Category Archives: Technology

More Artificial Idiocy

Today I’m reminded the Internet is a strange and surreal place when GMail decides to add some spam appointments to my Google Calendar. I’m on a flight to India on Tuesday next week! Continue reading

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If you use ChatGPT to help you learn things, you’re an idiot.

Well, you might not be, but you’re certainly not understanding what these systems do. Continue reading

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Got a refund from the TV Licensing people!

A completely non-serious bit of waffle about me sticking it to the man. Continue reading

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Almost UV light from RGBW LEDs

So it turns out the RGBW LED light strip in my living room has some almost-UV component to its blue light. It is almost UV enough to make some things fluoresce quite vivid colours.

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According to Fitbit, gardening is cycling

One of FitBit’s more useful features is its ability to automatically detect exercise. I think it uses a combination of your heart rate and how the device is moving. The pattern of motion and heart rates must be categorised by … Continue reading

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I bought an Android tablet, it’s alright…

It’s not amazing, it’s not crap. Android tablets have always been a bit weird, either oddly sized with strange screen resolutions or manky and broken addon software. Or they’re fine but never receive an Android update ever and do strange … Continue reading

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