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I've created Asterisk Codex Skill, but turns out there is ten seconds timeout for scripts


Just in case the author is here: what's the FPS?


On Reddit, author says "The preview is shown at 20fps for a 3x scale image (90x90 pixels) and 50fps for a 1x scale image. This is due to the time it takes to read the image data from the sensor (~10ms) and the max write speed of the display.", and adds that optical mice motion tracking goes to 6400 fps for this sensor but you can't actually transmit image at that rate.

https://old.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1olyu7r/i_made...


Too late. Browser-use local LLMs are already a thing


what's point of comparing token prices? especially for thinking models.

Just now I was testing the new Qwen3-thinking model. I've run the same prompt five times. The costs I got, sorted: 0.0143, 0.0288, 0.0321, 0.0389, 0.048 . And this is for single model.

Also, in my experience, sonnet-4 is cheaper than gemini-2.5-pro, despite token costs being higher.


I think the proper way of estimating the cost is the cost of entire run of a test. Like in aider's leaderboard.


I use crypto often. I am Russian, I left Russia when Putin started the war. For me, it is quite hard to open a bank account. So I use crypto. I work remotely for a Singaporian company. Now I'm in Vietnam, I can pay for my groceries with crypto using QR code. I can cash USDT crypto with a rate better than paper bills.

I have two bank accounts in Kazakhstan. Both card credentials were stolen after I used a popular hotel booking website, which, by the words of reddit, shares my card details with hotels. Some money was stolen. Seems like 3D-security only affects my payments, and theifs have a freedom to choose a website without 3D. Now I have to keep that cards always locked. Unlocking them for a short moments, when I need to make a card payment. Like booking an hotel, or buying an airline ticket.


It is wild how Vietnam really transformed from a complete cash society to a mostly digital one in just a few years. Covid did it.

Nothing more annoying than having your largest bill be worth about $20 and having to carry stacks of them around for things like just paying rent.


>Now I'm in Vietnam, I can pay for my groceries with crypto using QR code.

That sounds great. What do you use?


Fizen


lol. That is too complex for the purpose of long-range movement in VR. Just make a controller with a control patterns of electric unicycle, or maybe "hoverboard".


The unicycle idea is actually interesting, I could imagine that working well for a game where you play a little robot character, or a guy stuck on a unicycle. I guess with all the existing biological limitations that hinder immersion, it's smarter to explore ways to get the human mind/body to accept other standards, so that you lean into the limitations


Is this material safe to handle?

It feels like this thing soon will start appearing all over ebay and aliexpress


I hope it is. It will be a perfect toy for little kids, right along the little ball magnets.


Those magnets can be deadly to children of swallowed:

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/little-magnets-are...


It has lead in it.


Lead is safe to handle, you just can’t eat it.


Handling lead tends to result on lead being on your hands, which has a nasty tendency to result in lead being on your lunch if you are not careful.


Basic safety precautions are fine.

To put it in perspective: millions of people in the US regularly handle ammunition and shoot firearms at indoor ranges. Those contain lead in many forms: the projectile itself, lead fulminate in the primer compounds, lead suspended in the air after firing, etc.

You make sure to have adequate ventilation, don’t touch your face, and wash your hands when you’re done. It’s important, yes, but not really that big a deal.


Given that the effects of lead tend to be a subtle change in mental state, and show up months or years later, we really don’t know that it’s fine.


Would that be legal, considering they have a patent (pending) for it? Not denying it won't appear anyway just curious


It is illegal in places that have rule of law.

This is to create a risk reduction mechanism for investing in capital to make this at scale, which will cost on the order of $100-500M to scale for world use through trial and error.

If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.


>If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

Not if you belive that


This has been shown to be historically true, because startup costs can be tens to hundreds of million in R&D.

The business that spends will have their workers immediately poached if they don’t have IP protecting their initial startup costs.


I'm not sure how it works, but this was the first result:

> Patents are territorial and must be filed in each country where protection is sought.

[0] https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=Is-My-US-Patent-Good-in...


Not a patent attorney, but as far as I know: The patent is currently pending (as in, being evaluated to see if it will be granted). Once it is granted in one country it can be expanded to multiple countries within a couple of months, given that the first country is part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. So if an invention is marked “patent pending”, you know you will have the risk of being sued by said company at some time in the future if you copy the invention.


Dude with something this important to humanity give everyone involved a couple million then let it run wild


and how about playstation 5 ?

and also xbox and that thing from valve?


I mean, the PS5 is running a Zen 2 processor [0] so I would assume it's vulnerable. In general I would assume that AAA games are safe. Websites and smaller games made by malefactors will be the issue. (Note that AAA game makers have little interest in antagonizing the audience, OTOH they also will push limits to install anti-cheat mechanisms. On balance I'd trust them.)

0 - https://blog.playstation.com/2020/03/18/unveiling-new-detail...


I think the interesting point here might be one could be able to extract some secret from memory of a PS5, like to break some kind of encryption


Interresting, could well be a path to jailbreaking the PS5... although, not sure if that has or hasn't already happened. For XBox Series, you can just use dev mode in the first place.


What valuable secrets do people have on their PS5/Xbox? You also need a way to deploy the malicious payload on those platforms which, due to their closed nature, is very difficult to do.


The valuable secret here would be the keys that let you decrypt and copy games. The threat models of locked-down platforms are incredibly strange.


That's a good point but I can't believe that every console doesn't have it's own unique set of keys so that if you compromise one before SW patches land, it won't be much use in the ecosystem.


It depends. I'm going to speak in general terms, since I obviously don't know how every single system works, but per-console keys are used for pairing system storage to the motherboard and maybe keeping save data from being copied from user to user. Most CDNs don't really provide the option for on-the-fly per user encryption, so instead you serve up games encrypted with title keys and then issue each console a title key that's encrypted with a per-console key. Disc games need to be encrypted with keys that every system already has, otherwise you can't actually use the disc to play the game.

As for the value of being able to do 'hero attacks' on game consoles, let me point out that once you have a cleartext dump of a game, you've already done most of the work. The Xbox 360 was actually very well secured, to the point where it was easier to hack a disc drive to inject fake authentication data into a normal DVD-R than to actually hack a 360's CPU to run copied games. That's why we didn't have widely-accessible homebrew on that platform for the longest time. Furthermore, you can make emulators that just don't care about authenticating media (because why would they) and run cleartext games on those.


At least with the PS3, I seem to recall that I couldn't extract any of my games' save data from the hard-drive of my PS3 unit that went dead due to RROD (or was it YLOD?) because the hard-drive was encrypted using the PS3's serial key as part of the encryption.

I don't know if that mechanism persists into the PS4/PS5.


Oh, I can imagine lots of uses for a bevy of PS5's, assuming you can gain remote control. What do you do with a botnet? What do you do with a botnet with a pretty good GPU? What do you do with an always-on microphone in people's living rooms?


Another example. Happened to me today. I was unable to pay online for a bus ticket until I set up VPN out of Cambodia to SG. I tried two cards by two different banks on three different ticketing sites. Without VPN all my payment attempts were rejected.


None of above probably. Just buy a laptop which is known not to deviate from reference designs (from intel)


"Just"...

"Just build a retaining wall" my wife said. 13,000 lb of concrete block and 10,000 of dirt later, we had a retaining wall.

"Just buy a laptop which is known not to deviate from reference designs" ... how does one do that?


Which ones are those?


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