Author Archives: cenobyte

The Enshittification of Everything

Posted on October 26, 2024 by cenobyte

Cory Doctrow (who’s on Mastodon by the way!  https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic ) came up with this term called Enshittification. In fact he has a video on this (from Defcon 32) https://youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8?si=Tf-T9B_c6x2yB2VM The word is the practice of a business that tempts you … Continue reading →

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Duracell Enshitified

Posted on February 3, 2024 by cenobyte

Duracell batteries used to be so good. They’d last a long time and just be a great product.Now, they are absolute garbage. They leak, they burst, they’re just gross. I’ve had so many things ruined by these trashy batteries. We’re … Continue reading →

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An old man yelling at the (internet) cloud

Posted on February 3, 2024 by cenobyte

I did a trial install of Mathematica 14 (The Thirring Institute is a Mathematica shop).  I was pretty excited to try out the new LLM features. The Big Change(tm) advertised for this version was the inclusion of AI. I tried … Continue reading →

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Still trying to fix the plugin. Might be working now though

Posted on January 24, 2024 by cenobyte

The issue could be on the internal side due to the wierd nature of the thirring network setup

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Techno Meltdown Hell Week

Posted on January 13, 2023 by cenobyte

Oh what a week it’s been. Endless technological failures plaguing us.It started with the failure of a microphone! This was bought only a year or two ago…suddenly it just stopped working. Would only record faintly with alot of static. A … Continue reading →

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Ipad OS 16.1 is terrible. Let’s hope they improve it!

Posted on November 4, 2022 by cenobyte

So I updated to Ipad OS 16 on my ipad mini in tingly anticipation of a number of features.What a mistake that was!  The features Apple was crowing about either aren’t there or don’t work. Undo e-mail does not work. … Continue reading →

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Amazon third party seller issues and the A to Z guarantee.

Posted on July 21, 2022 by cenobyte

I ordered a chalkboard from Amazon to add to my studio. Sounded like a good idea at the time. Took two weeks+ to get here, but did I get the chalkboard? Nope. I got a large and very heavy bookshelf. … Continue reading →

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Transitioning to a tech thoughts site

Posted on July 10, 2022 by cenobyte

When I’d first set this site up, I’d hoped it would be a place to find fixes and such, but I never got that part off the ground for a variety of reasons. This blog will now become a place … Continue reading →

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My ebook experience and why I think libraries and Bookstores are pretty much safe for now

Posted on October 14, 2013 by cenobyte

Recently I had heard of an interesting story by Geoffrey ALandis called “Vacuum States”. A quick searc h of the net showed no copies available to read on their own. I found that this story was located in two places. … Continue reading →

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