Daily Tech News 9 June 2024

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With a successful suborbital test flight of Starship under his belt, Elon Musk is turning his attention to the Starfactory. (Space)

Starfactory, already under construction, is planned to be able to build a Starship - the largest and most powerful rocket ever launched - every day.

And keep in mind that both Starship and the Super Heavy booster with its 33 engines are fully reusable. So that's multiple launches per day.

He's the main character in an old-school Heinlein novel.

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A court-appointed administrator for failed fintech startup Synapse has found $85 million of customer funds aren't. (CNBC) (archive site)

Aren't what?

Just aren't. Aren't funds. Aren't there. Aren't accounted for.

Since Synapse was a middle-man between banks and other startups that needed financial services, its failure means that customers - both companies contracting Synapse and their customers in turn - currently have no access to funds even though the banks are solvent and the accounts are FDIC insured.

But the fact that a third of the money simply seems to be gone makes things even more complicated.
The DOJ has indicted the developers of a tool that let people spend Bitcoin without the government monitoring them. (Reason)

You know, like you can still do - for now - with cash.

The government hates that.
For 13 years, Siri has sucked. Now with the AI bubble in maximum inflation mode, Apple is set to make it worse. (The Verge)

Okay.
What Snowflake isn't saying about its massive data breach. (Tech Crunch)

What Snowflake is saying is that this is entirely the fault of its customers.

For being silly enough to trust their data with Snowflake.
Six people have been hospitalised after eating Diamon Shruumz brand chocolate bars. (Ars Technica)

Which contain - as you might have guessed - psychedelic mushrooms.
The chocolate bars are still available for sale online but the FDA said that consumers should not eat, sell, or serve them, you idiots.

Random Vtuber Video of the Day

Find yourself a girl who looks at you the way Alana does at a Kentucky Ballistics video.

Disclaimer: Nana Asteria banned from Louisiana for crimes involving sesame oil and putting mayonnaise on rice.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 09, 2024 04:00 AM (NHMTR)

2 Thank you Pixy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 09, 2024 04:03 AM (isNL8)

3 I don't like the idea of Siri. I don't want my computer or phone or any appliance to talk to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 04:04 AM (XkYcA)

4 A court-appointed administrator for failed fintech startup Synapse has found $85 million of customer funds aren't.

WE BLAME TRUMP

NOW PAY ELEVENTY TRILLION DOLLARS

Posted by: New York Jury at June 09, 2024 04:10 AM (wWqRd)

5 I don't like the idea of Siri. I don't want my computer or phone or any appliance to talk to me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She's just playing hard to get.

Posted by: Siri at June 09, 2024 04:11 AM (wWqRd)

6 For 13 years, Siri has sucked. Now with the AI bubble in maximum inflation mode, Apple is set to make it worse.

Do tech CEOS dream of AI tulips?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:13 AM (Te7BW)

7 >>>Find yourself a girl who looks at you the way Alana does at a Kentucky Ballistics video.

LOL from the comments on the video:

Just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Posted by: m at June 09, 2024 04:16 AM (NHMTR)

8
Sid Caesar in the hardware store, falling into yellow, among other things:
https://tinyurl.com/2539xe5k

Hardware store scene starts at 3:20 in, the best of. But the plane scene is pretty funny too.

I must say, Sid's wife there was pretty hawt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 04:17 AM (w6EFb)

9 The only way I can tolerate machines talking to me is when I need directions from a GPS or phone. When I'm driving Otherwise I'll find out information. On my own without a yappy computer voice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 04:21 AM (SQOf0)

10
Sid's wife there was Edie Adams.

She and Sid were were Melville and Monica Crump. He was dentist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 04:26 AM (w6EFb)

11 I must say, Sid's wife there was pretty hawt.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Hardware chicks usually are.

Posted by: Miklos, out-pointing at June 09, 2024 04:31 AM (wWqRd)

12 That video was tons of fun.

Posted by: m at June 09, 2024 04:34 AM (NHMTR)

13 Some Steve Jobs magic introducing the MacBook Air in 2008. Looking back, to me, the MacBook Air is the most significant PC of the last 25 years as it defines the modern laptop. The second most significant PC is Microsoft's Surface Pro though it took the three tries to get it right and five more, version 8, to perfect it.

MacBook Air
https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M

Original Microsoft Surface Pro commercial. Eye roll alert.
https://youtu.be/vS_tHDr0Z4Y

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:36 AM (Te7BW)

14 By 2014 Panos Panay had become something of a tech.rockstar and for the 2014 Surface Pro 3 roll out he went full Steve Jobs.

https://youtu.be/vS_tHDr0Z4Y

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:39 AM (Te7BW)

15
I first saw "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World" as a teenager in the '80s. They ran it one Sunday afternoon.

You know the expression "ROFL", rolling on the floor laughing? I literally did that, right there in the den of the house during that hardware store scene. I stood up out of a chair, my knees got weak, and I just fell in the floor, rolling and laughing.

The scene where Jonathan Winters destroys the gas station single handedly did it too. I may have pee'd myself a little bit during that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 04:40 AM (w6EFb)

16 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World" Is one of my favorite 1960s movies. It seems Stanley Kramer called up all his pals and said let's make a movie about what you guys do best which is being funny.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:45 AM (Te7BW)

17 This video is a tour of the Detroit historical society's car warehouse. The collection is slightly above average. Slightly.

https://youtu.be/y0ygn8QKbGA

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:50 AM (Te7BW)

18
Jonathan Winters destroys the gas station:
https://tinyurl.com/29g7wm2w

Phil Silvers was playing Phil Silvers there, of course.

"All right, fellas, you keep this up, and I'm gonna get sore!" .... "All right, that's the way you want it, that's the way you're gonna get it!".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 04:51 AM (w6EFb)

19 I slid out of a chair laughing at a movie once … Raising Arizona.

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic. . . at June 09, 2024 04:51 AM (TX4bP)

20 I have a simple solution to Siri sucking:

Don’t use Siri.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 09, 2024 04:58 AM (9lTdR)

21 The Jonathan Winters station is brilliant and the use of practical effects is masterful. The airplane scene where the beechcraft was flowen through a Coca-Cola billboard is a classic practical effect. Jim Baccus, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett are just magnificent in that whole sequence.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 04:59 AM (Te7BW)

22 3 I don't like the idea of Siri. I don't want my computer or phone or any appliance to talk to me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 04:04 AM (XkYcA)

That is THE reason I object to self-checkout. Especially at Giant, where the damn machine wants to converse with the customers.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 09, 2024 05:00 AM (9lTdR)

23 Good morning morons

Movies that are fall out of chair funny
Stir Crazy
The Return of the Pink Panther
Pink Panther Strikes Again

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:00 AM (RIvkX)

24 >> The airplane scene where the beechcraft was flowen through a Coca-Cola billboard

I'm trying to remember something about that scene. The plane was flown by a stunt pilot, and the billboard material was supposed to be some sort of flimsy material. Somebody got their wires crosses and the billboard material was stronger than it was supposed to be, and the plane suffered some damage. The pilot, being a master, saved the day.

He was later killed doing some stunt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 05:03 AM (w6EFb)

25 Hello insomniacal horde

That reminds me, haven't seen Insomniac in a while - anyone heard from him?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09, 2024 05:06 AM (Ka3bZ)

26
The pilot was Frank Tallman. He also flew the plane under and through a hanger. For real.

They would never be allowed to do stunts like that now. It would have to be CGI.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 05:07 AM (w6EFb)

27 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World assumes the audience knows who the actors are because for the most part they are mocking and satirizing their own Hollywood personae.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:09 AM (RIvkX)

28 Haven't seen Insomniac in years. Fen says she has seen him comment on rate occasions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:10 AM (RIvkX)

29
Tallman didn't die doing a stunt. It was a routine flight. He flew in a mountain, Santiago Peak, during bad weather.

An experienced, hell of a stunt pilot, did a controlled flight into terrain.... That shows you....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 05:11 AM (w6EFb)

30 It's a slow early morning of waking up, coffee, packing, and hopefully be on the road back to SC by around 7:00

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 09, 2024 05:11 AM (isNL8)

31 One of my other great non-stop laugh movies is "A Fish Called Wanda." John Cleeae trying to interrogate a stuttering Michael Palin is one of funniest things I've ever watched.

https://youtu.be/a89aG0cdIzQ

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 05:12 AM (Te7BW)

32 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 09, 2024 05:15 AM (86W+h)

33 Glenn Greenwald explains Briahna Joy Gray was fired for "saying the wrong thing about Israel."

No Glenn, she is anti semite who cannot debate or defend her point of view. And she nasty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:17 AM (RIvkX)

34 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:10 AM (RIvkX)

I haven't see.n him under that handle. He had a certain style of lament that sounds like some others with new nics when they post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 05:18 AM (ymxSD)

35 I would think many morons would have the same lamentations he did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:20 AM (RIvkX)

36 Movies that are fall out of chair funny

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What's Up Doc

Despite the presence of the irredeemable Barbra Streisand.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2024 05:20 AM (Z7bjG)

37
Tallman's business partner during the Mad, Mad World shooting was another stunt pilot, named Paul Mantz.

He died later flying a stunt scene for some movie. The investigation found he may have been drinking a bit too much the night before and was perhaps hung over.

This is disputed.

Mantz was very good at "outside loops". Look that up. High negative g's pulled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 05:25 AM (w6EFb)

38 Glenn Greenwald laments the editors of Artforum and eLife were fired for expressing views "critical of Israel"

Shocking Glenn, alert the media! These heroes must be restored!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:26 AM (RIvkX)

39 G'Day everyone
Latest that I have gotten here in awhile

Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2024 05:28 AM (fwDg9)

40 What's Up Doc

Despite the presence of the irredeemable Barbra Streisand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2024 05:20 AM (Z7bjG)
====

Madeline Kahn was the star of that movie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:29 AM (RIvkX)

41
Jimmy Doolittle was the first pilot to do an outside loop (and survive). Level flight, went nose down and kept it going and did a complete circle.

The second time he tried it, the wings broke off his plane, and he had to bail....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2024 05:29 AM (w6EFb)

42 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:20 AM (RIvkX)

It's possible, in which case they might say, "I'm not Insomniac"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 05:31 AM (JcRly)

43 Jonathon Winters - "Why, that'd be just like stealing from the Gubbmint!"

I guess he was in the Marine Corps. I would have loved to have heard some of the stories about that, he was a nut.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 09, 2024 05:31 AM (Wb0K/)

44 The "I'm just criticizing Israel" defense collapses without your criticisms of Turkey, China, Russia, KSA, Syria, Iran, Egypt, etc.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

45 Insomniac, miss you bro, hope you are well, wish you would stop lurking.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:34 AM (RIvkX)

46 Yeah, Insomniac, wherever you are, we beed your tire irons more than ever!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09, 2024 05:40 AM (Ka3bZ)

47
Good morning, Hordians. My weight was down to 188 this morning, which means I'm no longer considered overweight for my height. Down about 20 pounds in two months.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 09, 2024 05:42 AM (MoZTd)

48 The Lamentations of the Horde
an underrated chapter in the AoS HQ Chronicles

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09, 2024 05:42 AM (Ka3bZ)

49 Hadrian, congrats!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09, 2024 05:42 AM (Ka3bZ)

50 Good for you Hadrian it must feel great

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:44 AM (RIvkX)

51
I think I'm a minority of one when I say I didn't think IMMMMW was all that funny. Like Kramer tried too hard with too much and the result turned out worse than the sum of the parts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 09, 2024 05:44 AM (MoZTd)

52 Briahna says the rape victim she mocked on the air had a personal vendetta against her.

Sure, Jan. She didn't position you for success?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:46 AM (RIvkX)

53 Some Steve Jobs magic introducing the MacBook Air in 2008. Looking back, to me, the MacBook Air is the most significant PC of the last 25 years as it defines the modern laptop. . . .

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024

***
Which is what I am typing on at this very moment. I like to say it's like a 1980s Mercedes: Once you know how to use it, it just *works*.

Morning and evening to the early or late Sundayers, as appropriate!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2024 05:47 AM (omVj0)

54 SPAIN

Catholics in Madrid have DEFIED the Socialist government by praying the Rosary despite threats to have them JAILED for doing so.

https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/
1799510324103582081

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09, 2024 05:49 AM (Ka3bZ)

55 Good show - I am at the fifth anniversary of losing 70 lbs and keeping it off. 180 was my high school weight, and for a long time after. I could actually stand to lose about 5 pounds of weight, and/or increase muscle mass and maybe weigh more would be fine. But we'll take it. One meal a day works great. Tough at times but doable.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 09, 2024 05:49 AM (Wb0K/)

56 Good morning to one and all

Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 05:51 AM (Srw7t)

57 I see the Sillymons play acted a Siege of Vienna at the White House yesterday. One of these days they're not going to be play acting.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 05:51 AM (Te7BW)

58 Glenn Greenwald: only one baby was killed on October 7, they said it was more than one!

He is just grotesque.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 05:51 AM (RIvkX)

59 Which is what I am typing on at this very moment. I like to say it's like a 1980s Mercedes: Once you know how to use it, it just *works*.

Morning and evening to the early or late Sundayers, as appropriate!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Kill it! Kill it! Kill it! The bezels, the bezels the bezels. - Every Ars Technica laptop review for the last decade.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 05:53 AM (Te7BW)

60 Watched the 2023 (?) Dune -- Part Two last night. Impressive stuff. My memories of the original book are dim, it's been (mumblety-mumble) years, but they came back and were enough for me to follow the story.

I don't see why Paul would fall for the unattractive Chani -- Princess Irulan was much better-looking all around. Aside from that the casting was very good. Miss Linda keeps thinking the sandworms should be like gigantic pets of the Fremen. (Insert eye roll here)

It's time for somebody to reissue the parody, Doon, which National Lampoon published in '84 and which I remember details from better than I do from the original.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

61 A time to bloom- a devotional based on a passage from Isaiah:

https://tinyurl.com/yt644s6t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 05:54 AM (SjhdV)

62 Hadrian how is Val doing?

Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2024 05:54 AM (fwDg9)

63 The cats are chasing some flying insect here, maybe a mosquito. I can only glimpse it, so to me they seem as though they've been smoking catnip or worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

64 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 09

Good for the RC's praying the rosary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2024 05:56 AM (SQOf0)

65 The news about the rescue I read was spun something like this: hundreds of innocent Palestinians killed by IDF during Gaza raid. 14 paragraphs into the story you find out they were there to rescue hostages.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 09, 2024 05:57 AM (Te7BW)

66 Francesca Albanese, special rapportuer at the UN, called the rescue of the four hostages a genocidal act against the sandmaggots.

There is no place in Hell hot enough for this anti-semitic, vile piece of shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 05:57 AM (Srw7t)

67 >>> Catholics in Madrid have DEFIED the Socialist government by praying the Rosary despite threats to have them JAILED for doing so.

The Rosary is illegal in Spain? Just what until the Inquisition hears about this.

Posted by: fluffy at June 09, 2024 05:58 AM (86W+h)

68 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 09, 2024 05:59 AM (hoCmQ)

69 olddog, Good morning to you and your lovely family. Whatcha cookin today?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 06:00 AM (Srw7t)

70 I started going through various web sites looking for where there may be surviving Holidomes. There's a kinda-sorta but not really one in Beaumont that has an indoor pool and a plaza but it's kinda higher...

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 09, 2024 06:00 AM (bDRRL)

71
Hadrian how is Val doing?
Posted by: Skip

__________

Thanks for asking. He had a quiet day yesterday and a quiet night. No blood.

He's in a 4'x4' covered pen in the house. He goes out to exercise for the shortest time with me standing and watching, then back inside. I'm hoping that by restricting his activity it will give whatever is causing the bleeding time to heal and the antibiotics to take hold.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 09, 2024 06:01 AM (MoZTd)

72 If you hate Chris Cuomo the lying crapweasel you will enjoy the debate with Dave Smith where his lies and hypocrisy and sanctimonious baloney are laid out. Delicious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 06:01 AM (RIvkX)

73 News reports on the rescue are at least saying they cannot verify the number of sandmaggots killed instead of just taking the hamas party line.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 06:02 AM (Srw7t)

74 KRAK OF DAWN HAS ARRIVED

Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2024 06:03 AM (fwDg9)

75 Sounds like Val is not worsening which is good news.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 09, 2024 06:03 AM (RIvkX)

76 Morning, Ben Had. Cool front coming thru. Good day to smoke some ribs and whip up batch of German tater salad. How you doing?

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 09, 2024 06:09 AM (hoCmQ)

77 Francesca Albanese, special rapportuer at the UN, called the rescue of the four hostages a genocidal act against the sandmaggots.

There is no place in Hell hot enough for this anti-semitic, vile piece of shit.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 05:57 AM (Srw7t)
-

Alebanese feature at the top of UN Watch's most recent posts:

https://x.com/UNWatch

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 09, 2024 06:12 AM (i/5Rr)

78 Biden's Dog, thank you. I need to remember to read UN Watch again.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 09, 2024 06:30 AM (Srw7t)

79 "What Snowflake is saying is that this is entirely the fault of its customers.

"For being silly enough to trust their data with Snowflake."

Otter in Animal House: "You fucked up... you trusted us!"

Posted by: Ralph at June 09, 2024 11:00 AM (TysyT)

80 Hi Pixy, I enjoy your work here!

You may be too young to have seen the 1987 video Apple created called "Knowledge Navigator", but it's basically everything Siri (and Alexa) should be. It's on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0

I still think it's pretty cool.

Posted by: Steve L at June 09, 2024 06:06 PM (RhDql)

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