Daily Tech News 16 August 2024

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What's next for KOSA, the Kids' Online Safety Act, that passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support over the objections of critics pointing out the obvious and catastrophic second-order effects that would simply lead to banning minors from the internet entirely? (The Verge)

Yeah. Dunno. It's a podcast, and there's no transcription, or even a summary.

I didn't even realise it was a podcast at first because there's eight paragraphs of useless blather in the form of a story, and the linked audio starts out talking about something else entirely.

Update: And the podcast is unbelievably obnoxious.

Tech News

Stop fucking monkeys. (Ars Technica)

That is all.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech telling tech startups to just steal stuff. (The Verge)

Literally.
So, in the example that I gave of the TikTok competitor - and by the way, I was not arguing that you should illegally steal everybody's music
That by the way was precisely what he did argue.
- what you would do if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off, then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right? But if nobody uses your product, it doesn't matter that you stole all the content.

And do not quote me.
Got it.
Getting HDMI video working on the Pi Pico 2. (GitHub)

No surprise that this works just like the Pi Pico.
Getting HDMI video working on the Apple II. (Liliputing)

Pretty neat, though you have to be pretty devoted to the Apple II to be adding a $200 video card to it.
The final review of the Ryzen 9950X and 9900X, I promise. (Phoronix)

This time it's testing technical applications on Linux, and shows these chips in a much more favourable light.

The sixteen core 9950X is the fastest processor overall, and the twelve core 9900X lands between Intel's 24 core 13900X and 14900X.

In some types of benchmark the AMD chips utterly dominate. In machine learning workloads, the 24 core Intel chips fall just behind AMD's previous generation six core chips.

If you do any of this stuff, worth a look.

Disclaimer: Ow ow ow ow ow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:08 AM

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1 How

Posted by: Ciampino - too many launches? at August 16, 2024 04:11 AM (qfLjt)

2 How did I make Foist?

Posted by: Ciampino - too many launches at once? at August 16, 2024 04:11 AM (qfLjt)

3 Hello, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:16 AM (64Zez)

4 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tuna at August 16, 2024 04:17 AM (oaGWv)

5 >>>Disclaimer: Ow ow ow ow ow.

Sorry, Pixy.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:18 AM (64Zez)

6 Evening and morning to all the outposts of the far-flung AoSHQ empire! Forward, all, for Queen and country! (Oh. Wait. That was when we still had a functioning Western society. Well . . .)

'Tis Friday, and I'm taking off from my workout schedule. No real reason, just feel lazy. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 04:22 AM (omVj0)

7 monkeypox article:

... this ... outbreak is spreading in more classic contact patterns, mostly through skin contact of household members and health care workers. A large proportion of those infected have been children.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:22 AM (64Zez)

8 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 04:23 AM (fwDg9)

9 Working tomorrow, in Delaware

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 04:24 AM (fwDg9)

10 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (AK7iC)

11 Stop fucking monkeys. (Ars Technica)

That is all.

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Read all this with a Lisp interpreter:
action&description (this is a pun("They're fucking assholes!" ((This has two meanings and these people fit both))))

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e pronto #10 at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (qfLjt)

12 monkeypox article:

To date, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the virus is endemic, has reported more than 22,000 suspected mpox cases and more than 1,200 deaths since the start of January 2023.

19 months ÷ 1,200 = not so many, really

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (64Zez)

13 Shopping done.

Sashimi prepped.

Chicken and meat cold smoking.

Now to take out the garbage.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (AK7iC)

14 To date, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the virus is endemic, has reported more than 22,000 suspected mpox cases and more than 1,200 deaths since the start of January 2023.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (64Zez)
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https://youtu.be/mrhoVV8bnyY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:30 AM (AK7iC)

15 Our garbage pickup is around 8:30-9:00AM on Thursdays. I always feel as if I should put out the odd democrat as well.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e pronto #11 at August 16, 2024 04:31 AM (qfLjt)

16 Reading the comments at the ArsTechnica monkeypox article was not pleasant.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:32 AM (64Zez)

17 I like to say garbage so that it rhymes with barge. Frenchified.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e pronto #12 at August 16, 2024 04:33 AM (qfLjt)

18 14 To date, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the virus is endemic, has reported more than 22,000 suspected mpox cases and more than 1,200 deaths since the start of January 2023.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:25 AM (64Zez)
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https://youtu.be/mrhoVV8bnyY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:30 AM (AK7iC)

Well, I'll be!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 04:34 AM (64Zez)

19 Reading the comments at the ArsTechnica monkeypox article was not pleasant.
Posted by: m at August 16, 2024

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True dat. A flashback to 2020-22.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 04:36 AM (omVj0)

20 At a coffee shop near my work last week, I'd heard the girl ahead of me in line tell the clerk, "I like your hair." I waited until the customer moved off, and in a quiet voice that I didn't think anybody else could hear, told the clerk, "And nice to see a slim person for a change." Hoping to give her a good day, was all.

Well, yesterday, manager lady tells me that had offended one of her workers. I was flabbergasted. "That's not my problem. Besides, she should not have been eavesdropping. And it was a compliment, not an insult."

Manager: "But it is a problem. See, we are all sizes here."

Me: "Again, not my problem. Maybe your staffer should look into a diet and exercise program."

"We have to ask you not to come back to this location again."

"Fine with me."

I'm proud of myself for not backing down -- and the face diaper and Clot Shot nonsense gave me solid training in that. So there was some value to it after all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 04:42 AM (omVj0)

21 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 16, 2024 04:47 AM (wh7vU)

22 Good morning morons just saw a shooting star.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:48 AM (JvZF+)

23 See Wolfus, when you compliment one, you insult the others.

Better to remain silent, comrade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:51 AM (JvZF+)

24 22 Good morning morons just saw a shooting star.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:48 AM (JvZF+)
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45 caliber sword?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e pronto #13 at August 16, 2024 04:51 AM (qfLjt)

25 Good morning morons just saw a shooting star.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:48 AM (JvZF+)
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Alec Baldwin's in town?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:52 AM (AK7iC)

26 Wolfus, you definitely need to stay away from that place or someone will spit in your coffee.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #14 at August 16, 2024 04:53 AM (qfLjt)

27 See Wolfus, when you compliment one, you insult the others.

Better to remain silent, comrade.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

When dealing with service and sales personnel it's best to stick to please and thank you. Just my experience.

Posted by: Tuna at August 16, 2024 04:55 AM (oaGWv)

28 The stars, the darkness, the crickets, all of it is so alien. And keeps me going another year in the city.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:55 AM (JvZF+)

29 Eavesdropping was a big problem at my former job. And gossip.

Buncha nosey people, straining to hear every morsel about anyone else. Probably because their own lives were so boring.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 04:56 AM (njWTi)

30 Wolfus,

On the way out the door did you exclaim “I will not be here but your insecure fatty will be insecure, fat and still here!”

I wouldn’t have done that either but later I would have wished I had.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 16, 2024 04:58 AM (pSqRe)

31 Lunchtime scenario:

"Oh, JQ, did you hear about so-and-so?"

"No. I tend to mind my own business."

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 04:58 AM (njWTi)

32 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2024 04:58 AM (L7gdA)

33 Funny that 'we are all sizes' remark. Then why not complain 'we all have different hair' to THAT previous compliment?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #15 at August 16, 2024 04:59 AM (qfLjt)

34 I'll tell you something Californians talk about: everyone in America is fat.

When we travel, it is very noticeable how much larger people are outside the state. Also smoking. Ya'll smoke too much.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:59 AM (JvZF+)

35 I see that the Biden/Harris appearance in Maryland yesterday really packed tens ~~of thousands~~ of people into the rally.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2024 05:00 AM (L7gdA)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 16, 2024 05:00 AM (Ogrxu)

37 Wolfus, you definitely need to stay away from that place or someone will spit in your coffee.
Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #14 at August 16, 2024

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I usually don't buy coffee there; just a croissant now and then. Now, of course, it will be never. It's one of a local, well-thought-of chain that began here long before Starcluck's ever showed up. This location is full of young student leftists and snowflakes.

At $5/croissant, I won't miss it much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:01 AM (omVj0)

38 Buncha nosey people, straining to hear every morsel about anyone else. Probably because their own lives were so boring.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 04:56 AM (njWTi)
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Try working for my mother and a 100 of her yenta friends. They could all live your life so much better than you are living it, just take their advice.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:01 AM (JvZF+)

39 Funny that 'we are all sizes' remark. Then why not complain 'we all have different hair' to THAT previous compliment?
Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #15 at August 16, 2024

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I suppose the "reasoning" to that is, hair is easy to change, but weight is not. To sane people, of course, a compliment is something to liven up the recipient's day, not to get offended by.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:03 AM (omVj0)

40 Sp the Harris Price Gouging Prevention plan is gonna require companies to reveal things like mark-up and profit rates?

That's really gonna piss off Starbucks.

And makers of designer clothing and swag.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2024 05:04 AM (L7gdA)

41 They could all live your life so much better than you are living it, just take their advice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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BWAHAHAHA!

Right.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:04 AM (njWTi)

42 Wolfus,

On the way out the door did you exclaim “I will not be here but your insecure fatty will be insecure, fat and still here!”

I wouldn’t have done that either but later I would have wished I had.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 16, 2024

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I have to give the manager lady this, she did it right. She gave me the croissant I wanted for free, no doubt to put me in a good mood so I'd apologize, and took me outside to tax me with this horrible violation. Well, I didn't apologize. Too bad for you and your snowflakes.

And I got a free spinach-and-feta cheese croissant too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:05 AM (omVj0)

43 At $5/croissant, I won't miss it much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:01 AM (omVj0)
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That's what I pay here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:06 AM (JvZF+)

44 Calizuela can't even run itself... Got nerve telling the rest of us how to live.

LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:07 AM (njWTi)

45 This radical economic stuff is going to tank her campaign. She must be getting the most terrible guidance.

It's like my MiL. Her hearing is terrible. But no matter, she wouldn't listen to common sense anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:09 AM (JvZF+)

46 Calizuela can't even run itself... Got nerve telling the rest of us how to live.

LOL
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:07 AM (njWTi)
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Have we mentioned our emissions standards?
-California DMV

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:10 AM (JvZF+)

47 G'morning Horde. Pork loins are in the oven, coffee has been brewed, I can finally enjoy the tech content. Thank you Pixy!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 05:12 AM (O7YUW)

48 Marxists always believe their ideas are somehow undiscovered but brilliant so worthy to be tried

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

49 Have we mentioned our emissions standards?
-California DMV

Pretty sure you've never STFU about them...

(not directed at YOU, SFPsycho.)

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:14 AM (njWTi)

50 Marxists always believe their ideas are somehow undiscovered but brilliant so worthy to be tried
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)
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True. They are unburdened by what has been.(tm)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:17 AM (JvZF+)

51 When I was in city hall I gave a speech once that I titled, "We Don't Know What We're Doing, But We're Doing It Better Than You"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:19 AM (JvZF+)

52 "We Don't Know What We're Doing, But We're Doing It Better Than You"
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Brilliant!

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:23 AM (njWTi)

53 At $5/croissant, I won't miss it much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024
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That's what I pay here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024

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Well, again, I won't miss that. Besides, something with that many carbs in it is probably not good for me anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:26 AM (omVj0)

54 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X: $900 CDN just for the CPU chip. Ouch.

As with any new technology, I'll wait a couple of generations until it drops into much more reasonable price ranges, and then only buy it if I need to.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

55 When I was in city hall I gave a speech once that I titled, "We Don't Know What We're Doing, But We're Doing It Better Than You"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:19 AM (JvZF+)

Do as i say, not as i do. Because i know what I'm talking about, but i have no idea what I'm doing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 05:26 AM (BAEGB)

56 Marxists always believe their ideas are somehow undiscovered but brilliant so worthy to be tried
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

The original millennials.

They think they actually invented being an asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 05:27 AM (BAEGB)

57 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 16, 2024 05:27 AM (DobEs)

58 The WHO scam works like. Lot's of countries have signed treaties that obligate them to "vaccines" and what not when the WHO declares an "emergency."

Big Pharma cashes in.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 16, 2024 05:29 AM (+H2BX)

59 The really smart Leftists don't believe in the lies. To them, it's all about power.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 16, 2024 05:31 AM (+H2BX)

60 that would simply lead to banning minors from the internet entirely? (The Verge)

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We've tried the other and I'm 100% willing to give this a try for a generation to compare the results.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 05:31 AM (mnOhf)

61 Trying to get motivated
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 05:31 AM (fwDg9)

62 Brilliant!
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:23 AM (njWTi)
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It was well-received.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:31 AM (JvZF+)

63 Nasty hot throughout the weekend, but with 60% chance of rain on Sunday pm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:32 AM (omVj0)

64 Stop fucking monkeys. (Ars Technica)

That is all.

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The comments at that article. Oh my goodness. They know the truth but insist that it's ready to suddenly adapt and bridge the gap to not being an STD, while at the same time saying that maybe something will be done about it once the child molesters in the GOP start spreading it.

I don't often have to stop reading hilarious comment sections, but that one genuinely disturbed me.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 05:34 AM (mnOhf)

65 Not much to do at work today -- or at least that's what I envision. Who knows what might come up.

Maybe I can tiptoe out at four and avoid some of the traffic. (I crack myself up sometimes. It took me an hour to get home last night, and I left at 4:15.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:35 AM (omVj0)

66 @64/Moron Robbie: The comments over there usually swing for the left fence. I think of them as "Arse Technica".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

67 "What's that? I couldn't hear you, you're too fat"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 05:37 AM (BAEGB)

68 while at the same time saying that maybe something will be done about it once the child molesters in the GOP start spreading it.

I don't often have to stop reading hilarious comment sections, but that one genuinely disturbed me.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 05:34 AM (mnOhf)

Idiots. Everyone knows it's the democrats who screw around with children.

Republicans screw around with derelicts in public transit restrooms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko has a perfectly normal "stance", thank you very much at August 16, 2024 05:39 AM (BAEGB)

69 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech telling tech startups to just steal stuff. (The Verge)

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Something I've seen recently is a rumbling around even "normal" people (non tech, non subversive, non sailing-the-seven-seas types) that are noticing that if the end consumer can't own something then there's no way for the end consumer to steal that same thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 05:39 AM (mnOhf)

70
Any homo cultural festivals / superspreader events / giant clusterfucks scheduled in the near future? That's what really kick off the monkeypox season.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 16, 2024 05:39 AM (iTNuP)

71 I don't often have to stop reading hilarious comment sections, but that one genuinely disturbed me.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Yeah, I made the same mistake-- read those comments. Blechh. Shades of covid1984.

At least we can be reasonably sure they all got vaxxed. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:39 AM (njWTi)

72 Any homo cultural festivals / superspreader events / giant clusterfucks scheduled in the near future? That's what really kick off the monkeypox season.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Demonrat convention starts next week, I think.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:41 AM (njWTi)

73 Demonrat convention starts next week, I think.
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024

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The infamous one in '68 was fairly late in August too, I think. When I got back to school that fall, I overheard people talking about what they'd seen on the "news" about the street violence.

I looked it up: August 26-29, and school would have started on Thursday 8/29.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:45 AM (omVj0)

74 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2024 05:46 AM (86W+h)

75 Come to think of it, 1968 and 2024 have the same calendar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

76 I would not want to be in Chicago next week.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:46 AM (JvZF+)

77 Be watching for pallets of bricks to mysteriously appear in chicago, this weekend.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 05:48 AM (njWTi)

78 Manager: "But it is a problem. See, we are all sizes here."

"Yes, I noticed that. And that's the reason I complimented the skinny one. She really stands out in the sea of adipose."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 05:49 AM (99eI0)

79 When I was a kid we had a visit from distant relatives who were very very obese.

Lib little sister maybe 4 years old at the time, loudly inquires "Who are all these fat people?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:52 AM (JvZF+)

80 Good morning good people!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 05:54 AM (VW9OP)

81 Dear Candace,

What the fvck are you taking about?

Love, Franpsycho

P.S. please just stop.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:56 AM (JvZF+)

82 Yeah, I made the same mistake-- read those comments. Blechh. Shades of covid1984.

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I've come to realize the forced lockdowns and everything associated with them was the happiest time in some of these peoples lives. It's tragic to consider but they were forced to stay home and didn't have to make excuses for being lazy homebodies who sit around playing video games or watching Netflix all day, could cover their faces and not have to smile or engage in conversations with anyone, could scold and attack joyful people with permission of the government, etc.

I'll never forget witnessing how easy it would be for us to switch over to what was likely the beginning of the USSR. And then you look around four years later...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 05:57 AM (QtCoU)

83 San Franpsycho - my grandson told me this morning I had a big belly.

The little ****.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 05:57 AM (VW9OP)

84 "I've looked into it and Stalin was Jewish."
-Candace Owens

Never take the brown acid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:58 AM (JvZF+)

85 The little ****.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 05:57 AM (VW9OP)
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you love it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:58 AM (JvZF+)

86 SiL and Girl F. will have their first anniversary this month, upon which I will commence Operation I Will Die Soon And Want Grandchildren Now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 05:59 AM (JvZF+)

87 Sea Of Adipose had a very short run off Broadway. Choreography was compared to dancing rhinoceroses, wardrobe looked like something from Omar the tentmaker and the lighting and makeup added 30 pounds to the dancers.

Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at August 16, 2024 05:59 AM (DobEs)

88 Wolfus: If the manager asked you to leave (and not come back) over something so minor, one has to wonder how often that is happening.

If they drive enough business away, it won't be an "Open" sign in their window, but a "For Lease" one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

89 Sea Of Adipose had a very short run off Broadway. Choreography was compared to dancing rhinoceroses, wardrobe looked like something from Omar the tentmaker and the lighting and makeup added 30 pounds to the dancers.
Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at August 16, 2024 05:59 AM (DobEs)
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Sounds like a Jardiance commercial.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 06:01 AM (JvZF+)

90 At a coffee shop near my work last week, I'd heard the girl ahead of me in line tell the clerk, "I like your hair." I waited until the customer moved off, and in a quiet voice that I didn't think anybody else could hear, told the clerk, "And nice to see a slim person for a change." Hoping to give her a good day, was all.

Well, yesterday, manager lady tells me that had offended one of her workers. I was flabbergasted. "That's not my problem. Besides, she should not have been eavesdropping. And it was a compliment, not an insult."

Manager: "But it is a problem. See, we are all sizes here."
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I bet the fat chick had bad hair, too, but somehow that wasn't a problem.

No, just kidding. I guarantee the fat chick thinks she's a 10 and that all the women - slender woman included - have told her she's a 10, too. They're all 10s.

To have someone outside the circle acknowledge that there are physical traits that make a woman significantly more attractive than another woman puts dynamite in the foundations of that entire delusion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 06:02 AM (QtCoU)

91 Obesity ran on Dad's side of the family. Oh, wow, did it!

Auntie was perhaps 5'2" and 300+lbs. Had hip & ankle trouble (no wonder there) all the time. One of her daughters was even larger. Taller, but also much much heavier. Scared the h3ll out of me, that I might turn out like that too...

Luckily, I took after Mom's side.

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 06:03 AM (njWTi)

92 "Any homo cultural festivals / superspreader events / giant clusterfucks scheduled in the near future? That's what really kick off the monkeypox season."

The DNC

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 16, 2024 06:04 AM (+H2BX)

93 Good morning, good people. May your endeavors this day be beneficial in all manner.

And may the cognitive dissonance crush the mind and spirit of all leftwits.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 16, 2024 06:07 AM (hKoQL)

94 87 Sea Of Adipose had a very short run off Broadway.

Well, they could only run for short periods of time so...

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:08 AM (99eI0)

95 82 I've come to realize the forced lockdowns and everything associated with them was the happiest time in some of these peoples lives.

I've already seen at least one article with an AWFL wistfully yearning for the lockdown days to come back.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:11 AM (99eI0)

96 "...physical traits that make a woman significantly more attractive than another woman puts dynamite in the foundations of that entire delusion."

Now do tackle box face.

Posted by: Don't get me started at August 16, 2024 06:13 AM (DobEs)

97 Girl F. was suffering abdominal pain this week and went to the ER.

Dx? COVID.

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 06:14 AM (JvZF+)

98 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 16, 2024 06:14 AM (VdhcA)

99 I've already seen at least one article with an AWFL wistfully yearning for the lockdown days to come back.
Posted by: NR Pax

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I think a lot of it is the EV owner phenomenon (and I bet if you made a Venn diagram...). Knowing that everyone else was being forced to do the things they thrived on probably brought them a lot of pleasure, too.

Boat ramps being closed pleased them greatly. Stay safe, fishermen!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (QtCoU)

100 Now do tackle box face.

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Fine. I'll need two bags.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were meaningful and valuable? at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (QtCoU)

101 So if Zoom School was acceptable for two years, why do they still cancel school on snow days?

Posted by: But you're not allowed to ask that at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (DobEs)

102 87
wardrobe looked like something from Omar the tentmaker

Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at August 16, 2024 05:59 AM (DobEs)
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I see they used the same tentmaker as Hillary.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #16 at August 16, 2024 06:16 AM (qfLjt)

103 you think that's bad-

'they' are going to make a movie about John Madden

starring Nicholas Cage

Posted by: Don Black at August 16, 2024 06:16 AM (/7KEl)

104 So if Zoom School was acceptable for two years, why do they still cancel school on snow days?
Posted by: But you're not allowed to ask that at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (DobEs)
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Because teachers want ALL THE THINGS!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 06:17 AM (JvZF+)

105 So if Zoom School was acceptable for two years, why do they still cancel school on snow days?
Posted by: But you're not allowed to ask that at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (DobEs)
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They no longer do in higher ed. At least where I work. They just send out an announcement that they are moving to "remote teaching" on those days. The non-essential staff like me go to "work from home" or we can use our PTO if we don't feel like working.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2024 06:19 AM (BpYfr)

106 Ever since the latest Windows update my computer has been crashing. Monitor is still up showing whatever but non-responsive and the fan colors are off. Annoying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2024 06:20 AM (nR2nR)

107 Oh, tech related thing from yesterday in my life:

I got a Topton 4 port firewall device working with pfSense, and got 3 VLANs configured, working properly with a TP-Link SG108-E smart switch so that I could plug a computer into various ports and get different IP addresses based on the VLAN associated with that port.

I also got firewall rules set up to allow certain permissions between the VLANs so that things like the IoT devices are off in their own little jail and can't talk to the outside network at all. Mobile devices have permission to talk to the internet but can't see the internal stuff.

On to setting up two access points and a client station (All TP-Link Archer C7's) to be the latest version of OpenWrt (23.05) and to try a different configuration to accomplish a wireless bridge between the two access points that will also be able to carry the 3 VLANs all the way to the end devices. That last part may be the fly in the ointment. Thankfully, I bought extras of these so I can get it all working in a test lab environment first.

I might have to use a mesh solution, and look into the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol (Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

108 Still can't sleep. Ugh. Maybe I should start drinking again, so I can simply pass out at a "decent hour"?

Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2024 06:20 AM (njWTi)

109 DST (dumb story time):

Lovely wife forgot and left a large bag of gifts she bought on the bus to the Dublin airport yesterday. She was just sick about it. She called the bus company this morning and asked about it. The nice man said it had been turned in to their lost and found by another customer. Since we are now in London, the man asked if we were Fr. Mike's friends from the US. Answering in the positive, he said he'd make sure the package would be delivered to him.

Wow. Great people in Ireland.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 06:23 AM (VW9OP)

110 On the topic of online classes, the one good thing that came out of it was that parents were suddenly aware of what the teachers were doing in the class.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:23 AM (99eI0)

111 Wolfus: If the manager asked you to leave (and not come back) over something so minor, one has to wonder how often that is happening.

If they drive enough business away, it won't be an "Open" sign in their window, but a "For Lease" one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024

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You'd think so . . . but it's a very successful local chain, and this particular one has a solid captive customer base.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 06:25 AM (omVj0)

112 "And the podcast is unbelievably obnoxious."

And so are most kids and young people these days.

Posted by: just saying at August 16, 2024 06:26 AM (rzwGB)

113 Off to the electron mines, folken. See you on the Art Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2024 06:27 AM (omVj0)

114 Put a NO FAT CHICKS bumper sticker on your car and park in their parking lot and use their wi-fi.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 06:28 AM (5IIoe)

115 Wow. Great people in Ireland.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 06:23 AM (VW9OP)
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Poor Mrs. TP

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 06:29 AM (JvZF+)

116 Repeat- because it made me laugh. Christian comedian on "If Bible characters took Uber":

https://tinyurl.com/55ejusxt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 06:29 AM (JTMwf)

117 I am convinced dashcams are a good thing.

Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:31 AM (n8IP6)

118 117 I am convinced dashcams are a good thing.
Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:31 AM (n8IP6)

Absolutely. Been meaning to get one.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:33 AM (99eI0)

119 Where did Candace get the idea that Stalin was Jewish? That's stupid and also a neat trick since he was studying to be an Eastern Orthodox priest,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 06:34 AM (+BxS8)

120 @116/FenelonSpoke: That was pretty good, thanks!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

121

118 117 I am convinced dashcams are a good thing.
Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:31 AM (n8IP6)

Absolutely. Been meaning to get one.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:33 AM (99eI0
Rude people and road rage is creeping into small communities everywhere.

Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:36 AM (o2ZRX)

122 I am convinced dashcams are a good thing.
Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:31 AM (n8IP6)

My new car came with one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2024 06:38 AM (nR2nR)

123 G'mornin' everyone!

63 degrees, fog, chance of coffee

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 16, 2024 06:38 AM (UWgy2)

124 "101 So if Zoom School was acceptable for two years, why do they still cancel school on snow days?
Posted by: But you're not allowed to ask that at August 16, 2024 06:15 AM (DobEs)"

to spread FUD

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 16, 2024 06:38 AM (UWgy2)

125 .

NOOD

J.J. Sefton has arrived with The Morning Report

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 06:39 AM (O7YUW)

126 121 Rude people and road rage is creeping into small communities everywhere.
Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2024 06:36 AM (o2ZRX)

But diversity is our strength!

That being said, I once told my dad "I don't support road rage based shootings but you wouldn't want me on the jury."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2024 06:39 AM (99eI0)

127 My favorite comment on the mpox article was saying that since homosexuality is illegal in the Congo, that can't be the reason for the spread...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, need covfefe NOW at August 16, 2024 06:42 AM (PiwSw)

128 Rescued seal lingers witness its hero:

https://tinyurl.com/7tnntnje

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 06:43 AM (nKjXM)

129 For those who might care, Worldcon recently concluded in Scotland.

Out of the 7,200 who attended, at least 55 have self-reported being positive for the Wuhan Flu.

But wait there is more. They had voter fraud for the Hugo Award itself. They determined that 377 votes were fraudulent. To vote you had to register for the con and pay $100, that's some expensive voter fraud.

So who was the winner of the Hugo Award? LGTQ+ science fiction written by a female newcomer that even some of the mainstream rags are calling the main character a self-insertion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 16, 2024 06:45 AM (H9y6N)

130 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 16, 2024 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

You are most welcome ! And btw. You don't seem very grumpy and recalcitrant to me.😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 06:46 AM (nKjXM)

131 Anna, so pretty much what any sane person would expect from worldcon?

was a time when winning one of those awards was a recommendation, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 16, 2024 06:52 AM (UWgy2)

132 25 Good morning morons just saw a shooting star.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 04:48 AM (JvZF+)
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Alec Baldwin's in town?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 16, 2024 04:52 AM (AK7iC)

Score!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 07:45 AM (64Zez)

133
"It's a podcast, and there's no transcription, or even a summary."

Feed the podcast to an AI, let it do the transcription/summary. Probably more humorous than the podcast.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at August 16, 2024 07:52 AM (1hM1d)

134 109 DST (dumb story time):

Lovely wife forgot and left a large bag of gifts she bought on the bus to the Dublin airport yesterday. She was just sick about it. She called the bus company this morning and asked about it. The nice man said it had been turned in to their lost and found by another customer. Since we are now in London, the man asked if we were Fr. Mike's friends from the US. Answering in the positive, he said he'd make sure the package would be delivered to him.

Wow. Great people in Ireland.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2024 06:23 AM (VW9OP)

Wonderful Story Time!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2024 08:06 AM (64Zez)

135 "that would simply lead to banning minors from the internet entirely? "

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Yeah that's a risk I'm willing to take

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 16, 2024 08:54 AM (Bd2wh)

136 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech telling tech startups to just steal stuff. (The Verge)
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Isn't that exactly how that exactly how that moron Mark Cuban made his $Billion? Broadcast.com rebroadcasted radio stations from across the country. There is NO doubt that was done without permission or payment. Just plain stealing. Yet, Yahoo! came along and bought it from him eventually just turning off the service.

Posted by: Jake Speed at August 16, 2024 09:24 AM (Vu1jV)

137 Oh, and stop linking to the Verge. Just do an archive link or something. I hate giving them a click.

Posted by: Jake Speed at August 16, 2024 09:25 AM (Vu1jV)

138 "Would lead to banning children from the Internet"

Would that actually be a bad thing?

Posted by: Voyager at August 16, 2024 11:42 AM (+9P/W)

139 Mpox = Monkey Pox (rebranded)
There were 2 'successful' gain of function experiments in Wuhan: corona virus and... monkeypox!
The WHO has been trumpeting for months how MPox will spread to non-gays, just like HIV did NOT, eh?
But they'll keep trying to scare us with it.

Posted by: 5Cats at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (hv5ip)

140 Who gives a rats ass if an Apple2 got a HDMI. In important news Meta just released HDMI Link for the Quest 3 which actually impacts more than 4 idiots.

Posted by: Fisht at August 17, 2024 09:58 AM (BHEHK)

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