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seth@pdx.social

<p>Software engineer, roboteer (roboticist?), home improver, pretend gardener, amateur photographer, leftie, occasional musician, editor &amp; publisher @ Bob Hill Publishing, language nerd (currently learning Japanese ゆっくりする). Fan of solar PV, EVs, and clean air. </p><p>I make robots think so you don&#39;t have to.</p>

Posts

  • Post #2413858

    PSA: facial recognition is illegal in PDX, so technological methods to &amp;quot;verify&amp;quot; something using your face also aren&amp;#39;t legal.

  • Post #2413857

    @wolfinpdx Me neither. It seems like discord has decided to self-destruct, so I guess we&amp;#39;ll see what&amp;#39;s next.

  • Post #2413856

    Giving a city donations in solid gold is a perfectly normal, completely unsuspicious, totally routine thing that ordinary citizens do all the time. https://static.japantoday.com/category/national/japan-city-gets-3.6-mn-donation-in-gold-to-fix-water-system

  • Post #2413854

    Meanwhile, in Portland: City councilor cannot understand why her proposal to personally shoot local anti government violence protestors was not more popular.

  • Post #2413853

    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/02/japan/hiroshima-canned-air/

  • Post #2413852

    I&amp;#39;m sure some of you out there remember playing #bolo as kids. I used to play it for hours with my cousins on their green &amp;amp; black Apple ][. https://tmikov.github.io/bolo/ https://github.com/tmikov/bolo This is a faithful reimplementation with all the idiosyncrasies from the original 6502 ASM to C (via the DOS 8086 port). Keys: W: speed up S: stop X: speed down A: rotate left D: rotate right 1: rotate turret left 2: rotate turret right Space: shoot (also 3) Don&amp;#39;t ru...

  • Post #2413851

    We&amp;#39;ve come full circle. I&amp;#39;m hopeful that in a few years we&amp;#39;ll start building desktop-native apps too.

  • Post #2413850

    I&amp;#39;m not sure why we&amp;#39;re sending people on a joyride around the moon but we are. (Happening right now - 3:25pm, T-10 to launch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

  • Post #860005

    I have no idea if Quantum Fiber/AT&amp;amp;T internet is any good or not but it&amp;#39;s cheap. They have a promotion through the end of the month for $45/month for gigabit service ain&amp;#39;t bad (they call it &amp;quot;Price for life&amp;quot; 😂…right). I&amp;#39;m being forced to switch from CenturyLink. If you are also switching and want a referral code, here - https://aklam.io/q4dB5Xpz You evidently get $100 or something (I supposedly get $10).