Keir Finlow-Bates

A simple #Luanti compatible server running on a $15 #ESP32 S3 waveshare development board You can log in, explore a generated world with hills, forests, caves, biomes and ores, dig and build, place torches, drop and pick up items, choose a skin, and see the other players github.com/kf106/esp32-...

Of course I have to squeeze some #education into my AI apocalypse single-webpage #game - there are now 58 reference links for the various advancements that improve your situation. Now you can waste four hours of your life while learning more about AI in an interactive manner. singularvalue.org

Certainty blocks curiosity Hence by negation, uncertainty aids curiosity Therefore uncertainty killed the cat Suddenly Schrödinger's thought experiment makes a lot more sense.

Geometry dash-style game on a $3 ESP32 C3 super mini board. 72x40 pixel screen, one button, 16 levels. Written in no_std Rust, MIT licensed. github.com/kf106/esp32-... #esp32 #rustlang #embedded #retrogaming #diyelectronics

The more I know, the more I know how little I know.

I need my wife to stop anthropomorphizing our basil plants. Starting with a ban on giving them names.

I'm glad I got to write over half a million words on tech articles before AI came along. At least I managed to develop my own voice in time.

Investment opportunities require regulation because they fall on a scale from "honest", to "give insiders an unfair advantage" right along to "outright scam", and without full disclosure it's impossible to tell which applies, even with DYOR...

Legislating for things that don't exist is hard

ILoveTaylorSwift is not a secure password, especially if your water bottle is covered with holographic stickers of her.

Just finished Pretenders to the Throne of God by @aptshadow.bsky.social and thoroughly enjoyed it Loved the way the structure of things was clarified. The demon kings are the equivalent of cloud service providers! Tyrant Philosophers is my favorite of his worlds (Final Architecture is a close 2nd)

OSI layer 8: the human layer. We like to think we operate at a conscious level at all times, but if agency is sufficiently manipulated through dark patterns and default Pavlovian behaviors (e.g. accept all cookies), human attention and trust become just another layer on the computer network

My wife asked me to sort the "lost souls" (our basket of mismatched socks). Instead I spent an hour building an LLM-powered sock-matcher. Camera, image piping, slick UI. She was so impressed. Then we tried it. Spent the next hour sorting socks manually.

Bought a Lenovo Thinkstation PGX for thousands of dollars, and cursing the fact that you have no idea if it's up and running? Spend a couple of bucks, and use this repo to know what it's doing by glancing across at the ESP32 board taped to it. blockchaingandalf.substack.com/p/monitoring...

ZX Spectrum emulator on a $10 CYD (cheap yellow display) using the touch screen as a keyboard. So no extra hardware or peripherals required. github.com/kf106/cyd-zx...

A true mime does not seek permission.

Strangely, of all the Eurovision entries this year, it's the Moldova one that has become an earworm.

My wife was furious with Crossplay today. "Is nudzh even an English word? The definition is noodge, but is that even an English word?" I resisted the temptation to tell her to stop complaining.

Let's be really clear: when a politician, influencer, or commentator starts their statement with "Let's be really clear," I immediately assume I'm about to hear or read total bullshit.

- what do bondage, curves, and latex have to do with blockchain? - can werewolves help with business transformation? - does vodka help you traverse London faster? Find out if you watch Anthony Day and me talk about my latest book, Smart Contract Innovation. youtu.be/jkWPVTATJR4

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't change one's mind.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've changed my mind six times before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”

I don't have ADHD. At least, I think I haven't. I did a test to determine whether or not, but I got bored half way through it and gave up.

@amalelmohtar.com - is this a decent opening to a novel on time travel?

AI is like politics - everyone I talk to seems to think their take on it is absolutely the correct one, regardless of whether they are massive fanboys, totally against it, or somewhere in between.

A good shower is like a top restaurant three-course meal, but with no calories.

Empathy that is a calculated move is not called empathy. It's called sociopathy.

How the Finns sucker you in. "Our language uses the Western alphabet," they say. "One phoneme for each grapheme," they exclaim. "It's the most logical language on the planet," they promise. And then the horror begins...

Last few days to get my new book in hardcover at the paperback price. mybook.to/sci

Short shameless self-promotion post. My publications look pretty cool when laid out on the floor. mybook.to/kf106

My new book on blockchain innovation, smart contracts, the risk of quantum computing, and a whole bunch of other stuff is now available as an eBook. Check mybook.to/sci

For the next 10 days my newest book is still available in hardback at the upcoming paperback price. mybook.to/sci

When the master held up a mirror to the monk and asked, "What do you see?" the monk replied "Myself.” And then when the master shattered the mirror on the ground and asked, "Which one is you?" the monk hesitated. And then answered, "I thought sharding was planned for 2028." Book launch on 25/4!