Recent content by Geffers

There is a push to replace passwords with passkeys, apparently safer. I'm guessing they work similar to https or ssh connections whereby a public and private key pair are created, both needed for the encrypted connection but the private key never leaves one's device. Now this 'never leaves...

I think it is just something that is useful but check the results. In the early days of computing portable calculators were the thing, I was working with figures at the time but I'd seldom take the initial answer, either check answer manually or an alternate calculation on the device.

I think nature and personality come in to it too. At one point many moons ago my late wife and I had 7 cats, all treated the same but all individual. We had one brother and sister, the male cat was very affectionate, the female was very stand offish. Geffers

Odd thing is it gave the wrong and correct answer in the same reply.

Here's an amusing one. The current interim manager of Manchester United is Darren Fletcher, there are twin brothers in the United squad, Jack and Tyler Fletcher. I asked duck.com AI if they were related. The answer is as follows: No, *Jack Fletcher* and *Tyler Fletcher* are not related to...

Getting back to my heater comment, sitting right in front of a blow heater one can feel it nicely, but guess it'd be just as good sitting in front of a radiant heater too. The moment the hot air gets blown forward it effectively gets diluted as it mixes with surrounding air. One wonders how...

Yes, funny comment. Odd how people can get sucked in (pun intended) to these ideas.

As winter approaches one often gets adverts for heaters developed by some student who's dad was a rocket technician and these heaters can heat up a warehouse in 2 minutes. Well maybe I have exaggerated slightly but you have probably seen them. From what I understand 1kW is one kW whether it is...

This may be of interest to some, during WW2 there were a number of forts erected in the Thames Estuary, intended as a defence against German attack by air or sea. After the war they fell into disuse although for a while used by pirate radio station. Sadly, although of historical significance...

Shows as not available in UK. Shall explore the VPN option.

Cheers @Retro

Happened in Canada couple of years back, whatever your politics Canadian truckers were demonstrating against Government policy during the COVID era. Trudeau declared an emergency, froze the bank accounts of the truckers, they couldn't buy diesel or food, effectively froze and starved them into...

This is a funny video, dogs discuss human behaviour at Christmas. Geffers

Available via normal web browser on desktop or laptops. https://www.noradsanta.org/en/

Just a reminder folks, great for the kids, or the adults that haven't grown up. If NORAD can enter into the children's world of Santa then us adults can too.