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Bob Davies

@bobbigmac.bsky.social
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Manchester coder and info-nerd, occasional woodworking. Currently still trying to figure out if AI can make literally anything that isn't slop. bobbigmac.com bobdavies.co.uk betterbritain.org.uk

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've probably taken this a bit too far now, but this isn't just a virtual/generated avatar, but drivable at realtime too. I like the idea of a layered audio track that carries its own inferrable video
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
peak :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not _quite_ "you could build that in a weekend", but £0.33B for a not-a-database is fucking insane.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's barely 120m records, that don't need to be 'federated' anyway, tho I do have a user-owns/encrypts blockchain-backed system that gives patients complete control. I have experience running a password manager, and have no interest in a crystal ball that snoops on everyone.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'll do it for 80k/yr.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"So the reality is we can easily get away with it" lol www.channel4.com/programmes/r...
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Reform Exposed
Going undercover to expose Reform UK's secret donations plot
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trained on git commit messages... it's fundamentally passive aggressive and impatient
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's a good one: Looking-Glass.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Triskelion
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These ones might be a _bit_ much :/
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, no answers suggests either a) at least they're not absolutely trivial, or b) they're too obtuse, despite being easy once you know what you're looking for or c) my/image-skeets don't travel :p
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Easy-cheesy
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's a biggy
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Visual pronunciation from any voice \o/ It's not useful for anything, but I think it's cool :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It also works for a take on a wordoku, but revealing the full word list turns it into a simple elimination exercise. I'm pretty sure revealing almost half the word list turns it into a deductive challenge, but hard to generalise about so far.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is Campfire.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's "X Marks The Treasure"
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Working on a puzzle generator, if you like this kind of thing, I can't decide if this is too easy :?
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe - I Looked Down the Line
YouTube video by Bob
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No, you're getting carried away
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An adaptation of the fantastic
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the hate monologue | i have no mouth and i must scream animatic
YouTube video by eggonalegg
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was a fun project
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the hate monologue | i have no mouth and i must scream scoped
YouTube video by Bob
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gets me they can put billions into GTA6, but can't put a couple hundred-k into a modern remaster or remake, and a little more into some dlc. It's such an accessible/portable format :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have been listening ad-free since this... holy shit podcasts are so much better when twenty minutes of ads had been cut out
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you know about can Carnage or Opengta?
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Took way too many attempts at this to finally figure it out [sound on if you're interested and not wearing headphones]. Essentially makes a video into an editable vector (of sorts) cos it _kinda_ teaches an agent how to change/regenerate it, even if metadata was stripped.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've been saying Phil Fish was right for years, but it's only now even I realize he was even more right than any of us (except when he wasn't)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Enjoyed Star City for its great direction and acting, but nothing will strain your suspension of disbelief more than everything in the last two episodes, where they might as well have done jazz hands and yelled "magic in spaaaace".
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The user is frustrated.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pretty pleased with this project, came out better than I expected :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
History Guest is out on Wednesday with Einstein as my first guest! I was trying to find out if AI can make something that isn't slop, tbh the answer is maybe-just-about-sometimes, but I found a lot of these interviews genuinely interesting perspectives. youtu.be/iiZxpH0D1Ew
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Einstein on Becoming Famous for the Wrong Reasons (And Hating Every Minute of It)
YouTube video by Bob
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think I finally cracked auto skipping podcast ads in my client if anyone wants to beta test pro in a few weeks
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Clowns
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#BringingBackCeefax :p youtu.be/6iT2bFPzAP8
youtube.com
Teletextish
YouTube video by Bob
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Almost makes me want to fire up linkedin, almost
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Since most of the corpo world are a couple of years into uptake, you'd think we'd have seen more "How AI improved my business" from real people in real jobs by now, if it was actually delivering at scale on serious work.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"It was an etiquette bloodbath" qotd
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is that like posh white lightning?
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
£70 for 30fps is going to be a struggle cos it gives me motion sickness since getting acclimatised to 60fps+. Hopefully they've got zero input lag or a very soon after release performance mode with potato textures.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Still miss ceefax. Might bring it back :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Listening to oldish radio lately, just hit early pandemic radio and laughing at everyone being like wash your hands, will be back to normal in a few weeks.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
...something something protein joke, that I couldn't quite figure out :)
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What just cos I'm oiled up in tight vest in a room full of mirrors and steel bars with 15 other jacked men, all looking at each-others' bodies and being judgemental while grunting and thrusting and giving mostly potato based cooking advice. It's absolutely NOTHING like a night out on canal street.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
18 days later, I finally finished renderering episode 1 (mostly local) and the first few minutes of all other episodes. Totally not worth it but was an interesting experience to explore how scarce/expensive GPUs are right now for i2v+a.
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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I only have one... "the worst day of my life, so far..."
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