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Deciphering the World's largest democracy Indian landmass having 28 states and 8 union territories with @Tinkercad Education @MyGov India @central Board of Secondary Education

#tinkering #tinker #3dprinting #designthinking #3dmodelling #wow3dlearning #education

New York’s New 3D Printing Law, As Written, Is Extremely Harmful And Annoying

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/new-yorks-new-3d-printing-law-as-written-is-extremely-harmful-and-annoying/

USAF KC-135 63-7985 as OKIE21, 507th Air Refueling Wing, working the pattern at Tinker AFB, OKC December 2024 #USAF #tanker #Tinker #Oklahoma #AAR #tanker #KC135 #NKAWTG #milair #aviationphotography #planespotting #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #refuel #cvvhrn

“The Electronics Of Radio” NorCal 40B Transceiver Build Lab Notes: Problem 20

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://km1ndy.com/the-electronics-of-radio-norcal-40b-problem-20/

“The Electronics Of Radio” NorCal 40B Transceiver Build Lab Notes: Problem 16F, 16G

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://km1ndy.com/the-electronics-of-radio-norcal-40b-problem-16f-16g/

“The Electronics Of Radio” NorCal 40B Transceiver Build Lab Notes: Problem 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://km1ndy.com/the-electronics-of-radio-norcal-40b-problem-16a-16b-16c-16d/

“The Electronics Of Radio” NorCal 40B Transceiver Build Lab Notes: Problem 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://km1ndy.com/https-km1ndy-com-the-electronics-of-radio-norcal-40b-problem-16a-16b-16c-16d/

Tinker by Thinking Machines Labs:
#thinkingmachines #tinker #frontierai #llm #innovation
🤖

https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-first-product-fine-tune/

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Launches ‘Tinker’ API to Challenge OpenAI in Model Customization

#AI #ThinkingMachinesLab #Tinker #MiraMurati #OpenAI #AIResearch

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/10/02/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-launches-tinker-api-to-challenge-openai-in-model-customization-xcxwbn

Announcing Tinker

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/announcing-tinker/

#HackerNews #Announcing #Tinker #TinkerAI #Technology #Innovation #AI #News

Tinker by Thinking Machines

https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/

#HackerNews #Tinker #ThinkingMachines #AI #Innovation #Technology #MachineLearning

USAF KC-135 63-7985 as OKIE21, 507th Air Refueling Wing, working the pattern at Tinker AFB, OKC December 2024 #USAF #tanker #Tinker #Oklahoma #AR #tanker #KC135 #NKAWTG #milair #aviationphotography #planespotting #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #refuel

Different Tinker.

#tinker #blackBasta #infoSec #hacking

USAF KC-135 63-7985 as OKIE21, 507th Air Refueling Wing, working the pattern at Tinker AFB, OKC December 2024 #USAF #tanker #Tinker #Oklahoma #AR #tanker #KC135 #NKAWTG #milair #aviationphotography #planespotting #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #refuel

I've done my homework! 💪

#electronic #tinker #DIY #capacitors

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Home Assistant – smart home server [ENG 🇬🇧]

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https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/home-assistant-eng/
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#AMD #ARM #balenaEther #GitHub #HAOS #HomeAssistant #Khadas #ODROID #OpenSource #port8123 #RaspberryPi #SelfHosted #Shelly #SmartHome #Tinker

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Home Assistant – domowy serwer smart home

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https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/home-assistant/
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#AMD #ARM #balenaEther #GitHub #HAOS #HomeAssistant #Khadas #ODROID #OpenSource #port8123 #RaspberryPi #SelfHosted #Shelly #SmartHome #Tinker

#PennedPossibilities 556 — If it ever came down to it, who would your MC be willing to die for? CW: Definitely spoilers for the first climactic scene in the last story of the serial, written under a different alias.

This was going to be one of those, "Well she already died for someone," answers. I was going to say she died for the boyfriend that taught her to love and made her finally understand she was capable of having friends, that she had had them all along.

I was wrong!

Well, she did die.

Technically.

But that was when she was ill, exercising when she shouldn't have been, was in an exceptional situation where she had no guards, that day after the invasion when the bad guys attempted to assassinate her. The boyfriend, who'd turned on his cohort of insurgent invaders, however, turned out to not be as good a fighter as his former captain. To save him, the MC killed the captain after the captain had stabbed him.

But.

Killing her would have been murder, something for all the fighting she'd done all those years, she'd never done.

The MC used the last of her magic and energy healing the both of them.

Then died. Romantic, what? No?

Well, should have died. When medical technology failed, a shamanic healer she'd befriended in the series managed to revive her a number of times, finally keeping her from drifting away while conventional surgery did the hard thing.

So, the answer to the question was: the MC was willing to die for her assassin. Stranger things happen, right?

Right?

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#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author #tinker #tailor #soldier #spy
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#PennedPossibilities 552 — How strong is your SC’s sense of ambition? What is something that they strive for in life?

Bolt's ambition tends to be short-sighted. It got her blackmailed into being a messenger to a crime boss.

The MC fixed that mistake.

Bolt is now training as a praetorian guard (if she can hack it) to protect the MC (whose life she saved once already by risking her own). Bodyguard to the newly named heir to the throne is NOT the safest choice of profession. Complicating this is Bolt, who has been portrayed avowedly and frequently cis-het, realizes she's intensely attracted to the MC. The MC is a woman who ended the last serialized novel with two intimate boyfriends one of whom is a real prince, and a third who's declared his intimate intentions. Meanwhile, the MC has rediscovered her childhood boyfriend, whom she often fantasized about being all grown up throughout the serial.

Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. The MC may be pregnant.

Need I state Bolt's new short-sighted ambition? Yeah. You got it. If I write this sequel, The Five Suitors maybe?, it'll be both interestingly complicated AND racy.

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#RSdiscussion
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#PennedPossibilities 549 — Did your SC ever feel as though their innocence had been lost? If so, what moment in their life could be described as the end of that innocence?

Bolt was a wild and willful teen. Not only did she disappoint her family by planning to enter the trades instead of attending college, she played around with the macho guy at school, and often got reprimanded by teachers. When she tried to work at her trade, she found surprisingly that there actually was a trade dominated by men! (Hers isn't our world.) She fled her hometown after her attempts at minor vandalism against the gatekeepers got witnessed. (She threw a brick through a storefront window and rolled a van down a hill.)

None of that was a loss of innocence. She knew what she wanted and she figured she'd get it.

Elsewhere.

In another city, she took an easy job messengering things she wasn't to ask questions about. She got framed for murder, or would have been framed except she'd been set up by a local crime boss who'd eliminated a snitch. He now had the "proof" for what the constables would afterwards consider an unsolved murder.

She'd.

Been.

Blackmailed.

Stupidity always had a price. She could have had a steel collar on a chain leash; it would have made little difference. She'd work for that organization for nearly a decade, a slave to her mistake, until after she'd meet the MC of her story. Even then, she'd have to earn her freedom by demonstrating her remaining integrity.

That was her loss of innocence.

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#thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#PennedPossibilities 0.001 /2 New Year Bonus Question: What kind of drunk is your MC? 🥳 🥂.

Okay, that calls for an #excerpt, revised for the audience.

I kept eating until the bartender in a white shirt and black bow tie placed a pink drink before me.  I smelled almond, chocolate, and based on the condensation on the outside, vanilla ice cream.  Red sugar sprinkles rimmed what my former guardian had taught me was a martini glass, and a cider-soaked cherry sat on top.  The bartender pointed a finger.

A tan fellow sat around the corner.  He had short cropped hair and wore an open-collared blue shirt.  He some High Desert blood in him because he was tall and refined-looking, though only in his mid-twenties.  A long scar on his jawline and blue eyes made him look both weathered and intriguing.  I gave him a come-hither wave.

He started, "Hi.  I'm—"

Waving a hand, I said, "Sorry.  I can't accept this.  I'm underage and I don't want the restaurant to loose its cidering license."

"Oh."  He sounded surprised, but only blinked, obviously rethinking his approach.  The bartender slid the drink in front of him.  Helpful Hanna.  The buck sat on the stool beside me.  

Before I could object, he said, "Hey, barkeep!  A Surely Contemplative for Lady—"  He raised an eyebrow at me.

Wasn't going to say my real name or let on I was a transporter for the mob.

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#RSdiscussion
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#PennedPossibilities 0.001 New Year Bonus Question: What kind of drunk is your MC? 🥳 🥂.

Between two novels, all the MCs are underage. The two women are rule breakers in many ways, but not in this one. The man would drink if offered, but since one of the other MCs wants him around most of the time, not many other women can offer and drunk never happens.

Btw: Age of majority in the Reluctance series (when it matters) is 24 because the main series antagonist is forever 24 and is well aware that anyone under that is really immature.

PS: Since I recently figured out the length of the year, that 24 number might have to be revised.

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#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 17 Nbr 01 — Where are you on your writing journey? What have you accomplished and what are your plans for the future?

I've left the valley floor solidly behind after having tumbled down a cliff. I still hurt and the summit is far above, but if I squint I can see the alpine meadows are still abloom. Flowers of yellow and blue remind me of earlier days. I grab a gnarled stick to help me walk, and climb.

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I will Huff and Puff and Wolf your house down!!!

Will they make it into the new year. GINGERBREAD!!!

#happynewyear #newyear #newyearseve #photography #photos #food #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #writer #author #tinker #tailor #spy

@farah Oh. My. Um. 👉🏻👈🏻🥺🤯 We might just be variants of the same egg. #macgyverforever #wearemacgyveresses #tinker #fixeverything

USAF E-3A Sentry 76-1607, 552d Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK. as BROLLY1 lining up to land at Pt. Mugu, August 10th, 2023 #E3 #AWACS #radar #milair #Tinker #Sentry #aviationphotography #E3A #planespotting #photography #nasptmugu #Mugu #ptmugu #nikon #tinkerafb #greyflag #nikonphotography #Z9

These little projects are some of my favorites. Especially when my wife finds me useful. I was learning some new deauth tools and forgot that I was deauthing devices on my homenetwork, so Home Assistant didn't trigger my heater in the greenhouse because the thermometer and power relay didn't communicate properly. Needless to say my wife was not happy that all her plants ended up spending two nights at around 35F. So I built this to alert us if the temp drops too low. It will email and text us every hour and it will beep and flash the LED every 2 minutes. Just in case it loses WiFi access... It'll also have battery backup.

#esp #esp8266 #esp32 #greenhouse #plantlady #plants #thermometer #tinker #tinkering #homelab #homeassistant #ESP8266project #SmartTemperatureAlert #DIYHomeAutomation #Microcontroller #TechDIY #TemperatureMonitoring #SmartGreenhouse #Electronics #2600

#Introduction

Single father. 30's. PTSD. Genetic heart disease. Chicago native living on the GA/FL line.

Interests:

-- Nature & Life --
#Meteorology / #WX / #Tropical
#Weather
#Climate
#Earthquakes
#OffGrid / #Solar
#BioDiversity

-- Technology --
#Tech
#HamRadio
#Airwaves
#Aviation
#SoftwareDefinedRadio (#SDR)
#Privacy
#Encryption
#Anonymity
#OSINT
#Linux
#Gaming

-- Neurotypical --
#Autism
#BipolarDisorder
#PTSD
#ADHD
#MDD
#MentalHealth

-- Uncategorized --
#Statistics
#Tinker

As #introduction, I retired a few years ago from the position of Director of #science and #learning at Questacon to be The Science Nomad - working with emerging communities to support ..LEARNING, + THINKING. I mostly use no tech/ low tech, to provoke curiosity, critical thinking, + self education. I also #tinker 4 #teaching. Currently busy with #UNICEF in #macedonia helping integrate #environmental #education into the #cirriculum, & a school for the blind in Mumbai.

Neues #Bastelprojekt just eingetrudelt / new #tinker toy just arrived 😻😁🥰😎🦇
#nsfw #sff #smallformfactor #build #computer #geeks

Spelljammer is already on printing two. That’s because they need to make some changes to the Hadozee for reasons of insensitivity. They’re good changes and Wizards of the Coast is changing the processes that allowed the culturally insensitive material to appear first too. This new printing has other errata too.

The one that sticks out is the addition of Feats to every Background.

“These backgrounds each give a feat. If a character takes a background from elsewhere and doesn’t get a feat from that background, the character gains one of the following feats of the player’s choice: Magic Initiate, Skilled, or Tough.”

Dragonlance will have something similar. For Dragonlance this was because these are characters in a war. They must be stronger, tougher, etc. In Spelljammer it kind of makes sense. Normal people aren’t space halflings and asteroid dwarves.

Similar to the Dragonlance decision my world has an additional feat at first level. In the case of the World of the Everflow these choices are;

• Kin get a Bonded Companion.
• Ken get a feat that grants a cantrip.
• Kon get Artificer Initiate and the Rock Gnome’s tinker ability.

Similar to the Dragonlance decision to add Feats this was done to add flavor, speaking to the types of powers that people from various continents have.

With One D&D’s playtest we know there’s a chance at adding Feats for everyone at 1st level.

What if the One D&D system of 1st Level Feats was added to 5e now?

You could add Feats to any character in the current game with a minor, but not overwhelming, increase in power with a few simple guidelines.

1. Only allow Feats that don’t have a +1 to an attribute.
2. Don’t allow the +5/-10 Feats.
3. Don’t allow Lucky.
4. Don’t allow Polearm Master

That’s it.

Now you can have flavorful feats in your 5e game at 1st level.

Instead, attach Feats to Backgrounds

Now, my current world attaches Feats to racial choices, but one could choose to go the path of Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and Strixhaven. Each of those books assigns their unique Backgrounds specific Feats for flavor.

A more flexible system would be to attach Feats on a small curve. Those Feats would be selected to emphasize specific stories typically told regarding that Background.

Using my most popular original Background, the Tinker, as an example. We’ll include the three default Feats from the errata — Magic Initiate, Skilled, Tough. Then only selecting Feats from the Player’s Handbook, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything since those are a core book and the two rules expansions.

Actor reminds me of Paden Fain. Artificer Initiate seems obvious. Linguist fits the wanderer mold. Ritual Caster makes sense to capture the one who picks up hedge magic.

Putting those on a chart with a curve using two dice can influence the commonality of the Feats.

Roll 2d4 or choose your favorite.

2. Magic Initiate
3. Tough
4. Linguist
5. Actor
6. Skilled
7. Ritual Caster
8. Artificer Initiate

Since it looks likely that Before We Were Heroes won’t be ready before the 2024 edition, I’m thinking of adding that Feat guidance to each listed Background.

Have another Background you’d like a Feat Chart for, ask in comments.

https://fullmoonstorytelling.com/2022/11/10/adding-feats-to-5e-backgrounds/

#backgrounds #DnD #DnD5 #DnD5e #Dragonlance #DungeonsAndDragons #feats #homebrew #PlayingDD #Spelljammer #tinker