Lunar Eclipse Videos
It took a bit of time to do, but here – finally – is my footage of the lunar eclipse. It was cold as hell out there, so I was trying to keep me warm and motivated, and the camera operating (cold...
View ArticleComet Leonard photos
Comet C/2021 A1 – more commonly known as Leonard – is making its closest approach to the sun right now for about 80,000 years, so it’s a rare sight unlikely to be seen again. I’m being kinda lazy about...
View ArticleSome more Comet Leonard photos
So one of the big news things has been the comet Leonard, and since my first attempt wasn’t great I thought I should try again when I got the chance. So I did. (This time I’m going to embed from...
View ArticleTetch Talk Ep 4 – 10 Years After SOPA/PIPA
Ten years ago, the internet, including this site, blacked out in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, and the PROTECTIP Act. In this special episode I talk about the history of the protest, and what...
View ArticleCopyright Consultation on ContentID
Automated takedown tooks are a pain. They’re very much a case of "If X = Y Then do Z" As such, they’re really unsuitable for anything beyond automated detection of something, and they certainly...
View ArticleBuggrit & Snart – Exploding Planets
So for Dragoncon 2022, I had the idea of making a spoof advert. A lawyer advert, and what’s a good disaster that lawyers are keep to profit from? Well that nice scifi trope of planetary destruction of...
View ArticleSocial Media Switch
Ok, with the fall of Twitter, I’m not using it any more. So @ktetch on twitter is going to go dead. I’m moving to Mastodon. So you can find me there. And I’ll give some others a try when I can. i’ll...
View ArticleFacebook Identity Verification Is Broken And Has Been For A Long Time
Last month, there was the story of how Meta is going to introduce ‘account verification’ as an upsell, and how it was going to be done in the name of safety and security. There were over 100 comments...
View Article50 Episodes of Lobsang Ludd
So we just hit the 50th episode of The Temporal Adventures of Lobsang Ludd, and while I’ve also had to take a temporary break from filming (computer issues) lets take a quick look back at the series....
View ArticleRedirection Frustration
You might notice that we’re back on this old WordPress site, one that I’d stopped using about 10 years ago when I got my own domain. That’s because there’d been some major screwups with the wordpress...
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