Doing a bit of a rebrand. Its been about a few years or so since the last major rebrand. We're talking more about tech, dev stuff and robotics lately, so I thought it would make sense to broaden the name a bit.

Still me here tho, so no big changes on that front!

- riz

You think anyone is more pissed by Mamdani winning than this guy?

https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-cuomo-sliwa-nyc-mayor-af8b9790e7cb4e023d0984a0207cbcca

BTW, can I say something without everyone getting mad?

started playing with sora a little bit yesterday. Might end up re-doing all my Ask Doctor Bitcoin eps like this. :)

Stop using clouds.

https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/

This is one of the cheapest humanoid robots on the market. It's getting real, quick.

We're all just the universe experiencing itself.

Didn't have "Elon the Abolitionist" on my bingo card.

https://x.com/ElonClipsX/status/1987875430775296267

The US Government has reopened.

Having someone watch you code is about as useful and awkward is having someone watch you piss.

"what do you mean I'm *holding it wrong.* wtf does that even mean?"

Working with these bleeding edge Chinese robots feels like getting a graphics driver running on Linux circa mid 00's, if you know what I mean.

I've been building a python-based dashboard for @animusuno for the Unitree Robotics Go2 Air. It's definitely been a major challenge - and a silent update to the mobile app controller last night (I thought) bricked it.

Turns out it was actually exactly as it should be, but Cursor had recreated the venv during a troubleshooting session and blew out my pinned requirements (I had to use a years-old version of python and aioice, since there seems to be diverging WebRTC standards). The two failures just happened simultaneously so that it appeared to be an on-board server fault.

Troubleshooting this and finding all the culprits has been a science experiment.

Just like trying to play a game on a Linux box in teh aughts.