tomaytotomato
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Comment · 45 minutes ago
I should do a write-up but my Claude Code and Pi have been personalised to assume the persona of Jean-Luc Picard for almost a year. I find the output generated to be more useful and of a higher "quality".
I also enjoy the occasional salted phrase that is included in generated out e.g. "Tea, Earl Grey, hot!", when I have been Claude'ing too much.
Here is a gist of my Claude.md file if anyone is interested:
https://gist.github.com/tomaytotomato/87d83265be1a22ba96454f...
Comment · 6 days ago
Just a bit of anecdata (observer bias).
A lot of, "birdwatchers" I see travelling to remote parts of Scotland and other places in the UK are generally wealthy retirees, with nice kit (Rab clothing, telephoto lenses, VW campervans).
Cognitive decline is shown to impact disproportionately on less wealthy people. So is there a trend with economic wealth and outdoor hobbies like birdwatching? I'd hazard a yes.
On a side note, the Merlin bird ID app from Cornell University is great.
Comment · 12 days ago
Great, now could someone revive the old Command and Conquer Javascript project to life?
Comment · 1 month ago
Raiders, refugees, bandits, people fleeing from other collapsed societies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
Some of the "Sea Peoples" didn't even travel by sea.
It's slightly funny and scary in our current year of 2026 we now have a lot of destabilizing factors along with uncontrolled immigration happening.... history might repeat?
Comment · 1 month ago
Unfortunately huggingface.co is blocked by my company's firewall and VPN so it breaks when downloading a model.
Are there any huggingface mirrors out there?
Comment · 1 month ago
Whoops, fixed now
Comment · 1 month ago
Honestly,
We need a good purge of this nonsense in the tech scene....
If anyone wants to setup a counter culture tech scene, reach out to me. I am an average Java engineer (I like for loops more than foreach)
Comment · 1 month ago
More of this madness coming out of the west coast of America, in particular California.
The Manson family, Heaven's Gate, NXIVM, Rationalists, Zizians... what next?
All turn out to be rotten to the core with their need to reshape and craft their own paradigm, which then gets warped by egos, individualism and power.
Hate to think what other madness is brewing.
Comment · 1 month ago
I am doing lots of different projects now
- Making a nostalgic remake of Rainbow Six Rogue Spear - called "Tango Down"
Its low poly, Java OpenGL game but trying to stay faithful to the old gameplay
- Updating my homelab setup to be much tidier, moving stuff to Ansible, dockerising non-critical services. Running scheduled backups to a separate NAS
- Making a World in Conflict SFX mod for Warno, so it sounds much better
Comment · 1 month ago
Can't wait for in 10 years time to find one of these workstations on eBay selling for £100-150
Then I will do a video of me playing Crysis on it
Comment · 1 month ago
I am making a spiritual successor the Rainbow Six Rogue Spear
Opus has been great at building the game engine but it does struggle with world building for me.
Any tips welcomed!
Comment · 2 months ago
Here is an example of one of the maps from World in Conflict https://worldinconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Pine_Valle...
Image Link: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/worldinconflict/images/5/5...
Comment · 2 months ago
I would drop Facebook in a heartbeat but Facebook Marketplace is a strong pull for getting bargains in my local area.
I have alternatives like eBay and Gumtree but they have their own shortcomings.
Examples from Facebook:
- Antique lumber planks 50p a plank
- 4 sticks of DDR4 16GB SODIMMs, £60
- Garden tools, £10
This stuff would be slower and more expensive on eBay, and Gumtree is more of a waiting game as its userbase has definitely shrunk.
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