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Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by avereveard »

samizdis wrote: post #56
logifail wrote: post #21

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> Before people realize that they can't really make a 3-layer cake in a toaster Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh! Cue the house full of smoke, a stern reprimand, then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster, followed by s…

At the risk of sounding like a salesperson, I'd like to mention a feature of basic/classic Dualit toasters - namely, the optional and elegantly simple sandwich cage. [1] The cage is designed to take two slices of bread with a filling (in my usage, always heavy on the cheese). You put this into the toaster slot, which is vertical, and safely make cheese/whatever toasties. So, your 12-year-old had the right idea, but n…

They sell uncaged vertical toasters?!?!?

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

fendy3002 wrote: post #286
aaronmdjones wrote: post #236

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You won't get hurt working on a live computer unless your power supply is dangerously engineered (stick to well known named brands) or wide open (don't open it up unless it's been unplugged and sitting on a shelf for months) for the same reasons pointed out elsewhere in these comments; the voltage simply isn't high enough. It won't even induce a perceptible amount of current (unless you do something stupid like stick…

Hdd or ssd are hot swappable? thats cool, thanks for sharing. as for ram I have tried it once and it freeze the pc, I forgot if I have another plugged in or not though.

Sata is hotswappable. IDE was not. And I believe m.2 would be if the connector was designed a little different, because that’s all u.2 is. Compact Flash Express is, but again, that’s NVMe and splitting hairs between u.2.

Typically on hot swappable devices it’s been common to make the ground pins a little longer than the rest, ensuring that those will make contact first. The issue with hot swappable devices aside from a sharp initial draw is “grounding” the circuit to an IO pin before real ground is made. Most default low potential IO pins won’t enjoy taking the full load of the device while the ground plane is missing connection.

Oddly to me, many new PC BIOS ship with SATA hot swapping disabled. IDK why. You can plug the drive in it’ll spin up, but no data transfer will happen until you reboot. Safe, just ineffective. I recently had to learn this the hard way.

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Post by trelane »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #288
mikestew wrote: post #197

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Hello, Mr. or Ms. Survivor Bias! I used to cut firewood with my father using a 3 foot buzz saw made over 100 years ago*, and had but only the most token of safety guards (ignore the giant power take-off belt that's just waiting to consume some of your loose clothing, and you with it), yet I still have all limbs, fingers, and toes! And yet I still think it asinine to shrug shoulders and say, "I dunno, nobody I know ev…

Speaking of a 3 foot buzz saw, my grandpa is rebuilding a sawmill with a 54-inch blade powered by a 1990's corvette engine. Fairly certain someone is going to get hurt on that one.

Is he angling for a spot on _Top Gear_?

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Post by kergonath »

account42 wrote: post #228
washadjeffmad wrote: post #162

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Panini presses are less common here only* because they take up more kitchen real estate than a smaller upright appliance and can be reasonably replaced by a skillet. "George Foreman grills" were in vogue for a few years in the 2000s, but I rarely ever see them now. *Probably also because American bread is awful.

> Probably also because American bread is awful. Except grilling it is the best thing you can do to oversugared white bread.

I disagree. Throwing them away is the best thing you can do. These things are nasty.

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Post by mcv »

blntechie wrote: post #108
civilized wrote: post #79

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Waffle iron. It's a horizontal toaster and applies enough pressure to cook faster. Leaves cool marks. Just don't burn yourself! (Technically applies to the toaster as well though)

Horizontal sandwich toasters are the popular kind of toasters around my parts. It can make from plain toasts to fully stuffed sandwiches and are not that hard to clean either. I guess Americans will consider them more as a grill though.

We have one too. It's great. You can put anything in them. Super simple, though I suppose it lacks a timer.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by usrusr »

CM30 wrote: post #32

YouTube's moderation is ridiculous, and it demonstrates the problem Google has in general. They don't like paying actual people to moderate their sites, and rely on automated systems and bots to do everything for them. So, if there's ever an issue (or you have a bunch of scammers mass reporting you because you debunk their 'work'), then YouTube/Google seems to think you're the problem instead of the scumbags. We need…

Yeah, it's not just about moderation being automated, it's about automated moderation being based on crowdsourced flagging. The debunked will always have stronger incentives than the debunking. Actually the debunking don't even have any incentive to flag at all, because they require the scandal to vlog about. It's worse than the SEO battles.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by sh4rks »

m0llusk wrote: post #41

Knowing that microwave oven transformers are extremely dangerous is critically important, so this represents a serious failing of basic education.

Exactly. I can't sympathise with any of the people who mess around with stuff like this. Surely if you had even the littlest bit of common sense, you would know not to mess around with high voltages without training.

To the people saying "mass report all fractal burning videos" - why not also take down videos on surfing, outdoor rock-climbing, and other dangerous sports?

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Post by timpattinson »

iso1631 wrote: post #324
throwaway9870 wrote: post #150

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Current flowing through your body is what kills you. But it doesn't flow through you just because it is a high-current supply (think car battery for example). It flows through you because the source voltage divided by your impedance is what controls how much current flows through you. Impedance is the general concept for resistance and basically indicates how current and voltage are related. The higher the impedance,…

There's no particular safety concerned when you're playing with hundreds of kilovolts in a typical school. You need it when the thing you're messing with has the capability of delivering a lot of amps.

415 volts on a 30A breaker, like you might find in an undergraduate electrical engineering lab, is very lethal. I'd hazard a guess that's what the OP is talking about.

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Post by bell-cot »

At scale, whack-a-mole take-downs and trying to idiot-proof the internet just feel kinda futile.

A suggested (IANAL) alternative, for "dangerous ways to maim or kill yourself" YouTube content:

- A "Report Being A Dangerous Thing To Try" YouTube page - with a few drop-downs, to summarize why it's dangerous. (High Voltage, Poison, Explosive, Fire Hazard, Dangerous Animals, Motor Vehicle Stunts, etc.)

- Verified-as-dangerous videos stay up, but get a few seconds of skull-and-crossbones warning. With a death count, and "report yet another death" link. That last has a high enough bar ("crippled-for-life doesn't count, include official death certificate and certified police or medical report, ...") to make it clear that there are real dead bodies behind that body count.

Unstated goal: Encourage less-stupid people to realize that following cool-sounding directions from the internet could maim or kill them. Whether or not anyone has yet gone to the effort required to get a specific video flagged as deadly.

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Post by jakear »

donatj wrote: post #88
kzrdude wrote: post #64

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I can't watch Electroboom because he always gives himself shocks in every video. Don't care that they are small or it's set up, I can't stand watching it, makes me ill. Seems to be interesting stories he's telling otherwise though, so it's a shame.

Why so? That’s honestly the whole reason I started watching him years ago, he was the dude who shocked himself.

They’re an empath
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