Daily Tech News 23 July 2025

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Replit, the company whose AI "Agent" deleted a user's production database, has promised that its AI "Agent" will no longer delete users' production databases in the future. (The Register)

Basically the system currently uses the same database for test and production, with no built-in rollback support.

When using an entirely experimental technology, this is kind of a bad idea.

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Sixunited, the company that is making that AMD Strix Halo laptop I mentioned recently, is also planning a Strix Halo mini-ITX motherboard. (Tom's Hardware)

Strix Halo has a 256-bit memory bus using soldered LPDDR5 memory to drive its built-in RTX 4070-level graphics, so this board will come with up to 128GB of RAM, which you can't upgrade.

And... A VGA port? That seems to be a configuration option.
Everyone loves a four-day work week. (The Register)

As long as they still get paid for five days.

This study did not measure productivity at all; it is 100% lopsided.
The latest version of the Brave browser automatically blocks Microsoft Recall from screenshotting its tabs. (Brave)

Recall by design remembers everything you have ever looked at, including all the private data you have ever had visible in your web browser.

This is obviously insane, but in the initial version Microsoft went one step further and put all the collected data in a single, completely unprotected database on your disk drive.

Vtuber Newsy News

Vshojo is no more.

As far as I can tell, all the talents have left, including the brand new ones who were presumably still under contract.

News coming out now is more about indie talents like Mint Fantome and Phoebe Chan (her actual name) who were working to create a new unit within VShojo and have been left high and dry.

Also gone is merchandise that has been paid for but will likely never ship.

Also also gone are payments to artists, video editors, and music producers who worked with the talents, even though VShojo would presumably have taken the money out of the talents' accounts, which seem to be also gone.

Slightly less gone is the half a million dollars raised for charity by vtuber Ironmouse that VShojo allegedly lost.

And the only reason that isn't gone is that the fans rallied and have raised another $800k since yesterday.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Go indie, young vtuber!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

2 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:30 AM (NXz8h)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:30 AM (VFv8R)

4 good morning

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 23, 2025 04:30 AM (89Sog)

5 This is where the gold coins come pouring out of the slot machine, right?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:31 AM (VFv8R)

6 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at July 23, 2025 04:32 AM (NC/it)

7 That or we all get arrested.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:33 AM (NXz8h)

8 What, no Ozzy?

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:34 AM (aURVT)

9 5 This is where the gold coins come pouring out of the slot machine, right?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:31 AM (VFv8R)

7 That or we all get arrested.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:33 AM (NXz8h)

heh

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

10 What, no Ozzy?

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:34 AM (aURVT)
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Pixy is right her, ya know.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:36 AM (VFv8R)

11 That Vshojo situation is wild. Sounds like the company ran out of money about four months ago and just stopped paying the bills.

Kson said she hadn't been paid since September. You know things are going well for you financially when you can wait nine months to get paid.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2025 04:37 AM (B9Dv5)

12 Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Birmingham 2012
https://youtu.be/cen1SvpTsYk

RIP..

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:40 AM (NXz8h)

13 Sydney Morning Herald:

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May praised Osbourne’s final performance fronting Black Sabbath at a July 5 concert in Birmingham, the industrial English city where Osbourne was born and where the band later formed in 1968, as a “glorious” send off.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:40 AM (aURVT)

14 So.... anyone here a US registered organ donor?

https://tinyurl.com/2c27r7k3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:41 AM (VFv8R)

15 10 What, no Ozzy?

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:34 AM (aURVT)
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Pixy is right her[e], ya know.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:36 AM (VFv8R)

Or not!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

16 A rule for better living.

Do not try to outwit a comedian that has a microphone. Especially if you have been drinking which is about 100% likely if you're at a comedy show.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:50 AM (NXz8h)

17 A rule for better living.

Do not try to outwit a comedian that has a microphone. Especially if you have been drinking which is about 100% likely if you're at a comedy show.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:50 AM (NXz8h)
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What did you do?

WHAT DID YOU DO, AP?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 04:52 AM (VFv8R)

18 Thought experiment. Imagine Beethoven with the orchestra of his choosing and Black Sabbath performing at the same show.

With this in mind we begin to understand why Rock and Roll took over the music world and annihilated the previous thousand year history of western music. The soundtrack to our collective lives is nothing less than modern classical music.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 04:57 AM (NXz8h)

19 Recall by design remembers everything you have ever looked at, including all the private data you have ever had visible in your web browser.

This is obviously insane, but in the initial version Microsoft went one step further and put all the collected data in a single, completely unprotected database on your disk drive.

I assume that they then went ahead and shared that database globally, opening ports and bypassing network security as needed to make the feature as asinine as possible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 05:03 AM (ExV1e)

20 What did you do?

WHAT DID YOU DO, AP?!?!?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

I went to a local comedy show a few weeks ago where some nitwit in the audience decided he was going to be the show. The initial sparring match was brutal and then the real slugfest took off for the rest of the show when this nitwit became the punchline of every joke. After about 30 minutes of this endless abuse the guy's wife wife hauled him of the place to a barrage of insults and a standing ovation from the audience. Double plus good show.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 05:05 AM (NXz8h)

21 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 05:10 AM (AN2gy)

22 Microsoft Recall:

They'll just save two copies of a full-screen screen-shot; one showing everything that only Microsoft can access, and a second with application windows masked where that setting was turned on that the users can access.

Because they're so trustworthy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

23 >>> With this in mind we begin to understand why Rock and Roll took over the music world and annihilated the previous thousand year history of western music. The soundtrack to our collective lives is nothing less than modern classical music.

I'm listening to Handel on the radio right now..

I also think that a lot of pop music producers borrowed from Beethoven in the 60s.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 05:16 AM (AN2gy)

24 I thought this was a touching devotional . Man from West Virginia talks about his mother teaching him to pray. and what to pray when not sure what to pray. Scripture is Romans 8:26-30:

https://tinyurl.com/44kpv3we

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 05:17 AM (2GCMq)

25 Man saves a child from an attack by mountain lion in Washington State :

https://tinyurl.com/2t595car

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 05:21 AM (2GCMq)

26 War Pigs
Black Sabbath
2017 The End Tour
https://youtu.be/zY5nYmTUfnQ

I saw the band on this tour. The audience on the floor was exactly like this video, a seething mass that knew every song and lyric. The show was more like Black Sabbath and the Multitudes Choir. The Mormon Tabernacle choir they weren't. It was pandemonium at its finest.

And in case you are thinking that was the show, you would be wrong. That band on that tour was some of the finest playing I have ever heard in my life in any genre. The synchronicity between the band was sublime and the fact that it was at a thundering 100 decibels was a blanket of indescribable mayhem.

Using the phrase "fine art" and Black Sabbath in the same phrase is counterintuitive, but that is absolutely what happened.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 05:25 AM (NXz8h)

27 Old time hymn:

Turn your eyes upon Jesus:

https://tinyurl.com/wyzvc839

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 05:25 AM (2GCMq)

28 I went searching on YuToob, but could not find a particular Black Sabbath jazz performance. Apparently there is Jazz Sabbath.

I had run across it before and IIRC it was recorded in 1974.

If you want to hear Tony Iommi's taste in jazz, just give War Pigs a spin.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 05:27 AM (AN2gy)

29 I'm listening to Handel on the radio right now. I also think that a lot of pop music producers borrowed from Beethoven in the 60s.
Posted by: fluffy

Pop music is pop music, Some of it's great. Most of it's dreck. Rock and Roll is a whole different thing. I don't disregard classical music at all as I absolutely love it and listen to it all the time. I only mentioned this perspective to point out that the music we lived through is as great as anything that's ever been done. It's just a wee bit different in its ethos and compositional approach.

An example.

Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
The Delicate Sound of Thunder Tour 1988
https://youtu.be/6uSeFVGfn9M

This music borrows from nobody. Gilmore's solo is arguably the greatest guitar solo of all time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 05:34 AM (NXz8h)

30
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 23, 2025 05:36 AM (tljrc)

31 >>> Rock and Roll is a whole different thing. I only mentioned this perspective to point out that the music we lived through is as great as anything that's ever been done. It's just a wee bit different in its ethos and compositional approach.

Good point and well stated. My view of popular music is anyone looking to get a hit record played on the radio. This includes the likes of The Gratefully Dead, Sabbath or Pink Floyd (name that song!).

I'm going to have a difficult time lbringing myself to listen to that version of Comfortably Numb. I loathe that album. Pink Floyd's White Album.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 05:43 AM (AN2gy)

32 I had no idea golfer Scottie Scheffler was a follower of Christ. Apparently he talked about the importance of faith and family after winning the British open:

https://tinyurl.com/4ec7j9kw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 05:44 AM (2GCMq)

33 I'm going to have a difficult time bringing myself to listen to that version of Comfortably Numb. I loathe that album. Pink Floyd's White Album.
Posted by: fluffy

Your loss This performance is at the zenith of artistry.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 05:47 AM (NXz8h)

34 Finally, I can feel the coffee starting to kick in...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

35 A good Weoden's Day evening to the late toilers, and morning to the early risers/insomaniacals! I had no idea of the name of the "Wild, Wild West" group. I recall hearing the single when it was new, along with The Pet Shop Boys' "East End Boys, West End Girls," and hear them now on the '80s oldies station here. But I did not know who the artists were.

Like everybody else, I thought the PSB song was "Eastern Boys, Western Girls," since I couldn't make out any of the other lyrics. That title suggests something very different from the London of the '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

36 Anyway (as our former and unlamented "President Autopen" used to say)! I am up, sipping coffee. Yesterday was the first day since the surgery where I felt like a real human again, and that continues, so far, today.

The furry thugs have been fed.

Whassup wit' yoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

37 >>> Your loss This performance is at the zenith of artistry.

I'll try to screw up my courage. Pink Floyd made a lot of great music. The Wall was a big miss for me.

Just realized Run Like Hell was from The Wall. Got to keep a semi-open mind.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 05:55 AM (AN2gy)

38 Yesterday was a lovely day for which I thank God. Some of the things which I appreciate were going to RC Mass with spouse at a lovely tiny chapel ( No; I did not take the Eucharist ) and I enjoyed the priests homily. It's nice to see people of a variety of ethnic groups worshipping ,and I had a strong feeling that a young guy kneeling on the carpet up front because there was no kneeler there may be considering entering the priesthood . Also, saw some lovely flowers at a local garden including Roses, some spotted lillies and hydrangea. and snowball bushes. I saw a black butterfly with blue on the bottom of its wings and a spotted fawn crossing the road Finally, I had a lovely visit and communion with our 98 year old retired organist. She is a sweetie I am thankful that I can find things to thank God for everyday!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

39 And... A VGA port? That seems to be a configuration option.

You never know when you might need to plug in that 20 lb. CRT 17” monitor you’ve been keeping around “just in case”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 05:57 AM (6ydKt)

40 The idea of doing testing without having a test database to work on . . . "I'm going to write each of you people a little prescription for a schizophrenia med cocktail, okay?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

41 Temp here at 5 am is 83 F., with a unbreathable heat index of 94 (!). I'm glad I'm not going to work out in it. Rain possible today, more likely Thurs. and Fri.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

42 And... A VGA port? That seems to be a configuration option.

You never know when you might need to plug in that 20 lb. CRT 17” monitor you’ve been keeping around “just in case”.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025

***
It's nice and warm; your cat will love sitting on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

43 Good morning Pixy!

My hard drive died in March.
I lost my Microsoft account. That was a gift that kept giving.

I have a few games on Steam. Not much - Baldur's Gate, FTL, Zork and a few other cheap things.

Trying to retrieve my account has been hell. Amazon was easier.

Apparently, "my games" aren't mine unless they are in my physical possession. But all of us already knew that. Just like the few movies I bought from Amazon on Prime are "mine" but I can't watch them until signing up for Prime again.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.3 % at July 23, 2025 06:03 AM (jvJvP)

44 O. K folks . Need to clean out my car prior to a service appointment . Please continue to keep in prayer for healing poster "Tecumseh Tea ", a dear lady and ASHQ poster who has some heart issues, and if you could also pray for P, a friend up here- well she's in Texas right now and may have surgery soon- who also had some heart issues . Thanks so much!

May you have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 06:04 AM (2GCMq)

45 Your "Canada is Crazy" moment of the day:

https://tinyurl.com/4uaanvym

National Post: Dead Toronto raccoon whose sidewalk memorial went viral in 2015 immortalized with heritage plaque

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

46 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 23, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

47 I'll try to screw up my courage. Pink Floyd made a lot of great music. The Wall was a big miss for me.

Just realized Run Like Hell was from The Wall. Got to keep a semi-open mind.
Posted by: fluffy

What is on record and what happened at this performance bare slight resemblance to each other.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 06:08 AM (NXz8h)

48 >>> Birdbath status?

Gave it a scrub yesterday afternoon, so relatively clean.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 06:10 AM (AN2gy)

49 I liked “The Wall”.

I was listening to it before I ever tried listening to Dark Side of the Moon (I’d heard the singles, just not the entire album).

Plus, The Wall is a double album and they even made the feature-length video for it with the marching Nazi hammers.

It’s too bad Roger Waters is so insane politically.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:11 AM (6ydKt)

50 >>> What is on record and what happened at this performance bare slight resemblance to each other.

I'll try to find 10 minutes for it, promise this evening.

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 06:13 AM (AN2gy)

51 I'll try to find 10 minutes for it, probably this evening.

F'in autocucumber

Posted by: fluffy at July 23, 2025 06:15 AM (AN2gy)

52 I have a few games on Steam. Not much - Baldur's Gate, FTL, Zork and a few other cheap things.

Trying to retrieve my account has been hell. Amazon was easier.

Consider gog.com for your future gaming needs. You actually download the games without having to deal with the Steam login.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:16 AM (ExV1e)

53 Do any airlines paint nicknames on individual airframes anymore? That Embraer E-175 that dodged the B-52 at Minot deserves a nickname. It should have “BUF Dodger” painted on the front of the fuselage.
I rode a DC-9 into Sheppard AFB once, and was amazed by the extremely tight descending turn on to final approach. Then I realized that the commercial traffic was sharing airspace with third world T-38 student pilots. Avoidance!

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 23, 2025 06:17 AM (1FEc1)

54 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 06:04 AM (2GCMq)

Thank you and prayers sent.

Consider gog.com for your future gaming needs. You actually download the games without having to deal with the Steam login.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:16 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks! I forgot about Gog! I don't have many games and don't have time to play now anyways, but I do remember getting some stuff from them. Thanks for the reminder.

Everyone have an incredible day!

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.3 % at July 23, 2025 06:21 AM (jvJvP)

55 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2025 06:24 AM (hoCmQ)

56 Consider gog.com for your future gaming needs. You actually download the games without having to deal with the Steam login.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:16 AM (ExV1e)

You still have to login through the developer’s app on some of them, though.

Rockstar is notorious for the amount of hoops you have to jump through just to get to the game’s menu.

Ubisoft doesn’t make it easy either.

It’s not not terrible unless you haven’t played in awhile and then you’ve got to update two or three programs to play the game that you also have to update first.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:30 AM (6ydKt)

57 Legal Mindset has laid out how much legal hurt those who are in charge of VShojo could be in since they are a US company based in California. Things like wire fraud.

Some other red flags for this year: Co-founder and the head of talent both left this year.

Co-founder has also made public statement of how shocked they are. Good luck with that defense since KSon has not see a paycheck from VShojo since September. And others are now coming forward with similar stories.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 06:38 AM (gfTyN)

58 I have no way to judge this. War Pigs on a dulcimer

https://youtu.be/2-2Uu0ZsC-w

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2025 06:38 AM (TEi+a)

59 What a nice morning. Have a bowl of Malt-O-Meal and a cup of coffee. Read the news

Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2025 06:39 AM (jgmnb)

60 As for IronMouse's donathon for the IDF, people are going WTF at a donor on the list named Sinder. Is it THAT Sinder?

Mint and Doki have been in race on the donations to out donate each other.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 06:42 AM (gfTyN)

61 “ Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 1:10-11

Posted by: Marcus T at July 23, 2025 06:43 AM (hMp8v)

62 A UK-based transportation company with a venerable 158-year history has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack. Around 500 Northamptonshire-based Knights of Old (KNP) trucks are now off the road, and 700 people have lost their jobs, due to money-grasping cyberattackers, named as ‘Akira’ in a BBC report.

The internet-connected criminals are said to have gained access to KNP’s internet systems via a weak password that was used by one of the employees at the firm. Actually, the password was so weak it was simply guessed correctly, it is thought. …
A ransom note left by the hackers read as follows. “If you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially dead… Let's keep all the tears and resentment to ourselves and try to build a constructive dialogue,” says the BBC report.

https://tinyurl.com/ypuer728
(Tom’s Hardware)

I feel sorry for the employee but the hackers seem to be polite.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

63 Akira as in Akira Kurosawa or Lord Akira?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 06:46 AM (gfTyN)

64
Replit, the company whose AI "Agent" deleted a user's production database, has promised that its AI "Agent" will no longer delete users' production databases in the future.

"Sorry about your database. Here's a gift card."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 06:46 AM (HZi96)

65 Then there is this from Silvervale

VShojo - "We need you to sign this NDA."
Silvervale, "Okay?"
VShojo, "and we need your Mom to sign one also."
Silvervale, "what?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 06:49 AM (gfTyN)

66 I have no way to judge this. War Pigs on a dulcimer

https://youtu.be/2-2Uu0ZsC-w
Posted by: Notsothoreau

That was a virtuoso performance. Given the limits of the dulcimer, it seems that part would have elevated a rock band to a different level. Pretty solid.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 06:49 AM (NXz8h)

67
I feel sorry for the employee but the hackers seem to be polite.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

https://youtu.be/b-bvCy_ZLo4

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 06:50 AM (HZi96)

68 Lol. Go ahead and ransomware my rigs at the shop....

"I regret to inform you that there is literally nothing irreplaceable or important on this system. Feel free to copy all my script what don't work or my data that's randomly generated noise. You have effectively hijacked a garbage bag. I congratulate you on your efforts, though. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2025 06:51 AM (RlmPm)

69 You still have to login through the developer’s app on some of them, though.

Consider a password vault with an encrypted online storage. Even if you don't put anything vital in it, it keeps the passwords you don't use often safe and then it's easier to make them all different - which is a good policy to have.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

70 Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

https://tinyurl.com/4m66zw29
(Tom’s)

People are highly skeptical he could make it for only 20% more, but it wouldn’t be far off from Apple, made in China & India, prices, so somebody might buy it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

71 Has Fauci been indicted yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2025 06:55 AM (XQo4F)

72
Everyone loves a four-day work week.

Everyone loves a 32-hour week but wants to be paid for 40.

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 06:58 AM (HZi96)

73

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 23, 2025 06:59 AM (EFZgU)

74 https://youtu.be/b-bvCy_ZLo4
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 06:50 AM (HZi96)

Can’t complain about his professionalism, can you?

I do wonder if they hid the flutist and drummer somewhere in the bushes, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 06:59 AM (6ydKt)

75 60 As for IronMouse's donathon for the IDF, people are going WTF at a donor on the list named Sinder. Is it THAT Sinder?

Can't say for sure, but maybe the start of a redemption arc? Tricky who is/was friends with Sinder donated a ton of money too.

Mint and Doki have been in race on the donations to out donate each other.
Posted by: Anna Puma

And Nimi just behind.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 23, 2025 07:05 AM (BLOW1)

76 Consider a password vault with an encrypted online storage. Even if you don't put anything vital in it, it keeps the passwords you don't use often safe and then it's easier to make them all different - which is a good policy to have.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

I got an app for that on my phone after I came to the conclusion that keeping a list of logins/passwords on a list in the Notes app was probably not the most secure way to keep track of them.

This was before Apple introduced their Passwords/Keys app.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

77 Morning, one and all! I have a dentist appointment first thing in the morning but I have enough time to hang around here.

Life ain't bad. Especially now that I've had that second cup of coffee.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2025 07:07 AM (7xrfc)

78 Breakfast: scrambled seasoned egg on a whole-grain English muffin; a half-slice of whole-grain bread w/ peanut butter and honey. Breakfast of champions!

Oh, and coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

79 This smelly pile of feces masquerading as Windows 11 for the hundredth time just ate a post and put me in some type limbo where I had to start over to get back here. I was posting about the mishap concerning toes the other day turning out to be worse looking than it was in reality. Blessed be steel toed boots, I say. Didn't realize toes bled like that.

Anyway, allow me to wish for you great benefit in all you do with maximum heartburn affecting the leftwit fungi plaguing us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 23, 2025 07:08 AM (hKoQL)

80 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 23, 2025 07:08 AM (uGaBv)

81 Nimi Nightmare is also getting married.

Yeah people are hoping it is a redemption arc for Ms "It's just business" Sinder.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 07:09 AM (gfTyN)

82
Yet another long, miserable day ahead of me.

- Diana and Puff to the vet.
- Grocery shopping for HM's trip to Longview.
- Giving Varus a bath.
- Loading the RV.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 07:09 AM (HZi96)

83 People are highly skeptical he could make it for only 20% more, but it wouldn’t be far off from Apple, made in China & India, prices, so somebody might buy it.

Unfortunately, unless it is running some flavor of Linux, the OS won't be US, but have huge China and India input.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 23, 2025 07:10 AM (a4flb)

84 Has Fauci been indicted yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2025 06:55 AM (XQo4F)
-

Has anyone?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 07:10 AM (VFv8R)

85 Has anyone?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2025 07:10 AM (VFv8R)

Just Damn.

Posted by: Arrest Somebody Already! at July 23, 2025 07:12 AM (lX1hk)

86
Posted by: Arrest Somebody Already! at July 23, 2025 07:12 AM (lX1hk)

You're under arrest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 07:15 AM (HZi96)

87 @IRONGRAMPA: I'm very glad your toes are mostly okay, and yes, steel toed (or composite toed) boots for the win.

Also: Previous mentions of gog.com for gaming: Yup. This. I said "No" to Steam from the very beginning with others looking at me like I was crazy. Now that Steam has started removing games because their content conflicts with what their payment processor masters (Visa, Mastercard) will allow in their own terms and conditions, I'm not looking so crazy.

GoG allows you to download full offline installers for purchased games. DRM has been removed. This is how you do it if you want to actually keep your purchases forever.

Okay, work beckons. Off I go.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

88 Unfortunately, unless it is running some flavor of Linux, the OS won't be US, but have huge China and India input.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 23, 2025 07:10 AM (a4flb)

They’ll have to use Windows unless 2026 really is the year everybody moves to Linux.

(I’m not very hopeful on that score)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt)

89 Michael Byrd: guilty as sin; free as a bird.

Posted by: I'm just gonna type it at July 23, 2025 07:17 AM (XQo4F)

90 G'mornin' everyone!

woohoo! raining!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2025 07:17 AM (dKEEs)

91 You're Under Arrest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86G1cGR616k

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 07:17 AM (gfTyN)

92 I’ve got a few in GoG, and several on both Steam and Epic, where I never paid for one game but Epic gives them away free on the regular.

If I actually played any of them more than once every three months I’d actually be getting somewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

93 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

94 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Greetings from the Communist State of New Mexico, the Land of Rain the Lightening. OK, it was one day of rain and lightening, still traumatized though.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 07:23 AM (NXz8h)

95 You're Under Arrest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86G1cGR616k
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 07:17 AM (gfTyN)

I like the way she tried to stop a car sliding sideways by Fred Flintstoneing it wearing heels.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

96 Alteria Pilgram

I thought you were tougher than a mere buttercup.

Rain in the desert is good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

97 SpeakingOf

I looked at that and pondered the strength of materials, the flammability of shoe soles, and how KE =1/2 mv².

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

98 Got a whole house cleaning ahead, and hav emore to do.

Have a great day, everyone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

99 - What happened on my android?

Press and hold on link.
Choose copy link
Told link copied to clipboard
Not showing up on clipboard
Been going a a couple weeks or so

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2025 07:28 AM (jocM1)

100 Alteria Pilgram

I thought you were tougher than a mere buttercup.

Rain in the desert is good.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

The monsoon rains are here and they have a glorious effect by making everything smell fresh and immediately dropping the temperature by 20 degrees for hours. This is provided you don't get swept away in a flash flood and die.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 07:29 AM (NXz8h)

101 better yet, consider keeping a hand written list of login information - impossible to compromise by any electronic means!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2025 07:29 AM (dKEEs)

102 No doubt her toes and feet were cooked.

Omg a formula.
I haven’t seen one of those since my remedial college algebra class!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

103 better yet, consider keeping a hand written list of login information - impossible to compromise by any electronic means!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2025 07:29 AM (dKEEs)

Of course, one small fire and you're fucked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

104 What happened on my android?

Press and hold on link.
Choose copy link
Told link copied to clipboard
Not showing up on clipboard
Been going a a couple weeks or so
Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2025 07:28 AM (jocM1)

Have you tried rebooting it?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

105 Press and hold on link.
Choose copy link
Told link copied to clipboard
Not showing up on clipboard
Been going a a couple weeks or so
Posted by: TeeJ

Possibly: clear the browser cache? There are two places to look at: Android settings and the browser settings. Also reboot the box if you haven't already tired that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 07:33 AM (NXz8h)

106 do like any other backup, keep a copy off-site

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2025 07:33 AM (dKEEs)

107
What happened on my android?

Should have bought an iPhone.

Posted by: The guy who tells everyone they should have bought an iPhone at July 23, 2025 07:34 AM (HZi96)

108

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 07:34 AM (AOsQT)

109 I like the way she tried to stop a car sliding sideways by Fred Flintstoneing it wearing heels.

The 90s were a magical time for Japanese animation.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2025 07:35 AM (7xrfc)

110 @104

Totally cleared clipboard yesterday. Turned phoned off. Played double jeopardy song in my head and turned it back on.
Still no go.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2025 07:35 AM (jocM1)

111
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 07:34 AM (AOsQT)

That's what she said.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

112
do like any other backup, keep a copy off-site
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2025 07:33 AM (dKEEs)

Or get a fire-resistant storage box.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 07:35 AM (HZi96)

113 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

114 Planned Obsolescence

Posted by: jsg at July 23, 2025 07:36 AM (ZXxeb)

115 better yet, consider keeping a hand written list of login information - impossible to compromise by any electronic means! Posted by: sock_rat_eez

I use a password manager where I keep not only usernames and passwords but critical information related to that particular account. Additionally, I keep in a locked safe keep paper copy of critical digital account information and a backup of the password DB on a thumb drive. I update these once a quarter.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 07:38 AM (NXz8h)

116 Consider a password vault with an encrypted online storage. Even if you don't put anything vital in it, it keeps the passwords you don't use often safe and then it's easier to make them all different - which is a good policy to have.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

I got an app for that on my phone after I came to the conclusion that keeping a list of logins/passwords on a list in the Notes app was probably not the most secure way to keep track of them.

This was before Apple introduced their Passwords/Keys app.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

Late to the thread, but consider KeePass. There is a version for almost every platform, so you can keep and use synced versions of the encrypted DB on many different devices and in different locations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 10:20 AM (i24o9)

117 At this time I am going aqay to do my breakfast, when having my
breakfast coming yet again to read additional news.

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