The world is falling apart and war ravages the globe, but I visited an aviary and spent much of the month making a 3d stage/lightshow on which to do a new format tarot show. Me Some stuff from my diary on the fediverse. Birds Went to visit with the family, for my dad and brother’s…
Read more Tarotdrome in cyberspace – March 2024
I have had a ball this month programming the PineTime I got around christmas time. Micropython in a memory constrained controller is a fascinating puzzle. As a result my watch looks like this now: Monolith Watch Face It has the day and date written across the top and the large numbers showing the time in…
Read more Introducing Monolith and Mood for WaspOS / PineTime
Apparently SteamVR might not be the way to go on Linux, and there’s this other implementation of the OpenXR system that Valve invented called “Monando”. (Thanks Gabmus) This can be installed with the following incantations: The last line actually launches the OpenXR service, and looks like it might have crashed coz all you see is…
Read more Making a VR/Godot/Linux/Monando dev system:
What is with Lemmy and Kbin all of a suddent? What are they? Where can I look at them? Why are they hot? What’s the difference? What is going on?
A new king is corronated, I release two cartoons, AI’s progress continues, and the usual pile of links and stuff. Me The king got a coronation so I wonder about pulling swords from stones and watched some protoestors and photoshopped the new monarch and his crown Starmer was saying how Labour are the real Conservatives…
Read more May 2023 – A new king is corronated, I release two cartoons, AI’s progress continues.
It’s been on my list to automate more of the compilation of the monthly newsletter for a while. Just something to do all the copying and pasting I do, as I open the last month’s posts and re-read them all and decide which to include. Now there is a good task of a GPT-assisted size…
Read more What it’s like to program with GPT
A lovely holiday with my parents, the GPT4 release sparks more AI conversation, the Fediverse continues to grow, and I have a date for the first public screening of my new Starship film! *Come!* *It’s this month!* Me Some stuff from my diary on the fediverse: At the start of the month the politicians were…
Read more March 2023 – Family holiday, March of the AI, New Premier Date!
My mother wants a new computer and a new tablet and wants me to set them up for her since she doesn’t really know how to like, log in. And these things tend to get shipped loaded with bullshit from malware makers so probably best to go through it. Other than my mother, basically my…
Read more Windows / Android Install 2023
A month with a flat full of boxes, but all the kick-starter packages got packed up and sent out in time for my 50th birthday party. Me Some stuff from my diary on the fediverse: I bought an Aeropress and surprisingly no longer want sugar in the coffee. Finding the all-Musk twitter show entertaining and…
Read more February 2023 – Kickstart Delivery & Birthday
March Update: All steam ahead. See you on Saturday! A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of my birth will take place on the 4th of March 2023, upstairs at the Roebuck on Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG from 3pm until my birthday begins at midnight. Chilling in the afternoon, maybe some computer games on the…
Mastodon is software for talking to people on the internet. Some of those people may one day become virtual friends, some you may even meet, many will make you laugh or tell you interesting stories. Who knows what might happen. But that’s what we’re doing: Talking to people on the internet. I have been asked…
Read more How To Do Some Mastodon
The story is here, but here’s the transcript of writing it with the AI.The edited final version is here . Full Transcript Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there were two great powers: the fairies and the unicorns. The fairies were small and delicate, with wings that sparkled in the sunlight.…
Read more Strike In Fairyland – Full Transcript.
A chat with the new OpenAI chatbot getting it to help me write a story. This is just the result, the transcript can be found here Chapter One Pixie Lala and Trixabel looked at the poster hanging on the tree in front of them. It showed a fairy, with wings shimmering like diamonds, her delicate…
Calkey is a open-source microblogging server that uses ActivityPub. It’s a fork of Misskey – both are similar to Mastodon and other software for connecting to the Fediverse. Seems really nice on first glance. Shame there’s not likely ever going to be a way to port an existing Mastodon instance into a new Calckey on.…
There seems to be another wave of people coming through to join the Fediverse, and it’s at this time that it’s traditional in the community to write a blog post filled with tips and hints and metaphors to help all the newbies understand what the hell is going on. What the hell is going on?…
Read more Fediverse and Mastodon
Congratulations to Richie Sunak on being appointed to run the king’s country. I hope he’ll lead the king’s ministers and subjects on behalf of and in the interests of the the crown, as this is the job he is now sworn to do. A year ago he was at the G7 telling bankers how keen…
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As the monarch died, I boarded a plane bound for Peru and spent the mourning period having Peruvian adventures instead of being stuck at home with nothing but Mourn-Hub on TV. Here’s a photo gallery, you can also click the links below to see some description from my microblog at the time. I flew all…
On last week’s episode, we had finally found a way to glue and screw a frame together from the fans and perspex windows. Having built the window it’s time to cut a hole. You start with a template. And then you drill a small hole. But find the drill’s battery is flat so you can’t…
Read more Server Cupboard Ventilation
Someone mentioned the Haven protocol and I didn’t know what it was. Sometimes I look into some of these sorts of things a bit. Let’s have a look at this one. What does their documentation say? https://havenprotocol.org/knowledge/how-does-haven-work/ To Paraphrase, if we call Haven “X” for short, “Owning xCoin lets you convert your xCoin into xAssets…
Someone asked if I thought bitcoin would work out. Lightly edited, I replied that: It depends on what is “work out” is I guess. Will it be a life-boat in a sinking economy as the pound and the dollar crash into nothing and socialist-fascism takes over the whole globe except for bitcoin citadels in what…
Read more Most Recent Bitcoin Thoughts
I have a new toy, it’s a hand-sized synth and looper. It’s fun look! Same video, multiple places. Who knows what they’ll delete you for. On Odysee: On Youtube
Social * The war with the squirrels continues. More engineers called out to fix their damage. * Commented about an article suggesting Facebook are in trouble coz their audience is aging and quitting and the cool kids are joining. * And indeed I finally finished leaving Facebook myself. This won’t be posted there. * Captain…
I own the new company dalliance.network and I own it 100%. But, it is a legal entity whereas in contrast I am an actual person. Legal entities may have beliefs, arguably, but even if they do those beliefs are not the same as the people who make up the legal entity. The Dalliance Network is…
Read more Disclaimer: My opinions and those of dalliance.network are not the same.
I just got this weird email from a new address I seem to own. I think that means I got the job! The boss sounds like a bastard. You know that “Stealth mode” stuff when really it’s just “I’ve no idea what I’m doing, just put anything up for now”. The people you have to…
At the end of this month, we start a new decade. The twenty twenties. The century is out of it’s teens, drunk and staggering around looking for purpose. Trying to decide what to do with the rest of its existence. Where have we come from to get us here? Basically my whole life we have…
Turns out, the key to the Fib Retracement indicator is to turn off the garish horrible colours and, more importantly: set it to be log-scale if you habitually use a log-scale graph. When you turn on that button it all starts to make sense. After the 2012/2013 rise in price, the price rapidly spiked down…
Read more Bitcoin Price and the Fibonacci Retracement Indicator.
Back from #Glasto2019 which was enormous fun and remains basically the best party on the planet. Bjorn Again opened it brilliantly, being funny and playing Abba tunes makes for a great show. Tankus The Henge were groovy and funky and I still love his smoking piano/climbing-frame. Tim off of the Charlatans has even more stupid…
Excepts from a day’s arguing on social media….. It’s voting day! These EU elections are more democratic than the UK elections, and are based on a much more fair voting system. They are certainly way more democratic than the WTO elections since those never ever happen. These EU elections are fairly proportional, and you don’t…
Read more So many options but only one choice
Last night I made a story-timer for my improv group based on Dan Harmon’s ranting about story structure. I hope they like it. https://dalliance.net/storytimer/
I take my seat as Sam says to sit down and stare at an object. Concentrate on it and let it be the focus of attention he reckons. Then to turn attention on itself at look at the thing that’s doing the looking. No problem. There’s my glass of water, shining in a sunbeam. What’s…
Read more Still arguing with Sam Harris instead of meditating.
I’ve been meditating again this year. A third of the time with Sam Harris’s new app. I got it for free since I got in early. Ages ago and regularly I’ve donated to his podcast. You should feed the media you love. It seems way more expensive than warranted otherwise to me otherwise. A tenner…
No more sleep in 2018. It’s all over bar the last bit of drinking. I’ve spent the last few days of the year pretty lazily until I got some “Bob” in me yesterday and wrote and recorded this song in the hope of getting it out. Next year: More stuff! More meditation! More fasting! More…
Read more I’m A Subgenius Preacher
Whether we are in or out of the European Union isn’t even close to being the thing which prevents “us” from taking back “control” in this country. Whatever your “Us” vs “Them” may be. Most of us live in places where our votes don’t even count. Safe seats in the UK: 382 Total seats in…
Mycroft is an open-source home assistant. Kinda like Seri or Alexa only ideally not spying on you and more adaptable and programmable. I have been playing with it for a couple of days. Install Installing Mycroft went better than I expected. Cloned the repo, ran the startup and there it was. It wasn’t listening to…
Read more A few days with Mycroft.
My sci-fi story is done, it’s actually finally done! Well, you know, 20% done. But the 20%-done version mini-story is DONE and will be uploaded starting next week. Starship Schrödinger’s Destiny is my interactive Virtual Reality sci-fi story about the crew of a flying saucer. You can see a few clips buried amongst five minutes…
I never really believed the polls when they were predicting like half of all votes would be voting Tory, so I’m not sure there’s been as much of a swing as is reported really, more like a polls-error-correction. Through most of the elections I’ve been really aware for, there’s been little choice on offer frankly.…
Read more Preaching to my choir
Existential Comics this week is easily one of their best. I wonder if that counts as interfering with the election? Not like in a CIA, way, not even in a Russia way, but more in a geek-in-the-basement way, which is easily the coolest. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/186
An IRC translation of the election debate, written with prejudice. Mod: Look, this is still cool. We had them all last time. It’s like an elimination round. A spin-off show. This is like the Elections Little Brother or something. Intro Statements ======================= Green: After the war, we actually invested in our country and made all…
I live over the road from Holloway Prison. But Holloway Prison is no longer a prison. The last of the inmates escaped last year. When I say “Escaped” I mean “were transfered to other, hopefully better, prisons”. And it’s the government’s intention to sell the land to developers, basically. I can see an argument for…
The thing about when the audio-editing software “Audacity” crashes on you (which it has done on me several times tonight) is that at least you get to step back from your standing desk and throw your arms out and exclaim “How DARE you have the AUDACITY to just suddenly lock up right THEN!? When I…
My phone keyboard app tells me that I have swiped a mile with it now. That’s done in, roughly, a year. Depending on whether it’s counting distance racked up on the old stolen phone. I think this is low, compared to most folk’s who use a Swype-style swiping keyboard. For Swift Key isn’t really about…
The EU parliament have written a report on the regulation of robots in the EU. It’s pretty good, all in all. Asking many of the right questions, suggesting some reasonable answers. And a few unreasonable ones, but hopefully that’ll get ironed out in subsequent drafts. It’s stupidly long and detailed with no beauty and is…
Somehow or another my “offline” login to my Windows box seems to have been changed during the last session to an online account attached to my email address but with a different password that I don’t know. It tells me I can change this at screwyoucustomer.microsoftarebastards.com Presumably if you own Windows you’re expected to have…
As you may know, the government have passed their Snoopers Charter retro-actively legalizing their spying on all citizens, legalizing lying in court about where they get their evidence, and promising that in future they’ll ensure your complete browsing history is available to everyone from MI5 through the Food Standards Agency to the Gambling Commission. You…
Read two great posts this evening. One, from Paul Arbair (great name, great profile picture) here: https://paularbair.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/trump-and-the-autumn-of-democracy/ One from the better-known George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/13-crises-we-face-trump-soil-loss-global-collapse George was the guy who first pointed me at Paul Arbair in the first place (though not that Arbair post), but even despite that they seem…
Observations upon owning a keyboard with a separate number-pad for a few days It’s really nice having the mouse that bit closer to the right hand. It’s not about the reach, or the time it takes to traverse the reach, it’s mostly about the angle of your muscles and bones during use. Mouse-work is BAD…
The N900 is still by far my favorite of all the phones I ever owned, and it was so for three main reasons. Number one: The slide-out keyboard. When I had that keyboard, the best email-interface was still just Mutt over a terminal. Which is to say, the best and most efficient email-interface ever! A…
I’ve been using Windows again for a bit. The VR stuff that I wanna play with just isn’t there outside Windows yet. It’s very annoying. But obviously the machine is Linux underneath. Boots into Linux by default. But I’m mostly actually using that machine for Unity3d stuff and VR stuff and it’s left in Windows…
I have finally given up trying to run my own email server. None of my MX records point at myself anymore. Not only will Google be getting a copy of every email I receive from now on (which they mostly already had on account of being sent from Google in the first place), but now…
Since Drunkman is finished, I’d been doing some more Tentacles writing. This was going okay, but then I got distracted by owning a VR headset and downloading Unity3d (a game-writing engine) and now I’ve found myself building a VR game instead. There will be some devlog on that at some point too I guess, but…
