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it sounds like you actually gave if 5 seconds of your time, which is appreciated. if you'd like to give it a bit more i be happy to receive any feedback on fremmedartet@gmail.com

yup, i am working with a local freecycle group. but very loosely. you can try and search for "svendborg" to find a place with atleast an item. the whole idea is to be local. so it deliberatly only shows items within the map bounds

using a ton of p2p stuff, trying to be local/offline first, trying to be distributed, trying to be very very smartypants and clever. totally made with ai, but on the basis of an old project. why AI? its a freetime project, im not professionally working with software anymore, small kids, stress allergic, project is ok to fail etc etc etc. code is here: https://github.com/sloev/saysheep

A no_std + alloc immediate-mode UI library targeting UEFI firmware.

made to make it possible for me to make a decent text-editor only os (with usb drive saving) for a friend that doesnt like network access and distractions.

also just a fun ride down the uefi rabbithole :-)

Sorry. I only test my lulz-ware in android chrome. I have fun and then wanna show people my toys so they can play with them.

What do you mean by embedded browser? From your message its hard to figure out os, browser, versions, device or really anything. "It works in chrome" :-) I get an install process going in both android and ubuntu.

Btw. Have you checked my code on creating the charts? I really had fun making them without libs/etc. Its just svg with some translateX stuff hehe

Have a great one!

simkojns are cash, reusable

really? i see it as clipart (think word clipart), so just some tacky fill for the eyes :-)

When thinking about offline currency and simcards we identified the following:

verifiable centrally issued identifier printed on card and can be verified by inserting into any phone

coin-like small physical tokens

offline verification processes could be as simple as a distributed poster with whitelisted id's

distributed and decentralized bootstrapping based on trust in accepted id's.

Source https://github.com/stevemk14ebr/YTCH

Troubleshoot/faq: Load site, click listen link in the top, refresh site

What is it: A live feed of anonymized obfuscated samples, from the decentralized diy heating infrastructure of freetown christiania, is translated into velocities and pentatones for different instruments (hashfunction of data selects instrument) and played live in browser using js midi lib. We supply heating to about 500 entities, and sample once per minute.

Project url with links to source code and presentations etc here:

https://sloev.github.io/projects/radio_nabovarme.html

Had a fun time implementing a spacy (python nlp) pipeline component around a onnx sentiment model.

I can recommend onnx as a way to reduce the danger of having tech dept in your models as onnx has a more stable format.

Interesting idea but i got too annoyed by the unresponsive ui to spend more than my 15 seconds there. The map especially is blocking too much, please fix and ill be back

Its great. I have it on paper, got it as a present. Also check "on truth" by same author

I dropped my dev career on the floor in april this years due to stress, anxiety etc.

Since then ive started on carpenter school which all though fun and "real" also has made me poor.

I picked up the computer two weeks ago and coded some badly written code to do visuals for a friends techno gig, first time coding for half a year and i liked it. I dont know if i would be able to go back to full time coding but the idea of teaching others sounds interesting to me.

Good luck!

I dont like my company because: I endlessly think about solutions to problems like personal budget, relationship to my kids mom, feeling alone and having no immediate people to talk to. That my mental illness is deteriorating. That my kids will inherit my ilness. Etc etc etc. And then i also spend too much time trying to figure out how other people function since i sincerely dont have an idea of what "normal behavior of lifestyle" looks like"

Both of these are traits of my skizotypical diagnosis being 'lack of identity' 'lack of understanding of how other people engage in life' 'emotional blindness' etc

I have a severe coffee problem i admit. Biggest addiction of mine and definitly needs taking care of. I consider moving to rooibos tea as i like the flavor more than coffee

i suggest that your "war" only needs to be fought because you don't have enough total free time, and it will seem like a very different war when that changes.

My war is personal, ive been over productive for 7 years like this: Work 50+ hours as it engineer, taking on too much responsibility. Doing opensource projects in spare time. Doing srt projects like stage shows and stuff on weekends. Being a dad to 3. Being main supplyer of moneys in the home. Having some heavy duty mental ilness diagnoses on the top. All the while i never felt i was worth anything. Not a dime.

Now i aim for having low amount of recurring bills. Chill with my kids (i now dont live with anymore since the above details produced my divorce) Be outside, all weather, all the time. Be helpful. And accept a new way of not being productive. And therefore also not consuming a lot.

I agree. I recently came on sick leave due to stress and had to grasp the immense amount of sudden time on my hands.

Since i am on sickleave due to anxiety, stress and skizotypia i dont usually like being alone with my thoughts.

so what ive done with my time is this:

Wake up, fill my thermos with hot water. Leave my apartment.

Drive around on my bike looking for hidden places. It can be an empty lot behind a supermarket or an off-path place in the forrest.

Walk around and study the vegetation. Find a nice place for some instant coffee, chill.

Sit-drink coffee-stare-listen-repeat.

Decide to leave. Bike to a place where there is a lot of people i know. Leave cuz i am too anxious to talk to any of them.

Have a quick chat at the harbour with some strangers.

Go to the library and read a bit of comics or newspapers. Take the bus to another harbour.

Make minor.fixes to my small boat from the 70's.

Go to the swimming hall. chill in sauna and max up the heat. Stare.

Go home, make food for minimum money as an exercise. Eat.

Think about projects i could imagine would be fun. Imagine the details of them. Maybe write them down. Be okay with never doing them.

Watch some hbo.

Plan when i have my kids again "maybe tomorrow?" And where to take them? Usually the beach or the forrest and have fun in the woods.

Go my my bedroom without any devices and sleep.

I live in denmark

I dont like the idea of replacing the time spend compulsively procrastinating with "learning a new language, getting a pet, going to the gym" is the right way.

I see the root cause (for me atleast (used to read HN and blogs for 4 hours everyday)) is that i cant stand being with myself.

During the last two months ive been trying to not panic when i'm idle. And not take out my phone or read the nearest material i can lay my hands on.

Instead i try to accept the necesity of "falde i staver" (danish for 'falling out of presence'). When i was a kid i would often just fall into this state and just defocus with my sight and let daydreaming take over.

Basically i have a war going against effectiveness. I hold unto my right as a mammal to be inefficient and sit drooling looking at trees.

My advice on "doing something" when you have day without plans is the following: Bike in the forrest, coffee from thermos near the ocean, read newspapers at the library, talk to people at trainstations (the frequent hangouts are always open for conversations)

I once had a "laughing pillow" green with a smiling face on it. I dissasembled it age 9 and found a small record inside. Touching the belt produced some rather horrific low pitch laughing. It used a spring behind a button as "power" no batteries used

Awesome! My friend did the same although he started by taking the first semester of carpenter education beforehand as he had no practical experience.

For me, i have no savings, and i have no need for big paychecks. However i also lack skills outside computer this'n'that so i as well consider taking the danish carpenter education which is 4 years with most of it being payed practice at an employer. My hope is that would give me the knowhow to buy some land and create a home plus then severely lower my weekly hours and income.

Ceephax acid crew played at Loppen (oldest rock venue in scandinavia, located in freetown christiania) back in 2012 if i remember correctly. I did visuals and the theme and dresscode was "cat techno" Best gig ever. His gear lineup is insane. All original equipment with years under his hands. It was mindblowing to see him orchestrate all the machinery and express the complex and melodic acid he is so known for. Here is a video from the night, i made it start after a part showing how we welded old tv sculptures to be used for the visuals. Enjoy, i surely did!!! Thanx ceephax!!!

https://youtu.be/5f3pPTpBxMA?t=137

(Edit: i wrote a ton of visuals software for that night only, some of it is listed here: https://github.com/sloev/psyphon_terrain) really miss dancing to "mediteranean acid"!!!!!!

This story makes me angry. Go to europe, any country here has more security to offer you.

More quotes:

"During the 20th century, and up to this day, workers in large capitalist oligopolistic firms (like General Electric, Exxon-Mobil, or General Motors) received approximately 80% of the company’s income. Big Tech’s workers do not even collect 1% of their employer’s revenues. This is because paid labour performs only a fraction of the work that Big Tech benefits from. Who performs the bulk of the work? Most of the rest of us! For the first time in history, almost everyone produces for free (often enthusiastically), adding to Big Tech’s capital stock (that is what it means to upload stuff on Facebook or move around while linked to Google Maps). And, moreover, this capital takes a new, far more powerful form"

My favorite quotes:

"When ‘Bitcoin maximalists’, as you call them, wax lyrical about the inability to print money (and celebrate this inability as Bitcoin’s feature, rather than its bug), they are being terribly unoriginal – banal, I dare say. Capitalism nearly died in 1929, and tens of millions did die in the war that ensued, because of this toxic fallacy that underpinned the Gold Standard then and Bitcoin now. Which fallacy? The fallacy of composition, as John Maynard Keynes called it.

Its essence is a tendency to extrapolate from the personal realm to the macroeconomic one. To say that if something is good for me – if a practice is sound at the level of my family, business, etc. – it must also be good for the state, government, humanity at large"

""We seem to have forgotten how Marx and Engels had the nous and the ability, on the one hand, to admire and celebrate the technological and scientific wonders of their era and, on the other hand, grasp that these potentially liberating technologies were bound to enslave the many if they became instrumentalised by the very few. The two Germans believed in the emancipatory potential of the steam engine and of electromagnetism. But, they never believed that society would be liberated by the steam engine and/or electromagnetism. Liberation required a political movement that first overthrows the bourgeoisie and only then presses these magnificent technologies into the service of the many. This seems to me an excellent way of approaching today’s potentially liberating technologies, including blockchain"

Great post, i like this video connecting sleng teng, casio and david bowie. Heavy basis for suspecting the duke was basis for the preset. https://youtu.be/R_Hko8LRdyo

Thanks. Maybe its time to try reddit again

Scripts i wrote:

Voidface: replace the face with an empty void using dlib and facial landmarks

Teethscan: slitscan teeth and eyes while extruding the scans from the correct landmarks and morph to correct orientation of video face subject

Deathmetal logo growth: create particles that are afraid of the dark and branches like trees while growing out leaving traces after them thru their lifetime ending up painting deathmetal logos

Facetubes: a source particle roams around inside the face region. A target particle roams around inside a rect. Targetcopies the pixel values on the cirumference of a circle with varying radius of the source particle.

Mouthwall/eyewall: orientate, normalize and crop eyes or mouth of a face, put all of them next to eachother in a gri as a circular buffer.new frame comes in in right bottom corner, old one leaves in upper left corner.

I think that was it

Hi, I had some great fun coding all the effects in this video using python, opencv and dlib.

My approach: I work as a dev in roboto nautic drones. I am strict at the dayjob so i "shitcode" my "artware" in my sparetime meaning i usually go through the following cycle:

(Example based on the slitscan teeth and eyes effect from the video)

1. I wake up from a (day/night)-dream with a thought: "how wluld it look if the teeth grew out from a video face while showing their past as a slitscan"

2. I find a sourcevideo since i am lazy (usually on youtube)

3. Load up vscode and startwriting python

4. I write in a state of garbage flow, garbage because the code i write is deliberatley trashy (a vent/dayjob escape), flow because i dont do much editing. Itend to like to overwrite (reclare) functions instead of correcting them leaving a huge pile of trash code

3. I render a few frames, correct my algorithm, render some more and when happy (or falling asleep) i press enter and let it run (with tqdm telling me eta on completion)

4. I way, usually days because i deliberatelydont optimize my code so its slooooooow to render

5. On finnish i look at the result and feel like i got the answer and move on.

In this example though i didnt move on cuz i was doing a friend a favor and had to compile my messy clips into a timeline and give it back to him in form of a music video.

I canrelease my shitty code but i am afraidsomebody might get a seazure looking at it lol