• Widdershins@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As a machinist I will tell you that it’s the pieces you can see stuck in your skin with your eyes that are the real problem. Those usually hurt a lot more. Machine shops are filthy and it’s up to you to wear glasses and gloves and wash up with soap containing pumice.

    A bigger concern to me is the cloud of coolant steam containing lord knows what billowing out of a lathe. I’ve started wearing a winter coat and hat during work with a fan blasting right at the door to keep the air I breathe clean.

    Anyways neat picture. Judging by the tiny chips it looks like the mill is to blame. Makes me glad I run mostly lathe these days. I had something like that in my elbow for a few months. It was about one centimeter long and hurt like hell when pressure was on it.

    If you want to run machines the first tool you should buy yourself is good tweezers. I have 6 different pairs of tweezers. You can borrow workshop tools but should stay sanitary and have your own tweezers.

      • moody@lemmings.world
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        2 months ago

        The danger depends on the type of lathe and the tools being used with it.

        In metalworking, you would probably be using mechanical lathe tools, keeping your hands far away from the danger bits. In woodworking, you may be using gouges directly on the wood and want to keep any dangly bits as far away as possible.

        • Maalus@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Nah, even in metalworking, people do lots of stuff around lathes and get hurt because of long sleeves. Like running sandpaper on round stock which is a common thing people do. Anything that spins means no rags, no sleeves, no gloves etc. And for good reasons

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s because they’re not posting via Lemmy; They’re posting via Pixelfed, which is something more akin to a federated version of Instagram. They @ the relevant community or users to make posts/responses; notice the “@pics@lemmy.world” in their post. This is also why you’ll sometimes see comments begin with an “@{username}” of whoever they’re responding to. On Lemmy’s end it looks out of place, but on their end it looks more like an Instagram comments section, where @‘ing people is necessary to be able to follow the comment thread.

      It’s one of the odd quirks of federation that can be difficult to wrap your head around when you’re accustomed to every single social media site acting like a walled garden… Federated posts are able to federate not only to different Lemmy instances, but to entirely different platforms.

      So no, it may not be fucking tumblr, but for them it is fucking Instagram.

          • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            At the expense of this kind of garbage? Then no.

            I’d be happy with being able to choose to opt out, or ideally opt in.

            I don’t like being forced into a platform that I don’t want to use. I don’t use Instagram, Tumblr, etc. for a reason.

            • drkt@scribe.disroot.org
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              2 months ago

              but you can

              Go to an instance that doesn’t federate with those other instances you don’t like, or run your own and do whatever you want.

              • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Where do I find this list of what instances are federated? That doesn’t exist? Oh well that’s not useful is it?*

                Requiring someone to sift through each instance in the hopes of finding one that happens to not federate with these kinds of platforms is an unreasonable suggestion.†

                Run my own instance? Fuck off with that. I don’t have the time.

                Your ‘solutions’ are not real solutions. It’s a cop-out of accepting the fact this is a limitation of Lemmy and the federation system that all these are based on.

                *edit: This does exist, apparently. Though I have no idea where a person is supposed to find that page on their own. I’ve looked for this before multiple times.

                †Added point after being shown the list exists.