January 2025

We are not part of a computer simulation #

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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).

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Border Security Canada #

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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

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

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Bing videos suck #

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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.

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I am now 28 #

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM

It's my birthday today.

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"Apple Store" #

Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM

I noticed yesterday that my iPhone was set to automatically connect to the "Apple Store" Wi-Fi network.

It seems that this network was there when I got my iPhone. I never went to the Apple Store.

This means that anyone can create a network named "Apple Store", give it no password, have iPhones automatically connect to it and then be able to snoop on anything they do online.

This is serious. This is bad.

You can delete the "Apple Store" Wi-Fi network by clicking the "Edit" button at the top of the Wi-Fi settings.

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Scientists have belief too #

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM

The belief that applying the scientific method will make the world better.

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Hardcore Pawn #

Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM

I like the show.

I bought the hardcorepawn.net domain today and put online the episodes I had.

http://www.hardcorepawn.net/

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Google and referrers #

Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Google has Google Analytics. It benefits them to make the Referer [sic] header completely useless.

Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin

They fooled everyone by saying it was for "security". Now everyone is doing the same thing.

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Seeing without being seen #

Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM

I don't know if it can be done, but I doubt it.

With an invisibility cloak, you cannot see from the inside if the light does not enter the cloak.

You would have to "copy" the light. Send it both inside and to the back.

If you see someone, I believe you can always be seen back. A camera can be seen.

I don't know.

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Lights off #

Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM

What about turning the lights off and living like the blind ?

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Those who pretend to have no opinions have the worst opinions #

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM

I'm thinking of some doctors I've met.

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Cellphones on airplanes #

Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM

Even if the cellphones inside the airplane are turned off, the ground antennas and other cellphones are still transmitting.

Radio waves are still going through the plane.

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Snow Wide #

Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM

I just made the snow on my websites span the whole width of the page.

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ChatGPT #

Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM

It just read my entire blog two days ago.

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