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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 →

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 →

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 →

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

Turns out there’s something called the Amazon A to Z guarantee that guarantees if a third party seller doesn’t acknowledge your issue within 3 days you can contact them and they’ll sort it out. We had contacted the seller who … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →