Daily Tech News 5 April 2026

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North Korea used a supply-chain attack to gain access to widely-used open-source web client package Axios. (Axios)
And here's a version you can actually read. (CNN)

The name is just a coincidence.
And here's a version you can read which actually explains what happened. (Bleeping Computer)

The state of the technical media today is a microcosm of the state of the mainstream media, which is to say, it would be a good name for a rock band.

But this story highlights a huge problem: Common "wisdom" involves constantly downloading fresh copies of all the dependencies of your software, building it unattended, and deploying it to production likewise.

Sticking with known-good versions? Old hat. Manual review? Out the window.

So as soon as one key component is compromised this way, the infection spreads like wildfire.

Everyone with any experience knew this was a bad idea, but we were ignored.

Tech News

Microsoft has pulled a faulty Windows 11 update that was breaking installs. (Tech Republic)

I think this is the same one I reported on the other day. Might be a new one. Who knows?
Microsoft is moving Windows 11 24H2 into hospice care and forcing all users to update to 25H2. (Tom's Hardware)

Did you ask for that? No.

Does Microsoft care what you want? Also no.
Can you install Windows 3.1 from 1992 natively on a Ryzen 9900X system from 2024 and forget about all the complexity of modern systems? (Tom's Hardware)

Shockingly, yes. It does depend on a couple of open-source drivers to run smoothly on modern motherboards and video and sound cards, but it loads and runs even without that in 286 compatibility mode.

Bring your own floppy drive.
There is no cloud, there's just someone else's computer, which just got hit by an Iranian missile. (Tom's Hardware)

If you were running in Amazon's datacenters in Bahrain or Dubai, you no longer are.

Likely the power systems were affected rather than the servers themselves - and storage in Amazon's cloud is duplicated and physically distributed so not subject to easy destruction - but Amazon did not provide much detail or a timeframe for restoration of services.
There is no cloud, there's just someone else's computer, which just got sold to an AI company. (PC World)

Oh, were you using that? Too bad.
Linux 7.0, due to arrive in distributions like Ubuntu 26.04 this month, can cut your database performance in half. (Phoronix)

Specifically if you're running PostgreSQL on Amazon's Arm CPUs, but if it happens there it could happen anywhere.
How many products does Microsoft have named Copilot? (Tey Bannerman)

75.

But they all have one thing in common: They're all named Copilot.
AI can make anyone a 10x programmer. (The Register)

It just requires 10x the effort.
Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake S processors will have 44 cores. (WCCFTech)

Basically, there are four models we know of. They all have 4 low-power cores that live on the I/O die, plus one or two CPU dies each with 8 performance cores and 12 or 16 efficiency cores, for a total between 24 and 52 cores, and up to 320MB of cache.

That's the good news.

The bad news? From information that has leaked so far, these will have a peak power consumption of 350W... For the models with one CPU die. For the high end models, 700W.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: The red light just means your computer is on fire.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:01 AM (MbRpR)

2 America, fuck yeah!

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 05, 2026 04:01 AM (vFawh)

3 ONT alerted.

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:02 AM (MbRpR)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:02 AM (fNISR)

5 clarence firsted and nooded
whoo-hoo!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:03 AM (fNISR)

6 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:08 AM (MbRpR)

7
Artemis crew was looking right down at Pixy in these shots:

https://is.gd/lT5yU8

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 04:10 AM (w6EFb)

8 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 05, 2026 04:11 AM (Y+4g7)

9 Rejoinder: HA! I meant to do that.

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:11 AM (MbRpR)

10 Didn't we used to have a spy service that would make people that hacked computers regret their continued existence?

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:19 AM (MbRpR)

11 >>>Disclaimer: The red light just means your computer is on fire.

Thank you. I was wondering what that w

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:20 AM (fNISR)

12 I'm still working on all the Fool music videos from the last couple ONTs, and now I have Bunny songs too... so I finally figured out a system. I moved all those music tabs to another window on the laptop screen, which is off to the left of the big monitor, so I can play them and read the blog at the same time! It's the little things sometimes.

Posted by: SciVo at April 05, 2026 04:22 AM (Sy6m/)

13 7 Artemis crew was looking right down at Pixy in these shots:

https://is.gd/lT5yU8
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 04:10 AM (w6EFb)

haha!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:23 AM (fNISR)

14 7 Artemis crew was looking right down at Pixy in these shots:

https://is.gd/lT5yU8
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 04:10 AM (w6EFb)

NASA
@NASA
This view just hits different 🌍

@Astro_Christina
and
@astro_reid
take a moment to look back at Earth as they continue deep into space toward the Moon.

---

Her hair's a mess.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:24 AM (fNISR)

15 Does Astronaut Reid only have half a face?

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2026 04:34 AM (jstR0)

16 15 Does Astronaut Reid only have half a face?
Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2026 04:34 AM (jstR0)

It's a silhouette!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:37 AM (fNISR)

17 Sale on while store lasts:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8f7ky7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 05, 2026 04:37 AM (Y+4g7)

18 There's another photo of astro_reid on his 𝕏 site.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:38 AM (fNISR)

19 Another good one from a "media event" as they call it from Victor Glover:

https://is.gd/9VvQoS

You're see what they call the "Overlook Effect" hitting him like a freight train there. He's reflecting and pondering. There have been only, what 24 men before who have seen the earth from that far away, and that small a "blue marble" with their own eyes. The effect occurs in orbit, with the earth looming much larger, but this, this is really something, the Blue Marble POV.

Note his words, "Oasis in nothingness". It's hitting him big time. This is a quite profound experience.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 04:38 AM (w6EFb)

20 >> Her hair's a mess.

Her's is pretty tame compared to some. Like SUnni Williams, and others.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 04:41 AM (w6EFb)

21 Artemis II/Date
Wed, Apr 1, 2026 – Sat, Apr 11, 2026

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:48 AM (fNISR)

22 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 05, 2026 04:51 AM (Kdi1r)

23 Elon retweeted a photo posted at astro_reid.

Elon Musk retweeted
Reid Wiseman
@astro_reid
7h
There are no words.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:53 AM (fNISR)

24 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - We Got Him' -- Missing US F-15 Crew Member Rescued In Iran
Last updated (GMT/UTC): April 05, 2026. 🎉.

Keep the Artemis II Updates coming. 👍

Happy Easter! 🐣 🐰

Posted by: L No nic at April 05, 2026 04:54 AM (NFX2v)

25 Artemis II crew members

Nasa astronauts
Reid Wiseman
Victor Glover
Christina Koch

Canadian Space Agency astronaut
Jeremy Hansen

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:57 AM (fNISR)

26 BBC

'Absolutely spectacular': Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon
...
The crew shared a photo they took of the Orientale basin of the Moon, which Nasa said marked "the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes".

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 04:59 AM (fNISR)

27 tech

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Apr 4
We’re a few weeks away from where there will be no designers or engineers, but a third secret thing

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 05:01 AM (fNISR)

28 10 Didn't we used to have a spy service that would make people that hacked computers regret their continued existence?
Posted by: clarence

Yes. They were too busy spying on the normal half of America.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 05, 2026 05:03 AM (Kdi1r)

29 >> Orientale basin of the Moon, which Nasa said marked "the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes".

That's surprising, but true. The Apollo missions were timed such that it was lunar morning on the near side (this had to do with thermal conditions on the surface for landing and moonwalking operations), and thus that side of the (near) far side was in the dark. Apollo 17's command module pilot, during his lonely orbits, managed to get some shots of it with "earthlight", but it's never been seen in full sunlight by human eyes.

Here is it, just coming into view on the right side. It's the right most little dark spot:
https://is.gd/JmVuEA

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:03 AM (w6EFb)

30 covfefe

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 05:03 AM (fNISR)

31 As we work
From time to time
Where shadows lurk
And words still rhyme
We see that the sun
Will still rise
And having fun
Will be the prize

fin

Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 05:06 AM (MbRpR)

32
The geologists and planetary scientists go crazy over Mare Orientale. It's a young impact basin, only 3.7B years old, just a baby. And it's very pristine, and represents a sort of reference, textbook impact basin.

It's been imaged in high resolution by the various lunar orbiters, but one of the NASA geologists this afternoon was almost squeeing like a schoolgirl at thought of human eyes on it, and providing descriptions. The Artemis crew had some intense geology training so they could learn the language to exhaustively describe what they were seeing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:11 AM (w6EFb)

33 Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Apr 4
We’re a few weeks away from where there will be no designers or engineers, but a third secret thing
Posted by: m

His account seems like a prime target for h@xxoring. Or a psilocybin overdose.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026 05:12 AM (diia5)

34 Another bit from "The Joy of Full Surrender" by Jean Pierre de Caussade ( 1675-1731). a French Jesuit priest . I am looking at the Paraclete Press version of his writings:

"Let us continually repeat to all souls that the invitation of the Savior does not demand anything very difficult or extraordinary from them. He does not ask for talent and ingenuity. All he asks is that their wills be united to him, that he may guide, lead and befriend them accordingly."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 05:13 AM (lQ+/f)

35 G'morning, all!

Early church today, so not much posting, and no morning walk.

But....he is risen!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2026 05:13 AM (iMotb)

36 Story behind a great old hymn, "The Old Rugged Cross":

https://tinyurl.com/4u68a92v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 05:16 AM (lQ+/f)

37 "He is risen indeed!" May you and your family and everyone who celebrates Easter have a glorious and blessed day!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 05:17 AM (lQ+/f)

38 Morning, Tech Peeps

He is risen

Posted by: fluffy at April 05, 2026 05:24 AM (AN2gy)

39
3D globe view of the Moon:

https://is.gd/5pfIzJ

That will look a little different than viewed from other, because the viewing point is much closer in that map. And it starts out lookin on the east side of the Moon, with the Sea of Crisis to the left. Rotate it to the right until you get the near side in view, then keep rotating right to bring the western limb side into view. You'll soon see Mare Orientale come into view, which looks like a giant bullseye.

As you rotate around the surface, note how very different the far side looks compared to the near side. Why that it is, well there's quite a tale with various theories.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:25 AM (w6EFb)

40 Duck runs a marathon and gets a medal:

https://tinyurl.com/4wvban24

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 05:25 AM (lQ+/f)

41 Yikes, finally got to the ONT's "Step By Step" by Eddie Rabbit, and going straight from Step 2 to Step 3 is how Missing Persons cases get started:

1. Ask her out and treat her like a lady
2. Tell her she's the one you're dreaming of
3. Take her in your arms and never let her go

That is terrible advice. We do not live in caves, and you cannot just not let a woman go at the end of your first date. People will miss her, they will track her down, and then they will track *you* down. Don't do it!

Posted by: SciVo at April 05, 2026 05:27 AM (Sy6m/)

42 >>> Her hair's a mess.

It tiook me a few seconds to see that. I was wondering how there could be cobwebs in space.

Posted by: fluffy at April 05, 2026 05:27 AM (AN2gy)

43 Christ the Lord is risen today.
Hallelujah.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 05, 2026 05:45 AM (SRRAx)

44 Evening and morning to all on this Easter Sunday in 2026. May your prayers be heard; may your day be glorious and blessed.

Here? It's about to rain. The chance of rain at 5 am last night was 37% on the CBS outlet's website; now it's 79%, and the radar shows rain a-comin'. I guess there'll no workout for me today, at least not this morning. The Robe is coming up on Movies! at the top of the hour, and I'm thinking scrambled egg tacos for breakfast.

Whatchoo doin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

45 29 >> Orientale basin of the Moon, which Nasa said marked "the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes".

That's surprising, but true. The Apollo missions were timed such that it was lunar morning on the near side (this had to do with thermal conditions on the surface for landing and moonwalking operations), and thus that side of the (near) far side was in the dark. Apollo 17's command module pilot, during his lonely orbits, managed to get some shots of it with "earthlight", but it's never been seen in full sunlight by human eyes.

Here is it, just coming into view on the right side. It's the right most little dark spot:
https://is.gd/JmVuEA
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:03 AM (w6EFb)

It's very beautiful!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 05:51 AM (fNISR)

46 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

He is Risen.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 05, 2026 05:52 AM (bQ4nt)

47 He has Risen indeed
Happy Easter everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)

48 Amazing views of the Moon, publius!

I keep hoping there will be a long-abandoned alien base on the far side of the Moon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

49 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 05, 2026 06:02 AM (2Ez/1)

50 Beautiful hymn by Charles Wesley, "Christ the Lord is risen today" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:

https://tinyurl.com/3wfveh4v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 06:05 AM (lQ+/f)

51 39
3D globe view of the Moon:

https://is.gd/5pfIzJ

That will look a little different than viewed from other, because the viewing point is much closer in that map. And it starts out lookin on the east side of the Moon, with the Sea of Crisis to the left. Rotate it to the right until you get the near side in view, then keep rotating right to bring the western limb side into view. You'll soon see Mare Orientale come into view, which looks like a giant bullseye.

As you rotate around the surface, note how very different the far side looks compared to the near side. Why that it is, well there's quite a tale with various theories.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:25 AM (w6EFb)

Can you give us a couple of the theories?

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:07 AM (fNISR)

52 What I can’t figure out, is the people who believe the Apollo program was fake.

Even when I was a little kid, when the first photographs were published (we had to wait weeks in those days) the full color images of the lunar surface were spectacular. I can only imagine how awesome it was zooking 50 miles above at a thousand miles an hour. Instinctively even a little kid knows there is no way to fake that “magnificent desolation”.

There is something inherently frightening about this big ole Universe. We’re pretty small, put it that way.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 06:08 AM (Z7bjG)

53 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: RED MEANS STOP!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 05, 2026 06:14 AM (GDFK9)

54 >> Can you give us a couple of the theories?

I know just enough to be dangerous -- leading theory goes like this. First the most accepted theory of Moon formation is giant impact hypothesis. Mars side planet collided with proto-Erf. Spin/angular momentum plays a big role in just how this could work. That formed a "synestia":
https://is.gd/5svMyP

The outer part of that formed the Moon in orbit. It was much much closer. Both bodies were molten. Now, Moon started to cool, and the key is it tide locked quickly. Thus the near side was exposed to the much, much hotter earth than the far side. This caused a thermal gradient from the near to far side, which produced a much thicker crust on the far side.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 06:15 AM (w6EFb)

55 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9

Thank you for your most kind wishes and blessings!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 06:16 AM (ZeH0U)

56
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 05, 2026 06:16 AM (tljrc)

57 WOW

39
3D globe view of the Moon:

https://is.gd/5pfIzJ

That will look a little different than viewed from other, because the viewing point is much closer in that map. And it starts out lookin on the east side of the Moon, with the Sea of Crisis to the left. Rotate it to the right until you get the near side in view, then keep rotating right to bring the western limb side into view. You'll soon see Mare Orientale come into view, which looks like a giant bullseye.

As you rotate around the surface, note how very different the far side looks compared to the near side. Why that it is, well there's quite a tale with various theories.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 05:25 AM (w6EFb)

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:17 AM (fNISR)

58
The other theory is two smaller Moons were formed after than initial impact. One was a lot smaller than the other They finally merged together after a while, but it was a more gentle sort of "melding together" type impact. The smaller moon made the far side. That's the other one, but the first one is the most accepted. But there are problems with it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2026 06:20 AM (w6EFb)

59 I keep hoping there will be a long-abandoned alien base on the far side of the Moon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
---------
According to "Mutineer's Moon," the entire Moon is an abandoned alien base/spaceship.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 05, 2026 06:21 AM (GDFK9)

60 Thanks, publius!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:22 AM (fNISR)

61 Will-sappingly warm and humid outside, as usual. No sign of rain yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

62 I am finally vertical, wasn't sure I was going to get up

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 06:25 AM (Ia/+0)

63 Is Artemis orbiting the Moon now? The Apollo missions seemed to take about three days to get there, and yesterday was three days since the launch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

64
https://www.nasa.gov

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:27 AM (fNISR)

65 Is Artemis orbiting the Moon now? The Apollo missions seemed to take about three days to get there, and yesterday was three days since the launch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
---
Nope. They are still about 76,000 miles away.

Lunar flyby is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. They'll be traveling slow enough that it will take a few hours.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2026 06:29 AM (ESVrU)

66

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs

Where the astronauts just moments ago gave that ca. 76,000 mile report! LIVE!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:31 AM (fNISR)

67 The Artemis II crew is currently asleep.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:33 AM (fNISR)

68 Saw a headline 2nd F-15E crewman has been recovered

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 06:34 AM (Ia/+0)

69
205,118 miles from Earth
75,820 miles to moon

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:36 AM (fNISR)

70 That was a mission control Houston spokesman who made that miles-from-the-moon statement.

66

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs

Where the astronauts just moments ago gave that ca. 76,000 mile report! LIVE!
Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:31 AM (fNISR)

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 06:37 AM (fNISR)

71 “Everyone with any experience knew this was a bad idea, but we were ignored.” - a truth common to almost every human organization.

Greetings from the Carolinas. Spring rains today.

Jesus saves.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 05, 2026 06:38 AM (s8FIw)

72 Great news, Skip. That was something that always gave me the worst feelings of dread. Dying/crashing/blown up is one thing. Getting captured and held prisoner is something else entirely.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 06:40 AM (DqnOM)

73 Another big milestone will be when Artemis enters the Moon's Hill Sphere, others dubbed the lunar sphere of influence. This will be the point where the Moon's gravity becomes greater than the Earth's gravity. That is somewhere around 30k miles or so. That will happen this evening some time.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at April 05, 2026 06:40 AM (w6EFb)

74 Apollo was remiss, they should have put a “Wall Drug - 224,000 miles Next Exit” sign on the Moon.

Free Ice Water!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 06:42 AM (DqnOM)

75 That was something that always gave me the worst feelings of dread. Dying/crashing/blown up is one thing. Getting captured and held prisoner is something else entirely.
Posted by: Common Tater

Sorry to put a partisan spin on this, but, we all know the trans-national left would have maximized his capture. And, I can only despise them so much.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026 06:46 AM (diia5)

76 Article at Legalinsurrection.com on crewman

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 06:46 AM (Ia/+0)

77 "Resurrection power"- An Upper Room devotional based on Mark 16:1-8:

https://tinyurl.com/2rwr78dw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2026 06:48 AM (rZCVI)

78 The sphere of influence thing plays a big role in a ballpark orbital mechanics approximation known as patched conics. This allows you to ballpark things like Tli burns and so forth and get estimates of fuel requirements and timing and so forth. It just gets you in the ballpark. For the final calculations you have to the full numerical integrations of the n-body equations.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at April 05, 2026 06:52 AM (w6EFb)

79 For the final calculations you have to the full numerical integrations of the n-body equations.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone

Ok, but what about the pancakes?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026 06:53 AM (diia5)

80 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

81 I never understood maudlin Christians.
Rejoice, our Savior is born.
Rejoice, our Savior is risen.

Posted by: Accomack at April 05, 2026 06:56 AM (h/uot)

82 Publius, you might find it interesting that there is (apparently) an entire school of conspiracy theory based around the position of the stars, dates, zodiac, and I don’t know what all, obscure masonic references, ancient Egyptians and the rest of it, with respect to Apollo landings. They gots charts and everything!

I just wonder where people get the time to come up with this stuff. Amazingly convoluted, detailed nonsense. Reams and reams of it. In earlier decades maybe they would have been “institutionalized”. I can understand why. Didn’t say I liked it.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 07:00 AM (90Mjm)

83 >>It just requires 10x the effort.

Listen, I use AI everyday, pretty much all day, in various contexts, it literally is like magic.

If you use it correctly.

It's not a desert topping AND a floor wax.

If you are a seasoned programmer and you know what you are doing, AI should dramatically increase your productivity and output, qualitatively, not just temporally.

For instance, if I give it an api spec and say make a zod schema, it will do that in seconds. if I say, give me a dummy json with 1000 entries, with this criteria, seconds, it will supply what you need in seconds. If you say, check this 2000 line jsx for syntax errors, again seconds, or here is this class method, provide a validation function for it. And on and on

The problem is people are simply thinking ai can hold the context of 1 million lines of code spread out amongst dozens to 1000s of files and being able to produce reliable results.

AI is great for scaffolding the initial code, working on small subsets, and automating, small defined tasks. Not doing it all, at least not yet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2026 07:00 AM (XV/Pl)

84 He is risen!

Now I have two events to celebrate today. We got the WSO out, with all the rescuers. Some injuries to US forces, and from reports, many IRGC dead.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

85 Daily Mail has details on the CSAR mission to extract the downed airman. Whether any of it is accurate remains to be seen.

If it proves accurate, Hollywood will make a movie about this rescue, probably with Zendaya cast as the rescued weapon systems officer, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 05, 2026 07:03 AM (Y1sOo)

86 I just wonder where people get the time to come up with this stuff. Amazingly convoluted, detailed nonsense. Reams and reams of it. In earlier decades maybe they would have been “institutionalized”. I can understand why. Didn’t say I liked it.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026

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I'm reminded of a character in John D. MacDonald's Condominium. Retired, he spends every day compiling data on conspiracy theories, until at last he concludes that They are sending the hurricane that will level the condo building and much of the area at the book's climax -- sending it directly at him, to silence him.

He is drawn as paranoid, of course, but as the internally consistent, methodical type who does not hear voices or see things that aren't there. But his delusions inform everything he does.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

87 Zendaya will be the rescuer.
Ryan Gosling will be the WSO.

Posted by: Accomack at April 05, 2026 07:05 AM (h/uot)

88 Tater, yep I'm familiar with that. That's Richard Hoagland and his bunch, and Art Bell had him on with that stuff many times. Hoagie is the face on Mars guy.

NASA is a secret cult of ancient knowledge still practicing the ancient Egyptian "religion". Which comes from an ancient advanced space faring civilization, which came from Mars. Or from earth which colonized Mars......

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at April 05, 2026 07:07 AM (w6EFb)

89 The rain hath begun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:10 AM (wzUl9)

90 The USAAF and Army Aviation had some amazing survival kits and tech gear installed. Really cool gadgets. Fun stuff to train with.

But what they discovered, the idea that a downed crewman was going to escape and evade for 3 months and live off the land, make spears and go fishing just didn’t happen very often.

The most useful piece of survival gear is your radio or beacon. Realistically, you’re gonna get captured right away, or picked up by friendlies right away. Usually. All that survival gear is kind of moot.

The pen flares are fun, and Doan’s magnesium bar, strobe, etc. Nice little fishing kit, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 07:11 AM (90Mjm)

91 The Robe is on Movies! Ernest Thesiger, twenty years on from his creepy-hilarious turn as Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein, plays the Emperor Tiberius with gravitas and a sense of humor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:13 AM (wzUl9)

92 88 Tater, yep I'm familiar with that. That's Richard Hoagland and his bunch, and Art Bell had him on with that stuff many times. Hoagie is the face on Mars guy.

NASA is a secret cult of ancient knowledge still practicing the ancient Egyptian "religion". Which comes from an ancient advanced space faring civilization, which came from Mars. Or from earth which colonized Mars......
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at April 05, 2026 07:07 AM (w6EFb)

missing snark tag!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:13 AM (fNISR)

93 The pen flares are fun, and Doan’s magnesium bar, strobe, etc. Nice little fishing kit, too.
Posted by: Common Tater

I would like nothing more than to just wander off into a woods and go fishing forever. I think I would just hook my ankles, tho.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026 07:14 AM (diia5)

94 Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 07:11 AM (90Mjm)

Don't forget the mostly useless sidearm.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 05, 2026 07:16 AM (Y1sOo)

95 >>>And here's a version you can actually read. (CNN)
The name is just a coincidence.

What name? I missed the joke!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:18 AM (fNISR)

96 The rain hath begun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

What caliber?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026 07:20 AM (diia5)

97 "Manual review?"

Is that like code reviews?

Doesn't anyone do Unit Testing and Integration Testing anymore.

Yeah, I am "old school."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 05, 2026 07:20 AM (qFwJc)

98 one hour sober

If you have to use your pistol, they are too close.

Heinlein approves, however. The man is the danger, not the weapon. A pistol is better than nothing, even a K-Bar knife.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

99 I did SERE in the mid-80s. We got to play with those toys found in the survival vest.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 05, 2026 07:22 AM (Y1sOo)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:23 AM (fNISR)

101 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 05, 2026 07:24 AM (MIIRH)

102 The rain hath begun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
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What caliber?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2026

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Weak and underpowered. If a hurricane is a .600, this rain is more like a .25.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

103 >>>>Saw a headline 2nd F-15E crewman has been recovered
Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 06:34 AM (Ia/+0)
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Great news!!! Thanks for posting that Skip. I have been very anxious about the fate of the WSO and the thought of him being captured by the Iranians.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 05, 2026 07:25 AM (rz+jU)

104 N-body Equations used to tour with Blue Man group back in the day.

Posted by: Music nerd at April 05, 2026 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

105 The more I watch Richard Burton when he was young and not quite so mannered, the more I realize he would have made an interesting James Bond. If, that is, the first Bond film had been produced in '55 or '56. Imagine Moonraker, following the book, coming out in '56 in color, with someone like Orson Welles as Sir Hugo Drax.

I thought I read somewhere that Fleming himself thought Burton would have made a solid Bond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

106 "Zendaya will be the rescuer.
Ryan Gosling will be the WSO.
Posted by: Accomack"

Timothy Faggot will be Hegseth.

mornin yall

Posted by: Guy who misheard at April 05, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

107 He is risen!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 05, 2026 07:28 AM (GhIJO)

108 Off, hard of hearing sock.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2026 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

109 m

On step, and for the win!
+ 6.022 x 10²³

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

110 He is risen indeed!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 05, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

111 Wolfus that is a good thought, he does a fantastic job in Where Eagles Dare

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)

112 How Australia Uses Claude: Findings from the Anthropic Economic Index
Mar 31, 2026

Anthropic is expanding to Australia.

We’re opening a new office in Sydney in the coming weeks, and we’ve signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan.

https://tinyurl.com/4neja8rx

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:32 AM (fNISR)

113 Looks like the IRCG, bitter enders all, want to wait us out. They are depending on Leftists in the US, muslim immigrants to the US, and the slavishly anti-American media. Sadly, we now have to hit Iran much harder.

We torched 2 C-130s as the price of getting the WSO out. Very expensive. Aircrew must have soaring morale, to see the efforts we took to rescue one of their own.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

114 nood

April 05, 2026
“WE GOT HIM!” – Shot Down Airman Rescued by US Forces in Iran
—Buck Throckmorton

From President Trump at Truth Social

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:34 AM (fNISR)

115 Skip

Richard Burton would have been a good James Bond. But all the GRU or SPECTRA had to do was offer him first class booze.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

116 Trump says the rescued WSO holds the rank of colonel. That would make him most likely the squadron's CO or XO.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 05, 2026 07:38 AM (Y1sOo)

117 A happy Easter to you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2026 07:39 AM (fNISR)

118 Wolfus that is a good thought, he does a fantastic job in Where Eagles Dare
Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2026

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And that was much later. Check out his turn in 1953's The Desert Rats w/ James Mason playing Rommel. In one particular scene, as he is being questioned by Rommel, Burton projects some Connery and Daniel Craig mixed, to good effect.

If he had done Bond, today we might be quoting "Bond, James Bond" in a Welsh accent instead of Scots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:39 AM (wzUl9)

119 Allen Dulles pointed out James Bond would have had a very thick file collected on him by the KGB by his first mission, and ….they would have killed him on his second.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 07:40 AM (tM8U8)

120 Richard Burton would have been a good James Bond. But all the GRU or SPECTRA had to do was offer him first class booze.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 05, 2026

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Wasn't that John LeCarre's criticism of Bond -- that he would have switched sides if the Russians had offered him better women, liquor, and cigarettes?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

121 Allen Dulles pointed out James Bond would have had a very thick file collected on him by the KGB by his first mission, and ….they would have killed him on his second.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026

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SMERSH did have a thick file on him. In From Russia we see them paging through it. We find it fascinating, and resent it when the general skips a page!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)

122 Happy Easter everyone.

Good to see you FenelonSpoke.

I don't understand Pope Leo. I think we are in the best of times.

Perhaps the IRGC and all the Mullahs should gratefully accept their suffering and kiss the cross?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 05, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc)

123 Soviet cigarettes were not widely loved, I’m betting.

Stalin had his favorite pipe tobacco sent via diplomatic pouch. They should have poisoned the SOB.

America has always excelled at Cigarettes, Bourbon, and Nuclear weapons. Chocolate needs a little work, but we’re still a young country.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 05, 2026 07:56 AM (0Dsks)

124 - So, did they ever settle on a theory for why, when the first images from the JWST came back, we saw fully formed galaxies at distances where we were supposed to see galaxies in their earliest stages of formation?
The two I saw were 'galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought' and 'the universe must be much older than we thought.'

On the other hand, there was this guy...

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2026 07:59 AM (LajFB)

125 @amyswearer
To recap, from the standpoint of local time:

Shot down early on Good Friday. Rescued Easter Sunday morning.

If it were a movie plot, we'd roll our eyes at it for being too on the nose but here we are in real life...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 05, 2026 07:59 AM (znREB)

126 Nood

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 05, 2026 08:04 AM (eZ5tL)

127 - And then there's that thing where, according to the FLRW (big bang) metric, galaxies are supposed to appear smaller and smaller out to a red shift of 1.6(?), then start appearing larger and larger the further out you get.
But published data from JWST images, well...

https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352

Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2026 08:08 AM (LajFB)

128 Didn't we used to have a spy service that would make people that hacked computers regret their continued existence?
Posted by: clarence at April 05, 2026 04:19 AM (MbRpR)

Yes. I have an IRL friend who got a very creepy warning after stumbling across a site that should have been better secured.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 05, 2026 08:13 AM (lFFaq)

129 Religious science for a Happy Easter

A scientifically confirmed miracle. “Jesus Cures a Blind Man at Bethsaida”

This is not a “living parable” as has been said for centuries. It’s a message across time. From the time of Christ to a time when where we understand eyes enough to know that when sight has been restored (or baby’s new eyes) the brain needs time to understand the 3d world that they are seeing. Jesus calibrates his eyes and this is the most important and misunderstood bible passage in the world. Because Peter’s testimony (on which Mark’s gospel is based) gives us a real scientifically confirmable miracle.

22 And they came to Beth-sa′ida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24 And he looked up and said, “I see men; but they look like trees, walking.” 25 Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and saw everything clearly. 26 And he sent him away to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

Posted by: The Dog at April 05, 2026 02:06 PM (QXLqd)

130 More religious Easter tech…

thecatholicherald.com/article/ shroud-of-turin-dates-from-time-of-christ-scientists-reveal

New technology places it as 2000 years old. The carbon dating was from the frayed edges that had been darned over time and had middle age material mixed within.

He is Risen.

Posted by: The Dog at April 05, 2026 02:13 PM (QXLqd)

131 Shroud of Turin tinyurl here…

https://tinyurl.com/yjacxd6j

Posted by: The Dog at April 05, 2026 02:14 PM (QXLqd)

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