Daily Tech News 6 March 2022

Top Story

Visa and Mastercard have cancelled Russia's credit cards. (CNBC)

All of them.

On the one hand, yes, Russia is run by a nuclear-armed despotic thug.

On the other hand, this is a totally reasonable move that won't hit innocent bystanders or have massive long-term blowback.

On the third hand, this is a way to crush nuclear-armed states without kicking off World War III.

On the fourth hand, we know - we know - that now that this has been weaponised, it will not stop here. We know because we've been here before.

And on the fifth hand, none of this happened when Trump was president.

Questions and Answers

Not phrased as a question, but deserving of an explanation.

From Fisht:
There is nothing worse than the Gluten people. The anti Gluten Cult signaled the end of America. No basis in fact and no ability to stop talking about it. JP did a great episode on this millennial virtue scam.
It's absolutely true that 95% of the people eating gluten-free, and all of the most vocal ones, are doing it as a fashion accessory.

But that leaves the other 5% who will spend two days trapped in the bathroom if they accidentally nibble on the wrong brand of breadstick.

I'd much rather not have to limit myself to eating out maybe once a year. I'd love not to have to view the words Ingredients: Wheat flour the same way I would Front towards enemy. I don't particularly enjoy paying twice as much for food and having one tenth the range to choose from.

But I don't have a lot of say in the matter.
From Mel Pinto:
If we use gab in our URL when commenting, the comment will not go thru and you get:
Your website (gab.com) has been banned. If you feel this is in error, please contact the blog owner by email, or tech support at help@mu.nu
Not intentional. It's probably tripped the automated spam filter. I'll remove it, but I might need to explicitly whitelist it.
From 40 Miles North:
Pixy, I asked a couple days ag if you thought graphics card prices would drop. In the last two days, the price on the XFX Speedster Radeon RX 6600 XT dropped 20%! I hope to buy one shortly. It should be a decent jump from my XFX Radeon RX 460. Let me know if you think I should wait.
If the price is right, buy it. It's a decent card and as you say, much much faster than the RX 460.

Chip supply remains uncertain so I wouldn't hold off on something you need.
From Mrs Whatsit:
I am running video processing (enhancing) software on two PCs. Same version of the software. PC's identical except one is Win 10 and the other Win 11.

Processing the exact same video file, the Win 11 machine is significantly slower (by several hours).

Is it possible to take a PC that came with Win 11 preloaded and roll back to Win 10?
You can't roll back, but you should be able to download Windows 10 from Microsoft and install it on your Windows 11 system. (How-To Geek)

Windows 11 uses the same activation keys as Windows 10 so any system authorised to run 11 is able to run 10. Some systems running 10 aren't officially supported on 11, but you won't have that problem.
From Caiwyn:
Pixy, can you explain how you got into VTubers and what the appeal is? I watched the KFP video you posted a couple of weeks ago, and I found it very amusing, but I felt like I was missing some context. Do you have a place to start for someone interested in going down that rabbit hole? Is there any kind of connection to the politics that drives this site, or is it completely disconnected?
Oy, there's a question.

To tackle the last part first, vtubers originated in Japan and are still heavily influenced by Japan. The two largest agencies - Hololive and Nijisanji - are Japanese, as are many of the smaller ones like Prism and Phase Connect and VOMS. Japanese culture leans conservative, mostly, and vtubers are for the most part the polar opposite of the screaming campus garbage babies that infest so much of online media.

Pipkin Pippa - Phase Connect's resident Bugs Bunny character, because apparently every agency needs a resident Bugs Bunny character - has a standing invitation to go on Nick Rekieta's livestream and no-one thinks this is odd. Precisely zero pushback.

As to where you should start.... Um. In mid-2020 when I got into it, that was easy. There was Haachama and Coco with Hololive Japan, Pikamee with VOMS, and the three girls from the newly launched Hololive Indonesia, though I didn't know at the time that they all spoke fluent English.

And that was about it. Almost everything else was in Japanese.

Now, there's 11 members of Hololive English and 6 in Hololive Indonesia, both with more on the way, 11 members in Prism Project who all speak fluent English, 14 (last I counted) 20 in Nijisanji's English-speaking branch, plus Phase Connect, Tsunderia, Cyberlive, MyHoloTV, VOMS, major indies like Kson, mid-rank indies like Shizukou, Vyolfers, and Reiny, and small indies like Nymroot and Mooyü.

So... Kind of depends what you like.

Someone fighting the meme wars on the side of righteousness and/or chaos? Pipkin Pippa of Phase Connect.

The nicest person you could possibly imagine but with a weakness for terrible, terrible puns? Ninomae Ina'nis (Ina) of Hololive or Pina Pengin of Prism Project.

Salty gamer girl with a heart of gold? Amelia Watson and Gawr Gura of Hololive.

Manic chaos fairy? Pomu Rainpuff of Nijisanji.

Dark Overlord of All and honorary Aussie? Haachama of Hololive Japan.

As Australian as Vegemite on toast? Luto and Sara of Prism Project, and Baelz and Sana of Hololive.

Classic RPGs and weird dating sims? Mooyü.

Be prepared to be totally lost as far as the "lore" goes. It doesn't matter what "bottom left" means, or why Pekora's name comes up alongside the Geneva Community Guidelines, why all the penpals want to jump in the bioreactor, or who Pomura and Ayunda are, and you'll pick up Japanese terms like yabe and ponkotsu quickly enough from context. There will be plenty of context.

Hm

No thanks
— Airani Iofifteen (イオフィ🎨ホロライブID (@airaniiofifteen) March 6, 2022
And be prepared to drop in and out of streams. Hololive alone puts out a hundred hours of content a day, though only a quarter of that is in English.

I posted some notes on how I fell into the rabbit hole myself a few weeks ago. That link is those notes split off from a longer post. That post is just about Hololive, but Hololive is where I started.
From DaveX64:
Do you have a favorite Keyboard - Video - Mouse (KVM) solution when you need to control more than one computer from the same place or do you favor more of a Remote Desktop type solution?
I would like to control a Windows and a Linux box from the same dual monitors, keyboard and mouse without a lot of hassle. They're desktop computers in tower cases, not laptops.
I haven't used one for a while, but the one I did have was an Aten unit that supported dual PCs with dual monitors, and it worked pretty well. They still make those.
From Catherine:
Pixy, I'm no longer up on tech or computers. But my kid in college is looking into buying a laptop for school. She will study at least some computer programming as a math major and computers minor, and I would not be surprised if she ends up with two degrees. She could spend what I consider to be a mint on a laptop ($3k would not break her financially). What is in stock and capable if computer science is her plan? We have ordered Dells in the past and they've held up well. I'm so sick of buying from woke companies, but it doesn't seem like there is hope not to pay foreigners or woke idiots. We try to buy American, but we're also realistic . . . and we are in the Midwest US but would order too. Feel free just to drop a link and not spend much time. I'm sure you get this often.
I have a Dell Inspiron 16 Plus and I quite like it. Fast, mostly quiet, great screen, half the price of an equivalent MacBook. It's not a gaming system but more than capable for stuff like Minecraft. Plus you can pop it open with a screwdriver and upgrade the memory and storage yourself - it's not soldered in place on that model, and Dell provides a detailed service manual.
From Dudeman:
My kid is looking for a laptop when he begins college next year. He wants a Framework laptop. Is this a good option? What is a better option?
If you want something you can do basic upgrades and repairs on yourself, there is no better option than the Framework right now. A single screwdriver (provided) is all you need and everything is labeled and replaceable. The four I/O ports are swappable to whatever you need - USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, DisplayPort, and little storage modules up to 1TB. And it runs well under Linux.

It will soon be slightly out of date - it's 11th generation and 12th generation laptops are starting to appear - but if you're not buying for a while there might be a newer model out by then.
From RayG:
Pixy, I get the "secure" lock icon when I enter https://ace.mu.nu on my desktop Chrome. I don't get it on my iPad no matter what I do. Also, on my desktop, when I follow the link for Comments at the end of the "above the fold" part of your post on the main page, I do not get the lock icon. I can enter "https://" in front of the URL myself and get it.

Why is the site not always secure by default? Why can't I get the lock icon on my iPad?
I can certainly force it the HTTPS by default. I'm not sure why there's an issue on your iPad, but I can try Safari on my iMac and see if it does the same thing.
Also from RayG:
Another question: when I use the "Continue reading" link instead of the "Comments" link on the main page, I get a page with a link that says "Access Comments" but it goes to e.g. http://minx.cc/?post=398108 when never opens, browser says "minx.cc took too long to respond." Is this a bug or what?
Yeah, we need to update the templates and rebuild all the pages to get rid of that link.
From Daniel Ream:
My existing cobbled-together whitebox RAIDZ server needs updating. I've got 4x3TB drives plus a 500GB HDD for the OS. i7-875K CPU, 8GB RAM. It's moderately loud and produces a fair amount of heat. it just holds media and some personal files, no need for much performance.
I'd like something cooler and quieter in some kind of non-rackmount form factor; haven't decided yet whether I'm going to add more drives to the pool or just buy a set of newer, bigger drives but I'd like both options, which means more than 4 3.5" HDD bays. Any recommendations for CPU/mobo/case?
Even the new Core i3-12100 ($124) should do fine for that; modern CPUs are amazingly fast. Motherboard I'm not sure of, best to browse around for something reasonably priced with lots of SATA ports.

As for the case, there is something that came out just recently: The AeroCool Cipher. It's a fairly standard ATX tower case, matte black with a mesh front and zero RGB nonsense, but it has room for 15 drives - 11 3.5" and 4 2.5".

Supposed to be $75 plus tax but I couldn't find it on Amazon or Newegg to confirm.
And from rd:
MS Edge says AOSHQ is unsecure. No httpS, just http.

Is there a missing certificate? How do I fix this?
Click here. The server is not forcing HTTPS on new connections, so if your browser has remembered the old HTTP URL it will keep defaulting to that.

All browsers now try HTTPS first, so this doesn't happen for new users.

Tech News

The Asus Flow Z13 gaming tablet is heavy, ugly, expensive, and... Slow? (Tom's Hardware)

It has the latest Core i9-12900H CPU, on-board RYX 3050 Ti graphics, and an optional 16GB RTX 3080 dock, so how can it be slow?

Well, the 3050 Ti is noticeably slower than the 3060 (which is what I have, so I'm glad I paid the extra for that), and the 3080 is external running over Thunderbolt, so despite being a high-end card is slowed down by only having 4 lanes of PCIe.

I guess if you want a gaming tablet the answer is, don't want a gaming tablet.
A year late and a dollar short, Threadripper Pro 5000 is close to launch. (Tom's Hardware)

But with up to 64 cores at 4.5GHz there is still no competition.
Everything you need to know about Intel's 13th generation Raptor Lake CPUs. (WCCFTech)

Wait, didn't 12th generation just come out? Isn't 12th generation mobile still just coming out?

Yes, and yes.
My oven is full of eels.

🤦🏼‍♂️ @GE_Appliances won�t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting the oven to wifi. After a string of profanities I reluctantly downloaded the app and sat on the kitchen floor 10+ minutes trying to get it connected� unsuccessfully. The app is complete garbage pic.twitter.com/Omold25XKP
— David Barnard (@drbarnard) March 5, 2022
The same hackers who hit Nvidia recently appear to have done the same to Samsung. (Bleeping Computer)

The leaked data includes source code for the firmware of a lot of Samsung devices, which is not entirely a bad thing.
The same hacking group is using certificates stolen from Nvidia to sign malware as trusted driver updates. (Bleeping Computer)

This is entirely a bad thing.
At least they're not solar freaking roadways. (Fast Company)

Covering canals in California with pergolas of solar panels is not entirely a stupid idea. The land is not otherwise in use, there are access roads, and the shade will save enough water from reduced evaporation to irrigate an extra 50,000 acres.

Which is not a lot but I wouldn't want to mow it.

Party Like It's 1980-ish Video of the Day

Disclaimer: The peeps don't like it! Drop the gas price! Drop the gas price!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Big ol' Sunday tech thread!

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:02 AM (/xkVv)

2 Early morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 06, 2022 04:03 AM (ju2Fy)

3 for Skip, especially (via Hacker News):

Mathematically Correct Breakfast
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:04 AM (/xkVv)

4
Help, my toilet won't flush unless I connect it to the internet, and open up all firewalls! This is a shitshow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 06, 2022 04:05 AM (Mzdiz)

5 Good morning.

I swear, the odd sleeplessness that comes with +29 is annoying.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 06, 2022 04:07 AM (5pTK/)

6 funny thing, Pixy Misa, I was thinking yesterday that I didn't really like the idea of finance companies being able to declare the current Emanuel Goldstein an enemy of the state and then proceeding to deny access to funds.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 06, 2022 04:10 AM (5pTK/)

7 It is so retarded. I saw some comparisons of Zelensky to Churchill today. Jeeeeeesus fucking Christ.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 06, 2022 04:12 AM (Fy8NL)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 04:14 AM (arJlL)

9 (starts singing....)

Gluten, the paint and paper people.....

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 04:17 AM (arJlL)

10 'Lectric money is convenient. Until they pull your plug.

Likewise, wifi-dependent appliances.

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2022 04:21 AM (dpnJh)

11 Hiya JQ ! How you ?

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 04:22 AM (arJlL)

12 Mommy, the toaster says 'no signal'.... waaaah! I just want my toast!

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2022 04:23 AM (dpnJh)

13 Hey JT!

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2022 04:24 AM (dpnJh)

14 >>>Visa and Mastercard have cancelled Russia's credit cards. (CNBC)

Your takes on that seem absolutely right.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:26 AM (/xkVv)

15 at the CNBC credit card link:

This caption floors me:

"This image shows a persons hands holding money and Visa and Mastercard cards."

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:28 AM (/xkVv)

16
Putin has just said these sanctions are "tantamount to a declaration of war", I see.

What are our elites gonna do if Putin says drop the sanctions or the nukes start flying?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 06, 2022 04:30 AM (Mzdiz)

17
Our elites are trying to "cancel" a whole country, and a nuclear power country at that. We'll see how that works out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 06, 2022 04:31 AM (Mzdiz)

18 An example of why the elites want a cashless society. They love the idea of being able to destroy any group they can unperson. This time it just happens to a be a bunch of innocent people in a country run by an authoritarian.

Posted by: Buzzion The Samurai of Sumy at March 06, 2022 04:34 AM (ra05g)

19 Russia today.
Deplorables tomorrow.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 06, 2022 04:38 AM (Fy8NL)

20 >>>JP did a great episode on this millennial virtue scam.

Jordan Peterson, I presume. That surprises me; his daughter credits her rebound from many illnesses to her eliminating of gluten from her diet. Maybe more like Pixy says: for most, going gluten-free is a fashion accessory.

https://mikhailapeterson.com/the-list/

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:38 AM (/xkVv)

21 If we use gab in our URL when commenting, the comment will not go thru and you get:
Your website (gab.com) has been banned. If you feel this is in error, please contact the blog owner by email, or tech support at help@mu.nu
Not intentional. It's probably tripped the automated spam filter. I'll remove it, but I might need to explicitly whitelist it.

>>>>>

Pretty sure this is an issue with multiple sites, including twitter and YouTube, and website truncators like tinyurl. Not sure if Jewells has a problem with her personal store but I know she was for a while

Posted by: Buzzion The Samurai of Sumy at March 06, 2022 04:41 AM (ra05g)

22 Here's Saberspark's video about vtubers that might be of interest to some people. I think he covers a lot of the history of it.

https://youtu.be/HZSeZBw7G0Q

Posted by: Buzzion The Samurai of Sumy at March 06, 2022 04:42 AM (ra05g)

23 Thinking of getting up

Jewells link is fine now

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 04:43 AM (2JoB8)

24 22 Here's Saberspark's video about vtubers that might be of interest to some people. I think he covers a lot of the history of it.

Yeah. That video gets a few things wrong, but it's not terrible as an introduction. He does start with Super Sonico which is appropriate.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2022 04:48 AM (KjEXQ)

25 >>>The server is not forcing HTTPS on new connections, so if your browser has remembered the old HTTP URL it will keep defaulting to that.

Thank you! I have just now added the "s" to "http" in my bookmarks.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 04:51 AM (/xkVv)

26 Yeah. That video gets a few things wrong, but it's not terrible as an introduction. He does start with Super Sonico which is appropriate.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2022 04:48 AM (KjEXQ)

I think he does approach it from an interest to learn and understand and inform. And not a "look at these weird freaks enjoying virtual avatars." And he's a YouTuber that covers animation good and bad, so if he found it to be awful he wouldn't be shying away from it.

Posted by: Buzzion The Samurai of Sumy at March 06, 2022 04:54 AM (ra05g)

27 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 06, 2022 04:57 AM (Adlwz)

28 In the Rock the Casbah song, I'm mishearing the lyric "rock" as the f-word.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 05:01 AM (/xkVv)

29 Remember a lot of The Clash playing in England late 70s

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:07 AM (2JoB8)

30 Morning all!

Windy windy morning here. I guess the gusts overnight were up to 50 MPH..

I'll look when the sun comes up to see what was rattling on the roof last night.

Posted by: Bruce at March 06, 2022 05:12 AM (vd8XM)

31 I doubt it. People who self diagnose are usually full of shit. You can't go gluten free and simply fix everything based on nothing.

I was worried about cholesterol, diabetes, and tryglicerides. It turns out I am fine with those, they are not an issue. But my vitamin D is way too low. A good doc ordered the test and she was right. But this is based on actuall tests, not pseudo science and the hip allergies.

Posted by: Quint at March 06, 2022 05:13 AM (3KVdn)

32 I wonder how many of the "I went gluten free and I am so much healthier!" When they don't have a true medical issue is more about that most of the gluten they have cut out has resulted in reducing how many carbs they've been eating. So not a health boost from being gluten free but a health boost from being low carb

Posted by: Buzzion The Samurai of Sumy at March 06, 2022 05:17 AM (ra05g)

33 31 I doubt it. People who self diagnose are usually full of shit. You can't go gluten free and simply fix everything based on nothing.

If you do have celiac disease and switch to a gluten-free diet, it's like flipping a switch. One day you're constantly ill, the next day you're not.

Anything else and it's probably not the gluten. You might really be sick, but it's probably not the gluten.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2022 05:17 AM (KjEXQ)

34 So not a health boost from being gluten free but a health boost from being low carb
Posted by: Buzzion

The wheat and sugar and corn and....
Out of your system. Your body was not designed to take the overload we give it.

Posted by: Bruce at March 06, 2022 05:21 AM (vd8XM)

35 I eat more than my fair share of wheat

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:28 AM (2JoB8)

36 No doubt Pixy. My understanding is only a few percent at most have that disease. For sure get tested if you think you have it.

I hope this vitamin D thing is the answer. I think the thyroid is also involved, I have docs disagreeing so will need to wait that out.

Posted by: Quint at March 06, 2022 05:30 AM (3KVdn)

37 I have docs disagreeing so will need to wait that out.
Posted by: Quint

Let's get ready to rummmblllleee!

Posted by: Bruce at March 06, 2022 05:30 AM (vd8XM)

38 The whole let's, "Cancel Russia," movement is stupid and dangerous.

But unfortunately, the world is run by shortsighted, corrupt, petulant children who seem hellbent on murdering us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2022 05:33 AM (EFr3C)

39 Cancel Culture is what they do, they don't like you or even your name or title it needs to ne whipped out.

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:35 AM (2JoB8)

40 nitter.net/danielhannan
Feb 24
This is unpopular every time I say it, but sanctions never work. If you're serious about defending Ukraine, send arms, provide air-cover, deploy troops, whatever. If not, let it go and throw an iron ring around NATO. But don't pretend that dictators are scared of embargoes.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 05:42 AM (/xkVv)

41
g'mornin', rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 06, 2022 05:42 AM (DUIap)

42 Hitchens has a good opinion piece on the Daily Mail demonstrates that Ukraine and oligarch. Zelensky are far from saintly.

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 05:44 AM (ONvIw)

43 m - I agree, sanctions hurt the innocent only.
But hey, your doing something, right?

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:44 AM (2JoB8)

44 Good morning morons

The Clash were a great punk crossover and that particular song will bring me back to any number of fraternity keggers, but I put The Magnificent Seven on my playlist which is a More Serious song.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 06, 2022 05:44 AM (EZebt)

45 I have dropped 70 pounds over the last two years. The best part is I know I will keep it off, it has been a while.

Everyone has their answer, there isn't just one. For sure it it is proper meal sizes and not snacking. It is also lower carb, with lots of fruits and veggies. I never got close to keto, but for sure greatly reduced simple carbs

What I did not do is ban anything. Sure I rarely eat donuts, ice cream etc, but that is by choice, they don't interest me.

I wish I had a full proof plan. The big ones to me are no snacking and Intermittent fasting. If you can fast a day or two, you realize there is little you Must Have. I also normally go full fat. Just what I did, not a prescription for others.

Posted by: Quint at March 06, 2022 05:45 AM (3KVdn)

46 But hey, your doing something, right?
Posted by: Skip

Gentlemen, we've got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!

Posted by: Bruce at March 06, 2022 05:46 AM (vd8XM)

47 43 m - I agree, sanctions hurt the innocent only.
But hey, your doing something, right?
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:44 AM (2JoB

I really don't know.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 05:46 AM (/xkVv)

48 16 Our elites are very stupid and sanctimonious

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 05:47 AM (ONvIw)

49 37 lol, I am borderline with the thyroid, for sure it is not perfect. The main prescription is to take Levothyroxine me for the rest of your life. And that med can cause a lot of issues

Posted by: Quint at March 06, 2022 05:48 AM (3KVdn)

50 36 No doubt Pixy. My understanding is only a few percent at most have that disease. For sure get tested if you think you have it.

Yeah, something like 1% of people have the gene for celiac, and 0.25% actually have symptoms and need to go on the diet.

Which is a tiny fraction of the number who will talk endlessly about how bad gluten is for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2022 05:51 AM (KjEXQ)

51 Sanctions are not hurting the powerful your hoping to stop.

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2022 05:52 AM (2JoB8)

52 G'mornin' everyone !

" And on the fifth hand, none of this happened when Trump was president."

which, in a nutshell is why they removed PDT BAMN.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 05:53 AM (NDCP0)

53 Mornin', folk,

Up to work out in 68 F. temps, in early March, yet. (I am not boasting, I'm complaining.) Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is moving about, and he ate most of what I left for him last night. Someone here suggested crushing up his pain pill in the gravy-laden treat food he likes. Didn't work. Oh, well.

Workout, grocery, breakfast. I want to relax as much as I can today. At work (aka Crazy Town) the next-year's budget is supposed to be complete by the 15th, and this week I've got to get various people to give me access to certain things or add them to the template. Once that is over, I'm going to take a couple of sick days, I really am.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 06, 2022 05:56 AM (c6xtn)

54
Visa and Mastercard have cancelled Russia's credit cards.

counter-intuitively, bitcoin continues to drop, it's down over 12% in the past week or so

I would think that if access to "traditional" monies were cut off, that the alternate currencies would benefit (this statement represents approximately 57.3% of my knowledge of crypto)

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 06, 2022 06:00 AM (DUIap)

55 ITS THE KRAK OF DAWN

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at March 06, 2022 06:01 AM (2JoB8)

56 nood !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 06:01 AM (NDCP0)

57 Today I am taking an old friend from Silicon Valley days for a walk in the Presidio, he is one of the original internet millionaires. His wife informed Mrs. F. This week that their 20-year marriage is over and she is moving to Boston.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 06, 2022 06:03 AM (EZebt)

58 I remember sanctions against South Africa; I expect that historians are split on whether they "worked" or not.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2022 06:04 AM (/xkVv)

59 I dont particularly enjoy paying twice as much for food and having one tenth the range to choose from

I feel that pain keenly
But I also know for certain that, as a result of my gluten intolerance, my diet is light-years healthier than the typical American diet.

Food is the best medicine.

Posted by: crisis du jour at March 06, 2022 06:05 AM (fo5YT)

60 Y'all got any more of them extra hands? I could use them around the house.

Posted by: Saxinis at March 06, 2022 07:10 AM (+oqrT)

61 It didn't happen under Trump because mean as he could be and as forthright he would be, he was a sane and rational person who was a business man and thus could judge fairly well what would happen because of his actions. And thus people were scared of him cause he could be spooky like that and no one likes to have their mind read.

And thus we had a chance to take over everything and then turn it all back to the citizens and make everything work but no the left just could deal with sanity and actual peace. It had to be their definition of peace and their perceptions. Or Else.

And now look where we are.

Posted by: jakee308 at March 06, 2022 07:22 AM (9RkRx)

62 Sorry about your gluten problems.

Tell me; did it happen all of a sudden like or did you have something that you knew was wrong for a long time and then it got worse?

Posted by: jakee308 at March 06, 2022 07:24 AM (9RkRx)

63 It gradually got worse over a period of years, from sometimes having a stomach ache after eating a sandwich to getting up twice a night to use the bathroom - and not because I had to pee.

Apparently the average time it took to diagnose celiac symptoms used to be ten years.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2022 07:38 AM (KjEXQ)

64 Thanks for the helpful response Pixy!

Posted by: Dudeman at March 06, 2022 08:52 AM (Aa3Fn)

65 Just remember the word will be finding a reason to use these tools against the U.S. before long.

"On the fourth hand, we know - we know - that now that this has been weaponised, it will not stop here. We know because we've been here before."

Posted by: Menticide Generation Paul Revere at March 06, 2022 08:52 AM (Ok00V)

66 "On the one hand, yes, Russia is run by a nuclear-armed despotic thug."

As opposed by a nuclear armed, despotic paedophile who stole an election.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at March 06, 2022 10:13 AM (ToYJ7)

67 Climate Cultists are much worse than gluten cultists. Can't even compare the damage already done and how much worse they plan to damage literally every aspect of people's lives, all on a false premise.

Posted by: Honkeysuckapigheadedjiveturkeyfool at March 06, 2022 10:39 AM (oasF3)

68 16 Putin has just said these sanctions are "tantamount to a declaration of war", I see. What are our elites gonna do if Putin says drop the sanctions or the nukes start flying?

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Vlad: Sanction me, eh?!? I'll sanction YOU.

Posted by: Raspail at March 06, 2022 10:49 AM (Men5k)

69
Nobody is safe when they can cancel Rock God Eric Clapton and a renowned Metropolitan Opera diva for refusing to affirmatively mouth the official party line on vaccines and Putin.

Posted by: Raspail at March 06, 2022 10:54 AM (Men5k)

70 they will/are using banking against us already....picking and choosing who they use it against but eventually all of us.....no one complains or says anything until it happens to them....and when we hear it happens to them we say nothing because we are afraid it makes us a target...and we don't want to become a target.....tale as old as time....while ukraine is complicated...ukraine has found it's hill....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 06, 2022 11:27 AM (CqHIp)

71 Coming soon...
1) Individual Russians (and does this include ALL identifiable ethic Russians, no matter their citizenship?) with balances on Visa and/or MC tell them to get fcked, no more payments
2) WEF pulls something to drain the bank accounts of said Russians in any case where they are able
3) Nothing good

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 06, 2022 11:56 AM (llON8)

72 Thanks for the suggestions, Pixy. Now I just have to keep an eye on supplies; right now all that stuff is more expensive than rPis in Canada (or just not available).

Posted by: Daniel Ream at March 06, 2022 02:32 PM (ArYuy)

73 Thanks a lot for the rundown on the vTubers, Pixy! The link to the explanation on your blog in particular gave me the background I think I was looking for, and your post here was a good explanation of how it fits into our worldview here. I was mainly interested because my kids watch a lot of YouTube, and I kind of want to steer them away from the "screaming campus garbage babies" you mentioned, and maybe toward some... well, not "wholesome," exactly, but perhaps *non-radicalized* content. My daughter in particular.

I checked out Pipkin Pippa, and she's great, but she's pretty potty-mouthed. Not a huge deal for me, but maybe a little much for my kids. Hololive seems a little more tame? My kiddo loves to draw, and I put on a chibi drawing tutorial from a couple of Hololive girls, and it turns out that's exactly what she was looking to learn. She sat there for an hour drawing along with them.

So thanks for the tips. It seems like a good thing to have on in the background while working.

Posted by: Caiwyn at March 06, 2022 07:19 PM (+dHQK)

74 The window-mounted AC unit I bought last year also had an app. Happily, its only (alleged) function is to allow me to set it without using the buttons on the appliance because I was unable to get it to connect despite multiple tries. I deleted it from my phone and have to adjust it manually like I expected I would have to when I bought it. Useful reminder that IoT devices are works of the Devil, however.

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