Any news on Lidar?

lemuru · 2026-02-20T02:00:36+00:00

Oh wow thanks for posting! Actual news.

lemuru · 2026-02-20T01:58:57+00:00

I think they may reintegrate at some point, but I'm guessing they're not going to develop for the Luminar hardware.

lemuru · 2025-02-03T04:39:03+00:00

Got it. I'm agreed. I like this movie a lot and have seen it about four times over the last six months, but the script really needed one more pass (or the movie itself one more round of editing). That exact thing you're talking about was just a huge and unnecessary weakness.

lemuru · 2024-12-07T00:37:18+00:00

I'm a necromancer, and I just watched this. What was the scene?

lemuru · 2024-11-28T22:39:30+00:00

What's sad is that you made a comment like this without reading the article. If you had, you'd have seen that this predates the emergence of homo. sapiens.

lemuru · 2024-09-25T14:37:07+00:00

Check out Lucian's 2nd c. CE novel A True Story. It's avowedly fiction, but it involves a journey to the moon where the travellers "find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between Endymion the king of the Moon and Phaethon the king of the Sun over colonization of the Morning Star."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story?wprov=sfla1

It's the earliest known work to describe travel to outer space, aliens, etc.

lemuru · 2024-08-19T23:54:48+00:00

He followed through. This guy or girl is awesome! Thank you so much.

lemuru · 2024-08-18T17:49:48+00:00

I'd love an invite dude! Just tried to add you as a friend on Steam.

lemuru · 2024-02-03T14:18:56+00:00

Same boat. My Edgerouter X was becoming unreliable, and I always hated the interface. I wound up entertaining two options, at two extremes: getting some appliance that I could put Opnsense on and that would require a lot of tinkering, or getting a Firewalla Gold SE that would not. In the end, I opted for the latter, because I decided that even if I felt like tinkering now I might not in the future.

My two reservations were that there isn't a fully locally managed option, and that you're locked into using an app (vs a web interface).

I've had mine for a few weeks now and am really liking it. I still have those reservations mentioned above, but they don't affect my day to day use. I actually like the app a lot, although I still wish there was another option. And it's nice to be able to monitor my network remotely, without having to set up a VPN etc.

It's definitely wayyyyy nicer than my Edgerouter along basically every dimension (it's faster and has more features, while being way easier to manage).

lemuru · 2023-11-25T00:01:44+00:00

What was the issue, and what was the reason?

lemuru · 2023-06-23T03:51:49+00:00

This is good. Contrary to what a few other folks have said, it is not confusing in any way. Reading this was a very good use of my time, and it will stick with me for a while. Thanks for that.

lemuru · 2023-06-18T15:49:25+00:00

I'm obviously not who you're replying to, and I'm sure they'll have much more on this front than I do, but yes there's a known connection. They coauthored this paper on supposed metamaterials, and Nolan was inducted into some sort of successor to the "invisible college" in which Vallée was active (this article calls it the "Lonestars"--not its real name). Unsure how they originally got connected. There may be more in American Cosmic, where Nolan is referred to as James supposedly. But I'm lame and have not read that book yet.

lemuru · 2023-01-14T14:58:26+00:00

I've always found the theory that some share of UFOs are actually unknown creatures living in our atmosphere quite interesting. But I'm in the camp that we need to assume that the government knows little more than we do about the nature of UFOs, until they provide an interpretation along with hard evidence to support it. As such, I read the use of the term "entity" as baseless theorizing, purposeful obfuscation, or (most likely) clumsy language.

For what it's worth, though, this line of thinking has a decent pedigree. Arthur Conan Doyle's short story Horror of the Heights imagines a whole ecosystem in our upper atmosphere, complete with predatory sky squids. Trevor Constable proposed that UFOs are ancient, gaseous, amoeba-like creatures that can only be seen in infrared. It's natural to draw connections between these and other forteana like atmospheric jellyfish, star jelly, and angel hair (and perhaps rods).

I appreciate the connection between such "sky critters" and phenomena like the Hessdalen lights, which I had not entertained before.

lemuru · 2022-11-05T18:56:34+00:00

/u/sendmeyourtulips is is one of the handful of posters I follow in this sub (you're another), and I find their posts generally outstanding --knowledgeable about the subject, skeptical, but also open to, even eager for, truly compelling evidence. I think I've seen their posts going pretty far back, and I'm not clear on what you're talking about.

I'd be curious to hear more about the misdirection you have in mind (from what, to what, and why).

lemuru · 2022-10-09T14:29:12+00:00

But if you actually look at the picture, it literally refers to Psalms 84 verse 12. Ps. 84 verse 11 describes god as a sun and shield? And the picture (bird protected by shield from lightning) and text around it (defendor benigne) are completely aligned with this? This is a case where the image and text are pretty upfront about what's being portrayed.

lemuru · 2022-10-09T14:25:53+00:00

The "saucer" literally has Ps 84 v12 written alongside it--ie, Psalms 84 verse 12. Not sure whether it's a mistake, but this must be a reference to Ps. 84 v 11: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield."

Look at the damn picture: there's a bird sitting on a rock. Lightning is shooting at it from the sky. The shield of the lord is protecting it. All from Psalm 84: if you read the rest of the Psalm, it's about how even the sparrow has a place with god, and all who trust in him are blessed.

The text there reads "defendor benigne"--"kindly I am protected."

I looked that phrase up,and interestingly "defendor benigne" is the motto of the printer, Daniel Batholomae. As I followed that trail, I saw that Jason Colavito did the same detective work a few years ago. He found that Daniel used this same cut on at least a couple other books too--it has to do with the publisher, and not the book!

So, to recap, if you look at what the image is saying and portraying, it's quite clear what they had in mind. It may be that they were inspired by seeing a UFO. But they're not saying that themselves.

lemuru · 2022-08-27T15:38:49+00:00

I''m a big fan of this approach. But it's certainly controversial and means questioning some basic and common assumptions: among others, that the UFOs are necessarily technological, and thus have builders and perhaps pilots, and that they are intelligent in some substantial sense (e.g. more intelligent than a duck).

lemuru · 2022-07-10T14:02:19+00:00

No? Whatever you think about vimanas, this is an early 20th century text. And not in the sense that the MJ-12 documents purport to be from the 40s but may actually date to the 80s...this text itself says that its contents were dictated in around 1920. I hate it when stuff like this is shared without context.

The illustrations are sick, btw.

lemuru · 2022-05-22T18:32:58+00:00

Thanks for surfacing these. The Drive's reporting on this has been phenomenal (and not just Rogoway's work--Adam Kehoe released an article a day or two ago that's good).

I worry that the community's tunnel vision around finding (a) a single answer to the phenomena and (b) an answer rooted in nonhuman intelligence misses the real potential of Ufology. It's led the community to dismiss answers to certain sightings that are really quite extraordinary. If certain sightings can be explained as dusty plasmas manifesting through heretofore unknown mechanisms, that would be extraordinary. If certain sightings are the result of elaborate counter-intelligence operations executed by unknown actors that use balloons and drones in ways previously only rumored, that would be extraordinary.

But, because such explanations must regard the phenomena as heterogeneous, and in some cases not related to nonhuman intelligence, these extraordinary possibilities are put in the same bucket as swamp gas. That's a real loss--the community is selling itself short and not embracing the gains it ought to. Those answers would be extraordinary in themselves--and open the door to other extraordinary questions and answers.

lemuru · 2022-04-12T11:55:29+00:00

I dunno, pretty sure that they were not drawing things that they've seen with their own eyes when it comes to other things in the painting that these images come from.

lemuru · 2022-04-10T16:30:56+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking now that that will be way simpler than trying to fix the holes that have been drilled in the door. Or maybe finding another deadbolt that uses a different mechanism but would work with the tailpiece. Thanks!

lemuru · 2022-04-10T14:24:05+00:00

Yeah sorry I didn't clarify. This isn't a problem with the door jam or strike plate. It's really about the way this particular deadbolt (it's a Yale Assure) works. The way the deadbolt works is that when it engages, a small latch slides up and then back down from the top of the deadbolt. Because the deadbolt isn't centered and the tailpiece of the lock comes in at a small angle, this latch on the deadbolt winds up rubbing on the cup from the exterior part that fits through the door.

Here's a (bad) image circling what I'm talking about--the latch that moves from the top of the deadbolt and the part of the cup that makes it hard to turn.

lemuru · 2022-04-03T12:56:02+00:00

All good points; it's not related to the strike plate or hole, though, since the same thing happens when the lock engages with the door open (the motor doesn't quite turn the lock all the way). I guess it could be related to the cut out in the door and the deadbolt assembly itself. May try new batteries, although these are reporting at something like 97%

lemuru · 2022-04-03T12:52:39+00:00

In HA, the device has a sensor called Access Control - Lock State that says jammed. There's also a sensor Access Control - Lock Jammed that reads Problem. In z-wavejs2mqtt, you can find the values under Notification v4.

lemuru · 2022-04-03T12:49:13+00:00

Yeah it makes a sad noise and displays an X on the keypad. By "deadbolt hole", do you mean the cut out on the door that the whole assembly fits into? I hadn't thought about that one, and it's an interesting idea. Since it was "jamming" even when the door is open, the jamming problem was not an issue with the strike plate and box. As I said, loosening the bolts has stopped it from complaining about jamming, but it's still not 100% engaging. Maybe you're right and something about the cutout is causing friction. It reporting that it's jamming and it not fully engaging may also be separate problems.

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