the terrain is truly impassible, it can fly over it. in VERY good weather, at about 40 mph. And you need something of a clearing to take off in but not as much as a plane would.

Now people are trying to make hexacopters a thing, without really describing to my satisfaction why they’re better than an actual helicopter. They’re not quieter, they’re no more efficient, they’re certainly not safer.

We don’t have “flying cars” because “flying cars” is what we call aircraft whose use case isn’t practical or safe.

You can go spend $100 grand on a light sport airplane and get a pilot’s license in a couple months right now. You’ll almost certainly never use it for actual practical travel.

The most crashed make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172.

The most popular make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172, in production since the 1950’s and some guy in Kansas is slapping one together as I speak.

Meanwhile I have a pair of Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer. They’re more reliable than my own heart and lungs, and I can get parts for them when a knob or a lid switch goes bad once every decade or two.

There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.

They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still…idiots.

The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.

Torvalds, looking at Linux From Scratch like “Bish please.”

How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

I agree, a machine for doxing people in general is misanthropist, a machine for doxing men specifically is misandrist.

The article linked above asserts that it was a “legacy portion” of the database that got leaked, and that all the leaked data is from February 2024 and earlier. So this vulnerability apparently existed for at least 18 months. The timing of the leak coincides with a spike in popularity which brought wider attention down on it, and finally someone without the desire to implicitly trust it gave it a look.

Which says to me that in the few years this app has existed, it was never scrutinized, not by anyone on the dev side and not by anyone on the user side. That’s fascinating to me.