Daily Tech News 16 October 2024

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Again with the Torquemada: The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve has explained that nobody buys anything with Bitcoin (because the government makes it as difficult as possible) and it's a lousy hedge against inflation, having gained just, um, 1000% against the dollar over the last five years. (WCCFTech)
Of course, Kashkari is on record for stating elsewhere that there is an "infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve."
Right.

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SpaceX is working on plans to boost Starlink to gigabit speeds. (Notebook Check)

This will be done using the Gen2 satellites the company started launching last year, that will also provide direct-to-satellite phone service once that is approved by ground-based authorities.
If you're still annoyed with Apple unilaterally reducing the lifetime of SSL certificate from five years to one, good news: The company plans to reduce it further to just 45 days. (The Register)

This would completely kill manual installation of SSL certificates. Nobody has time for that.
SSD prices are expected to start declining again as nobody continues to buy the hot new AI PCs. (Tom's Hardware)

Good news. Prices haven't increased that much since manufacturers slowed production anyway, though the very cheapest sale prices have dried up.
Apple has announced a new iPad mini. (9to5Mac)

The CPU is upgraded from the A15 to the A17 chip. Apart from that, it's the same, with the same 1000% markup on storage prices.

Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes. D-5, unless you count X, in which case D-0.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

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

2 Evening and morning to all on this best of all possible Wednesdays! (Of course, if Trump wins we will have an even finer one on Nov. 6.) My weather has cooled a little, though not to the extent the weather mavens promised: 67 F. right now, with humidity down and a brisk NE wind.

I dreamed something blurry about Steve McGarrett, the Jack Lord original, going undercover into a Hispanic drug dealer's household and making friends with the big guy's little daughter. (No, pervs, not that Tim Walz kind of friends --!) For all I know there was an actual Hawaii Five-O episode like that which I've forgotten.

The cats are well. Howz it witchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:11 AM (omVj0)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 16, 2024 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

4
New York Post
@nypost
New photos detail scene where viral star ‘Lieutenant Dan’ was accused of trying to set a woman on fire https://trib.al/DT6QB1D

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 04:15 AM (TGPs7)

5 G'Day everyone

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

6 I once dated her...

New York Post
@nypost
Kentucky ‘spell-casting’ woman who allegedly cooked her mother’s severed head had alias as aspiring actor: report https://trib.al/xYUUsWr

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 04:17 AM (TGPs7)

7 Just finished cooking a pasta concoction with salmon and pesto. Added an onion and some other random veggies. Smells good anyway. I'll eat it before I go to work.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 16, 2024 04:17 AM (sAmhv)

8 Supposedly Harris wants to help people “invest” in Bitcoin.

It ain’t investing. It’s a mind of currency speculation. (Still. Where was she when it was 3c instead of $10,000??)

Posted by: Common Tater at October 16, 2024 04:18 AM (TVefr)

9 G'morning all from sunny South Carolina.

Good to be home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 16, 2024 04:21 AM (a1415)

10 Kim Dotcom
@KimDotcom
North Korea prepares for war? They blow up the roads and rails that used to connect the North and the South. Kim Jong Un has ordered artillery units to move near the border with ‘readiness to engage’. If the US starts a war with Iran WW3 is guaranteed.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 04:35 AM (TGPs7)

11 Morning

Posted by: Caf at October 16, 2024 04:37 AM (/+mVZ)

12 I am sensing that Kamala's interview with Charlamagne perhaps did not go as well as she might have wished it to.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 16, 2024 04:37 AM (a1415)

13 "This would completely kill manual installation of SSL certificates. Nobody has time for that."

"Certificates as a service."

And those services will become a very juicy target for the forces of darkness, as gaining access to and/or control of those entities will ensure the ability to snoop on, or compromise anyone. The ability to successfully MITM (man in the middle) attack any site that uses a compromised issuer's certificates in order to inject ransomware to multiple targets has to have those evil groups more than a little excited as the possibilities.

I'm gonna have nightmares. Yup. Definitely nightmares.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 16, 2024 04:39 AM (O7YUW)

14 @13/self: "as the possibilities" --> "at the possibilities".

It's oh-dark-hundred and I haven't had enough coffee to be typing this much.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 16, 2024 04:41 AM (O7YUW)

15 Good morning from the now resplendent Adirondacks. Fall is in full bloom now and some areas are totally gorgeous, with only the oaks remaining their somber browns.

May all effort today result in great benefit to you and cause the leftwits among us massive consternation.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 04:44 AM (hKoQL)

16 See this morning Brett Baer Bear whatever from Fox Democrats Propaganda Ministry is going to probably play Tee Ball with Kamaunist as well.

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:45 AM (fwDg9)

17 I can only imagine Kamaunist has a list of what can be asked, and all in writing handed in 24 hours before before a " interview " can be agreed on.

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:47 AM (fwDg9)

18 It is chilly out, better soon get winter cost out

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:51 AM (fwDg9)

19 Clear out too
Forward Dog 9 hitting long road again

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:52 AM (fwDg9)

20 That's 4 in a row

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:53 AM (fwDg9)

21 (golf clap)

Well done, Skip! ;-)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 16, 2024 04:56 AM (sAmhv)

22 See this morning Brett Baer Bear whatever from Fox Democrats Propaganda Ministry is going to probably play Tee Ball with Kamaunist as well.
Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:45 AM (fwDg9)

Normies are generally perplexed when i say i hate Fox news. I explain they're worse than partisan leftist news, because they take the lies and distortions of the partisan leftist news as given and construct a farcical fake "conservative" spin on it, so that if your only source of info is them, you'll find yourself floundering in any argument with a leftist because you don't actually have the truth on your side. It's like buying all your guns from China after declaring war on China.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2024 04:57 AM (DDGz9)

23 That's 4 in a row
Posted by: Skip

Skip is playing "Connect 4"

Next up...Popamatic

Posted by: Bruce at October 16, 2024 04:58 AM (ins2D)

24 I'm gonna have nightmares. Yup. Definitely nightmares.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 16, 2024 04:39 AM (O7YUW)

Imagine having to get the County Department of Locks to mail you a new house key every month.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2024 04:59 AM (DDGz9)

25 Thinking sausage and waffles for breakfast or maybe French toast, there's a little jug of maple syrup left from last year I just found.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 05:03 AM (hKoQL)

26 What if you made French toast in a waffle iron? Then you would have little divots for all the syrup, and CBD would have no idea why the back of his head is suddenly knotted up and his eye is twitching.

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

27 What if you made French toast in a waffle iron? Then you would have little divots for all the syrup, and CBD would have no idea why the back of his head is suddenly knotted up and his eye is twitching.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at October 16, 2024 05:06 AM (ins2D)

28 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 16, 2024 05:13 AM (a1415)

29 As tech giants continue to shove AI down our throats, in the vein of the "if it's a free service, you're the product" rule, I have to wonder what the tech giants get out of *us* using AI. How does it profit Google to help me with word choices in an email? And yes, I said "profit" instead of "social conditioning" for a reason.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wondering about the bottom line at October 16, 2024 05:18 AM (dtlDP)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 16, 2024 05:20 AM (MAPtK)

31 "The gloves are truly off:"
I watched the video. Now I'm buying bitcoin

Posted by: Nato at October 16, 2024 05:29 AM (ciuRb)

32 If the US starts a war with Iran WW3 is guaranteed.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 04:35 AM (TGPs7)

The world is riddled with nascent regional conflicts just waiting for a nudge to boil over into open war.

Once upon a time, it was clear who America would support, that America would be the deciding factor, and that American support would typically go to the party less likely to light the candle on their own, so conflicts tended to remain nascent. Now, America dithers, no one knows who is calling the shots anymore, and the American military is comparatively weak anyway, so that cooling effect is disappearing.

Ironically, the weaker America continues to become, the less likely there will be a World War, but the more likely there will simply be a World At War. More of a battle royale than a MOBA, if that makes sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2024 05:29 AM (DDGz9)

33 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 16, 2024 05:35 AM (hoCmQ)

34 Good Morning

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 16, 2024 05:38 AM (dR6yv)

35 I would like to see the Taliban invade Iran and topple the mullahs.

Just for shits and grins.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2024 05:40 AM (DDGz9)

36 The election of Trump will keep the nascent conflict probabilities at their current level. The world has already seen him in action and knows what to expect.

I expect that my NCO cadre will unfuck the process immediately when the opportunity is provided.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 05:42 AM (hKoQL)

37 New photos detail scene where viral star ‘Lieutenant Dan’ was accused of trying to set a woman on fire https://trib.al/DT6QB1D
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 04:15
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Had to check. Not the original "Lieutenant Dan", Gary Sinise. The loon who rode out Milton on his boat, Joseph Malinowski.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 16, 2024 05:45 AM (hoCmQ)

38 "When the past tries to define you." A reflection on 2nd Corinthians 5:17:

https://tinyurl.com/kyfw93xa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 05:49 AM (dkxzo)

39 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 05:52 AM (BkKar)

40 Bitcoin? Tulips—that’s the real future.

Posted by: DavidH at October 16, 2024 05:55 AM (UpYpD)

41 A nice old hymn to sing when the song rises " When morning gilds the skies."

https://tinyurl.com/2s3cxmdb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 05:56 AM (jQVUO)

42 "SpaceX is working on plans to boost Starlink to gigabit speeds."

And if Harris wins, that will come to an end because her administration will demand equity and that SpaceX provide everything for free.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 16, 2024 05:56 AM (lXoJ5)

43 College students sing an old time hymn, " I need thee every hour.":

https://tinyurl.com/yc7ap9ds

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 06:05 AM (jQVUO)

44 Below freezing for the first time this season. Thinking a bit of the delicious chicken pot pie I made for dinner last night might make strengthening breakfast. We'll see.

Posted by: lizabth at October 16, 2024 06:06 AM (Jfw7U)

45 - @35 W.O.

The Taliban may get overthrown by a more radical Islamic group before that. I said may...
See - ISIS-K Khorasan

Posted by: TeeJ at October 16, 2024 06:07 AM (/vvA5)

46 Good read there, Fen, on 2nd Cor.

"Behold, I make all things new."

Posted by: lizabth at October 16, 2024 06:08 AM (Jfw7U)

47 For me, Amazing Grace done by bagpipe is the most tremendously moving experience I can listen to. Quite simply awesome.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 06:13 AM (hKoQL)

48 There is nothing out there that one innocent bystander would think Kamaunist even has a slim chance. Yet we are to believe it's close.

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 06:15 AM (ZjfBh)

49 48 There is nothing out there that one innocent bystander would think Kamaunist even has a slim chance. Yet we are to believe it's close.
Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 06:15 AM (ZjfBh)

We have to act like it is. Do not underestimate the power of the fear mongering the media and the dems (But I repeat myself) will engage in.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 16, 2024 06:16 AM (lXoJ5)

50 best story of the day so far:

Astonishing moment a dog is spotted at the top of 455ft Great PYRAMID of Giza after climbing up to bark at birds

https://tinyurl.com/yjkt3fss
Daily Mail

Posted by: Don Black reminding you to leash your dog at October 16, 2024 06:17 AM (/7KEl)

51 For me, Amazing Grace done by bagpipe is the most tremendously moving experience I can listen to. Quite simply awesome.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 06:13 AM (hKoQL)

Battle Hymn of the Republic by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2024 06:18 AM (i24o9)

52 - Fen, lizabth

Love the apostle Paul.
Getting "schooled" by someone who knew and understood the Old Testament as well as anyone, as well as the Gospel and things to come (after he got knocked off a donkey and schooled by the Lord) is a treasure trove.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 16, 2024 06:20 AM (/vvA5)

53 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 16, 2024 06:21 AM (U1w17)

54 Today is National Fossil Day.

Guess they had to get Sleepy Joe on the calendar, somehow.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 16, 2024 06:23 AM (U1w17)

55 For me, Amazing Grace done by bagpipe is the most tremendously moving experience I can listen to. Quite simply awesome.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

For voice version: Look up Judy Collins singing it. YouTube.
Her version circa '69. I've not heard one better.
Starts off a capella.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 06:27 AM (BkKar)

56 54 Today is National Fossil Day.

Have any good fossil recipes?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 16, 2024 06:29 AM (JRP2U)

57 Have any good fossil recipes?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 16, 2024 06:29 AM (JRP2U)
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Braised trilobite in fern sauce.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 16, 2024 06:29 AM (U1w17)

58 G'mornin' everyone!

well said @ 22, W-o!

@ 26, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 16, 2024 06:32 AM (UWgy2)

59 A cold morning here at Stately Poppins Manor in northeastern MA. Had the alarm set for 4am, but couldn't drag myself out of bed, so am paying the price for it now. I know the adrenaline will kick in about an hour from now, but until then. . .

See you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 16, 2024 06:33 AM (Q0kLU)

60 Because dear posters mention this procedure sometimes oh here: Comedian Tim Hawkins sings about having a colonoscopy:

https://tinyurl.com/wc8uhjw8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 06:33 AM (jmrxB)

61 I'm going to post something descriptive of my beloved country and I categorically defy anyone to rebut this post.

We live in the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people, governed, not ruled by a political system unique in history.

It should be further noted that throughout our history we have met and prevailed over issues even more serious than this current one, with an unbroken record of success. We have embraced this struggle of our predecessors to the point it has become our heritage to continue in order to ensure our Republic endures. There is no reason that we shall not remain victorious in this event.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 06:38 AM (hKoQL)

62 - Some things you might not know about fossils, dinosaurs and such. See evidence "they" somehow left out in school.

https://tinyurl.com/hahh6mpm

Posted by: TeeJ at October 16, 2024 06:38 AM (/vvA5)

63 I'm one of those weirdos who likes bagpipes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 06:39 AM (whpAX)

64 Thanks for the word of encouragement, IronGrandpa.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 06:40 AM (whpAX)

65 Regarding the Bitcoin article...

I know enough about Bitcoin to not invest in it. Not out of worry for my finance but due to my lack of knowledge about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 16, 2024 06:40 AM (lXoJ5)

66 there are things we know we don't know

Posted by: Don Black reminding you to leash your dog at October 16, 2024 06:43 AM (/7KEl)

67 Kamala has set back race relations almost 50 years.
The pandering, name calling, and outright lies will baked into the next generation of young Americans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 16, 2024 06:44 AM (gbOdA)

68 Kashkari is correct...there is an infinite amount of cash in the Federal Reserve. He just doesn't understand that its value decreases faster than he can generate it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2024 06:44 AM (mHL3/)

69 There are things we don’t know we don’t know

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 16, 2024 06:44 AM (JRP2U)

70 "infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve."
But FEMA's broke.

Posted by: The rooster is cuckadoodaling at October 16, 2024 06:45 AM (rzwGB)

71 >Kamala has set back race relations almost 50 years.
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so, added to obama's damage, that makes a century

Posted by: Don Black reminding you to leash your dog at October 16, 2024 06:46 AM (/7KEl)

72 61 There is no reason that we shall not remain victorious in this event.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 16, 2024 06:38 AM (hKoQL)

Thank you for that. It's easy to feel frustrated and discouraged about things and that essay was good for perspective.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 16, 2024 06:46 AM (lXoJ5)

73 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 06:46 AM (IUd0M)

74 Posted by: TeeJ at October 16, 2024 06:20 AM (/vvA5

Yes; Wonderful stuff by the Apostle Paul. I have been trying to encourage my son with Philippians 3:12 ff because he feels bad about something in his past.

May you and others have a blessed day in the Lord!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2024 06:49 AM (tO+ag)

75 - IRONGRAMPA

As always, well said. Wish I could write like that.
"Throughout our history" is the key phrase though.
The difference between "then" and now though is that, over the course of my lifetime (last 70 years), trust that the Bible is the inspired by the Holy Spirit, Word of God, has been largely schooled out of most.
"The science" says billions of years and evolution, after all.

That's why I put up links, like @62, and others on astronomy and such. They show you can take God's Word for what it says. Including Genesis 1.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 16, 2024 06:58 AM (/vvA5)

76 good news: The company plans to reduce it further to just 45 days.
Just block Apple (Safari) from accessing your website.

Posted by: GWB at October 16, 2024 07:25 AM (E8qwH)

77 )))) Hot girls are waiting for you on -- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Ammina at October 16, 2024 12:58 PM (46E11)

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