Daily Tech News 18 November 2024

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The Twitch Adpocalypse is here, with streamers reporting their income has suddenly declined by as much as 95% as the house of cards burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp.

I don't have a link to a good story covering this yet, because the written articles are useless and the video coverage is obnoxious. Twitch was offering absurdly favourable pay scales to its preferred coterie of lunatics, and the advertisers got fed up with the crap their ads were shown against and left.

Jeff Bezos has a bad habit of buying companies and leaving them to be destroyed by lunatics.
So, yeah, that link yesterday in the item about Bluesky was totally wrong. Being me, it pointed instead to a Twitter post about Lego mech suits for Hololive fan mascot plushies. The only thing that could have made it more of a click magnet would be if the mechs were playing classic D&D.

Tech News

Norwegian startup Factiverse plans to fight disinformation with AI. (Tech Crunch)

Few observations here:

First, anyone who uses the term "disinformation" in this way is a fascist. No exceptions.

Second, they say they are not using LLMs, which is good because LLMs are utterly useless for this. But they do not say what they are using.

Third, good luck to fascists in a country run by communists. (Financial News)

If your company sees modest success and its valuation grows, you will be hit with a effective tax rate many times your income.
Microsoft has released a patch for Exchange that fixes multiple vulnerabilities and also stops it working entirely. (The Register)

Microsoft has since unreleased the patch.
Meanhile the WordPress plugin Really Simple Security had a really simple security flaw. (Bleeping Computer)

If you enabled two factor authentication - requiring both a password and security token - you ended up with zero factor authentication, allowing anybody to log in as the admin account from anywhere.

Oops.
GPD has announced pricing for its latest laptop. (Tom's Hardware)

$1466 for the top model, which sounds like a lot for a device that will fit in a coat pocket. (GPD makes very small laptops.)

But for that you get a 12 core Ryzen 370, 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
Phishing emails are increasingly using SVG to deliver their toxic payloads. (Bleeping Computer)

SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. It's a simple, readable format for delivering images that are drawn with lines rather than pixels.

It's also a security nightmare. The standard guideline is that you should treat unknown SVG files with the same caution as unfamiliar executables, i.e. with a hazmat suit and 24" blacksmith tongs.

Disclaimer: Pebbles form up! For the Childlike Empress!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Musk & DOGE will be targeting big gubbernmint legacy systems:

https://tinyurl.com/3x6jyp5m

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:01 AM (js3aQ)

2 Comments swallowed up?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:03 AM (js3aQ)

3 Ah! There it is!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:03 AM (js3aQ)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

5 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 18, 2024 04:04 AM (hoCmQ)

6 Star Drek:

https://tinyurl.com/3msw4fby

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:05 AM (js3aQ)

7 Willowed:

Biden in the Amazonas:

https://tinyurl.com/34y2s5d9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:07 AM (js3aQ)

8 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

9 Managed it by a kitten's whisker!

Evening and morning, insomaniacals. Last night I dreamed I was in an elevator with an actor I recognized as Nehemiah Persoff. He said he lived here in town now, there was so much work in miniseries like Iskenon (???) being filmed here. He looked more like RFK Jr. with silver hair and a fringe beard, though, and when I woke up I realized I'd been talking with character actor Robert Wilke. You know him as the guy who insisted he could outdraw James Coburn's knife throw in Magnificent Seven. Odd, too, since he died in 1989.

Melatonin. What can't it do?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

10 Mornin' Wolfus!

How's about a good ol' hippie love song?

youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q
Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024

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Good morning, JQ! I remember that one . . . though I've always referred to GFR as "The Off-Key Band," since to my (untutored) ear they never sounded quite on key. Maybe that was their charm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:09 AM (omVj0)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2024 04:10 AM (Yq7O9)

12 Gonna be a weird week here for me. Heavy rain tomorrow, temps cooling and staying that way through the weekend. Wednesday morning I have to fast to have blood drawn at 8 am; I'll bring some microwave breakfast to work, but it's still a strain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:11 AM (omVj0)

13 Star Drek:

Oh, wow. Shatner kept a good straight face for that, but yeah, maybe he *was* trolling. Ha!

But look at his hands! Reminds me of that final photo of HMQEII... Shat is getting very old now.

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 04:14 AM (njWTi)

14 Coffee creamer is back on menu, bought bigger real cream so will see if I can use it up.
Blueberry and cream oatmeal today

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 04:15 AM (fwDg9)

15 Wolfus, nicotine patches gave me some *vivid* dreams too. Not sure I even want to try melatonin now, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 04:19 AM (njWTi)

16 Oh, wow. Shatner kept a good straight face for that, but yeah, maybe he *was* trolling. Ha!

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 04:14 AM (njWTi)
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If Shatner is trolling, get him back on TV with his own comedy hour!

https://tinyurl.com/6b7s6b8c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:20 AM (js3aQ)

17 MAGA world outraged after now-deleted tweet reveals Mitch McConnell's secret plot to derail Trump's agenda in the Senate

https://mol.im/a/14094959

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're hard at work! at November 18, 2024 04:21 AM (i0xsb)

18 But look at his hands! Reminds me of that final photo of HMQEII... Shat is getting very old now.
Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024

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He was born in 1930. Shakespearean actor in the '50s, then a lot of early TV, then Trek, then a lot of TV movies until his career renaissance as Kirk when he was almost forty.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:22 AM (omVj0)

19 Well, BD, I was trying to give Shat the benefit of the doubt.

Doesn't matter, really... he's Canadian, so ~~can't~~ shouldn't be able to vote here. Whatevs.

He's not much longer for this world anyway, and will be missed when that time comes, no matter his personal views.

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 04:26 AM (njWTi)

20 Re: Bill Shatner, I was astonished to find he had done a pilot for a Nero Wolfe TV series in 1959. He would have made a very good Archie Goodwin, I've thought, since seeing the (otherwise disappointing) pilot on YooToob. I wonder if his For the People series with him as a DA is to be seen there too.

He also played the son in the father-son lawyer team in the pilot for The Defenders w/ Earl Bellamy as the dad -- and a young Steve McQueen as their client.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:26 AM (omVj0)

21 Wolfus, nicotine patches gave me some *vivid* dreams too. Not sure I even want to try melatonin now, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024

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Then I have to wonder if my indulgence in pipe smoking has anything to do with my nighttime mind movies. On the other hand, I've always had some feature films in my mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:30 AM (omVj0)

22 G'morning Horde.

Back to my 4 am schedule, because Monday. At least there's coffee and eggs!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

23 He's not much longer for this world anyway, and will be missed when that time comes, no matter his personal views.
Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 04:26 AM (njWTi)
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I'm beginning to think Shatner really was trolling Maher.

And he's 93!

And, correct, he didn't vote as he's Canadian.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:32 AM (js3aQ)

24 Actually I feel pretty good this am -- almost seven hours' sleep. Don't know how, unless it was the aid of the esteemed law firm Unisom & Melatonin. ("Unable to sleep? You may be entitled to compensation! Call us NOW!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:35 AM (omVj0)

25 @17/Ciampino: That's a turtle that's gonna get run over while crossing the Trumpway.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 04:36 AM (O7YUW)

26 And, correct, he didn't vote as he's Canadian.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024

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After all these years working in the US, I'd have thought he'd have applied for citizenship. Maybe there were some kind of advantages to retaining his Canadian membership. Or he thought there were.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:36 AM (omVj0)

27 If have counted correctly
64 days until the inauguration

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 04:39 AM (fwDg9)

28 He was born in 1930. Shakespearean actor in the '50s, then a lot of early TV, then Trek, then a lot of TV movies until his career renaissance as Kirk when he was almost forty.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024

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Oops, did my arithmetic wrong. Shatner was 36 when he started doing Trek, but almost 50 when the first of the movies came out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

29 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 18, 2024 04:42 AM (dg+HA)

30 Maybe culling of the herd isn't so bad after all:

https://tinyurl.com/4cr66u4j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 04:43 AM (js3aQ)

31 @26/Wolfus: Shatner, from a CTV-News article from 2018:

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And the 86-year-old Golden Globe-winning actor, who recently received the Order of Canada, debunked various news reports stating he's now a naturalized U.S. citizen.

"I love to go through customs in between Canada and America, because the Canadian customs officers always look at my passport and say, without exception, 'I didn't know you were Canadian,"' Shatner said.

"I hold a green card and I tremble in jeopardy just like everybody else. You never know when they might do something terrible about Canadians and their green cards."
---

And he's not kidding about that.

1. Green Cards are not "permanent residency". They must be renewed every 10 years, and if you lose your justification for the permit, they won't renew it and "get out, they explained."

2. If you thought the IRS was terrifying, try living under that sword of Damocles that is the USCIS (formerly the INS) when you're not a citizen. Doesn't matter if you're properly papered and authorized, the power they have over your entire life and the ability to cause you to have to uproot and go back home? Yeah, that's more than a little stressful.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

32 G'morning, all!

45.0 degrees out, with 99% R.H.

Another cold one this morning, while I walk past the filled and cleaned birdbath in about an hour.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 04:46 AM (a1415)

33 So apparently the climate Antarctica was slightly different back in the past.

https://tinyurl.com/2v5yyeb2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 04:51 AM (a1415)

34 So apparently the climate Antarctica was slightly different back in the past.

https://tinyurl.com/2v5yyeb2
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024

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Near tropical, I think, since Antarctica was located closer to the equator? Continental Drift: It's not just for breakfast anymore!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:58 AM (omVj0)

35 @33/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

Settled. Science.

(said in the same tone/cadence as: "Top. Men.")

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

36 45.0 degrees out, with 99% R.H.

Another cold one this morning, while I walk past the filled and cleaned birdbath in about an hour.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024

***
Damp and cold is another thing entirely from dry and cold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:59 AM (omVj0)

37 Maybe culling of the herd isn't so bad after all:
https://tinyurl.com/4cr66u4j
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Ick.
And why do they label it "gender-affirming" when it's obviously gender-denying? smh

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:00 AM (njWTi)

38 Enthalpy. It's a thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 18, 2024 05:00 AM (dg+HA)

39 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, home to frigid (very) nights and mild days, different weather from the past couple of years in this segment of Fall/Winter.

As always, may the best possible benefit result from today's effort with the commensurate grief for the leftwits among us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 18, 2024 05:02 AM (hKoQL)

40 Supposed toget to upper 60s today and breezy, still way short or rain these last couple months.

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 05:02 AM (fwDg9)

41 Time to shower and feed the beasts and myself (not all at the same time).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 05:03 AM (omVj0)

42 Mid-40s high expected today, flurries tonight.

Probably no snow accumulation; then rainy & chilly for the next week.

Could be worse!

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:06 AM (njWTi)

43 @37/JQ: "And why do they label it "gender-affirming" when it's obviously gender-denying?"

Some of them do it because they're scared of the wokies in HR and don't want their careers ruined, so they go along with the latest terms no matter how crazy they are.

Some of them are just evil.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 05:06 AM (O7YUW)

44 Some of them do it because they're scared of the wokies in HR and don't want their careers ruined, so they go along with the latest terms no matter how crazy they are.
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Figures. Like jumping off a cliff, because all your besties are doing it too! Yay! LOL.

F'ing HR...

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:09 AM (njWTi)

45 Flag is up
🫡
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 05:11 AM (fwDg9)

46 Wolfus, you guys been busy down there?

https://tinyurl.com/mrx6ja29

Sounds like Baltimore on the Bayou.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 05:13 AM (a1415)

47 "Flag is up
🫡
Forward Dog 9 out"

Morning wood!

( Sorry, it's all I got)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 05:15 AM (a1415)

48 There is science and then there is left-tard-science. Left-tard science is not real science but is pushed by the left-tard media.

Posted by: Case at November 18, 2024 05:16 AM (27pJk)

49 In my daydreams, all HR depts get vaporized.

Managers and senior employees get to interview and select prospective new personnel.

Conflicts? Resolved by dept head, or an employee-elected grievance committee.

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:20 AM (njWTi)

50 Conflicts? Resolved ~~by dept head, or an employee-elected grievance committee~~ in Thunderdome.

* Suggested edit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)

51 * Suggested edit.
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I LIKE IT!!!

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:24 AM (njWTi)

52 Chores beckon...

Have a great day, all!

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2024 05:25 AM (njWTi)

53 JQ, have a good day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 05:25 AM (a1415)

54 Time to change for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 05:27 AM (a1415)

55 Anyone proposing updating existing computer based infrastructure should study the on-going FAA ATC upgrade. It's been going on for decades and it's just a rolling disaster.

I'd like to see an example of a bureaucracy healing or upgrading itself.

Posted by: pawn at November 18, 2024 05:37 AM (QB+5g)

56 Wolfus, you guys been busy down there?

https://tinyurl.com/mrx6ja29

Sounds like Baltimore on the Bayou.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024

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And that is EXACTLY what it is.

When I was in grammar school, my father would take my brother and me to an ice cream parlor in that neighborhood, and to a little playground not far away, where in the warm months an ice *milk* truck would come by to sell to the kids there. Now? I wouldn't go near that neighborhood even in daylight for anything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 05:42 AM (omVj0)

57 A woman who is ill gets help from sharing her honest thoughts with God. Psalm 126 vs: 1-6

https://tinyurl.com/yvrypwuu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 05:45 AM (sQWHi)

58 72 and sunny here. Well, later today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 18, 2024 05:47 AM (dR6yv)

59 Dastardly...

Laura Loomer

@LauraLoomer

Mitch McConnell allegedly sent a message to Trump, saying, “There will be no recess appointments."

This is why he scheduled the Senate GOP leadership vote for Nov 13.

He installed one of his hand picked heirs and now he’s going to obstruct Trump’s agenda.

Just as I called it.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 05:48 AM (TGPs7)

60 Melatonin. What can't it do?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

Let me sleep. Seriously, I took some last night and was wide awake two hours later. *grumblemuttercomplain*

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2024 05:49 AM (BpO1e)

61 Just name names... and let the burnings begin.

Laura Loomer

@LauraLoomer

Have you ever noticed how many closeted homosexuals are in the Senate GOP?

It’s 2024.

Why don’t they just come out already?

I think about this often.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 05:51 AM (TGPs7)

62 Short weekend.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 05:52 AM (gbOdA)

63 What is that girls-in-swimsuits pacific-ww2 game that Kirsche plays?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 18, 2024 05:52 AM (lhenN)

64 I would like to share a story about the kindness of strangers. My son went for a run yesterday at a local park. It was getting dark and he wasn't back yet and we were concerned so we called. He said he had lost the keys to the car which must have dropped out of his pocket. He had finished his run and then spent some time looking for the keys. FenSpouse then drove to the park in the dark with another set of keys. Son was apparently not at the car but on the path with a flashlight looking for the guys.

A man drive up to the car -he must have been there for a while- and said' "Are you looking for some keys? Some ladies at the other end of the park found them. " Spouse drove to the end of the park and retrieved the keys from the ladies.

Anyway long story , but they were three very nice people and the man really went out of his way to help. May God bless them for their kindness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 05:55 AM (TOYUl)

65 "Looking for the KEYS" not guys.
.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 05:57 AM (TOYUl)

66 Remember that Maori outburst in NZ's parliament the other day?

Well....

It's now a musical:

https://tinyurl.com/49dtuz9v

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 05:57 AM (js3aQ)

67 Why did the tech guy get in trouble for goofing off at work?

His jokes weren't PC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 05:59 AM (TOYUl)

68 You can never go wrong with a Giant Trump Mechanoid keeping the border safe...

https://tinyurl.com/2nudec23

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 05:59 AM (TGPs7)

69 "Just as I called it."

I seem to remember some people "just calling ..." Donald would not win.

I find your "just calling it" this time, less than believable.

Please describe why anyone should believe you "just calling it" , this time.

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Certified dangerous radical at November 18, 2024 06:01 AM (89Sog)

70 60 Melatonin. What can't it do?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024
*
Let me sleep. Seriously, I took some last night and was wide awake two hours later. *grumblemuttercomplain*
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2024

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Apparently it helps you *get* to sleep, but does not help you *stay* asleep. However, I've read that it helps with migraines. I'm getting Miss Linda to try some to see if it will head off her migraine attacks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

71 Why didn't anyone laugh at the jokes at the team Zoom meeting?

They weren't even remotely funny.

And that it's for today, folks. May you have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others.

Keep on praying!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 06:01 AM (EI0XQ)

72 Why didn't anyone laugh at the jokes at the team Zoom meeting?

They weren't even remotely funny.

And that it's for today, folks. May you have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others.

Keep on praying!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024

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Fen, I'm gonna use that one at our staff Zoom meeting this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 06:03 AM (omVj0)

73 @64/FenelonSpoke: "May God bless them for their kindness."

Indeed. Good on all of them for helping.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 06:03 AM (O7YUW)

74 It's not that they're gay, it's what gay they like. My gaydar melted when it first saw Thune.

Posted by: Accomack in Jamaica at November 18, 2024 06:06 AM (IG7T0)

75 The Verge: Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.

That is a lot concurrent streams. Netflix barely had enough capacity to handle that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 18, 2024 06:07 AM (vO42M)

76 Shock absorbing hammer and axe...

https://tinyurl.com/yrsxc4af

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 06:08 AM (TGPs7)

77 @49/JR: "In my daydreams, all HR depts get vaporized."

They re-form the department with older employees from the company whose bodies can't take the punishment of the physical work anymore, but they can do desk work just fine, and since they came through the trenches themselves, they know what the real problems of the workers are and can empathize and help, and the company empowers them to do just that. No longer is this department just to shield the company from legal liability (that's what LEGAL is for!) The new department must focus on helping the men and women working there.

Further, we won't name this department "Personnel" either, because that rename was just a sop to a bunch of touchy-feely crap. We call it what it once was called, and should be called again:

Manpower.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

78 Then re-form, not "They re-form" *sighs* My kingdom for an edit button.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2024 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

79 Shock absorbing hammer and axe...

https://tinyurl.com/yrsxc4af
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 06:08 AM (TGPs7)
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More tools for CBD to bend out of shape.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 06:11 AM (js3aQ)

80 However, I've read that it helps with migraines. I'm getting Miss Linda to try some to see if it will head off her migraine attacks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

Let me know what the results are. I have an old friend who gets bad migraines and I'll let her know.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2024 06:11 AM (BpO1e)

81 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I hope they laugh. 😉

I am now going out to see the sunrise and take a walk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2024 06:13 AM (MQJVv)

82 Usually the Brits have a good sense of direction. They're not like women drivers....

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
A British tourist lost 15,000ft up in Peruvian mountains describes how a stray dog 'appeared from the fog' and led him to his destination.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhhf5m

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 06:16 AM (TGPs7)

83 G'mornin' everyone!

lots of coffee in the works, then off to the hiking trails!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 18, 2024 06:17 AM (gY0JQ)

84 Did you guys know the WNBA had a draft lottery? I know, right.

Posted by: Accomack in Jamaica at November 18, 2024 06:20 AM (IG7T0)

85 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2024 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

86 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

45℉? Luxury.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2024 06:25 AM (u82oZ)

87 There are medicines for migraines. Been around for decades. You feel on coming on, you take a pill, and 30 minutes later, back to work.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 18, 2024 06:27 AM (+H2BX)

88 Lots of cold rain arriving.

off to prepare.

Have a great day, everyone.

May we remain blessed and on target, as the inner party of the barbarians is in freefall.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2024 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

89 Re Norway I didn’t know anyone was dumb enough to actually have unrealized capital gains taxes. Or that anyone was dumb enough to be surprised that people would flee that kind of idiocy. And the “wall of shame” is an idea the could only have come from a leftist woman. They already escaped your moronic plan, they don’t need to give a shit.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 06:42 AM (QZThv)

90
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2024 06:49 AM (tljrc)

91 I've been looking at Beelink mini-pc's. I'd prefer it come with Linux. Linux is easy enough to install but if I can find one with it already installed, that's better. Amazon descriptions are vague at times. 'OS' isn't letting me know which 'OS'.

First World Problems!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2024 06:50 AM (Yq7O9)

92
Jeff Bezos has a bad habit of buying companies and leaving them to be destroyed by lunatics.

e.g. The Washington Post

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 06:50 AM (dxSpM)

93 Vice President Kamala Harris spent a remarkable $1.5 billion in her hyper-compressed 15-week presidential campaign.

you cant burn piles of money that fast

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 06:52 AM (gbOdA)

94 Chalk one up for an idiot with only minor tech skills. Restored my Quicken files that I thoroughly screwed up last Friday. Accidentally found the file I needed, how it got where it saved I'll never know.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 18, 2024 06:54 AM (2NHgQ)

95 What about the transit with Mickey and Minnie?

Laura Matsue
@lauramatsue
It’s the second to last day of Pluto in Capricorn for our lifetimes and I’ve officially survived Pluto transits to my Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, North/South Node and I will finish it off with a Pluto square to my natal Pluto. I’ve been going through Pluto transits since age 5. I am the lord of the underworld, now 😂

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 06:55 AM (TGPs7)

96
you cant burn piles of money that fast
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 06:52 AM (gbOdA)

"Try us" - Drunken sailors worldwide

Seriously, I think the compressed time-frame had a lot to do with it. When you're desperately trying to get your brand across, money discipline goes out the window mighty fast. Consultants, strategists, pollsters and so on no doubt were robbing her blind for exactly that reason.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 06:57 AM (dxSpM)

97 Yeah, SVG is not a raster graphic; they are just sets of machine instructions - draw line from A to B, draw line from B to C, forming angle D, apply this bezier curve to angle D, etc.

So I think it would be fairly trivial to infect with malware. Frankly, I'd wondered why people weren't doing this when I first started making vector graphics mumblety years ago.

I think it would be similarly easy to exploit AI, CDR and EPS formats - but unlike SVG, most web browsers can't launch those, so that's the obvious choice.

Problem is ... one container file for all these formats (as well as other dandy things like JS) is PDF. Potentially a big security problem, since those are used by everyone..

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2024 06:59 AM (7oYYI)

98 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 18, 2024 07:03 AM (z0QHk)

99 "Try us" - Drunken sailors worldwide
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Unfair to drunken sailors. When they run out of money, they stop.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 18, 2024 07:04 AM (z0QHk)

100 Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour.

censorship we much

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

101
Her Majesty got back from her trip last night and Diana and I went to pick her up at the airport. Diana enjoys car rides and, needless to say, was ecstatic when she saw her mommy, crooning and woobling the whole trip home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 07:05 AM (dxSpM)

102 Just read the article about Norway. Show it to the people in this country that want taxes on unrealized gains and the only answer they will have is that it will work this time.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2024 07:07 AM (BpO1e)

103
In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour.

censorship we much
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

Progs need their safe spaces, complete with milk, graham crackers and blankies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 07:07 AM (dxSpM)

104 Seriously, I think the compressed time-frame had a lot to do with it. When you're desperately trying to get your brand across, money discipline goes out the window mighty fast. Consultants, strategists, pollsters and so on no doubt were robbing her blind for exactly that reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 06:57 AM (dxSpM)

It will be interesting to see how much the (D) also burned.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:07 AM (gbOdA)

105 Vice President Kamala Harris spent a remarkable $1.5 billion in her hyper-compressed 15-week presidential campaign.

you cant burn piles of money that fast
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 06:52 AM (gbOdA)

well, when "burn" consists of shady "payments" you can launder quite a bit of money quickly....

or possible, the "donations" from the billionaires that supported her went to various people, to the PAC that they ran so they got much of their money back....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 18, 2024 07:08 AM (v6XNT)

106 102 Just read the article about Norway. Show it to the people in this country that want taxes on unrealized gains and the only answer they will have is that it will work this time.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2024 07:07 AM (BpO1e)

Death taxes are just that, taxes on unrealized gains. Also it lets the moneychangers get fire sale prices on good businesses that were usually built to support the families, not Big Govt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:09 AM (gbOdA)

107 Le NOOD

It be here!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 18, 2024 07:11 AM (a1415)

108
Surprisingly, his success in the tech world has led to public shaming, placing Haga on Norway’s Socialist Party’s ‘Wall of Shame’.

So, once again, if you're an innovative and entrepreneurial, where would you want to do business, Europe or the US? Europe can, as far as I'm concerned, have all our deadweight in trade.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2024 07:11 AM (dxSpM)

109 The Pentagon has just failed its 7th audit and says it cannot account for what its $824B budget is spent on.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:11 AM (gbOdA)

110 Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour.

censorship we much
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

orwell would be proud/horrified...

can you be anymore commie sounding?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 18, 2024 07:11 AM (v6XNT)

111 > I've been looking at Beelink mini-pc's. I'd prefer it come with Linux. Linux is easy enough to install but if I can find one with it already installed, that's better. Amazon descriptions are vague at times. 'OS' isn't letting me know which 'OS'.
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We have a Beelink mini-pc. It came with a pre-installed version of Windows 11 Home. I think you can install any OS from a memory stick and overwrite what's there. It is a little different process than on a "regular" PC but there are some websites out there that have "how to" guides.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2024 07:13 AM (Q4IgG)

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