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- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 4 days ago:
Where’s the Baclava? Or if truly culturally insensitive, the Balaclava?
- Comment on Iconic Baseball moment in time. Who is the player in the picture? Name the ballpark? Name the location? 6 days ago:
The Catch: youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0
- Comment on new haircut, felt cute, might delete later idk 6 days ago:
“It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground.”
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 6 days ago:
What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That’s what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.
Guess we’ll see.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4B 1 week ago:
- Ubuntu desktop - the whole shebang including office apps
- PiHole ad-blocker
- Jellyfin video server
- Minecraft server
- Local LLMs
- On-site VPN service
- Home Assistant smarthome controller
So many things, and much more…
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 1 week ago:
This is outstanding!
Not being based on “rengagement” or “monetization” means it’s purely interest-based, with a touch of serendipity.
One of BSKY’s distinctive features was to have “pluggable” algorithms. Fediverse would do well to support it so people who are not into te weeds could choose how their feed is curated.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 2 weeks ago:
Cardinal rule of branding. Exposure is the name of the game. The more eyeballs see your thing, the better. As long as it’s not adjacent to bad things.
This could end really well, or really, badly, extremely not. 🍿
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 weeks ago:
That I slept through the Rapture.
Again.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 2 weeks ago:
I looked into CubeSats in a previous job. Basically, there are four parts:
- What’s the purpose?
- How to design and build one?
- How to launch it?
- How to collect the data?
Part 1: this is the back of the napkin sketch. What are you trying to do? Weather, water, fire, or air data? Imaging? Has anyone already done this? What’s the plan?
Part 2: you can DIY the whole thing, starting with the CalPoly CubeSat workshops: www.cubesat.org. They’re the folks that started the whole thing.
There are also kits and services out there. One example is Pumpkin: www.pumpkinspace.com, but there are a lot of others like it out there. You want to figure out what sensors you need, mechanisms to orient the sensors, radios, power management, etc. Also, what’s the lifespan before it descends into the atmosphere and burns out.
Part 3: The big problem is launch. You need to eventually get it up into space. There are commercial services, but you’re looking at $50K and up to get into the queue. Another option is to go through NASA’s Launch Intitiative: www.nasa.gov/…/cubesat-launch-initiative/ or ESA’s Fly Your Satellite program: www.esa.int/…/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite
These require being part of a non-profit or educational institution. And the waiting list is long. Like, years.
Part 4: OK, now that you got it up in space, what do you do with the data? It’s circling the globe and there’s a narrow window where the radio can connect to an earth station, send the data, and maybe receive instructions like where to point the sensors. Forget about OTA. You won’t have a large enough connection window or bandwidth to do that.
You can roll your own comms, or you can see about using an existing service, like AWS Ground Station: aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Microsoft had a similar service called Azure Orbital, but they retired it last year.
After all is said and done, you now have some cool data. You’ll want to process it and use it for something. This goes back to step 1. Figure out what’s the purpose, what you want to get out of it, and work backward. You can use the AWS service, pipe it into an S3 bucket or store it in a database, then run analytics and visualizations on it. If you want realtime, it’ll cost extra.
It won’t be cheap, but it will likely be a lot of fun. I proposed several projects in a past life. We got pretty far, but the launch window was years away and by then I was heading out. All this is an infodump of what I learned back then. Hope this helps.
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 3 weeks ago:
I smell an AI lurking somewhere in the shadows.
- Comment on First 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled 3 weeks ago:
Come back when you have building content data.
No, wait…
- Comment on Zillow removes climate change risk 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Solar Powered Wifi Camera with Wireguard 3 weeks ago:
Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.
Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 3 weeks ago:
Solving a non-existent problem. Excellent!
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 4 weeks ago:
I challenged my family not to say WHAT! when reading that headline. So far, everyone’s failed.
- Comment on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 4 weeks ago:
That is pretty evil.
Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 4 weeks ago:
Wonder if this is going to turn into people cutting out catalytic converters, or stripping out copper wiring.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 4 weeks ago:
Judging by Costco displays, this happened in August.
- Comment on xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years 4 weeks ago:
Surprise wife hug attack. She won’t see it coming.
- Comment on Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics 4 weeks ago:
Every time I see stories like this I feel sorry for the kid. Never learning to socialize with other kids their own age, and not getting taken seriously by adults until they’re much older.
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 4 weeks ago:
On a previous thread, someone pointed to sonoff.tech/…/sonoff-dongle-max-zigbee-thread-poe…
Looks like it might support both.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 4 weeks ago:
Fedi-urchin
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 5 weeks ago:
The power company AI will generate the regulatory reports. The regulatory commission’s AI will summarize and score them for faster turnaround. Only 30% chance of hallucination making it through each cycle.
After a few iterations, they will get fully approved to deploy the giant hamster wheel with Bluetooth, powered by Nuclear-flavored RedBull.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 5 weeks ago:
Humans shopping online allows the seller to offer discounts, upsell services, create serendipity (“How about a lip gloss 50% to go with those shoes?”), and build brand loyalty. Or if you’re a techie, how about 50% off an SD-card with the purchase of a gadget?
This is why retailers create these expensive e-commerce websites instead of just dumping their wares into E-Bay or Amazon. They also do things like web heatmaps and other types of analytics to optimize the UI/UX.
Having an AI agent do the shopping means they lose all that. It’s any wonder they’re going to fight AI shopping agents. Be prepared for a lot more complex captchas when roaming around the web.
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 1 month ago:
… to have and to hold, … in sickness and in health …
- Comment on Save us!!! 1 month ago:
Always been amazed this song doesn’t get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It’s a systemic failure.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 month ago:
Hasbro headquarters.
- Comment on How do you organize your components library? 1 month ago:
I got a couple of these off AliExpress. Added printed labels on the drawers. Work pretty well. For larger projects, a plastic shoebox with all the bits and bobs needed for that one project.
- Comment on Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests 1 month ago:
