Daily Tech News 5 July 2024

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To the surprise of absolutely no-one, Glaze, a tool that claimed to protect digital artwork from being used to train image-generating AI systems, has been bypassed. (Ars Technica)

The idea was that it introduced subtle noise that would confuse an AI while remaining invisible to humans.

This is like creating an antibiotic that is deadly to germs but harmless to humans, when the germs in question are at least as smart as you, know exactly what you are doing, and have billions of dollars in funding.

So it lasted about a day.

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Meanwhile Cloudflare has added a feature that blocks AI web spiders from crawling your site. (Silicon Angle)

This will work so long as the web spiders don't lie to Cloudflare.

So about a day.
Kobo's Libra Colour and Clara Colour e-readers are fast (for an e-ink display), colourful (for an e-ink display), reasonably priced (starting at $150) and very annoying if your books aren't all on Kobo. (The Verge)

These are dedicated e-readers, so the one thing you can't do is install a competing app like Kindle. You have to export your Kindle books, one at a time, using a computer, and load them onto the reader.
Samsung has announced a new 60TB SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

This is intended to replace hard drives in large storage systems, being much faster (over a million read operations per second), smaller, and more reliable.

It's not intended for super-heavy workloads that require a million write operations per second; for that you probably want to look elsewhere.

Price not mentioned but you can expect it to cost somewhere around ten cents per gigabyte - over $6000 for a drive this size.

Disclaimer: Scrape sixteen sites, and what do you get? Half a terabyte of furry porn and the worst Joe Biden deepfakes yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:08 AM

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1 Sneaky way to get a First.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 05, 2024 04:11 AM (zdLoL)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 04:11 AM (FDPsr)

3 UK election results are almost complete.
The new Reform party won only four seats.
Labour holds outright majority in Parliament.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 05, 2024 04:12 AM (zdLoL)

4 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 05, 2024 04:12 AM (zdLoL)
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What will come first, the next election, when Reform might actually be a serious contender?

Or GB's suicide?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 04:14 AM (FDPsr)

5 Well, that is disappointing as reformed was supposed to win 13 seats. You see this in almost every nation in the western world where anyone who is conservative and not a globalist is demonized and made out to be the worst thing that ever happened. They bring everyone from the most radical communists to just plain jag offs together, and they defeat the people that actually want to protect the country.

My expectation for France is the rally national will also come up short because their enemies are pretty much everyone else that exists on this planet. How cool would it be? If so many rallied against the hard left that has caused us so much pain.

When the conservatives actually win in Italy, it is almost unreported and is ignored by the world media. Great the UK is now hard left, What’s next Shariah Law and place of the Magna Carta?

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:17 AM (oQ8mt)

6 4 he seems pleased about it. France is moving right Italy has already moved right Spain has some serious Trump type conservatives who run major cities there and the left in Spain is not the majority. In Hungary, the right has one in many other European countries. The right is ascendant.

Show me a western European country where the new left is growing outside of the UK, which had a fake conservative party called ironically the conservative party.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:23 AM (oQ8mt)

7 Tony Blair was more of a British patriot than that absurdity who ran the so-called conservative party in Britain right into the ground. I had a short correspondence with Tony Blair, not that that matters, and you can’t go back in time, but he was more of a brit and more of a supporter of western civilization than Sunak. The guy who just got drubbed.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:28 AM (oQ8mt)

8 I thought Blair was Labour.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 04:32 AM (oaGWv)

9 Blair became a globalist. Meh. What was isn't.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 04:34 AM (FDPsr)

10 Europe and the UK are on a path to ruin because of their decadence.

America usually lags 10 to 20 years behind.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 04:34 AM (q/UtE)

11 I thought Blair was Labour.
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 04:32 AM (oaGWv)
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Once upon a time, even Labour members were patriotic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 04:34 AM (FDPsr)

12 Good morning techies, overnighters and early risers. Today feels like Saturday not Friday. Holidays at the end of the week get my internal clock confoosed.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 04:36 AM (oaGWv)

13 I went shooting and am now at the office.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 04:37 AM (43xH1)

14 10, he was. But he was also an ardent patriot, and he is still a very default catholic. I certainly didn’t always agree with him, but I did respect him over various issues. I thought he was right about the Bosnia War and I actually lost friends over that issue. Aside from all that again, I know Blair as a patriot and when you look at the modern left today and what we are facing around the world, they’re very few patriots on the left. And to be clear, I disagreed with Blair on 90% of the issues at that time.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:37 AM (oQ8mt)

15 @ 9

Sorry. Read @8 incorrectly. Not fully awake. My only excuse.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 04:38 AM (oaGWv)

16 I went shooting and am now at the office.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 04:37 AM (43xH1)
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As long as you're not continuing to shoot at the office.

/dials swat line

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 04:41 AM (FDPsr)

17 Labour was ever patriotic like Obama. Like you want to fundamentally change something you love.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 04:42 AM (q/UtE)

18 Reform did okay. Tory uniparty drove the car into a brick wall. It was a slow-mo kill. 14 years. And now Reform gotta put Humpty together again.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 04:42 AM (raJHR)

19 18, that is fair. I do agree that is what the left thinks about America and Britain. I don’t think that personally about Blair but maybe I have blinders on that because I personally liked the guy but I totally agree. That is what the left in Britain and the left in the US want to do they want to fundamentally changes just like a really terrible girlfriend.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:44 AM (oQ8mt)

20 Watched the drone show mentioned in the side bar. Kind of amazing. How long does it take and how hard is it to program each drone?

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 04:48 AM (oaGWv)

21 I never supported labor. They are awful. I just grew a grudging respect for Blair over some issues over quite a long time. I look at labor today and these guys would destroy Israel if they could. Blair tried to be the UK version of Clinton and it turned out to be bigger on the world stage than Clinton himself. But both parties rejected the third way that Blair and Clinton prescribed, The left is hard left, and they always will be.

You don’t even see leftist in America bringing up Bill Clinton today and trust me. No one disliked Bill Clinton more than my family and myself. But to fully understand what has happened Bill Clinton’s version of politics today would be thrown in with the far right by the freaks that run the Democratic Party today.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:48 AM (oQ8mt)

22 Fear not, any deep fake or AI rendering of my naked genitalia will be recognized immediately.

These things are mere fantasy and the perverted child's play of the mentally ill.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 05, 2024 04:50 AM (2UBPP)

23 It looks like the hiring of that actor to spew racist stuff in the name of the reform party worked. Expect it in spades here.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 05, 2024 04:50 AM (evvc2)

24 The modern story party deserves to not exist. Sure it is normal for a party that has been a power that long to get drubbed sooner or later, But that is no excuse. These people were truly horrible. Where did they expand individual rights in the UK? If not, then vote for a conservative party?

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:51 AM (oQ8mt)

25 The UK is going to get it good and hard. But at least they know what they are getting with this election.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 05, 2024 04:52 AM (evvc2)

26 I give Tony Blair credit for trying to maintain the "Special Relationship" between our two nations at some rather difficult moments. Obama did a lot to damage that, but it's a bond that goes all the way back to the end of the War of 1812 and that became more formal and accepted during WWI and WWII. It can be strong again with the right leadership.

Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 05, 2024 04:53 AM (tmPIh)

27 The Last Great conservative party leader with Thatcher. After her, John Major was terrible, but there were many others that were truly awful. I remember some of them were virulently anti-American. Obviously, the UK is conservative by nature because these idiots stayed in power so long.

It is like the so-called French conservative party over the last 20 years. They were literally some of the worst people ever. Most historians say François Mitterand, Was the most pro American French leader, And he was a liberal.

Politics is tough enough and when you throw in the international part, it gets tougher. So-called conservatives in Europe, don’t always mean people that support the USA.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 04:55 AM (oQ8mt)

28 Quint, Clinton would have moved seamlessly into the Democrat party of today with all its shiboleths.

Don't think for a moment he any kind centrist.

He was a pure opportunist.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 05:01 AM (q/UtE)

29 As long as you're not continuing to shoot at the office.
/dials swat line
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey'

I don't know what I would shoot at, there's nobody here, it's 04:00. There wasn't anybody at the range, either!

Lots of people out driving at 03:00, I assume weaving home after 07/04 celebrations.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:06 AM (43xH1)

30 I thought he was right about the Bosnia War and I actually lost friends over that issue.
Posted by: Quint

I have opinions!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:07 AM (43xH1)

31 G'Day everyone

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

32 Lots of people out driving at 03:00, I assume weaving home after 07/04 celebrations.
Posted by: LenNeal

Quiet night here. No big, noisy personal fireworks displays. Kind of surprised as it seemed that fireworks were being sold on almost every street corner.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 05:09 AM (oaGWv)

33 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers on this post-Fourth Friday! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Yours truly slept pretty well, with the new window A/C unit humming along and the fan blowing cool air into the bedroom. It worked well yesterday afternoon when I had a nap, too. The challenge will be today, with a high of 96 F. I'll see if the apt. office people are in today and try to get the central air fixed. But this is working so far.

The Killer Kittens From Outer Space are well. Stirling, the formerly confident kitten, got scared of the little bit of fireworks we heard and slunk under the bed last evening. Dagny goes, "Eh."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:10 AM (omVj0)

34 29, trust me, I couldn’t think of lower of Clinton, My parents, particularly my father, despise the man. But if you look at the actual positions, Clinton put forth in that era, There is no chance he could win a Democrat primary today because his positions would be considered far right. That shows how far the Overton window has moved over the years.

Clinton was always terrible, But we have to recognize that the left we are seeing today would never except Clinton. They would consider him extreme, right. Maybe he would warp I don’t doubt that, But we have to have context here and what we’re dealing with today is something different.

I think Hillary actually is the true leftist of that sad couple. No doubt, Bill would change his views to win just like he said, but when it comes to being a true red flag carrier, it was always Hillary.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 05:10 AM (oQ8mt)

35 Good morning Skip. Are you working today or do you have the day off?

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 05:11 AM (oaGWv)

36 31, not saying I was right about that I’m just saying that point in time about what 25 or 30 years ago I agreed with him. I remember even not agreeing with rush on that one and no one loves rush more than I did.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 05:12 AM (oQ8mt)

37 Since I said I had opinions, the Milosevic takedown, despite all my Lefty Balkan friends waxing nostalgic about Mass Protests Of The People, was an inside rotation by the Security Services/BIA. They rotated Slobodan out, as he had become a liability, and allowed elections, putting in Djindjic who at the time, nobody liked. Then BIA assassinated Djindjic, at which time everybody announced he was a Hero Of The People (which nobody thought until he was, you know, dead) and installed Vucic, who is still there until BIA decides to get rid of him.
I love how the West squawks the bombing didn't have the goal of Regime Change when it did, and MI6 and CIA was infiltrated into every 'opposition' movement in the Balkans.
In short, fuck Tony Blair.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:14 AM (43xH1)

38 If Obama was elected in 1992 he would have been no different.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 05, 2024 05:14 AM (evvc2)

39 Good morning, good people.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 05, 2024 05:14 AM (hKoQL)

40 That is why they are progressives. Obama just increased the speed of the progress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 05, 2024 05:15 AM (evvc2)

41 The Killer Kittens From Outer Space are well. Stirling, the formerly confident kitten, got scared of the little bit of fireworks we heard and slunk under the bed last evening. Dagny goes, "Eh."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

What few big booms heard last didn't bother pup in the least.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 05:15 AM (oaGWv)

42 Quiet night here. No big, noisy personal fireworks displays. Kind of surprised as it seemed that fireworks were being sold on almost every street corner.
Posted by: Tuna

Same here - normally there is a tremendous amount of fireworks, but nothing.

Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 05, 2024 05:15 AM (tmPIh)

43 Stirling, the formerly confident kitten, got scared of the little bit of fireworks we heard and slunk under the bed last evening. Dagny goes, "Eh."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere'

What a pussy.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:16 AM (43xH1)

44 I find the contrast between Clinton and Obama fascinating.

Clinton is a slave to indulgence while Obama fancies himself as a Machivellian mover.

Obama ultimately may prove to be the tragic figure undone by hubris.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 05:16 AM (q/UtE)

45 Mornin'

Disclaimer: Scrape sixteen sites, and what do you get? Half a terabyte of furry porn and the worst Joe Biden deepfakes yet.

Wait, there are 16 furry Biden pron sites?

That's..disturbing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 05:17 AM (f87vz)

46 On that, I’m not going to take aside. If Milosovich was just a good guy trying to do the right thing for his people, he had terrible public relations people. The country probably should’ve stood together and not tried to kill each other. I remember 30 years ago all the Bosnians that moved here as refugees, Doesn’t make it out to be the happiest place that ever existed.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 05:17 AM (oQ8mt)

47 Every war is about protecting our freedom at home by spreading American democracy overseas. And if you disagree, then you hate the troops, and the veterans and our precious, fragile, tenuous, fleeting, wilting democracy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 05, 2024 05:18 AM (evvc2)

48 Good morning morons

Dealing with some kind of tendon strain in my foot making it very painful to walk spent all day yesterday with rest, ice, elevation, and compression but today feels worse which means dealing with the health system later. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 05:19 AM (RIvkX)

49 No work, could have but wasn't going to give up a 4 day weekend

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:20 AM (fwDg9)

50 If working would have been up before 4am

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:20 AM (fwDg9)

51 Mornin' everybody. Currently down under in Sydney. The Opera House is really cool. Highly recommend a tour.

Posted by: Mainah at July 05, 2024 05:24 AM (rYFI/)

52 Since I'm on the subject, one of the strangest moments in The Balkans was visiting an obscure industrial block in an obscure neighborhood inside an old truck repair depot that looked abandoned. There was a complete machine shop set up inside to make anything you could possibly want, and at the time a massive pile of old ComBloc ordnance 15 feet high. I know the guys very well but even I was like, 'Should I be here?'
I had some gifts from USA and we sat around drinking rakija until dark.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:25 AM (43xH1)

53 Mornin' everybody. Currently down under in Sydney. The Opera House is really cool. Highly recommend a tour.
Posted by: Mainah at July 05, 2024 05:24 AM (rYFI/)
===

We are going in September.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 05:25 AM (RIvkX)

54 Stirling, the formerly confident kitten, got scared of the little bit of fireworks we heard and slunk under the bed last evening. Dagny goes, "Eh."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere'
*
What a pussy.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024

***
I know! He was a confident kitten, and his first Fourth, in '22, didn't bother him. Then, at ten months, the New Year's Eve booms sent him into a tizzy. Same every Fourth and NYE since then. We gave him some "calming chews" with his dinner last night, but it didn't help.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:26 AM (omVj0)

55 I honestly wish everyone would get past the fact we are NOT a democracy and cease referring to us as such.

The express intent of the Founding Fathers was the creation of a representational Republic.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 05, 2024 05:26 AM (hKoQL)

56 56, Americans right and left still say Presidents’ Day is the national holiday. It is shocking how easy it is to manipulate people and to get them to believe something just because everyone else is saying it when all they have to do is look at the federal calendar and then they would know it is not true.

But I hear you the democracy thing is ridiculous. This may be wishful thinking, but I think that that line about saving democracy is getting really old with people. There is an inherent flaw in the argument. If you tell people the only way to save democracy is to vote for only one party and not have a choice, That should stand out as a major red flag.

They don’t want to protect democracy they want to protect Democrats.

Posted by: Quint at July 05, 2024 05:30 AM (oQ8mt)

57 The problem is the Marxists want a Democracy and when they grab 51% of government it ends

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

58 Oh, I avoid talking 'politics' IN the Balkans, it's an impossible thing. Whoever I'm around I just agree with. I know people who consider Milosevic The Devil, I know guys who consider him a Hero. I know people who think Radovan Karadzic was a Hero. Hell I know guys who will get emotional about what a great guy Arkan was.
Others will fly into uncontrollable rage at the mere mention of the name of some 'Nationalist' politician.
With the Milosevic takedown, I'm just pointing out it was rather an inside job by his own Deep State, not surprising at all.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:31 AM (43xH1)

59 Dealing with some kind of tendon strain in my foot making it very painful to walk spent all day yesterday with rest, ice, elevation, and compression but today feels worse which means dealing with the health system later. Sadz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Ouch. Feel that. On one trip overseas on the second day I hit a hole in the sidewalk and inflicted a lateral sprain. Not much you can do. In that case I had a meeting which I limped to on public transport, where my Socialist colleague insisted on taking me to a public clinic where I was cruelly treated by a couple of burly matrons. I think they enjoyed wrenching my foot around.
"Is not broke. Take pill."

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:38 AM (43xH1)

60 tgwjZCSvo
Posted by: QcDbjxEOpaZyi'

How did you get my password?

PIXY!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:41 AM (43xH1)

61 IG, there's a reason the leftists always bleat "Our Democracy."

It's because they know their idiot supporters are easily duped.

Take a survey of the idiots and find out how many know we are a republic and how many know what a republic is.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 05:42 AM (AVyeO)

62 We are going in September.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 05:25 AM (RIvkX)

Nice! We've only been here like 3 days, but the Opera House has been the best so far. Taking the kiddos to the zoo (Taronga Zoo) tomorrow. Apparently Taronga is the more recommended one because it's bigger and you can get there by a water taxi/ferry (another thing for the kids) from the harbor.

Posted by: Mainah at July 05, 2024 05:43 AM (rYFI/)

63 Continuous explosions in the distance and the foghorns.

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

64 Redefining Independence Day.

Obama - “The Fourth of July is about celebrating the big, bold, inclusive experiment that is our American democracy.”

Samantha Power USAID: -Today, we not only celebrate the US’ founding ideal of a government for the people, by the people, but we celebrate the people who pushed over centuries for it to apply to all Americans—to build a country where everyone could live safely & freely to actively shape the future.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 05:46 AM (bjh/i)

65 Our Specious Democracy... LOL

Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 05:51 AM (njWTi)

66 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 05, 2024 05:53 AM (a6pjX)

67 Raining cats and dogs here. Really loud thunderboomers too.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 05, 2024 05:54 AM (a6pjX)

68 Lookin' at temps over 100 for the next week or more, here. Ugh!

Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 05:54 AM (njWTi)

69 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 05:19

Prayers for a speedy recovery, SF.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 05, 2024 05:55 AM (a6pjX)

70 Maybe I'm already dead, and living in hell now?

Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 05:56 AM (njWTi)

71 No rain but it's oppressive and will continue for a bunch of days to come.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:56 AM (fwDg9)

72 SF, do not "deal with the health system" unless and until it is absolutely necessary.

With intelligence and effort you can make your way through most things.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 05:56 AM (AVyeO)

73 AGH! I managed to paste up one of my old graphic novels, some 400+ images, and in resizing and contrast it made the backgrounds too light. I was hoping to get away with not having to put borders around every image but No.

To place a line border around an image in LibreOffice, rightclick on the image; choose Properties; open Borders tab; click the 2nd Preset; choose style, width, and color; make sure Padding is at 0.00; press OK.

This puts a border around your image.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:57 AM (43xH1)

74 Careful with the Padding settings as those move your border AWAY from the image: you get a blank space between your border and the image.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 05:59 AM (43xH1)

75 olddog same here.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 06:00 AM (AVyeO)

76 Thank you morons, I walk several miles a day so being non-ambulatory is a big deal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

77 Samantha Power USAID
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 05:46 AM (bjh/i)
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One of Biden's gatekeepers, along with failed Susan Rice, Dr. Jill and a few other baddies.

Let's talk about the gatekeepers:

https://t.ly/kA0s5

Quoting Jeh Johnson in the above article's embedded video, I found this thoughtful post on X:

Semismart Monkey
@Antrasti
20m

"A presidency is more than just one man… I would take Joe Biden at his worst day at age 86 so long as he has people around him like Avril Haines, Samantha Power, Gina Raimondo supporting him..."

The word "Soviet" is derived from the Russian word "sovet," which means "council."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 06:00 AM (FDPsr)

78 Is Labour happy with the influx of immigrants?

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 05, 2024 06:01 AM (VuZH8)

79 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 05, 2024 06:01 AM (86W+h)

80 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 05:19 AM (RIvkX)
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Bottom of foot? Had that, too, about 2 years ago. Sports doctor said it's from walking rapidly and in large strides on steep downhills.

I had to keep my foot up for days and then wait a few more days before I could resume my revised daily walks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 06:03 AM (FDPsr)

81 Just thought there is not a chance they will toss Sundowner under the bus for his remaining time, unless he does stroke out.
He is capable of doing exactly what he has been doing for 3 1/2 years.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:06 AM (fwDg9)

82 w00t

Posted by: m at July 05, 2024 06:06 AM (NHMTR)

83 First coffee has been finished. I can type now. Whether I make any sense will probably be determined by having my second coffee, after I get back from my 45 minute walk.

G'morning Horde. May your Friday be a good one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 05, 2024 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

84 At least on days off have 1 coffee before decide what to make.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:11 AM (fwDg9)

85 Lots of local fireworks including right across the street. I don't know if the city has a display or not. The usual suspects gathered in MLK park (in his honor) and had fights and a couple of teens shot. So just a normal 4th.

Posted by: Colin at July 05, 2024 06:12 AM (/z/eU)

86 Colin, it's only racism that makes you look askance at the hijinks of those youths.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 05, 2024 06:18 AM (AVyeO)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 05, 2024 06:21 AM (dg+HA)

88 I took a break from the tiring piece about the practice of, I guess, worshiping Energy as God to finish up an old graphic novel I've neglected for decades. It's repetitive, tedious work, all paste-up and page counts. Really, really boring I have to play analog music on the stereo to even do it, old cassette tapes and records, DVDs.
Looking at the xerox proof-book I put together with all the scribbled notes and edits from 1988 it reminds me just how easy it is now to print a book. Like, a Book-Book.
It's incredible.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 06:21 AM (43xH1)

89 Nice! We've only been here like 3 days, but the Opera House has been the best so far. Taking the kiddos to the zoo (Taronga Zoo) tomorrow. Apparently Taronga is the more recommended one because it's bigger and you can get there by a water taxi/ferry (another thing for the kids) from the harbor.

Yes, catching the ferry from Circular Quay is definitely the way to go.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 05, 2024 06:21 AM (BLOW1)

90 Today will be a big hamsteak and two scrambled eggs

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

91 British Grand Prix this weekend

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:23 AM (fwDg9)

92 Birdbath status?
Well I used Flex Seal and glued my old Birdbath together yesterday, as of evening it was holding but it will be 20 hours this morning so need to go check it.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:25 AM (fwDg9)

93 58 The problem is the Marxists want a Democracy and when they grab 51% of government it ends
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

Good one, Skip.

Posted by: m at July 05, 2024 06:26 AM (NHMTR)

94 JJ nooded

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 06:28 AM (FDPsr)

95 The Energy piece was set off by my Balkan brother revealing after his personal tragedy he did not believe in God. He rather believe(d/s) in an Energy source that animates all things, leading to a logic cascade that denied the possibility of his deceased, existing in an afterlife; itself causing a personal crisis of belief. I would not be doing this otherwise. It's a PIA.
What really hit me was his belief is not Modern! I identified it as a refined form of ancient Paganism, so old I can't find an origination point. While Science-ey people like Einstein regarded their Energy beliefs as a step PAST a monotheistic God, my exhaustive research indicates it's the step BEFORE a codified God-belief.
This 'Energy-Is-Everything' cosmology has been around a very, very, very long time and looooong predates the introduction of a single, monotheistic God in the Balkans. It's not new and it's not any kind of sooper-smart refinement.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 05, 2024 06:29 AM (43xH1)

96 The problem is the Marxists want a Democracy and when they grab 51% of government it ends
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

Good one, Skip.
Posted by: m at July 05, 2024 06:26 AM (NHMTR)
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Alexis de Tocqueville's "Tyranny of the Majority."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 05, 2024 06:31 AM (FDPsr)

97 Flex Seal held, it's good stuff
76 and muggy outside

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:34 AM (fwDg9)

98 100

Posted by: m at July 05, 2024 06:40 AM (NHMTR)

99
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Posted by: m at July 05, 2024 06:44 AM (NHMTR)

100 At least on days off have 1 coffee before decide what to make.
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024

***
I'm back from a half-hour workout and cleaned up, but I think it would be smart of me to wait with a half-cup for a bit before loading my system with food.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 06:57 AM (omVj0)

101 The first thing I learned about ebook management is Calibre.

Do not lock yourself into a store. Ever. Use ePubor for DRM.

Use the .epub file format for all your fiction novels. There are publications that demand .pdf file formats and that's OK, too.
Use Sigil and PageEdit for editing .epub files.

KoReader is working on Kobo color readers and will soon be ready. KoReader is your friend, and the only way you'll get file and folder hierarchies in your book library on an ereader.

The most acceptable .epub and .pdf document reader on Windows is the open source SumatraPDF.

Posted by: Jim at July 05, 2024 07:36 AM (zhWvq)

102 >>>Redefining Independence Day.

Obama - “The Fourth of July is about celebrating the big, bold, inclusive experiment that is our American democracy.”

Samantha Power USAID: -Today, we not only celebrate the US’ founding ideal of a government for the people, by the people, but we celebrate the people who pushed over centuries for it to apply to all Americans—to build a country where everyone could live safely & freely to actively shape the future.

Posted by: 13times

>These people are lunatics and this rhetoric is idiotic.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 05, 2024 08:01 AM (2UBPP)

103 America's meddling in Bosnia was Madeleine Albright's (Marie Jana Körbelová, daughter of a Czech ambassador to Yugoslavia) hijack of foreign policy to prosecute her intense, personal partisan interest in the region. She was the very model of an activist globalist warmonger.

Posted by: Chas C-Q at July 05, 2024 08:11 AM (U8S9W)

104 A 60 Tb SSD should nail the lid on HD drives

Posted by: SMOD at July 05, 2024 09:59 AM (6OS/Q)

105 Is there such a thing as a non-dedicated e-reader? I have a Kindle, and it refuses to recognize epubs. (It also claims not to be able to recognizes eps's, but it lies - it can. It just won't let you download them from the web.) Calibre does a nice job in converting epubs to Kindle format, but it's a bother. Or maybe I should just buy a tablet and be done with it?

Posted by: Nemo at July 05, 2024 10:33 AM (00AqQ)

106 There are some Android tablets with e-ink screens. Those have a different problem - Android isn't really designed for e-ink - but they let you install standard Android apps so you can have every reader on one device.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 05, 2024 06:34 PM (BLOW1)

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