CaptainBlagbird
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid? 3 weeks ago:
Though it is pretty wild they chose a vacuum bot lol.
In engineering school we created a robot that does specific tasks for a contest. It was a lot of work, but that was the main goal. Using an existing device that already has a LIDAR (and probably SLAM) sounds like a very smart move to me, for a project where you want to focus on other problems that have no existing solution yet.
- Comment on Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a step in a new direction, a proof of concept. Maybe in the future something similar could be useful for road work or on mars or idk. No innovation & development without experimenting. You have to start somewhere and with stuff that is available.
And even if nothing comes of it, I bet it was a fun project to work on.
- Comment on Ditching Spotify and YT Music 3 weeks ago:
These are nice free options:
- Re-vanced YT Music
- Spotube
Not self hosted though
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 2 months ago:
This, always put protection around your tube when using it with other connections.
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 2 months ago:
Then setup a DNS server and a fake website to trick people into giving you their credit card information, free money!
PSA don’t do this, it’s obviously sarcasm ;)
- Comment on Moms, I you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why? 3 months ago:
“Also I already have the van with “free candy” sprayed on, everything would look authentic”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
🤫 you forgot to type two zero when you listed the original price. And surely you wouldn’t want to part with it, at least not for the amount any person would offer. Only corporates might have the amount you would accept, but surely none might be interested in that domain…
- Comment on Clean your physical connectors! 6 months ago:
😏
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
Year 349 since the return of Late Jesus.
- Comment on Any docker solution to control smart light bulb? 8 months ago:
Home Assistant!
- Comment on What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day? 9 months ago:
Hey bro, I’m curious, did you find something that works for you? :)
- Comment on Imagine a man - born, live, die, in a shoebox. His universe is a constant air-conditioned 8x13x5. What does that do to his perspective, values, science...? 9 months ago:
Does the shoebox look like this? 🤔
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 10 months ago:
As I understand it, China/etc can buy the oil cheaper because there’s no competition from Europe anymore. Then they can sell it to us more expensive because we don’t have an alternative. So China/India profit from it, while Europe and especially Russia lose in comparison to how it was before. This is not ideal, but still better than supporting Russia by buying from them directly.
Please someone correct me who knows how that actually works…
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 10 months ago:
That’s what the eyepatch is for though.
Mine stated the above on the package. But of course you’re right too, there are multiple benefits of having red light instead of bright white.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 10 months ago:
Use a headlamp with red light 🔦🔴. They are specifically made for not waking other people up while camping. The red light also is not a problem before sleep, unlike blue light.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
- Comment on WireGuard VPN IP Issue 10 months ago:
I guess there’s a filter that automatically replaces that site with removed…
- Comment on WireGuard VPN IP Issue 10 months ago:
Yeah they’re broken, the domain name says *removed* instead.
- Comment on Web interface for yt-dlp jobs 11 months ago:
Thanks, this looks promising, especially the
YTDL_OPTIONSvariable. I’ll give it a try - Submitted 11 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them? 11 months ago:
I wish you strength, and hope you’ll find a good solution. Maybe it would be worth a thought of spending the money for couples therapy.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
The movie is called Behind the Curve, and imo is a great move.
It doesn’t try to ridicule the people in it. Instead it tries to make a point that if a group like the flat earth society is being made fun of rather than engaged in discussions, then the gap just gets larger and the problem worse. (If everyone else makes fun of you, you avoid them and stay in the community that supports you.)
As far as I can tell, Mark Sargent is still believing in those theories and continues doing his part in it. This doesn’t surprise me, he’s quite prominent in that community and I guess if he stopped, he’d lose quite a lot of his personal achievements, friends, hobbies, etc.
I don’t know about the others who were in the movie, it would be interesting to know. Especially about those who were directly doing the experiments, yeah.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
This.
Surprise! If you want to go from 4:3 to wide screen, you still have exactly the same problem as when using pan&scan for going from wide to 4:3.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
I think it would be possible. But adding previously unseen stuff would be changing/redirecting the movie/show.
Each scene is set up and framed deliberately by the director, should AI just change that? It’s a similar problem like with pan-and-scan, where content was removed to fit 4:3.
You wouldn’t want to add content to the left and right of the Mona Lisa, would you? And if so what? Continuing the landscape, which adds just more uninteresting parts? Other people, which removes the focus from her? And this is just a one frame example, there are more problems with moving pictures.
It would be an interesting experiment, but imo it wouldn’t improve the quality of the medium, in contrary.
- Comment on What is the name of this type of image 1 year ago:
Found the progrmmer.
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 1 year ago:
Yes, that’s the stuff :D
Thanks
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 1 year ago:
Oooh of course, yes Vangelis (especially the Blade Runner OST) has tracks that sound similar!
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 1 year ago:
This is very close!
I guess a lot of documentaries used similar copyright free music, that thus sounded “simpler” (lower production quality).
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 1 year ago:
Could you be thinking of old educational videos that were played in schools?
Yeah probably, but I think I also watched stuff like that on TV.
Maybe like Bill Nye or Eyewitness?
Not the first one, the second one is closer but too “tropical”.
If you do find an example, it would help a lot to narrow it down
I keep searching
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 1 year ago:
Yeah probably synthwave or close to it if there even was a name for it.
I’m still trying to find examples
