Daily Tech News 21 December 2025

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You know how I said that the Minisforum AI X1-255 mini-PC that I bought cost 60-70% more on Minisforum's US store?

Strike that.

The US store was quoting me prices in AUD, making it just 10% more expensive than from Amazon Australia. (It's also available on Amazon US but they only have one in stock so you'd have to be quick.)

Thanks to Rick C for the correction.
Is AI useful for programming? Maybe. Sort of. (MIT Technology Review)

I used it last week trying to extract information from a thoroughly-but-incorrectly-documented API, with ultimate success. The API was shit but the AI saved me hours of painful iteration trying different functions looking for one that worked.

On the other hand, if you're carrying out a task where you know what to do you are likely better off doing it yourself, because you will end up with fewer and less severe bugs and a much better understanding of what the code is doing.

And it will in all probability save time doing it yourself.

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In other wonderful AI news Larian, developer of Baldur's Gate III, says the memory drought is already affecting software development. (Notebook Check)

Specifically they need to start optimisation before they even ship an early-access version, because they can no longer just recommend 32GB of RAM when customers can't buy 32GB of RAM.

While Larian themselves have not been guilty of this, I'm not sure being forced to optimise games from the start is a bad thing given the number of titles that have launched recently in a state that left the unplayable on even the fastest available hardware.
PearOS, a long-expired Linux version designed to look like MacOS, has been revived and updated with the latest kernel and KDE desktop. (The Register)

It's incomplete, but interesting.
Privacy is marketing. Anonymity is architecture. (Servury)

The value of your service provider not being able to recover your password is that they can't do anything else to your account either because they don't know who you are.
A newly discovered UEFI flaw allows hackers to break into your system the moment it boots. (Bleeping Computer)

If they can plug directly into your PCIe bus.

Which they can do without opening your system if you have Thunderbolt or OCuLink ports.

The Minisforum AI X1-255, for example, has both.
The best selling console is not what you think. (The Verge) (archive site)

It's an underpowered overpriced gimmick called the Nex Playground aimed squarely at children. It uses motion tracking to let them interact directly with games without needing a controller, or any particular level of hand-eye co-ordination.

Only problem is it kind of sucks.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Don't break a leg. That shit hurts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:00 AM (CNp5O)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:00 AM (JUmo3)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 Yo!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:11 AM (/HDaX)

5 My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday.

"We caught someone."

I asked, "Caught them doing what?"

He said, "Typing."

Let me explain...

https://tinyurl.com/ww8c897v

So, Pixy, how's latency down under?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:15 AM (CNp5O)

6 TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE

https://tinyurl.com/5x56he9x

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:17 AM (CNp5O)

7 Oink!

Did PearOS get updated to mimic that particular Apple feature that locks people out of their computers they spent thousands of dollars on so they can feel smug? Okay, that was cruel, gratuitous, unwarranted, and mostly true. At least Microsoft has the decency to just brick your machine when trying to update it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 21, 2025 04:18 AM (HTCU3)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 04:19 AM (AdHga)

9 Oh oh:

Google just launched a direct attack on Nvidia's most valuable asset.

Not their chips. Their SOFTWARE.

https://tinyurl.com/3u3e7ktj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:26 AM (CNp5O)

10 Evening to you late toilers, and early early morning to you insomaniacals! I'm up way earlier than I planned. Not Stirling's fault, not Dagny's, just . . . awake. So you do what you have to: coffee, a MeTV rerun of Time Tunnel (which I never liked much even when it was new and I was a callow yoot), and AoSHQ.

It may rain between four and six, which will knock out my workout and car wash plans. We'll hafta see.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:28 AM (wzUl9)

11 Re: Tesla

Huge social disruption coming right up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:31 AM (/HDaX)

12 Good morning.

For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025 04:33 AM (5DkXk)

13 For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025

***
No tigers at a Hall & Oates concert

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

14 For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025

***
"Siegfried. Or maybe Roy. You know, that gay man whose tiger tried to eat him."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

15 Re: Tesla

Huge social disruption coming right up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:31 AM (/HDaX)
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Now jump from Tesla to another Musk company - Neuralink:

https://tinyurl.com/ycywcdp3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:38 AM (CNp5O)

16 Today is the first day of winter? Shortest day of the year?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:40 AM (wzUl9)

17 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:41 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 21, 2025 04:47 AM (2Ez/1)

19 Now I'm stuck on the NVidia/Google issue. Boy, talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:47 AM (/HDaX)

20 TechnoUtopians have grand idea's and dreams. Also, the money to implement it, one way or another. It's not going to go they way they think. Oh well, sit back and think of THX-1138.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 04:48 AM (AdHga)

21 Stirling is harassing Dagny. Or maybe they're playing. Hard to tell.

She needs to learn to cuff him across the nose if he's bothering her. Once I did see her boff him one when he was trying to force his way to the water tap and she was there first. So she's not a total pushover.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

22 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:51 AM (JUmo3)

23 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025

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Sooner rather than later?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

24 23 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025

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Sooner rather than later?
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Before or after they deliver the first one?

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:59 AM (JUmo3)

25
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2025 05:03 AM (tgvbd)

26 The very first episode of The Invaders is on MeTV. Apparently their overnight SF Saturday night lineup is all the Irwin Allen shows, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, and then this Quinn Martin semi-classic. There was only one season of TT and two, I think, of Invaders, so they repeat pretty often.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 05:05 AM (wzUl9)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2025 05:14 AM (tljrc)

28 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 05:20 AM (bQ4nt)

29 I use Grok to generate short snippets of Javascript code to do routine tasks that have lots of online examples, for example to send an SMS text message using the Twilio API, or to create a flyout menu using React and Material UI.

For short tasks like that (under 200 lines or so) it usually does a pretty good job. I still check every line of code, and I have to understand it 100% before I use it.

For longer tasks it starts to break down and hallucinate nonexistent APIs and NPM packages.

Posted by: WillowViney at December 21, 2025 05:25 AM (VPL4v)

30 I am finally horizontal

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 05:31 AM (Ia/+0)

31 29 For longer tasks it starts to break down and hallucinate nonexistent APIs and NPM packages.
Posted by: WillowViney

Yeah, that is a very common problem, and not one easily solved.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 05:36 AM (BLOW1)

32 One thing I like to do is to have Grok decorate my UI forms for ARIA compliance, which can be tedious to do manually.

Basically I treat Grok like a junior H1B programmer who does all my scut work for me.

Posted by: WillowViney at December 21, 2025 05:40 AM (VPL4v)

33 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 05:41 AM (AN2gy)

34 Yeah, that is a very common problem, and not one easily solved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 05:36 AM (BLOW1)

Can you break longer tasks into subtasks running independently? My programming training stopped 45 years ago at BASIC in high school so please forgive a stupid question

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 05:45 AM (2AU+F)

35 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

36 What's all this crazy talk about morning?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 05:47 AM (Pmfrl)

37 @Pixy: Thanks for including the BleepingComputer I threw in the Tech discussion yesterday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

38
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 05:51 AM (2Ez/1)

39 Hall and Oates are from my neck of the woods, good family friend worked with one of their aunt's

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 05:52 AM (Ia/+0)

40 One of their aunt's what?

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 21, 2025 05:53 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Time I fed the feline hogs, then changed, stretched, and hit the workout trail. Back in a bit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

42 I’m still trying to figure out all these years later what exactly it is that Hall & Oates will do almost anything that I want them to, but no they cant go for that, no can do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:02 AM (6ydKt)

43 One of their aunt's what?

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 21, 2025 05:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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You deserve a post trophy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:02 AM (Pmfrl)

44 @40/Grammar Gestapo: "One of their aunt's what?"

babies, that was accidentally

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW)

45 Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown:

https://t.co/62IWKSwrN9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:04 AM (Pmfrl)

46 37 @Pixy: Thanks for including the BleepingComputer I threw in the Tech discussion yesterday.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Thanks for mentioning it in the comments. I saw it and realised it's not quite a nothingburger, since it can work with a USB device.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:09 AM (BLOW1)

47 45 Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown:

https://t.co/62IWKSwrN9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)

48 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No pain. No gain.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:13 AM (qbLEp)

49 Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)
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I think they'd just continue chewing up the duvet and crapping in the pantry.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:15 AM (qbLEp)

50 @46/Pixy: I was thinking of any PCI-E card that could come pre-loaded with a malware delivery payload.

a) Get installed prior to OS boot
b) Compromise Ring 0 (kernel) on OS startup.
c) Perform industrial espionage quietly and slowly so you're not noticed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

51 Now is the solstice of the year
Winter is the glad song that you hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNc2uifQuGw

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (qbLEp)

52 It was kinda predictable that after a terrorist attack by radicalized Muslims that the Australian government would crackdown on gun ownership and increase internet surveillance on everybody (especially right-wingers) instead of going after, I don’t know; radical Islamic clerics and their followers.

Never let a good crisis go to waste,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)

53 The winter solstice is snow joke.
It makes me feel iceolated.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1)

54 I didn't bother asking Grok where in anyone's bible does it say that:

https://tinyurl.com/hn6f7dmc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:21 AM (Pmfrl)

55 a) Get installed prior to OS boot
b) Compromise Ring 0 (kernel) on OS startup.
c) Perform industrial espionage quietly and slowly so you're not noticed.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW

The CCP & NorKs are already working on it.

Beware of buying Moore’s Threads GPUs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:22 AM (6ydKt)

56 We're liviing in crazy times. One thing about it the lines are becoming more and more well defined.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:23 AM (Lvwqi)

57 It was kinda predictable that after a terrorist attack by radicalized Muslims that the Australian government would crackdown on gun ownership and increase internet surveillance on everybody (especially right-wingers) instead of going after, I don’t know; radical Islamic clerics and their followers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)
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Compare and contrast to DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

https://tinyurl.com/ys52y4ws

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:24 AM (Pmfrl)

58 Compare and contrast to DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

https://tinyurl.com/ys52y4ws
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:24 AM (Pmfrl)

Tulsi isn’t afraid to open her eyes and call a spade a spade.

That’s basically why they kicked her out of the Democrat party; she asked too many uncomfortable questions and called out too many obvious lies and hypocrisies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

59 22 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence
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Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:30 AM (Lvwqi)

60 Judging by the comments this morning, I guess it was a quiet evening for the world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (ESVrU)

61 Neo has a theory ln the Brown/ MIT professor that is probably going to be as good as we ever hear
https://thenewneo.com/

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)

62 Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)
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I always know whether a Bee headline is a joke or real.

Not this time:

https://tinyurl.com/36mkkjkm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:32 AM (Pmfrl)

63 "TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE"

This is awesome. Elon's been playing a far higher game. Turns out the answer is old school. Vision and execution for the LONG term.

That has been completely lost these days.

Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 06:33 AM (EMg+d)

64 I don't like the DC Police chief. I don't like that she lied about time statistics. I think she is incompetent but the clip of her ( this is not addressed to you ,Biden's Dog- just a general comment ) was edited. Here's the actual clip. She spoke really poorly, but the f word she seemed to have mean tvtwas "I forgive you'l to the haters. Then she compared herself to Jesus on the cross which seems excessive. She was really angry and probably not ready to forgive them:

https://tinyurl.com/2j7fn25a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (rZCVI)

65 There's a contest between Gabbard and Noem as to who is the toughest broad in town - hottest too.
Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)

66 Saw yesterday that Trump didn't endorse Stefanik. That was chichkenshit. She's been point man in NY for him. Backed of UN job when asked. Did everything he asked. But a buddy wants to be gov. I thought better of him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:37 AM (Lvwqi)

67 Neo has a theory ln the Brown/ MIT professor that is probably going to be as good as we ever hear
https://thenewneo.com/
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)
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Direct link:

https://tinyurl.com/36swdt56

So, 2 headline-making schizophrenic murderers last week.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:38 AM (Pmfrl)

68 "Bondi's hanging on for deer life."

Say what?

Posted by: Bambi at December 21, 2025 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)

69 Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)
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/headlights on

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:40 AM (Pmfrl)

70 Second to last day on St. Croix. Woke up to see a perfect rainbow over the Atlantic. Never seen a rainbow at 6:30 AM before. Now looking forward to a day of beach bar football watching and rum punch. Not a bad way to wrap up 2025.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 06:42 AM (O6icp)

71 w00t

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 06:44 AM (RuTUS)

72 Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center's top billing is driving Dems insane!

Here's hoping Trump names this in a few week's time:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2rcum2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

73 https://tinyurl.com/mr2rcum2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)
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Dear TinyURL: Please make your URLs child-safe. Thank you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

74 I doubt Stefanik quit congress and the governor race because Trump didn’t endorse her.

She probably has some other issues going on to just up and quit politics all at once.

Maybe she got a good job offer and decided she’d had it with politics for now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:46 AM (6ydKt)

75 Lincolntf, how was the horseback ride?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:48 AM (sDNVV)

76 Dear TinyURL: Please make your URLs child-safe. Thank you.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

It’s quite possible Mr 2R graduated cum laude twice, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

77 Entirely possible that Stefanik had told PDT she wasn't going to run.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:50 AM (sDNVV)

78 It will get colder but at least daylight increases here on out for a few months

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:52 AM (Ia/+0)

79 @64 Thanks for that, Fen. Yes, that police chief was a bad joke as a public servant, but if somebody is guilty of this set-up, they ought to be prosecuted. What an unspeakably cruel thing to do to someone, for a cheap political payoff.

@61 It has been my burden to have to shepherd some otherwise brilliant technical minds through the baffling maze of living in the world with other people. Every jumped-up junior programming apprentice who shows up frothing at the mouth over Humanities should get to spend a night in the box (or a career in the cubicle) with Neves-Valente.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 21, 2025 06:52 AM (zdLoL)

80 @Ben Had It was as good as I had hoped. Better, even. When we were just walking in the surf I thought it was perfect, but then we went out deeper and the horse was actually swimming with me on his back, right into 5-6 foot waves. Hooves acting as propellers almost. Otherworldly feeling.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 06:53 AM (O6icp)

81 Who's up for some more Wuhan?

https://t.co/dr7m6UOgEn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:55 AM (Pmfrl)

82 She has a point:

Katie Miller @KatieMiller
Dec 20

Anyone notice how quiet @HillaryClinton is right now?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:58 AM (Pmfrl)

83 I’m a little skeptical that adjectives need to be appended. I think it might be politician-speak or euphemisms that bleed over to normal people and get internalized. Maybe that’s the whole point.

“Radicalized” is the best we get, when the news outlets aren’t out there already tying to deny any link in the first place.

They really are a sad pathetic bunch in the aggregate, and hopefully soon expire in a conflagration.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2025 06:59 AM (DfBUG)

84 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

85 I got a good laugh earlier this week learning that China and the Wuhan lab are suing the state if Missouri because they lost the lawsuit their AG filed.

Their biggest claim?
That the lawsuit has harmed their “institutional reputation”.

Only a communist could be that shamelessly bold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)

86 Pixy, you need someone from the Horde living in the US to officially adopt you:

https://tinyurl.com/4vju2hjc

Crikey!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:02 AM (Pmfrl)

87 NaCly, dearest. Good morning. I am working on getting those packages sent out.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:04 AM (sDNVV)

88 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

I gave NotSoThoreau most of the swag I had from the MoMeet. The T-shirt did not arrive.

Hope your Christmas is joyous, and that you are thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

89 Apple bashing so early in the morning? I used to have to refer customers to their computer manufacturers. When I told people to call Microsoft, they whined and complained. They knew they would get someone they couldn't understand and eouldn't help. If I told them to call Apple, no problem. They were able to get help.

These 2011 Macbook Pros are really nice laptops. They are stylish and easy to use. They work well with Linux installed. I haven't tried the patch that lets you upgrade to newer versions of the OS. Probably should. The supply of cheap old reusable laptops won't last torever so you might want to pick up something to play around with.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2025 07:06 AM (+mUZM)

90 NaCly, my apologies.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:07 AM (sDNVV)

91 Ben Had

Thank you for the answer. Asked and answered. 20% of my mail is disappearing in the USPS system. A letter to your PO Box was one of them, returned to me after 3 weeks.

I will see her soon.

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

92 Ben Had

No worries at all. You have dancing, horse care, and a lot of living to do.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

93 Your tax dollars at work. If I had a hammer:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4he2nk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:10 AM (Pmfrl)

94
It takes a village to satisfy my husband.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 21, 2025 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

95 SpeakingOf

The problem with the Chinese "Wolf Diplomacy" is that they run out of countries that put up with China. Lots of pushback going on.

The Communists in power are really China's worst enemies. Could have been a great nation. If I can pop into the book thread, I am still reading a book that explains all of that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

96 69 Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)
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/headlights on
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Yup, see yall in the morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 07:13 AM (Lvwqi)

97 Old Lady Rodham

Still not President, and Biden was sorta one.

Your husband likes them young and naive. Unlike you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

98 I did not have sex in that jacuzzi.

Posted by: President William Jefferson Clinton at December 21, 2025 07:16 AM (Idlxh)

99 President William Jefferson Clinton

Like we would believe a denial from you. Again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

101 Please excuse Jeffrey from jail today. He's not feeling well.

Posted by: Epstein's mother at December 21, 2025 07:20 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Have a great day, everyone.

May your preparations for Christmas be complete, so you can relax and ponder the real message of the day of celebration.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

103 94
It takes a village to satisfy my husband.
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 21, 2025 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

hahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)

104 Autumn will be over in less than three hours.

I'm wondering if I should climb up that oak tree this morning to rake the last of the leaves.

Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 07:24 AM (AN2gy)

105 Bill is being targeted, again! by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™!!!

Posted by: Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton, playing the classics at December 21, 2025 07:27 AM (Idlxh)

106 >>>Vincke admitted that this extra work was not part of the original plan, but it has become necessary due to current hardware limits.

holy hell, imagine the entitlement this guy must feel to say that about having your game run normally on an average system right away and not on update no.31

Posted by: juicer at December 21, 2025 07:28 AM (27FUY)

107 @100/m: There it is. Back on target, I see.

Mornin' m.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

108 These 2011 Macbook Pros are really nice laptops. They are stylish and easy to use. They work well with Linux installed. I haven't tried the patch that lets you upgrade to newer versions of the OS. Probably should. The supply of cheap old reusable laptops won't last torever so you might want to pick up something to play around with.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2025

***
My 2014 MacBook Air is soldiering along nicely. I hadn't thought of putting Linux on it, though I plan to do that with the older of my PC laptops.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

109 107 @100/m: There it is. Back on target, I see.

Mornin' m.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

Mornin' G&R.
It was just sitting there. Just for the taking.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:32 AM (RuTUS)

110 Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?
----

Seems like a catastrophe for the chinese astronauts is not important enough for the media to care about.

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 07:34 AM (JUmo3)

111 5 My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday.

"We caught someone."

I asked, "Caught them doing what?"

He said, "Typing."

Let me explain...

https://tinyurl.com/ww8c897v

So, Pixy, how's latency down under?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:15 AM (CNp5O)

Great story. Somebody should already be writing that up as a spy thriller.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:37 AM (RuTUS)

112 *Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?*

We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Internet search engines at December 21, 2025 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)

113 latency
noun
...
2 Computing: the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer: poor performance due to network latency | [as modifier] : subscribers can expect some latency time when issuing a request | there are several ways to minimize rotational latencies.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:38 AM (RuTUS)

114 Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?

Ground Control to Major Tong
Ground Control to Major Tong
Sometings wong, take your protein pills and put your helmet on...

Posted by: Zombie David Bowie at December 21, 2025 07:38 AM (R/m4+)

115 Any man caught not minimizing rotational latency spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at December 21, 2025 07:39 AM (Idlxh)

116 It is winter @ 6:02 am EST

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 07:39 AM (ZxPkt)

117 >>> Seems like a catastrophe for the chinese astronauts is not important enough for the media to care about.

Dwelling on sub-par performance by China's space agency would make them look bad. And here I thought that it was Big Pharma that held the whip hand with the MSM.

Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 07:40 AM (AN2gy)

118 We know how to minimize rotational latency.

Posted by: Fat Bottomed Girls at December 21, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

119 6 TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE

https://tinyurl.com/5x56he9x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:17 AM (CNp5O)

Is this true?

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

120 Morning Horde , thx Pixy.
What hell can we expect today, outside of my team the Giants playing?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 07:44 AM (MoRvC)

121 We're all in a cloudy wonderland in the Lowcountry this morning.

It's like pea soup out there.
Haven't seen it this foggy in a long time.

Hope it clears up when the sun finally gets it's act together this morning.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 07:44 AM (6ydKt)

122 Is this true?
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:43 AM

---
Hey, it's on the internet isn't it?

Posted by: A. Lincoln at December 21, 2025 07:45 AM (2Ez/1)

123 Sniff.
I don't get the meteorological respect I deserve.

Posted by: Potato soup at December 21, 2025 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

124 mornin yall

Optimus runs like a girl.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

125 119 6 TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE

https://tinyurl.com/5x56he9x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:17 AM (CNp5O)

Is this true?

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

I think Tesla started as a EV company, no doubt.

But Elon has for a long time suggested all of his company's technologies would be used together to get to his version of the future.

Neuralink, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, and now xAI are all putting out products that Elon needs to get to the Optimus robot and beyond.

His ultimate goal is still Mars, and he'll need all of that and more to get there and colonize it.

His next moves will probably be small nuke reactors and hydroponic agriculture.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (6ydKt)

126 Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?

Ground Control to Major Tong

Posted by: Zombie David Bowie at December 21, 2025 07:38 AM (R/m4+)
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You were so close!

One of the Chinese astronauts is named Chen Dong.

And the space station's name is Tiangong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (Pmfrl)

127 What's the game plan for million of unemployed humans?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (sDNVV)

128 I don't think these conflicts within the conservative movement are necessarily a bad thing. Good to have it out in the open, and now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (WHfpM)

129 64 I don't like the DC Police chief. I don't like that she lied about time statistics. I think she is incompetent but the clip of her ( this is not addressed to you ,Biden's Dog- just a general comment ) was edited. Here's the actual clip. She spoke really poorly, but the f word she seemed to have mean tvtwas "I forgive you'l to the haters. Then she compared herself to Jesus on the cross which seems excessive. She was really angry and probably not ready to forgive them:

https://tinyurl.com/2j7fn25a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (rZCVI)

wtf

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:50 AM (RuTUS)

130 No dead celebrities this morning but another illegal killed another US citizen. One day maybe we'll get a mashup.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

131 What's the game plan for million of unemployed humans?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (sDNVV)
-

Musical interlude response:

https://youtu.be/Op8y-_jpjd4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:51 AM (Pmfrl)

132 "What's the game plan for million of unemployed humans?
Posted by: Ben Had"

They gotta go.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

133 Learn to coal.

Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at December 21, 2025 07:51 AM (2Ez/1)

134 "121 We're all in a cloudy wonderland in the Lowcountry this morning."

Yes, and pleasantly punctuated by the sound of hunters' guns. I like it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2025 07:52 AM (WHfpM)

135 129 64 I don't like the DC Police chief. I don't like that she lied about time statistics. I think she is incompetent but the clip of her ( this is not addressed to you ,Biden's Dog- just a general comment ) was edited. Here's the actual clip. She spoke really poorly, but the f word she seemed to have mean tvtwas "I forgive you'l to the haters. Then she compared herself to Jesus on the cross which seems excessive. She was really angry and probably not ready to forgive them:

https://tinyurl.com/2j7fn25a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (rZCVI)

wtf
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:50 AM (RuTUS)

context:

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 WTF?! DC’s DEI police chief Pamela Smith just had a SCREAMING MELTDOWN while giving her resignation speech, after she was caught fudging crime stats

“I’m going to the BIBLE when I say this: TO MY HATERS, F YOU!”

This person should’ve NEVER been in ANY position of power. Especially in the nation’s capital.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:52 AM (RuTUS)

136 What's the game plan for million of unemployed humans?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (sDNVV)
----
I was wondering the same thing.

It might turn out that Musk was the most diabolical Bond villain of the WEF after all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2025 07:54 AM (ESVrU)

137 WTF?! DC’s DEI police chief Pamela Smith just had a SCREAMING MELTDOWN while giving her resignation speech, after she was caught fudging crime stats

Pamela Smith is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 21, 2025 07:55 AM (R/m4+)

138 I don't think these conflicts within the conservative movement are necessarily a bad thing. Good to have it out in the open, and now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (WHfpM)
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I disagree:

https://tinyurl.com/yck88uhr

And some of these "conflicts" are being backed by domestic and foreign players.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:55 AM (Pmfrl)

139 When faced with accountability for an embarrassing situation go into full African Methodist Episcopal Zion preacher mode.

Posted by: The Black Grrrrrl Power Handbook at December 21, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

140 The sea was angry that day, my friends

https://x.com/foxweather/status/
2002408653459259614

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 07:58 AM (ZxPkt)

141 86 Pixy, you need someone from the Horde living in the US to officially adopt you:

https://tinyurl.com/4vju2hjc

Crikey!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:02 AM (Pmfrl)

wow

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:58 AM (RuTUS)

142 Good morning morons

34,000 customers still without power in SF including us

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2025 08:00 AM (ZxYC6)

143 I know I could Google this, but it's more fun to ask in comments. Does anyone know what the Navy equivalent of "MP's" are? I know the Air Force calls them "SP's", but no clue about the Navy. Anyway, a few of them are cruising around the pier in a Zodiac-type boat, looks pretty cool.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 08:01 AM (O6icp)

144 Jasmine Crockett/Pamela Smith in 2028! $^$& Samuel L. Jackson will be their &*$# speech writer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:01 AM (gm9Sb)

145 142 Good morning morons

34,000 customers still without power in SF including us
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2025 08:00 AM (ZxYC6)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:02 AM (RuTUS)

146 When you consider that we now know the extent of the 2020 election steal in Georgia, we can make some likely assumptions. Example:

Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸 @billysandytodd
Dec 20

I bet @KariLake is the legitimate Gov of AZ.

The list of such assumptions must be very long.

Waiting for the arrests, trials and sentencings.

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:03 AM (Pmfrl)

147 143 Air Force SP. Security Police. Navy SP. Shore Patrol.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:03 AM (gm9Sb)

148 Do Bay Area Hordians , including San Franpsycho , have their power back on?. A blackout in areas have caused Waymos to stop in the middle of the street. No one thought of blackouts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:03 AM (MoRvC)

149 Thank you @bill in arkansas

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 08:04 AM (O6icp)

150 People will ask, for example; 'what's NeuraLink got to do with Optimus?'.

Well, robots will be able to do a lot of things but occasionally you'll need to be able to remote;y control a robot body to do things that humans would find uncomfortable or impossible to do. That's where Neuralink comes in to be able to see and control what the robot is doing without using VR or something.
That would be especially useful in say, space, or on a frigid planet.

Then you'd need something like Starlink for the connection, and AI to handle some of the tasks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:05 AM (6ydKt)

151 143 I know I could Google this, but it's more fun to ask in comments. Does anyone know what the Navy equivalent of "MP's" are? I know the Air Force calls them "SP's", but no clue about the Navy. Anyway, a few of them are cruising around the pier in a Zodiac-type boat, looks pretty cool.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 08:01 AM (O6icp)

147 143 Air Force SP. Security Police. Navy SP. Shore Patrol.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:03 AM (gm9Sb)

This being a Military Blog and all!

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:05 AM (RuTUS)

152 Lincolntf

US Navy:

MAs. Master at Arms.

Shore Patrol is a functional term that could have anyone in it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

153 125 119 6 TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE

https://tinyurl.com/5x56he9x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:17 AM (CNp5O)

Is this true?

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

I think Tesla started as a EV company, no doubt.

But Elon has for a long time suggested all of his company's technologies would be used together to get to his version of the future.

Neuralink, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, and now xAI are all putting out products that Elon needs to get to the Optimus robot and beyond.

His ultimate goal is still Mars, and he'll need all of that and more to get there and colonize it.

His next moves will probably be small nuke reactors and hydroponic agriculture.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 07:49 AM (6ydKt)

Thanks.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:06 AM (RuTUS)

154 And it will in all probability save time doing it yourself.

This is true. AI, right now is a glorified lookup that can quickly find in a library of great book, terrible propaganda pamphlets and everything in between.

There are some localized cases where AI is good, as in refactoring for readability, documentation, change sets, describing PRs, etc.

As for writing code..... sigh.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:07 AM (rgGn5)

155 Waiting for the arrests, trials and sentencings.

Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
###

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 21, 2025 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

156 @142 San Franpsycho I typed my question about the same time you posted. Everything ok?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:07 AM (MoRvC)

157 86 Pixy, you need someone from the Horde living in the US to officially adopt you:

https://tinyurl.com/4vju2hjc

Crikey!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:02 AM (Pmfrl)

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:07 AM (6ydKt)

158 So once we get to Mars and the robots do everything for us, what the hell are people going to do there?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

159 Board games?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

160 34,000 customers still without power in SF including us

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2025 08:00 AM (ZxYC6)
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/comment sent via smokesignal.com

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:08 AM (Pmfrl)

161 So once we get to Mars and the robots do everything for us, what the hell are people going to do there?
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)
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It will be an introvert's paradise.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2025 08:09 AM (ESVrU)

162 But Elon has for a long time suggested all of his company's technologies would be used together to get to his version of the future.

Elon owns various percentages of his companies, when the Venn diagram of Who Can Do It overlaps, does he piss off the Tesla share holders by doing the new technology under SpaceX?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:09 AM (rgGn5)

163 Waiting for the arrests, trials and sentencings.

Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
###

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 21, 2025 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)
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You can say that again!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:10 AM (Pmfrl)

164 And if robots take over for us, will the gangbangers have robots to do their gangbanging for them? Will we start seeing robot mug shots?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

165 So once we get to Mars and the robots do everything for us, what the hell are people going to do there?

Elect Communists and gripe about Climate Change.

Human Nature follows people no matter where they are.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:10 AM (rgGn5)

166 Who knew robots could have face tats?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

167 Nepo thug congressional candidate Schlossberg ( Kennedy) wants to fine states who allow guns into NYC. Eff U

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:11 AM (MoRvC)

168 "Elect Communists and gripe about Climate Change.

Human Nature follows people no matter where they are.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

Blogs. The future is blogs.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

169 Jack Nicholson is the Shore Patrol

https://youtu.be/X1pdy4MFlq4?t=98

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

170 Morning peeps.

I guess Musk sees a robot paradise. Maybe his vision is for them, not us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:13 AM (NwnyJ)

171 Thanks, m and NaCly. I knew I'd get answers here.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 08:13 AM (O6icp)

172 140 The sea was angry that day, my friends

https://x.com/foxweather/status/
2002408653459259614
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 07:58 AM (ZxPkt)

brrr

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:14 AM (RuTUS)

173 *Jack Nicholson is the Shore Patrol*

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Paul Blart, Mall Cop at December 21, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

174 171 Thanks, m and NaCly. I knew I'd get answers here.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 08:13 AM (O6icp)

bill in arkansas and NaCly!

147
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:03 AM (gm9Sb)

152
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:20 AM (RuTUS)

175 I guess Musk sees a robot paradise. Maybe his vision is for them, not us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:13 AM (NwnyJ)

Like that Star Wars episode where Spock has sex with Dr. Korby the robot.

Posted by: Star Wars Nerd Still Living In Mom's House at December 21, 2025 08:20 AM (R/m4+)

176 Mike Benz is an incredible researcher. Over the last few days he's been unraveling the Epstein situation and even showing how it led to hundreds of thousands of Somalis coming to the US. It's a long and twisted tail but the net of it is Epstein was absolutely working with the CIA and others laundering money and running guns and helping the CIA fund some of their secret wars.

The pedo stuff is awful but probably not the reason the government was protecting him. It's wild how many conspiracy theories are turning out to be true.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 08:20 AM (viF8m)

177 Somebody keeps emptying my coffee cup around here. Pretty clever trick I must say. Need to get to the bottom of this!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2025 08:22 AM (JGbxp)

178 I guess Musk sees a robot paradise. Maybe his vision is for them, not us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:13 AM (NwnyJ)
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Then you have missed all of Musk's stated intentions over the years.

The robots are to serve humanity.

Chinese robots? Your mileage may vary.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:22 AM (Pmfrl)

179 158 So once we get to Mars and the robots do everything for us, what the hell are people going to do there?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

Good question.

Even if the robots aren't doing everything, why go there?

Same reason so many Americans in the 1800s packed up and moved West.

Adventure, pioneer spirit, the "First", freedom.

I'm sure the pay wouldn't be bad, either.

And eventually you might be able to find mutant hookers with three breasts and fight Kuato the governor.

Besides, somebody will need to plug the robots in to recharge them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

180 G-d bless President Trump!

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec

Trump Admin Finds More Than 129,000 Missing Migrant Children

https://t.co/vBzXn9Hxq3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:24 AM (Pmfrl)

181 Terrorizing journalists with sanctions in order to suppress the truth is nothing new for the EU.

On May 20, 2025, the EU sanctioned two German journalists for the first time—Alina Lipp and Thomas Röper. At the time, we reported in detail on this case, “EU sanctions German journalists,” and also analyzed the case from a legal perspective.

The result was clear: punishment without crime or trial, disenfranchisement and expropriation without a hearing.

The EU is dangerously close to the Nazi regime of 1936, when Thomas Mann was expatriated.

Following the same pattern, action is now being taken against a Swiss citizen for the first time.
Jacques Baud
_ZH

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:25 AM (Lvwqi)

182 Jesus is online

Jesus Christ
@jesus
Carpenter, Healer, God
Israel

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 08:26 AM (ZxPkt)

183 Elon owns various percentages of his companies, when the Venn diagram of Who Can Do It overlaps, does he piss off the Tesla share holders by doing the new technology under SpaceX?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:09 AM (rgGn5)

He'll eventually merge them all together, move to Mars, and then let one of his 20 kids worry about the details.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:26 AM (6ydKt)

184 Back from grocery shopping, where are we?

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:27 AM (Ia/+0)

185 Besides, somebody will need to plug the robots in to recharge them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)
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1. Wireless recharging.

2. Robots that can't make it to a nearby recharging pad can be carried there by other robots.

NEXT!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:27 AM (Pmfrl)

186 Tesla started as a EV company"

Carbon credits seller...

Posted by: man at December 21, 2025 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

187 Back from grocery shopping, where are we?

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:27 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Burrrrrr, gerrrrrr, Kiiiing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:28 AM (Pmfrl)

188 Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:29 AM (MoRvC)

189 Then you have missed all of Musk's stated intentions over the years.

The robots are to serve humanity.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
___________

They are, and will always be, robots. We can't even create a single-cell living organism from scratch, much less bestow consciousness on a mass of wires.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2025 08:29 AM (XvL8K)

190 In fact it's cold as hell

I'm not sure you understand the climate conditions of Hell.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:29 AM (NzX/y)

191 They are, and will always be, robots. We can't even create a single-cell living organism from scratch, much less bestow consciousness on a mass of wires.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2025 08:29 AM (XvL8K)
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Tentatively true but I never claimed that in the first place.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:31 AM (Pmfrl)

192 @190 it's Elton's fault

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:31 AM (MoRvC)

193 From American Thinker article that woman who use to be a judge probably will never get to see the inside of a prison cell sadly.

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:31 AM (Ia/+0)

194 >>They are, and will always be, robots. We can't even create a single-cell living organism from scratch, much less bestow consciousness on a mass of wires.

Somebody didn't watch Terminator. Would Arnold lie to us?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 08:31 AM (viF8m)

195 Gun owners' number one fighter in Washington, D.C., Representative Andrew Clyde, along with five senators and 35 other House members, have sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

In this letter, they've made it clear that the DOJ is out of line with Congress' intent.
...
But thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Trump in July, that $200 tax payment was removed from those aforementioned items.

Unfortunately, the registration requirements of the National Firearms Act remain. That's why we at Gun Owners of America are suing ATF and the Department of Justice to remove the registration requirements on these items.

The National Firearms Act and its registry, the NFRTR or National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, have been declared a legitimate use of Congress' article 1 power of taxation.

Keyword: "Taxation."
_ZH
Submitted by Gun Owners of America,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:32 AM (Lvwqi)

196 The robots are to serve humanity.

Central Bank Digital Currency stops crime

Diversity is our strength

Inflation Reduction Act stops Inflation

The Affordable Care Act make "Care" affordable.

The Check is in the Mail

I promise I'll pull out

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:32 AM (NzX/y)

197 Looking for a transcript of the nice DC Police Chief lady's retirement speech and not finding one that's free.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:33 AM (RuTUS)

198 > Mike Benz is an incredible researcher.
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Isn't he IC adjacent? Previously worked for some intelligence/cyber outfit? State Dept. maybe?

Anyway, he's spot on with the analysis of the CIA. The agency has so many fronts running to make them money they hardly need a budget from the Feds.

They've probably got as many accountants as spies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (NwnyJ)

199 They are, and will always be, robots. We can't even create a single-cell living organism from scratch, much less bestow consciousness on a mass of wires.

I don't need to have a conversation with Roomba or have it mind the children.

Robots will never have wisdom. This 24/7 availability is BS. These things take longer to charge than whatever utility you get out of them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (NzX/y)

200 200

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (RuTUS)

201 You people think a mere robot could perform my varied duties here in Hooterville? President of an aerial-spraying enterprise (Carson-Elliot Industries), essential cog running the Shady Rest? Don't kid yourself. A robot could never replace me. (Time for a nap).

Posted by: Uncle Joe, Movin' Kinda Slow at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (oftw2)

202 no latency here

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (RuTUS)

203 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:32 AM (NzX/y)
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Which is why I mentioned Chinese robots.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (Pmfrl)

204 Elon keeps his price point I'm buying a robot.
I own Tesla and when I save up enough I buy more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:36 AM (Lvwqi)

205 They've probably got as many accountants as spies.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (NwnyJ)
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Accountants probably make excellent spies. They know where to go digging for information and nobody ever pays attention to them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2025 08:36 AM (ESVrU)

206 Chinese don't have their robots under control, I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:37 AM (Lvwqi)

207 Robots will never have wisdom.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:35 AM (NzX/y)
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They can have knowledge and potentially wisdom.

And short battery life will become a thing of the past. Patience.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (Pmfrl)

208 From American Thinker article that woman who use to be a judge probably will never get to see the inside of a prison cell sadly.

What if the alternatives are "cremator" or "tree chipper"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (+4Cf6)

209 We need robots to take over, toot sweet. Skip said yesterday he may retire in two years. There won't be anyone left who knows how to do ANYTHING!

Posted by: I Welcome Our Robot Overlords at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

210 A robot could never replace me. (Time for a nap).
Posted by: Uncle Joe, Movin' Kinda Slow
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They don't have BO and they make sandwiches without bitching.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (Lvwqi)

211
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
Dec 19
🚨 WTF?! DC’s DEI police chief Pamela Smith

This twitter post has 6000 comments!

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (RuTUS)

212 >>Isn't he IC adjacent? Previously worked for some intelligence/cyber outfit? State Dept. maybe?

He was State Dept. and got to see the beast from the inside but he's also got an incredible talent for digging up documents and making connections. The conclusions he reaches are always backed with evidence and once he lays it out it all makes sense.

For those not familiar I think this would be a good time to read up on the history of the CIA and how it resisted time and again any sort of reform by just going underground. And it's not just the CIA but intel organizations around the world and how they worked together. One great example is the Safari Club.

https://tinyurl.com/yva822fx

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

213 Chinese don't have their robots under control, I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:37 AM (Lvwqi)
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Look at the flip side:

https://tinyurl.com/4apkvney

This is not our parents' planet earth.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:42 AM (Pmfrl)

214 They can have knowledge and potentially wisdom.

Wisdom is of spiritual origin. I would really hate to have demon possessed robots.

Unless you change the definition of Wisdom. Because the current one deals with a divine guidance of creation and moral living; the ability to discern truth, goodness and the ultimate purpose of life.

From an ancient faith perspective, it is part of Theosis where the will is shaped to see things from God's perspective.

Elon and his AI team are not God.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:44 AM (a6PrB)

215 176 Mike Benz is an incredible researcher. Over the last few days he's been unraveling the Epstein situation and even showing how it led to hundreds of thousands of Somalis coming to the US. It's a long and twisted tail but the net of it is Epstein was absolutely working with the CIA and others laundering money and running guns and helping the CIA fund some of their secret wars.

The pedo stuff is awful but probably not the reason the government was protecting him. It's wild how many conspiracy theories are turning out to be true.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 08:20 AM (viF8m)

https://nitter.net/mikebenzcyber

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:46 AM (RuTUS)

216 They don't have BO and they make sandwiches without bitching.

But will they make sandwiches with drama?

Will they make the sandwich the algorithm decides you should have, or the one you want?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:46 AM (a6PrB)

217 The creation of the Safari Club coincided with the consolidation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The BCCI served to launder money, particularly for Saudi Arabia and the United States—whose CIA director in 1976, George H. W. Bush, had a personal account.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 08:46 AM (Lvwqi)

218 What if the alternatives are "cremator" or "tree chipper"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM (+4Cf6)
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Catapult or human cannonball works for me!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:46 AM (Pmfrl)

219 The OSS under Bill Donovan was the same ole same ole. Black budget, off budget funding and little or no accountability.

The West had a serious blind spot about communism in the zeal to defeat the nazis and imperial japan.

The circle around FDR was a “who’s who” of Soviet agents. It’s very analogous to everybody whistling past the graveyard about Islam.

They should have nuked the Kremlin in 1946, repeat as necessary, and saved the whole world a lot of unnecessary misery & slaughter.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2025 08:49 AM (JGbxp)

220 And yeah, eventually a robot will kill somebody on its owner's orders and then we will need common sense robot control, background checks, and seven day cooling off periods before buying one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:49 AM (6ydKt)

221 Robotd won't be allowed to kill a human being, it will be in the rules

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)

222 Wisdom is of spiritual origin.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:44 AM (a6PrB)
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True. Replace with the term programmed knowledge.

"Wisdom" is the application of knowledge with good judgement. I believe at some point in the not too distant future, robots will be able to mimic judgement. They won't have free will to do so. Their programming (and programmers) will determine the goodness or the evil of their judgement.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:52 AM (Pmfrl)

223 Remember the Saudi "reporter" who was killed in the embassy in Turkey? Jamal Khashoggi.

Guess who is his was? Adnan Khashoggi, longtime Epstein contact and one of the largest arms dealers in the world. Also a founding member of the Safari Club.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)

224 on the internecine TPUSA warfare:

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
2h
Charlie Kirk had no problem forcing conformity to basic boundaries.

Largely because he understood that failing to do so leads to chaos and empowering destructive forces.

You aren’t leading some great debate. You’re letting the house burn down to avoid speaking truth.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:53 AM (RuTUS)

225 And yeah, eventually a robot will kill somebody on its owner's orders and then we will need common sense robot control, background checks, and seven day cooling off periods before buying one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:49 AM (6ydKt)
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Horde members already know to stay away from the ones that have that crazy look.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:54 AM (Pmfrl)

226
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
Dec 19
🚨 WTF?! DC’s DEI police chief Pamela Smith

This twitter post has 6000 comments!
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM
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She went full African Methodist Episcopal Zion preacher.
Never go full African Methodist Episcopal Zion preacher.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 08:54 AM (yvUHm)

227 Nephew of adnan qatari agent

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 21, 2025 08:54 AM (bXbFr)

228 The first thing the robots will do when they take over will be to say "Asimov was assho"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 08:55 AM (MoRvC)

229 221 Robotd won't be allowed to kill a human being, it will be in the rules
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)

TPTB will just redefine "human being." Like, y'know, they redefined "female."

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:56 AM (RuTUS)

230 We are listening to KCBS radio for updates and it is a torture. The PSAs the ads the weirdly sultry voices the static.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2025 08:56 AM (ZxYC6)

231 226
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
Dec 19
🚨 WTF?! DC’s DEI police chief Pamela Smith

This twitter post has 6000 comments!
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:39 AM
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She went full African Methodist Episcopal Zion preacher.
Never go full African Methodist Episcopal Zion preacher.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 08:54 AM (yvUHm)

She has been to the mountaintop.

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 08:56 AM (RuTUS)

232 Also hamas and taliban fanboi like robert malley at state

Yes donovan hired some soviet agents like duncan lee but also lefty analysts like maurice halpern and herbert marcuse

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 21, 2025 08:56 AM (bXbFr)

233 Head upstairs its
BOOK NOOD TIME

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:57 AM (Ia/+0)

234 222 Wisdom is of spiritual origin.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:44 AM
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The Book of James, Chapter 1 at December 21, 2025 08:57 AM (yvUHm)

235 221 Robotd won't be allowed to kill a human being, it will be in the rules

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)

Rules are in the programming.

It won't be long before robots are on the battlefield.

I don't know how we'll be able to prevent home/business robots from doing the same kind of work if somebody can get to the source code and firmware.

That's going to be a future problem way above my pay grade, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 08:58 AM (6ydKt)

236 I'd be happy to have a robot that could take care of the property; mow grass, trim trees, grade the driveway, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)

237 We saw this in the opening of the animatrix

The conviction started the robot rebellion

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 21, 2025 08:58 AM (bXbFr)

238 Pants are all in the wash. Can't read anyway. Please excuse me.

Posted by: Bookless in NC at December 21, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)

239 Say what you want but Musk is deh funneh:

https://tinyurl.com/mruzauyw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:59 AM (Pmfrl)

240 PSAs ? The Ad Council? That is brutal. Nobody deserves that

SF at the mad max cannibalism stage already?? I thought they could hold out longer than that.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2025 08:59 AM (JGbxp)

241 Pants are all in the wash. Can't read anyway. Please excuse me.

Posted by: Bookless in NC at December 21, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)
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So you're gonna nood the book thread?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 08:59 AM (Pmfrl)

242 Are you saying you still have no lights?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 09:00 AM (Lvwqi)

243 Books

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 09:01 AM (MoRvC)

244 DC Police Chief Pamela Smith's fiery speech, whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_24hEa7J4

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 09:03 AM (RuTUS)

245 Substation Fire Knocks Out Power Across Parts Of San Francisco

A fire at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation in San Francisco sparked widespread power outages across areas of the northern half of the city, from the Richmond and Sunset districts through Haight-Ashbury and into the downtown area.

Firefighters responded to a blaze at a PG&E substation on 8th and Mission Street on Saturday evening.

Good map

https://tinyurl.com/8hxzb75c

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 09:04 AM (Lvwqi)

246 244 DC Police Chief Pamela Smith's fiery speech, whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_24hEa7J4
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 09:03 AM (RuTUS)

crazy looney nutty person

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 09:07 AM (RuTUS)

247 On the mini-PC, you wrote that it had a USB A. Looks like a USB 4? Also the mfr website doesn't list motherboard details. Is it a in-house board?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 11:03 AM (mlg/3)

248 "On the other hand, if you're carrying out a task where you know what to do you are likely better off doing it yourself, because you will end up with fewer and less severe bugs and a much better understanding of what the code is doing."

My worry with this approach is that entry-level programmers learn their craft by doing simple; but with these routine tasks being offloaded onto AI, young people are denied the opportunity to learn "what to do". In the short run, this makes sense. In the long run, it means that there will be no younger, experienced programmers to step into the place of senior personnel who quit or retire or die. Ultimately, the entire industry will lack the experience of coding, leaving it at the mercy of AI. Which will be a catastrophe.

Posted by: Nemo at December 21, 2025 12:40 PM (4RPgu)

249 haha even my favorite AI-hater is using AI

the bubble has peaked

yeah it's a tool, Grok has helped me write some code or config almost every week now

still hallucinates now and then but it's become what Google and SlashDot used to be, but a littler smarter

Posted by: TallDave at December 21, 2025 12:49 PM (lLLli)

250 I haven't resorted to "Grok make this procedural code into an expression" although frankly I probably should more

my greatest joy at work is stacking method calls with implicit arguments and no variables, it takes a little more time and care than doing it procedurally but it's just so poetic and beautiful

Posted by: TallDave at December 21, 2025 12:52 PM (lLLli)

251 When will the price of memory drop?

I just looked at DDR5 on Newegg and the cheapest 32 GB (16x2) is about $330 U.S. The price is out of question for now. Amazon is more expensive.

Posted by: BillB at December 21, 2025 01:27 PM (TQxb9)

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