Daily Tech News 24 April 2026

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The French government agency that manages national IDs, passports, and immigration documents was hacked because of course it was. (Tech Crunch)

You can't paint a bigger target on your back than that, really.

ANTS - the agency is really called that - wouldn't say how many people were affected by the breach, but a hacker is suddenly offering an ANTS database with 19 million records for sale, so at a guess, around 19 million.
The command line tool for the Bitwarden password manager was compromised. (Socket)

So. Turns out maybe you can paint a bigger target on your back than just being a national identity register.

Tech News

The cloud sucks, so I am building a cloud. (Crawshaw)

Because AI, which also sucks:
Agents help to some degree. If you trust them with your credentials they will do a great job driving the AWS API for you (though occasionally it will delete your production DB).
I wish him luck. He is at least not a complete idiot.
Ubuntu 26.04 is here. (LWN)

Don't look at me, I voted for Devuan.
An Alberta startup is selling no-tech tractors for half the price of the regular stuff. (Wheelfront)

With reconditioned engines, yes, but when they say no-tech they mean no-tech - not even electronic fuel injection.
Meet Noscroll, Douglas Adams' Electric Monk. (Tech Crunch)

The Electric Monk - from the first Dirk Gently novel - was a device invented to watch television so you didn't have to.

It was intended as satire.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Roses are grey, violets are grey, I'm not colourblind it's just that kind of day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:45 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 04:45 AM (8NTVk)

2 Sorry. Had to bring in emu reinforcements against the wombat incursion.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 24, 2026 04:47 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Here's a flower for you, Pixy.

🪻

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 04:48 AM (8NTVk)

5 That was a clever and funny song. Thanks for providing it. I don't think I had ever heard of Roger Miller. I enjoyed the interview afterwards as well. Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 04:58 AM (As86G)

6
Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple

--Dang Me

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 04:59 AM (8NTVk)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 24, 2026 04:59 AM (EweRc)

8 2 Sorry. Had to bring in emu reinforcements against the wombat incursion.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 24, 2026 04:47 AM (BLOW1)

There was speculation in the ONT!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:00 AM (8NTVk)

9 My dad played a lot of country music when I was a kid, Roger Miller got a lot of play.
Don't knowche listens to music that much these days, more tv viewing.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 05:02 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Morning, Tech Peeps

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

11 This was a blessing yesterday. I was in the supermarket and got in a line behind a woman who was rather argumentative ( That wasn't the blessing.) I think she might have had some dementia because she was older and kept complaining about some item she item she should get a discount on and didn't get and didn't seem to understand. That was not the blessing. Ha. The blessing was the wonderful cashier who was so patient and nice in explaining this to her several times and not getting upset. it's wonderful to have patience in that way. The woman behind me with big basket of stuff was quite patient as well.

And in the parking lot a woman just gave me a big smile ( and I hadn't smiled at her first) and it transformed her face.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:06 AM (As86G)

12 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at April 24, 2026 05:08 AM (nD5wh)

13 Transforming Light- Christian devotional on John 1:1-5 and Matthew 27:45-56

https://tinyurl.com/8kftf74x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:08 AM (As86G)

14 The French government agency that manages national IDs, passports, and immigration documents was hacked because of course it was. (Tech Crunch)

I'm not sure whether to laugh or laugh.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:09 AM (8NTVk)

15 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:10 AM (u82oZ)

16 Back to city
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 05:10 AM (Ia/+0)

17 An Alberta startup is selling no-tech tractors for half the price of the regular stuff.

1) Good for them, and I'm glad they're getting serious interest in their product. I hope they can scale up.

2) The farming Butlerian Jihad has begun in Canada.

3) John Deere deserves this and a thousand more cuts of this type.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 05:12 AM (O7YUW)

18 k9 tracks missing girl in 12 minutes. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4bu7vmuu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:14 AM (PFs9e)

19 m

Saw how Google and others have moved away from cookies and are getting other information your computer sends to individually ID your every click.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:15 AM (u82oZ)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 24, 2026 05:15 AM (2/MrR)

21 FenelonSpoke

You deserve to be met with smiles. I do that in public. Walk around with a smile, that I am still here and enjoying life.

You help out here. So thank you again, for being you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:17 AM (u82oZ)

22 @2/Pixy: Sorry. Had to bring in emu reinforcements against the wombat incursion.

Did you have to turn on the emulator to get those?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

23 19 m

Saw how Google and others have moved away from cookies and are getting other information your computer sends to individually ID your every click.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:15 AM (u82oZ)

Wonder if those records would be admissible in court!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:19 AM (8NTVk)

24 This is a video that starts grim, and is actually exuberant.

The Jive Aces present "Bring Me Sunshine" https://youtu.be/oXvJ8UquYoo.

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise made this a famous song in the UK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:21 AM (u82oZ)

25 m

Google needs no courts. They are outside of any Justice system.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:22 AM (u82oZ)

26 Did you have to turn on the emulator to get those?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

An emu now is worth ten emus later.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 24, 2026 05:23 AM (Ot/FD)

27 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

How goes you commanding an iconic transport? Are the kids appreciating you?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:24 AM (u82oZ)

28 24 This is a video that starts grim, and is actually exuberant.

The Jive Aces present "Bring Me Sunshine" https://youtu.be/oXvJ8UquYoo.

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise made this a famous song in the UK.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:21 AM (u82oZ)

; )

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:28 AM (8NTVk)

29 I remember Dang Me from my childhood. That was a different world in the 60s.

Posted by: Ironwood at April 24, 2026 05:28 AM (ob2d4)

30 Good morning! Looking like we're gonna break out in sunshine later this afternoon and the grandkids will be staying with us overnight. Probably gonna have to do smashburgers and go get ice cream.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2026 05:29 AM (3Ope8)

31 ANTS reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, where computing is based on ants.

Posted by: PG at April 24, 2026 05:29 AM (rXzFk)

32 CrotchetyOldJarhead

Grandchildren are true wealth. Enjoy!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:31 AM (u82oZ)

33 @26/Warai-otoko: "An emu now is worth ten emus later."

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for an emu today.

Posted by: Wimpy at April 24, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

34 Jive Aces of Spades HQ

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:32 AM (8NTVk)

35 m

Ace doing a jitterbug, even with an attractive female dancer, is a scary image. Can't dance on a Vespa.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:34 AM (u82oZ)

36 I woke up early for the twirling.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

37 22 @2/Pixy: Sorry. Had to bring in emu reinforcements against the wombat incursion.

Did you have to turn on the emulator to get those?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

Go to your room.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:37 AM (8NTVk)

38 Nice story about dads, children and reading from Atlanta:

https://tinyurl.com/mpm6bc8z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:39 AM (PFs9e)

39 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:17 AM (u82oZ

Thanks, Salty. You are a blessing to so many people including me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:42 AM (PFs9e)

40 35 Ace doing a jitterbug, even with an attractive female dancer, is a scary image. Can't dance on a Vespa.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:34 AM (u82oZ)

Can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:42 AM (8NTVk)

41 ... or so they say.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:42 AM (8NTVk)

42 Pixy, Roger Miller, that song takes me back! I knew someone who lived like the guy in that song. He had a heart of gold, but... Dang me.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 24, 2026 05:43 AM (Raw4f)

43 Group serenades cows with trombones. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/a7h8tcxp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:44 AM (PFs9e)

44 m

Any confessions about life choices coming up?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:44 AM (u82oZ)

45 wut

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:44 AM (8NTVk)

46 As we dance and twirl
Delicate wings unfurl
The light of day glows
As we stand up on our toes
Gently stirring the morning air
We amble along without a care

fin

Posted by: clarence at April 24, 2026 05:44 AM (nD5wh)

47 Ooh, I have a new hash!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:45 AM (8NTVk)

48 @27/NaCly Dog: "How goes you commanding an iconic transport? Are the kids appreciating you?"

It goes reasonably well. The kids (most of them anyway) do seem to appreciate me.

How about you? Thought about getting back in the game through another company maybe?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

49 A pair of cardinals and a male bluebird congregating with two bunnies at the feeders.

Posted by: fluffy at April 24, 2026 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

50 I would like to ask for prayer for my dear friend P. She thinks her prosthetic knee is breaking down and needs to see a doctor today . Thanks so much!

May you all have a blessed day and know you are blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:47 AM (PFs9e)

51 Nice!

Aelfred The Great retweeted
DonPJenn
@DonPJenn
14h
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:47 AM (8NTVk)

52 Challenge and response at my prior job:
Person #1 says : “You caint roller skate in a buffalo herd!”
Person #2 responds “ But you can be happy if you’ve a mind to!”
( in honor of Roger Miller )

Posted by: Fenderbender at April 24, 2026 05:55 AM (1FEc1)

53 42 Pixy, Roger Miller, that song takes me back! I knew someone who lived like the guy in that song. He had a heart of gold, but... Dang me.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 24, 2026 05:43 AM (Raw4f)

Good ol' boy.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:56 AM (8NTVk)

54 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I gave it some thought. But that would cut into my enjoying retirement.

Both school districts treated me poorly. The Directors and above are very woke. I am not.

In Manhattan, they have a guy who has been the assistant Transportation Director for over a decade.

That school system is grooming a lesbian driver, who is very nice, but not a leader, to be the new Transportation Director.

I was specifically excluded from that job the last time it opened, although the best qualified. They wanted a corrupt liberal woman in charge. She went a million dollars over budget her first year.

Could not compete with that to make friends of my superiors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:56 AM (u82oZ)

55 Fluffy-

Thanks for sharing about the bluebirds and the cardinals - and the bunnies. So lovely!

Bye now!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 05:57 AM (PFs9e)

56
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, now running the house dogs out and about to go down to the kennel before making my coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2026 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

57 Knuckle down, buckle down,
Do it do it do it !

Posted by: Fenderbender at April 24, 2026 05:59 AM (1FEc1)

58 FenelonSpoke

Those are some happy Angus cows. Thanks for that link. Sending to some ranchers I know.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 05:59 AM (u82oZ)

59 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I am gray. I stand between the candle and the star. We are gray. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 24, 2026 06:07 AM (xvhJH)

60 John Deere is the Adobe of the tractor world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2026 06:08 AM (XV/Pl)

61 Greetings and good morning, everyone! It's a nice day today and my coffee just finished brewing.

We had the three month follow up call from the Greyhound group I adopted our beast from.

"How is he doing?"

"Right now, he's fast asleep."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 06:09 AM (RjOoY)

62
Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando
20h
When the world shut down over a 99.9999% survivable virus, I had to tell a few dozen rig hands they were out of a job.

Then I had to tell even more frac hands. Then snubbing hands.

Then I went home to wait for my layoff.

Then I spent 6 months applying for jobs with no interviews because corporate America had banned White men in honor of Saint George Floyd, Patron Saint of Fentanyl.

A great Twitter friend who I am indebted to forever got me a job with a 25% pay cut, and I had to work physically harder than I had in a decade.

Anyway. Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn’t a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 06:10 AM (8NTVk)

63 @54/NaCly Dog: "Both school districts treated me poorly. The Directors and above are very woke. I am not."

I could see that being a deal-killer for me as well. In our yearly mandatory training there's some of that nonsense, but for the most part in the day-to-day work, I don't really encounter it, for which I am thankful and relieved.

If I had to deal with that particular "sand in the gears" every day, I don't think I'd re-up the following year, and would go find something else to do.

The attrition in this industry is ... higher than I expected it would be. I've seen a lot of drivers just quit without notice. Hiring and training new ones seems to be getting more and more difficult, and a lot of that is probably due to the fact that our real cost of living seems to be going up 5 to 10% each year, while wage increases (if we get them) work out to maybe 1% per year if we're "lucky".

So now we have a multitude of positions that need filling in order to satisfy the routes we have locked in for next year, and I'm seeing a LOT of asks from the company to the drivers along the lines of "If you know ANYONE that you think might want to drive for us, please tell them."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2026 06:11 AM (O7YUW)

64 42 Pixy, Roger Miller, that song takes me back! I knew someone who lived like the guy in that song. He had a heart of gold, but... Dang me.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 24, 2026 05:43 AM (Raw4f)

Good ol' boy.
Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:56 AM (8NTVk)

I ought to say his name. Chuck was a good ol' boy. RIP.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 24, 2026 06:14 AM (JbPL7)

65 One of the great pleasures of being retired is taking a nap whenever you want to. And having a snoring dog in your office.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2026 06:17 AM (3Ope8)

66 >>>An Alberta startup is selling no-tech tractors for half the price of the regular stuff. (Wheelfront)

With reconditioned engines, yes, but when they say no-tech they mean no-tech - not even electronic fuel injection.

>Beauty. Most of the farmers and ranchers I know hate the new shit. Mostly, they hate the cost of maintenance and ownership.

Disclaimer: Bib, bib, bib, biddle be-little, bom, bom, bom.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 06:17 AM (Fbc0I)

67 62 Posted by: m at April 24, 2026

I read that last night and the idiots that responded to him would have tried my patience.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 06:31 AM (RjOoY)

68 If you aren't familiar with Roger Miller, you should look up his "You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd"

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2026 06:34 AM (wOXCn)

69 Don't look at me, I voted for Devuan.

Much nerdness follows...

Slackware and Obarun for me. Except for the RasperryPi4; I bought it to run Kodi which wasn't as useful as I had thought it to be. It's running whatever version of Debian they use to allow me to run Chrome to watch Cacti graphs for my home network.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 24, 2026 06:37 AM (fuyWk)

70 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 24, 2026 06:43 AM (vX7Dz)

71 Here's that Roger Miller song

https://tinyurl.com/9vta6dxj

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2026 06:43 AM (wOXCn)

72 mornin yall. I bet those tractors don't need DEF either.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

73 from the tractor article:

John Deere’s right-to-repair battles became a national story when farmers discovered they couldn’t fix their own equipment without dealer-authorized software. Lawsuits followed, then legislation. ... Deere eventually made concessions, but the damage was done. A generation of farmers learned exactly how much control they’d surrendered by buying machines loaded with proprietary code.

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 06:46 AM (8NTVk)

74 "Ooh, I have a new hash!
Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 05:45 AM (8NTVk)"

The Ford 8N is probably one of the most famous tractors around.
The TVk model was a drophead coupe.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

75 The high tech farm equipment may be just fine for the Big Agriculture Conglomerates who have all of their crops mapped out in grids or circles and can turn on the gps and remotely harvest crops in unmanned equipment.

The real folks trying to make a living don't need that level of 'sophistication' and have their crops in places where the terrain has obstacles.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 06:53 AM (Fbc0I)

76 m

MBAs in corporations want cash flow. They are short term thinkers.

Pragmatic people want ownership. Private ownership is the basis for a thriving economy. Renting is so socialistic, associated with poverty.

This is playing out all over society with arts (Youtube etc), software, and farm equipment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

77 If anybody remembers Branson tractors, they licensed and built Cummings engine clones. They got sold off to TYM, a Korean company, that still makes the engines, and tractors, with mechanical fuel pumps.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

78 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished! How are all of you?

I slept until the alarm just now. Coffee first, then a workout on the treadmill downstairs; breakfast; then a trip to look at two houses. There is a third which popped up yesterday, and I'd rather see it than the one in the small town nearby; but I'm here only today and tomorrow, so it may be too late to schedule it. I'll text my realtor lady and see. The one close by checks my "garage" box, but no basement, while this new third one has both.

I'll call Progressive, which has my renter's insurance and my car, give them the addresses, and see if they can tell me what my homeowner's insurance would be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 06:59 AM (+2QQb)

79 To me, "debian" sounds like a Spanish verb form -- the future tense plural of "to owe," or something like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:00 AM (+2QQb)

80 Wolfus, you are planning an inspection on any purchase, right?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:01 AM (DIbRX)

81 Wolfus - Are you buying or renting?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2026 07:01 AM (3Ope8)

82 As for Roger Miller, I remember him popping up on Top 40 he same year as the Beatles. I would listen to my new transistor radio at night before going to sleep. "Dang Me" sounded like nobody else in pop music then. ON the drive here I heard "King of the Road" on a country oldies station and found I still remembered the lyrics perfectly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:03 AM (+2QQb)

83 Wolfus, you are planning an inspection on any purchase, right?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026

***
Of course -- just as I would with a used car, only this is a much bigger purchase. What scares me is that, if I decide on one of these houses, I can't be on the ground to deal with the process. Or do I need to be?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:04 AM (+2QQb)

84 Wolfus - Are you buying or renting?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2026

***
Currently renting back in Da Swamp. Buying to live in, here or wherever I wind up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:05 AM (+2QQb)

85 Wolfus, how much yard do these houses have? Trees, bushes and other landscaping?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:09 AM (DIbRX)

86 Wolfus, also fencing.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:10 AM (DIbRX)

87 Of course -- just as I would with a used car, only this is a much bigger purchase. What scares me is that, if I decide on one of these houses, I can't be on the ground to deal with the process. Or do I need to be?

...........

No. I just bought a 2nd home in AZ. Went under contract, realtors are dealing with all the inspections etc. I am notified by email how the process is going. I flew out last weekend to have a look see and order furniture. I will fly out again for the closing ( I don't have to, I could do it from here) but want to be there for the furniture delivery. As long as you have a good realtor you would be fine.

Posted by: Mollly k. at April 24, 2026 07:12 AM (j/yko)

88 According to the New York Times, if life doesn't give you lemons, just steal them.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 07:13 AM (vFG9F)

89 fd, that microlooting thing is so dumb. Don't these people know in those cities they can steal up to 900 dollars?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:15 AM (DIbRX)

90 That's a lotta lemons.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

91 If you think a diesel without EFI is "no tech," you've never opened up a mechanical injector or the pumps that feed them. In the blacksmithing age, farming was all advanced tech, and it was a sudden collapse of the farm economy in New England that made all those clever mechanics available to work for someone else in the new factory system.

Getting away from sensors and screens is good, but don't think for a moment that owners won't have to know a lot, and also know somebody. My great-uncle was kind of famous because he once re-forged a cracked iron engine block for a guy in situ, straddling a flooded ditch with a campfire to weld it. Not what our current techs call high-tech, but a technology just the same.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 24, 2026 07:16 AM (zdLoL)

92 The password for the ANTS hack was "No Soap, Radio" in the french.

Posted by: Please Wash Your Ass You Dirty Frogs at April 24, 2026 07:17 AM (wAvYO)

93 Ben, this new third one had quite a bit of yard -- work for me to keep up, I know. The first, a small-ish ranch, has some yard, but with some trees for shade. The fencing looks like wire. The same with the one in the small town nearby.

The third, and the small-town one, each have 4 bedrooms -- way more than I need or want to keep up. But I love the way they look inside and out. The ranch is nice, though, and I could add a shaded patio in the back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:17 AM (+2QQb)

94 As long as you have a good realtor you would be fine.
Posted by: Mollly k. at April 24, 2026

***
That's what I was hoping. I can't keep driving back and forth, and don't want to fly unless I have NO other choice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:18 AM (+2QQb)

95 Meanwhile, in gaming news. You have the SJW types screeching about the game Pragmata and its pro-parenthood message.

Then it gets announced that Hogwarts Legacy 2 is coming out.

Gonna need earplugs and I'll have to invest in rope futures for a few months.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 07:19 AM (RjOoY)

96 Wolfus, factor in the cost of yard maintenance equipment.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:21 AM (DIbRX)

97 89 fd, that microlooting thing is so dumb. Don't these people know in those cities they can steal up to 900 dollars?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:15 AM (DIbRX)

!!!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 07:22 AM (8NTVk)

98 Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2026 06:43 AM

Thanks.

Now I recall, I have heard songs by Roger Miller. I prefer him to "lThe Beatles" but don't tell that to a my Beatles fan husband. It's probably a musical heresy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 07:23 AM (DcD2J)

99 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2026 07:26 AM (VyBeY)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 07:26 AM (8NTVk)

101 86 Wolfus, also fencing.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:10 AM (DIbRX)

Touché!

; )

Posted by: m at April 24, 2026 07:26 AM (8NTVk)

102 Wolfus, factor in the cost of yard maintenance equipment.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026

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A mower, a weed-eater or trimmer or whatever it's called? I know I'll need those things. That's part of why I want to get my note (which to me includes tax and insurance) as low as I can.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:27 AM (+2QQb)

103 "A California guaranteed income pilot program intended to lift families out of poverty failed to lead participants to long-term financial independence, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis."

NONETHELESS:

"Despite the lack of long-term financial independence cited in the Yolo County study, advocates continue to push for the expansion of such programs"

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

104 Depending upon your future lawn size and budget, you can buy a lawnmowing robot that uses gps and a reference station.

The one I have uses a camera as well that talks to a Chinese server (the manufacturer is Chinese, so I expect the imagery to end up there). I might end up putting a picture of Xi being buggered by an American eagle where the robot can see it but the HOA vermin cannot.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 24, 2026 07:29 AM (fuyWk)

105 Crotchety Old Jarhead, do you want to tell Wolfus about yard care necessities ?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:30 AM (DIbRX)

106 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

For a small lot, it would be cheaper to hire out the mowing, as they have the equipment and deal with maintenance. No capital costs needed.

This is not true for large properties, but you are not looking for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

107 "Despite the lack of long-term financial independence cited in the Yolo County study, advocates continue to push for the expansion of such programs"

Why aren't we mocking these people and pushing back?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 07:31 AM (RjOoY)

108 NR Pax

Because voices of reason are ignored. Plus, TPTB want slaves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

109 Plus, TPTB want slaves.

Yeah...slavery never left this country. It just changed names.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 07:35 AM (RjOoY)

110 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 24, 2026 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)

111 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

112 Good morning morons

"Advocates" are always needed for solutions to problems that do not work yet still expand state power and dependence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 24, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

113 To me, "debian" sounds like a Spanish verb form -- the future tense plural of "to owe," or something like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:00 AM (+2QQb)

It always reminds me of "deben", the unit of currency in the Pharaoh/Cleopatra city builder games from way back when.

Posted by: far cry at April 24, 2026 08:35 AM (wXgT/)

114 Just wanted you to know that you/this column I guess are the second thing I look for at the start of every day. Love the insights, love the snark.

{I read 'Day By Day' from Chris Muir (https://www.daybydaycartoon.com) first because I wake up at 3AM Eastern and he posts just after midnight Eastern. Just timing.}

Posted by: Whiskey Mike at April 24, 2026 08:55 AM (l5vxg)

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