Morning B3TA. I've got my hands on a round egg and am going to make the world's first egg cup designed specificaly for a spherical egg.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 9:24, Reply)
But it's hard to remember which i saw first...
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 13:20, Reply)
If monks in the 13th century came up with a cracking way to display the numbers 1 - 9999 as a single character, the least we can do is make a clock out of them.

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Now I want to see a real clock using the same characters.
I can't resist weird clocks - if I had the time I'd make one using resistor colour codes - anyone know where I can get a brown LED?
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 18:44, Reply)
I can supply almost endless brown pipe. Although I don't think that's really what you're looking for.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 22:51, Reply)
Tap the screen to boost the resolution to a mighty 24p (if your GPU can handle it?)

(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 23:01, Reply)
At least there was a cartoon to watch in the evening.
(, Thu 15 Jan 2026, 18:17, Reply)
and is now moving into financial services 😶
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 20:40, Reply)
I'm not clicking that, though. I don't want to see Mr Beast's creepy paedo grin, and I suspect whoever is writing about this vaccuous prick probably isn't aiming for a Pulitzer any time soon.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 20:58, Reply)
Fair and agreed.
Just find the logic bonkers and pity the people that have grown up idolising him and will potentially invest...
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 21:33, Reply)
It's behind a paywall, so I can't tell if he's hawking NFTs or another meme coin.
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£3k in cash then it's going to get wiped out soon. CBDC = reset button. Enjoy ignoring this notice ;)
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 17:29, Reply)
haha, I will not correct it, it's more amusing with all the context removed.
@sn0tters, you dun break fings again. There were at least 3 lines beween the title and the last line of that post.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2026, 17:32, Reply)
What're the chances of that happening?!
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 14:17, Reply)
Wouldn't it be weird if these coincidences never happened? No? Global communist conspiracy it is then.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 16:35, Reply)
Always looks as though he wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 17:22, Reply)
I reckon he would piss on you no matter what, not caring whether you were on fire or not.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 17:29, Reply)
strong agree. the other one is Joe Lycett. When you catch him 'off' he just looks like somebody has stuck a turd under his nose.
His tv show "joe lycett hides behind bodyguards" is pretty abysmal as well. Its like somebody has given Jack Doherty a tv show to annoy people on.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 17:54, Reply)
I generally change the channel when he appears.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 18:26, Reply)
that would quite sincerely label any and all criticism as homophobia because he's completely unable to comprehend the fact that some people just think he's an absolute cunt.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 19:58, Reply)
I remember now my friend was in a standup competition (before he was famouse) with a few people, lycett was in there as well. he completely ignored everybody in the green room whilst every else was chatting and like "good luck mate"
and yeah the 'phobe' defence on anything is just poor. "if you don't agree 100% with us you're a phobe and bigot and want us dead"... fucks sake. its a bit moustache party.
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Why is it so important that so many express a tedious or unfunny opinion about comedians who are gay or have had mental health issues?
Can't we go back to olden times, when people were better?
(, Thu 15 Jan 2026, 1:14, Reply)
Are you suggesting that a comedian's sexual preferences and/or mental health status should be taken into consideration before appraising them? Or that we shouldn't criticise people that happen to be gay/mentally ill at all?
I only ask because (believe it or not) I have more gay friends than straight, and the ones that have formed an opinion of Lycett seem to think he's a cunt, too.
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I took the "diarrhoea" man from the Pepto-Bismol advert and placed him into some famous songs.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 8:30, Reply)
dear god imagine having that on your cv.. "Tis is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of...Diarrhoea!"
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 10:16, Reply)
The second half of 'Delilah' is a more perfect fit than anyone would have thought possible.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 15:08, Reply)
more than a couple of out-loud guffaws. Thank you.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 17:19, Reply)
But given how much I absolutely fucking loathe that advert I won’t be watching.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 20:26, Reply)
This is seriously bent and utterly doing a number on me, well done.
(, Sat 17 Jan 2026, 3:37, Reply)
...so am I because I like him
(glasscock says no, surprisingly)
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 0:00, Reply)
I saw him once and felt like writing to him to complain about the repeated bit of business where he slowly pulls out his glasses, puts them on, pulls out a piece of paper, unfolds it slowly, reads its sarcastically, slowly folds it up and puts it away, slowly takes off glasses and puts them away.
but i realised what he would do with that would be slowly pull out his glasses, put them on, pull out a piece of paper with my criticism on it, unfold it slowly, read it sarcastically, slowly fold it up and puts it away then slowly take off glasses and put them away.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 2:19, Reply)
The perfect place for Stewart Lee fans.
Of which I may or may not be one too.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 11:27, Reply)
For ten days in the summer, the forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture are lit up by hime hotaru, a type of firefly endemic to the region.
Photographer Kazuaki Koseki has attempted to capture the phenomenon in his Summer Faeries series, compiled over a period of eight years. “The spectacle of fireflies flying through the summer forest is like the twinkling of a starry sky,” says Koseki.
“That sight is fantastic enough to forget the awe of the night forest.” In recent years, the fireflies’ habitat has been increasingly endangered by deforestation and the tourism industry.
(, Sat 10 Jan 2026, 22:00, Reply)
A friend took me to see 'em. You took a boat and the big bushes on either side were full of fireflies. The kind of trigger each other so you have these waves going round and round all reflected in the water. Very cool. Wonder if someone has video'd them... nah, the vids all suck
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 6:28, Reply)
With glow-in-the-dark condoms in a ditch.
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 17:44, Reply)
www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/glow-worm
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 19:39, Reply)
Still very cool. Lots of them here in NZ
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 23:32, Reply)
Oddly, cats can't see them.
Or don't chase them.
They have an odd colour which I suspect cats can't see in the dark.
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Originally had vocals recorded by Eddie Clarke, then later by Lemmy and the Lemmy version was used on the Bomber album in 1980.
This is an edit I made combining bits of both versions of the song.
Tenuously saying I made this as it's a re-edit of an existing song.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 21:58, Reply)
But did you notice that way back someone referred to you as "Federal cat man"?
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 22:30, Reply)
Isn't that his B3ta username?
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 13:47, Reply)
Fun little read. Raucous obit. for an extraordianary gal.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 11:32, Reply)
Here’s my great aunt’s NSFW obituary in the Guardian, written by Sophie Parkin, Molly’s daughter and her goddaughter. Although I doubt much god was involved.
(, Sat 10 Jan 2026, 16:32, Reply)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/05/molly-parkin-obituary
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 12:22, Reply)
I made Wordle*, but for pictures and without any of the talent.
Every day you get a pixelated album cover / movie poster that slowly reveals itself.
Guess it before it stops looking like Amiga porn.
*It ends in 'le* at least

(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 10:02, Reply)
but needs more attention to the Scores page.
I got album and artist on the 4th image (BOO - currently 11th place), but didn't get a star.
Took me a while to understand that the blocks relate to number of images seen.
Would be nice to go back a day and play past days, rather than seeing the images.
And use cookies so that you don't get a free second go after you know what the answer is.
(hope that's constructive criticism - not mean tto be negative :-) )
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 23:14, Reply)
Noted. I'll change it up so previous games become archived and playable
(, Sat 10 Jan 2026, 10:42, Reply)
Hi Kevin,
Me and my mates have been playing this all week, we really love it but have a couple of questions?
what is the meaning of the coloured squares/puzzle piece etc? none of us can work it out XD
It's very easy to cheat you way to a high score simply by opening the link a second time, is there anything that can be done about that?
Thanks again for making this it's a great little game. I hit the roof when I got London Calling in one! xxx
(, Wed 21 Jan 2026, 14:37, Reply)
As the early text implied that it's not been possible to run models locally until now. The differentiating feature looks like it's that their solution supports distributed systems and so is scalable.
They mention the huge amount of power consumed by data centres - I'd like to know if multiple end-user clusters is actually more energy efficient.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 7:01, Reply)
These servers are massively power hungry, but also massively efficient. They need to be. A 1% increase in efficiency across an entire datacentre is a fucking enormous increase in compute/decrease in energy consumption. The stakes are far higher than making a local node 1% more efficient.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 7:11, Reply)
So promoting their product based on the fact it avoids power-hungry data centres is rather misleading.
I can see that there are use cases where it would be justified but why muddy the water with BS?
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 16:52, Reply)
They get you to do their processing, you pay the electricity bill.
Once you need the electricity, they don't and they don't have to pay for it. Do you have AI on your home computer? Is that them outsourcing? Is the biggest parallel processor the internet?
(, Thu 15 Jan 2026, 0:15, Reply)
Yeah, you can run train/inference across a distributed LAN, but then you have to deal with things such as maintenance, increased energy costs, security, redundancy, etc. Then there's the challenge of preventing obsolescence.
Christ, it was only a couple of years ago that these LLMs were struggling to draw hands, and now they're producing videos and images that are all but indistinguishable from reality. A local AI cluster isn't ever going to keep up with that kind of progress.
It's a bit like suggesting 'Why store all your data in a hosted cloud storage solution, when you could build your own, shitter, local cloud?'
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 7:07, Reply)
You're probably right when it comes to training which is likely to remain centralised. Local inference (hopefully on-device) sounds right with less data transfer and latency. Smaller models have been shown to be just as good for everyday use.
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and I fucking love the big datacentres, reminds me of skynet
i'm not an AI bot btw
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 22:47, Reply)
Since Bing no longer provides that layer, I've found out about this.
A couple of dedicated Linux-enthusiasts provide this (not-for-commercial-use) among other mapping services, so they can alt-OS while they alt-OS.
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I loved using OS 1:50,000 maps and had the whole country downloaded via Limewire in the day. But now I realise that they are pretty shit for most things as I've got used to the far greater resolution of Google maps and the like - I'm a big fan of organicmaps.app/
(, Sat 10 Jan 2026, 12:49, Reply)
not seeing any reason to change from OsmAnd, which I've used for years...
(, Sat 10 Jan 2026, 18:18, Reply)
Sorry for all the words. But, it’s hard to condense and explain.
This might be frowned upon as well but still, I always like to come back and share stuff now and then, have learned a lot over the yrs. from just returning here but, promise tho, it will be last time I’ll post anything work related, as I do get we’re not for everyone (however, if your mood changes about it) Part 2 is here: youtu.be/beZ4rG-NVnc.
Ironically, about 7 months ago, June 15th 2025, my son passed away, not knife crime related as such but more about the county lines aspect, which sits on the fringes of these issues however.
Reece faced immense challenges with a highly frequent and aggressive epileptic condition which eventually caused brain damage. Another effect of his epilepsy was acute mental health problems, with a further condition called 'Post Ictal Psychosis’.
A risk to himself and everybody around him when he was ill in this way, a big guy too, who could become combative during these seizures and MH episodes. Coupled with the fact he wanted to go out drinking/socialising with his friends (the effects of alcohol (and\or drugs) would block the effects of his meds thus, stop them working) thus aggravating situations further.
Neither perfect before but, he made a lot of his bad choices after the brain damage and, no expert but estimate, he probs had the mentality and emotional intellect of a 12 yr. old after that but, he was 28 yrs. old when he died however, before he got this illness (in 2015), he was just beginning to excel.
But, being genuinely so sick, they put him on the highest rate of disability (PIP) however, he never had pot to piss in because, local drug dealers/users/so called friends kept exploiting him plus, as parents we weren’t giving him money to kill himself anymore but, as his addiction worsened, oh boy, he did love to get exploited, until of course, the money and drugs ran out, then serious violence would erupt.
In 2018 we had to section him for the first of many times and, I thought those were my saddest memories ...
But on the 15th of June last yr. around 6am, Reece had a seizure and either /fell or had a psychotic episode and jumped from his third-floor apartment block. Suicide (in a lucid state) is also possible but we highly doubt that? Furthermore, he was in a fight about an hour before this all happened (some other loser has been arrested for pulling a makeshift weapon on Reece and is currently on bail for attempted GBH).
Anyway, these 2 short films about the Knife Angel are things made coming through the haze of all that horror above, together with Reece’s mum who found out about the Knife Angel project (and put me on to it), it was a welcome distraction for a month and it’s dedicated to the 3 police women took great care of us in our worst moments, thank you and, sorry for long explanation.
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 1:25, Reply)
I can't begin to imagine what you've been through. Thanks for sharing such a personal experience - I'll watch the video once I'm properly awake.
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 6:41, Reply)
Woke up late this morning myself but yes, can only explain, it feels like we're emerging from a deeply dark place and, after 7 months, we're not quite out of it yet, really appreciate your comment and, to whoever got us on the popular page so quick, bless you!
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 10:33, Reply)
You're going through something that I can't even fathom and displaying courage that is beyond praise.
Thank you for sharing this.
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 15:48, Reply)
You're really kind to even try an say something back to me and sorry to put you in that position, the alternative, at home, stewing over everything, with a horrible constant heavy feeling of dread every morning. Being apart of the above was a welcome reprieve for a bit. Been a good day today tho, thank you all for that :)
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 20:19, Reply)
This must have been a trying and testing time for you both and my heart goes out to you both and for your loss.
Kindest regards and keep strong
(, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 21:41, Reply)
And thank you from both Reece's mum and myself, we take comfort and strength from this kind of support. But in order to post here tho, I had to start up an old laptop because I don't remember the password for this account plus, its linked to an old email, I can't access that either plus, the keyboard isn't working properly which is a slight hassle to reply but yes, it still continues to be a testing time, we have a court case and an inquest to look forward too later this yr. and, the people involved with the attempted GHB will no doubt blame it all on him however, the likely scenario is that he probs did start something, sorry tho, you only need to spend five mins with Reece to understand he's on the spectrum and, he isn't a person you wanna be to selling or doing massive drugs with furthermore, Reece died on the 15th of June last yr. Don't know if people remember, but that was fathers day, of all fuckin days however, thats not important but during the Knife Angel event, I was made aware about the 'Online Safety Bill', (which came into effect in March last yr.) and how the authorities can easily access everything and, with Reece's illnesses (especially when high on drugs) he told us everything in messages (he was massive security risk in that way) had filter so, I'm hoping the police can railroad through all these cunts in the near future but, we'll see?
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Feel for you brother, getting a giant epileptic autistic son who succumbs to drugs and violence is a shit hand to be dealt in life. Being a parent is hard enough as it is. Hope you’ve made some space for looking out for yourself amongst all the angst you've no doubt had over the course.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 21:23, Reply)
And thank you for saying such kind words of encouragement to me, sorry tho, I didn't mean to mislead you, shouldn't of used the word spectrum, he wasn't autistic but rather a normal person before the epilepsy however, you'd be surprised how seizures mess with your mental health over time and, after a certain point, brain damage became apparent in him so, you'd easily tell he's a person with learning delays and poor self-awareness.
Even without recreational drugs or alcohol involved his condition was super aggressive leading to this thing called 'Post Ictal Psychosis',. Ictal is the medical term for seizures and patients in Ictal psychosis can be trapped in this alternative reality for weeks (if untreated) where they're not really in control but, are the author of their own mayhem, Reece was highly unpredictable and dangerous during these periods, even the mental health doctor told us, most sufferers of the condition are harmless (but maybe a danger to themselves) adding, 'when Reece gets this, scary!', that was his exact words. I researched it up as well, theres a famous case in America where an epileptic patient used 'Post Ictal Psychosis' as a defence in a murder trial.
But yeah, it is a shit hand and he did kind of have all his chances taken away with this illness but still could off lived a fairly decent existence if it wasn't for his environment, thanks so much for your comment, I will defo take your advice and make time for myself Thank you
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 0:39, Reply)
Sorry how it panned out...thank you for the courage to share it.
(, Sun 11 Jan 2026, 22:04, Reply)
And apologies if it brought the mood down but, I think the right community and people got to know a bit about Reece's story over the weekend plus, It reached an unusually high amount of votes in that short time (for me anyway) and that makes us feel very validated about it, thank you all so much.
(, Mon 12 Jan 2026, 7:07, Reply)
ok, fine, it's yet another clicker game - but holy cow this thing is 100% written in css - there is no javascript in it.
There's a talk about how it was built here:
app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-css-clicker-training-making-games-in-a-styling-language#t=1031
I've watched the talk, and I still can't get my head around how this works
(, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 16:15, Reply)
which is here: femtanyl.bandcamp.com/track/mix-02-bothered
(, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 16:34, Reply)
Though it ended too soon, I was hoping to take over the universe
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