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I like to tinker with robots, BluetoothLE, ZigBee, VR, Laser cutting, 3D printing and all kinds of other hard and soft tech toys.
I just got #RickRolled by #ChatGPT - asking for an embedded video when prototyping a website, brilliant. 🤩
February 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Amazeballs #ChatGPT, thanks for the PDF transcript... now I see why getting you to generate it was the 4th option of "ChatGPT: [Explains how to save chat as a PDF]"
February 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Consumer rights protection is very important, we can get so screwed over. So I'm pretty chuffed I got a shout out by #LouisRossmann for a thing I'm building that augments his great mission youtu.be/Q_BwTGazk-Y?...
browser plugin for consumer protection: uses database of bad corporate conduct to detect scams
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
youtu.be
January 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The A.I. Olympics is on! #OpenAI #DeepSeek #MicDrop
January 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A Chrome extension sidekick for the Consumer Action Taskforce (CAT) community driven project that calls out corporate consumer exploitation controversies. Download it here: github.com/WayneKeenan/... - CAT Wiki: wiki.rossmanngroup.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Monday.
January 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Liquid metal motors are a thing, how cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRM...
A motor with no moving parts (sorta)
YouTube video by Breaking Taps
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Enjoying my first steps in a #Udemy#Unity 3D course, not sure a "Postman Pat the Game" is the next FPS killer.
January 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Am I in Cambridge Library or one of Elon’s data centres? #x #elon
January 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The need
January 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fecking useless / not (yet) self aware
January 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
lol, how old do I feel now
January 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Happy 40th birthday to the legendary Sinclair C5!
January 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My recent #Rust learning reboot has helped resurrect a Rust coding learning toy I wrote 4 years ago. The ship (Gareth) and music (Nigel) are from an unfinished game about 30 years ago, so those two Acorn ARM2 era assets now running on Apple ARM Silicon. 😂
January 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I just put #DemolitionMan on. Are “Mini-tunes” modern day social media #Shorts? 🙈
January 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Thinking of making these into a kit you could buy next year, would anyone want one?
December 29, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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We are very exited to share with you PEP 768 🐍, which proposes a safe external debugger interface to Python. We think this is a really exciting change that would allow debuggers and tools to safely attach to running Python processes without stopping or restarting them. 🔨🐛

peps.python.org/pep-0768/
PEP 768 – Safe external debugger interface for CPython | peps.python.org
This PEP proposes adding a zero-overhead debugging interface to CPython that allows debuggers and profilers to safely attach to running Python processes. The interface provides safe execution points f...
peps.python.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:31 PM
As product descriptions go, the £25,000 MasterGroove SR Mk3 from the now infamous #TomEvans is comedy reading, so humble lol. www.audiodesign.co.uk/styled-23/st...
MasterGroove SR | Tom Evans Audio Design
www.audiodesign.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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"The hot new look for squishy middle-aged men is something we like to call 'Jedi shabby'."
December 11, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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I'm excited to announce a new introductory Sonic Pi video course - which will kick off your live coding journey.

Learn to:

* trigger powerful synths
* manipulate pre-recorded samples
* add expressive studio effects
* perform
* compose your own music

www.patreon.com/posts/new-in...
New Introductory Video Course | Sam Aaron
Get more from Sam Aaron on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 5, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Xmas film time in the Motorhome 🍿 #vanlife
December 8, 2024 at 8:09 PM
When will all the company and their support accounts get here so we can vent attempts at support? Gotta be a #starterpack for that
November 27, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.
November 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.
www.aljazeera.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:22 AM
My mind feels suitably blended
November 17, 2024 at 8:48 PM