Daily Tech News 5 October 2024

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Mark Muppetly, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, continues his spiraling descent into psychosis: WordPress.org just belongs to me. (The Verge)

WordPress.org is not non-profit organisation managing the open-source WordPress code.
"I happily provide WordPress.org services to literally every other host," Mullenweg says. There is "no requirement to give back. WordPress will be open-source forever and ever, and so there will never be any legal requirement to give back." But WordPress does still "request" that companies contribute something. "It's better for WordPress if they give back."
WP Engine's lawyers are reportedly looking at replacing their Porsches with Ferraris.
159 Automattic employees (the commercial side of WordPress) have taken the hint and the available severance offer and walked out. (The Register)

They are not going down with the ship.
Meanwhile Melk Murgatroyd decided to join in a Hacker News thread on the WP Engine suit and... Potentially libel the party suing him. (Hacker News)

This seems unwise.

Tech News

Having crashed the stock price by 90% through years of abject mismanagement, the Guillemot family and Tencent are looking to buy Ubisoft. (WCCFTech)

Yves Guillemot is CEO of Ubisoft and behind the decisions that have ruined the company.

Sounds like an amazing plan:

1. Destroy your own company.
2. Stock price crashes.
3. Buy it for pennies on the dollar.
4. Spend years fighting shareholder lawsuits.
5. Price continues to decline.
6. Lose everything.
Civilization VII recommends 32GB of RAM, a 16 core CPU, and an RTX 4070 to play at 4K resolution. (Tom's Hardware)

Civ VI recommended 8GB of RAM.
After getting smacked down by the courts last year, the SEC is going after the Ripple blockchain yet again. (CNBC)

It's the usual thing: The SEC says that everything and anything is a security without ever issuing any written regulations.

They just show up out of the blue with a lawsuit, and if you win, they just do it again the next year.
The Pilet 5 is a big clunky PDA that you can't buy. (Liliputing)

It's kind of cool in an industrial retro way. It's a case, screen, keyboard, and battery that fits a Raspberry Pi 5.

According to the developer the hardware includes a laser pointer that "has the power to destroy planets, just like the death star" though this feature is not confirmed by the official specs.
TSMC's 2nm node - called, reasonably enough, N2, is 25% more efficient than the current N3E process. (Notebook Check)

But also twice as expensive per wafer as the mainstream N5 and N4 processes.

Expect leading-edge devices to cost more when N2 chips start shipping next year.
As expected, the Ars Technica commentariat is shrieking with rage that a judge has chosen to uphold the Constitution with an injunction against California's ban on inconvenient satire and the site itself has pinned the blame on Emmanuel Goldmusk. (Ars Technica)

Plus ca change, plus la orange.
Ars also offered its own take on the WordPress debacle that is so hilariously one-sided that its own commenters are roasting the site. (Ars Technica)

Good.

Disclaimer: N7 forever.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Good morning, no tech news from me tonight

Posted by: Ciampino - double shocker at October 05, 2024 04:00 AM (qfLjt)

2 Hello!

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:01 AM (VnUSN)

3 Mornin' all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4
Mark Muppetly, co-founder of WordPress
Meanwhile Melk Murgatroyd

heh

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:03 AM (VnUSN)

5
Emmanuel Goldmusk. (Ars Technica)

heh

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:05 AM (VnUSN)

6 from the ONT

237 tinyurl.com/5eh4mbpj
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 11:44 PM (fwDg9)

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:11 AM (VnUSN)

7 Happy-ish Saturday morning or crepuscular equivalent, thereof.

Posted by: Adriane the Brevity Challenged Critic . . . at October 05, 2024 04:16 AM (TX4bP)

8 They just show up out of the blue with a lawsuit, and if you win, they just do it again the next year.

We're just another useless gubbmint agency, but we're a consistent useless gubbmint agency

Posted by: SEC at October 05, 2024 04:30 AM (6yv6T)

9 >>>WordPress.org is not non-profit organisation

*word(s) missing

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:33 AM (VnUSN)

10 Those job openings in the HazNoBalls ..... are they advertising in the NYT?

https://tinyurl.com/375uuwdv

Those black turbans, are they passed on like a king's crown? Do they get washed first or are those lice also 'sacred'.
Why do mohammedan males 1. not cut their hair, 2. wear turbans to manage that disaster of a lice-ridden coiffure?

Posted by: Ciampino - DDT kills lice at October 05, 2024 04:44 AM (qfLjt)

11 6
Thanks Skip for that link everyday, otherwise I would forget to go there. If you're traveling today then stay safe.

Posted by: Ciampino - DDT kills lice (not louses) at October 05, 2024 04:47 AM (qfLjt)

12 Posted by: Ciampino - DDT kills lice at October 05, 2024 04:44 AM
----

Hah, that brought back a memory from my working days-- of a young (white) dude with some long, fugly, unkempt beard. He always had a bad (IMO) attitude and generally was not a team player...

One day, as I described him to another coworker, I mentioned his "scroungy-looking, jihadi beard."

That crack must've gotten back to him & left a mark! Soon, I noticed that he'd begun grooming and combing-out that formerly nasty beard-- it was kept brushed and curled. A bit over the top, but *so much better* than that wiry, facial-pube mess he sported previously.

Posted by: JQ at October 05, 2024 05:18 AM (njWTi)

13 12 that wiry, facial-pube mess
Posted by: JQ at October 05, 2024 05:18 AM (njWTi)

Ack! Vivid.

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 05:24 AM (VnUSN)

14 Sorry, m. I calls it like I sees it. LOL.

Poor kid. If only I'd known his name at that time, right? He was on a different shift, working OT, so we'd never been introduced. That ugly beard was the only thing I knew about him back then.

Posted by: JQ at October 05, 2024 05:26 AM (njWTi)

15 Oh, and his obvious lack of work ethic..

Posted by: JQ at October 05, 2024 05:27 AM (njWTi)

16 Maybe I'm weird, but the 32 GB of RAM requirement for Civ VII concerns me less than the 16-core processor. Are those even commercially available yet?

Posted by: pookysgirl, probably technologically behind at October 05, 2024 05:30 AM (dtlDP)

17 G'Day everyone
Been cat napping last hour, should have just git up instead

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

18 I need to go to sleep, but am not sleepy. Again. Last few days have been good, but.... ugh.

Posted by: JQ at October 05, 2024 05:34 AM (njWTi)

19 16 Maybe I'm weird, but the 32 GB of RAM requirement for Civ VII concerns me less than the 16-core processor. Are those even commercially available yet?

First mainstream 16 core CPU was AMD's Ryzen 3950X in 2019. This server is running on its successor, the 5950X.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

20 Good morning, good people. May all effort today result in great benefit to you and even greater consternation for the leftwits among us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 05:42 AM (hKoQL)

21 First mainstream 16 core CPU was AMD's Ryzen 3950X in 2019. This server is running on its successor, the 5950X.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

See? Technologically behind. In my defense, when I built my desktop last year and did my laptop this year, I went for mid-budget and 16-core CPU was definitely not an option.

Posted by: pookysgirl hasn't really been on her computer for 4 weeks at October 05, 2024 05:45 AM (dtlDP)

22
Rasmussen latest:
Trump 52%
Harass 45%

/ I don't think the drip drip out of NC is going to help her at all

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 05, 2024 05:48 AM (RKVpM)

23 I am subbing for the

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

guy.

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 05:49 AM (VnUSN)

24 Civ I on DosBox-x is taking 250mb of ram and 25% of my

Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N3060 @ 1.60GHz × 2 HP Stream with Ubuntu.

That seems like a lot since I ran it for the first time 1993 on a 486 with 4mb.

Posted by: meh at October 05, 2024 05:50 AM (iZ1Vx)

25 Happy Saturnday

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 05:53 AM (gbOdA)

26 tinyurl.com/5eh4mbpj
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Some good stuff in there

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 05:55 AM (fwDg9)

27 >>>California's ban on inconvenient satire ... (Ars Technica)

heh

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 05:56 AM (VnUSN)

28
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 05, 2024 05:57 AM (tljrc)

29 Evening and morning to the Saturday early risers and late toilers!

I slept okay last night, with an odd dream. I was applying for a job where I had to type information into various fields on something that looked like one of those "word processors" from back in the early '80s; remember those? Then I asked about a men's room. They gave me a key and sent me into "the old building" to look for "the large door." A blind wandering through interconnected corridors, rooms, and other strange businesses ensued; and then I woke up.

The corridors and rooms of my mind never cease to amaze me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 05:58 AM (omVj0)

30 good line from the Ars Technica article on AI law:

According to [US district judge John] Mendez, X posts like Kohls' parody videos are the "political cartoons of today"

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 06:06 AM (VnUSN)

31 The corridors and rooms of my mind never cease to amaze me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 05:58

and the rest of us. :eeek:

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at October 05, 2024 06:09 AM (55Qr6)

32
From Asheville:

https://is.gd/OJXh6x

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 05, 2024 06:09 AM (RKVpM)

33 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 05, 2024 06:10 AM (hoCmQ)

34 The corridors and rooms of my mind never cease to amaze me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024
*
and the rest of us. :eeek:
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at October 05, 2024

***
It's always been thus. Such is my gift, or curse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:11 AM (omVj0)

35
60 Walmart trucks with supplies heading to Asheville:

https://is.gd/AXiWMb

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 05, 2024 06:13 AM (RKVpM)

36 Do you see what the bipedal diarrhea that infects FEMA is doing to the survivors in NC and elsewhere?

Google it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 06:14 AM (hKoQL)

37 Here is a food psalm when we need courage:

Psalm 25-,I would link it, but tiny url isn't working.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2024 06:15 AM (Bsa3D)

38 32
From Asheville:

https://is.gd/OJXh6x
Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 05, 2024 06:09 AM (RKVpM)

Oh, my goodness. That is edge-of-your-seat viewing.

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 06:15 AM (VnUSN)

39 Yesterday, too, I donated some scratch to Samaritan's Purse. Here's hoping it'll help somebody.

Today? Haircut, bank, grocery. Then this evening, an Uptown shopping district is having one of their "stroll evenings," where a lot of the stores and art galleries stay open late, offer free wine and cheese and let you shop. Scads of free-range people wander up and down and in and out. It has the advantage (as long as the rain holds off) of people-watching, and it's FREE!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:16 AM (omVj0)

40 Do you see what the bipedal diarrhea that infects FEMA is doing to the survivors in NC and elsewhere?

Google it.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024

***
I'm afraid to look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:17 AM (omVj0)

41 DbZ sadly didn't look like person survived

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 06:17 AM (fwDg9)

42 https://www.upperroom.org/devotionals/en-2024-10-05

A man from Columbia reflects on a step of faith
Passage is Colossians 1:1-14

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2024 06:18 AM (Bsa3D)

43 faithpot.com has a story about a surfer who rescued people from the floodwaters. Again, I'd like but technical issues....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2024 06:24 AM (Bsa3D)

44 mornin yall. Today marks another orbit around the Sun for me. Whoopie.

Posted by: fd at October 05, 2024 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

45 Did we ever hear from Mike Hammer from
Asheville?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2024 06:26 AM (Bsa3D)

46
Oh, my goodness. That is edge-of-your-seat viewing.

Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 06:15 AM

I was amazed at how the rescuer couldn't break the glass.

Skip - he looked like he survived to me. He got the life jacket on by himself.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 05, 2024 06:26 AM (RKVpM)

47
*flat, blaring nerd voice*

Hi, guys!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 06:26 AM (BkEzK)

48 Posted by: fd at October 05, 2024 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

Happy birthday . So, now you can have a drink legally. 😉 May the Lord bless you and May you know you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2024 06:27 AM (Bsa3D)

49 Son of Frankenstein from 1939, with Basil Rathbone as the Baron's son and Karloff (in a sheepskin vest for some reason) playing the Monster for the third and last time, is on Svengoolie tonight. He's doing double features for October; The Monster That Challenged the World is the second one tonight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:28 AM (omVj0)

50 ornin yall. Today marks another orbit around the Sun for me. Whoopie.
Posted by: fd at October 05, 2024

***
Congratulations. Any big plans to celebrate this year?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:29 AM (omVj0)

51 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024 06:32 AM (86W+h)

52 "Any big plans to celebrate this year?"

A family reunion today and a steak tonight. Then maybe some Svengoolie. So, no.

Posted by: fd at October 05, 2024 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

53 >>> It's the usual thing: The SEC says that everything and anything is a security without ever issuing any written regulations.

They got up to less mischief when they were watching pr0n at w*rk.

Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024 06:36 AM (86W+h)

54 There will be a seven minute wait on that biscuit, do you mind?
- Whataburger babe

No, m’am.
- me

Posted by: Eromero at October 05, 2024 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

55 @SecBlinken
The U.S. is at the forefront of humanitarian response to the growing crisis in Lebanon, announcing nearly $157 million in assistance today. We are committed to supporting those in need and delivering essential aid to displaced civilians, refugees and the communities hosting them.

you do not HATE them enough

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

56
you do not HATE them enough
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

Hey, $157 million barely covers coffee, donuts, hotel rooms, hookers and drinks for FEMA officials.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 06:48 AM (BkEzK)

57 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 05, 2024 06:51 AM (dg+HA)

58 4
Mark Muppetly, co-founder of WordPress
Meanwhile Melk Murgatroyd
Posted by: m at October 05, 2024 04:03 AM (VnUSN)

Pixy is learning from the Master of Cruelty.
Well done, young Grasshopper.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 06:56 AM (f+FmA)

59 Son of Frankenstein was the film that introduced "Ygor," who later became essential to the Frankenstein series and led to Marty Feldman's character 35 or so years later. ("Hump? What hump?") And Lionel Atwill's Inspector with the artificial arm was the direct inspiration for Kenneth Mars' Inspector in the Mel Brooks movie.

Lugosi's Ygor in this film might well be his finest performance. He was no longer the matinee idol he'd been in his stage days as Dracula, but he could have developed into a fine character actor. See his Old Gypsy in The Wolf Man and his small role as a commissar in Ninotchka w/ Great Garbo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 06:58 AM (omVj0)

60 you do not HATE them enough
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

I didn't even think the storm got all the way up to Pennsylvania...

Oh, wait, he meant the bomb-vest i keel yoo Lebanon, not the smoked bologna and horse carts Lebanon.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 06:58 AM (DDGz9)

61 Mornin'

CIV II needs even less ram to run.

My last full day of my Amish golf trip. I didn't golf much. Lots of rain in Pennsyltucky this past couple of weeks. Got a couple of rounds in. Visited friends and family and that's always nice. Hung out on my sister's farm, which is really nice and peaceful, compared to Babylon DC anyway. I went to my friend's gun club. My sister bought a boom stick (AR-15, Colt). She did really well with it at the range. I shot my friends .40 cal Sig which would be the first time I shot anything since I got out of the USAF. That was a long time ago. I hit the target, mostly. I'm in the market for a .38 Special, so I'll look into that when I get back to NoVA.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 05, 2024 06:59 AM (/Djer)

62 Nearly a thousand nutria have been hunted in the Bay Area this year, but sightings show the invasive 2.5-foot-long rodents have now spread to Contra Costa County, threatening a key watershed, according to a new report from SF Gate. Wildlife officials are urging the public to report any sightings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 07:01 AM (gbOdA)

63 I mean, it's the government.

It takes $157 million just to organize and fund a committee to establish a roadmap to determine which one is Lebanon. Official geographers know that it's one of the little ones west of Iraq. Probably the red one. But that's all they have to go on so far.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:02 AM (DDGz9)

64 Nice day today but bit Foggy out now

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 07:02 AM (fwDg9)

65
Going (reluctantly) to the Greater Humble KC show today with Her Majesty, Diana and Ruth.

Diana now has 18 of the 25 points she needs for her Grand Championship and it doesn't look like she'll get the remaining 7 this weekend. Ruth is going along to support the entry for a Borzoi breeder judge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:02 AM (BkEzK)

66 Everyone who says "America is a rich country we can afford blahblahblah" can now officially fuck all the way off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:05 AM (DDGz9)

67 I see Drudge has a link to Republicans against Cruz.
Like Kinzinger.

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at October 05, 2024 07:06 AM (1uxCH)

68 See his Old Gypsy in The Wolf Man and his small role as a commissar in Ninotchka w/ Great Garbo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024

***
Oops; "Greta" Garbo. Though she was great in her own way!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:08 AM (omVj0)

69 It would be hilarious if some country refused to take a tranch of "aid", saying "thanks, but you need it more than us right now".

They'd all be murdered by three-letter goons before sunrise for interrupting the cash flume of their betters. But it would still be something to see.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:08 AM (DDGz9)

70 Morning peeps.

The story about Civilization VII needing 32GB of RAM, a 16 core CPU, and and so on vs. the previous version is sort of a mirror of real life.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2024 07:09 AM (Q4IgG)

71 Remnants of the Precursors is a Master of Orion clone that works great on modern PCs (with Java) and is free. Why waste your disc space on a bloated woke "live service" that they'll just yank offline.

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at October 05, 2024 07:09 AM (1uxCH)

72 Pilihan tepat untuk para penggemar slot! Dengan banyaknya permainan dan peluang jackpot, Anda pasti tidak akan merasa bosan.

Posted by: slot at October 05, 2024 07:10 AM (59Soc)

73 I really need a new hard birdbath

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 07:10 AM (fwDg9)

74 Who's making decisions in the Oval Office today?

Posted by: The World Wonders at October 05, 2024 07:10 AM (dg+HA)

75 I see Politico is on the Axelrod bandwagon of "hey, looks like Helene ain't all bad since it just hit Trumpaloos"

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at October 05, 2024 07:10 AM (1uxCH)

76 Civ III was amazing. Civ V was fun enough. Civ VI was broken woken hot smelly garbage. Civ IV also exists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:11 AM (DDGz9)

77 In September, the number of government workers as tracked by the Household Survey soared by 785K, from 21.421 million to 22.216 million, both seasonally adjusted.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 07:11 AM (gbOdA)

78 The library next town over is getting a new library space in a former church with new fixtures, so they are clearing out the old ones, which seem to have been collected from all over, or hand made. Our thrift store is getting some counters for the check out area, which will be lovely, as ours is equally cobbled together from whatever came in.

Mr. S got a bookcase to replace the old IKEA one in the bedroom. Someone helped him get it in his Suburban, but we had to move it into the house ourselves. It took about 30 minutes of finagling, but we got it done and it looks really nice. At 6 feet, it's shorter than the old one, so the eye takes some adjusting.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:11 AM (f+FmA)

79 For all you Indonesian slot machine aficionados out there....

Pfffffff seriously spam, lolwut?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:11 AM (DDGz9)

80 77 In September, the number of government workers as tracked by the Household Survey soared by 785K, from 21.421 million to 22.216 million, both seasonally adjusted.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 07:11 AM (gbOdA

Does that count military as "government workers"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:13 AM (DDGz9)

81 Sometime this month, if we get a cool Saturday, I'd like to spend the day driving to Jackson. Why *there,* for God's sake, you ask? They have one of the last full-scale tobacconist/pipe stores around; I've bought and am enjoying their "Cowboy Coffee" pipe blend. (No, no indication of "coffee" flavor in it, but it's good anyway.)

It's a three-hour drive each way, but I can make a day of it: Visit the pipe shop, have lunch, and drive back. It'll be a good run for the car and a chance for me to see something other than the endless vistas of broken streets and trash around here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0)

82 It's a three-hour drive each way, but I can make a day of it: Visit the pipe shop, have lunch, and drive back. It'll be a good run for the car and a chance for me to see something other than the endless vistas of broken streets and trash around here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0)

Lovely idea. Maybe stop at a nice overlook on your way back for a picnic lunch and a fresh pipe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:15 AM (DDGz9)

83 Mr. S got a bookcase to replace the old IKEA one in the bedroom. Someone helped him get it in his Suburban, but we had to move it into the house ourselves. It took about 30 minutes of finagling, but we got it done and it looks really nice. At 6 feet, it's shorter than the old one, so the eye takes some adjusting.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024

***
Seems to be the only way to find a bookcase nowadays. Furniture stores don't have them. Someone here suggested finding one of the old "entertainment center" cases and converting it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:15 AM (omVj0)

84 We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out.

https://youtu.be/m67eqm0mNCQ

Posted by: Johnny and June Carter Cash at October 05, 2024 07:16 AM (dg+HA)

85 It's a three-hour drive each way, but I can make a day of it: Visit the pipe shop, have lunch, and drive back. It'll be a good run for the car and a chance for me to see something other than the endless vistas of broken streets and trash around here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024
*
Lovely idea. Maybe stop at a nice overlook on your way back for a picnic lunch and a fresh pipe.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024

***
Though, as I realized after I posted, Jackson is probably no better than here as regards broken streets and trash. I bugged out there in 2012 for a hurricane, staying in the outlying areas, and while it was fine it was not all that interesting. From what I've heard the place has declined badly (water supply problems, e.g.) since then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:17 AM (omVj0)

86 We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out.

https://youtu.be/m67eqm0mNCQ
Posted by: Johnny and June Carter Cash at October 05, 2024

***
I remember Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood doing their version on Nancy's "Country My Way" album in the Sixties. Nancy was no Karen Carpenter, but Hazelwood's voice is raspy and remarkable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:19 AM (omVj0)

87 > Who's making decisions in the Oval Office today?
---------
I'm guessing whoever has the Magic 8 Ball.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)

88 U.S. lawmakers plan for possible "mass casualty" event, proposing a constitutional amendment to replace members quickly and change various lines of succession in a "national crisis," per the Washington Post.

One of the X posts at Bad Blue.

Um...

I would have dismissed this as looney not too long ago. Now? It's plausible.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 05, 2024 07:20 AM (/Djer)

89 This is what the Lord says:

“Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Blessed is the one who does this—
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”

-Isaiah 56:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2024 07:20 AM (gPomr)

90 Seems to be the only way to find a bookcase nowadays. Furniture stores don't have them. Someone here suggested finding one of the old "entertainment center" cases and converting it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:15 AM (omVj0)

We have seven Billy bookcases from IKEA, which I don't think they make any more.
We have the new one in the bedroom, plus a small antique from my grandparents and two small ones in the sewing room.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:23 AM (f+FmA)

91 I would have dismissed this as looney not too long ago. Now? It's plausible.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 05, 2024 07:20 AM (/Djer)

It's also stupid.

Why in the hell would you intentionally have a mechanism to change a line of succession in a crisis? That's the entire purpose of a line of succession. To avoid uncertainty and arguing and incoherence if your leadership is ever taken out.

They're not stupid. They're evil. And stupid. But mostly evil.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:23 AM (DDGz9)

92 We have seven Billy bookcases from IKEA, which I don't think they make any more.
We have the new one in the bedroom, plus a small antique from my grandparents and two small ones in the sewing room.
Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:23 AM (f+FmA)

They do! Not always in stock, but they make them. We have a bunch of glass door versions we use for yarn storage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:24 AM (DDGz9)

93 @85

One of the nicer things about where I am in the Adirondacks is that 10 yards off the road you are in primeval wilderness. The entire area here is wilderness thinly disguised as suburbia. Just exactly like the AO I came from so there was no problem acclimating.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 07:25 AM (hKoQL)

94 >>> Pilihan tepat untuk para penggemar slot! Dengan banyaknya permainan dan peluang jackpot, Anda pasti tidak akan merasa bosan.

My Dude makes an interesting point.

Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024 07:26 AM (86W+h)

95 One of the nicer things about where I am in the Adirondacks is that 10 yards off the road you are in primeval wilderness. The entire area here is wilderness thinly disguised as suburbia. Just exactly like the AO I came from so there was no problem acclimating.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 07:25 AM (hKoQL)

That used to be like where i grew up, but it isn't anymore, so i moved to where it is.

I'm not a middle of nowhere kind of guy, but i am a fan of the edge of nowhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:27 AM (DDGz9)

96 Imagine the uproar if Sean Penn had been arrested by Fema and his bottles of water confiscated.

Posted by: davidt at October 05, 2024 07:28 AM (i0F8b)

97
U.S. lawmakers plan for possible "mass casualty" event, proposing a constitutional amendment to replace members quickly and change various lines of succession in a "national crisis," per the Washington Post.

Also known as the Jobs for Wives and Children Amendment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:28 AM (BkEzK)

98 Good evening morons. Tomorrow (Sunday) is Australia's "Superbowl" except its rugby or Australian rules football, I can't tell which, maybe Pixy can help. Apparently this is very important. We are going to a "pub" to have "fish and chips" which means french fries, to soak in the excitement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:28 AM (zG664)

99 All the painting we did- and it's lovely- plus the cooler (for some versions of 'cooler') weather plus a shoulder that I need to baby has sparked a re-organization of the kitchen.
Along the lines of "fix it how you actually cook, instead of how you think you should be cooking in your homemaking fantasies".

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:29 AM (f+FmA)

100 Aussie rules is more runny runny. Rugby is more smashy smashy.

In technical terms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:30 AM (DDGz9)

101 >>> I'm not a middle of nowhere kind of guy, but i am a fan of the edge of nowhere.

Stealing this for my retirement plans.

Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024 07:31 AM (86W+h)

102 Love when Marcus T breaks out with some Isaiah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:31 AM (zG664)

103
Here's a fine kettle of fish. Our handler got suspended yesterday when someone filed a complaint at the show against her over an obscure regulation and the show committee upheld it. The incident involved Diana, but we're not otherwise involved.

So I'll be handling Ruth today - which will not be to her advantage - and HM will have to rustle up someone else to take Miss D.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:31 AM (BkEzK)

104 Went out to get some stuff from the car. It's almost cool out there -- a wind from the north of all things. Maybe tomorrow morning's run/walk at the track will be more comfortable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:32 AM (omVj0)

105 Aussie rules is more runny runny. Rugby is more smashy smashy.

In technical terms.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:30 AM (DDGz9)
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And where does cricket fit in?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:32 AM (zG664)

106 Good morning!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 05, 2024 07:33 AM (Aqu9a)

107 So I'll be handling Ruth today - which will not be to her advantage - and HM will have to rustle up someone else to take Miss D.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:31 AM (BkEzK)
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Everything is politics.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:34 AM (zG664)

108 They do! Not always in stock, but they make them. We have a bunch of glass door versions we use for yarn storage.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024

***
I could use glass-door cases to put my pipes and stuff. Can you order those online and have them delivered even if you don't have a local store?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:35 AM (omVj0)

109 They do! Not always in stock, but they make them. We have a bunch of glass door versions we use for yarn storage.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:24 AM (DDGz9)

Great news- though we shouldn't buy any more. I store my yarn and quilt stash in the plastic cubes in their storage unit with the open squares. Our son gave me one of his when he moved, which was a bad idea because now I have two.
Clear glass would be a great reminder of "use this first".

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:35 AM (f+FmA)

110 Here in KY we're 1/4 mile off a 2-lane road. It's open, used to be a pasture, but is ringed with woods. The lot's what they call a "flag lot." Long narrow easement for the driveway that opens up to the actual property.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2024 07:36 AM (Q4IgG)

111 Did you try Ace's Shop at Home Bookcase sale?

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 07:36 AM (fwDg9)

112 I'm not a middle of nowhere kind of guy, but i am a fan of the edge of nowhere.
*
Stealing this for my retirement plans.
Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024

***
Count me in too. An outlying town about 20-30 minutes' drive from a Walmart and a good mechanic, and I'll be set. (Yeah, that's hardly the "edge of nowhere," but I've always been a middle-sized city sort of creature, so a smallish town outside the main city is quite a departure for me.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:37 AM (omVj0)

113 My real goal would be to "delete the bins", but I wonder what I might need to save for the Burning Times.
That big piece of muslin might come in handy...
Thanks for ruining even crafts, guys.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:38 AM (f+FmA)

114 Time to shave! It's getting light. I'll prepare for my run to Walmart before I head out to the barber and bank, and then I'll visit Aldi on the way back home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:38 AM (omVj0)

115 Good morning - although I'm not sure how good it is, considering it's 0437 on the left coast and I've been awake since 0300. Why my body decides to wake up extra early on Saturdays is a mystery. I'll lurk until the coffee is ready and I've had a cup or two.

Posted by: PabloD at October 05, 2024 07:40 AM (1yZeG)

116
Everything is politics.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:34 AM (zG664)

Yeah, it's a catfight. Another handler filed the complaint. I think it's horse plums, but for our handler it's a serious matter. She makes her money showing dogs for other people and if she's suspended she can't show. That's lost income.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:40 AM (BkEzK)

117 Wolfus, you just described us.
Come on down...
We're pretty tiny, but we have a hospital...

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:40 AM (f+FmA)

118 Pilihan tepat untuk para penggemar slot! Dengan banyaknya permainan dan peluang jackpot, Anda pasti tidak akan merasa bosan.

Posted by: slot at October 05, 2024 07:10 AM (59Soc)

Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Slot Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 05, 2024 07:41 AM (JRP2U)

119 Tomorrow's Australian Rules Football "Super Bowl" is:

The Colingwood Magpies VS The Midwich Cuckoos

Should be crazy!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2024 07:41 AM (eDfFs)

120 95 One of the nicer things about where I am in the Adirondacks is that 10 yards off the road you are in primeval wilderness. The entire area here is wilderness thinly disguised as suburbia. Just exactly like the AO I came from so there was no problem acclimating.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 07:25 AM (hKoQL)

That used to be like where i grew up, but it isn't anymore, so i moved to where it is.

I'm not a middle of nowhere kind of guy, but i am a fan of the edge of nowhere.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

My sister's farm is surrounded by Amish farms, so it has an early 19th century feel. It's not completely shut off from the world, but it's close.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 05, 2024 07:42 AM (/Djer)

121 I almost got into an argument on Reddit over Jelly Hoshiumi's playthrough of Dustborn (she hated it).

Thankfully I made my SAN check at the last moment and deleted my comment.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 07:42 AM (BLOW1)

122 Time to make breakfast.
Be back for the Prayer Thread.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 05, 2024 07:42 AM (f+FmA)

123
Upstate New York is a lovely place. And New York City wouldn't care if every person living there starved to death.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:43 AM (BkEzK)

124
No reminder this morning that we're all haters and hypocrites?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2024 07:44 AM (BkEzK)

125 The Colingwood Magpies VS The Midwich Cuckoos

Should be crazy

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2024 07:41 AM (eDfFs)
===

Gotta support the team!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2024 07:45 AM (zG664)

126 A huge advantage of "end of nowhere" is that societal unrest (and those who promote it) takes a long long time to permeate the place. Sometimes it never does plus the secondary bonus is that the inhabitants live in the real world so cognitive dissonance seldom intrudes.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 05, 2024 07:45 AM (hKoQL)

127 *I'm not a middle of nowhere kind of guy*

Take a risk. Move out of your comfort zone:

https://shorturl.at/jA08R

Posted by: There's good food in the middle of nowhere at October 05, 2024 07:46 AM (dg+HA)

128 >>>Expect leading-edge devices to cost more when N2 chips start shipping next year.

Twice as much or significantly less so due to increased numbers of devices per wafer?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 05, 2024 07:46 AM (i24o9)

129 Random test. Hopefully I don't end up in the barrel.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at October 05, 2024 07:46 AM (9gQxM)

130 Green Acres is the place to be!

Big City Pixley is right up the . . er CannonBall Express railroad

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 05, 2024 07:47 AM (Aqu9a)

131 >>> An outlying town about 20-30 minutes' drive from a Walmart

The town I outdoors prefer is something like that. Has a supermarket. Mrs fluffy expresses a preference for a town in the opposite direction of Walmart. At least it has a volunteer firehouse.

Posted by: fluffy at October 05, 2024 07:47 AM (86W+h)

132 128 >>>Expect leading-edge devices to cost more when N2 chips start shipping next year.

Twice as much or significantly less so due to increased numbers of devices per wafer?

Hard to say. The biggest cost in creating a new chip is the design and verification effort. I'd expect 10% or so in retail products.

Apple will likely be the only company using 2nm chips in consumer devices next year, so if you avoid buying a new iPhone you should be fine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 07:49 AM (BLOW1)

133 I could use glass-door cases to put my pipes and stuff. Can you order those online and have them delivered even if you don't have a local store?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 05, 2024 07:35 AM (omVj0)

You can, but they murder you on shipping.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:49 AM (DDGz9)

134 Apparently I can type Comments in All Notes on my phone then copy/paste to Ace.

Good to know.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at October 05, 2024 07:50 AM (9gQxM)

135 you do not HATE them enough

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2024 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

Let me assure you that I do.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 05, 2024 07:54 AM (i24o9)

136 Hard to say. The biggest cost in creating a new chip is the design and verification effort. I'd expect 10% or so in retail products.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 05, 2024 07:49 AM (BLOW1)

Yields play a role, too, but TSMC has had a good track record rolling out new process nodes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 05, 2024 07:56 AM (i24o9)

137 So long as we hate them, they are safe. It's when the hate subsides that they have to worry.

I hate the hole in my ceiling that i have to patch one day when i get around to it and i don't have other priorities.

I don't hate the grass, i just grudgingly mow it now and then when it gets too unruly, because no one else will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2024 07:57 AM (DDGz9)

138 I’ve not been able to contact my Navy bro in Saluda NC. Worrisome, but praying for Bill and his wife.

Posted by: Eromero at October 05, 2024 07:58 AM (o2ZRX)

139 Yeah, but the 3 honeys in the water tower are a good reason alone to go

Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2024 08:00 AM (fwDg9)

140 And old uncle Joe? He's a moving kind of slow...

Posted by: At the Junction at October 05, 2024 08:01 AM (dg+HA)

141 Blocking the law is a good first step. Setting it on fire and using every politician that voted for it as accelerant is the second step.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 05, 2024 08:06 AM (lXCUP)

142 COFFEE BREAK AND PRAYER NOOD

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143
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