Weight Set Point and Early Conclusions
Early conclusions? What? This is poor science! Well it's all appropriate as I'm also ranting about Weight Set Point, which is not good science, but is probably at least partially true. Let's start with the Early Conclusions.
- Metabolism for the purpose of this discussion is about how your body uses a certain amount of energy just existing. This amount may increase and result in extra work done by the body in repairing/growing, or just make you feel more inclined to do stuff. (...)
Do No Evil to the Core
Is Google Evil? Is Apple Evil? Am I evil for thinking about these things?
TL/DR dunno.
I was riding home on my motorbike the other day, and I was thinking what makes Google be seen as an evil company. I think it's mostly it's 'cos of it's information gathering practices. But. It doesn't really profit from those directly. The data (generally) go to ad companies and in the end companies who sell products/services who know what Google stand for. It's like YouTubers who embed (...)
The First Time I Thought Software That Exists Today Could End Modern Society As We Know It
...and any further examples as they happen.
But yeah, this one.
How a ‘swarm’ of AI agents hacked another company, in the AI’s own words
As a Microsoft Engineer, This Is (...)
Fold Fame
The biggest surprise with using a Samsung Fold to me, aside from the fact that it wasn't as good at multitasking as I hoped, is the amount of interest I get from friends and randos.
Is it good?
What's the battery life like?
Wow that's big!
That's an iPhone isn't it? (...)
Phase One Sort; Done!
Well I've done it. Started to think it was not possible. What? Well I've got my garage sorted enough that I can do things in it. Weights. Repairs. 3D printing. Storage. I can even fit a motorbike if need be. Wow.
For a time I was starting to think I'd need to get storage, at least for a short time, to enable me to have the room to make the room. But no! I've done it.
This is quite a big deal. Around five years ago I started on this project as I was planning on moving as part (...)
VLC is patently free
When I first (reluctantly) moved to the PC world I was in need of software to do the work I had in mind; viewing/editing images at the time. Support in Windows at the time (Win95) was atrocious and I ended up buying an image viewer.... and then a general file viewer... (...and I still want to write my own version of that concept...) then when audio became possible things had started changing. Winamp was kinda Freemium, and VLC is free. So why? Are they just crazy generous? Should Sinner (...)
The Bit Where You Unlock Your Bits in the Bitlocker Locker
Bitlocker has been around for almost 20 years. I've never chose to use it, but it's been on by default and my policy is generally to give something a go and not rock the boat unless it's seems to be required. It's never given me any issues; I've tended to print out recovery keys if they are thrust in my face but it's never given me a reason to look into it more or remove it.
Recently though I've had two issues. One with my new ASUS where on a start it asked for the recovery key, (...)
Blocking out Blocks made by Blocking company before I am Blocked
I'm pretty into "block" sets. Like LEGO. Used to just be LEGO, but over time I went from "It's LEGO or nothing" to "I wish TLG (The LEGO Group) did that" to "oh, that one looks OK, I'll buy it". To expand, it was mostly over lines like Halo Mega Bloks, and once the rule had been broken I just kept buying. Often there was a vague excuse; the theme, the price, but the end result was the same. I had learnt the key fact; LEGO isn't the only block in town, and some of the other brands are just as (...)
Switching It Up
Quick Update One: July 2026
As a way of keeping me on track as well as giving updates as well as giving me an easy news I'll be every few months giving quick updates to things that I have kinda dropped on the floor and want to pick up. So lets go!
- VocoPro SDR-4000. Not much to say right now. I've been using it for it's intended purpose but I've made some changes to my audio system that I'll be discussing more later...
- LG V60. I did buy one. I did try to convert to using one. But my carrier didn (...)
