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- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 11 hours ago:
They were 20 year olds, they didn’t own shit
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 11 hours ago:
Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.
The globalists open the western worker to global competition, they lost their leverage by losing their scarcity and competence.
The subsequent decline comes from the system’s inertia and the burning of the future with debt and literally the future by having spending money instead of kids.
If you want the golden age back for normal people, then there is NO REMEDY other than giving them their leverage and power back.
But how do you do that ? Taxes and interest rates serve to dis-empower those who need it the most and regular people are the one MOST hurt by these.
The neoliberal religion refuses to treat people who “win” the game of capital differently than regular people, as if they were somehow on an equal footing.
The result ? The more wealth you have the easier it becomes to acquire and accumulate more of it. This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the “capital horizon” some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.
It’s not some shiny metal bullshit which only serves the status quo like discussion about which toilet should a trans person piss in.
- Comment on How can I easily convert rs-232 serial to TTL levels ? 1 day ago:
Thanks yes ! I think that’s what I was looking for !
- Comment on How can I easily convert rs-232 serial to TTL levels ? 1 day ago:
I reached the limit in the post body so I can continuing it here
[I am no longer able to post pictures , imagine here the text, it is no longer garbled]
So the “real” serial port worked, but not my adapters !
So my question is this
What doesn’t the serial output work with these adapters ?
I imagine it is because the TTL voltage levels versus the serial voltages levels.
How do I do level shiting, preferably passively so that my adapters work ?
Especially my serial to ethernet adapter, which I don’t know any economical alternatives for.
These are WCH CH9121 by the way !
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- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 day ago:
“Looks like a textbook case of regression to the meme.”
and the 49 others
“The only thing they absorbed was a regression to the beam — the arrow beam.” “Who knew Vitamin C causes regression to the keen eye?” “When stats and supplements collide: regression to the green (bullseye).” “Turns out confidence is the real supplement — powered by regression to the believe.” “Or maybe they just regressed to the mean… skill level.” “That performance boost? Just a natural regression to the scene.” “Archery improvement through citrus? More like regression to the scheme.” “They didn’t level up. The top archers just regressed to the lean.” "Proof that a placebo is the best coach: regression to the mean. “They didn’t get better — the universe just whispered: regress to the mean.” “Turns out Vitamin C stands for Cleverly Explained Regression to the Mean.” “Performance arrows pointed up… but so did statistical bias: regression to the seen.” “Some call it magic. Statisticians call it regression to the mundane.” “It’s not the C — it’s the statistical destiny of regression to the mean.” “Next up: a study on whether laughter also causes regression to the meme.” “The bows weren’t juiced — the results just regressed to the clean.” “They didn’t gain skill, the others just had a bad day: regression to the lean.” “Vitamin C doesn’t boost skill — the numbers just had a date with regression to the mean.” “This study sponsored by: Misinterpretation of Regression to the Mean™.” “Plot twist: the arrows didn’t improve — the stats just regressed to the serene.” “Amazing what belief — and regression to the mean — can do.” “The real target hit here? Regression to the mean. Bullseye!” “They didn’t shoot better. Stats just had their say: regress to the mean.” “When low-skill archers shoot better, you either call it a miracle or regression to the mean.” “It wasn’t the Vitamin C — it was the C-cret power of regression to the mean.” “You can coat the bow, but you can’t coat the stats: regression to the mean always wins.” “It’s all fun and games until someone explains regression to the mean at a party.” “They didn’t absorb energy — just a strong dose of statistical probability a.k.a. regression to the mean.” “Just a classic case of skill balancing out: the old regression to the quiver.” “Vitamin C? More like Vitamin See: Regression to the Mean at Work.” “A placebo a day keeps the stats in play — regression to the mean in action.” “Even arrows can’t escape the gravitational pull of regression to the mean.” “They shot better, sure — but that was just the sweet sting of regression to the beam.” “Archers rise, others fall — the stats always call for regression to the mean.” “Welcome to the archery bell curve — where we all regress to the mean.” “You don’t need Vitamin C when you’re already due for a regression to the mean.” “This study is brought to you by the letter C… and regression to the mean.” “Everyone loves a good comeback — especially one powered by regression to the mean.” “Forget bows. The real force here was regression to the unseen.” “Is it magic? Nope. Just your friendly neighborhood regression to the mean.” “This is why we can’t have nice data — it all regresses to the mean.” “Turns out ‘getting better’ was just them catching a ride on the regression to the mean bus.” “The arrows didn’t improve. The curve just regressed toward equilibrium.” “Vitamin C: the leading cause of misattributed regression to the mean.” “If you listen closely, you can hear statisticians screaming: ‘It’s just regression to the mean!’” “Let’s not bow down to pseudoscience — this is pure regression to the scene.” “Don’t let this data fool you — it’s just regression to the extreme.” “When skill varies wildly, the only constant is regression to the mean.” “One day you’re bottom 50, the next you’re top… thank you, regression to the dream.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Relationship ? No that’s not what the diamonds are for.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 2 days ago:
What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 days ago:
Abolish intellectual property
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 days ago:
🛰️ Raytheon CAT&EAR System
Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception
Engineering Requirements Draft — v1.0
📑 Document Overview
This document outlines the full set of engineering requirements for the CAT&EAR system, a wearable, cybernetic auditory perception platform. CAT&EAR is a heterogeneous, phased-array auditory sensor suite that uses biomimetic design, ultrasonic telemetry, laser vibrometry, and advanced audio signal processing to enable real-time environmental awareness and communication.
The system is designed to operate autonomously, using only open standards and open-source software, while supporting embedded AI-driven perceptual functions. This document reflects both functional and non-functional requirements for CAT&EAR across all relevant subsystems.
System requirements
🎤 Microphone Array & Acoustic Sensors
Mic Diaphragm Diversity – Use MEMS and larger diaphragm mics.
Earshape Mic Placement – Place mics at parabolic acoustic focus points.
Ultrasound Transceivers – Include US sensors for echolocation and darksight.
Ultrasound Data Comms – Use US transceivers for covert device communication.
Heterogeneous Phased Array – Mic array shall be non-planar and diverse.
Frequency-Profile Diversity – Use mics with different frequency sensitivities.
Anisotropic Reception – Account for directional response patterns from ear shape.
Psychoacoustic Focus – Detect and prioritize perceptually relevant signals.
Mic Cross-Correlation – Synchronize all mic data spatially and temporally.
Real-Time Acoustic Map – Build a 3D sound map from multi-mic input.
Mic Calibration Pattern – Provide physical pattern for mic array calibration.
Open Hardware Calibration – Use only open hardware for calibration tools.
🧭 Ultrasonic Subsystem
Ultrasound Mapping – Perform echolocation for 3D environmental awareness.
True Transceiver Mode – Ultrasound sensors must transmit and receive.
Ultrasound Band Amp – Include amplifier suitable for US transmission.
Covert US Communication – Transmit data in inaudible US band.
Spatial Mapping via US – Derive positional data from ultrasound TOF.
👂 Ear Shape & Actuation
Dynamic Ear Focus – Use moving ear shapes to focus sound.
Servo Actuated Ears – Use servos to reorient ears toward signals.
Double Helical Gears – Use quiet gears for mechanical actuation.
Acoustic Dampened Gears – Coat gears to suppress audible reflections.
Ultrasonic Motors Preferred – Prefer silent ultrasonic motors over gears.
Backwards Reception – Ears must support rearward sound reception.
Flexible Ear Shaping – Shape ear surfaces dynamically for beam control.
Motion-Linked Focus – Ear movement must track beamforming direction.
No Mechanical Noise Leakage – Prevent gear vibration from reaching mics.
📡 Communication & Connectivity
Wi-Fi + BLE Only – Support open wireless; no DECT or proprietary links.
Open Standard Protocols – Use only open protocols for communication.
Multichannel Audio Streaming – Support multiple audio streams over network.
Driverless Operation – Require no proprietary drivers for functionality.
🧠 Software & Signal Processing
Open Source Only – All code and firmware must be fully open source.
Offloaded Processing – All signal processing handled off-device.
Max 20ms Latency – Entire processing pipeline must be under 20ms.
Live Beamforming – Perform real-time signal steering and separation.
Real-Time Source Relevance – Continuously rank sources by importance.
Noise vs Signal Detection – Separate noise from structured signals.
Real-Time Source Switching – Auto-switch auditory focus intelligently.
Plug-and-Play Sensor Config – Support hot-swappable or modular sensors.
Onboard Sub-Vocal Control – Allow silent vocal commands for control.
🎧 Earbuds / Audio Output
Canal Mic Feedback Loop – Use in-ear mics for real-time output correction.
Open Firmware Audio Chain – Use programmable amps with open firmware.
Drive Adaptation by Feedback – Earbud output adjusts based on canal feedback.
🎮 Control Interfaces
Myoelectric Input Support – Accept muscle signals as control input.
Manual Steering Mode – One ear for beam steering via myoelectric input.
Signal Selection Mode – One ear for selecting tracked signal via input.
Sub-Vocal Command Mode – Use throat activity to control high-level tasks.
🔦 Laser Pointer System
Dual Laser Module – Use both red (visible) and IR (covert) lasers.
Laser Aiming Reflects Beam – Beam direction matches acoustic focus.
IR Laser for Stealth – IR laser used to show focus discreetly.
🧾 Transcription & Recognition
Live Audio Transcription – Convert incoming audio to live text.
12 Channel Transcription – Handle at least 12 simultaneous streams.
MP3QR & Digital Decoding – Decode digital audio formats in real time.
Live Text Summarization – Generate summaries from live transcripts.
Voice Signature Tagging – Identify and label speakers in text.
💾 Storage
4TB Local Storage – Minimum onboard capacity of 4 terabytes.
⚖️ Physical & Power
≤150g Head Weight – Total device weight must not exceed 150g (no battery).
1-Min No-Battery Buffer – Must operate 1 minute without battery power.
Dual Battery Swap – Hot-swap batteries without power loss.
🎛️ Audio Encoding & Codecs
HW Audio Codec Support – Hardware encoder/decoder for all ffmpeg codecs. 🧱 System Design Principles
Modular Hardware – All subsystems must be physically modular.
User Privacy by Default – All processing must be local and secure.
No Cloud Dependency – System must function entirely offline.
Mainline Linux Support – Fully supported by Linux kernel and stack.
Open Protocol APIs – All I/O and control must use open APIs.
🛡️ Counter-Acoustic Defense
Passive Threat Detection – Detect and localize hostile audio sources.
Acoustic Counter-Battery – Track and indicate direction of intrusive signals.
🧪 Fallback & Safety
Failsafe Passive Mode – Fall back to passive listening if system fails.
🌡️ Environment & Durability
Passive Cooling Only – No fans; silent passive thermal control only.
Water-Resistant Design – Use hydrophobic materials for exterior protection.
🧰 Maintenance & Testability
Open Test Fixtures – All testing hardware must be reproducible and open.
Self-Test & Calibration – System must run periodic self-alignment checks.
Community Repairable – Designed to be easily maintained by users.
🔗 Licensing
Fully Open Licensed – All hardware, firmware, and software must use open licenses.
🔦 Laser Microphone Capability
Laser Mic via Microprism – Dual laser system shall include a microprism to enable laser microphone functionality.
Aimed Surface Listening – System shall capture audio from vibrating surfaces (e.g. windows, walls) via laser beam reflection.
Covert Through-Wall Listening – IR laser + sensor must support long-range audio pickup from remote surfaces without line-of-sight audio.
✅ Summary
Total Requirements: 76
System Class: Wearable, cybernetic, audio perception platform
Design Goals: Open-source, real-time, stealth-capable, user-repairable - Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 days ago:
Why do I keep doing this
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 days ago:
Wait, I … could make human-cat hears that actually have microphones in them and that turn towards the gaze and they could actually ear out of them if they’re wearing linked earphones … could even do some psychoacoustic filtering to give some kind of “superearing” ability … Then some cunt like Elon is going to just steal my idea… meh. … eff it
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 days ago:
I just assume all humans are being manipulative and
never trust whatever it is they are saying
can’t get fooled if you assume everyone and everything is crooked
and statistically, you’ll be mostly right. - Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 days ago:
Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
I’d like only escapism please,
even escapism is political of course,
because everything is political anyway,
but as long as you don’t look up it’s fine ! - Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 days ago:
Bleach and ammonia is fantastic in milkshakes !
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 days ago:
What if they put anubis on it ?
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 3 days ago:
LN2 is about 500kJ per kg to liquefy, that’s less than 0.01$ per kg, I don’t know where you get your milk but I want some I that price. You do know that our atmostphere is 80% nitrogen ?
The size of the dewars isn’t the relevant factor, what good is a dewar of LN2 when it’s the cryocaskets that need to be cooled, not dewars, you only need dewars to store LN2, but why would you store it in gigantic reservoirs when it can easy be produced on demand and on site ?
1nm scanning volumetric precision isn’t really far fetch at the current rate of progress, like I said, cell wall damage isn’t going to be a problem, first there’s supposed to be very little of it because, you haven’t mentioned it but, of course they’ve been using cryoprotectants from a long time now but even if they weren’t, those scanned cells aren’t going to need to work, they’re just the machinery that produces the structure, before the first person is scanned they will have algorithm to repair any damage to any cell.
What actually matter is the connections between cells, the person itself lives in the network of neurons of the nervous system and the most critical thing that actually needs scanning is the structure inside synapses, everything else is much bigger.
“moore’s law hit a wall”, doesn’t matter, easilly parrallelizable as a simulation, the hard part was scanning
“it’ll remain so for considerable time” pure speculation, but it does touch on the most probable downfall of this project and that is the very likely planetary scale collapse of human civilization from economic failure cascade.
(humans will have more pressing issues to deal with) I assure you, humans dying today do not have more pressing issues than their own death
“copy is not original” that’s a “you” problem, as I mention in my text regarding the Ship of Theseus problem
“don’t want to admit that they made a religion out of misinterpreted scifi” you could paint whole building in one swipe with a brush that wide
“not even single one frozen today will remain so” based on 1960 to 1973 ? How old are you again ?
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 3 days ago:
Liquid nitrogen is cheap to produce at scale and LN2 loss decreases per unit of internal volume as the volume increases.
As for the revival tech, of course the meat is never coming back, but once we have the technology to scan the remains with 1 nanometer cubic accuracy then we’ll just run simulated copies of them, the biggest question is how much of “them” was destroyed by the freeze/thaw/scan process
But we can probably patch the large bulk of the damage with copies from other people that have undamaged structures,
It will be a little chimeric, you’ll have your damage replaced with someone else’s or the average of many other people’s intact structures.
And then the last thing to answer is the Ship Of Theseus problem, is a near perfect copy of you running in a simulated mathematical space still “you” or is there no “you” left ? That’s something only “you” can answer because to the people outside the simulation, the “you” will behave exactly the same as the meat “you”… That’s assuming the simulation technology of say, 500 years in the future, actually is that good.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 4 days ago:
I don’t think it’s merely “reporting unfortunate news” It’s about the flipper zero, not really about car theft per say and shitty, evil car security system where the dealer scams you as much as the thief for a key.
There’s really no reason we can’t use contactless smartcards for this, and that we can’t program them ourselves with open source software.
The flipper zero itself is completely irrelevant about this. It’s just a generic ISM band transceiver … Only of note to the ignorant and technologically incompetent, but the journos have made this the centerpiece of the article.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X strikes tentative agreement to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings 4 days ago:
How much do you think we could squeeze out of him that would make it properly croak this time ? And hopefully send all his assets into receivership
- Comment on Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin? 4 days ago:
Use the reverse proxy for access control ? Then you don’t need to install extra software to access it remotely ?
- Comment on Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin? 4 days ago:
Yes, then you only get hacked by the software manufacturer
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 days ago:
The “fandom” one is much more complete ?
I mean, they’re both pretty great,
From the search engine if I wanted to know about in-game faction,
I’d just pick which ever appeared first.
and it’d be fine either waySo why would “Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone”
think they can just point at it and imagine any random people would even know
what she “who that guy is” means just because he’s associated with that wiki ?And that my innocuous comment
would triggers the nerds with such an anonymously negative response ? - Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 4 days ago:
Why is 404media boosting anti-basic electronics fearmongering ?
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 4 days ago:
Where would you even find a phone without a locked bootloader to even try this on other than a pixel, because, a google phone, to degoogle, really ? lol!
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 5 days ago:
Oh yeah that website’s pretty great It has really in depth wiki about games like fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Caesar's_Legion
So I guess you mean that Wales guy is pretty great then
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 5 days ago:
Stop believing your lying eyes !
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 5 days ago:
Like anubis, that’s not going to last, the point isn’t to hammer the web servers off the net, it’s to get the precious data. The more standardized and streamlined that’s going to be made and only if there’s no preferential treatment to certain players (open ai / google facebook) then the dumb scraper will burn themselves out.
One nice thing about anubis and nepenthes is that it’s going to burn out those dumb scrapers faster and force them to become more sophisticated and stealth. That’s should resolve the ddos problem on its own.
For the truly public data sources, I think coordinated database dumps is the way to go, for hostile carrier, like reddit and facebook, it’s going to be scrapper arms race warfare like Cory Doctorow predicted.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 5 days ago:
The ddos is caused by the gatekeeping, there was no such issue before the 2023 API wars, fork over the goods and nobody gets hurt, it’s not complicated, you want to publish information to the public, don’t scrunch it up behind diseased trackers and ad infested pages which burn you cpu cycles. Or just put it in a big tarball torrent, the web is turning into a cesspool, how long until our browsers don’t even query websites at all but self-hosted crawler and search like searxng, at least then I won’t be catching cooties from your javascript cryptomining bots embed into the pages !
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 5 days ago:
Even if your server is a cell phone from 2015, if it’s operating correctly and the cpu is maxed out, that means it’s fully utilized and services hundreds of megabits of information.
You’ve decided to let the entire world read from your server, that indiscriminatory policy is letting people you don’t want getting your data, get your data and use your resources.
You want to correct that by making everyone that comes in solve a puzzle, therefore in some way degrading their access, it’s not surprising that they’re going to complain. The other day I had to wait over 30 second at an anubis puzzle page, when I know that the AI scrappers have no problem getting through, something on my computer, probably some anti-crypto mining protection is getting triggered by it and now I can’t no-script the web either because of that thing and it can’t even stop scrappers anyway !
So, anubis is going to be left behind, all the real users are, for years, going to be annoyed and have their entire internet degraded by it while the scrappers got that institutionally figured out in days.
If it’s freely available public data then the solution isn’t restricting access trying to play a futile arms race with the scrapper and throwing the real users to the dogs, it’s to have standardized incremental efficient database dumps so the scrappers stop assuming every website is interoperability-hostile and scrape them. Let facebook and xitter fight the scrappers, let anyone trying to leverage public (and especially user contributed data) fight the scrappers.
