Every time some dimwit says “noise cancelling” when their intent is to block other people’s voices, a cute little fluffy kitten goes deaf.
Category: Consumer Complaints
A Thing That AI Could Actually Help With
Most of the “AI” and LLM things that dominate the zeitgeist lately are not designed to help people, contrary to the hype. They are designed to make filthy rich people richer, at any cost to society. So the lies about what they can actually do, told to the ignorant, are of malicious intent.
Dunn Brothers Lorem Ipsum FAQ
On shop.dunnbrothers.com I went looking for help with pausing my subscription. Found the FAQ. It’s full of “Lorem ipsum” placeholder text!
Why You See Small Companies With No SSL On Their Website
Bluehost is cheap. That’s why I have this site hosted here. But this sort of shit is why IT folk gain a reputation for being dicks. Because all too often, they ARE.
New Fear Unlocked
A wasp or hornet (I’m not good at identifying them, but it wasn’t a honey bee nor bumble bee, it was smooth, shiny, black & yellow & stingy) was clinging to the shorts. WHY it had crawled between shorts and underwear in the first place, I cannot begin to fathom. But in the cool, pre-dawn basement, it was nearly motionless.
Took the shorts over to the patio door, opened it, flicked ’em outside.
But this has now unlocked a new fear – of being stung in the balls.
How far into autumn/winter will it be before the risk of stingy fuckers hiding in my underwear basket has returned to effectively zero?
RTTY-like Birdie Every 25kHz Across Entire HF Spectrum And Beyond
Found a birdie this morning. Started as what looked like a RTTY “stuck diddle” in the FT8 waterfall on 10m. So I switched to fldigi to go RTTY eavesdropping to see what’s out there. Every 5 turns of the big knob, I’d find another one. So I did some further investigating.
Well, it’s insane. From the lowest freq to the highest freq I can receive with my Yaesu FTdx3000, it’s there at extremely regular intervals.
Eclipse – My Best Few Shots
What I would do differently, in hindsight.
Firstly, I wouldn’t use the supplied tripod. Way too flimsy and wiggly. I mean, stupid as it is, to take a photo, you have to touch the iPhone with your finger.
Rude Awakening
In the wee dark hours this morning, the recliner decided it’d had just about enough of my bullshit, and dumped me like Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair. And I didn’t even get to tell a story.
Sexism In The Age Of Cholera… or is it Covid?
Anytime I’m going to be within 10 feet of people other than my wife, I wear a 3m 8210 N95 mask. It has two real straps that go around my head, holding it tightly to my face all the way around. Does it mess up my hair? Sure. I don’t fucking care. I need to not get Covid-19, so STFU.
The ARRL And What They Think Of As Political
Would it not be considerate to be intentionally inclusive of people who are different from ourselves? Would it not be friendly to be welcoming and supportive of people who don’t happen to share our political or religious beliefs?