Daily News Stuff 10 October 2024

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The Internet Archive has been hacked and credentials for 31 million users stolen. (Bleeping Computer)

The passwords are encrypted with Bcrypt, which is pretty robust, but if you shared a password between the archive and some other site, it's time to change it and also to stop doing that.

Tech News

Turkey has banned Discord because, well, Turkey. (Reuters)

If you let a turkey into your house, it's going to do turkey things.
80% of developers will need to "upskill" by 2027 to keep pace with the growing demands of goat vomit. (IT Professional)

Wait, my mistake. It says here "generative AI".
The walls are closing in on (throws dart) ELON MUSK. (The Verge)

Sure, he's worth a quarter of a trillion dollars, but we've got him this time.
Why GOV.UK's Exit this Page doesn't use escape. (Beeps)

Sounds like nonsense at first, but it's actually a useful function and the reasoning is sound.
Are Intel's new CPUs just bad for multi-threaded performance? (CPU Benchmark)

The eight core laptop 288V runs like a four year old AMD 5800U - also with eight cores, and the 24 core desktop 285K runs like a two year old 12 core AMD 7900. In both cases the AMD chips use half the power.

The Intel chips have great single-threaded performance but multi-threaded test results so far are meh at best.

Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes. D-11.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 10, 2024 04:02 AM (O7YUW)

2 BOING!

GM, Grumpy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 10, 2024 04:07 AM (9pmuK)

3 Turkey has banned Discord
-

Turkey is baste.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 10, 2024 04:07 AM (9pmuK)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:11 AM (omVj0)

5 Hello late nighters. Slow night. Might say the Cat 4 has our tongues.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2024 04:11 AM (RsT6s)

6 Good morning!

I'm going to take a shower to wake up or go back to bed for an hour. Maybe both.

Also: Pixy, how long did it take you to unpack from your move? I'm packing things for temporary storage and feeling like they might be there a while.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 10, 2024 04:12 AM (xezmO)

7 Unpack?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2024 04:15 AM (BLOW1)

8 "The Internet Archive has been hacked and credentials for 31 million users stolen. "

From the comments at the bleepingcomputer.com article:

"The archive.org auth backend is also used by openlibrary.org and archive-it.org so technically they're also compromised."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 10, 2024 04:16 AM (O7YUW)

9 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers!

Only slept about six hours last night, with a mild dream about going to the bank to find out why I had a $2.12 discrepancy in my statement vs. my check register. I wore a suit to the bank, and for some reason the streets outside were desert-sunny, as if I were in Albuquerque.

Re: KH calling the Weather Channel: Did that really happen, or is it just a meme? It seems to me almost everything Kammie-Ha-Ha does seems designed to sabotage her campaign . . . as if she, or her handlers, or both don't really think they can win, or even want to. Unlikely, given the Dems' will to power, but there it is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

10 Heh. "Unpack".

An innocuous looking word that really means "dedicate one room of your house as the place where all the stuff you can't find is, loosely organized into cardboard boxes, while you spend a decade just going out and buying another one of whatever it is you can't find".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:23 AM (DDGz9)

11 Unlikely, given the Dems' will to power, but there it is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

It's probably mostly the strident ignorance of the kid who always got someone else to do their homework for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:24 AM (DDGz9)

12 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 10, 2024 04:25 AM (dg+HA)

13 I wonder if Piper was able to get through and adopt the dog left stranded yesterday?

Also, apparently, FEMA sent chainsaws to the N. Carolina area . . . electric ones, to an area without electricity. DEI strikes again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:26 AM (omVj0)

14 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:27 AM (a1415)

15 Good morning morons

Pixy, your country is awesome. We had the best time and did all the things.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2024 04:27 AM (RIvkX)

16 the kid who always got someone else to do their homework for them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:24 AM (DDGz9)

... or the confidence of the guy who watches a lot of MMA thinking "i could totally do that, i took a karate class for three months when i was in sixth grade".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:27 AM (DDGz9)

17 I'm on my second cup of coffee after a morning pipe. I really think the pipe helps to alleviate some of my morning aches and pains -- almost as well as an ibuprofen would.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:28 AM (omVj0)

18 It would seem that tiny little Margo has an aversion to me sitting with the laptop on my lap, and thereby not giving her the attention that she feels that she deserves.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:29 AM (a1415)

19 Good morning, good people. Another day of wishing you all benefit from your effort and total consternation for the leftwits among us.

With added prayers for those affected by the hurricane.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 10, 2024 04:31 AM (hKoQL)

20 And a short update on the weight loss goals.

As of yesterdayI have lost 35 pounds since the beginning of July.

Blood pressure is consistently in the 115/65 range.

And resting heart rate hangs in the mid 50's.

On the downside, I need new clothes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:32 AM (a1415)

21 Is not just that they're incompetent. They don't even know what competence looks like, only what the results of competence look like. Which means that the only way for them to advance in life is through nefarious means. Grifting, fraud, manipulation, smooth talk. So the ones we ever get to hear of got to where they are by getting really good at all that stuff. And being really good at all that stuff just means you're a terrible person who makes terrible decisions and does terrible things.

To mangle a phrase: power corrupts. Unearned power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:35 AM (DDGz9)

22 As of yesterdayI have lost 35 pounds since the beginning of July.

Blood pressure is consistently in the 115/65 range.

And resting heart rate hangs in the mid 50's.

On the downside, I need new clothes.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024

***
Diet and walking will do it! Good work!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

23 On the downside, I need new clothes.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:32 AM (a1415)
===

VIA this is such great news congratulations.

My therapist says "do not keep your fat clothes" because that gives subconscious license to backslide.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2024 04:43 AM (RIvkX)

24 Heh. "Unpack".

An innocuous looking word that really means "dedicate one room of your house as the place where all the stuff you can't find is, loosely organized into cardboard boxes, while you spend a decade just going out and buying another one of whatever it is you can't find".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024

***
I have a kitchen closet like that. And boxes of stuff in my bedroom.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:43 AM (omVj0)

25 Oops! Time to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 04:44 AM (omVj0)

26 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024

Congratulations!

Slow and steady wins the race…

Posted by: Adriane the Shower Curtain INSIDE the Tub Critic . . . at October 10, 2024 04:46 AM (TX4bP)

27 Congratulations!

Slow and steady wins the race…
Posted by: Adriane the Shower Curtain INSIDE the Tub Critic . . . at October 10, 2024 04:46 AM (TX4bP)

... unless you're doing intermittent fasting?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:48 AM (DDGz9)

28 I have a question for Wolfus when he comes back.

About 45? years ago I went on a hike with the cub scouts in New Orleans. It was somewhere on the West Bank, on the levee.... we walked along the levee where there was a refinery on the other side and then stopped to eat at a park with a lot of shade and baseball diamonds.

I can't figure out anything about the situation when I look on google maps, there's not a refinery where I think there should be downriver of the Big New Orleans bridge, and no parks that fit my memory.

I think of the walk, and that park, though, occasionally when I walk in a park near a baseball diamond.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 10, 2024 04:51 AM (qSGog)

29 Any sufficiently advanced form of arrogant stupidity is indistinguishable from sabotage. Or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 04:51 AM (DDGz9)

30 "unless you're doing intermittent fasting?"

Does 'not eating between 9:00PM and 7:00AM qualify as Intermittent Fasting'?

Other than that, it's the 4 mile walk every morning, and a constant awareness of carb intake that seems to be doing it.

But...I do miss bread.

Fresh hot french bread slathered in cold Wegman's Butter Boy French butter with sea salt crystals in it.

I think I would hurt someone for some of that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:53 AM (a1415)

31 This CBS interview kerfuffle seems to be getting more and more bizarre.

Insty has a thread analyzing two audio tracks to show the deceptive editing done to help Harris sound less brain dead and less Israel supporting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:58 AM (a1415)

32 Does 'not eating between 9:00PM and 7:00AM qualify as Intermittent Fasting'?...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 04:53 AM (a1415)

I have no clue. I was just making a terrible pun.

I do know that my "non-eating" window has been roughly 6PM to 9AM for just about my entire life, before there was even a word for doing that on purpose, and I've always been in decent enough shape despite eating like a taste-blind racoon with a tape worm outside of that window.

Data is not the plural of anecdote, but i figured i'd share.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 05:00 AM (DDGz9)

33 " I was just making a terrible pun. "

That was how I took it.

And my reply was an equally terrible effort at a pun based response.

We're Morons....it's what we do.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 05:01 AM (a1415)

34 I'm going to try sleeping a little... I'll check this thread when I wake up. Does this ring any bells?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 10, 2024 05:10 AM (lH/yY)

35 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 10, 2024 05:13 AM (tRufZ)

36 Mornin'

Vacation over, back to my regularly scheduled vampire shift. Meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2024 05:14 AM (sAmhv)

37 So if i make a parody video with "AI", I'm going to jail, but if a priest of the cult of gender confused chicken littles straight up splices a video together deceptively and pretends it accurately depicts reality, they're golden?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2024 05:16 AM (DDGz9)

38 "but if a priest of the cult of gender confused chicken littles straight up splices a video together deceptively and pretends it accurately depicts reality, they're golden?"

Yes, if it is done in order to fight disinformation
-CBS

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 05:21 AM (a1415)

39 Alrighty....time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 10, 2024 05:22 AM (a1415)

40 And there goes the archive.org site again, another day, another DDOS attack. *sighs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 10, 2024 05:24 AM (O7YUW)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 10, 2024 05:24 AM (hoCmQ)

42 Happy Thursday

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 10, 2024 05:33 AM (gbOdA)

43 Here's a really stupid question, but you people who are more technologically proficient than I am seem to be patient with me. ( Thanks) My phone is saying "Update ID settings". How do I do that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 05:36 AM (ajx+J)

44 G'Day everyone
Late evening in Delaware today so no hurry to get to job before that.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2024 05:37 AM (fwDg9)

45 I'd be happy if I could run like a 4 year old.

Posted by: meh at October 10, 2024 05:38 AM (wYr/K)

46 And have blueberries for pancakes

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2024 05:38 AM (fwDg9)

47 Here's a really stupid question, but you people who are more technologically proficient than I am seem to be patient with me. ( Thanks) My phone is saying "Update ID settings". How do I do that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 05:36 AM (ajx+J)

You need a hammer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 10, 2024 05:43 AM (3pDo5)

48 An encouraging psalm about trust in the Lord even amidst troubles- psalm 27:

https://tinyurl.com/7b87hpat

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 05:44 AM (ajx+J)

49 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 10, 2024 05:43 AM (3pDo5

Thanks for the laugh. I sometimes fel that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 05:46 AM (ajx+J)

50 Spouse says I should tell you that phone says "Update Apple ID settings" . He doesn't like cell phones either. He used to have a flip phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 05:51 AM (1mEJS)

51 Good morning! Any word from any morons in FL? Looks like the storm is just offshore from a friend's locale in Melbourne right now.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 10, 2024 05:53 AM (3Ope8)

52
About 45? years ago I went on a hike with the cub scouts in New Orleans. It was somewhere on the West Bank, on the levee.... we walked along the levee where there was a refinery on the other side and then stopped to eat at a park with a lot of shade and baseball diamonds.

I can't figure out anything about the situation when I look on google maps, there's not a refinery where I think there should be downriver of the Big New Orleans bridge, and no parks that fit my memory.

I think of the walk, and that park, though, occasionally when I walk in a park near a baseball diamond.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 10, 2024

***
Hey, TfSM,

I reread your post. You're talking about the part beyond the Naval Support station, where the levee trail emerges from it and runs on down toward the area they now call English Turn? In '79 I think the Tenneco Refinery was still a going concern on the East Bank, across from what you're talking about, and downriver from Chalmette Battlefield. Baseball diamond, I'm not sure about. But I didn't live on the WB until '88, so I don't know what they might have had. (cont.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

53 You need a ball peen hammer.

Posted by: Aktshullay at October 10, 2024 05:54 AM (DobEs)

54 (cont., For TfSM) There's been new housing, homes I mean, developed just off the levee in recent years. In '79 there might have been more open fields and maybe even a baseball diamond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

55 Police officer helps young man fix his tie for his graduation and then returns to his duties:

https://tinyurl.com/2ca9bwhe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 06:03 AM (3r1AA)

56 Tea. Duke of Earl. Hoth.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 10, 2024 06:06 AM (U1w17)

57 TfSM: Do you remember seeing the Chalmette Monument, the miniature Washington Monument, sticking up on the East Bank? It's visible from the levee in the area you're talking about. As a kid when we played on the battlefield site, I used to stand on the river levee there and wonder what lay on the other side, i.e., the West Bank. Now I live there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2024 06:06 AM (omVj0)

58 According to the map, Milton moderated quickly and passed over Florida pretty fast. Hoping that that minimized the damage.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 10, 2024 06:09 AM (U1w17)

59 I took the shower and the nap, then read the comments. Thinking I should mark the boxes "free stuff" and leave it by the road. Ha ha!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 10, 2024 06:10 AM (xezmO)

60 Elvis Presley sings a great gospel song, ( When the storms of life are raging) "Stand by me" :

https://tinyurl.com/5f8pm9ca

Prayers for people affected by Helene and Milton
and thanks to the many people trying to help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 06:25 AM (OLHys)

61 Two Aussies dissing on Kiwi Captain who sank her ship.

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

Glorious language warning.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2024 06:34 AM (rYTXp)

62 mornin yall. I see Anderson Cooper got drilled in the face again. Not sure why that's news.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2024 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

63
Tucker Carlson: "If he loses man, what?" (laughing) "You're fvcked dude."

Elon Musk: (Laughing) "I'm fvcked. If he loses, I'm fvcked."

Tucker Carlson: "It does seem that way."

https://is.gd/TQ8emm

/1:48:41 long

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 10, 2024 06:39 AM (RKVpM)

64 Data can be a monster.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2024 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

65 Musk is becoming the #2 Public Enemy to the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2024 06:53 AM (fwDg9)

66 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

This is excellent news.

Got any wedding stories?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2024 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

67 I've got a crew coming to replace 11 windows today. All of the upper floor windows and some downstairs. They are not even going to get here until noon and think they will be done today. I don't see how that's possible. I'm going to be watching very closely.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2024 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

68
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 10, 2024 06:56 AM (gbOdA)

69 Thinking I should mark the boxes "free stuff" and leave it by the road. Ha ha!
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Nobody wants free stuff. Say $15 per box, $10 for small, and they’ll be gone before you get home from work.

Posted by: Adriane the Shower Curtain INSIDE the Tub Critic . . . at October 10, 2024 06:58 AM (TX4bP)

70 Damn. I’m getting cynical.

Posted by: Adriane the Shower Curtain INSIDE the Tub Critic . . . at October 10, 2024 06:58 AM (TX4bP)

71 So was Milton all hat and no cattle, i.e. Weather Channel/The Shrine of AGW hyperbole?
(for which I would be thankful for those in its path)

Posted by: Ciampino - Milton Update? at October 10, 2024 06:59 AM (qfLjt)

72 71 So was Milton all hat and no cattle, i.e. Weather Channel/The Shrine of AGW hyperbole?
(for which I would be thankful for those in its path)
Posted by: Ciampino

The weather is hard. Klimate on the other hand, super easy. Eat bugs, live in pods, reduce human population by 75%

Posted by: The Weather Channel at October 10, 2024 07:06 AM (sAmhv)

73 So, FenSon had an interview unlike any interview I've ever hear of. The supervisor had his resume and recommendation from a previous employer, but he just showed him around the site and didn't ask him any questions. Son asked questions. Man said, " I think your skills would be helpful here and if you decide to go to graduate school" and then told him, "I'll let you know by Friday." Seems an odd way of doing things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2024 07:14 AM (r1KaX)

74 "Sure, [Elon]'s worth a quarter of a trillion dollars, but we've got him this time."

Next time you see someone cackling with glee at how Twitter/X's evaluation has gone from $44B to $8B or so, remember: Elon Musk was basically forced to pay the $44B, or lose however many billions in pulling out of the deal. He tried to get it restructured, because it probably wasn't even worth $44B. He tried to get a "bot" discount, to determine how many fake accounts were that were pumping up the evaluation.

But they didn't, and he had to spend $$$ rather than lose it. That was a LOT of money, and there's about no hope of earning it back. So? That's not business money at this point. It's F.U. money.

Twitter, now X, is Musk's plaything.

That he's now heavily into free speech, especially in contrast to how the Twits of before blatantly censored and attacked people they didn't like, is a fortunate thing. He could have been a Soros, funneling money and power into destroying things and extracting the blood and money from it (see the UK's "Black Wednesday"). But he builds things, makes things, and with Twitter/X, pushes the American Dream of freedom.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 10, 2024 09:09 AM (QNMaY)

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