Daily Tech News 30 August 2025

Top Story

The UK's demands for all your private Apple data are pining for the fjords, not dead. (Engadget)

The US government rightly shot them down, but officially the UK government has not given up on any of it. And they want all your private information, from passwords on up. And they don't care what anyone else says, except for the small problem that the US could easily crush them like bugs.
France and Germany have rejected US warning on their own attempts to loot American tech companies like a pinata farm. (Reuters) (archive site)
Trump on Monday threatened to slap additional tariffs on all countries with digital taxes, legislation or regulations, saying they were designed to harm or discriminate against American technology, in an escalation of his criticism of EU rules on digital services.
As would be only right and proper.
Speaking at a joint news conference with the German leader, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the threats, and said any move by the United States to challenge the bloc's regulations would be met with retaliation from the EU.

"Tax and regulation issues are the preserve of our national parliaments and the European parliament," Macron said. "We won't let anyone else decide for us," he said.
America is not saying it will set your tax policies, you whiny French git. America is going to set America's tax policies, and you ain't gonna like it.

Tech News

How Broadcomm's acquisition of VMWare is killing open source one project at a time. (Fastcode)

It is?

The article talks about Bitnami and its abandonment of its free services, which is an item I ran into last week but didn't write up because I have never used Bitnami and also my feet hurt that day:
The announcement landed in our inboxes like a bomb. After 18 years of providing free, production-ready container images to millions of developers worldwide, Bitnami was effectively ending its free tier. On August 28, 2025, the repository would process over 4 billion downloads annually. It would transform into something unrecognizable. The change is a premium service starting at $72,000 per year, according to AWS Marketplace listings and Arrow Electronics pricing sheets.
Okay, fair enough. I have never trusted nor used packaging services like this for a variety of reasons, but if you did, and the free tier you depended on was suddenly $72,000 per year, I can see how that would be a problem.

(A problem that was obvious all along, which is just one of the many reasons I never used these services.)

So... So what?

So the Bitnami service was sponsored by a company called Bitrock since 2003.

VMWare acquired Bitrock and Bitnami in 2019, at a time it was owned by Dell.

Then Dell spun off VMWare as a separate company.

And then Broadcom bought the newly independent VMWare.

And Broadcom are rent-seekers par excellence. This is standard practice for them; they do not care in the least that they just killed a service that has been around for more than twenty years. They want your money right now, and they know you will pay.

And they're not going to stop. Broadcom has reached a market cap of $1 trillion on the guiding philosophy of bitch better have my money.
If you have a previous model Framework 16 with a dedicated Radeon 7700S graphics card and want to update it to the latest Nvidia RTX 5070 card... You can do that. (The Verge) (archive site)

Takes all of three minutes.
The team behind the Vivaldi browser has heard you and will not be adding AI slop. (The Register)

You can access all the usual slop but they have agreed that it has no place inside the browser itself.
Mastodon says it literally cannot comply with Mississippi's age verification law - or anyone else's. (Tech Crunch)

Mastodon is distributed. It's open source software and each node in the network is run by a different owner with different interests.

And Mastodon itself has no control over what users a particular node accepts.
Some men just want to watch a dumpster burn. (Cloudfire)
That's why we decided to build something revolutionary that will eliminate the burden of customer support for years to come. DumpsterFire is a customer support avoidance system, built entirely on automated deflection and community outsourcing, that employs a range of techniques to maximize ticket abandonment, minimize human interaction, and eliminate support costs. It can avoid more support requests with fewer resources and significantly lower customer expectations, saving time, money, and management attention across our organization.
To quote a wise man - not the author himself but the character:
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!' - and I'll whisper 'no.'

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Feets hurts maybe slightly less today?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2025 04:31 AM (ntk8v)

3 Mornin' all.

Feets Hurts Index down about 20%, which is welcome.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

4 How's your BP doing?

Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2025 04:34 AM (lJ0H4)

5 Good to hear on the feet.

And good to about Vivaldi vis a vis AI bs. That's my main desktop browser.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 30, 2025 04:38 AM (/HDaX)

6 BP is down about 20 points since that scary first reading. Diastolic often back to two digits.

Out out the DANGER WILL ROBINSON level at least.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2025 04:38 AM (BLOW1)

7 BP is down about 20 points since that scary first reading. Diastolic often back to two digits.

Out out the DANGER WILL ROBINSON level at least.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Excellent!

Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2025 04:39 AM (lJ0H4)

8 Slade - Run Runaway

Hard to do if your feets hurts.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 04:41 AM (aURVT)

9 Feets Hurts Index down about 20%, which is welcome.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

This is exactly where bourbon will help.

Pour a large bourbon.

Sit on a couch...and put your feet up!

Drink bourbon.

It's like magic!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 30, 2025 04:42 AM (L5An7)

10 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 04:45 AM (+qU29)

11 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2025 04:52 AM (BLOW1)

12 from the DumpsterFire site:

Want to experience DumpsterFire’s revolutionary cost avoidance for yourself? Submit a support ticket today and discover how quickly you’ll give up and solve it yourself!

I'm afraid to click on it.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 05:08 AM (aURVT)

13 Evening to the ailing Pixy and other Saturday toilers, and morning to the insomaniacals! I rolled over from a dream (more later), glanced at my watch, thought I had slept until five am (!), felt Stirling hit my ribs as he leaped over me, and looked at the watch again.

*Four* am. And nowadays, if I'm awake, I'm awake.

So I petted little Dagny, who was there too, and dragged myself up and out for coffee. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 05:25 AM (omVj0)

14 Took a Melatonin last night for a chance
Time to make the coffee

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 05:30 AM (+qU29)

15 What I remember from my dreams last night: I walked into a TV station for some murky reason and overheard a female anchor giggling to someone else about how her male co-anchor's wool hairpiece came off -- live, on camera during their broadcast. She was so gleeful about it I got out of there as fast as I could.

The hallway did not seem to have a restroom labeled "Men," but it did have one labeled "Lesbians." My subconscious commenting on our ailing society, I guess.

As usual in my dreams, I seemed to be searching for something -- not only the restroom, but a fact or a person. No idea what, not now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

16 Took a Melatonin last night for a chance
Time to make the coffee
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025

***
I usually take one, Skip, and a half tab of Unisom, the sleep aid without diphenhydramine. That's in nearly all the sleep aids now. That stuff acts on me like a diuretic (as does acetaminophen). The chemical in Unisom (actually Walmart's generic version) does not.

These TV ads about green, pink, and brown noise: Those just aid you in getting to sleep, I suspect. That's no trouble for me. It's staying asleep past, say, six hours that I need help with.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 05:35 AM (omVj0)

17 Not sure about noise 'colors' but whatever 'color' is representative of jet engine/hydraulic systems or shipboard machinery running is the one for me. Once the plane starts and pushes back from the gate I can be lights out in about 3 minutes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2025 05:40 AM (3Ope8)

18 Pixy, I had crossed the border between normal blood pressure and high without knowing it, until a doctor visit a few years ago. Looking back, I think I know now why I would wake up sometimes with a crashing headache like a hangover, though I have been sober for a long long time. I worked out strongly and regularly, had no other symptoms, but there it was.

I've been on a daily BP control pill, Enalapril, a very inexpensive one, for some years now and my pressure is normal. That might work for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 05:40 AM (omVj0)

19 https://tinyurl.com/29fb5t47
20 Posts from Dog Ross Substack, you should see 2nd from the top.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 05:45 AM (+qU29)

20 17 Not sure about noise 'colors' but whatever 'color' is representative of jet engine/hydraulic systems or shipboard machinery running is the one for me. Once the plane starts and pushes back from the gate I can be lights out in about 3 minutes.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2025 05:40 AM (3Ope

Ha! A bus will do that to me.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 05:47 AM (aURVT)

21 G'mornin all y'all
Improvement for Pixy is good news!

Posted by: OkJohn at August 30, 2025 05:49 AM (NC/it)

22 Skip, those 20 posts are dated September 24, 2024?

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 05:55 AM (aURVT)

23 Here's a link to the latest top 20 posts (Aug. 29, 2025):

https://tinyurl.com/5zhfdhzs

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2025 05:57 AM (hoCmQ)

25 Let me fix that, and better clear notebook

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 06:02 AM (+qU29)

26
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2025 06:02 AM (tljrc)

27 https://tinyurl.com/mr47ffkb
Aug 29 2025 20 Posts

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 06:03 AM (+qU29)

28

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks.

As always, may the result of your efforts be of supreme benefit to you, and bring gross heartburn to the leftwit fungi.

I honestly cannot comprehend the degree of cognitive dissonance required for them to function under their beliefs. They exist in a fictional reality.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 30, 2025 06:05 AM (hKoQL)

29 https://tinyurl.com/mr47ffkb
Aug 29 2025 20 Posts
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025

***
That tatted freak has been "running" the CDC all this time??? Trump should have fired him long ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:06 AM (omVj0)

30 19
20 Posts from Dog Ross Substack, you should see 2nd from the top.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 05:45 AM (+qU29)

Kevin Bass PhD MS
@kevinnbass
Here is a picture of the man resigning from CDC

Here he is wearing BDSM attire with a pentagram, a Satanic symbol, on his chest

He hates Trump and RFK Jr.

These are the kinds of freaks who used to oversee public health in this country.
___

🎶He should be dancin' (yeah)
Dancin' (yeah) 🎶

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

31 But of course Trump has been busy fixing a lot of broken stuff since January, so a delay in cleaning house at the CDC doesn't seem so bad. DJT has done so much in that time, it seems he's been president for two years already. Any ordinary politician, if he did this much, would have taken twenty-four months, or his entire term, to do what Don has managed in just seven.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

32 Here is a picture of the man resigning from CDC

Here he is wearing BDSM attire with a pentagram, a Satanic symbol, on his chest

He hates Trump and RFK Jr.

These are the kinds of freaks who used to oversee public health in this country.
___

🎶He should be dancin' (yeah)
Dancin' (yeah) 🎶
Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 0

***
Yeah, he's a dancin' machine, all right

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

33 Crotchety

https://youtu.be/0GDfOAuUvQ0

Posted by: Don Black at August 30, 2025 06:12 AM (AOsQT)

34 33 Crotchety

https://youtu.be/0GDfOAuUvQ0
Posted by: Don Black at August 30, 2025 06:12 AM (AOsQT)

zzzzzzzz

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

35 I am fascinated by the “7 times stronger than Viagra” popup ads on the sidebar. Coincidentally , I am trying to get rid of an old runabout with a 90 horsepower outboard.
I wonder which form of “motorboating” is more expensive?

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2025 06:21 AM (1FEc1)

36 I am fascinated by the “7 times stronger than Viagra” popup ads on the sidebar. Coincidentally , I am trying to get rid of an old runabout with a 90 horsepower outboard.
I wonder which form of “motorboating” is more expensive?
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2025

***
"It's BlueChew"
( -- Busty blonde in blue on the TV ads)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

37 The Auto-Pen administration went out to find every LGBQXYZ freak they could

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 06:26 AM (+qU29)

38 Here is a picture of the man resigning from CDC

Here he is wearing BDSM attire with a pentagram, a Satanic symbol, on his chest

He hates Trump and RFK Jr.

These are the kinds of freaks who used to oversee public health in this country.
___

🎶He should be dancin' (yeah)
Dancin' (yeah) 🎶
Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 0

***
Yeah, he's a dancin' machine, all right
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

That guy's self-identity is all tied to being a homosexual. I remember a video clip of him walking onto a stage being accompanied by a couple of twinks.

I wouldn't doubt that he was one of the driving forces in the CDC during the COVID-19 op that told us that places of worship (particularly Christian churches) needed to be shut-down, but Commie riots were A-OK.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 06:31 AM (pJWtt)

39 At this time twenty years ago . . . Miss Linda, the cats, and I were waking from a restless sleep on the floor of a community center in Erwinville, LA, just west of Baton Rouge on Hwy. 190, having taken twelve solid hours to crawl from home to barely 100 miles away. We had coffee, and I think I remember a pastry the center offered, and then we loaded my car and hustled out to College Station, TX. The roads were empty by then.

Neither of us had a cellphone. We bought a phone card (remember those?) at a gas station so we could call the hotel and tell them we still wanted our reservation and were coming.

When we finally got to the hotel and could eat and relax, it was like a little piece of heaven. It was then we discovered that Katrina had not struck the city dead on. But the levees had failed that morning -- and 80% of the city was under water.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:31 AM (omVj0)

40 39 At this time twenty years ago . . . Miss Linda, the cats, and I were waking from a restless sleep on the floor of a community center in Erwinville, LA, just west of Baton Rouge on Hwy. 190, having taken twelve solid hours to crawl from home to barely 100 miles away. We had coffee, and I think I remember a pastry the center offered, and then we loaded my car and hustled out to College Station, TX. The roads were empty by then.

Neither of us had a cellphone. We bought a phone card (remember those?) at a gas station so we could call the hotel and tell them we still wanted our reservation and were coming.

When we finally got to the hotel and could eat and relax, it was like a little piece of heaven. It was then we discovered that Katrina had not struck the city dead on. But the levees had failed that morning -- and 80% of the city was under water.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:31 AM (omVj0)

Great story. Thanks.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 06:38 AM (aURVT)

41 Broadcomm --> Broadcom

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 06:38 AM (aURVT)

42 It was then we discovered that Katrina had not struck the city dead on. But the levees had failed that morning -- and 80% of the city was under water.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:31 AM (omVj0)

Ah, yes, Hurricane Katrina. Where the Democrat city government had failed to properly maintain the levees, a Democrat mayor's failure to use school buses to evacuate the poor, and a Democrat governor's dithering in declaring a disaster to pave the way for a Federal response was all the fault of President Bush. Shrub II is deserving of criticism, but not for that.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 06:39 AM (pJWtt)

43 Fortunately, as we found out eventually in the days to come, the west bank of the river (where we lived, and live) was spared the bad flooding. Oh, there was the usual street flooding from rain that happens every so often . . . but the levees were intact.

I also found that my employer had not only processed my August monthly salary check to my bank, but that they would continue paying me for the foreseeable future.

I liked my time in College Station and Bryan. I ought to go back and visit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:40 AM (omVj0)

44 Ah, yes, Hurricane Katrina. Where the Democrat city government had failed to properly maintain the levees, a Democrat mayor's failure to use school buses to evacuate the poor, and a Democrat governor's dithering in declaring a disaster to pave the way for a Federal response was all the fault of President Bush. Shrub II is deserving of criticism, but not for that.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025

***
Exactly.

I actually went on a couple of job interviews in College Station, thinking to relocate there temporarily and to take advantage of the locals' offers of job assistance. But they didn't want me (too white and too old, I guess). If I'd had relatives somewhere else in the country whom I could have asked for help in moving, I would have. Though, if I'd had such relatives, I'd have asked them before coming back to Da Swamp in late '01 anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:44 AM (omVj0)

45 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

46
🎶They're eating the dogs,
they're eating the cats,
they're eating the pets
of the people that live there.🎶

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 06:49 AM (aURVT)

47 After six weeks in College Station -- a local church member offered us the use, rent-free, of a small house he owned in Bryan, as long as we kept it clean -- we drove back down to Da Swamp. The power was on, so we had A/C and could cook, and I had dial-up Internet (remember that dial tone?), so I could handle work to a degree. By early November I was back at my desk and wishing, as always, that I was living somewhere else.

I liked that little house in Bryan. Hardwood floors, a nice living room space, two bedrooms. The A/C window units couldn't handle the afternoon Texas heat unless we sat right under the air flow. But the local library issued us cards so we could take books out, I bought a small TV and a refurbished PC and got dial-up Internet, and the roads were so good I loved driving there. In some ways it was like a summer vacation from school.

We were very lucky. But we also used our heads and got out of Dodge ahead of the storm. A lot of others couldn't -- and plenty didn't even bother, and regretted it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

48 Feets Hurts Index down about 20%, which is welcome.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I guess dropping the computer on them was therapeutic

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 06:58 AM (eZ5tL)

49 " I guess dropping the computer on them was therapeutic"

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2025 07:00 AM (2GCMq)

50 Powerline Week in Pictures:

https://is.gd/MYL6nT

Bookworm Room:

https://is.gd/PX6eb7

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 30, 2025 07:00 AM (PiwSw)

51 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2025 07:03 AM (ppG5b)

52 I remember watching the aftermath of Katrina on TV. We had just moved from Marrero a few years earlier and we had friends living in Belle Chase. I completely understand why some folks decided not to leave.

To this day, I still remind folks to consider that if you were told you need to leave home in the next 24-48 hours and know that there's a very high likelihood that your house, your job and everything you own will be destroyed, how much money could you access and where would you go considering everyone else in that area is doing the same thing?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2025 07:07 AM (3Ope8)

53 Thx, Shadout Mapes!

https://midwestchick.com/
has a Saturday Meme Drop as well

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2025 07:08 AM (ppG5b)

54 m

Protein is protein.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

55 “ I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”[

Genesis 12:3

Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2025 07:09 AM (we6p7)

56 54 m

Protein is protein.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

Say that on the pet thread!!!

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

57 America is not saying it will set your tax policies, you whiny French git. America is going to set America's tax policies, and you ain't gonna like it.

====
I had no idea Pixy could be so cruel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

58 55 “ I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:3
Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2025 07:09 AM (we6p7)

Thank you, Marcus T.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:11 AM (aURVT)

59 >> Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:11 AM (aURVT)

Amen. May the blessing of the Lord be upon all who are here, especially those in need.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2025 07:12 AM (we6p7)

60 I got so much joy from watching Kamala Harris paraded before the entire country as the Next Great Thing and then being humiliated.

I'm looking forward to watching Gavin Newsom do an even better Carousel flameout.

I'm hoping they do it to each other.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

61 I remember watching the aftermath of Katrina on TV. We had just moved from Marrero a few years earlier and we had friends living in Belle Chase. I completely understand why some folks decided not to leave.

To this day, I still remind folks to consider that if you were told you need to leave home in the next 24-48 hours and know that there's a very high likelihood that your house, your job and everything you own will be destroyed, how much money could you access and where would you go considering everyone else in that area is doing the same thing?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2025

***
If we'd known our area would not flood and our places would be intact, we should have waited a day, avoided the horrible twelve-hour crawl on the highways, sneaked out the back way (take Highway 90 and then cross the river at I-310) and could have made it to TX in a day. We'd have lost power, true, and been uncomfortable for that day of waiting. But what a difference it would have made in regards to stress.

In the last two or three hurricanes, I've done just that. The roads were open and empty within two days and bugging out was easy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 07:15 AM (omVj0)

62 BBC News

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 30, 2025 07:17 AM (TGPs7)

63 It's 6:10 am. Where is the daylight? Where is that long long sunny daytime . . .?

Oh. Right. I like it this way with the shorter days.

Rain is predicted for today, so I won't wash the car. In a few minutes I'll shave and get ready, then head out with the computer to a coffee shop and lounge until time for my haircut. Then I'll gas up the car, hit the library, and be home before it gets too hot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 07:17 AM (omVj0)

64 G'morning, Horde.

I had a "tech moment" from 02:43 this morning for about an hour.

Woke up briefly, wanted to check the time without getting out of bed. Opened the Kindle's cover (it has a clock) and noticed it was sitting at the main menu, instead of inside the book I'm reading. Went to "Library" - all my book covers are blank. Uhoh.

Tried to open a book: "The Item you were reading has been removed and is no longer available on your Kindle."

Tried to open other books: Same error.

At this point, there was no sleeping until I'd fixed this. *sighs* Get up, get dressed, go downstairs, start searching.

The solution was to perform a full factory reset which required a full setup of the Kindle afterwards. All settings I'd had for years lost (those can be re-done, but it's annoying.) Any and all books I put on the device manually via USB from non-Amazon sources (Like Baen Books) I'll have to do that again. Anything I'd downloaded from Amazon, I'll have to do that again too. ( Zaphod Beeblebrox: "Belgium man, Belgium!" )

This has happened twice now in the last year.

I did manage to go back to sleep after I got it working, and am now up again and am awake (mostly.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 30, 2025 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

65 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 30, 2025 07:18 AM (XQo4F)

66 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, your ONT Kindle nightmare is ... a nightmare.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:20 AM (aURVT)

67 If you owned any shares in Walgreen's yesterday you don't own any today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

68 Definitely from a funeral home...

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg

NEW: Over 100 piles of cremated human remains found in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Zip ties & a broken urn were reportedly found near the remains.

Federal & local officials are now investigating the piles, which were found outside of Searchlight, Nevada, a town of just over 300 people about 50 miles from Las Vegas.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 30, 2025 07:27 AM (TGPs7)

69 68 Probably left over from Harry Reid's (The Searchlight Strangler) days of stalking Cub Scout Packs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

70 Cherry pistachio biscotti

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

71 All you morons just memescrolling now

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

72 Collin Rugg@CollinRugg

NEW: A North Carolina county elections chair accused of putting cocaine and MDMA in his granddaughter's Dairy Queen Blizzard.

James Yokeley Jr. was charged with child abuse, possession of a controlled substance, and contaminating food with a controlled substance.

The incident took place earlier this month when two teen girls found pills in their ice cream.

“Officials said they seized the two pills, and preliminary field tests indicated that the pills tested positive for cocaine and MDMA,” a local news outlet reported.

When they checked security footage, they allegedly found out that Yokeley was the one who put the pills in the ice cream.

He has since resigned as chair of the Surry County Board of Elections.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 30, 2025 07:33 AM (TGPs7)

73
France and Germany have rejected US warning on their own attempts to loot American tech companies like a pinata farm.

Have some pity. They're almost broke. France is looking for an IMF loan and Germany is self-implementing the Morganthau Plan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 07:34 AM (kkTda)

74 Thank you for the Safe tune. One of my favorites, both the band and the song!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 07:35 AM (2J/Lj)

75 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Going to Lindsborg, Kansas to a nice tiny art museum with gold-digger #3.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

76 60 I got so much joy from watching Kamala Harris paraded before the entire country as the Next Great Thing and then being humiliated.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

Have I got a book for you!

Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection.
The presidential election will occur on November 5, 2024.
You have 107 days.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:35 AM (aURVT)

77 That's Slade, autocorrect you bitch!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 07:35 AM (2J/Lj)

78
Woke up at 6:00 this morning. 6:00! Disgraceful. I'm sleeping the day away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 07:36 AM (kkTda)

79 COFFEE AND PRAYER NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:37 AM (+qU29)

80
Trump ends Harris' Secret Service detail (NPR)

https://tinyurl.com/mwz72hms

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:38 AM (aURVT)

81 (NPR) It's typical that former vice presidents only have Secret Service protection for 6 months after they leave office. That would have meant Harris would have lost her protection after July. But she had received an extension. Trump is revoking that extension.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:39 AM (aURVT)

82 (NPR) Trump has also revoked Secret Service detail for the adult children of former President Joe Biden.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)

83 Coffee is served

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 30, 2025 07:42 AM (kzfJF)

84 (NPR) Trump has also revoked Secret Service detail for the adult children of former President Joe Biden.

Good. We were tired of watching that stuff. These people are sick.

Posted by: USSS at August 30, 2025 07:49 AM (bd7Xf)

85 from the coffee and prayer thread:

8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread. Pixy has been suffering from edema (water retention and swelling of the extremities). In addition to the swelling, there has been significant pain in both feet, and now one hand. Please pray that the doctors and nurses take this problem seriously. Pray that God guides their minds and hands in the diagnostic and treatment processes, so that Pixy may be restored to full health. Pray that He sustains Pixy through this health trial.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:01 AM (aURVT)

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