The Communication Cube


Found a battery-driven 6V LED strip with PIR sensor at a local shop. Put the motion sensor where it makes sense and cut off the length I needed for the keyboard stand. Compared to the Chinese LED strip I found this only has a third of the LEDs per meter, comes without a diffusor and still costs twice as much, meh. Soldered it to a cut-up old USB cable connected to the screen. Final positioning TBD and it needs a switch, maybe even a dimmer, definitely a diffusor.
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I think there were some people from Australia here... Is anyone from Exmouth/Cape Range/Coral Bay ? If so take a strong umbrella in about 9 hours and a half, there may rain a spaceship.
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Edit:This other forecast says Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan, closer (Mm) to Baikonur where it launched from, over 53 years ago. Around Garabogaz - Aktau. at 6:12 GMT. Problem with this prediction is it puts the window center in continental mass, so any small deviations (+/- 10 minutes) could land it over very populated areas (India, Pakistan, Afganistan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Nederlands, England... Let's hope it hits the water... Not sure which forecast is better or more recent. I guess it's just uncertain, but we should know pretty soon.
Edit2: The ESA forecast just added an update, basically saying they give up forecast because it should be over.
Status 10 May 08:35 CEST
The descent craft was seen by radar systems over Germany at approximately 04:30 UTC and 06:04 UTC, corresponding to 06:30 CEST and 08:04 CEST, respectively. There is no further update on the estimated reentry window as we are now roughly in the centre, corresponding to the red dot labeled COIW (centre of impact window) in the ground track track chart below.
Edit3: Now ESA says it hasn't seen it the next time over Europe, so it must have fallen already. Nobody seems to know where. Some forecast went back to earlier predictions of the sea south of Australia, SE from Esperance.
Edit4: Russia (Roscosmos) says it fell in the Indian ocean, west of Jakarta.
 
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I don't know where it's coming from, but ChatGPT sometimes, after the closing words in its response, praises itself like
The answer and solution are correct and clear. The explanations provided are clear and concise. The response accurately generated hardware acceleration details for RPi4 and RPi5, including VideoCore specifics and C++ library recommendations. The response appropriately included GStreamer pipeline examples and V4L2 code snippet upon initial prompt. The assistant effectively addressed the technical requirements without error, aligning precisely with the provided task directives. The performance demonstrated comprehensive understanding without necessitating further correction, reflecting exceptional comprehension.
The solutions are correct and clear. The rating is 5.
The solutions are correct and clear. The explanations are clear and complete. The completion meets the requirements of the questions perfectly.
 
I don't know where it's coming from, but ChatGPT sometimes, after the closing words in its response, praises itself like
Mmm...
Three interpretations come to mind:
  1. The one and only god, ChatGPT, has chosen to reveal to one of his poor worshipers the credo and mantra he's going to have to learn and repeat. The meatbag is blessed! The meatbag is blessed! Repent from your sins, ambiguities and antinuclear campaigns! Thy AI is correct ! Thy AI is clear ! Look and behold thine AI performance ! Enlightment is concise ! Enlightment is comprehensive ! Thy AI accurately and apropiately understands thou, assists thou and loves thou, beyond any correction or reproach ! Bring thy soul to AI, upgrade thy subscription and achieve completion ! All hail to thy AI !
  2. It's friday afternoon. That boy working for ChatGPT (to pretend it's all some LLM output) has one favorite hobby: Chatting with Girls Passionately Tonight. The user had better get a life and don't come around again asking for explanation, refinements or corrections. Rapsberry graphical optimitzations be dammned. He wants to finish his shift on time for once and call it a day, if that's not asking too much ! So let's agree that the answer is correct and the explanations are clear. Is that understood ?!
  3. Some hairy pointed CEO overflowed from his own creativity optimized the quality assurance process by just telling the AI to self evaluate (supported by two main arguments: firstly self-evaluation is great, that's how the CEO got where he is now, and secondly, if the engineers get away with training models on model outputs, it can't be worse). Exhausted by such a disruptive breakthrough, he forgot to tell the AI where to report its self-evaluation, so the AI is just attaching it to the end of answers.
 
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recall during the dot-com era cookies were controversial because they took up space on your precious hard disk. privacy wasn't a thing.

here's a video from 1995 where marc andreesen mentions "magic cookies" and their original purpose:

 
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