Mika Saastamoinen

Jean-Michel Jarre LIVE in Samarkand YouTube video by UNESCO

Unesco is broadcasting a live Jean-Michel Jarre concert from Samarkand (Uzbekistan) on Youtube right now. Nice. The stream is going to be online for 24 hours only, if I understood correctly, so get to it soon, if interested. www.youtube.com/live/j_hCwTL...

The War Games movie from the 80s is on TV here. A classic, with dial-up modem comms with computers, payphones, video game arcades, ... and delusional AI computer system that almost destroys the world. 😱 Scary stuff. 😅

First time I've heard in an airplane safety announcement that #VR headsets must not be worn during take-off or landing. People wear/use headsets during flights these days? 😎 I guess I haven't traveled by plane in a while

Seems accurate
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To add, Soapbox also has a neat mixed reality mode which enables you to place the artist right in your own room space, like a private concert performance in your own living room! Or you can switch to VR mode to view him/her on a virtual stage instead of your own messy room 😅

All three provide an immersive 3d way of distributing "live" (pre-recorded) performances of music artists, standup comedians, plays, or whatever performances. Movies and TV shows too ofc. All in your headset. Depends on content producers if they'll do more stuff this way ofc

And while I was at it, I checked a couple of other "immersive media" apps like SoapBox and AmazeVR, and found their ways of presenting 3D music performances very cool also. SoapBox does volumetric/photogrammetry based mesh-"videos" and AmazeVR looks to be stereoscopic 180 video.

Meta announced this week some updates to the Horizon TV app for Quest devices and one intriguing feature is support for 3D movies. There's a demo of it with the trailer of the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash movie. It's like watching a 3D movie in theater. Pretty cool actually.

Bloody hell, the #Foundation series script writers exercised their artistic freedoms too much again. 🙄 Latest episode added some unexpected twists to the original story, again. Looks like the next season(s) is going to venture off the trilogy...

I find it pretty incredible that a thing the size/height of an apartment building can be hurtling down towards Earth from space at thousands of km/h and then just slam on rocket engines for a few seconds to come to a hovering stand still at an altitude of a couple hundred meters. 🤯

What century (or millennium even) is he living in?? (Or what century are the cars he's talking about from...) The "radio" in modern cars is just a piece of circuitry and chips embedded somewhere in the vehicle and the radio UI is just software on the infotainment screen. Good luck stealing that. 😅

Foundation season 3 is shaping up nicely, seems closer to the original books than the first two seasons. Or maybe it's just me. Having read the books numerous times I have my own vision how they should look on film, but so far the tv series has 'deviated' from that too much... 😅

I doubt our mowerbot is better than "western" bots, has no smart features like GPS positioning and mapping, intelligent cutting routing or anything fancy. This one just pingpongs randomly within the boundary wire area by clock schedule. But it gets the job done with daily consistent pingponging 😅

Ours is some cheap and simple Chinese thing sold under Brücke brand here in Finland. Costs like 300€ as new, we bought it second-hand. But yeah, we just set it up and scheduled it to run daily for a couple of hours and that's it. It did stop running now in July for a couple of weeks, reason unknown

Picking blueberries with an approving forest gnome showing thumbs up (AI edited photo)

Finnish forest with an "endless" field of blueberry bushes, a box full of picked berries in the foreground

Picking blueberries close up photo

'Tis the #Blueberry Season for free picking. The forest gnome approves. 😉 Although the current heat wave in Finland makes this a hot and sweaty activity right now... 🥵

Hitsiläinen. Pitäisköhän alkaa keräämään ja purkittamaan kuusenkerkkiä tosta viereisestä kaupungin puistosta ensi keväänä... 😳 Monta isoa kuusta tossa ihan parinkymmenen metrin päässä

In recent times I've been adding a portion of rye flour to the wheat flour for pizza doughs. Seems to make the baked pizza dough softer and "airier" as well as gives it more taste. Rye is a very Finnish incredient though, Italians probably wouldn't approve. 😁

FAFO in the making... 🙄Bet they'll blame Biden for all the death and destruction that will follow.

Lawnmower robot doing its thing over a smooth green lawn

Yes, these are the droids we are looking for. 😁 Last summer we got a cheap second-hand mowerbot and in mid-May we left it working at the summer cabin, and now that we went there for the 1st time since May, we find the lawn nearly like a golf green, instead of the overgrown jungle it's usually been

The Matrix is on TV again, must be the umpteenth time I've seen it by now. But still it's as awesome as the first time I saw it in the movie theater in Chicago in 1999. Like 26 years ago 👀 And now even more topical than back then, considering the recent developments, when "Humanity gave birth to AI"

D+: have an AI code the app for you. Kind of what I've started working on to get a grip on my library of tens of thousands of photos from over two decades...

Android app does the realtime location and gyro thing as well, I'd assume iOS app the same

Not sure how in-depth info you're looking for, but Stellarium has some at least. 😉 For free too.

Pc app
stellarium.org
Web app
stellarium-web.org
Mobile apps for Android and iOS are available too

The concept of a bus may be unfamiliar to young techbros, I guess. Including the form factor of a bus, and the ensuing carrying capacity of such.

Are you saying China is a social democracy? I thought we in the Nordics were social democracies, but we don't have presidents for life, like in China, Russia, Belarus etc. Not much democracy going on in these countries, as I understand it. Now apparently a wanna-be prez for life in the US too?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Is it an EV? What size is it approximately? Like VW Passat or Id.7 wagon, or smaller? Missing my previous Passat, but Id.7 is a bit too expensive (at least as new, maybe ok later as second-hand). Still not enough EV wagons

Heard somewhere yesterday that some US manufacturers are setting up shops outside of the US to avoid the tariff costs on components coming out of China. Less tariff costs on importing the finished product. On-shoring manufacturing going great, it seems.

It's back! With a slight change of wording... #oopsie
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Ha, tell me about. 😅 Well, one style is not from a game, but anyway.
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