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Bornach
@bornach.bsky.social
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Maker, electronics hobbyist, paper and cardboard crafts, kinetic art, science communication fan, microcontrollers, Python coding, electromechanical tinkerer
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sabrinanorwood.bsky.social
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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piterpasma.nl
YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art

GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome

#genartclub #generative #creativecoding
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

1/
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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johnguyjohnston.bsky.social
Tesla Optimus Hilariously Collapses! Is Elon Faking Autonomy? youtu.be/g7NJo2Ckbw0
Tesla Optimus Hilariously Collapses! Is Elon Faking Autonomy?
YouTube video by The John Johnston Lounge
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December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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grumble.social
My literal 14 year old niece has complained about people demanding to know if her art is AI.

At some point people need to stop and take stock of the harm they are doing by pointing fingers without reasonable proof.
bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 14d
If you consistently ask artists if their work is generative AI, you're actually being more discouraging than generative AI is.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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pimoroni.com
🚨 NEW PRODUCT KLAXON 🚨

Introducing Badgeware - the next generation of wearable, hackable badges from your friends in Sheffield-on-sea. Now with tough colourful exteriors, built in batteries, and much, much more...

<3

badgewa.re
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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anildash.com
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/v...
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
bornach.bsky.social
#ConfidenceMan
youtu.be/rPOHzr6SCuA
Confidence Man - 17 (Visualiser)
YouTube video by Confidence Man
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December 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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mtrc.bsky.social
Last night there was a huge algorave at Corsica Studios to celebrate/commemorate the venue as it's closing its doors soon. A huge chunk of the London livecoding scene performed, across two rooms, I was gutted to miss it but there's a recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSt...
London Algorave — Room 1 livestream
YouTube video by pastagang
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November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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pimoroni.com
Black Friday / Cyber Monday - NEW DEALS! Smart home, kits & components:

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November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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bgollie.bsky.social
#c64 synth...
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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pimoroni.com
Black Friday / Cyber Monday - NEW DEALS! Adafruit & tools:

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November 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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pimoroni.com
Black Friday / Cyber Monday - NEW DEALS! Arcade & Retro Gaming + RGB LED Strips:

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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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pimoroni.com
Our Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals have started! shop.pimoroni.com/collections/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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on4lpf.bsky.social
I have made 5 of them 😀.

Raspberry Pi Pico Game console with 16x16 led Display.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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timholyoake.uk
Getting there (if only I could find my soldering iron).

New blog post from me - Pico MZ-700 progress.

z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-700-...

#RetroComputing #Sharp #Pico
A game of space invaders being played on the Pico MZ (MZ-700). The aliens are a mixture of yellow and cyan. The score is 0 with a high score of 0. 3 bases are left.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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peark.es
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.

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The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
bornach.bsky.social
The story of how Wendy Carlos created electronic music
youtu.be/jPpNZGjUflA
#Moog #WendyCarlos #synthesizers #synthsky
How One Woman Quietly Created Electronic Music
YouTube video by Mystery Treehouse
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November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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renatocan.bsky.social
Enshittification of Arduino Begins? Qualcomm Starts Clamping Down itsfoss.com/news/enshitt...
Enshittification of Arduino Begins? Qualcomm Starts Clamping Down
New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.
itsfoss.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ryanteck.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
I think everyone expected Qualcomm to bugger up Arduino.

But I don't think most would have expected in just over a month.

#qualcomm #arduino
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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broken.com
RIP Arduino, I guess: Qualcomm just rewrote all their TOS and privacy stuff to do some pretty disturbing sounding stuff. Article from Adafruit #arduino #adafruit #qualcomm

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#opensource #privacy #techpolicy #hardware #iot #surveillance #qualcomm #arduino #makers #infosec #datarights #termsandconditions #cloudcomputing | Adafruit Industries | 72 comments
Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new do...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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cannonfodder.bsky.social
Self portrait in 64 x 64 pixels displayed on my Giant Unicorn.
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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wesbos.com
The badges at GitHub universe this year are nuts!

Color screen, wifi, Bluetooth. Powered by a raspberry pi 2350 / @pimoroni.com

I tried my hand at building an app on the way home.
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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lavarails.bsky.social
From developing games to coding industrial controls. Helping prep this RP2350 powered demo plc for next week's SPS Expo. Powered of course by @pimoroni.com hardware 😉.
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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paintyourdragon.bsky.social
Fun(?) fact: NeoPixels were named after two things:

1. Full rewrite of prior Arduino lib, avoiding namespace collisions during development. “New pixel library” = NeoPixel.
2. Secret homage to NEOchrome way back on Atari ST. There were more capable apps like DEGAS, but NEOchrome’s UI felt so crisp!
A roll of Adafruit NeoPixel addressable RGB LEDs. Screen grab of NEOchrome (1985) on Atari ST, with their iconic waterfall image. Honestly this looks like garbage today but it was really desirable for the time.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM