Okay, so check this out. I decided to play with copilot and uploaded the EBT warning to test transcription. I upload the image and copilot immediately replies with its thoughts on the matter. Then I ask what's it say, and now it insists that it can't read images. This is what the paperclip maxiphobes are so scared of?

Apparently bacon is a basic human right. Unlike toasted bread.

Parking lot treasures. Somebody had quite the night.

All the laptops at Best Buy have e-ink price tags. I have not observed the prices changing as I walk around, but I have observed the screens are low res and the smaller text is completely illegible.

On my way to the buy of best to responsibly dispose of the zenbook when I realize I didn't wipe the hard drive, so now I'm carrying it down the sidewalk wide open while that runs. Yes, that's right folks, very important work going on here, excuse me, excuse me, clear a path, urgent tasks in progress.

Well crap, I'm looking at my other (newer) thinkpad, with a missing key cap, and thinking it's long overdue for me to fix that, but also not that long, right? It was two years ago.

https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/Zk8Sfs1h6l7GJdgb1W

Two days until I find out if this magical doodad actually works. The juice must flow.

I think tomorrow I will take the 2015 X1 carbon out for a walk. It could use some fresh air for its tenth birthday.

In light of last night's adventure with the swollen battery, I'm now going through the house and finding all the old laptops and either bringing them up to date and giving them a full charge health assessment, complete with openbsd reinstall, or putting them in the danger pile.

The city of Philadelphia could really use an ejunk dropoff that's not out in the borderlands.

Making good progress on curing my laptop acquisition addiction. The zenbook is now cooked, with a swollen battery, and I soft bricked my pixelbook trying to install openbsd. So that's two down, but so many more to go.

Found a new germ tv show to watch: The Island. Lord of the flies with a cool soundtrack. Keine Eltern, keine Regeln.

Dusted off an old zenbook and discovered it's been hitting the gym. The battery is quite swole, as the kids would say.

Liker.social? Don't even know her.

There's more to those colliding blocks that compute pi

Two colliding blocks compute pi, here we dig into the physics to explain why.

The original paper by Gregory Galperin: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf

Adam Brown’s paper on the analogy with Grover’s Algorithm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02207

#math #physics #quantum #video #visualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo

Gonna put some chemicals in my water. Thank you blessed Bezos for this delicious delivery.

DZ: baby torture

This is a tough read.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/what-do-we-learn-from-torturing-babies.html

Discussions of ebooks and DRM and such always feature a dearth of stories from people duplicating their paper book collection for backup purposes. I think more people should share their experiences doing that.

lol, I'm reading this 1955 report from John von Neumann and he's talking about using weather control to stop the polar vortex from advancing. A true visionary.

Using the macbook 12 #today, and what I miss from the newer models is the fingerprint unlock. I have a very short lock screen delay set, and it's no trouble at all when I can unlock in one second, but more tedious when I have to type a password.

Inspired by sr.ht I just added another 32 /24s to the banhammer.

Subscriber exclusive! All the heat dome and polar vortex sketches in two limited edition ebooks.

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WOT time is it? WOT time.

Walked around rittenhouse square, spotted my first whale tail of the season. Nature is healing.

Perfect weather for puke on the sidewalk day. Warm enough you'll think you can leave the jacket home, cold enough you'll need to get shitfaced to feel warm.

Wore out my civ6 computer, switched to Endless Legend. It's like a warhammer 40k flavored civ6, except looking back it was released two years before civ6, so I guess that makes civ6 a normie flavored EL. You've got your cities, your food, your gears, your sciences, your gold, etc. But the factions have actually distinct play styles, as opposed to nudges via slight bonuses, so if you play as a faction that doesn't have cities, or food, or science, then you have some replacement mechanic that changes things up more than +1 gold on trade routes.

I think it solves many of the problems with civ even better than civ does. Like there's mechanics here that would clearly make civ6 better, but they probably thought, oh, it's been done already, we have to make our game different and worse now. The army and combat system works really well for me. And the graphics are way more interesting to look at.

Speaking of the pixelbook, dug it out of the computer bin and it runs fine. ChromeOS is super outdated and not to be trusted, but I can tolerate firefox running in crostini. I've been keeping it around because I was planning on wiping it at some point to install a new OS, but that likely involves screwdrivers and flashing and weird stuff, so never happened.

#OpenBSD CVS Web crippled https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174199146014926&w=2

Got to the episode of Banshee where the renegade Indians attack the police station, and assault on precinct 13 has nothing on this mayhem.

Housing in Trump's America.

Location: Northern Liberties 39.964 -75.1407

Shoutout to the pixelbook. I have one, but stopped using it for reasons, but did love it. And can confirm, people loved looking at it. It would always get a comment from anyone around.

https://tedium.co/2025/02/26/framebook-12-laptop-impressions/

In XNU, threads belonging to the same process can have different credentials.

Insane in the membrane.

Calling my summer lake house Bad Apfel.

Haha, amazon has verified my trade-in! It was for an old pair of the original echo buds, for which they offered me $5, and more importantly, 20% off a kindle.

They kinda looked new, because I ended up never using them, but the batteries were definitely dead and unchargable, and yet... verified. I think they knew these things were never going to be resold, so no point wasting labor verifying them, but at the same time, they need the trade in program for reasons. So I have a little box of e-junk that's really just unredeemed coupons.

@pony can you confirm this is the best beer in prague?

Břevnov Monastery Brewery
Zlý Časy
Dva Kohouti
Pivovar Ládví Cobolis
Únětický Pivovar

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/looking-for-best-beer-in-prague-start-here-aaac5e97