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Chess: Zukertort Opening: Tennison Gambit with ?! and ??

I played offence here in 3 minutes Super Blitz on Lichess as Anonymous. The board looked like it was littered with landmines of ?! and ?? . The battle roar should sound: Mistake, inaccuracy, mistake. Forward! It ended with a checkmate. I did that checkmate. If it were the opposite side, well, it would like plunging myself into a carburettor. Usually, I can't fit... in. Physics. 🤷 You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

Elders Drinking Song

Listen on YouTube Music As if your bones heard something familiar from before you were even born. That song is from the Amis (阿美族) people of Taiwan. 老人飲酒歌 or Elders Drinking Song is a traditional Amis chant, famously performed by Difang (郭英男) and Igay (郭秀珠) who were Amis from the Maran (馬蘭社) settlement. The vocals were lifted straight from a 1988 recording of Difang and Igay singing during a French government-backed ethnomusicology project — meant for research. With EMI as the outsourced vault. EMI (Electric and Musical Industries), a commercial British label. Because even "non-commercial" academic recordings were often pressed to vinyl/CD by big labels, just for reach or preservation. EMI probably saw it as just another folk catalogue item. The original singers never expected their voices to hit global charts — through Enigma. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu. They were under Virgin Records. Aside f...

Handketchup

I was watching a gameplay of METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER on YouTube by MKIceAndFire . I "read" that, handketchup , in the inventory. I thought, oh, that's probably just a condiment for his ration. What I'm saying is, there's "snake eater" bit in it — ketchup for eating a roasted snake, juicy rat, tingly spider, Russian false mango, and goblin perhaps? 🤔 Hm, alright. It would mask the uncharted taste. Never mind the possibility of poison — looks edible, ketchup. Russian false mango is fictional. It's like Saharan false snow. But, handketchup? Is it like hand grenade? One word? Really? So, squirt squirt to the face? Oi you! You enemy, aye? (Squirts ketchup from the handketchup to the face. The opposite side's face. Not his own face. 🤦) ... opposite side's ... 🤔 It's possessive, but it's abstract. It's got that unhingedness to it. Who refers to a person or group as "the opposite side" in casual speech,...

How to Fix the ‘No Wi-Fi Networks Available’ Bug on Windows 11 (AMD) Laptops

Good day! This bug specifically in Windows 11 — on laptops with AMD processors, I noticed. The Issue On Windows 11 laptops with AMD processors, the Wi-Fi adapter sometimes suddenly reports No Wi-Fi networks available — even though the router and ISP are fine, and phones connect normally. Trigger Often happens right after an ISP (Internet Service Provider) hiccup, a brief disconnection, or when waking from sleep. Instead of reconnecting, the adapter seems to freeze and stops detecting SSIDs (Service Set Identifiers) entirely. Cause It's a quirk of Windows 11 combined with AMD-platform Wi-Fi chipsets (often MediaTek or Realtek). The adapter gets stuck in a bad state, so Windows thinks no wireless networks exist. Workaround Instead of installing "latest" drivers and getting confused, we can do this: Check the router first — use your phone to confirm other devices can see/connect to Wi-Fi. Shut down the laptop. Bloody remove (unplug) all the peri...

How to Clear Notepad's Tab State in Windows 11

A very good day to you. 🎩 Straight to business, then. In Windows 11, the path for Notepad tab state is: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState Close the Notepad first. ➡️ Delete all .bin files inside that folder. ➡️ Open again Notepad. No, it won't break the Notepad. Promise. We can set Notepad's start-up option to Open in a new window (instead of "Open in a new tab") after that, optionally. Click the top-right gear icon in Notepad, and we would see this: Through Script We can do it from PowerShell: $folder="$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState"; if(Test-Path $folder){Remove-Item "$folder\*" -Force} Or CMD (Command Prompt): set folder=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState && if exist "%folder%" del /q "%folder%\*" Background I was helping a friend to ...

GPT-5

Good day. OpenAI released the latest models: GPT-5 and GPT-5 Thinking . I usually on GPT-4o for casual banters about anything. Most of the idle times, about films and telly shows I watched randomly. For instance, this was one of my observations. 😂 Why did people in a jungle expedition (in those shows) wear tank tops knowing they'd be, at least, in a jungle? Shouldn't safety be the first consideration? Not that we can't wear tank tops in the jungle. But when the story is about gigantic venomous, aggressive spider, reptile, other muppets — it means safety is numero uno. Not one of them brought pesticide, none. Lalala, let's stroll around here, let the wind carries us away. Even one can of Raid in any horror would do justice. Ghost! Spray. Man-eating men! Spray. The darkness! Spray. Flying frying pan! Well, spray then duck, or duck then spray. At least, I'd expect, once they met the beasts along the way, ran away in panic — oh hey, let's not go ther...

Speech to Text

Greetings. 😀 We can use this application to capture our speech and convert it into text. Independent Application Change Roll Fix, 05 August 2025: onchage . 🤦 Changelog? Change roll sounds like a dodgy sushi special. 🤔 I provide some of most common language options for the recognition. This works on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and some Android browsers. With this, we can right away get the text of a conversation, supposedly. Convenient. We can use our cellphone. I guess there will be missing recognition. Especially when the speech is wicked or there's too much background noise. This application implements webkitSpeechRecognition (non-standard API). At the moment, or any other moment, there is no English (Gibberish) . The code en-🤪 is hard to train and wasteful. Blibber blabber foofoo twaddle twaddle snarf is not common in anywhere. webkitSpeechRecognition is indeed powered by Google's cloud speech recognition backend, ev...

Text to Speech

Hi. 😄 We can use this application to utter our text. Independent Application To search a particular speech synthesis model, we can clear the input first then type anything. For instance, english , italiano , google , or microsoft (if we're using Windows OS). The input is above the text Type or click to search voice . This application implements SpeechSynthesis (Web Speech API) . About This demonstration is using our operating system built-in speech models (either Windows or macOS — with no single built-in TTS system across all Linux distros) and Google's. Other example is Doctor Ossbita We can't "record" the utterance audio output programmatically with JS or browser extension script because: It's not a media stream like getUserMedia . It does not emit audio that JavaScript can capture — it bypasses AudioContext , MediaStream , etc. It's a one-way street straight to the system voice. But we still can capture it with OB...

Blogger: How to Add Merlin's Lemonade Stand to Your Blog

Merlin's Lemonade Stand = Followers Gadget. I call it "Merlin's Lemonade Stand". 🤔 Because we don't follow a lemonade stand, it's a stand. We can, but usually we don't. And it belongs to Merlin. Double bafflements. Like following a building? Oi, I follow this post office for days! It doesn't move. For our information, I am operating with the literal, original, physical sense of follow . As in to go after something in motion . Let's go metaphorical. Steps On blogger.com dashboard, we go to Layout menu. Then, depends on our chosen template, we find and click the + Add a Gadget . Indeed, we would find it without searching it first. Scroll down a bit on the pop-up menu to find Followers gadget ➡️ pick (click) that. We can reposition the Followers gadget to suit our aesthetics and the gadget's visibility. ➡️ Hit Save. [Optional] Then, we change the...

Chess: Offence Against Modern Defence: Hm Variation

I played white (offence) in 3 minutes Super Blitz on Lichess as Anonymous. Opening theory? Ignored. Material balance? Hm. In this game, as a drunk bard, my strategy was an alternating: Let's try this - Oh, well - Don't mind if I do! 🤦 It was hilarious at the end (22nd banter). 💥 I didn't realise I constructed a proper prison. Hm, alright, I did plot that. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Hm. 🤔 Chess Training on Lichess Learn 🧐 There's LEARN menu on Lichess. You might want to navigate the sub-menus to find out more. From Chess basics to Coaches . Puzzles 🤔 I usually do puzzles on Lichess to sharpen my positioning — so many variations! It is not timed, thus it's great to fill our spare time. Three to six puzzles will be sufficient per day. Or per every time we visit Liches...
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