Kasami

Cool transfer16(0xEE50) you got there. This shouldn't even be capable of sending 24 bits, wtf even happened

A 2-year-old bug in earlephilhower pico core, is what happened. I opened an issue just now.

Spent multiple evenings trying to figure out why a simple pico-based board with audio out was drawing a quarter of an amp. Turns out it's not my board's fault at all. My PC just has a nearly quarter amp ground loop current between front panel and back panel USB. I hate computers, man.

Predicting like a 40% chance that Tetsuryo will make a Lagtrain reference at some point

It's fun to look around old MC world downloads and find stuff like this and wonder about the people who built them

That said, the main castle area looks like it was built in artificial terrain and then copy-pasted into a vanilla world later on and terraformed around, before several people then expanded into the new terrain. Maybe they lowered it a block to match up the sea level at that point?

It's fun to look around old MC world downloads and find stuff like this and wonder about the people who built them

I think this world was built across a range of versions from late beta to early release, so there are glitched doors and other broken stuff and it doesn't look quite right in any single version

Threw together a rough EQ for some old camcorder tapes by playing a sine sweep from my headphones into the same camcorder, then into my phone, then roughly making one flat relative to the other. It's much better, but as a side effect it now sounds like they recorded audio on a smartphone in 2003 lol

I have an old sony audio recorder that might be a much better reference mic than a phone so I'll try redo it with that tomorrow. I didn't even buy that intending to use it, but its quality is surprisingly good so it kinda ended up in the audio equipment pile instead of the collectible old tech pile.

Observation 1: many education systems measure "intelligence" in ways that reward memorization and bullshitting your way through things (whether or not that's the intention) Observation 2: some people view the ability of LLMs to memorize and bullshit their way through things as "intelligent" 🤔

Saw a news article about a semi local thing being built, photo of the frame of the building saying it's from 5 months ago... I was there a month ago and checked that plot of land and it was empty??? What's going on I'm so confused

Did... did someone do fake progress photos with AI and the news org got fooled by it? I'm gonna have to go check it out in person soon I think

Interestingly the RF chip in the Cybiko limits it to like 7mW in the 433MHz band but only 2mW in the 915MHz band (if I'm reading correctly), so I think even without those bands being so crowded by modern technology it was always just worse in the US.

I don't think it's a regulatory limitation either. Unless things have changed massively since that chip was designed, I think the allowable transmit power on 915 in the US is way way higher. It's most likely a technical limitation.

Went and bought one of the cheapo aliexpress watches that does the same thing with an RGB backlight to see how they did it. It's basically the same thing, except their reflective polarizer is double-sided and has a few extra layers which don't really functionally change anything.

The full stackup from front to back seems to be - linear front polarizer - LCD glass - black screenprint - linear back pol - diffusing gel/glue? maybe silicone-based - aligned ref-pol (forward) - aligned ref-pol (backward / combined with above?) - quarter waveplate (not important?) - protective film

AI bros are really coming out with phrases like "human slop" in response to human-made art that mocks AI "art" now huh. Human slop. What a time to be alive.

Weird that the cheapest way to buy "cereal box" containers for 3D printer filament (online) right now seems to be buying ones that are specifically sold as filament boxes rather than just... buying the ones sold for cereal.

A month and a half later I think I've got the majority of it. 4993 items, 63GB archived. It's SO much more than short promo videos, there are also longer audio things in here. The only things I haven't got now are about 300 items that immediately return a 403 error on the player manifest.