Butters

@butters.social

🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 32 | He/Him | Computer Engineer, hopefully PhD soon | I run cons Often NSFW - 18+ Only Taken by @slade8.bsky.social <3

I had a really good candidate interview with me today. After so many LLM assisted candidates I was starting to think I was having trouble telling them apart from real people. Nope. It's a stark difference between someone who actually knows stuff and someone reading from an AI.

If you're going to use an LLM to answer for you during a job interview, please don't. All of the available models are really obvious and I'm bad enough at the social dynamics of interviews when I don't have to accuse you of fraud.

I'm writing my own video mixer for use at conventions. It embeds Servo to render each view, but I added zero-copy video inputs from decklink and SRT. (The top has 16 1080p60 video sources and below I currently have two outputs, but it can comfortably handle 8 on this hardware)

Here's what's inside, in case you're wondering. The fan is what happens when you don't think about cooling until the night before you need it working.

An internal view of the LiDAR controller. Visible is a ZED-F9P, power supply, empty battery compartment, and a raspberry pi 5 with an NVMe board and a waveshare sensor hat. A fan is haphazardly placed into the box with no mount. Two cameras are mounted to the front, and an automotive ethernet adapter is just barely visible in the base of the device.The internals of the LiDAR controller are exposed showing a mess of wires and electronics in an orange case.The black base of the LiDAR controller exposure is perforated with ventilation holes just barely showing the electronics inside.

I finished building out my LiDAR sensor. It uses a PANDAR128 sensor along with a raspberry pi 5, IMU, dual IMX519 cameras, and a ZED-F9P GPS module. Unfortunately it only has a 1TB NVMe since that's all I had and storage is $$$ right now... It fills that in 30 minutes XD

An orange plastic case labeled LiDAR Scanner with a laser warning symbol and a headshot of a protogen.A compact LiDAR scanner with a cylindrical sensor atop an orange square case.

Protogens: Now with 50% more leg, per leg. My protogen has a knack for getting into trouble wherever he goes. You'd think he was trying for it or something... Art by @iguwarf.bsky.social I really like what they did with him!

Preview of a project that's coming up. I got a LIDAR! This thing has 128 lasers and spits out something like 5M points per second. Gonna scan so many buildings with this thing.

Art by the amazing @mokamoshi.bsky.social Butters has infiltrated a cult but may have more than he bargained for. They slid a cursed cockring onto him and now he can't cum until dawn. He's quickly enthralled by the beast; its fruitless teasing distracting from the ritual performed through him.

Welp, canceled my Discord nitro and boosts. Sucks that I don't get stickers there anymore, but them demanding my ID or a face scan is the last straw.

Really happy with how my digital signage turned out at MAGFest this year. Other than the render box trying to upgrade to windows 11…

Attendees standing around a large LED billboard displaying the MAGFest logoA large LED billboard showing a sponsor shoutout to Lycanmike

…did anyone check up on the “don’t tread on me” flag guy from outside MFF? Does he know it’s over? I assume he goes home after, but I’ve never checked.

MFF was amazing this year. I got to suit more than I ever have before and meet some really cool people! I had a bit of a rocky start at MFF but it grows on me every year.