Daily Tech News 9 September 2025

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OpenAI is expected to burn through $115 billion through 2029. (MSN)

This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028.

It might just be me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.

Or even in the short run.
Meanwhile NPM got massively compromised, again. (Aikido)

Friends don't let friends use Node.

But if you were forced to by your enemies, and you use the debug or chalk packages, or any of a couple of dozen related packages, or a package you do use, uses any of those, you just got yourself a nasty and viral piece of malware.

Tech News

Plex got hacked too, with an unauthorised third party gaining access to email addresses, usernames, and encrypted passwords. (Nerds)

Time to reset your password.
Experimenting with LLMs locally on your Mac without spending $115 billion. (Fatih's Personal Blog)

Including a guide to prebuilt LLMs that can be run on modest hardware.
Nova Launcher has left the building. (The Verge)

This was my Android app launcher of choice for many years.

Nova was bought by mobile analytics company Branch in 2022, and since then all the developers including the original creator have left the new company.
All 54 games written for the original clickwheel iPod have now been recovered. (Ars Technica)

You just need an iPod to play them.

It's not like saving a long-lost Scopitone film reel, but it's something.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Quando quando quando, quando quand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2025 04:38 AM (BLOW1)

4 Quando Quando- Kessler twins

That was different!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

5 Mornin'
..................................
This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028.

It might just me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.

Or even in the short run.
................................
youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

6 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 09, 2025 04:40 AM (g1vJ4)

7 What language were they singing? Italian?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 04:45 AM (sAmhv)

8 IPods are cool again. It"s part of the drive for minimalistic phones. Several U Tube videos on why you should have one

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 09, 2025 04:45 AM (kUxzU)

9 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 04:46 AM (uGF6U)

10 That wonderful spinning wheel

Posted by: Steven at September 09, 2025 04:47 AM (HS1/y)

11 Meanwhile NPM got massively compromised, again.
-

Need to press the Internet and networking reset button and start all over.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 09, 2025 04:48 AM (g1vJ4)

12 This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028.

It might just me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.

Or even in the short run.

Sounds like the WNBA is sittin in tall cotton!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 04:50 AM (uGF6U)

13 I'm pretty sure I recall Engelbert Humperdinck's rendition of Quando.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 09, 2025 04:50 AM (g1vJ4)

14 IPods are cool again. It"s part of the drive for minimalistic phones. Several U Tube videos on why you should have one
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Minimalistic - carry four separate items instead of one.

Smaaaaaaht.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 04:51 AM (uGF6U)

15 The point is to use devices that don't involve doom scrolling.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 09, 2025 04:53 AM (kUxzU)

16 And the dog has settled down so I'm going back to sleep

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 09, 2025 04:58 AM (kUxzU)

17 I get this notice from UPS last night at 11:43 pm about my Amazon delivery that hadn't moved since 8:48 am yesterday morning.

"All merchandise is missing and the empty carton was discarded. UPS will notify the sender., Sherman, TX, United States"

My package left OKC on a UPS truck & made it to Ft. Worth. It then left Ft. Worth & made it to Sherman, Tx UPS hub, where it was pilfered and stolen.

I am going to ride Amazon like a rented mule.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 05:04 AM (uGF6U)

18 https://tinyurl.com/3r9v645d
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack
Top one is quite a amazing picture really if you think about it

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2025 05:12 AM (+qU29)

19 7 What language were they singing? Italian?
Posted by: Puddleglum

German I think, though it took me a moment.

No, on second thoughts that's definitely not German.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2025 05:14 AM (BLOW1)

20 Talk about a lack of self awareness...

Spencer Hakimian@SpencerHakimian

I don’t think Americans realize yet just how much our standing has declined in the eyes of the rest of the western world.

The majority of Europeans, Canadians, Australians, etc. see us as a slowly dying clown empire that have chosen to self-entertain ourselves to death

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2025 05:17 AM (TGPs7)

21 Pixy,
My other guess was Portuguese.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 05:25 AM (sAmhv)

22 20: an impressive display of projection.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 05:26 AM (sAmhv)

23 20 Talk about a lack of self awareness...

Spencer Hakimian@SpencerHakimian

Posted by: Mister Ghost

Oh, that idiot. I already have him tagged under Frieren's Demons.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2025 05:27 AM (BLOW1)

24 No, wait, at the end it is in German. Are they switching languages?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2025 05:28 AM (BLOW1)

25 I am going to ride Amazon like a rented mule.

Stuff like that irritates me. Hope Amazon makes it right very quickly.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:28 AM (99eI0)

26 Got a migraine so I can't watch it again right now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2025 05:29 AM (BLOW1)

27 @Wolfus Aurelius, re #53 yesterday's tech thread:

"I had a look at your suggestions about Linux installation. Sounds like it's a day's work with everything, including buying a hard drive to back up things."

It can go that long, yes. To mitigate that, I divide it into a couple of pieces. The backup/compare should be started as an overnight job. Let the computer do the slow and boring part overnight while you sleep. If there's a "generate a log" option, turn that on. Also set it to not automatically exit when it's done all its steps so you can quickly review and see if there were any problems.

What'd you think of the video?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

28 Frieren's Demons

heh. I have a meme with Frieren reading a sign. The caption is "Demon Lives Mat-oh fuck off! I threw up reading that."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:30 AM (99eI0)

29 OK, so. Song is originally Italian. BUT the twins were German, which accounts for at least the lines at the end definitely being in German.

And now I go back to sleep and assume that video was part of a really odd dream.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 09, 2025 05:31 AM (8Oajk)

30 I don’t think Americans realize yet just how much our standing has declined in the eyes of the rest of the western world.

And yet, they rely on us, beg for our money and we prop them up. I don't give a crap what lesser countries think of us.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:31 AM (99eI0)

31 Free life advice:

If Calabrians ask you if you want the soppressata hot or extra hot, the correct answer is hot, unless you want to your colon to melt down like a Russian nuclear reactor.

Posted by: And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire at September 09, 2025 05:31 AM (g00SI)

32
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 09, 2025 05:32 AM (tljrc)

33 I can't pinpoint what language they are singing. They may be switching back and forth.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 05:32 AM (sAmhv)

34 Ok, I looked up the Kessler Twins. They're German.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

35 Quando Quando: First I heard this was in the 'Murph and the Magic Tones' scene in "The Blues Brothers".

https://youtu.be/aaTb89xf2Z0?t=14

And of course, that's the one that's stuck in my head.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

36 And yet, they rely on us, beg for our money and we prop them up. I don't give a crap what lesser countries think of us.
Posted by: NR Pax

Fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 05:39 AM (SSRw1)

37 Man from Florida reflects on prayer. Scripture is James 4:7-10:

https://tinyurl.com/ytxsabss

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2025 05:42 AM (2GCMq)

38 @Pixy: I'm sorry you have a migraine. I used to regularly suffer those, they are... abysmally bad.

Take it easy the rest of the day, preferably laying down and trying to get lots of sleep before tomorrow.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

39 This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028. It might just me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run. Or even in the short run. Pixy

This sounds reminiscent of Pets.com to pick one name from the dot com bubble. Or if you prefer the Shyster ShakeOut. A period of irrational exuberance seems to be a necessary part of these ground-changing paradigms that eventually go on to have long-term effects on the economy and eventually society more broadly. So yes, a good number of these AI companies are going to hit the wall sooner rather than later. What yet is still not clear is if AI will fizzle out and become a niche technology with niche but useful applications or after a shyster shakeout begin a long and sustainable journey until it becomes something that forever changes the economy and society in general. All I know is this: I have no idea how this is going to play out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 05:44 AM (aJQjq)

40 Morning, Fen! How are things on your side?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:44 AM (99eI0)

41 12 This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028.

It might just me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.

Or even in the short run.

Sounds like the WNBA is sittin in tall cotton!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 04:50 AM (uGF6U)

... and pretty soon, you're talking real money!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 05:45 AM (aURVT)

42 Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:44 AM (99eI0

Good morining, Mr Inner Peace. 🙂Well, I have recovered from whatever was going on part of Sunday and yesterday , and and am looking forward to the Bible study with the very nice ladies at the senior Center tonight. How are you and your wife and all the dogs?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2025 05:49 AM (2GCMq)

43 @37/FenelonSpoke: Thanks for that. I'm trying to remember every day to start with prayer to God and ask him to guide and protect me through the day, to save me from mistakes I might otherwise make.

Sometimes I hit the ground running and forget to do that. I've noticed I get a reminder about why that's so important. Upon realizing what I forgot to do, I end up praying and include something like "Clue-by-four received and noted, thank you for that, and everything you've done for me, and continue to do for me."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 05:51 AM (O7YUW)

44 How are you and your wife and all the dogs?

Wife is doing very well. This Sunday is our 23rd anniversary so I'm trying to figure out plans for it. We're going to the movies on Sunday so the dinner plans are probably going to be earlier than that so we're not leaving the pups alone for long.

We have one guest who is going home today. The owners were going to pick him up yesterday but it's an hour's drive and they were exhausted. He goes home, two more show up for a week and that's the last batch before our anniversary trip.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:52 AM (99eI0)

45 G & C-

How are things on the bus? Spouse says that he's only been there two days and it feels like its been a full week. He had to go in and talk to the people at dispatch because they had him go crazy ways to pick up kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2025 05:53 AM (2GCMq)

46 I am going to ride Amazon like a rented mule.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 05:04 AM (uGF6U)

They will send it again.
This time through Amazon’s own system probably.

If the package made it to a UPS hub they should be able to figure out who opened the box and stole everything in it. There are only so many suspects.

Unless they’re leaving loaded & open trucks/trailers at the docks and random passerby are just strolling in and using it as an open-air shopping mall.

UPS ain’t what it used to be.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 05:55 AM (6ydKt)

47 Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05

Happy anniversary ! God bless you both. Don't want to take the dog with you ti the movie?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

48 Pixy, Quando Quando Quando is quite the inspired 1960s song choice as it's a terrific representative of what was going on in the anti-rock and roll music world. And that cut from a movie is perfection. I had never seen this original version until tonight. The one I'm most familiar with is by Engelhardt Humperdinck.

https://youtu.be/jQWp1azgPXs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 05:57 AM (aJQjq)

49 Don't want to take the dog with you to the movie?

2.5 hours long. They'd get bored or make the rounds and meet everyone.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 05:59 AM (99eI0)

50 It isn't fair that a device that amounts to a pocket sized laptop takes all the heat for people being idiots about social media apps when the real problem is idiots and their social media apps.

Nobody's walking around with their magic pocket rectangle getting up to no good and wrecking everything nice in the world with the calculator or the calendar or their vanilla email client.

Phones don't stupify people. Stupidity stupifies people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 09, 2025 05:59 AM (06Hmj)

51 If Calabrians ask you if you want the soppressata hot or extra hot, the correct answer is hot, unless you want to your colon to melt down like a Russian nuclear reactor.
Posted by: And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire at September 09, 2025 05:31 AM (g00SI)

FiL is calabrian.

This is true.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 09, 2025 06:01 AM (06Hmj)

52 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 09, 2025 06:02 AM (XQo4F)

53 I am going to ride Amazon like a rented mule.
Posted by: rickb223

If there's one company that can rectify this correctly, fully, and in a timely manner it's Amazon. If I was in your situation I would be doing exactly what you're proposing until they actually do that. What a mess.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 06:03 AM (aJQjq)

54 38 @Pixy: I'm sorry you have a migraine. I used to regularly suffer those, they are... abysmally bad.

Take it easy the rest of the day, preferably laying down and trying to get lots of sleep before tomorrow.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

And hydrate! Orange juice, too, if you can. IMHO

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:04 AM (aURVT)

55 mornin yall. Ollie North and Fawn Hall got married.

Posted by: fd at September 09, 2025 06:04 AM (vFG9F)

56 They will send it again.
This time through Amazon’s own system probably.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

They can't. I live so far out in the boonies. Amazon doesn't deliver. That's why they use UPS. They try to do it on their own, and they didn't last a month. They tried using Amazon employees in their private vehicles, showing up in people's Driveways at 8:30 at night. They gave up on that real quick.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:08 AM (SSRw1)

57 I guess it’s just me but every time I click on a full URL from MSN it always takes me to the msn.com home page. And good luck finding anything on there.

Maybe it’s got something to do with ad-blocking because it happens on Brave browser on this iPad and Waterfox on the PC.

MSN is the only site I know that redirects from any link back to the homepage. Even when I copy/paste the link, right to home.

It’s like they don’t want you to read anything on the site.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:09 AM (6ydKt)

58 They gave up on that real quick.

Might be a dumb question but do they have drop off locations in your vicinity?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 06:10 AM (99eI0)

59 Evening and morning on this Tiu's Day within the month of Septiembre! (Howzat for mixin' up cultures?)

The video opened up like one of the musical numbers that used to feature on the variety shows of the '60s and '70s like Danny Kaye's or Dean Martin's. I think the song dates to the Sixties, too, part of the "Bossa Nova" movement?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:11 AM (omVj0)

60 Pixy,
My other guess was Portuguese.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025

***
The Bossa Nova style featured various Brazilians and other Portuguese speakers. "The Girl From Ipanema" was about a district of Rio, I think. And there was another musician who worked with Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim. Not absolutely sure on the Brazil connection there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

61 Venus is kicking ass this morning, peeking out below the morning offshore clouds that have been with us here in FL for a week or so.

It always surprises me when I see it for the first time during a morning cycle.

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2025 06:14 AM (PmITa)

62 That sucks about Nova launcher going away. I went with the Arrow launcher which eventually got bought by Microsoft. It was pretty rough there for a while and thought Microsoft would eventually fubar it. Remarkably they didn't which mirrors what they ended up doing when they bought Acompli and morphed it into the Outlook app. Today both are excellent apps and are staples on my Android devices.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 06:14 AM (aJQjq)

63
There's no point thinking about what Europeans, Canadians and Australians think. To them, we'll always be the trailer-trash redneck who won a billion dollar lottery jackpot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 09, 2025 06:14 AM (kkTda)

64 I just tried to open a few articles on MSN homepage. I opened both in a new tab.

Go to each tab, and it’s MSN homepage, again.

I give up on that site.
It’s only a homepage filled with articles I can’t get to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

65 Good morning, Pixy and the Morons!
The AI losses remind me of Amazon losing money hand over fist until it wasn't.

Ii like the song. Can understand the bits in Italian.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 09, 2025 06:15 AM (PZemI)

66 Might be a dumb question but do they have drop off locations in your vicinity?
Posted by: NR Pax

I'm 12 1/2 miles from town. The Amazon trucks only make it about 5 miles outside of town before they turn around and go back. Unfortunately, no, there is nothing close. I work in Dallas three days a week Tuesday through Thursday. But if it gets delivered on a Friday, then it sits at the office until I get in on the next Tuesday. No this order came straight from Oklahoma City, Amazon to the Oklahoma City, UPS hub and then from Oklahoma City. UPS had it the whole time.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:16 AM (SSRw1)

67 I think they're going from Italian:

Dimmi quando tu verrai

to German. Because they can!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:16 AM (aURVT)

68 From, Wikipedia: "Quando quando quando" (or "Quando, Quando, Quando", pronounced [ˈkwando ˈkwando ˈkwando]; "When, When, When") is an Italian pop song from 1962, in the bossa nova style, with music written by Tony Renis and lyrics by Alberto Testa.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 06:17 AM (aJQjq)

69 I'm sorry, I ain't touching a drunk or even sober raccoon...

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg

NEW: Kentucky nurse Misty Combs performs CPR on a drunk raccoon.

"Our health department is right beside Kentucky Mist Moonshine, a distillery..." Combs said, explaining how a raccoon was trying to get her two babies, who were stuck in a dumpster.

"I just started doing CPR on it."

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2025 06:18 AM (TGPs7)

70 @45/FenelonSpoke: "How are things on the bus? Spouse says that he's only been there two days and it feels like its been a full week. He had to go in and talk to the people at dispatch because they had him go crazy ways to pick up kids."

Tell him it's the same here. Drivers who had exactly the same route (only with minor changes) had it easier. Drivers who got assigned to completely new routes are having to completely learn a new route and I don't know about most drivers, but it takes me at least 3 days of actually running it before I feel mildly comfortable with it, and it takes a good 2 weeks before it starts to become "automatic".

We had a lot of drivers who had their route changed on them this year. There hasn't been any explanation offered as to why (that I know of) and there has been much complaining.

Gotta dash, work calls.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

71 The Kessler Twins (sometimes Kessler Sisters) are still kicking it. On their Wikipedia page, there's a photo of them taken in 2005 in which they are gorgeous.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

72 Wolfus Aurelius, re #53 yesterday's tech thread:

"I had a look at your suggestions about Linux installation. Sounds like it's a day's work with everything, including buying a hard drive to back up things."

It can go that long, yes. To mitigate that, I divide it into a couple of pieces. The backup/compare should be started as an overnight job. Let the computer do the slow and boring part overnight while you sleep. If there's a "generate a log" option, turn that on. Also set it to not automatically exit when it's done all its steps so you can quickly review and see if there were any problems.

What'd you think of the video?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025

***
Hu, G & R. No, I wouldn't want to sit there while a backup runs. Been there, cursed at how long it was taking.

The video is sensuous and fascinating. If it was made recently, there was a definite attempt to make it look aged; the reddish tint of the first part especially looks like film stock that has faded and reddened.

Oops, no: The Kessler Twins were born in 1936, and appeared on Red Skelton and Ed Sullivan in the Sixties. So this really is vintage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:18 AM (omVj0)

73 They can't. I live so far out in the boonies. Amazon doesn't deliver. That's why they use UPS. They try to do it on their own, and they didn't last a month. They tried using Amazon employees in their private vehicles, showing up in people's Driveways at 8:30 at night. They gave up on that real quick.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:08 AM (SSRw1)

Ahh, that explains it.

Those are Amazon Flex drivers.
It’s kinda like Uber for Amazon.
You sign up through an app, and if you get hired you show up at the Amazon Hub and pick up blocks of packages to deliver with the app giving your route. You get paid by the block and pick AMD choose when you want to do it.

Sucks for you trying to get anything delivered.
Sounds like they need to send somebody out who owns a 4x4.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:20 AM (6ydKt)

74 AMD = and

I love you too, autocucumber.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

75 Regarding "Quando," Wiki says it is Italian, part of the bossa nova style, and that Engelbert Humperdinck did perform it on The Hollywood Palace TV series in 1969. Pat Boone had a hit version of it in 1962.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

76 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 09, 2025 06:22 AM (xyVUR)

77 68 From, Wikipedia: "Quando quando quando" (or "Quando, Quando, Quando", pronounced [ˈkwando ˈkwando ˈkwando]; "When, When, When") is an Italian pop song from 1962, in the bossa nova style, with music written by Tony Renis and lyrics by Alberto Testa.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

While reading up on the Kessler Twins, they did work a lot in Italy, so I will assume they spoke Italian fairly well. It would make sense then that they could switch back and forth in a song. Kind of impressive. Way to go, German chicks!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2025 06:23 AM (sAmhv)

78 Ipanema IS a district of Rio, and Jobim was Brazilian. Check and check.

Da coffee be workin'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

79 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Nein nein nein nein nein!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 09, 2025 06:27 AM (WvZaB)

80 Little boy gets his plushie dog back and learns there are still great people in the world:

https://tinyurl.com/mwnuk9rn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2025 06:29 AM (2GCMq)

81 In the Kessler twins video, when they're wearing Dolly Parton hair and snug yellow gowns at about 2:40, they're belting out German lyrics such as:

kannst wir dann das Leben voll

(my German is really bad!)

and they wink.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:30 AM (aURVT)

82 Amazon doesn't need kicking. They will get on UPS.
I bought a pair of shoes via Amazon. I left a mixed review of the quality and last night, Amazon emailed me the seller's offer of a refund.
Amazon is very good.

Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2025 06:30 AM (28cZF)

83 One quando would have sufficed.

Posted by: Italian Ralph Waldo Emerson at September 09, 2025 06:31 AM (PiwSw)

84 I’ve had Amazon make a delivery here as late as 10 p.m., a good many get delivered at night here.

And I’m in a suburb.
The Amazon hub is about 5 miles away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:31 AM (6ydKt)

85 Those are Amazon Flex drivers.
It’s kinda like Uber for Amazon.
You sign up through an app, and if you get hired you show up at the Amazon Hub and pick up blocks of packages to deliver with the app giving your route. You get paid by the block and pick AMD choose when you want to do it.

Sucks for you trying to get anything delivered.
Sounds like they need to send somebody out who owns a 4x4.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Yeah. Amazon had originally contracted with UPS. Then, they wanted to try and save money so they went a different route. They used super Uber out of Paris, Texas, which didn't work worth a flip. So they went back to UPS. My normal UPS driver has no problem delivering. He knows where I live, his truck makes it easily. As long as they don't steal the package at the hub.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:33 AM (SSRw1)

86 Ipanema IS a district of Rio, and Jobim was Brazilian. Check and check.

Da coffee be workin'.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

It’s one of the beach districts, kinda like Copacabana, but a little more upscale.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

87 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 09, 2025 06:34 AM (AN2gy)

88 Let's get a German-speaking Moron on that!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:34 AM (aURVT)

89 I Say a Little Prayer
The Kessler Twins
Ed Sullivan Show - 1968

https://youtu.be/lcbq62P48K4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 06:37 AM (aJQjq)

90 kommst mir dann das Leben voll?

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:38 AM (aURVT)

91 He knows where I live, his truck makes it easily. As long as they don't steal the package at the hub.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:33 AM (SSRw1)

They’ll just try again through UPS probably, or offer you a refund/gift card to place the order again.

That way you can cross your fingers and hope.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:39 AM (6ydKt)

92 Funny that I don't remember the Kessler Twins at all. As a teen in the Sixties I'd have found them . . . compelling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

93 89 I Say a Little Prayer
The Kessler Twins
Ed Sullivan Show - 1968

https://youtu.be/lcbq62P48K4
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 09, 2025 06:37 AM (aJQjq)

How completely cute is that!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:42 AM (aURVT)

94 Amazon will do overnight deliveries to my place in Queens for 3$. Stuff gets left on our steps between 2-4am.
Being a consumer in the NYC area is a treat.

Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2025 06:44 AM (28cZF)

95 94 Amazon will do overnight deliveries to my place in Queens for 3$. Stuff gets left on our steps between 2-4am.
Being a consumer in the NYC area is a treat.
Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2025 06:44 AM (28cZF)

Yikes.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2025 06:45 AM (aURVT)

96 I'm 12 1/2 miles from town.

My wife would love that.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 06:46 AM (99eI0)

97 Rejoinder: Nein nein nein nein nein!

Looks up from his calculator. Forty Five.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 06:48 AM (99eI0)

98 Yikes?

Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2025 06:50 AM (Bbhox)

99 Amazon will do overnight deliveries to my place in Queens for 3$. Stuff gets left on our steps between 2-4am.
Being a consumer in the NYC area is a treat.
Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2025 06:44 AM (28cZF)

I’ve had that pop up a few times, but it’s usually something like; “If you spend $23.17 more on this order you can get FREE overnight delivery if you order in the next 48 minutes”.

There’s nothing I need from Amazon that quickly so I’ve only gotten one or two overnights.

Most of my orders arrive in two or three days.
Occasionally something has to be shipped across the country so I’ll see it in four or five days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

100 My wife would love that.
Posted by: NR Pax

Mine did too. We built on family land.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 06:56 AM (SSRw1)

101 Mine did too. We built on family land.
Posted by: rickb223

Nice! I'm hoping that once I retire, the next home will have as much space as our current one (Just under an acre and we live in the boonies.).

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2025 06:57 AM (99eI0)

102 Nice! I'm hoping that once I retire, the next home will have as much space as our current one (Just under an acre and we live in the boonies.).
Posted by: NR Pax

We wound up building on 100 acres. We/I have 12.
Her grandfather was the town postmaster. He originally bought 50. When the old couple that had the corner 50 passed on, he bought that too. Made the block of land almost square.
When my wife's dad retired from Coca Cola, he bought half from him and they built their house. When wife's grandparents passed, her mom & dad inherited the original 50, giving them the 100 acres.

Her dad gave us 12 & her son 12. When her dad passed, her son inherited the 88 acres. When I go, the he'll get the house and 12, for the grands.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:04 AM (SSRw1)

103 'member when you actually had to drive your car to a store to buy something?
And you had it THE SAME DAY?

Posted by: Good times. Good times. at September 09, 2025 07:09 AM (XQo4F)

104 An article on The Free Press about the battle at Wikipedia to control the narrative over the Iryna Zarutska killing:

https://tinyurl.com/3jjmfbj7

The Wiki article is here:

https://tinyurl.com/3z6mhzvs

They've added a lot to it and can’t delete it now.
It’s on Wikipedia’s Top Read Articles for the day.

Wiki editors are a lot of pricks anyhow.
I got banned for months a few years ago just for editing a typo on a page.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

105 An article on The Free Press about the battle at Wikipedia to control the narrative over the Iryna Zarutska killing:

https://tinyurl.com/3jjmfbj7

The Wiki article is here:

https://tinyurl.com/3z6mhzvs

They've added a lot to it and can’t delete it now.
It’s on Wikipedia’s Top Read Articles for the day.

Wiki editors are a lot of pricks anyhow.
I got banned for months a few years ago just for editing a typo on a page.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

And just like that, the left no longer cares about Ukraine.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:15 AM (SSRw1)

106 'member when you actually had to drive your car to a store to buy something?
And you had it THE SAME DAY?
Posted by: Good times. Good times. at September 09, 2025 07:09 AM (XQo4F)

Yeah, but then you have to go in the Walmart.

*shudders*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

107 Because when I really really want to know the truth about a subject I point my OGR* towards Wikipedia.

*Omniscient Glowing Rectangle™

Posted by: Or watch an episode of 60 minutes at September 09, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F)

108 'member when you actually had to drive your car to a store to buy something?
And you had it THE SAME DAY?
Posted by: Good times. Good times. at September 09, 2025 07:09 AM (XQo4F)

Yeah, but then you have to go in the Walmart.

*shudders*
Posted by: SpeakingOf

My order had a gallon of worsteshire and a gallon of Dale's steak marinade. No one locally sell that big.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:17 AM (SSRw1)

109 And just like that, the left no longer cares about Ukraine.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:15 AM (SSRw1)

Ukraine was already going out of style when the new hotness “Gaza Genocide” started.

Ukraine is like, so 2023.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

110 “ I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!”

Deutoronomy 32:3

Posted by: Marcus T at September 09, 2025 07:18 AM (XXLiD)

111 My order had a gallon of worsteshire and a gallon of Dale's steak marinade. No one locally sell that big.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:17 AM (SSRw1)

Good Lord, are you cooking the entire cow?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)

112 Good Lord, are you cooking the entire cow?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Making jerky for the TX MOME.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:21 AM (SSRw1)

113 Yeah, but then you have to go in the Walmart.

*shudders*
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Hey the marijuana contact buzz is free!

Posted by: Auspex at September 09, 2025 07:22 AM (Y8DZL)

114 Thanks for the heads up on the npm hack. You scooped the security newsletters that I subscribe to.

Posted by: WillowViney at September 09, 2025 07:23 AM (d3MA1)

115 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 09, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

116 Good Lord, are you cooking the entire cow?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Making jerky for the TX MOME.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:21 AM (SSRw1)
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You do know we will have to deep fry it, right?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 09, 2025 07:24 AM (7fElN)

117 Off to look up the Kessler Twins. Wow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 09, 2025 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

118 You do know we will have to deep fry it, right?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:24 AM (SSRw1)

119 Kessler Twins.

German, but also popular in Italy. But in the '50-60s. So no wonder I don't know them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 09, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

120 Funny that I don't remember the Kessler Twins at all. As a teen in the Sixties I'd have found them . . . compelling.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

Apparently, in 1975 they posed for the cover of Italian Playboy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 09, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

121 AI is gonna burn your ass!

Posted by: Ass Man at September 09, 2025 07:30 AM (UsFP+)

122 Making jerky for the TX MOME.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2025 07:21 AM (SSRw1)

Nice, hopefully your order will get through so TX MOME will get some delicious homemade jerky.

It has me wondering why somebody would still gallons of Worcestershire and steak sauce for a UPS hub, though.

I guess they’ve got enough sauce to last for a few years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

123 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 09, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

124
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

125 J.J. and the News. Runway 045.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 09, 2025 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

126 I'm lazy, and I'm fairly risk-adverse, so I don't want to play "short" games on my own, so I've been looking for an anti-AI (but stil tech heavy) ETF. I'd anyone aware of such a thing?
I definitely think we:'re in a bubble, and I remember the dot-boom. It took 10-12 years to finally use all fiber laid between 1998 and 2001. Going short on the whole fiber industry would have made a bundle. Note that I'm being fairly specific. The entire comm industry took it in the shorts, but they recovered in 3 years or so. That's what I expect with the AI bs. When it goes, it's going to take the whole of tech with it. "Tech" will recover in a couple of yesrs, but AI is gonna be the next fusion energy - perpetually 20 years out.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 09, 2025 07:38 AM (+P94F)

127 >>SCOTUS Allows ICE Agents to Keep Arresting Illegal Aliens in Sanctuary City Los Angeles

I wish outlets would stop using "allows" in their headlines about this stuff.

SCOTUS doesn't allow shit. It confirms.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 09, 2025 07:53 AM (Y1sOo)

128 Amazon.
I live in Navajo Count, AZ. Slightly less than 10,000 square miles, and slightly less than 108,000 people.
Amazon has put a distribution center in Show Low.
They do a [j]lot of business in the boonies.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 09, 2025 08:01 AM (+P94F)

129 @72/Wolfus Aurelius:

"... No, I wouldn't want to sit there while a backup runs. Been there, cursed at how long it was taking."

Agreed, that's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

"The video is sensuous and fascinating. If it was made recently, there was a definite attempt to make it look aged; the reddish tint of the first part especially looks like film stock that has faded and reddened.

Oops, no: The Kessler Twins were born in 1936, and appeared on Red Skelton and Ed Sullivan in the Sixties. So this really is vintage."

Okay, now I'm confused. I'm referring to the video that I linked to you on Sunday September 7 in the tech thread there, post # 246.
"How to Install Linux Mint Alongside Windows in a Dual Boot Setup | Full Step-by-Step Guide"
https://youtu.be/L2JyQ1VJm84

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

130 Pixy,

"It might just be me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.

Or even in the short run."

Sure it is. Ever heard of the 'Greater Fool Theory'?? Find enough wealthy idiots, and you can support insane sh*t until the idiots run out.

Posted by: LampOfDiogenes at September 09, 2025 11:53 AM (HI/0w)

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