will.stedden @bonkerfield@fosstodon.org

Recently, my partner and I moved to a more rural area, and now my partner's mom is visiting so we got her the NYTimes.

The Sunday edition arrives on Tuesday at our house.

I think I like it here.

This was written by an AI impersonating wint.

I wrote a new kind of license called a "lisens" that grants future simulators permission to simulate my consciousness and/or sense of self.
https://will.stedden.org/lisens.html

The reason was that I like to build simulations and AI models and have been thinking a bit about how that practice will look in the future. I've been wondering whether future researchers would find it unethical to simulate someone's consciousness. I wrote a blog post with more info here: https://bonkerfield.org/2020/12/lisens/

California mantis in the greenhouse.

I've also got part of the pick+drop working in real life too. And packaged that code up separately
https://github.com/lots-of-things/ros_braccio_opencv_obj_detect_grab

For anyone interested in #FOSS and #robotics, I've started working with #ROS and #Gazebo simulator to model an Arduino Braccio arm.

I put together a package with everything needed to simulate pick+drop of an object. https://github.com/lots-of-things/braccio_moveit_gazebo

also wrote a little post about the https://bonkerfield.org/2020/08/braccio-moveit-gazebo/

I have reached the "writing a 4 chapter philosophical treatise on the nature of identity and why I exist" part of the pandemic.

record scratches, camera freezes, etc.

So how did I get here? well when @mike and @kev wrote about why they blog and then started #100DaysToOffload, I tried to write a quick summary of why I write a blog. But then that turned into why do I do anything, and the whole project snowballed, and 3ish weeks later I have described my "reasons."

https://bonkerfield.org/reasons/

Hello Mastodon! I have a request.

I'm trying to find a cafe that openly publishes their operating budget online. Has anyone ever heard of that?

Why? It's been my brother's and my dream to create a non-profit coop-type cafe that compensates workers fairly and keeps prices fair too. To do this I want to make some way for the whole org to be totally open. I've assumed that something like this must exist, but I just haven't ever been able to find it through a search engine or word of mouth.