Tech tip (?): The dog-walking lights I ordered from AliExpress came the wrong color (I ordered blue) and too bright. Check out this easy hack to sort of fix 'em that even a dumbass like me can do:
Got a new printer - it prints on anything, even curved potato chips! So far I've been using it as a $2100 labeler, its camera positioning system makes it dang easy (and addictive) to use. Hrm, what else can I print on... (Credit: some pics are from @Yumcans's game Popslinger)
Fancy rocks are boring. If you're going to propose, may I suggest:
I think it ends tonight but here are my tips anyway: Show up at 5:30 PM and dress warmly. Stand away from the iPad in the center of your lane, use the Hold button from memory, you won't see next pieces. Play on "Hard", it's easy. We didn't try t-spin so not sure if it works.
Photo from last night at Kyoto station. They are letting people play Tetris on the massive stairs, using 15,000 LEDs. Met some friendly players, a pro with the coolest Tetris jacket scored 48K+, she ruled. ( 京都 大階段 )
Despite the lack of legs, my @pollenrobotics reachy robot danced off a table and damaged three motors. Finally sourced replacement motors (was hard in Japan, sold out), so hopefully we'll get this sassy little guy back online. Don't place it near the edge of a table!
I like tricky problems like this! for example, it has to manipulate the screen with taps like a human would do to clearly see cards/status effects. I think I'm too lazy (as usual) to do anymore work on it right now, but wanted to at least share the screenshot
Early work on an AI that can play Pokémon TCG Pocket only by watching the screen. Got to the point where it can reliably 'see' the cards and match them up to its internal card db to generate a super-prompt that produces structured movement advice
It also scans certain reddit subs and grabs top stories & comments. I allow it to create an image if there isn't one - with the requirement that it clearly labels it as AI generated, as it's hard to tell. Maybe a bad idea though, this image looks pretty real, for example...
Couple of reasons why I find this useful: 1. Has a section where it checks raw Japanese news and includes political bias tags for the source. 2. Kyoto event section includes distance from my house, pricing and one click google map.
Been experimenting with OpenClaw (w/Opus) to send me daily Japan news digests. It doesn't get blocked grabbing news and photos because it just switches to a real browser (on its VM) when needed. Today's version: rtsoft.com/temp/daily_d...
At a party and too many people are talking, causing Reachy to get stunlocked? After speaking, cover up the mic array on top with a towel or something so it will stop listening and answer. (thanks Yael!)
Audio gain hack that works in the conversation app:
AUDIO_GAIN = 2.5 # 250% volume
audio_frame = np.clip(audio_frame * AUDIO_GAIN, -1.0, 1.0)
robot.media.push_audio_sample(audio_frame) #put in front of this line
The Reachy-mini is a lot of fun. It really is like having a useless Starwars droid. Some tips: Can't set it up? At least one feb batch (including mine) got botched and needs to be reflashed. Speaker too weak? Can hack apps with a gain, helped a ton.
*labubu (?)
Yeah, it’s hard to know! I think at some point AI will likely start catching scams that most people miss, like detecting a fake Lababu or repro NES cart by comparing images, but early adoption can be risky.
"buy me a used Ghost of Yotei for PS5 if you can find it for < 5400 yen, no confirmation required" <shrug> I don't feel like trusting AI to do this is that crazy now, it works. (brain: Opus 4.6, CC is generated+limited, has defensive knowledge setup for Mercari purchasing)
Thanks, will check it out soon
Toolfish V2.35 released! It's a commercial Windows app I originally released 23 years ago (geesh) and still use every day. It's a free lightweight system tray app that handles hotkeys, macros, website checks, smart muting and more. Open source on github: github.com/SethRobinson...
I do the exact same thing! #geriatricgamersunite
I guess using two power supplies (different breakers) on a single motherboard is flying too close to the sun (they can pull 3kw combined), despite the mb (WRX90E-SAGE) supporting it. Hopefully no damage beyond the power supply...
Year is starting off with a bang... my 8gpu homelab beast machine died again. :/ One of its two Seasonic Prime TX-1600 power supplies kicked the bucket. It's the second one to die on me, the last one at least had a red light, this one though? Nothing.
a youtuber bought the brand from a Dutch company, but it’s contested by Commodore Italy or something so there is still legal wrangling going on I guess. This is a great product so I hope it works out for them
Can confirm the C64U works great with the PadSwicher64. Can also confirm jumping across a river is still damn near impossible in this game
(put up a video showing this in action) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGH...
not sure I would trust "de-risking" my game launch to these folks. I mean, the email is about 35 years too late
If you want to try it too, grab it here: github.com/SethRobinson... - I overhauled my real-time screen translation app UGTLive to also handle manga
Will my Japanese improve if I read manga written for kids? Gonna try. Of course, as usual, I had to procrastinate actually doing that by writing tools to (in theory) help me study better
Finally got around to dumping the ripoff known as cPanel to admin my websites. Instead of $47 a month I now pay $0 with Virtualmin GPL. Only took like an hour to switch over, smooth import process.
