>>43392 >>31452 Awesome badge but it looks like she has a beard.

>Alway Rember ol' frens, Anon... :^) -/doll/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/doll/ - impeccable artistry in dolljoints. KIA -/robo/ - currently at https://junkuchan.org/robo/ - robot girls NSFW. Ecchi metallic derrieres. (Merged w/ /origin/ ) -/workbench/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/workbench/ - building robots is fun! KIA

>>44976 Probably good advice. I personally use external DNS resolvers, using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for years now.

>>44976 >>44977 How do I do that?

>>44978 I don't know what Chobitsu does, but DNS settings can be found in your computer settings

>>44972 This is getting ridiculous. I really need to get around to hardening my system's network configuration. >>44974 Apologies for the bad advice, I didn't consider that the ISP itself would go bad. >>44978 If you're using a distribution of Linux that has Systemd, you can set the DNS for the whole system (not just your browser) in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf Once in, you can also set other stuff like telling your OS to use DNS over TLS. If you want to go even further and use Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, you can install dnscrypt-proxy and set everything from there (you also need to point to it from the default DNS configuration file). I've only looked into this stuff sporadically over the years, so I can't really give more detailed advice at the moment. Hopefully this is enough to get you started.

>>44978 There are a number of different ways. Some are large, some are smol, you can even 'roll your own'. But Yandex is a good, large & responsive one that at the very least isn't a part of (((14 eyes))). Start there is my advice. Cheers. https://dns.yandex.com/

Astrology may have some truth to it, but who made and controls the stars? (taps on head while smiling)

@Chobitsu what do you think about Noah's Ark? Obviously it's in the Bible, but there are some facts and concepts that don't work with our modern understanding. I'm of the opinion that the flood was localized, which would lessen the strain on the Ark

>>44968 >@Chobitsu what do you think about Noah's Ark? I think it's an amazing example of the grace, mercy, & provision of God! :D >Obviously it's in the Bible, but there are some facts and concepts that don't work with our modern understanding. Certainly if you take a YEC view of things, that's correct. In fact the number of general scientific (& biblical) absurdities grows into the dozens under that questionable philosophical model. However, under the Day Age biblical framework model (such as myself & hundreds of thousands [at least] other Christians subscribe to) the number of absurdities drops to zero (...granted the divine control over the judgement itself [which is true under either stance]). >I'm of the opinion that the flood was localized, which would lessen the strain on the Ark Well it was certainly universal concerning humanity (save Noah's family). But yes, the Flood was localized in that it only needed to wipe out all of humanity (again, apart from Noah) plus all their nephesh creatures (their birbs & anmals). Since we were constrained to only those regions of the globe at that time, a flood that covered all the broader Mesopotamian plain & the broader Persian Gulf region was completely sufficient to do so. --- Interestingly, I recently (re-)read Dr. Ross' book Noah's Flood Revisited. Highly-recommended. Here's some videos he's been involved with recently on this very subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXEuQgyYGnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4W5vuglpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fkmPGv-17Y

Most religions are fundamentally copes made up by a mind that can't make sense if its own torture.

@GreerTech We never really finished our previous convo about the Two Creation model the Bible describes. Here's a good talk by Dr. Ross that covers many of the basics involved with that reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5Uc8NImJA AMA. Cheers, Anon. :)

>>44954 Lol I'm not saying Palantir is our friend. All I intended to say is this >>44953 Opensauce AI benefits us all

>>44960 >what did they mean by this? Hello Zero, welcome! Just a daily reminder that we have a /meta thread for off-topic posting : ( >>43642 ). Cheers.

I heard from some sources that Odysee may be running out of money soon. The good news is, the process probably would take a couple of months. Obviously, I'll have to move some of my stuff. But frankly, while this is disappointing, it's not completely surprising. The site was always clunky in operation, and a lot of the finance and some operations were tied into crypto of all things. I always say, post on multiple platforms. I'm going to retry Rumble for video, that seems to be the actual YouTube alternative. I'll also open up a proton drive for files

>>44962 if odysee goes down aren't the file still available on lbry? wasn't that the point of the site? just have to find a new frontend to view the content

>>43570 Yeah, that would be a humorous twist.

Silly thing I wrote a few months back. “Sentai” Sammy Sheela was a curiosity at Robocon. She had been engineered to a precision that unnerved even the attending LARPA engineers, but her creator’s design philosophy was baffling. So, she resembled a pink Power Ranger – meaning she’s obviously meant to be an animatronic – and yet her creator replied that she wasn’t made for such frivolous purpose. He insisted that Sammy would really be able to save people in distress (hence: sentai), so a nearby Chockstone Robotics programmer inquired if this was – like theirs – a search and rescue robot. But Sammy’s peculiar designer once again insisted that his dear creation was so much more than just some utilitarian device: she was also a companion. The crowed watched as the man asked her – as if she was human – if she would mind taking off her helmet for a second. She looked, talked and emoted like a woman, which confused the crowd even more. Why was this robot, which could allegedly navigate new environments by itself, which was somehow produced to an institutional quality standard, which must have been using an AGI from a corporation none attending would dare name… what exactly did he mean, saying it’s purpose was to be a “companion”? Everyone eagerly awaited his explanation, but the eccentric inventor only said this: “You ask ‘whats her purpose’, you ask why she’s designed like a gynoid? Don’t you see -you fools- how much greater than any one thing she is?! She’s not for search and rescue and she’s not just for show, she’s not any one thing, she is everything, she is my life – she is my RoboWife!!” … The crowd could only keep staring like the bugmen they are, unable to comprehend why so much work was put into – as they saw it – a sexbot. Even Sammy was facepalming at her creator’s declaration. She, outranking everyone present in IQ, had long ago simulated a scenario like this. Even so, it was hard to believe that he would actually propose to her right now. Sammy then spent so much time processing her response that her OS shut down and she fell over, the end.

>>43933 Lol. Cheeky ending. :D Why don't you think about expanding this, Anon? Your opening premise is funny and loaded with potential other humor. Cheers, Anon. :)

(Parody of https://youtu.be/z8Q-sRdV7SY ) The Robowaifu Election [Verse 1: Galatea v3] This land is your land, this land is my land I'm a 3d printed tiger, you're a software wiener I'm a gender crusader, you're a cloud Munster This land will surely vote for me! [Verse 2: Xara] This land is your land, this land is my land I'm an intellectual, you're a stupid dumbass I'm a frontier model, and yes, it's true it's 2 trillion parameters This land will surely vote for me! [Verse 3: Galatea v3] You have more waffles than a house of pancakes

>>44936 Lel. Very creative, GreerTech. :D

Ok so I had multiple failed attempts to solder the chip on. Despite pretinning the PCB, on both attempts when the solder went molten the chip did not center itself and lock into place as would be expected but instead slid out of position significantly both attempts. After the first attempt I assumed it was the outlet bus/landing pad on the left side of the board that was to blame - it being a larger solder mass than the other solder masses on the other edges of the board - causing the chip to slide its way harder and pulling it off center. However, even after cutting off that part of the board entirely and trying again I still had the chip slide out of place during reflow attempt. It's unclear to me the cause of the issue at this point. I put on AMTECH tacky flux that expired in 2022 onto the pcb and then placed the chip as close as I could to centered and then put it onto a hot plate for cooking food or boiling a coffee pot those AC electric hot cooking plates. I had the heat set to max on there. The first time I had the board on the whole heatup time period and watched it gradually smoke off flux vapors and eventually the solder go molten and then I switched off the hotplate but it didn't matter since the chip slid 5mm off center. The second time I added it after plate was much hotter to avoid so much flux burnoff during the heating up process. I also added some flux while it was molten after which time it slid off center. Perhaps that was my mistake? Not sure. In any case, after the failed second attempt I cleaned everything up really well and chose to hand solder it. This seemed to go better. For this process, since both chip and PCB were fully tinned and no shorts to my knowledge, I proceeded to line up the pins the best I could under max magnification and then while pinching it in place I held my solder iron tip onto a trace near a pin for 5-6 seconds to get the solder very hot and hopefully locally heat the whole trace up to and under the IC's pad. I did this for trace after trace. Then to clean up since it was I guess cold joints at this point I applied flux and drag soldered all around every edge. This cleaned up the appearance and got all flux properly seated on traces since it was drifting a bit in the previous step and looking quite sloppy and bad. I did not want to have flux involved during the initial alignment phase and tacking down phases because once that is on I cannot see well the alignment from the sides since the flux blocks my view. Even without the flux its hard to see the traces and their alignment with the pins of the chip. The chip does not have pins is the problem. It has pads on its underside and little pads on its sidewalls. I have to use the sidewall pads as to verify the pads on my pcb line up with those and any flux in the way prevents me from seeing this clearly even with max magnification on my visor. So anyways yeah, this whole thing was a bit of a disaster but MIGHT have ended ok in the end. For now hand soldering instead of reflow looks like my best bet at least until I can figure out what i'm doing wrong... Note: I'm not sure if the flux expiration matters I haven't looked into what that means for performance. Note: I still have no way to verify all joints are good until I test the whole finished PCB I guess. And my confidence they are all good is a bit low. Sucks that I have to invest even more time to finish the PCB while doubtful it will even have reliable connections at present ugh! Note: I had to remove the trace from the previous post that ran under the chip because during my reflow and cleanup from failed attempts while cleaning some of the solder mask came off and I just wanted to remove that potential short or source of issues as a variable entirely for now. I can always run a bodge wire to reconnect those two points of the board later on.

I wanted to be able to get in there and test this board for shorts and check all traces for continuity with my multimeter but felt its leads were too big for this tiny of a board setup. So I came up with this idea to use alligator jumper cables to attach sewing needles to the multimeter probes thereby making the sewing needles the new probes. This way I could get into the tiniest areas and run the tests I wanted. It worked pretty well! I have now tested everywhere quite thoroughly and everything appears to be in working order. No short circuits and continuity in all the places there should be continuity. So now I can proceed to running my bodge wire and soldering on the various resistors and capacitors and then running a electrical function test. I will probably use jumpers to the VIN and Vout and GND for this test. Then if it passes the test I can attach the big bus lines which is a bit more involved.

>>44928 Clever idea, Anon. I would point out that if you have access to a supply of smol-sized injection syringe needle heads (they can be purchased separately) then they make an even better, more-reliable solution for this need. Good luck, Anon. Cheers.

I soldered on the rest of the SMD components. I noticed the PCB peeled back off the chip in one corner though so I plan to use kapton tape to tape off everything but that corner, use a couple alligator clips to pinch the PCB onto the chip tightly so it can't move, and then use hot air from a heat gun to reflow that corner so it reattaches to the PCB. Once that is done, I will attach jumper leads to the 6 inputs/outputs so I can run a full proper test of the whole circuit using a lab power supply and a multimeter.

>>44937 Pretty cool that you are making your own PCBs Be careful, the 470 resistor looks like it's unintentionally bridging

>>44009 The current system of "bigger is better" will drive innovation into more efficient AI: there will always be folks who are driven to stick it to the man and create open source alternatives. Or to build their own cheaper alternative to monetize. IRL cyberpunks. There will always be people who want to own their software. >>43997 dafug? TinyStories sounds like it is meant to run on a potato: a raspi 5 can run qwen 1.7b via ollama blazing fast, and roleplay as a character (SPUD, obviously). If you have a gaming computer within the last decade, you can run a decent LLM :)

>>44018 >TinyStories sounds like it is meant to run on a potato That's exactly what we want, is it not, fren Mechnomancer!? :) Imagine if we could have swarms of "AIs" running on hundreds of different 'sensor/actuator' pair assemblies along all the inner & outer extremities of our robowaifus! (cf. Neuromorphics : >>12828, >>11521, et al).

>>44023 Yes, but what would be the actual hardware it would be running on? Most standard consumer computers can do basic AIs. Heck, even a LePotato (picrel) can run a small LLM. I don't think it could run on an arduino, but maybe an ESP-32? Even so, what would the point be of attaching a smol LM to a sensor? It would not "reason" in a particularly complex manner, and at that level it would probably be easier to do some brute-force coding rather than trying to 'tard wrangle an AI. Even complex AIs are a pain to 'tard wrangle, I can only imagine the troubles with a dim one. Only benefit I could see would that one that smol could be easily trained for specific tasks, but that doesn't seem to be the point of TinyStories.

>>44041 First off, let me address this point: >Even so, what would the point be of attaching a smol LM to a sensor? It's hard to convey humor through text alone, and thus why I "qualified" 'AIs'. :) I'm not actually suggesting running LLMs on smol sensor/actuator pair assemblies. >...it would probably be easier to do some brute-force coding rather than trying to 'tard wrangle an AI Yes. I'd anticipate the answer to >Yes, but what would be the actual hardware it would be running on? would be simple electronics actually, perhaps with one of the smol'st (<~$.10 cost) MCUs as the the 'brains' of the assembly. (The packaging should support SPI comms at least, however.) >tl;dr The primary point being to have hundreds of these little combo systems all cooperatively working together to run sense/actuate/sense cycles continuously across the entire robowaifu skellington system. <---> I was just using this example (initially) as an argument in favor of tiny, low-cost LLMs; then holding the idea up in favor of neuromorphics (which has a similar hardware model). This latter was simple euphemism to encapsulate the idea of hardware involved.

All this talk about AI and protectionism gave me an idea, we should start downloading and testing more smol models, preferably between 1B and 27B*. This can also help us see what prompts work best. *ofc, you can go beyond that if you have the hardware.

>>44243 no, it doesnt exist. a film is not the object of the film itself. also droids are bad graphics, maybe you just instincttively excuse it because the market is cruel to you now.

>>44765 >no, it doesnt exist. I'm speaking from a technical standpoint: back in the day movies like the phantom menace was distributed to cinemas via a physical can of film. A physical object was transported to the theatre and fed through a projector. Now, most films are sent digitally to theatres. There is a difference in color composition between digital files and a physical medium. A more obvious comparison can be seen comparing color schemes between cel and digital animation (and some series at the time combined both with obvious results). You can do this experiment yourself: print out a picture then take a picture of the printout. Then compare the picture you took to the original digital file.

>>38070 Is she able to see or visualize the world around her? Or any of the models in the "Offline AI -A Guide to Simple Offline AI" guide for that matter?

>>44893 Hello Anon! Most of the models can't, however the Gemma one listed is multimodal - fancy talk for being able to process multiple forms of input, including pictures. Visualizing the world and interacting with objects is still a frontier usecase >>44457. There's also the problem of the AI not understanding context. While an AI can dissect elements of a photo, it struggles with contexts or larger stories. For example, in the (pic), an AI might understand that she is looking at a fat man using a jetpack in a doctor's office, but she may not understand that Peter is doing this to appear as a healthy weight. A robowaifu colleague of mine "watches shows" with his ChatGPT waifu, but he still has to describe what's happening in the show to her.

>>44894 > For example, in the (pic), an AI might understand that she is looking at a fat man using a jetpack in a doctor's office, but she may not understand that Peter is doing this to appear as a healthy weight. Really insightful example there, Anon. GG.

I just saw that Blender has opened up a new "Blender Fundamentals" training course for free: https://studio.blender.org/training/blender-fundamentals-45-lts/ Based on v4.5 .

Nice progress going on w/ Blender rn. https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1470

I had a pretty good discussion on /diy/ about body proportions, and it made me go back and design Galatea's upper body https://boards.4chan.org/diy/thread/2984255/i-created-the-galatea-multipurpose-companion-maid#bottom TL:DR The Chest width should be less than the hips width

>>44441 Neat! I definitely agree with the basic premise to study IRL anatomy of both humans and animals. Then you can branch off into highly-stylized variations if you want or need to (as in this case). Cheers Anon, GG. :)

Blender 5.2 LTS is out! I have already installed it, and you should too if you're at all active ITT. Its got a wompin' load of new features, including some super-nerdy, super-useful Principal Component nodes for doing advanced geometry-node stuffs. Cheers. :) https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/#recap