firekeeper

@firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

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[?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
@firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

Pilot Mountain - The Failed 2nd Coming
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One of my first ever big expeditions with a Camera was, against all good reason, was to climb the 3-4 miles to the top of Pilot Mountain - after working 10 hours that day.

Thursday, I had it in mind to come back to the mountain with fresh eyes and some experience.

Well... ehhh, I also didn't plan the timing of the day very well, as, as you can see, I don't have an actual photo of the mountain.

"Firekeeper, why do you not have pretty picture of Mountain?"

BECAUSE THE SUN WAS BEHIND IT!

Ughh, Charlie Brown. Well, I suppose my next visit to this splendiferous Mountain will be had at 7:00pm rather than 7:00am next round, but nonetheless, I did walk the top and grab shots as I went, and made the most of the morning mist down below, or as much as I could of it.

I took WAY more photos than I thought I did Thursday so these first four will be the first of eight to twelve from that trip. Right now, 8 seems more definite, so here's the first 4 that I've edited thus far.

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View of some morning mist down below Pilot Mountain

Alt...View of some morning mist down below Pilot Mountain

More Morning Mist, I wonder had I gotten here earlier if I had seen more... I wonder if I had gotten here earlier if I would be able to see anything lol

Alt...More Morning Mist, I wonder had I gotten here earlier if I had seen more... I wonder if I had gotten here earlier if I would be able to see anything lol

Some ominous looking steps up to the crown of the mountain.

Alt...Some ominous looking steps up to the crown of the mountain.

Some craggulous rockyness up on the bald top of the mountain.

Alt...Some craggulous rockyness up on the bald top of the mountain.

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    [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
    @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

    Today was a special day. As you can see, there's concrete in these photos. This is "The Jungle" as they say, full of apes, not squirrels, and this Jungle in particular, is downtown Statesville, NC.

    Why Statesville, plaid-clad camera-person?
    Because Statesville is the new location of my cousin's tattoo parlor, that just opened, and I got to photograph it!

    It's called "The Parlor", go on, go there, he's awesome.

    While those photos aren't public, Statesville very much is, so here's some photos I took yesterday of downtown.

    As usual, my goal isn't as much to document where I am like I'm trying to prove it exists to a speculative audience, I just took a few shots while I was there.


    Pic-a-nic tables, rainbow colored for the purposes of fun and whimsy

    Alt...Pic-a-nic tables, rainbow colored for the purposes of fun and whimsy

    The "Vile weed strangling our Dixie" aka Kudzu, and a somewhat aging powerline.

    Alt...The "Vile weed strangling our Dixie" aka Kudzu, and a somewhat aging powerline.

    The Statesville Clock Tower, as-so named because people often look at their watches near it.

    Alt...The Statesville Clock Tower, as-so named because people often look at their watches near it.

    A metal horse,a rusty one! That's... as descriptive as I can be! You have to see it.

    Alt...A metal horse,a rusty one! That's... as descriptive as I can be! You have to see it.

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      [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
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      And so, The Firekeeper was just out there, in Tanglewood, as he tends to be, taking photos of trees and plants and the like, walking about as he does...

      This is a very manecured place. It's part golf course to keep the Tesla and Corvette drivers busy and off of the highways during the day, but if you walk out far enough, you can still find some rustic rather untouched wilderness, my kinda stuff.

      I did end up walking out of the woods and finding Mallard lake right in front of me and beyond it, part of the golf course itself, but it was a pleasant surprise to walk out of the woods after half a mile of walking and "BEHOLD... LAKE".

      Oh yeah and happy first post on the new instance. Holla back y'all, my ego needs it.


      Some of the gardens around the Arboretum. Most of the flowers have come and gone... gotta be faster about these things, still mighty green tho.

      Alt...Some of the gardens around the Arboretum. Most of the flowers have come and gone... gotta be faster about these things, still mighty green tho.

      Another garden area, like this one a lot.

      Alt...Another garden area, like this one a lot.

      Playing with reflections never gets old, Mallard Lake and the golf course beyond it.

      Alt...Playing with reflections never gets old, Mallard Lake and the golf course beyond it.

      A spiderweb illuminated by a ray of sunlight

      Alt...A spiderweb illuminated by a ray of sunlight

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        [?]Carolyn » 🌐
        @CStamp@mastodon.social

        Do you enjoy taking selfies?

        Yes!:2
        No!:22
        Sometimes.:6
        Other.:0

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        [?]Carolyn » 🌐
        @CStamp@mastodon.social

        Thanks to those who responded. I expected more to be into selfies, as I usually feel I am an outlier. :)

        [?]Michael Russell » 🌐
        @michaelrussell@mas.to

        @CStamp The last time I took one was to see if there was bird poop in my hair (there was not). First one ever was to document my new haircut just as covid got going so I could tell someone what it looked like and assuming it would be along time until I got it cut, potentially in a new place. So those are the two I've ever done. 😅

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          [?]JA Westenberg » 🌐
          @Daojoan@mastodon.social

          There’s functionally no engineering reason to put a robot on two legs. Every other form factor is cheaper, more stable, more efficient, and easier to maintain.

          There is, however, a very good marketing reason: everyone’s watched Terminator, fear goes viral, and anxiety drives attention.

          A warehouse robot is infrastructure.

          A humanoid robot is an engagement strategy…

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          [?]Martin Uecker » 🌐
          @uecker@mastodon.social

          @Daojoan The argument is that they should be able to get around in a world designed for humans with two legs, and the argument is plausible.

            [?]xs4me2 » 🌐
            @xs4me2@mastodon.social

            @Daojoan

            It is our desire to play God...

            Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

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              [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
              @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

              It is our desire to play God...
              "So God created man in his own image"
              The irony of being a skeptic is that the reverse is true.

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                [?]Wulfy—Speaker to the machines » 🌐
                @n_dimension@infosec.exchange

                @Daojoan

                Aaakshully

                Two legs makes sense.

                1. Minimum suspension mats (vs tripod or quad+)

                2. Nature doesn't do wheels.

                3. There are other ground propulsion methods (wigglies etc) but not fast.

                4. Once you got the balance software going, legs are super fast.

                5. You could have alternatives, but they are medium specific (arboreal, hydrous), legs are universal.

                6. Flight has specific downsides mass/energy also medium specific

                Just about the only half decent alternative is snake.
                But legs > snake

                  [?]Poloniousmonk » 🔓
                  @Uair@autistics.life

                  @Daojoan

                  I bet they can by now, but the last time I checked with people who would know, it wasn't yet possible to build a robot that could catch anything but a perfectly thrown ball. Without requiring mobility, can a robotic arm catch a ball traveling at, say, 20km/hr through a 1m x 1m window?

                    [?]Dave Rahardja » 🌐
                    @drahardja@sfba.social

                    @Daojoan It’s more than engagement IMO. It’s an attempt to directly devalue human worth.

                    humancode.us/2024/10/11/robots

                      [?]rollspelosofen » 🌐
                      @rollspelosofen@mastodon.nu

                      @Daojoan A bipedal design is hardly efficient for what we're trying to use robots for today.

                        [?]muddle 🥣 » 🌐
                        @muddle@infosec.exchange

                        @Daojoan Those gizmos that open greenhouse windows wider depending on temperature/sunlight are pretty cool (and purely passive, with no "intelligence" at all)

                          [?]DuskyElf » 🌐
                          @duskyelf@mas.to

                          @Daojoan a lot of the engineers take ideas from fiction as well : )

                            [?]Tormod » 🌐
                            @airwhale@beige.party

                            @Daojoan

                            I always cringe at illustrations of “office AI assistants”. Humanoid robots who look at a big monitor and does input using a keyboard and mouse. JUST USE THE USB-C CONNECTOR ALREADY!!!

                            Of course, they are almost always white and the female bots have nice boobs. So infantilising.

                            Sarah Connor’s biggest mistake was failing to develop military grade glue guns. The first robot uprising would have been too sticky to do much damage 😁

                              [?]Dud and Forgotten. » 🌐
                              @BackFromTheDud@mas.to

                              @Daojoan Humans are the only mammal that walks upright on two legs. Humans are not natural to this planet. Discuss.

                                [?]Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen » 🌐
                                @mxchara@seattle.pink

                                @Daojoan well, uh, you've got an excellent point there about the fear aspect of duplicating the look of the Terminator or other villainous robots from popular entertainment, but...uh...having spent too much time on Twitter (in previous years) in mudfights with Elon Musk fanboys, let me add that they're also hopeful for humanoid sexbots. there's such a tremendous overpressure of sexual desperation in that crowd...

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                                  [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                  @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                  Ironed out the profile pic and header. Didn't publish until reupload after I fixed federation. Caddy gonna caddy. 👌

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                                  [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                  @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                  aaaand test

                                  "A Crick" aka "A creek"

                                  Alt..."A Crick" aka "A creek"

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                                  [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                  @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                  hides behind a rock

                                  HEY HEY HEY, NO VIOLENCE. We're back on selfhosted territory! No more moving, I swear lmao! This gets me what I had with gotosocial without draining all my bandwidth and space to do it.

                                  You'll all forgive me in your next therapy session lol.

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                                  [?]Nigel » 🌐
                                  @nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party

                                  @firekeeper gotosocial drained bandwidth?

                                  Is this why my bandwidth usage is up 🤔

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                                  [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                  @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                  @nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party

                                  I had like 600GB of data coming and going weekly on an M.2.

                                  When we federate, we federate around here.

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                                    [?]Nigel » 🌐
                                    @nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party

                                    @firekeeper ok my 60gb in my lxc is doing fine then 😆

                                    I certainly don't have that much cycling in and out.

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                                    [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                    @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                    @nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party

                                    Something running an lxc? Nah this was a tiny sbc PC running it on docker... through a reverse proxy... over wireguard to a Canadian VPS.

                                    Latency? What Latency?

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                                      [?]Nigel » 🌐
                                      @nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party

                                      @firekeeper tbf its only fedi 😁

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                                      [?]firekeeper [he/him] » 🌐
                                      @firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz

                                      test test 1 2 3. If you can see this before anyone else, well aren't you smart?

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