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It's my birthday today.

I search for a video/song on Bing. I click on a YouTube link.

It does not show the video I clicked on. It displays another video.

Even though I made sure that the video still exists on YouTube by looking at the link I found with "Inspect element" on the Bing search results page.

A few days ago, I torrented, converted and put online the first two seasons.

http://tv.philippe97.ca/Border%20Security%20Canada/

With a computer, you have to choose a model to base your simulation on.

Some choices :

- Physical objects
- Molecular
- Atomic
- Quantum

To me, that we can experiment on models smaller (atom) or bigger (planets and stars) than us, means that we are not in a simulation.

I believe this model thing is fractal and we will never stop finding models for things smaller and bigger than the current models.

Computers cannot simulate models they have not been programmed to simulate.

Plus, the computer would have to be much larger than the simulated world. Bigger than the universe.

(For example, with an atomic simulation, the computer needs to have many, many atoms to represent a single atom, making it way bigger).

I finally managed to record the latest Doctor Who episode in french on Disney+.

I first tried on the 26th, but I had problems with my "HDMI Video Capture" showing the colour bars.

I fixed the problem today by passing the signal through a spare HDMI splitter I had.

My setup :

I have a HDMI-over-Cat6 module with a "local loop-out".

That loop-out is connected to the input of my splitter.

Port 2 of the splitter is connected to my "Video Capture".

Port 1 is not used.

I think the problem was that my module was not properly doing the 60 fps to 30 fps conversion.

I think my splitter was doing that conversion better.

(But it could also be other things)

http://www.doctorwho2023.net/fr/

It basically requires aliens to make a television and not be blind or deaf.

They should have just printed pictures and used flip books for video.

I wanted to see if the basement apartment's phone line was still working.

I opened the ceiling where the two old Bell terminal blocks used to be (I removed the blocks years ago).

There are four cables :

Two grey grounds, one white phone cable and one grey phone cable.

I skinned the eight wires and twisted the four pairs together.

Unfortunately, I could not detect the short in the apartment.

The first apartment socket has two phone cables : One comes from I-don't-know and the other probably goes to the second socket.

Sorry for the shadows. I had to use the flash.

My sense of smell is less powerful than it was before.

I think this started after I got COVID for the first time a few weeks ago.

In my five years of secondary school, we only did one fire drill.

I liked it.