Her video explaining everything is here: youtube.com/watch?v=djluF6… Her legal fund is here: gofund.me/45f72d8b7 I donated $1000 to support her cause, but sadly the situation hasn’t received much attention. Even if you can’t contribute, watching and sharing her video would help a lot.

After 14 or so years, finally cancelling my paid dropbox sub. Literally every time I refresh the website I get this upsell.

Halloween week! Time for Vigo to make another appearance!

> But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first. "Asking for permission first would bankrupt the streaming media industry" - Napster probably should have tried this one.

Why are long lists so terrible online? Take a music playlist, it loads 20-30 songs at a time, and then you need to scroll to the bottom, and wait for the next batch to load. Just implement virtual scroll ffs. Count the items in the playlist, let me scroll to the real end, and then batch load that.

This is just my little non-monetised personal blog. Imagine this across all the sites across the internet.

It's still pretty weird to see AI people claim that LLMs aren't destroying web traffic. Let's play a game: Guess when ChatGPT launched:

I've been following Derfies progress on this on discord for a while. He's cooking some cool stuff!

So, anyone got any cool jobs going haha? Interested in Tech Art, Lighting , Lookdev Unreal roles, remote from Adelaide, let me help you make pretty things!

I want to get back on my telescope, and reviewing some of the pain points. Setting up power for a test outside at night is pretty annoying. I know absolute peak draw is under 40watts, and real world measured draw is 17 watts. Enter this amazing thing. I can run it for 3 hours off a power bank!

Got a notification today that Plex was breached and to reset passwords. Decided to double check privacy options there. Woah, they send your data to a LOT of vendors by default. Make sure to check "All No" here. www.plex.tv/vendors-us/

New kubernetes lab! 5x Pi Zero 2w's. Been wanting to deep dive it for a while, and this is a nice isolated environment to mess around with k3s.

New project making progress! A timelapse of the LEDs doing the thing I want them to do, which is display a real-time feed from my all-sky camera. Part of my efforts to "Bring the outside in"

I've spent some time getting familiar with Podman recently to replace docker. I'm really impressed with it. The Quadlet integration with systemd is awesome once you wrap your head around it.

Why did they choose such dramatically different lighting/color correction for a DLSS example? DLSS 4 looks good, but their demo video is a bit deceptive.

After nearly burning out my Raspberry Pi5 and laptop the other day I've setup a sacrificial pi zero 2 W to wirelessly reprogram microcontrollers when working on new prototypes.

The opinions on AI feel so polarized, I feel out of place in both camps. I'm not in the camp of "AI is useless, has no killer app and is a waste of resources" nor am I in the camp of "THIS IS THE PATH TO AGI". Where's the more nuanced takes?

Senua is back home from an overnight stay at the vet, and she's feeling much better!

Can you escape? 🎄🔒 I made this Christmas game a few years ago but I'm still proud of it. Let me know your time. #escaperoom #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #solodev #pointandclick #roomescapemaker

Advent Of Code Day 3 done. I opted for manual string parsing over regex as I just generally don't enjoy working with regex. Who just went with regex? #Python #AdventOfCode

This was the video referenced. I can't stand the audio, I've learned so much since making this first video! youtu.be/nheFNQs378s

Wow just randomly ran into a reference to my very first YouTube video while watching a video! That's unexpected and a first for me! The reference is at about 5:40. youtu.be/6Ov9GhEV3eE

Restoring an OPNSense backup is proving more annoying than I hoped. Apparently you can only restore during install if you have an unencrypted backup. Can't find instructions anywhere on using an encrypted backup.

Finally remembered enough VB6 to finish #AdventOfCode Day 1

Day 1 of advent of code was a good warm up. Took me 30 mins inc setup and because of a very silly mistake that took a while to work out in part 1. #AdventOfCode #python

This project nearly doomed me.

In the early days of my telescope project I had a mishap with a 3D printed part in the sun! Apparently black 3D prints get all melt-y in the sun. I wrote up the results of some experiments I ran with different filaments and colours earlier in the year. www.gdcorner.com/blog/2024/02...

OK. Let's relaunch the Blogosphere! 1/ Put your blog URL in the comments. 2/ If added, please share this post so others can join. 3/ If you don't have a blog, the blogging software I use is 50% off for Black Friday, with free training: app.kajabi.com/r/iW2af4Zf go.bsky.app/TbYqDZV

I have really mixed opinions on this. I have lost time to LLMs leading me up the garden path. I also think LLMs could possibly lead to a stagnation in tech. We may never see another rust or go because LLMs won't have the data to train on new languages and people follow existing models.

Some test footage of Vigo rotating his head to all the extents. This is straight from Godot. I generated a depth map of the painting, then masked out the head, painted some extra details on the face and then rotate around the top of the neck directly in the shader.

Thinking of giving the Advent Of Code another go this year. I tried it a few years ago but ran out of steam after day 16-17. Definitely enjoyed it and felt a bit sharper afterwards. Anyone doing any prep for it?

Welcome to all the newcomers! Here's a starter pack for the 3D Computer Vision community: go.bsky.app/Cfm9XFe

A few months ago my brother and I made this virtual bike experience for a family member. Used a cheap off the shelf mini bike for physiotherapy by replacing the trip computer with an ESP32. The playback speed is adjusted based on the pedaling. The dots on the screen show current and target speed.

I just brought my Formula Pi autonomous racer back to life! This was such a fun competition when it was running. Now running the latest Raspberry Pi OS. Raspberry Pi 3, RPi Camera and 4 big motors direct driving wheels. A solid platform! What should I do with it next?

I'm working on an automatic telescope! This project has been happening slowly in the background for about a year now. The goal is to have the platform automatically align itself, allow you to choose a target to image, and then it will capture images and automatically stack and post process them.

I worked with Sam on this. I did the lighting. Fun fact: The roots of the code are actually the fluorescent lighting code from Quake 1! I ported it to python and then offset a few of the LEDs in the sequence to give it that pulsating effect.

LLMs without the BS. I was finding it difficult to find high quality info on working with LLMs that wasn't just surface level, and wasn't a sales funnel. I turned my notes into a series of blog posts to help others in the same situation! www.gdcorner.com/blog/2024/06...

Made a haunted frame for Halloween! It features Vigo The Carpathian from Ghostbusters 2. Made it with some others that I do a weekly makers space with. Frame is 3D printed with some painting. I handled the software. Uses Godot, Python and YOLO to track people and look at them constantly.

I'm Philip, I'm a game dev that works with Unreal. I enjoy making things with Arduino and Raspberry Pis. I'll be sharing some of my projects here soon. Expect to see things on AI, Unreal, Godot, 3D printing, Astrophotography and more! Looking to follow people with similar interests.