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- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 1 hour ago:
I looked up “robot kicks man” and found this
digitaltrends.com/…/humanoid-robot-teleoperator-k…
The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to perform particular movements or entire tasks, with the robot mirroring the movements in real time.
But teleoperation clearly carries some risks, especially if you get too close to the robot you’re training.
But the teleoperator then turns slightly to perform a big kick. Unfortunately for the teleoperator, the robot, mimicking his movements, performs the same kick, catching the guy right where it hurts.
He drops to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain as he falls. Of course, the robot falls to the ground too. If it’d been equipped with speech capabilities, we’d have likely heard a yelp, as well.
The video:
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 3 hours ago:
Nice, and thanks for posting here! A lot of the time we have discussion about projects, and it’s helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄
I saw the update on GitHub, in excited to see where this project goes. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF
- Comment on “Infinite” scroll not working for others? 17 hours ago:
Another Lemmy mobile app
- Comment on GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim 2 days ago:
Relevant bit
The DMCA filing states that several files in the Rockchip MPP repository are derived from FFmpeg’s libavcodec sources. It lists AV1, H.265, and VP9 decoder files, and claims the copied code is clear because of matching structure, comments, and commented-out calls to FFmpeg functions with their original names.
Much of FFmpeg, including libavcodec, uses the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. This license allows reuse, but only if certain rules are followed. These rules include keeping copyright notices, giving proper credit, and ensuring any shared code remains under an LGPL-compatible license.
The DMCA notice says Rockchip broke these rules by removing the original copyright and author details, claiming the copied code as their own, and sharing it under the Apache license, which does not meet LGPL requirements here.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 3 days ago:
This also makes me wonder why the xkcd one was laid out like that. Is the xkcd one better/safer, or was it done that way to look more insane.
On yours, the Canada/US and UK layouts overlap, while in the xkcd one they’re opposite to each other.
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 5 days ago:
Sherpa links to this page, if anyone wants to preview what the voices sound like
- Submitted 6 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on 2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now open 6 days ago:
As a user pointed out in the other thread, FormBricks opens links in the same tab which will reset the survey progress. We’ve made the links unclickable while we look for a fix. The links are here:
- Speed test: fast.com
- Ethnicity options: www12.statcan.gc.ca/…/index-eng.cfm?ID=a2_5
- Education options: canada.ca/en/…/post-secondary.html
- Submitted 6 days ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows 2 weeks ago:
Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.
Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: lemmy.ca/post/38746526
- Comment on ISO Opensource, Selfhosted, Web Trends Monitor 2 weeks ago:
Your account is marked as a bot, you can change that toggle in your account settings
- Comment on Whats going on in YSK? 4 weeks ago:
It seems to be one person that’s doing it manually?
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 4 weeks ago:
I think the website is old, and the blurry bits were a prediction
The new cycle is expected to start late in 2019 or in 2020, with solar maximum to be reached between 2023 and 2026 and the maximum (smoothed) sunspot number in the 95 to 130 range.
A different color and a legend would have been nicer imo
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 4 weeks ago:
Appreciate the write-up, thanks!
- Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control datawww.bbc.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Stick 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 5 weeks ago:
You mentioned being annoyed at Plausible. What did you not like about it?
I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like they joined a very large group chat as a member
The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 weeks ago:
Hi Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We’re currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.
We’ve iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.
Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms
We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven’t prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit’s site.
Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?
I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.
We’d love the help and feedback, especially if it’s something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 1 month ago:
While I don’t have a direct answer, I know that my university had some courses dedicated to similar topics
www.students.cs.ubc.ca/~cs-311/…/goals.html
www.cs.ubc.ca/course-section/cpsc-411-201-2020w
www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/cpsc509-spring-2024/
The second one is described as
The goal of this course is to give students experience designing, implementing, and extending programming languages. Students will start from a machine language, the x86-64 CPU instruction set with Linux system calls (x64), and incrementally build a compiler for a subset of Racket to this machine language. In the process, students will practice building, extending, and maintaining a complex piece of software, and practice creating, enforcing, and exploiting abstractions formalized in programming languages.
The course assumes familiarity with basic functional programming in Racket, and some simple imperative programming in assembly.
Those links might give you something to search off of?
And what’s the purpose of developing more languages anyway?
At some level, I think it’s this:
- Comment on PdfDing Update: Signatures, dedicated website + docs 1 month ago:
Looks good!
I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 month ago:
It looks like Social is the platform that released v1, and the other ones are still in various stages of development.
docs.bonfirenetworks.org/flavours.html#what-is-a-…
My understanding is that “Bonfire Social” is very similar to Mastodon, with their own way of implementing certain features, and the other features in their funding campaign are still in development
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 month ago:
They launched v1.0 for platform similar to and interoperable with Mastodon, and they’re doing a funding campaign for what projects they will work on next.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 month ago:
Also they have some art for those that participate:
The code is a commons, so art is offered as a reward. This campaign includes a limited‑run, hand screen‑printed artwork by Rocco Lombardi, the artist behind Bonfire’s icon and other illustrations.
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
For context, this is what reddit’s limited automod is like
www.reddit.com/r/…/full-documentation/
I’m sure we can do better. For example, being able to use variables
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 2 months ago:
programming of physics joke
Yes
