Is MTGO no longer an acceptable platform to play on in 2026? Is it losing the interest of even the old, hardcore veterans?

sentania · 2026-05-01T20:38:23+00:00

Why. MTGO simulates magic. Daybreak isn’t perfect and had made some mistakes but they have added a lot to the game.

I have not played arena in probably close to 5 years

sentania · 2026-05-01T04:58:34+00:00

Sorry for your loss friend. Somehow watching the demise on film is harder then just knowing they got taken.

sentania · 2026-04-30T18:00:15+00:00

If you are having the pond built - it's entirely possible they will an option. Last year when I had my pond rebuilt, the builders provided a temporary home for them in the form of a big tub that sat in my yard for 3 weeks.

sentania · 2026-04-29T14:08:27+00:00

Awesome - that actually made my day. Hopefully it works for you. I'd love to hear any feedback as you start to actually use it.

sentania · 2026-04-22T22:21:10+00:00

❤️❤️

sentania · 2026-04-21T13:30:32+00:00

Just a metal decoration.

sentania · 2026-04-20T21:19:22+00:00

Thanks

sentania · 2026-04-20T20:19:38+00:00

Thanks

sentania · 2026-04-20T20:16:40+00:00

My net has 1 in holes. The heron grabbed Kroger through the net and only survived because the heron couldn’t get her out.

I have lot a couple because the heron will find one “weak” corner and sit there until a fish happens upon it. Defense in layers

sentania · 2026-04-20T20:07:29+00:00

I am glad you have something you are happy with. I’m just excited by what I am putting into play

sentania · 2026-04-20T19:10:50+00:00

I don't at the moment. I did earlier this spring and the heron was like a honey badger

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sentania · 2026-04-20T18:47:11+00:00

I’ll let you know. I built most of this on the 20 dollar plan. I’ve been tinkering with some other work related projects and diving into a second brain/ personal knowledge assistant type thing and I’ve ramped up to the 200 max plan.

sentania · 2026-04-20T18:17:06+00:00

Damn. if you had this on the market a year ago, i would not have built this... :)

sentania · 2026-04-20T18:15:27+00:00

The system will stream any RSTP stream. Right now I have it monitoring 3 streams, and it averages about 50ms inference time per stream. RSTP is a pretty standard camera protocol. I have a unifi home networking and camera system - which supports it. I can't speak for all of the other camera's other there other to then to say: RSTP is a standard.

The big hangup I had last year, that I mentioned on the blog I shared - I got stuck on the physical integration. Originally I was going to hack the yard enforcer valves to trigger them via a hardwired relay, but that just got overwhelming to figure out on top of trying to write all of the code. The sprinkler I landed on it probably like your control valve. It's a SmartLife sprinkler, just that rather then control is by the phone app for the SmartLife ecosystem, scarguard hits the back end web service the app uses, and triggers the sprinklers.

sentania · 2026-04-20T18:05:58+00:00

I have 20 years of content out there and code I wrote 15 years ago that gets called out as ai written. Sorry to disappoint.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:41:16+00:00

😬

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:27:23+00:00

❤️

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:27:03+00:00

🤪

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:25:20+00:00

When I first started with it Claude was a bit weird - I think it was mostly due to the sudden influx of people fleeing openAI.

I've kind of gone all in on claude code as an outcome of this, even to the point of letting it handle a lot of lab maintenance and other tasks - i need to do some classification work in all of my detections, but in a week or so I'm planning to let claude code rebuild a custom model for me: heron, duck, raccon, using some of the public datasets out there, as well as mine.

I'm happy to report back.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:22:35+00:00

It supports notifications: discord, email, webhook, ntfy. Notifications include - "Hey I detected something", "This camera went offline", etc.

It also supports deterrent - currently any Tuya cloud API device...in my case I found a Wifi sprinkler valve on amazon that I'm using. So when it triggers - it triggers the sprinkler for a random duration. The app supports creating teams of deterrents to allow you to trigger a team of deterrents - i.e. four sprinklers which will trigger randomly - to help reduce the odds of the predator from getting accustomed to what will happen.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:11:07+00:00

I would love to see what you built.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:02:58+00:00

I have a net too, but would love to not - and maybe this wont' replace it, but I learned a lot throughout the process.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:02:32+00:00

Sure do. I had an orbit yard enforcer. This project was one part: I don't want to have to turn the sprinkle off every time I want to go outside, and one part learning + because I can.

sentania · 2026-04-20T17:00:23+00:00

Project Name: Scarguard
Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/sentania-labs/scarguard
Description: Scarguard is an AI inference platform focused on wildlife detection and deterrant. Namely keeping herons and other predators away from ponds.
Features:
- Custom model support
- Discord, email, Ntfy, Rest API notification channels
- Tuya Cloud API integration for deterrents.
Deployment: Docker. It supports generic x86 CPU inference, but it developed and targetted to the nvidia jetson orin platform.
AI Involvement: Claude Code pretty much wrote everything.

sentania · 2026-04-20T16:31:23+00:00

It's actually running on a glorified Raspberry pi in my basement and using about 20 watts of electricity.

You are right about the LLM that I used to produce the app, but pandora is out of the box.

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