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robot girl (early-gen)
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ah yes the three genders: sir, madam and dead person
Aanhef: Meneer ("sir") Mevrouw ("madam") De erven van ("the heirs of")
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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this one is still my fav but it's close lol
screenshot from starcraft 1 with character dialog. Kerrigan says "I don't think so, admiral. you see, at this point.. i'm pretty much the queen bitch of the universe. and not all your little soldiers or space ships will stand in my way again". in the background is a gigeresque zerg ship interior.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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no idea what happened here but this photo came out quite nice
picture of a canary, taken in Frankfurt Zoo, rain in the background
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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also the land of infinite fun from Iain Bank's excession !
"III Technically, it was a branch of metamathematics, usually called metamathics.  Metamathics; the investigation of the properties of Realities (more correctly, Reality-fields) intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles could be hazarded at. Metamathics led to everything else, it led to the places that nobody else had ever seen or heard of or previously imagined. It was like living half your life in a tiny, stuffy, warm grey box, and being moderately happy in there because you knew no better… and then discovering a little hole in one corner of the box, a tiny opening which you could get a finger into, and tease and pull at, so that eventually you created a tear, which led to a greater tear, which led to the box falling apart around you… so that you stepped out of the tiny box's confines into startlingly cool, clear fresh air and found yourself on top of a mountain, surrounded by deep valleys, sighing forests, soaring peaks, glittering lakes, sparkling snowfields and a stunning, breathtakingly blue sky.  And that, of course, wasn't even the start of the real story, that was more like the breath that is drawn in before the first syllable of the first word of the first paragraph of the first chapter of the first book of the first volume of the story." "consummate joy and absolute enlightenment.  All that humanity knew and could understand, every single aspect, known, guessed at and hoped for in and of the universe was like a mean and base mud hut compared to the vast, glittering cloud-high palace of monumentally exquisite proportions and prodigious riches that was the metamathical realm.  Within the infinities raised to the power of infinities that those metamathical rules provided, the Minds built their immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy. That was where they lived.  That was their home.  When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality. The Minds had long ago come up with a proper name for it; they called it the Irreal, but they thought of it as Infinite Fun.  That was what they really knew it as.  The Land of Infinite Fun. It did the experience pathetically little justice..."
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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kind of getting the hang of this lol
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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dont crash
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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the video stream on this thing is very noisy and tends to get a violet tint. could be uv? the noise is due to the receiver more than the transmitter, recording on the goggles is much better
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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mara stop being silly with the lidar sensor challenge
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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it has a weird serial protocol, generated using the mavlink tools but which uses none of the standard definitions
but you can watch the sensor data in real time that's kind of neat
charts for gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer. red,green,blue lines show the X, Y, Z vector components
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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[firmware upgrade]
a black drone with a purple USB cable attached lies upside-down on top of a laptop
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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can't ever ignore the Dependency Principle
excerpt from Iain Banks' Excession: "That was the Dependency Principle; that you could never forget where your Off switches were located, even if it was somewhere tiresome."
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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haven't figured out how to fly it using its controls (that's going to be more complicated), but receiving the video stream is working
ayn thor, receiving video stream from aquila 16 quadcopter, through USB-C connected video rx pretty much the same except dog (somewhere)
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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there's quite a lot of meshtastic nodes here
output from meshtastic --nodes, in my place, after running for one night
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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uh oh. this is going to take a while
list of dependencies for guix bootstrap, starting from early rust version 1.54 to relatively recent one 1.82
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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a beautiful addition to the antenna nest !
a router (covered in purple cloth) with three antennas, with the newly assembled LoRa unit on top in the background a raspberry pi with all kinds of antennas sticking out of it
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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[some assembly required]
meshnology N35 - ESP32 LoRa V3/WiFi LoRa 32 V4 mesh networking kit
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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somehow this SoC manages to have both Vivante and PowerVR embedded GPUs (likely 2D-3D split)
kernel log output [ 13.039054] etnaviv etnaviv: bound ffecc80000.gpu (ops gpu_ops [etnaviv]) [ 13.060092] etnaviv-gpu ffecc80000.gpu: model: GC620, revision: 5552 [ 13.085324] [drm] Initialized etnaviv 1.3.0 20151214 for etnaviv on minor 1 ⋮ [ 15.019451] PVR_K: 289: *****enter sys dev init ffef400000 28 [ 15.027020] PVR_K: 289: Read BVNC 36.52.104.182 from HW device registers [ 15.033961] PVR_K: 289: RGX Device registered BVNC 36.52.104.182 with 1 core in the system [ 15.043275] [drm] Initialized pvr 1.17.6210866 20170530 for ffef400000.gpu on minor 2
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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always nice to see etnaviv running on some device. it's a result of reverse engineering of Vivante embedded GPUs that i did back in the day
# lsmod Module Size Used by ⋮ etnaviv 917504 0 gpu_sched 274432 1 etnaviv
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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it worked! sadly the module didn't fit inside the enclosure, so we have an external antenna now. probably better for signal quality anyway
raspberry pi in passively cooled enclosure, with 8 rainbow wires sticking out of it, plugged into nRF24L01+ transceiver
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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root@:~# fastfetch _,met$$$$$gg. root@ ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. ------------------------ ,g$$P"" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid (forky) riscv64 ,$$P' `$$$. Host: Scaleway EM-RV1-C4M16S128-A ',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: Linux 5.10.113-scw1 `d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 1 hour, 11 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 411 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.3.3 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Terminal: /dev/pts/1 Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' CPU: TH1520 (4) @ 1.85 GHz `$$b "-.__ GPU: Img gpu [Integrated] `Y$$b Memory: 454.53 MiB / 15.35 GiB (3%) `Y$$. Swap: Disabled `$$b. Disk (/): 4.57 GiB / 113.11 GiB (4%) - ext4 `Y$$b. Local IP (end0): `"Y$b._ Locale: en_US.UTF-8 `"""" processor : 0 hart : 0 isa : rv64imafdcsu mmu : sv39 cpu-freq : 1.848Ghz cpu-icache : 64KB cpu-dcache : 64KB cpu-l2cache : 1MB cpu-tlb : 1024 4-ways cpu-cacheline : 64Bytes processor : 1 hart : 1 isa : rv64imafdcsu mmu : sv39 cpu-freq : 1.848Ghz cpu-icache : 64KB cpu-dcache : 64KB cpu-l2cache : 1MB cpu-tlb : 1024 4-ways cpu-cacheline : 64Bytes processor : 2 hart : 2 isa : rv64imafdcsu mmu : sv39 cpu-freq : 1.848Ghz cpu-icache : 64KB cpu-dcache : 64KB cpu-l2cache : 1MB cpu-tlb : 1024 4-ways cpu-cacheline : 64Bytes processor : 3 hart : 3 isa : rv64imafdcsu mmu : sv39 cpu-freq : 1.848Ghz cpu-icache : 64KB cpu-dcache : 64KB cpu-l2cache : 1MB cpu-tlb : 1024 4-ways cpu-cacheline : 64Bytes
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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being turned into a ball was really the theme back then wasn't it
game box cover of airball (1987), with a witch in the intro turning the player into the eponymous airball
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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according to the status page, apparently there was on in 2018. it was declined
unicode.org/emoji/emoji-...
Seahorse | Declined | 10/16/2018
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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admit who you really are with 4 video games with the most hours played in your steam library 😊
liftoff stardew valley shenzhen i/o overload
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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creating a deterministic (hopefully) snapshot of the AS map of the internet in a few hours
--- Start Kartograf --- Kartograf version: 0.4.12 Using rpki-client version 9.6 (recommended). Coordinated launch mode: Waiting until 1762444800 (2025-11-06 16:00:00 UTC) to launch mapping process. Countdown: 6 hour(s), 9 minute(s), 51 second(s)
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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how to propose: unicode.org/emoji/propos...
current status: unicode.org/emoji/emoji-...
sadly (no mention of Emu though!),
Ostrich (Expired) 10/4/2016 Ostrich emoji (Declined) 6/6/2024
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM