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Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

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Washed up roleplayer, VR and science nerd
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@cragsand
👾 https://twitch.tv/cragsand
🔗 https://cragsand.carrd.co
Twitch, TTRPG, DnD, VRChat roleplay, The Golden Gator, Neon Divide, Skeptic, Skepticism, Space, Sweden 🇸🇪

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Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Inside out tracking is less desirable for social VR power users who need full-body but stealing Meta Quests spotlight is good for wider adoption.

The extension port opens possibilities for face tracking and creative tracking like this👇
Accuracy suffers relying on interpolation when obscured though

Speculative extension for Valve SteamFrame VR using optical tracking for face tracking and leg tracking. It won't have nowhere near accuracy as good as external tracking stations but could be a possible compromise. It would require some form of approximation and interpolation for when the kneepads and feet are out of focus from the camera. Similar to how internal tracking handles the controllers when theyre outside the field of view. It would probably also require custom shoes or slip-ons and kneepads with mapped symbols like QR code spatial tracking. Thr dual high speed camera extension port opens possibilities but someone has to build it first. Steam frame extension port.

November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Love the secrets hidden in old video games

November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

BlueSky showing another lapse in judgement as they are now verifying the Trump regimes fascist propaganda "government" troll accounts en masse.

Que even more enshittification of this platform.

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@odnigov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
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What the fuck?
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October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

If you didn't notice, the CEO of this place just had an "Elon moment" choosing to mock concerns about it's lacking moderation of transphobic harassment. Don't get too attached to BlueSky as it's tested how "opensource" & "decentralized" it really is.
bsky.app/profile/jay....
bsky.app/profile/jay....

October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

This might actually be happening! #StopKillingGames
It was 450 000 / 1 000 000 just 9 days ago.
Now its almost 900 000 !

Screenshot from the EU petition #StopKillingGames showing 891 269 out of 1 000 000 signatured.

July 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Teary eyed re-watching this scene. A stark reminder to stand up against oppression, whichever form it takes.

Fiction gives an opportunity to disconnected from loaded real world factions, inviting everyone to experience a moment of solidarity and empathy.

(Clip from Andor S02E08 "We are the Ghor")

June 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Lite för mycket zoomer-vibes för mig men smart marknadsföring. Påminner mig om:

June 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

@support.bsky.team is there a way to disable these outgoing redirects when opening links in the BlueSky mobile app?

Even with built in browser disabled, any link will first be opened in go.bsky.app/?u=

Right now it's pretty slow and can take 2-5 seconds to load before loading the intended site.

Screenshot showing bluesky opening outgoing links in a redirect URL

March 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Which decade are we traveling back to? 😎 Hop in...
#mulletman #meme #pushittothelimit

March 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Happy Friday! (can post the whole thing now)
#yakuza #friday

March 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

👀

Graph showing extrasolar rogue planet / brown dwarf that has a change in brightness and spectroscopy as it rotates, indicating cloud layers.

ISOLATED PLANETARY-MASS OBJECT SIMP 0136
CHANGE IN BRIGHTNESS AS OBJECT ROTATES
— Light from deep iron Cloud layer
— Light from high silicate Cloud layer
NIRSpec I Time-Series Spectroscopy
— Light related to temperature high above the Clouds
one complete rotation = 2.4 hours
7:00 PM
7:30 PM
PM
8:30 PM
PM
PM
PM
Time on July 23, 2023
Coordinated Universal Time (OTC)
Silicate Clouds
Clouds
WEBB
SPACE TELESCOPE

March 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

BlueSky compresses the links so just to clarify you have to type the whole thing. Added copy paste examples in the image ALT TEXT if you click on the image.

Showing how to download all highlights of a Twitch channel using yt-dlp. Replace "cragsand" in the URL with the name of your channel and press enter to start.

Copy paste example:
yt-dlp https://www.twitch.tv/cragsand/videos?filter=highlights&sort=time

To download a collection, type this and press enter:
yt-dlp https://www.twitch.tv/collections/OIpBrhiazhakWA

February 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Fast way to download all your Twitch VODs / highlights
1. Download yt-dlp.exe github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl... and put it in an empty folder
2. Go to folder, type CMD and hit enter into the address bar in explorer
3. Type: yt-dlp www.twitch.tv/cragsand/vid...
4. Replace "cragsand" with your channel name

February 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

My valentines day pawsona is supposedly... 🦌
Whats yours ?

Valentines day pawsona fursona query thingy

Image OCR:
DEER
— that Safe and
The gentle
TOO nice
protective but
never controlling
Calm smile, raging
storm within
"Do you think it's okay
if gaze
drops to your tips
'CI just thought this
would make you smile."
gives you somethtng they mode
"I trust you, and for
that means everything.•j
kisses your hand
Friends to best
friends to lovers
Replying to
emails is their
weakness
soft - spoken
Warm hands
catch the spider
for you, screaning, but
absolutely refuses to harm it
Can sense your ernotions
before you even Say a Word
Lowkey hoping you'd
Start a conversation
Binge Watch romcoms is
their routine
Romantic
Sh
x
opposites
attract

February 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

It's being regularly archived by @archive.org here:
web.archive.org/web/20250000...
The effort of maintaining and keeping it updated with new science for the future though will be lost.

Screenshot from https://climate.nasa.gov tracking climate science data.

February 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

In commemoration of TikTok getting shut down for my US friends I'm reposting the weirdest clip I ever saw on it...
Ironically it's a Chinese clip.
(At least I think so. It might just be a complete shitpost. I genuinely have no clue)
今天和狗狗一起散步很愉快,我記錄了下來並分享到小紅書國際版

January 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Happy new year from Sweden! 🇸🇪

( Imagine that it says 2025... :P I'm lazy )

December 31, 2024 at 10:54 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Fascinating emergent group intelligence in humans vs ants 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜
wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physic...

December 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Merry Chrimbus and happy holidays everyone! 🎄🎅

I don't have anything to share right now so enjoy this random completely unrelated clip from Link Pro Skateboarding 64 (by notchase)

December 25, 2024 at 4:08 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

Absolutely love this... so many details when you zoom in 🥲

Zoomed in part of Takukat's Scrap Town artwork from Neon Divide RP showing Cragsand's character Sten Berglund cheering with CaseFace5's character Willie Walker

December 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

You can now connect your BlueSky account to show on your Discord profile!
You reach it from Discord User Settings -> Connections

November 27, 2024 at 10:08 PM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

November 21, 2024 at 11:42 AM

Cragsand

@cragsand.bsky.social

There we go, locked my Xshitter account. Good riddance
If you're new here....
WELCOME!!!!
Please check out my introduction thread post with some beginners tips! Here 👉 bsky.app/profile/crag...