Daily Tech News 27 March 2023

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Microsoft needs to stop shoving crap into Windows. (Tom's Hardware)

An evergreen story, but in particular this time about the MSN news that is shoved down your throat unless you go through and switch it off in seventeen places. The Start Menu search will still look things up on Wikipedia which is something that nobody on the planet has ever wanted and I don't know how to turn that off.

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If you remember my experiments with AI image generator Midjourney from a few months ago, well, that was version 2, and they're now on version 5, and it's improved just a tiny bit.

Hands are still its bête noire, but it's improving there too. I only had to retry that one once.

If you want something that looks like hand-drawn art it can do that too.

The old version was very good at generating body horror and Lovecraftian creepiness; I'll have to try that again and see if the changes have removed that or if it's still lurking.
The Arduino Uno R4 has been announced, with 16 times the RAM of the R3. (Tom's Hardware)

That brings it up to 32k. Yes, kilobytes. Yes, the R3 has 2k of RAM.
Amazon has released Mountpoint, an open source tool to mount S3 buckets as truly awful filesystems. (InfoQ)
Oh no, what has AWS done? I didn't spend fifteen years yelling at people not to use S3 as a file system just to be undone by the S3 team itself!
S3 is absolutely awful at managing files. It's as effective at that as a bucket is at holding angry bobcats. Treating it as a filesystem just makes that all the more painfully obvious.

Disclaimer: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask rather what's in this box labelled 'DANGER SALMONELLA'. Oh, it's turtles.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin' again, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 27, 2023 04:00 AM (fjZJe)

2 Top 10?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:01 AM (omVj0)

3 Top 20 for sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 27, 2023 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 04:02 AM (xhxe8)

5 We got some rain/sleet/snow overnite.

Yay.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 27, 2023 04:04 AM (fjZJe)

6 Pixy the AI generation looks very good

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 04:05 AM (xhxe8)

7 Evening and morning to all! The first AI sample, Pixy, looks fantastic. Well, both do, but I'm a human and a redhaired human girl will always appeal to me more than a wizard mouse. The pic of the girl is nearly photographic, as if someone had traveled in time with a 35mm camera and taken a portrait of a Victorian merchant's daughter who is obsessed with clocks and watches.

I don't find the hands to be unrealistic. Oh, I see, that's the second pass? They are good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:07 AM (omVj0)

8 We got some rain/sleet/snow overnite.

Yay.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 27, 2023

***
We got a little rain yesterday. It was sleazy and depressing, as if the sky were sweating like the rest of us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:08 AM (omVj0)

9 Dig the Midjourney red head.

There are Bobcats in Australia?

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

10 Mornin' all.

Today and yesterday gave us the Spring Mix of Weather-- something for everyone: Sun, rain, wind, hail, snow, sleet... UGH!

So much for yardw*rk, eh? LOL

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 04:14 AM (o0Fxd)

11 We got a little rain yesterday. It was sleazy and depressing, as if the sky were sweating like the rest of us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:08 AM (omVj0)

Better than howling winds that reek death and destruction.

Posted by: JmT at March 27, 2023 04:16 AM (2Be8C)

12 Good morning from the mid-Atlantic US where Spring doesn't quite know what to do with itself.

I am very much a user of teh sooper ghey computer and not at all a technician, so your comment about the insidious propaganda from MS among others was especially satisfying. But what to do about that? Is there an open-source option? Likewise for word processing(LibreOffice for example?); is there an option that does not demand our adherence to its' rules?

Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at March 27, 2023 04:18 AM (c0zMy)

13 We got a little rain yesterday. It was sleazy and depressing, as if the sky were sweating like the rest of us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:08 AM (omVj0)

Better than howling winds that reek death and destruction.
Posted by: JmT at March 27, 2023

***
True. Anything is better than a hurricane or tornado. It's just that, in March, it should not feel like mold is about to grow on your skin when you step outside.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:21 AM (omVj0)

14 1 Mornin' again, all
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 27, 2023 04:00 AM (fjZJe)

MLiI's no. 1!

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 04:21 AM (CQE5S)

15 Redhead has very long fingers. Still for hands, that is not too bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 04:23 AM (zZu0s)

16 I am very much a user of teh sooper ghey computer and not at all a technician, so your comment about the insidious propaganda from MS among others was especially satisfying. But what to do about that? Is there an open-source option? Likewise for word processing(LibreOffice for example?); is there an option that does not demand our adherence to its' rules?
Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at March 27, 2023

***
My boss was about to recycle a Lenovo laptop with a big screen and lotsa memory, so I took it over. He'd scrubbed all the useful apps from it (though it's still Win 10). I quickly loaded OpenOffice, Irfan image viewer, VLC Media Player, and CCleaner, and can use it to play vids and images and documents -- which is a lot of my computer usage. Since I'm not connecting it to a network for 'Net browsing, a lot of the nagging Windows and most browsers do is off the radar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:26 AM (omVj0)

17 Wolfus, you have my deepest sympathy!

I spent January-August ('82) in Pensacola... yuck! The Gulf Coast IS NOT FOR ME. [Apologies to any other 'rons or 'ettes in that area...]

Sticky, sweaty, uncomfortable this time of year. Would've helped to have A/C but we did not have it...

Hope you can find a comfortable place soon, Wolfus!

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 04:27 AM (o0Fxd)

18 Redhead has very long fingers. . . .

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023

***
That's hot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:27 AM (omVj0)

19 In before 100!

Aaaand, time to go to bed.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 27, 2023 04:29 AM (Mzdiz)

20 Night Miley.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 04:29 AM (zZu0s)

21 I spent January-August ('82) in Pensacola... yuck! The Gulf Coast IS NOT FOR ME. [Apologies to any other 'rons or 'ettes in that area...]

Sticky, sweaty, uncomfortable this time of year. Would've helped to have A/C but we did not have it...

Hope you can find a comfortable place soon, Wolfus!
Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023

***
Then you know. . . .

Oh, I have A/C at home, quite good. It's the only thing that makes this pesthole tolerable. Most stores are okay, though I went into a Petco and a Ross, and then a local coffee shop, on Saturday morning and found all 3 to be under-cooled. I got the coffee shop people (who had the temp set at 74!) to set it down some, and things improved.

Pensacola at least has offshore breezes, which might ease things a bit. We have gummy southern winds that do nothing more than move the moisture around a little bit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:31 AM (omVj0)

22 I do like the redhead, but what is that necklace? It looks like she is trying out for Thomas More's part in a man for all seasons. Badge of office for the royal chamberlain or prime minister. Or something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 04:32 AM (zZu0s)

23 Rain this afternoon I think.
Blueberry pancakes since have some time

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 04:38 AM (xhxe8)

24 I do like the redhead, but what is that necklace? It looks like she is trying out for Thomas More's part in a man for all seasons. Badge of office for the royal chamberlain or prime minister. Or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023

***
Hogwarts goes back a long ways, right? Maybe she's a student there in 1590.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:39 AM (omVj0)

25 Hogwarts goes back a long ways, right? Maybe she's a student there in 1590.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:39 AM (omVj0)

That watch/clock looks a bit more recent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 04:41 AM (zZu0s)

26 Out the door.

Make it a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 27, 2023 04:42 AM (fjZJe)

27 Hogwarts goes back a long ways, right? Maybe she's a student there in 1590.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023
*
That watch/clock looks a bit more recent.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023

***
True. Okay, 1890.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:42 AM (omVj0)

28 Yeah, Wolfus, if I wanted to live in a freaking *Steambath* I'd install it... Um... NO, not happening!

Another nice thing about "up north" is: the lack of bugs. Nothing up here is Big Enough To Strap Onto Feet For Transportation. YAY!

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 04:43 AM (o0Fxd)

29 Yeah, Wolfus, if I wanted to live in a freaking *Steambath* I'd install it... Um... NO, not happening!

Another nice thing about "up north" is: the lack of bugs. Nothing up here is Big Enough To Strap Onto Feet For Transportation. YAY!
Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023

***
I'm 1000 per cent with you. But here I have to listen to people who tell me how terrible winter is, and how wonderful summer is. Yeah, right. Let 'em work *outdoors* one day -- not play in their gardens, but work driving an un-cooled van and moving boxes. They'd sell their shriveled raisin souls to get back into the A/C. (H/T to Stephen King for the phrase)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 27, 2023 04:47 AM (omVj0)

30 LOL, Wolfus.

I'm in the "intermountain desert" and it is FKing HOT in July & August here. Oh, well... it's a dry heat...

Seriously, it doesn't feel as bad at 10-20% humidity vs. 100%.

The remainder of each year is tolerable.

Would rather shovel a bit of snow (just a bit!) than suffer heat exhaustion

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 04:52 AM (o0Fxd)

31 Redhead has very long fingers. Still for hands, that is not too bad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And if you're in need of a proctologist, a definite plus

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 05:02 AM (vd8XM)

32 If I could move, would go to higher elevation or North.

I H8 summer.

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:02 AM (o0Fxd)

33 I ❤️ Summer

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:03 AM (xhxe8)

34 Good for you, Skip. Summer may be nice where you live.

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:06 AM (o0Fxd)

35 I live as far north here in Texas as I would ever live. If I could live in the Caribbean, I would.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 27, 2023 05:07 AM (r46W7)

36 I'm indifferent to the weather. I've been living in Babylon DC for a while now. Weather here is boring. Now and then it gets sporty but that's rare.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 05:08 AM (sAmhv)

37 There's some place for errybody, I suppose...

All I know is that I cannot stand intense heat, huge bugs, and stifling humidity.

To each, his own!

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:09 AM (o0Fxd)

38 I don't find the hands to be unrealistic. Oh, I see, that's the second pass? They are good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

The fingers are long and spider like.

But from now on this is going to be my image of Pixy, complete with long alien fingers.

Hello from Ireland my ancestral home (well, my parents home). They are pushing th multicultural crap hard here. And regretfully it comes with the crime and urban blight we have here in the US.

Dublin was beautiful this morning. Blue skies. Clouds are coming in but for a brief moment I though about saying screw it an moving here.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 27, 2023 05:09 AM (gqCzb)

39 Had very few low 90 days last year, don't think seen 109 in well over a decade. Yet it didn't snow.
Maybe the earth thermostat should be set right where it is.

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:11 AM (xhxe8)

40 JQ.

Come to Ireland. You’ll find no heat. No humidity. Even the bugs fear this place.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 27, 2023 05:12 AM (gqCzb)

41 Dublin was beautiful this morning. Blue skies. Clouds are coming in but for a brief moment I though about saying screw it an moving here.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 27, 2023 05:09 AM (gqCzb)

Try to enjoy the place, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 05:12 AM (zZu0s)

42 Jeez, Skip. Lucky!

We top 100F regularly each summer. 90? Yes, for weeks at a time.

You could not pay me enough to live in, say, Phoenix. Way nastier thereabouts.

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:14 AM (o0Fxd)

43 Come to Ireland. You’ll find no heat. No humidity. Even the bugs fear this place.
Posted by: Justin Castreau
-----------

Would love to! 'Tis me own ancestral home as well.

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:16 AM (o0Fxd)

44 100 not 109.
I remember lots of 100 degree days strung out and building roofs
On phone, keyboard is small

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:21 AM (xhxe8)

45 youtu.be/FkLTwX0duY4

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:23 AM (o0Fxd)

46 Is there a place for A/C in the Green New Deal? I would think that A/C burns to much AC, and should be banned. My gas stove, washing machine, and car will probably be recycled before long.

Posted by: Colin at March 27, 2023 05:25 AM (xnI3F)

47 How many fingers on her left hand?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 27, 2023 05:27 AM (ZSK0i)

48 Lol. He was triggered by a mean headline about fauci so he wrote an article on how to never have to experience that again! 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Tom at March 27, 2023 05:29 AM (bjV9z)

49 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 27, 2023 05:29 AM (ju2Fy)

50 New Years Eve, 1992. Dublin. I was there. Drunk. Don't recall much. Sobered up Jan 1, 93 and strolled around Dublin town. Still don't remember much. Massive hangover.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 05:29 AM (sAmhv)

51 Microsoft needs to stop shoving crap into Windows. (Tom's Hardware)

An evergreen story, but in particular this time about the MSN news that is shoved down your throat unless you go through and switch it off in seventeen places...

---

And people don't turn it off (the majority of people are lucky to figure out how to turn their computers on), and it's "Trump!!! Trump!!! Trump!!!" in every popup, and people might not pay any attention, but their brains do. Which is the entire point.

Posted by: Daddy, why are muffin pans made with twelve spaces instead of five? at March 27, 2023 05:29 AM (w/UQv)

52 If you were by the Hobby thread. With luck need to find just trim pieces at a Jo-Ann shop couple blocks where I am working. No idea where else to find bric-a-brac stuff.
Need cloth braided

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:30 AM (xhxe8)

53 47 How many fingers on her left hand?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 27, 2023 05:27 AM (ZSK0i)

Can only see the middle finger, but have to assume pointer and thumb are there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 05:30 AM (zZu0s)

54 Watching playthroughs of RE4 remake, I keep getting struck by issues I have always had with Resident Evil games: really annoying game mechanics.

It looks pretty though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 05:33 AM (zZu0s)

55 First got on here thought red head was Anya Taylor Joy

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:34 AM (xhxe8)

56 AC? not for the pleebs! Suffer well, comrades!

Posted by: a dude in MI at March 27, 2023 05:34 AM (+I6Y/)

57 Sweet dreams, all...

youtu.be/FxSsol3Zd7k

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:35 AM (o0Fxd)

58 55 First got on here thought red head was Anya Taylor Joy
Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:34 AM (xhxe

Looks too lifelike.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 05:35 AM (zZu0s)

59 I like Anya

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:39 AM (xhxe8)

60 59 I like Anya
Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:39 AM (xhxe

To me she looks... strange. Not like Marty Feldman strange, just... off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 05:40 AM (zZu0s)

61 Hahaha

The MSN article is propaganda about propaganda

"Hid the COVID truth.” However, when I clicked through to the actual story, its own headline was much less accusatory and read “Fauci Says He's Always Been 'Honest' as COVID Origins Questions Raised.” So, while the headline itself lent the impression that Dr. Fauci was caught lying, the article it linked to merely pointed out that Fauci was subject to criticism from politicians who think that he’s not telling the truth. That’s a big difference. "

-

It literally uses the term conspiracy theories.

Posted by: Daddy, why are muffin pans made with twelve spaces instead of five? at March 27, 2023 05:44 AM (WzyNJ)

62 https://youtu.be/4oK1Jco6JFM

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 05:44 AM (sAmhv)

63 At American Thinker a article on 2020 vote fraud in Pima County.
From what I read some time ago in Pennsylvania Delaware County most likely did same thing. In the doldrums of late summer Delaware County put up more mail votes than the entire rest of the state combined by 10 fold.

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:46 AM (xhxe8)

64 Should head out down the road

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:47 AM (xhxe8)

65 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 05:51 AM (BRHaw)

66 Not a cloud in the sky now

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:52 AM (xhxe8)

67 63 At American Thinker a article on 2020 vote fraud in Pima County.
From what I read some time ago in Pennsylvania Delaware County most likely did same thing. In the doldrums of late summer Delaware County put up more mail votes than the entire rest of the state combined by 10 fold.
Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:46 AM (xhxe

One of the scams is to add about 5% to 7% fake voter when the mail ballots go out and then remove them at election time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 05:53 AM (BRHaw)

68 Good morning morons

Putin is now stating publicly he believes the U.S. special operators attacked the Nordstream pipeline. There's your casus belli.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 27, 2023 05:53 AM (EZebt)

69 Not a cloud in the sky now
Posted by: Skip

Home, home on the range....

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

70 How many bills is Senator Feldman inducing in the Senate this week.? I know he has been very busy co-sponsoring bills, like every Senator is. Wonderful to has such a productive Senator from PA.

Posted by: Colin at March 27, 2023 05:54 AM (xnI3F)

71 70 How many bills is Senator Feldman inducing in the Senate this week.? I know he has been very busy co-sponsoring bills, like every Senator is. Wonderful to has such a productive Senator from PA.
Posted by: Colin at March 27, 2023 05:54 AM (xnI3F)

{BEEP}

Posted by: Senator Feldman at March 27, 2023 05:55 AM (+I6Y/)

72
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 27, 2023 05:57 AM (ENBF0)

73 youtu.be/uScPm9AQYjw

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 05:59 AM (o0Fxd)

74 https://youtu.be/Ezc4HdLGxg4

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:06 AM (sAmhv)

75 https://youtu.be/T1N84wemDNk

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:08 AM (sAmhv)

76 youtu.be/vEf-J-JiKLk

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 06:08 AM (o0Fxd)

77
⚠️ The 2020 Election was stolen from Donald Trump

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 27, 2023 06:11 AM (enJYY)

78 Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother.

But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her “false claims” while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 06:13 AM (BRHaw)

79 while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Still, props to her mom for taking on 2048 Cherokees.

Was someone counting?

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 06:15 AM (vd8XM)

80 https://youtu.be/XZ6PVz-r26Y

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:16 AM (sAmhv)

81 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 27, 2023 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

82 https://youtu.be/hRzGzRqNj58

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

83 https://youtu.be/tSS7c1YuTxE

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:21 AM (sAmhv)

84 https://youtu.be/97wvwuHUMCw

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:22 AM (sAmhv)

85 The newspaper reported that the edits cut references to ethnicity, such as describing a character as black, Jewish or Gypsy, or a female character’s torso as “of black marble” and a judge’s “Indian temper”, and removed terms such as “Oriental” and the N-word. The word “natives” has also been replaced with the word “local”.

Among the examples of changes cited by the Telegraph is the 1937 Poirot novel Death on the Nile, in which the character of Mrs Allerton complains that a group of children are pestering her, saying that “they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children”.

every book rewritten

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 06:23 AM (BRHaw)

86 REPORTER: "People who go to Davos to talk about climate change fly private..."

JOHN KERRY: "They offset and they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try to effect this transition."

FUCK YOU PEASANT

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 06:24 AM (BRHaw)

87 I don't think my lead box is enough to stop phone transmission. Had it in box with lid an. d a phone call came through

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 06:25 AM (ek0ng)

88 39 Had very few low 90 days last year, don't think seen 109 in well over a decade. Yet it didn't snow.
Maybe the earth thermostat should be set right where it is.
Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 05:11 AM (xhxe

Sounds like what George Carlin said on the topic decades ago.

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 06:26 AM (CQE5S)

89 JOHN KERRY: "They offset and they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try to effect this transition."

FUCK YOU PEASANT
Posted by: rhennigantx

Did anyone ask how do offsets work? And are you, John Kerry, charged that fee based on your immense wealth?

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 06:28 AM (vd8XM)

90 Trump: RDS is a tool of the Bush machine!

Everyone: Trump is crazy! Nuts! Don't vote for him!

MAGAS: Trust him. Trust him trust him

Breaking- Karl Rove has been consulting RDS since last summer.

Trump was right again. Those criticisms were not coming out of nowhere.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 06:29 AM (FrvLQ)

91 Saw two articles on Zero Hedge (Don't judge, please).

'Be Kind’ is an authoritarian religion.
"The misogynistic streak in trans extremism is undeniable now. "

And the President of Ukraine admits Ukraine is out of ammo. Sad.

Anyway.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 27, 2023 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

92 87 I don't think my lead box is enough to stop phone transmission. Had it in box with lid an. d a phone call came through
Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 06:25 AM

huh

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 06:31 AM (CQE5S)

93 And the President of Ukraine admits Ukraine is out of ammo. Sad.

Anyway.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Did he try AmmoSeek?

Might need a FOID card though

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 06:31 AM (vd8XM)

94 JOHN KERRY: "They pay poor people to sacrifice their standard of living by using less or paying more and they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try make you all eat zee bugs."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 06:32 AM (FrvLQ)

95 38 But from now on this is going to be my image of Pixy, complete with long alien fingers.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 27, 2023 05:09 AM (gqCzb)

Pixy is a male person.

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 06:32 AM (CQE5S)

96 But from now on this is going to be my image of Pixy, complete with long alien fingers.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 27, 2023 05:09 AM (gqCzb)

Pixy is a male person.
Posted by: m

I thought he meant the mouse

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

97 I only read ZH for the articles. I stay away from the comments. And do the opposite of whatever their financial porn says.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 06:33 AM (FrvLQ)

98 Shorter John Kerry: I'm rich, bitch!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 27, 2023 06:33 AM (EZebt)

99 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be well situated in the eye of the storm. We seem to have a world gone mad situation. For now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 27, 2023 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

100 69 Not a cloud in the sky now
Posted by: Skip

Home, home on the range....
Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

And it's
Almost like being in love

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 06:34 AM (CQE5S)

101 youtu.be/NTFNDn6B85E

Probly too mellow for most here...

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 06:34 AM (o0Fxd)

102 Shorter John Kerry: I'm rich, bitch!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I don't lead by example,
I minimally pay others to lead by a made up example.

....Mister Ed...

Posted by: Bruce at March 27, 2023 06:35 AM (vd8XM)

103 G'night, all.

Thanks for your tunes, Puddleglum!

Posted by: JQ at March 27, 2023 06:35 AM (o0Fxd)

104 Cat Ass Trophy

ZH has predicted 423 of the last one recessions. Commenters are ... not AoSHQ quality. But they get some things right. Like the Covid reports from Epoch Times.

Now, GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 27, 2023 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

105 According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), peanut butter is now classified as a “liquid”– which means that you better re-think bringing that jar of Skippy on your next vacation.

The TSA took to Twitter this week to make the announcement, explaining that you can only bring it in your carry-on if it’s 3.4oz or less.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 06:37 AM (BRHaw)

106 Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eyes
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream
...
I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 06:38 AM (CQE5S)

107 Commenters are ... not AoSHQ quality.

To put it another way, their commenters are antisemitic assholes. Unless they have fixed that problem.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 06:38 AM (FrvLQ)

108 Morning all. Stuck at home with the covid-crap. Kidsharn had it last week. Wrapped in blankets, drinking juice and gallons of water.

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 27, 2023 06:41 AM (PzBTm)

109 I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
Posted by: m

You got a parachute ? just in case ?

Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 06:42 AM (T4tVD)

110 So why wouldn't a 1/8 lead cover stop phone transmission?

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 06:43 AM (ek0ng)

111 So why wouldn't a 1/8 lead cover stop phone transmission?
Posted by: Skip

Ask Weasel....he deals in lead.

Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 06:45 AM (T4tVD)

112 https://youtu.be/MK4kaYzkhRI

Later Daywalkers...

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 27, 2023 06:46 AM (sAmhv)

113 Lead only on the top and not on the other 5 sides?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 27, 2023 06:47 AM (iSZpJ)

114 Rosasharn a prayer for complete and speedy healing

And Vit. D

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 27, 2023 06:47 AM (EZebt)

115 We're all on top of the world. Except for miners who are on the clock. And Australians.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 06:52 AM (9UlRk)

116 There's an inch or two of weather out there this morning

Posted by: DB - planning the escape at March 27, 2023 06:53 AM (geLO8)

117 In all honesty, after 2016 to the present (and quite a few supporting events in the 90s and sept 2001) I won't be at all surprised to learn that there's a Jewish Weather Machine.

Posted by: Daddy, why are muffin pans made with twelve spaces instead of five? at March 27, 2023 06:55 AM (0aeMv)

118 ha

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok was fired and former FBI attorney Lisa Page resigned from the bureau in 2018, after text messages emerged that showed the two making critical comments about the former president.

The two have claimed they were targeted out of a political vendetta.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 06:55 AM (BRHaw)

119 Windows is the Peter Gibbons of the Operating System World, every time you see it, it's worse than the day before.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 27, 2023 06:56 AM (up/3i)

120 Hmmm. Desantis seems to smart to schmooze with that Failure Penguin, Rove.

I am wondering if this is a case of Rove 'offering him advice' that has turned into 'consulting for the Desantis campaign?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:00 AM (zZu0s)

121 morning yall. I turn off all that Windows spy shit immediately, and then move the Start button back over to the left where it ought to be. Most PCs I see have that news feed still turned on, spewing propaganda all day long. I turn it off when I see it, whether the user asks me to or not.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2023 07:00 AM (iayUP)

122 Also probably need to get back to this

Posted by: NIST dot gov office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 27, 2023 07:01 AM (0aeMv)

123 Hmm, hyphen doesn't show.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 27, 2023 07:02 AM (0aeMv)

124 @118

>>The two have claimed they were targeted out of a political vendetta.

Lisa Page: He, (Trump) cannot be President.

Peter Strzok: Don't he won't and even if that nightmare scenario happens, we have a backup plan.

Targeted? Uhh huhh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 27, 2023 07:02 AM (up/3i)

125 Hey, y'all. If you were on the Book Thread yesterday, another Moron Author, Patrick Chiles, has published a book, Escape Orbit.

https://is.gd/ecgoDp

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 27, 2023 07:02 AM (PiwSw)

126 Good Monday morning! Springlike weather yesterday. Not quite warm enough for my taste but at least the sun was out and everything is starting to bloom.

Rosasharn I hope you feel better soon!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 27, 2023 07:02 AM (wagHN)

127 @120

>>I am wondering if this is a case of Rove 'offering him advice' that has turned into 'consulting for the Desantis campaign?'

The Shrub gave Rove the nickname, Turd Blossom, it's apt and it fits.

Be better Ron.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 27, 2023 07:03 AM (up/3i)

128 I am wondering if this is a case of Rove 'offering him advice' that has turned into 'consulting for the Desantis campaign?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:00 AM (zZu0s)

Rove's Whiteboard would be a good nic for somebody...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 27, 2023 07:03 AM (PiwSw)

129 CNN

"If you're White and you've posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing 'digital blackface,'" writes John Blake | Analysis

Now do Pink Face

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:04 AM (BRHaw)

130 Snowdrops and crocuses are wrapping up already, daffs and tulips getting ready for work, roses and clematisisises all budding out and ready to strike at a moments notice. It's gonna be a colorful spring

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:05 AM (9UlRk)

131 110 So why wouldn't a 1/8 lead cover stop phone transmission?
Posted by: Skip

Not a good faraday cage. Lead blocks high energy particles. Electromagnetic waves be different.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 07:05 AM (3dUWh)

132 Now do Pink Face
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:04 AM (BRHaw)

Or green face.

But that's none of my business.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:06 AM (9UlRk)

133 Summers here appeal to me. Any place else? Nope. Born in Thailand, raised in NoVa. Hate heat and humidity.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 27, 2023 07:09 AM (KAi1n)

134 When Rove comes around offering advice, the only appropriate reaction is "Get out you progressive neocon demon!"

And if that is not your reaction to Rove, you have a problem. I don't care if it was only a couple sit down meetings and strategy sessions. Taint stinks, and your political instincts are to be questioned.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 27, 2023 07:09 AM (3dUWh)

135 Good morning! Got the pumps in the pond cleaned and got the first plants in pots on the patio yesterday. Bougainvillea, ferns and some gerbera daisies. Had dinner on the patio then spent the rest of the evening watching the pups chase squirrels and feral cats off the fence, while listening to the sound of the fountains. Very soothing and relaxing. A perfect way to end the week.

Gotta go to the big D today to visit the state comptroller. What a way to start the week...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 27, 2023 07:09 AM (YRsIm)

136 132 Now do Pink Face
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:04 AM (BRHaw)

Or green face.

But that's none of my business.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:06 AM (9UlRk)

Or blue face!

Posted by: Papa Smurf at March 27, 2023 07:10 AM (PiwSw)

137 C.A.T so it might be good for a nuclear blast

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2023 07:11 AM (ek0ng)

138 Now do Pink Face
Posted by: rhennigantx

Then poop face !

Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 07:11 AM (T4tVD)

139 A conductive wire mesh, connected to ground was needed for a Faraday cage. I never quite got why it could not be a solid box (also connected to ground) of a conductive metal, but I should have asked that question about 30 years ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:12 AM (zZu0s)

140 The Shrub gave Rove the nickname, Turd Blossom, it's apt and it fits.

Be better Ron.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 27, 2023 07:03 AM (up/3i)

Rove's Whiteboard would be a good nic for somebody...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 27, 2023 07:03 AM (PiwSw)

Honestly, Turd Blossom, Rove's Whiteboard or Failure Penguin would be great nics for any adventurous lurkers out there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:13 AM (zZu0s)

141 Mornin’, All. It’s looking to be a busy week for me, so I may not be posting much.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 27, 2023 07:17 AM (EZaTx)

142 Actually, I think a thick enough lead box will shield against EMR. If it can block gamma radiation, it will block radio waves. It just has to be thick enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:17 AM (zZu0s)

143 I'm completely guessing, but maybe a Faraday is limited by the resistance/ impedance to its path to ground, so if it's a solid sheet of metal there's enough phonon scattering to weaken or nullify the screening effect?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

144 Pretty ginger in the picture above.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 27, 2023 07:17 AM (EZaTx)

145 12 Good morning from the mid-Atlantic US where Spring doesn't quite know what to do with itself.

I am very much a user of teh sooper ghey computer and not at all a technician, so your comment about the insidious propaganda from MS among others was especially satisfying. But what to do about that? Is there an open-source option? Likewise for word processing(LibreOffice for example?); is there an option that does not demand our adherence to its' rules?

Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at March 27, 2023 04:18 AM (c0zMy)
----
I use LibreOffice for everything. Hardly notice that it's not MS Office, which I used for 15+ years as we had a site license. I would got to an open source OS, such as Linux, if only the software I use would run well under that system, ie a native version.

Posted by: Ciampino - time is relative at March 27, 2023 07:18 AM (qfLjt)

146 Getting my fix of the insanity that is MorningJoe I think the narrative phrase shift is no longer the walls are closing in. 'Tightening'.

Posted by: micky at March 27, 2023 07:18 AM (3byMq)

147 142 Actually, I think a thick enough lead box will shield against EMR. If it can block gamma radiation, it will block radio waves. It just has to be thick enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:17 AM (zZu0s)
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Apparently cellphones still ring in a microwave.

Posted by: Ciampino - time is relative but to what? at March 27, 2023 07:19 AM (qfLjt)

148 Transparency is usually heavily dependent on wavelength, and i have no idea what the transparency spectrum of lead is like. Obviously opaque in visible and higher. Don't know what it does at longer wavelengths like radio. We could look it up. But that would be cheating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:20 AM (9UlRk)

149 Who had March 26 in the Jimmy Carter pool? Well, you didn't win, Jimmy Carter is still not dead.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2023 07:21 AM (iayUP)

150 148 Transparency is usually heavily dependent on wavelength, and i have no idea what the transparency spectrum of lead is like. Obviously opaque in visible and higher. Don't know what it does at longer wavelengths like radio. We could look it up. But that would be cheating.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:20 AM (9UlRk)

My point is still: thick enough lead will block gamma radiation- which is MUCH higher energy and frequency (IIRC) than radio.

Or wait, was Gamma high frequency, short wavelength? Dammit.

When did we institute the 'can't look it up' rule?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:22 AM (zZu0s)

151 I would assume that the Fardaday creates a shield as it travels thru magnetic field of earth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:23 AM (BRHaw)

152 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 27, 2023 07:24 AM (2hlEI)

153 My dog sleeps in a Fartaday cage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:24 AM (9UlRk)

154 Honestly, Turd Blossom, Rove's Whiteboard or Failure Penguin would be great nics for any adventurous lurkers out there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:13 AM (zZu0s)
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Or bands.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 27, 2023 07:25 AM (2hlEI)

155 And by the way:

Da Vinci's Notebook >>>>> Rove's Whiteboard

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 27, 2023 07:25 AM (2hlEI)

156 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 27, 2023 07:28 AM (pVWRI)

157 MS also has to stop changing Window and Office's interfaces forcing us unlearn years of computer habits. Stop adding features no one wants and taking away those that've been useful for decades.

Posted by: Xavier Basora at March 27, 2023 07:31 AM (HZCl6)

158 Hiya Captain !

Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 07:31 AM (T4tVD)

159 Or wait, was Gamma high frequency, short wavelength? Dammit.

When did we institute the 'can't look it up' rule?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:22 AM (zZu0s)

The thickness needed to block a given frequency of EM is dictated mostly by how transparent or scatter-y the material is at that frequency, so lead must be only somewhat transparent in gamma (very short wavelength/ very high frequency and energy)... and what it does at any point in the spectrum is independent of what it does at other points. So there isn't much you can say one way or the other about radio transparency based solely on gamma transparency. Or vice versa. I already forget what the hell the point was.... moar coffees.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:32 AM (9UlRk)

160 Da Vinci's Notebook

Leonardo ? or his brother Ted ?

Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 07:32 AM (T4tVD)

161 >JOHN KERRY: "They offset and they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try to effect this transition."

The pigs get the apples and cream because they work so much harder.

Posted by: Animal Farm at March 27, 2023 07:33 AM (SYTee)

162 Or vice versa. I already forget what the hell the point was.... moar coffees.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:32 AM (9UlRk)

I looked it up, yes lead will block radio waves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:34 AM (zZu0s)

163 Da Vinci's Notebook

Leonardo ? or his brother Ted ?
Posted by: JT at March 27, 2023 07:32 AM (T4tVD)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9nHvmdAb4

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 27, 2023 07:34 AM (2hlEI)

164 I looked it up, yes lead will block radio waves.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:34 AM (zZu0s)

You're no fun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:34 AM (9UlRk)

165 You're no fun.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:34 AM (9UlRk)

I got's to know!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 27, 2023 07:36 AM (zZu0s)

166 Hardwood > Carpet. Change my mind.

Posted by: Matt at March 27, 2023 07:36 AM (sclGQ)

167 Apparently cellphones still ring in a microwave.

Try it with the microwave on. Start with half power and work your way up.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 27, 2023 07:36 AM (YXHzG)

168 The pigs get the apples and cream because they work so much harder.
Posted by: Animal Farm at March 27, 2023 07:33 AM (SYTee)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

169 Hardwood > Carpet. Change my mind.

Hey, if you prefer dicks, that is your choice.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 27, 2023 07:38 AM (YXHzG)

170 Try it with the microwave on. Start with half power and work your way up.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 27, 2023 07:36 AM (YXHzG)

The phone won't ring, but the microwave probably will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:38 AM (9UlRk)

171
J
J

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 27, 2023 07:40 AM (BRHaw)

172 "If you're White and you've posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing 'digital blackface,'" writes John Blake | Analysis

--

Fine.

(insert picture of Buckwheat here)

o o
O

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 27, 2023 07:40 AM (95YDO)

173

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 27, 2023 07:40 AM (vwCZJ)

174 I laugh at S3 file system management!

Posted by: AS400 at March 27, 2023 07:41 AM (2YtOq)

175 I just got a call from the county Emergency management system telling me there is no longer a tornado watch. That number is now blocked. Fkn assholes think they have a right to use my phone to contact me.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2023 07:41 AM (iayUP)

176 The guy named "John" "Blake" is bitching about wypipo stealing blackfowk stuff.

Cute.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

177 NOOD

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 27, 2023 07:42 AM (PiwSw)

178 Or is John Blake a wypipo? Feh, whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 27, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

179 >>> It's as effective at that as a bucket is at holding angry bobcats.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 27, 2023 07:57 AM (PyOKD)

180 Hey, if you prefer dicks, that is your choice.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

I'll stick with what I was born with. I can see this might turn into a tit-for-tat...

Posted by: Matt at March 27, 2023 08:27 AM (sclGQ)

181 If opening Microsoft applications is on the table, I’d like Bing to quit taking me to their website so they can generate bogus user clicks. I search for a company, and Bing gives me a list, including the one I want. When I click on the result I want, I wind up at the Bing page asking me if I want that company’s website.

Well, I wouldn’t have clicked on the search engine result for ACME.com if I didn’t. What I didn’t want was another layer of Bing asking me this question.

Posted by: Advo at March 27, 2023 09:05 AM (VHN21)

182 I have selected Manjaro as my Linux OS. As the future arrives I will become familiar enough with it and proficient enough with it that Microsoft will become a pleasant memory.

Posted by: Jim at March 27, 2023 09:44 AM (zhWvq)

183 Pixy!!! Did you see Kadokawa's announcement of the third season of Re: Zero?!

Posted by: Caiwyn at March 27, 2023 10:09 AM (Bmy9A)

184 183 Pixy!!! Did you see Kadokawa's announcement of the third season of Re: Zero?!
Posted by: Caiwyn at March 27, 2023 10:09 AM (Bmy9A)

This sounds like it might involve Math.

Posted by: m at March 27, 2023 12:48 PM (CQE5S)

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