Daily Tech News 27 January 2024

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Apple has outlined its new fee structure under the new rules the company has been forced into by EU regulations. (The Verge)

Taking as an example an app that has 10 million installs and makes $10 million in revenue per year - pretty normal stuff - the new fee structure would entail:

- A 3% transaction fee on purchases.
- A 10% commission on sales.
- A 49% "Core Technology Fee" on because fuck you, that's why.

So the new relaxed rules would double Apple's cut of your revenue.

And if your app makes less than 57 cents per user on average - again, pretty normal with a free app - you would end up paying Apple for the privilege of them doing nothing for you.
The EU's Bookburner General, Thierry Breton - yes, that guy again - is warning Apple of "strong action" if the company's new terms are utter bullshit which they are. (Reuters)

Unlike Twitter which can operate from the US and safely ignore EU posturing, Apple could face an outright ban of its devices from one of its largest markets if the EU got serious.

Apple claims that 99% of apps would save money under the new terms listed above... Which means that 99% of apps have no users.

It's also entirely self-serving, because what it hides is that the 1% of apps that are actually successful would be worse off.
That poison pill also applies to third-party app stores. (The Verge)

Developers are not impressed.

Tech News

So why would anyone use Apple in the first place?

Microsoft accidentally granted global admin privileges to a random legacy test account. (Ars Technica)

Which then got hacked by Russia.

Granting the hackers read access to every Office 365 account in the world.

From the comments at Ars Technica:
To summarize the fuckups:
- Created test tenant with access to prod data
- Created test account with weak password
- Made test account accessible from internet
- Never enabled 2FA on test account
- Gave test account admin role
- Did not monitor for slow password sprays (a known technique)
- Failed to disable test account at end of testing
- Failed to monitor for unused/test accounts in production environment
- Did not monitor executives' accounts for surreptitious access
- Did not monitor internal test account (that apparently hadn't been accessed in years) for "unusual login activity"
Did I miss anything? By my count, that's ten fuckups. It's kind of impressive!
Genuinely useful comments at Ars Technica? What is the world coming to?
California lawmakers are pushing for a blatantly unconstitutional watermark requirement for AI-generated images. (Bloomberg)

The obvious illegality of such a requirement is of course no hindrance to the California state legislature.
AMD's Zen 5 desktop CPUs could be arriving as early as Q2 this year, rather than the more usual Q4. (Hot Hardware)

We've seen leaks that the chips are already on the production line at TSMC, so given lead times of five to six months for current-generation chips, this makes sense.

The real action though is with the new laptop chips, and those aren't expected until the end of the year, with the Strix Point Halo - 16 CPU cores and PlayStation 5 level graphics - pushed back to next year.
Tech layoffs are back, baby! (Tech Crunch)

Much as I enjoy shitting on the idiocy of the tech press, this is at least the second time that Tech Crunch has mocked itself for its September article proclaiming that tech layoffs were "almost a thing of the past".

Good for them.

Disclaimer: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and keep paying 30% of every dollar you ever earn. You take the red pill - you pay 60%, maybe more, and I show you how deep the shithole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is fuck you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 04:02 AM (qKYfj)

2 Mornin' all.

Stargate rewatch is now up to season 8, which is where Stargate Atlantis starts.

Also when they started production in HD.

It's still holding up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 27, 2024 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

3 For sure, Google has its own set of terrible problems when it comes to the Play Store (random developer account bannings with no explanation and no human intervention is a big one) but I simply cannot fathom how Apple enjoys such incredible developer support when the Cult of Fruit treats said developers like human refuse.

I've always been an android guy since the first Motorola Droid hit the scenes. When the original iPhone came out, I took a look at it and said "this thing can do half of what my Treo 700w can" - and promptly saw idiots line up for miles to fork over twice the amount of money for it than I paid for my Treo.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:06 AM (a358J)

4 That's a hell of a disclaimer, Pixy.

Well, I finally made it to Season 5 of 'The Expanse'. I think I'll binge Season 5&6 over Super Bowl weekend. I'm not planning to watch it anyway. I know the TV show is different from the books, but I may just break down and buy the books. I've heard nothing but good things about them. The TV show is great.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 04:09 AM (qKYfj)

5 Here's an actual tech question from me-

What would be the reason that sometimes my text messages are received by others and sometimes they are not?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:10 AM (+6aNc)

6 Isn't there already basically a watermark on AI images, as they look like fake crap and are now mostly used to create fake onlyfans whores?

Im guessing California state senator Scott Weiner will be against that, because the watermark will be a turnoff for all the AI images he makes of youth soccer teams and boy scout troops.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 27, 2024 04:11 AM (KCLy4)

7 >> What would be the reason that sometimes my text messages are received by others and sometimes they are not?

Sorry about that. We're the man in the middle, and sometimes we take long bathroom breaks and forget who we're supposed to forward your traffic to.

Posted by: Bob@NSA at January 27, 2024 04:13 AM (w6EFb)

8 I don't know Fen. May not be anything you're doing. Could be an equipment foul up between you and whoever you're texting too.

I receive text messages out of order from the sender. Makes the conversation a bit disjointed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 04:14 AM (qKYfj)

9 I've heard nothing but good things about them. The TV show is great.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 04:09 AM (qKYfj)
I found the 2nd book to have an insufferable character (who I actually didn't mind in the show) of Avrilsala (can't remember the spelling). Basically in the books she's a real man-hating c-bag and after repeated chapters of that nonsense I had to put it down.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:15 AM (a358J)

10 6 Isn't there already basically a watermark on AI images, as they look like fake crap and are now mostly used to create fake onlyfans whores?

AI image generation is actually advancing rapidly, unlike AI chatbots which are just building new layers of garbage on top of the old garbage.

In a couple of years AI image have one from putting seven fingers on hands - or three, or none - to much more subtle problems like the hinges on doors being in the wrong place.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 27, 2024 04:16 AM (BLOW1)

11 What would be the reason that sometimes my text messages are received by others and sometimes they are not?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:10 AM (+6aNc)

Depends on whether you're using an iPhone or an actual computing device.

Apple of course, doesn't use the standardized methods of sending texts to people so if you send a text from your f*cking insufferable fruit phone to anyone else - its dealers choice whether iMessage decides to deliver it or not. Especially on group texts.

Of course Apple could fix this tomorrow by embracing RCS like the rest of the carriers and phone makers and OS developers - but noooooo that would make them less of a bunch of asshoes and we can't have that.

Have I mentioned how much I loathe and despise Apple?

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:18 AM (a358J)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:20 AM (T4tVD)

13 Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:18 AM (a358J)

Thanks. I didn't know that's Yes. It's an Apple phone. Is there something else which I can get which is not hugely expensive that would send tend messages. I know so little about tech that I don't know what an android device is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:24 AM (sQWHi)

14 Android is the OS used in most smart phones not called 'Apple'. Samsung, LG, Motorola, etc.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 04:25 AM (qKYfj)

15 In a couple of years AI image have one from putting seven fingers on hands - or three, or none - to much more subtle problems like the hinges on doors being in the wrong place.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 27, 2024 04:16 AM (BLOW1)

Im not even thinking about the issues like that.

The images just don't look like real images. Lighting is usually off, smoothing is horrible, and colors are generally unrealistic.

Either way the law is moronic as people have been doing better fakes of everything for years with Photoshop, but since AI is the new buzzword they'll use that as the new attempt to basically torch the constitution.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 27, 2024 04:25 AM (KCLy4)

16 What would be the reason that sometimes my text messages are received by others and sometimes they are not?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:10 AM (+6aNc)

Jealousy - they're trying to derail your career as a stand-up.

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:25 AM (T4tVD)

17
As I mentioned on the ONT, I'm relieved. I thought I had some sort of arcane routing problem with the OpenVPN tunnel I've got set up between two routers on my network and the one at my mother's house, after I upgraded OpenWRT running on the Linkys routers.

I thought something had changed due to the upgrade. I was staring and starting at routing tables and configuration files.

Turned out to be due to a typo, which I could not see. Well, not really a typo. A 60-bit IPv6 global prefix changed, as it does when you change things. I didn't notice the change, thought, hey they gave me the same prefix, and then was blind to it.

Nope, it wasn't the same. The last 4 hex digits of the new block were "5f70". the last digits of the old block were "f520". See, a f and 5, zero at the end, and a 2 and 7 sort of all looking the same.

Took me over a week to figure it out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 04:28 AM (w6EFb)

18 Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:25 AM (T4tVD)

No; I have a feeling that's not it, J.J. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:28 AM (sQWHi)

19 Getting deeper into Initial D, wow what a disappointing show so far, i guess i hyped the show up in my head for 25 years, only to learn it's the same thing repeated every 3 episodes, with no real story or characters.

Though anything is better than having sat through FLCL Grunge.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 27, 2024 04:28 AM (KCLy4)

20 Thanks. I didn't know that's Yes. It's an Apple phone. Is there something else which I can get which is not hugely expensive that would send tend messages. I know so little about tech that I don't know what an android device is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:24 AM (sQWHi)

Samsung makes a line of quality, low-cost smart phones that even have "tech challenged" operation modes. Verizon has the Galaxy A15 for sale for $200. The A23 for sale for $350. The Google Pixel 7a is $550. None of these phones will be generating AI memes anytime soon but they will all text just fine.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:30 AM (GOex1)

21 Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:25 AM (T4tVD)

No; I have a feeling that's not it, J.J. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:28 AM (sQWHi)

At least ya didn't call me shirley !

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:34 AM (T4tVD)

22 Thanks. I didn't know that's Yes. It's an Apple phone. Is there something else which I can get which is not hugely expensive that would send tend messages. I know so little about tech that I don't know what an android device is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:24 AM (sQWHi)

Even as someone who is somewhat tech savvy, i never buy a new Apple or even Galaxy, just way too overpriced.

Ive got my last 3 phones as new old stock phones on Ebay, paying only $150 to $250 for a phone a few generations old. I mean right now im on a 3 year old Galaxy S8 and it does everything I need it to (well except I can't torture myself with the DanMachi game since i don't meet the specs, but not a big deal)

I may upgrade soon to an S20 as they're now about $225-$250 new on Ebay. Only downside im looking at is the size, as these have become less pocket friendly. And my preferred case (Otterbox Strada Folio) apparently is shit for the S20.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 27, 2024 04:37 AM (KCLy4)

23
Okay, I've had it with Chrome and it's "security" and safety. It just blocked a download from the router's HTTP interface. The download was a tar.gz archive of the current configuration. Which I'm saving as the latest, fixed working state.

Why? Because it's over a http, and not https "secure connection". And this is on the local LAN, not public internet. The router will do https, but Chrome doesn't like that because it uses a self-signed certificate and tries to warn me the site is "unsafe". My own router's configuration page is unsafe.

This is just stupid.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 04:42 AM (w6EFb)

24 Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:34 AM (T4tVD)

Sorry; I'm still not fully awake yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:48 AM (Ki//m)

25 I have to say I am completely impressed with the arrogance and hubris displayed by Apple technically complying with the EU's app and app store fee mandate while at the same time not complying with the EU's mandate by doubling the cost of the fee structure. That is some pro level legal wrangling there. This really does qualify to be labeled as breathtaking.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 04:50 AM (c2MGA)

26 Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:34 AM (T4tVD)

Sorry; I'm still not fully awake yet.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 04:48 AM (Ki//m)

That's okay; believe it or not, I've been called wurst !

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 04:50 AM (T4tVD)

27 This is just stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 04:42 AM (w6EFb)

Have you tried Brave?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2024 04:53 AM (di6C2)

28 Disclaimer: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and keep paying 30% of every dollar you ever earn. You take the red pill - you pay 60%, maybe more, and I show you how deep the shithole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is fuck you.

Somebody woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 04:54 AM (KpWJP)

29 This is just stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 04:42 AM (w6EFb)

I've been exclusively using Brave for years now and every once in a while I'll come across a hiccup - but overall it's been a pleasant browsing experience. Not sure what it would do if I tried to download a tar sans TLS tho.

This really does qualify to be labeled as breathtaking.
Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 04:50 AM (c2MGA)

I used to think (and still do to a certain extent) that the EU only existed to extort and extract money from American companies using the marketshare that they represent.
But big tech can get bent. I'd be more than happy to see the EU suck every last penny out of Tim Cooks bank account.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:56 AM (o/WK0)

30 Happy Australia Day yesterday, Pixy!

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 04:56 AM (KpWJP)

31 I know we say no math, but this guy has been showing up in my suggested:

http://tinyurl.com/5a5rx7vf

I like math, but also, he looks and sounds exactly like a guy I worked with, Tak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2024 04:57 AM (di6C2)

32 Somebody woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning.
Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 04:54 AM (KpWJP)

My guess is someone has been having to deal with a lot of people today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2024 04:58 AM (di6C2)

33 Microsoft what are we going to do with you. Back in the XP days sometime after SP 1 The entire corporate network got whacked with worm that took down the entire network. At that time there was a bazillion test Labs and every single machine had to be flattened and brought back to life as did every single worker bee computer. It was a beautiful thing. This cock up barely made it into the tech press and was effectively permanently buried. Shortly after that all SP2 development was stopped cold and for the next few months to a year every person in a technical role spent many hours in security classes and how to write and test secure code. It was a beautiful thing. Once things sort of got back to normal, sp2 and XP were written from the ground up to make sure that they were secure as they possibly could be under the conditions. This complete rewrite was released as SP2 and was effectively a brand new operating system. This screwed up the development timeline for Vista and greatly contributed to that foobar mess at release. This too was a beautiful thing.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:01 AM (c2MGA)

34 Willowed:

Publius wrote:
"I think they did a TV adaptation of "Inconstant Moon", as I remember watching something based on the plot a while back"

1996 Outer Limits episode with Michael Gross and Joanna Gleason.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at January 27, 2024 04:50 AM (/HDaX)

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at January 27, 2024 05:01 AM (/HDaX)

35
I've got an old HP 8600 Officejet. Both Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect to it in secure HTTPS mode because it doesn't do the latest security, TLS2 I think. It tries to use TLS v1.x or something.

I had to use Edge in "IE comptability mode" to connect. And then disable passwords, so the full configuration can be accessed without HTTPS.

Again, all over a fucking printer on the LAN.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:02 AM (w6EFb)

36 >>1996 Outer Limits episode with Michael Gross and Joanna Gleason.

Thank you! I remember Michael Gross in it, now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:04 AM (w6EFb)

37
One of the myriad of cable networks has been running those "new" Outer Limits episodes, and that's probably where I saw it a few months ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:05 AM (w6EFb)

38 A 3% transaction fee on purchases.
- A 10% commission on sales.
- A 49% "Core Technology Fee" on because fuck you, that's why.

Ahhh...The Ticketmaster business plan.

Posted by: Bruce at January 27, 2024 05:05 AM (vd8XM)

39 This too was a beautiful thing.
Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:01 AM (c2MGA)

Microsoft is the Boeing of the software industry.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 05:05 AM (o/WK0)

40 Again, all over a fucking printer on the LAN.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:02 AM (w6EFb)

Not trying to be facetious - but could you just use cURL to do what you're doing?

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 05:06 AM (o/WK0)

41 btw you can thank my tech thread participation this morning (EST here) on my wife - who decided that because she was having cramps, I had to know about it at 2:30AM.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 05:08 AM (o/WK0)

42 11 ... Have I mentioned how much I loathe and despise Apple?
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:18 AM (a358J)

Came through loud and clear!

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 05:08 AM (KpWJP)

43 As much as the endless iteration/degradation of windows sucks (I think there has been a double peak, NT was pretty damn easy and intuitive, but I liked 7 a lot.) Do not get me fucking started on Excel. Microsoft: QUIT IMPROVING IT. I AM NOT GOING TO UPGRADE- I know how to do what I want, I am not going to let you fuck that up. ...What was I?

Oh, right, as annoying as all of that is- it is still better than Apple. They just creep me out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2024 05:13 AM (di6C2)

44 This too was a beautiful thing.
Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:01 AM (c2MGA)

Microsoft is the Boeing of the software industry.
Posted by: Defenestratus

In the 2000s Microsoft had two things on their mind: new features and hitting release dates because that drove revenue and stock price. So at that time, yeah, they were pretty much the current version of Boeing. After Nadalla got control of the company everything dramatically changed. Today they're so huge they trip over their own feet all the time in ways that are amusing and irritating simultaneously. I make no bones about it, I bleed Microsoft blue If I get a paper cut. For all their goofy stuff, they were extremely good to me and provided me with a great life.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:15 AM (c2MGA)

45 >> Not trying to be facetious - but could you just use cURL to do what you're doing?

Might could. Don't know. Setup is this. Printer configuration/settings page, built in HTTP web interface. When you set a password for the thing, certain "sensitive" settings are only allowed through HTTPS connection. It automatically redirects.

But, being old, when it does that redirect, it doesn't do the latest TLS whatever protocol, and Chrome and the Firefox balk and refuse to connect.

All you need is some old browser or old what-you-have that will do the older TLS to connect. Which IE compatibility will allow.

All Chrome and Firefox need is a way to allow you to do that if you need to. Put it in some arcane configuration settings not obvious to the casual not tech user, but allow a way to let one say, "don't worry about security too much for stuff on the local subnet, here".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:17 AM (w6EFb)

46 41 btw you can thank my tech thread participation this morning (EST here) on my wife - who decided that because she was having cramps, I had to know about it at 2:30AM.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 05:08 AM (o/WK0)

Thank you, Mrs. Defenestratus.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 05:17 AM (KpWJP)

47 I love apples. My new fav is the Envy.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 27, 2024 05:18 AM (Eeb9P)

48
The word processor, and probably the spreadsheet reached full maturity around the year 2000, if not before. This is why everyone is trying to move to a subscription model. Once something reaches the limit of features and capability for the task, there's no reason to upgrade. Any additional features are just counterproductive.

I'd still happily use Word/Office 97. Right now, I use Office 2010 and even that's too new. Still can make that work, even with Windows 11.

No, MS, I'm not upgrading.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:21 AM (w6EFb)

49
And this is what's driving FOSS anyway. LibreOffice is probably as good as Office anyway, and as been for some time. I ought to just use that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:22 AM (w6EFb)

50 Have I mentioned how much I loathe and despise Apple?
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:18 AM (a358J)

Is your name Adam ?

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 05:23 AM (T4tVD)

51 My impression of the EU rules is that someone has to pay for the top shelf wine and Kobe Beef they enjoy as being Gods of the European Union. I had a friend who spent some time in Brussels and was shocked at the luxury homes and offices you see in that city.

Posted by: Colin at January 27, 2024 05:25 AM (/z/eU)

52 I get tired of this. If you don't like Apple, that's fine. I don't like Android. And if you haven't had a crappy Android phone, you aren't tryng. I have enough Apple products to know how to troubleshoot them, because that makes me a competent tech. I never buy the newest stuff. I don't use their laptops because of work, but I might get an older one when I'm retired. Apple is a hardware company. They have a brand and that's what the cultists push. But the hardware does hold up well. And Android seems to have its own cultists.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2024 05:30 AM (L8hCM)

53 51 My impression of the EU rules is that someone has to pay for the top shelf wine and Kobe Beef they enjoy as being Gods of the European Union. I had a friend who spent some time in Brussels and was shocked at the luxury homes and offices you see in that city.
Posted by: Colin

I was there in '93. That is true. It's also true about the 'No Go' zones, dotted around the city. At the time, it was mostly Turks. I'm sure it's been 'diversified' since.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 27, 2024 05:34 AM (qKYfj)

54 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 27, 2024 05:34 AM (ju2Fy)

55 We had problems with Teams. We had problems with Outlook. We always have issues with the phones. And the ticketing software sucks. And I told my boss that the group that handles our email and used to do tech support is mostly incompetent. We'll probably get stuck with them again

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2024 05:34 AM (L8hCM)

56 yo wut sup

Posted by: will Y G at January 27, 2024 05:40 AM (ENQN6)

57 darn sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 27, 2024 05:41 AM (ENQN6)

58 51 Kobe Beef
Posted by: Colin at January 27, 2024 05:25 AM (/z/eU)

This reminds me: Four years, yesterday (the 26th), since Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi died in a helicopter crash.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 05:42 AM (KpWJP)

59 I think one of the more interesting hardware releases this year is going to be Microsoft's Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite ARM CPU. If this Qualcomm chip reaches performance parity with the Intel 14s and offers Apple level battery life these two new boxes could mark the beginning of a sea change in mainstream computing. The rumbles I'm picking up is Microsoft finally has real wind in their sails about making ARM CPUs a co-equal first citizen in their ecosystem and that the Snapdragon X Elite is a snappy piece of silicon. We will find out sometime in the spring to early summer how this plays out.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:49 AM (c2MGA)

60
MS is really going all in with Windows on ARM. All the compilers and Visual Studio do ARM now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:52 AM (w6EFb)

61
If there's a cheap one somewhere, I might just try some Windows on ARM laptop just to play.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 05:53 AM (w6EFb)

62 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2024 05:53 AM (hH3Px)

63 If there's a cheap one somewhere, I might just try some Windows on ARM laptop just to play.
Posted by: publius,

I'm hoping that Microsoft about the same time releases a Surface Go with an ARM chip in it. I haven't heard anything about that but I have heard there. They have a Surface Pro 11 inch box running ARM ready to come out. I have had a Surface Go for a number of years now and that little box goes with me everywhere; It is a perfectly great computer for email,surfing, the web, media consumption and general mainstream computing. May only wish is it had better battery life which the ARM CPU should do. That is going to be my first box provided they come out in reasonable time.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 05:58 AM (c2MGA)

64 I might shave today, just for drill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2024 06:03 AM (vV7yf)

65 Morning peeps

Looks like we're in for more rain here in Bourbon Country today. It's already pretty soggy out there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 06:06 AM (Q4IgG)

66 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2024 06:06 AM (PQ4m2)

67 Hiya Cap'n !

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 06:11 AM (T4tVD)

68 NGU

How is this latest United Nations issue being received over there?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2024 06:12 AM (hH3Px)

69 I found this a very touching story. Devout RC parents from TX at the sentencing for the man who killed their son are able to forgive the killer:

http://tinyurl.com/y4r7bv58

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 06:22 AM (51A7c)

70 Evening and morning, insomaniacals! Though it is later than usual; 5 am my time could be regular rising time for some of you. I hit the sack about 9:30 last night, woke at 1:30, got back to sleep again, and just now clambered out of bed for coffee and cat feeding. Amazing.

By the way, mark your TV calendars: Grit (free, over-the-air TV) will air The Outrage (1964), a Rashomon-inspired Western tale, Sunday 1/28 at 8:30 am Central and 9:30 Eastern. This is a B & W flick that retells a kidnapping and rape from three very different perspectives. It has the young William Shatner, Paul Newman as a Mex bandit, Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom, and Edward G. Robinson too. I haven't seen it in many years and hope it holds up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:25 AM (omVj0)

71 Heard thunder last night about 3 am, and it's drizzling and occasionally raining steadily now. Our temps are supposed to drop by evening, 50s F. tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:26 AM (omVj0)

72
Vivek Ramaswamy sits down with Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon to discuss rallying behind Donald Trump, social media censorship, Nikki Haley ruining America, and how he really felt about that one 7-Eleven joke.

Fascinating stuff. 'Onionhead' ( at 27:00 minutes ) is kinda fascinating where he makes the argument that if Onionhead could be considered a religion, then 'woke' could also be considered a religion and fall under the same Constitutional constraints as far as forcing a religion on others.

41 minutes Twit/X
https://t.ly/vyXm8

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 06:29 AM (nIvob)

73 Tara Reade ought to consider going E, Jean Carroll on Biden, since the newspapers like sec assault claims against Presidents so much.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2024 06:34 AM (Dg1pE)

74 and just now clambered out of bed for coffee and cat feeding. Amazing.

I don't know that I've ever clambered....

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 06:34 AM (T4tVD)

75 74 and just now clambered out of bed for coffee and cat feeding. Amazing.

I don't know that I've ever clambered....
Posted by: JT

Be careful. Don't drink the cat and feed the coffee.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2024 06:37 AM (sAmhv)

76 How is this latest United Nations issue being received over there?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2024 06:12 AM (hH3Px)

What issue are you talking about?
And I am back over here lol

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2024 06:37 AM (PQ4m2)

77 Powerline has some good memes this week

https://shorturl.at/fPSZ2

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2024 06:39 AM (yPQ+b)

78 Developers are not impressed.

So they are admitting heavy handed big government action rarely gets the result you want?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 06:40 AM (2ovLw)

79 JT: To "clamber" is to climb or move with difficulty or effort, often using hands and feet. It can also mean to get somewhere or do something in a difficult or awkward way. So, pretty much my leaving my bed, at least on some mornings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:40 AM (omVj0)

80 Mrs. E and I’d appreciate prayers for MadisonTheCat. She is going in to vet this morning, just not herself.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2024 06:40 AM (pIfkX)

81 I enjoy the articles on "Legal Insurrection" but sometimes the comments are a dumpster fire with the comments following the article on the E. Jean Carroll verdict a dumpster fire including some person going on about Trump being the "Trumpists" Messiah." Uhh, not he's not my Messiah and it doesn't make him one for me to think that the verdict was a sham and completely politically motivated.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 06:40 AM (Ph153)

82 Do the Clam(ber) was an Elvis song....

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 06:42 AM (T4tVD)

83 I wish Biden's Dog would check in maybe once a week on the tech thread to tell us whatever he wants to tell us.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 06:42 AM (KpWJP)

84 Good morning morons

Local TV news still freaking out about closing In n Out in Oakland.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

85 . . . the article on the E. Jean Carroll verdict a dumpster fire including some person going on about Trump being the "Trumpists" Messiah." Uhh, not he's not my Messiah and it doesn't make him one for me to think that the verdict was a sham and completely politically motivated.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024

***
Well said, Fen. America in the Morning on my local Clay & Buck show station mentioned that Trump, as he left the courtroom on Thursday, was heard to say, "This is not America."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:44 AM (omVj0)

86 Asking big government for anything works out about as well as a wish from a genie. You are going to get something resembling what you asked for, but ultimately its main purpose will be to serve the genie.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 06:44 AM (2ovLw)

87 Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2024 06:40 AM (pIfkX

Sorry. This is the third cat which I've heard about in the past week all going in to the Vet ( We had another poster here with concern for their cat Misty,) and all having an M name. Will pray for Madison and you folks too. Our pets are like family or friends and we do worry about them so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 06:44 AM (Ph153)

88 Dagny La Siberienne is snuffling at and pawing at the empty pizza box from last night's dinner. I don't suppose she can do any damage. Stirling has trotted over to see what trouble he can cause.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:45 AM (omVj0)

89 Wolfus Aurelius @ 85-
President Trump’s right, this is not America. It’s Amerika, the democommie’s dream.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2024 06:47 AM (pIfkX)

90
Finished the entire 41 minute Vivek interview ( https://t.ly/vyXm8 ) and it was well worth listening to. Surprise ending which shows what a great sport he is.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 06:50 AM (nIvob)

91
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2024 06:51 AM (kQ2Qm)

92 In summary:

The NY legislature granted a one time extension to the statute of limitations for one specific person to to sue trump in civil court and have that verdict apply retroactively to a claim of defamation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 06:52 AM (2ovLw)

93 Oh, and Grit is really stepping up their game. Next Sunday, not 1/28 but 2/4, they will show Lonesome Dove in prime time. It was a four-hour miniseries, as I recall, so I hope they will run the second part on Monday. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, and Angelica Huston all proved that, at least in 1988, the Western and the miniseries were not only not dead, but could make major fans out of casual, jaded viewers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 06:53 AM (omVj0)

94
The NY legislature granted a one time extension to the statute of limitations for one specific person to to sue trump in civil court and have that verdict apply retroactively to a claim of defamation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 06:52 AM

Actually they made it just broad enough that some other people are now sneaking in and one of the Cuomo's is now caught in the trap.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 06:57 AM (nIvob)

95 Irrespective of what anyone thinks of PDT, malicious prosecution should scare everyone.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2024 06:59 AM (bn3/b)

96
- A 49% "Core Technology Fee" on because fuck you, that's why.

So DeWalt or Makita can charge a builder 49% of revenues because the tools the builder is using are "core technology"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2024 07:00 AM (MoZTd)

97 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 27, 2024 07:02 AM (NBVIP)

98 IMO Trump and his lawyers didn't take Carroll's suit seriously enough.

Whether it was preordained is debatable, but it's another poor showing by a Trump legal team.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 07:02 AM (Q4IgG)

99 Lonesome Dove.

Cap’n ‘Call literally going hammer and tong on the bullying union scout being the most satisfying western scene ever filmed.

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024 07:04 AM (kEB4M)

100
The original legislation for temporarily extending the statute of limitations was in order that the Boy Scouts of America could declare a limited bankruptcy and be sued by former Scouts for sexual abuse they endured decades ago. The trial lawyers of America - who stand to receive one-third of the many billions of dollars in fees from the victims - were the driving force in collusion with the BSA who were certain to become 100% bankrupt after a single trial in California.

Once that door got opened they're finding innovative ways for targeted abuse.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:04 AM (nIvob)

101 Always present - A Christian devotional by a man from New Jersey:

http://tinyurl.com/59bjk3ab

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 07:08 AM (gKed7)

102 Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2024 06:59 AM (bn3/b)

Exactly

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 07:09 AM (gKed7)

103
The more abuse they heap on Trump the better his odds of winning in November. The left hasn't figured this out yet. But ( no need for spoiler alert ) they're just not that smart.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:10 AM (nIvob)

104 >> for the next few months to a year every person in a technical role spent many hours in security classes and how to write and test secure code. It was a beautiful thing.

You know, the original networking and what became the internet was developed without any notion of "security". The assumption (without even thinking, really) was the everyone was honest. So, systems were developed on that basis. If something crazy is going on, obviously someone is confused and in error, let's try to help him

An analogy is this. I live in a remote area, not too many houses. I'd better not lock the door to my house. Some poor soul might be driving through here, and have a break down. So, he needs to be able to get in my house and use the phone to call for help.

Oh, and he might need some money, so I'll leave a pile of 100 bills on the table. He'll pay me back, of course, if he takes any, and will leave me all the information I need. In fact, I'll leave him my bank account number and routing number here so he can easily pay me back....

Oh, and I'd better leave my shop and all the tools unlocked too, in case that poor, standed soul needs some tools to fix his breakdown.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2024 07:10 AM (w6EFb)

105 Lonesome Dove.

Cap’n ‘Call literally going hammer and tong on the bullying union scout being the most satisfying western scene ever filmed.
Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024

***
It's odd, but people I know who mention the series or the books usually call the lead characters "Gus" and "Captain Call," not "Gus" and "Woodrow."

I'm not a big fan of reading Larry McMurtry. His style is odd -- he often changes point-of-view in the same paragraph, and it makes him hard to follow sometimes. But he tells good stories and creates memorable characters. The scene I often reread is the one where Gus rides down into the middle of Blue Duck's camp, at night, to rescue Lorena from torture and murder. Dynamite stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 07:14 AM (omVj0)

106 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

WET !

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 07:14 AM (T4tVD)

107
You know, the original networking and what became the internet was developed without any notion of "security". The assumption (without even thinking, really) was the everyone was honest. So, systems were developed on that basis. If something crazy is going on, obviously someone is confused and in error, let's try to help him .

I remember those early days. The Internet was going to be this altruistic place, completely free of commerce. The worlds greatest library of information, all for the betterment of mankind. Security in that framework was hardly a consideration.

Then something happened.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:15 AM (nIvob)

108 Take care of your heart:

A devotional from the rabbi's daughter:

http://tinyurl.com/wra3tyuf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2024 07:21 AM (01HeZ)

109 I remember those early days. The Internet was going to be this altruistic place, completely free of commerce. The worlds greatest library of information, all for the betterment of mankind. Security in that framework was hardly a consideration.

Then something happened.
____________

The government got involved?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 07:21 AM (Q4IgG)

110 Another key premise of the early internet was the idea that if you want something to be private, don't set it out in your front yard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 27, 2024 07:23 AM (9UlRk)

111 >>So why would anyone use Apple in the first place?

Because windows OS is a pile of shit thar is now for all intents and purposes spyware and malware.

Also WinTel hardware is cheap mass produced crap.

I'm still rocking my 2015 MacBook Pro as my main system, virtually no one can say with a straight face they are using a nearly decade old rig as their main unit.

Also, the essential look and feel of MacOS hasn't changed in 40 years.

Its biggest change was adding a second mouse button 30 years ago.

And at the end of the day the underlying OS is Unix with very pretty windows manager on top.

I can also run windows on my Mac for those applications Microsoft refuses to port.

If I wasn't forced to use a WinTel rig for work, I'd never lay a finger on a WinTel laptop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2024 07:27 AM (XV/Pl)

112 "Then something happened"

Human nature. It's why we can't have nice things.

Mornin yall

Posted by: fd at January 27, 2024 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

113 Augustus. Only Gus was allowed to talk, on equal terms, to “Woodrow” the man.

I’ve not read the book in ages. And only ever read one other McMurtry book - Comanche Moon.

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024 07:28 AM (qN3Jz)

114
The government got involved?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 07:21 AM

I suspect commerce happened, specifically pornography. Pictures became videos, tiny little videos. The need for speed drove technology. As that part of the Internet shaped improvements more mainstream functions could then step in. E-commerce took off. Chat rooms became web sites and blogs. Somewhere around this point the government had to step in. Those early decisions need to be reviewed now, which is something that Vivek was touching on in the interview I mentioned above.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:30 AM (nIvob)

115 @103

>>The more abuse they heap on Trump the better his odds of winning in November. The left hasn't figured this out yet. But ( no need for spoiler alert ) they're just not that smart.

The Donks control enough of the voting apparatus in enough states that Trump is going to have to thread a very tight needle to win.

Which is the reason I keep saying he's going to need GA, Va and No to win.

These states have GOP governors and hopefully enough force multipliers that will allow a narrow win, otherwise it's not looking good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2024 07:33 AM (XV/Pl)

116
I actually remember early pictures of naked women made entirely with the letter 'X'. Modems were so crazy slow a real photograph that we see almost instantaneously now would have taken hours to download.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:35 AM (nIvob)

117 Augustus. Only Gus was allowed to talk, on equal terms, to “Woodrow” the man.

I’ve not read the book in ages. And only ever read one other McMurtry book - Comanche Moon.
Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024

***
In Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, Wolfe (not an easygoing or adorable fellow) calls his assistant Archie or "Mr. Goodwin"; if Archie addresses him at all, he calls him "Mr. Wolfe," and refers to him always as "Wolfe" in narration. (In written messages to each other, they use initials, AG and NW.) Yet fans persist in calling him "Nero"!

CM is good, and so is the prequel to LD, Streets of Laredo. You just need to get past McMurtry's style in places.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 07:36 AM (omVj0)

118 72
Vivek Ramaswamy sits down with Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon to discuss rallying behind Donald Trump, social media censorship, Nikki Haley ruining America, and how he really felt about that one 7-Eleven joke.

Fascinating stuff. 'Onionhead' ( at 27:00 minutes ) is kinda fascinating where he makes the argument that if Onionhead could be considered a religion, then 'woke' could also be considered a religion and fall under the same Constitutional constraints as far as forcing a religion on others.

41 minutes Twit/X
https://t.ly/vyXm8
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 06:29 AM (nIvob)

Will be watching this. Thanks.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 07:39 AM (KpWJP)

119 An entire monograph could be written on how characters in series fiction address each other under different circumstances, and how fans refer to them. Ellery Queen and his father call each other "Ellery" (or "El") and "Dad," for instance. In John Dickson Carr, police superintendent Hadley and Dr. Gideon Fell always call each other by their last names (1930s-1960s English custom, I guess). In contrast, Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder (1970s-present) is always called "Matt" by his friends.

Maybe it has to do with the loss of formality in Western society since the 1960s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 07:42 AM (omVj0)

120 CM is good, and so is the prequel to LD, Streets of Laredo. You just need to get past McMurtry's style in places.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 07:36 AM (omVj0)

Satisfactory. I’ll read that as soon as my stack of non-fiction ….

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024 07:44 AM (Y9FAc)

121 g'mornin' everyone!

I don't know how anyone ever gets anything done, ever, on an iphone. the UI is opaque and unhelpful.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 27, 2024 07:45 AM (WsTvr)

122 The Bee nails it:

Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary

I snickered...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

123 @119

>>Maybe it has to do with the loss of formality in Western society since the 1960s.

Because brevity is The Soul of Wit and getting to the crux of the biscuit.

I shall call you Wade henceforth.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2024 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

124 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Seattle just agreed to pay $10 million to 50 rioters injured by police in 2020.

Denver is paying $4.7 million to 300 BLM rioters arrested in 2020.

Philadelphia is paying them $9 million.

New York City is shelling out $13 million.

In total, $90+ million in taxpayer dollars is going to pay out BLM protestors in 20 US cities.
===

After the Kristallnacht pogrom the Nazis were faced with the wailing of German insurance companies who were on the hook for insured losses suffered by the Jews.

Goebbels came up with the idea of imposing an "Atonement Fee" on the Jewish community that soaked up the billion Reichsmarks paid out in claims. Easy peasy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

125 Good morning all. Another gloomy day here. Weatherman promises sunshine tomorrow and all of next week with highs in the 50's. I'll take it. Making a trip to Costco later this morning.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 27, 2024 07:51 AM (iF0sF)

126 Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary

I snickered...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

-------------------

Same.

Good morning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 27, 2024 07:51 AM (tT6L1)

127 actually remember early pictures of naked women made entirely with the letter 'X'. Modems were so crazy slow a real photograph that we see almost instantaneously now would have taken hours to download.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I had a program that would print a calendar of Cheryl Teigs on a dot matrix printer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 07:57 AM (2ovLw)

128
Will be watching this. Thanks.

Posted by: m at January 27, 2024 07:39 AM

Vivek almost slips up a couple of times, but I have little doubt he's going to be in Trumps administration if the job interests him.

My short list for Veep is Vivek T, Tucker C, and Sarah H.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 07:58 AM (nIvob)

129 “An entire monograph could be written on how characters in series fiction address each other under different circumstances, and how fans refer to them.”

Readers are as afraid of Cap’n Call as the characters in the book are. That’s why we never refer to him as Woodrow. Fear is contagious.

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2024 08:00 AM (ynIU8)

130 I made the switch to Mac in 2016. Never going back. There is a trade off in quirks, but overall Mac is way better. Still have my 2015 macbook, and no reason to upgrade.
Also have an iPhone 12 from 2020 that is still going strong.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:00 AM (2ovLw)

131 Time to shave and shower. I should hit the grocery this am instead of tomorrow, as I want to be home in time to watch The Outrage on Grit. And I have to hit the bank this am to clear up an issue about a check that has been debited to me, a check I could not possibly have written.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2024 08:01 AM (omVj0)

132 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2024 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

133
The EU: Sure, we're a tar baby caught in a briar patch, but that's no reason why we should not insist that you come keep us company there, too!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:07 AM (xG4kz)

134 {{{Ben Had}}}

🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Very good point. Who knows how many land whales, with multicolor hair and a tackle-box face, would accuse me of improprieties? All to bankrupt me, silence me, and steal my prairie?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2024 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

135 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

As part of a general retrenchment in US government spending, I am reluctantly willing to give the UN nothing. And move homeless into their buildings in NYC. And then burn the buildings, using AFFF to fight the fire.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2024 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

136 My cookie fast just ended and it was amaayzing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 08:10 AM (RIvkX)

137
Were the EU in charge of our breathing, we'd all die from asphyxiation.

"That's five molecules of oxygen for us, three molecules of oxygen for you ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:11 AM (xG4kz)

138 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Are you seeing the EU chemistry industry collapse, and on-shore with the US in Texas?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2024 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

139 the fast, or how it ended

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2024 08:13 AM (geLO8)

140 I remember using CompuServ in 1990 or there abouts and thought, blah, waste of time.

Now Baby is all grown up not and so cute anymore.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 08:13 AM (R/m4+)

141 It ended with a chocolate shortbread

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

142
Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Are you seeing the EU chemistry industry collapse, and on-shore with the US in Texas?

Posted by: NaCly Dog

I've not looked at it since I resigned from the American Chemical Society back in the late '00s. Their C&ENews used to publish lists of the top 100 chemicals sold and the top 100 chemical firms in one of their Spring issues. That had undergone huge changes since I first joined in '76.

I resigned specifically because C&EN's Editor in Chief, Rudy Baum, was a notoriously bigoted pro-climate warming / pro-climate chaos / pro-climate change advocate. He would brook no dissension from the readers: "Write all you want, but I'll not allow your opinions to be published."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:18 AM (xG4kz)

143 Time for chores.

Have a wonderful day, everyone. May we be part of the dawn of the reborn America.

Ad astra per aspera.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2024 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

144
I'm putting together my "Fook that guy in particular" list.

Who needs to be on it besides Bill "Let's Inject Particulates into the Atmosphere!" Gates?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:20 AM (xG4kz)

145 Who needs to be on it besides Bill "Let's Inject Particulates into the Atmosphere!" Gates?

There's not enough room for all the people who need to be on that list.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 27, 2024 08:21 AM (iF0sF)

146
Autocomplete strikes again:

Due to unforseen circumcisions the Dining Room will be closed this evening.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 08:22 AM (nIvob)

147
I resigned specifically because C&EN's Editor in Chief, Rudy Baum, was a notoriously bigoted pro-climate warming / pro-climate chaos / pro-climate change advocate. He would brook no dissension from the readers: "Write all you want, but I'll not allow your opinions to be published."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:18 AM (xG4kz)

I'm still a member because I get 25 free SciFinder searches and 50 free ACS papers, but I haven't been to a national meeting in 15+ years. C&EN is unreadable now, just blubbering over women in academia and the plight of LGBTQ+, while not saying a thing about the MBAs destroying industrial research. I only read C&EN nowadays for the obituaries.

The ACS is a means by which industrial chemists fund awards to be handed out to academic chemists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2024 08:25 AM (MoZTd)

148 Waited for the February invoice just to make sure. I must have the only commodity in the US that went down in price. My prescription drug premium went from $7 and change to .50/month. I still believe it's an error and they will catch up with it eventually.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 27, 2024 08:26 AM (2NHgQ)

149 *land whales, with multicolor hair and a tackle-box face*

Snort.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 27, 2024 08:26 AM (NBVIP)

150 Robert Reich came up on my You Tube list, blathering about how Clarence Thomas has to recuse himself because his wife did something. Was going to respond about Kagan but decided to block it instead.

I got blocked on a FB group for mentioning they should add a few caraway seeds to the starter if sluggish. I got a lecture on how this would introduce mold and you should have laboratory clean conditions for your starter.

The internet seems to be full of lunatics these days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2024 08:30 AM (L8hCM)

151 I'm always amazed at how many germaphobes are into brewing beer and making bread.

Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2024 08:34 AM (QB+5g)

152 The fermentation guy my favorite permaculturist had on his show said "Yeast is everywhere, don't make yourself nuts trying to eradicate it."
So, yeah.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 27, 2024 08:35 AM (jN2/U)

153 >I'm putting together my "Fook that guy in particular" list.

Who needs to be on it
---

the person at foxnews dot com who hides stories behind email registration

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2024 08:36 AM (geLO8)

154 "The internet seems to be full of lunatics these days.
Posted by: Notsothoreau"

They are just trying to get a rise out of you.

Posted by: fd at January 27, 2024 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

155 I responded that I don't cook in a lab. You think of all those old timers, using sourdough because commercial yeast didn't exist. That's not how they did it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2024 08:41 AM (L8hCM)

156 Libertarians are leftist trolls. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:41 AM (2ovLw)

157 I'm putting together my "Fook that guy in particular" list.

Who needs to be on it besides Bill "Let's Inject Particulates into the Atmosphere!" Gates?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:20 AM (xG4kz)

Any of you homos touch my stuff and YOU go on the list.

Posted by: Francis at January 27, 2024 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

158 >"The internet seems to be full of lunatics these days.
Posted by: Notsothoreau"
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it's like the United States- they will let just anybody in

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2024 08:42 AM (geLO8)

159 I'm putting together my "Fook that guy in particular" list.

Who needs to be on it

The guy on First ?

What did HE do ?

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 08:45 AM (T4tVD)

160 What did HE do ?

Second base.

Posted by: Lou Abbott at January 27, 2024 08:47 AM (NBVIP)

161 Reid Hoffman. Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:48 AM (2ovLw)

162 Anybody looking for a job?

http://tinyurl.com/bdedhkzu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2024 08:50 AM (hH3Px)

163 That Ahhhnold "screw your freedom" guy should be in the top five.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 27, 2024 08:51 AM (NBVIP)

164 I'm always amazed at how many germaphobes are into brewing beer

I believe I may detect the accent of one who has not tasted the lemony tang of what a fly carries on its back legs. You'll see.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 27, 2024 08:51 AM (zdLoL)

165 This is still 1,500,000 per year. And that is just known encounters. Not the ones CBP pretends not to see.

The White House has agreed to new limits on asylum at the border, including the creation of an expulsion power that would allow migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally to be rapidly returned to Mexico if migrant encounters surpassed 4,000 per day, three sources familiar with the matter said.
If encounters passed 5,000 per day, the use of the expulsion authority would become mandatory, according to the sources who requested anonymity to discuss details of the private negotiations.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:52 AM (2ovLw)

166 Spitballing: What is the under over that FJB invokes the Insurrection Act over the upcoming Trucker Convoy?

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2024 08:52 AM (c2MGA)

167 So this is the spin? Joe hasn't done anything to lock down the border because he didn't have the authority? Needs a new law?

What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:56 AM (2ovLw)

168 Just spitballing, but the US military will fire on american citizens on american soil before Nov 5.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 08:58 AM (2ovLw)

169
The ACS is a means by which industrial chemists fund awards to be handed out to academic chemists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Back in the day, the ACS had somehow finagled graduate schools into requiring the PhD candidates in Chemistry be capable of reading articles published in German. Residuals props to all the Herr Doktor Professors and all that.

Note that I said "capable", and not "fluent". Study just enough to be able to make a semi-coherent translation out of two or three paragraphs and you were in!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:58 AM (xG4kz)

170 Of course Apple could fix this tomorrow by embracing RCS like the rest of the carriers and phone makers and OS developers - but noooooo that would make them less of a bunch of asshoes and we can't have that.

Have I mentioned how much I loathe and despise Apple?
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 27, 2024 04:18 AM (a358J)

Supposedly, Apple will finally embrace RCS this year.
http://tinyurl.com/v6wc2at2

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 27, 2024 08:59 AM (iODuv)

171
And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

LIAR

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 08:59 AM (xG4kz)

172 Coffee nood

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2024 09:00 AM (2ovLw)

173
Biden is lying. He knows that an Oct. 7 type event is likely to happen any day in this country and he wants to be able to point the finger elsewhere, anywhere, except where it should be pointed.

The (R)'s need to tell him to STFU and STFD and enforce the laws already on the books.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 27, 2024 09:01 AM (nIvob)

174 >>>>All Chrome and Firefox need is a way to allow you to do that if you need to. Put it in some arcane configuration settings not obvious to the casual not tech user, but allow a way to let one say, "don't worry about security too much for stuff on the local subnet, here".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Times past you could go to tucows and get any iteration of FF you desired, other back issues too. Well, tucows is no more and it seems all the Browser people, and Microsoft have joined hands in the 'no support' areana.

'No support', now means, 'it doesn't exist'. Old Microsoft web pages, say, help links for W7 are wiped out, non-exsistant; old .exe downloads do not work. They make sure you upgrade. You can have what they want you to have and cannot have what they do not want you to have.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 09:02 AM (M4QYv)

175 @172/Cat Ass Trophy: Thank you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 27, 2024 09:08 AM (qPw5n)

176 >>>Granting the hackers read access to every Office 365 account in the world.

Good thing that we just switched to MS Cloud PCs and cost me $300ish to set up Win 11, because MS Cloud PC/Win 11 broke Linux Remote Access.

Fuckers should DIAF.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 27, 2024 10:04 AM (i24o9)

177 virtually no one can say with a straight face they are using a nearly decade old rig as their main unit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2024 07:27 AM (XV/Pl)

I was, until about 2 years ago. And I will be in about 8 years. Such is the nature of my builds. I have a Sony laptop from 2003, 2GB RAM, upgraded with an SSD, that is still a good mobile unit with Linux Lite. I used it yesterday and will again today.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 27, 2024 10:11 AM (i24o9)

178 Morning, Horde. Late to this thread, as usual, because time zone.

Question for Pixy and Horde: I bought a new phone last month, a Unihertz Titan Pocket. It is a small smartphone with a real QWERTY keyboard, and it runs Android. I like it right well, except it continually nags me with bleeps and bloops to install Goggle Play, telling me that that the other Goggle apps won't run unless I sign up for Goggle Play. Well, Fuck Them! I don't need any of the the apps for the phone to do what I need it do. None, zilch, nada. And I don't want to be tracked by google. How can I disable the annoying noises?

I would like to root the phone, and install Lineage OS, but it seems there is only one guy that a workable method to do that. Phone is a niche phone, and too new for there to be a large community of tech-minded hackers for it, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 10:12 AM (tkR6S)

179 "Spitballing: What is the under over that FJB invokes the Insurrection Act over the upcoming Trucker Convoy?

Posted by: Lost in Space"

Feds may not face of Texas national guard but they will arrest anybody associated with the convoy, especially if they get anywhere near the border. They would love to get a few kills in if possible (These are Christian nationalist they've been looking for after all) It will be J6 x10

Posted by: Ripley at January 27, 2024 10:44 AM (PTDkx)

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