Mika Saastamoinen
mikashki.bsky.social
Mika Saastamoinen
@mikashki.bsky.social
IT pro, interests XR, gadgets, science, new tech, AI, foresight, innovation. Helsinki, Finland. Elsewhere mstdn miksi@techhub.social & @akindofmika on X
This AI cover songs thing is turning into a real rabbit hole for me. 😅 There's all kinds, 50s and 60s soul or jazz, 80s rock, "as reggae" and on and on variations of famous modern songs, e.g Billie Eilish's Bad Guy as 80s rock. Wow.
youtu.be/8XJF4iVZsmQ?...
If Billie Eilish made Rock? bad guy (80s Rock Cover)
YouTube video by Re:Sound
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To add, Soapbox also has a neat mixed reality mode which enables you to place the artist right in your own room space, like a private concert performance in your own living room! Or you can switch to VR mode to view him/her on a virtual stage instead of your own messy room 😅
September 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
All three provide an immersive 3d way of distributing "live" (pre-recorded) performances of music artists, standup comedians, plays, or whatever performances. Movies and TV shows too ofc. All in your headset. Depends on content producers if they'll do more stuff this way ofc
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And while I was at it, I checked a couple of other "immersive media" apps like SoapBox and AmazeVR, and found their ways of presenting 3D music performances very cool also. SoapBox does volumetric/photogrammetry based mesh-"videos" and AmazeVR looks to be stereoscopic 180 video.
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What century (or millennium even) is he living in?? (Or what century are the cars he's talking about from...) The "radio" in modern cars is just a piece of circuitry and chips embedded somewhere in the vehicle and the radio UI is just software on the infotainment screen. Good luck stealing that. 😅
August 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I doubt our mowerbot is better than "western" bots, has no smart features like GPS positioning and mapping, intelligent cutting routing or anything fancy. This one just pingpongs randomly within the boundary wire area by clock schedule. But it gets the job done with daily consistent pingponging 😅
July 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Ours is some cheap and simple Chinese thing sold under Brücke brand here in Finland. Costs like 300€ as new, we bought it second-hand. But yeah, we just set it up and scheduled it to run daily for a couple of hours and that's it. It did stop running now in July for a couple of weeks, reason unknown
July 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Hitsiläinen. Pitäisköhän alkaa keräämään ja purkittamaan kuusenkerkkiä tosta viereisestä kaupungin puistosta ensi keväänä... 😳 Monta isoa kuusta tossa ihan parinkymmenen metrin päässä
July 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
In recent times I've been adding a portion of rye flour to the wheat flour for pizza doughs. Seems to make the baked pizza dough softer and "airier" as well as gives it more taste. Rye is a very Finnish incredient though, Italians probably wouldn't approve. 😁
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
FAFO in the making... 🙄Bet they'll blame Biden for all the death and destruction that will follow.
June 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yes, these are the droids we are looking for. 😁 Last summer we got a cheap second-hand mowerbot and in mid-May we left it working at the summer cabin, and now that we went there for the 1st time since May, we find the lawn nearly like a golf green, instead of the overgrown jungle it's usually been
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
D+: have an AI code the app for you. Kind of what I've started working on to get a grip on my library of tens of thousands of photos from over two decades...
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Android app does the realtime location and gyro thing as well, I'd assume iOS app the same
May 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not sure how in-depth info you're looking for, but Stellarium has some at least. 😉 For free too.

Pc app
stellarium.org
Web app
stellarium-web.org
Mobile apps for Android and iOS are available too
Stellarium Astronomy Software
Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.
stellarium.org
May 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM