Petter Reinholdtsen

I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea. The proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of the propaganda twist from the East Germany government calling the wall the “Antifascist Bulwark” after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it was erected to keep the people from escaping.

Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in, while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?

At my nearby maker space, Sonen, I heard the story that it was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+) on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X. I found this annoying, as the software involved, Cura, is free software and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took the time to package it for the relevant distributions. I even found a request for adding into Debian from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but never resulted in the software showing up in Debian. So a few days ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.

Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW queue for the ftpmasters to have a look. You can track the progress on the status page for the 3D printer team.

The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded now to get slots in the NEW queue while we work up updating the packages to the latest upstream version.

On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the short time I spent on it, are already in Debian. If you are looking for 3D printer "slicers" and want something already available in Debian, check out slic3r and slic3r-prusa. The latter is a fork of the former.

Når jeg holder på med ulike prosjekter, så trenger jeg stadig ulike skruer. Det siste prosjektet jeg holder på med er å lage en boks til en HDMI-touch-skjerm som skal brukes med Raspberry Pi. Boksen settes sammen med skruer og bolter, og jeg har vært i tvil om hvor jeg kan få tak i de riktige skruene. Clas Ohlson og Jernia i nærheten har sjelden hatt det jeg trenger. Men her om dagen fikk jeg et fantastisk tips for oss som bor i Oslo. Zachariassen Jernvare AS i Hegermannsgate 23A på Torshov har et fantastisk utvalg, og åpent mellom 09:00 og 17:00. De selger skruer, muttere, bolter, skiver etc i løs vekt, og så langt har jeg fått alt jeg har lett etter. De har i tillegg det meste av annen jernvare, som verktøy, lamper, ledninger, etc. Jeg håper de har nok kunder til å holde det gående lenge, da dette er en butikk jeg kommer til å besøke ofte. Butikken er et funn å ha i nabolaget for oss som liker å bygge litt selv. :)