for the bajillionth time it is entirely possible to say "yes this was bad and dumb and pointless and effectively killing people for content is evil" and also acknowledge it was not in any way shape or form a LOAC violation
are uniformed band members noncombatants, the dumbest thread in the history of forums
Testing of the Ukrainian naval unmanned platform Magura V5 equipped with launchers for anti-air interceptor drones.
Interceptor pro max for the Dubai market
🇺🇸🇶🇦🇺🇦 The US and Qatar are negotiating the purchase of Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor drones, - Reuters.
New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”
Now ESP32 C5 is out which opens up 5 GHz WiFi, and a crop of other chips are also aiming to take the space that Teensy used to occupy, RP2040/2350 are dirt cheap and for quickly dumping something from flash, driving a GPIO or similar, non brainer to choose it
The price of compute on several Arduino-compatible platforms such as the mighty ESP32 is so low that it makes sense to choose it for complex applications. The roborock remote's UI doesn't suffer from frame drops and can render nice graphics while maintaining a TCP connection open.
Used to loathe messing with Arduinos a decade ago due to the library system, the IDE at that time and the price of components.
Now been having a blast messing with open source hardware projects and even creating my own. PlatformIO deals with all of the shortfalls, so one can just *code*.
"Can everyone see my helicopter kill?"
❗️The death toll from the russian missile attack on Kharkiv has risen to nine, including two children.
You met me at a very Chinese time in my voyage
Here it is in action
Quickly wired up an analog video transmitter so I could view the POV from my goggles. The IMU controls work great, I added some expo between 50-100 on the Y axis so that it felt like piloting an FPV drone.
Finally made it fun to clean my apartment.
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
It’s Ukraine’s turn to ask if we even said “thank you”.
how it feels taking public transit rn
Added an IMU based RC control mode! The robot can't go in some spaces without manual piloting. Just need to add an analog camera transmitter and drive this thing like an Avata drone.
We just making shit up on main 🤷♀️
Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.
It is also true that just because the U.S. has long been aware of the threat, this doesn’t mean we’ve actually become *good* at defending against Iranian drones in the current fight that these idiots started on purpose
either they’re actually so wildly incompetent they genuinely never thought about defense against Iranian Shaheds or (more likely) Hegseth et al are lying about why they’re screwing this particular operation up so bad.
Neither option is good
Also Home Assistant for home products, some integrations directly hit the device's internal APIs vs using the cloud. For example old Hue lamps.
Also Louis Rossman is very active in this scene bounties.fulu.org/bounties/
I believe that bounty system led to unlocking Nest thermostats: github.com/codykociemba...
There's plenty of community efforts on GitHub and elsewhere to build open source privacy respecting clients for many gadgets and services. I used to lead one for GoPro cameras. Gadgetbridge seems to be the umbrella app for lots of watches, I use it to control my headphones.
There's Gadgetbridge for watches/earphones/IoT gadgets: gadgetbridge.org
For robot vacuums there's valetudo: valetudo.cloud (this was the sole reason I purchased a roborock device, and accidentally ordered a newer variant which is hard to root...)
Many times the LLM could not figure out how to solve a specific issue, which I was able to solve by looking at the logs and the code, due to the LLM deciding to try different approaches instead of fixing the issue in the current code, which just needed 1-2 line fix. Other approaches were also flawed
now I grasp the panic. While the fanfare about LLMs is how it'll displace programmers and how writing code by hand will disappear, for me the revelation is how effective this is when you actually know the stuff at hand.
I've long resisted all-out prompting, until recently my extent of LLM usage was Cursor Tab which suggests snippets when auto completing. Basically saw it as a tool to generate quick snippets when I'm stuck. First time I've not written many lines of code in a project...
Next up is wiring an ESP32 C3 to the Roborock's USB port, have that host a simple AP with DHCP+DNS servers, so both the stick and robot connect to this isolated AP and then the robot can't upload anything to the cloud. Unfortunately past damage is done, have to setup the rooms with the cloud.
