Daily Tech News 14 January 2025

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The USB Implementor's Foum - USB-IF - has done something that isn't stupid for the first time in years: Cancelled all those version names you can't remember. (PC World)

Gone are USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 and USB4v2.

Now it's just 5Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps, 40Gbps, and 80Gbps. Bigger numbers are better.

When looking at cables, they are rated with both a speed and a maximum power - either 60W or 240W. 60W runs at 20V and 3A, while 240W runs at 48V and 5A. You can always shift downwards, but running 5A over a 3A cable may not work out so well - or at all.

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This is a depressingly stupid article. (Quanta)

Key question capturing the idiocy:
Do the properties of quarks and gluons resonate with you as a nonbinary person?

Yes, I think the simple fact that gluons carry multiple color charges means they are fundamentally nonbinary creatures.
Can it get any dumber?

Silly question. It can always get dumber.
I am a physicist, but before that, I'm a person. If someone wants to just chat physics with me, you can't just get my physics, you also get the fact that I'm a trans person and hear about the environment I'm being asked to do my research in.
That's okay. I don't want to chat about anything with you, ever.
Why AWS CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet the platform's future on AI. (The Verge)

Because AWS makes a profit whether AI is useful or not. Its customers pay when they use the service no matter how bad it is.
With TikTok less than a week from being wiped from existence, here's a list of horrible garbage apps that deserve the same fate. (Tech Crunch)

Not how they phrase it, but more accurate.
The CEO of AI music company Suno says people don't like making music. (404 Media)

Aliens. These people are aliens.
Should you buy the new Western Digital SN7100 SSD? No. (Serve the Home)

Because it is both slower and more expensive than Western Digital's own SN850X.

Do buy the SN850X if it suits you, though. It's a good drive.
Can you complete the Oregon Trail by sitting at the Snake River waiting 14,272 years for conditions to improve? Mostly, no. (Moral Recordings)

It turns out that there is a bug in the game where if you are sitting waiting at the river, your food supply is reduced each day, but your party's health status is not recalculated, making you effectively immortal.

Until you move, whereupon you die.

And if you somehow avoid that (by, uh, cheating) and finish the game, it crashes because you are not supposed to take more than ten thousand years to complete the journey.

But if you fix that too by allowing the game to display a two-byte year, then yes. But it's not the Oregon Trail anymore.

Musical Interlude

Despite what you may think, this is the original version.

Also, I've been to most of these places. Cheating a little, because quite a few of them are suburbs of Sydney.

Disclaimer: Though not Oodnadatta.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'. Nooded.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:03 AM (O7YUW)

2 The Lucky Star "I've been everywhere" music video starts to load then switches to a "This Video is unavailable", but doesn't say why. Thanks Google, ya bastards.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:04 AM (O7YUW)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 04:04 AM (fwDg9)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:05 AM (omVj0)

5 I see often things viewed in one country can't be seen in another

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

6 @5/Skip: Yup, me too, but it usually says it's not available in your region/country when it does that. This time it's just saying it's "not available" without saying why. Oh well, with the name of the artist and the song that flashed by quickly before it disappeared, I was able to find another copy on YouTube.

Hopefully this is the same one:
https://youtu.be/n5kb-gMAK6E

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:08 AM (O7YUW)

7 The USB Implementor's Foum - USB-IF - has done something that isn't stupid for the first time in years: Cancelled all those version names you can't remember.

And the manufacturers and their marketers will screw all of that up by muddying the waters. Again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:10 AM (O7YUW)

8 Evening to all the late toilers, and morning to the insomaniacals and early risers! 'Tis Tiu's Day, one step closer to the weekend. Chilly this am, 45 F. and dampish, though no rain. We're due for a warmup into the 60s by week's end, but then rain on Saturday, and some cold by Monday.

Yesterday I mailed that card and letter to my ex-wife's mother. We'll see if she writes back, says nothing, or (and I think this unlikely) says something sharp in return. She never seemed that sort when I knew her; best mother-in-law a guy could have, I thought then.

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are doing well, and i'm waking up. Howz you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:11 AM (omVj0)

9 Trying again with a third video of that song. The one Grumpy and Recalcitrant linked isn't available in Australia...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025 04:14 AM (BLOW1)

10 "The CEO of AI music company Suno says people don't like making music."

How much do you want to bet the CEO is just parroting the output of an "AI"? (And of course, it's a lie.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:17 AM (O7YUW)

11 Clear USB labeling? An unmistakable sign that the end is here.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2025 04:18 AM (Q8Bj8)

12 "Can you complete the Oregon Trail..."

Let me just stop you right there, because: You have died of dysentery.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:20 AM (O7YUW)

13 The current Lucky Star video works. What a great version! When did Australia get camels and saguaro cacti?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2025 04:20 AM (Q8Bj8)

14 @9/Pixy: "Trying again with a third video of that song. The one Grumpy and Recalcitrant linked isn't available in Australia..."

Regional content lockouts are such crap. *sighs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:21 AM (O7YUW)

15 Okay Pixy, the replacement video you found works in Canada. Well done!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 04:22 AM (O7YUW)

16 Transgender, in our species, is and always will be non existent and will always be so. The difficult part of conversing with a "transgender" is the amount of logic dismissal required.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 14, 2025 04:22 AM (hKoQL)

17 Mornin'

A trans pxrsyns physicist. Any data that doesn't meet this trans pxrsyn physicist belief system will get discarded. Yes, I will dare to question this broken humans science.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

18 In the video arcade days there was a game called Major Havoc. You were on an asteroid, and had to enter a station in spacesuit, navigate a maze, turn off a reactor before it exploded, and get back out again. Your suit had only so much air, too. If you hesitated too long, the little figure would fold its arms and tap its foot in impatience. And if you still waited, it would put its hands to its space helmet, shake its head, and expire noisily as the session ended.

I liked it because you had to think a little about your passage through the maze and its obstacles. Maybe that was why it disappeared from arcades after a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:25 AM (omVj0)

19 13 The current Lucky Star video works. What a great version! When did Australia get camels and saguaro cacti?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Yeah, well...

Saguaro cacti not so much, but Australia has the largest population of wild camels in the world. Like so many other things they were released into the wild when they stopped being useful and became a pest.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025 04:26 AM (BLOW1)

20 Pixy, the video works. An Aussie version of Hank Snow's famous song? The singer reminds me of Leroy Van Dyke's vocals on "The Auctioneer," which I think one of the Cobs posted last week or thereabouts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:30 AM (omVj0)

21 The Johnny Cash version of I've been everywhere lists 90 different places. I've been to about 30. That number should be higher, but I make it a point to stay out of the eastern part of the United States.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2025 04:31 AM (Q8Bj8)

22 Early mornings like this are when I miss most that cold black nose in the corner of my eye, nudging until I react.
Lordy how I miss that big old lump of a Lab. I will say with utter loathing, fuck cancer.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 14, 2025 04:35 AM (hKoQL)

23 20 Pixy, the video works. An Aussie version of Hank Snow's famous song?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes. Or rather, Hank Snow did a version of Lucky Starr's famous song. It was rewritten with US place names.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025 04:38 AM (BLOW1)

24 G'morning, all!

36.5 degrees out, with 96% humidity and no wind.

Good conditions for the morning walk in bouton hour.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 04:40 AM (a1415)

25 Early mornings like this are when I miss most that cold black nose in the corner of my eye, nudging until I react.
Lordy how I miss that big old lump of a Lab. I will say with utter loathing, fuck cancer.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 14, 2025

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My late big black Wolf cat would gently paw my hair when he thought it was time I got up and fed him. At that it was better than Marie-Antoinette's meowing. That smart lady cat had a clock in her head. If you made the mistake of getting up and feeding her at 5 am instead of 6, the next morning she'd start in at 4:30.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:40 AM (omVj0)

26 bouton=about an

Keyboard hates me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 04:40 AM (a1415)

27 Pixy, the video works. An Aussie version of Hank Snow's famous song?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Yes. Or rather, Hank Snow did a version of Lucky Starr's famous song. It was rewritten with US place names.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025

***
Then it goes back a long way. Snow's song came out in 1962.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:42 AM (omVj0)

28 The last great treacherous place on the Oregon Trail was the Cascade Rapids on the Columbia River near modern day Dalles, Or. The only feasible way pass them was to wait for rafts/boats to come up out of Portland and then ferry people down. Later a bypass was created, the Barlow Bypass, that went through the Mount Hood area. When I lived in that area I spent a lot of time chasing down the various ways people got down the Columbia River and using the Barlow bypass. It was a great way to learn the region in a very granular way.

Near the end of the 19th century, the Cascade Locks were built that allowed shipping to predictably go up and down that stretch of the Columbia. Later the Dalles Dam was built which flooded them under 100 ft. of water which finally solved that problem permanently. Today the Lower Columbia River is well tamed and is a major artery for shipping grain out of the Palouse region and on to the world.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2025 04:42 AM (Q8Bj8)

29 21 The Johnny Cash version of I've been everywhere lists 90 different places. I've been to about 30. That number should be higher, but I make it a point to stay out of the eastern part of the United States.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Funny thing about the Australian version is it's almost entirely set in south-east Australia. But then so are Australians.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025 04:42 AM (BLOW1)

30 Well, 'bout time to shave and shower before I feed the livestock and then me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:44 AM (omVj0)

31 Funny thing about the Australian version is it's almost entirely set in south-east Australia. But then so are Australians.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Because I don't know very many Australian place names I found picking out the individual places nearly impossible which was kind of fun. I really must go to Australia one day as I think I would have the time of my life.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2025 04:49 AM (Q8Bj8)

32 As someone who has been to Dodge City a few times and never enjoyed it, my favorite part of the American version is "Dodge City, What a pity."

Posted by: Wally at January 14, 2025 04:49 AM (4lsKt)

33 Village Idiots Apprentice/

Did you go to church? If so, how was it?

I thought of you and your daily walks when I read this devotional from "Our Daily Bread" . It is called "Walking with God." and is based on Genesis 5:21-24

https://tinyurl.com/3dhs9vkt

It was too cold to walk outside yesterday, so I walked up and down the aisles at the supermarket. The security people on camera must have thoughts I was nuts, but I did have a small cart and got a few things so I didn't look so strange.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 04:58 AM (8607n)

34 https://thenewneo.com/2025/01/13/
jen-rubin-leaves-the-wapo/

Neo tells us the Never Trumpers are settling up shop at The Contrarion

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:00 AM (fwDg9)

35 Man reunited with dog five days later after he lost everything in the Pasadena fire:

https://tinyurl.com/s9nr27wn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 05:05 AM (8607n)

36 If you been to lots of those names of places I would guess you have been everywhere, man

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:14 AM (fwDg9)

37 Lots of places I would have liked to see but doubting it will happen

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:16 AM (fwDg9)

38 Fen,

Church was good.

Being raised Baptist and visiting a Lutheran church on Communion Sunday presented an internal debate for myself around partaking in communion and the Baptist/Lutheran divergence on the role of the Host during the celebration of Communion.

Our Daily Bread...I remember as a young man my mother taking the time to mail me the monthly ODB during the early part of my Navy career.

And your link reminds me that there are many parts of my youth that it might be good to bring back into my life.

Thank you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 05:17 AM (a1415)

39 Woman sings beautiful song which she based on psalm 1:

https://tinyurl.com/yea8dy9u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 05:21 AM (T5k50)

40 Heard high winds this morning but seeing tomorrow very high winds forecasting

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:25 AM (fwDg9)

41 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 05:17 AM (a1415)

Well, I think if you go back, consider taking the Lord's Supper if you didn't .😊Christ is the host and as I understand the theology in the Lutheran church any Christian is welcome. In the RC church it would not be suitable for you to take the Eucharist but it wasn't a RCC. We have been having the Lord's Supper every week for about five months and I think they appreciate it . I do.

I am glad you have good memories of receiving ODB from your mom while in the Navy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 05:27 AM (sitE6)

42 Fen,

Then we also have the private issue of the role of Baptism in the Christian faith.

I do not desire to begin a theological discussion amongst fellow Morons here, and simply leave it at....

My families roots trace directly through early Switzerland in the 16th century, and adherence to the Anabaptist movement. After fleeing Europe due to the persecution taking place there, our history goes through the Mennonite and Brethren churches of Pennsylvania.

We will simply leave the discussion here at me needing to take a somber reflection of the direction that we take in continuing attendance or continue to seek a different House of Worship.

I believe that our renewed journey is just beginning, so prayers for guidance would be appreciated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

43 Putting on boots turned on tv, some 1982 movie on with Jane Fonda and Chris Christopher, she is in 2nd World Trade Tower

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:31 AM (fwDg9)

44 And with that....time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

45 May not been everywhere but at least not going far today
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 05:36 AM (fwDg9)

46 I took off walking today just like every other day. There was about a quarter of an inch of snow. We got about a quarter of a mile and the dogs started picking up their paws so we came home. I looked at the weather and its 6 below with a wind chill of -26. yikes! Poor things, no wonder we didn't get far.

Posted by: Molly k. at January 14, 2025 05:37 AM (j/yko)

47 It's The Dalles and The Dalles dam.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2025 05:43 AM (NQtI0)

48 Do the properties of quarks and gluons resonate with you as a nonbinary person?

Yes, I think the simple fact that gluons carry multiple color charges means they are fundamentally nonbinary creatures.
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How and why is this person even allowed to call themselves a "physicist?" Since when are gluons "creatures?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 05:43 AM (BpYfr)

49 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

No; I didn't want to get into contentious theological debates here. I never enjoy that. I will keep you in prayer for your search for a Church home. I am glad you are searching. I think that's so important and I'm sure you and your wife would be a blessing to any church community.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 05:43 AM (40YB7)

50 I think it may be the only town in the country where "The" is part of the town name.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2025 05:46 AM (NQtI0)

51 18 In the video arcade days there was a game called Major Havoc. You were on an asteroid, and had to enter a station in spacesuit, navigate a maze, turn off a reactor before it exploded, and get back out again. Your suit had only so much air, too. If you hesitated too long, the little figure would fold its arms and tap its foot in impatience. And if you still waited, it would put its hands to its space helmet, shake its head, and expire noisily as the session ended.

I liked it because you had to think a little about your passage through the maze and its obstacles. Maybe that was why it disappeared from arcades after a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 04:25 AM (omVj0)

I loved that game. The arcade I helped manage waaaaaay back in '84 was one of the fortunate ones to get the original version in the custom cabinet. It was also one of the ones to get the early version with the missing "final" rescue screen, due to an incomplete ROM being installed. I remember the first time I completed all of the missions and was stoked to finally complete the game, only to have it reset to the start. We never got the fix, and I never saw another one

Posted by: goozer at January 14, 2025 05:53 AM (8IYGo)

52 FBI Director Christopher Wray told “60 Minutes” on Jan. 12, with a week to go before his resignation on Jan. 20, that he believes that the Chinese communist regime is the greatest threat to the United States.

And yet, you wasted money and time chasing down white supremacists, people praying at abortion clinics and climate change deniers.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 05:55 AM (RjOoY)

53 The arcade I helped manage waaaaaay back in '84 was one of the fortunate ones to get the original version in the custom cabinet.

A fun game but it was rarely in any of the arcades I went to. Appreciate you and Wolfus reminding me about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 05:58 AM (RjOoY)

54 Good morning, Horde. If anyone sees vmom tell her to check out Dr. William Makis and his ivermectin/fenbendazole cancer treatment.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 05:59 AM (0wWvl)

55 Strangers save woman by lifting a car in which she was trapped underneath:

https://tinyurl.com/244kcfad

Sunny Skyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 06:04 AM (kHSCa)

56 @51/goozer:

The final level with the promised ending screen:
https://youtu.be/vD-JckArxJY?t=3374

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

57 Spunky little crab;

https://tinyurl.com/2nnf7rfu

Sunny Skyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 06:07 AM (kHSCa)

58 J.D. Vance made a stupid statement on the hostage deal. He claimed that people are rushing to get a deal done before PDT enters office "because people are terrified that there are going to consequences for Hamas".

What the everlovin' fuck?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 06:10 AM (0wWvl)

59 I've been meaning to ask: Is wOrdpress going to be deleted? I can't make it out from stories you've linked recently, Pixy.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 14, 2025 06:16 AM (cU25t)

60 @58/Ben Had: Vance may have phrased it badly, but I suspect he's correct on the timing. If a deal can be struck, there will be pressure from entities (more like enemies) within (State Department) and without (Hamas-friendly nation states) to let it play out and see if it works, even though it won't.

The deal is only happening because on January 21, Trump would impose his own conditions and whatever deal they could make or agree to will likely be worse for Hamas, and they know it.

This reminds me so much of the Iranian Hostage Crisis from just before Reagan took power. Same thing; first day Reagan was in, and look at that, hostages released. (Iranians: The time to eff around has has ended, and we really don't want to find out.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

61 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 14, 2025 06:17 AM (hoCmQ)

62 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, have you read the "deal"?
I am asking this in a passive voice not an aggressive one.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 06:21 AM (0wWvl)

63 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogogoch?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 14, 2025 06:23 AM (6K6Eu)

64 Rejoinder: How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogogoch?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 14, 2025 06:23 AM (6K6Eu)
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Gesundheit!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 06:25 AM (BpYfr)

65 The USB Implementor's Foum - USB-IF - has done something that isn't stupid for the first time in years: Cancelled all those version names you can't remember.

Yep, cancelled 'em all, just blew up the whole naming convention.

Foum!

Posted by: LibertyDefender at January 14, 2025 06:28 AM (oS+j2)

66 "If someone wants to just chat neurosurgery with me, you can't just get my neurosurgery, you also get the fact that I'm a straight cis person who likes to bang chicks and hear about the environment I'm being asked to do my research in."

....

Can we make the phrase "toxic deviancy" a thing? Can we stop pretending that these weirdos aren't all neurotic and that the shit they say isn't monstrous and deserving of scorn and ridicule?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 06:30 AM (+iIV1)

67 These folks just used AI to make a half billion dollars. And here I thought AI is a useless field. Quelle suprise.

https://tinyurl.com/bddx7tcz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2025 06:31 AM (ivLWF)

68 Love the musical interludes lately. Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2025 06:32 AM (ivLWF)

69 Australia has herds of wild camels? Now there's a trivia bonus I bet no one knew.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2025 06:34 AM (ivLWF)

70
Good morning, Hordians. I have an old laptop on which I'm looking to install Linux. I know how to boot up from a USB with the operating system, but what baffles me is how to verify Linux after downloading it.

We have another laptop that has a dead motherboard. A Chromebook we thought was similarly dead I discovered just had a very, very, very dead battery. So now we have two of them. Except I don't really care for the idea: bulkier than a phone, not as versatile as a desktop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 06:34 AM (dxSpM)

71 Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that lump we found on your cerebellum, but first, check out this chick i just nailed this morning. Seriously, look, dude, you're not looking. I love my dick.

Hey, where ya goin'?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 06:36 AM (+iIV1)

72 Good morning early risers.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 06:38 AM (WXNFJ)

73 bouton=about an

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 14, 2025 04:40 AM (a1415)

I thought it was a nifty and useful contraction.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 14, 2025 06:39 AM (/Elj1)

74 Pete Bog, good morning to both of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 06:41 AM (0wWvl)

75 Posted by: Pete Bog at January 14, 2025 06:39 AM (/Elj1

I thought that bouton had a nifty French flair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 06:41 AM (WeYuK)

76 Let me just stop you right there, because: You have died of dysentery.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Well ain't that just the shits!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 06:42 AM (WXNFJ)

77 Is Oregon Trail still a thing? My daughters used to play it obsessively years ago.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2025 06:44 AM (LCHc9)

78 Let me just stop you right there, because: You have died of dysentery.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Well ain't that just the shits!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 06:42 AM (WXNFJ)
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SnorgTees has a shirt with an appropriate 8-bit Oregon Trail picture and the caption, "You have died of dysentery. And velociraptors."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 14, 2025 06:45 AM (6K6Eu)

79 @62/Ben Had: I know it's still not a done deal, Hamas hasn't announced it'll accept it, which means they could still do a rug-pull at the last second and I'm kinda expecting that. I know it's mentioning the term "cease fire" instead of "peace agreement" which means it's your standard "re-arm and recruit, then attack again within 10 years" result that one should never accept, but everyone always does with the inevitable and utterly predictable terrorist attack occurring.

Israel should have set a deadline by which it then said, "We now recognize that our hostages are dead. You just blew your last chance by continuing to screw around and not return them alive. Here comes the scorched earth retribution you have justly earned," and then told the rest of the world to fuck off until Israel declared the war good and truly done, and only when they got a proper full unconditional surrender, and not this cease-fire bullshit.

There were statements made by Israel after the October 7 attack that it would do whatever necessary to get their people back, and now those words are backing them into a corner to accept a deal, even if the deal is a shit sandwich.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

80 The old Achewood web comic had a four-strip story on Oregon Trail:

https://achewood.com/2003/05/13/title.html

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 14, 2025 06:46 AM (6K6Eu)

81 VIA, prayers for your renewed journey. May it be fruitful and enlightening.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 06:47 AM (WXNFJ)

82
Hey, where ya goin'?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 06:36 AM (+iIV1)

___________

Tiresome bores have been part and parcel of society for time immemorial. Fifty years ago, you would have had to look at the slides from their vacation to Nebraska. Now you have to listen to their trans neurodivergent ADHD queer obsession.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 06:49 AM (dxSpM)

83 There were statements made by Israel after the October 7 attack that it would do whatever necessary to get their people back, and now those words are backing them into a corner to accept a deal, even if the deal is a shit sandwich.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

I would think "do whatever" in this context does not include "capitulate".

Otherwise every Liam Neeson movie would become weird and boring.

"I have a very special set of skills...."

"Those skills include making me a sandwich tough guy?"

".... ugh. Fine. White or wheat?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 06:49 AM (+iIV1)

84 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

85 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, Thank you for the well stated reply.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 06:50 AM (0wWvl)

86 AI joke;

It just occurred to me that the opposite of Artificial Intelligence is …

Real Stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 06:50 AM (WeYuK)

87 H7 - you will need to find a program to generate the "hash" of the file you downloaded, and compare it to the one published, usually on the same page as the download.

more detailed explanation?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 06:51 AM (cY18j)

88 @70/Hadrian the Seventh: "... but what baffles me is how to verify Linux after downloading it."

You can verify the original .ISO or .___ file that you downloaded by downloading the sha256sums file, and running this command against it in a terminal (command line):

sha256sum --ignore-missing -c sha256sums

If it says "OK", you're good. If it throws an error about the sum not matching, then you've got an invalid download and should find a valid one.

I've got to get to work, later all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:51 AM (O7YUW)

89 it's your standard "re-arm and recruit, then attack again within 10 years"

Hudna. And it should never be accepted under any circumstances.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 06:52 AM (RjOoY)

90 @85/Ben Had:

Apologies for the swearing, I've been trying hard to do a lot less of that lately, but the whole situation just boils my blood... a lot.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:52 AM (O7YUW)

91 Good morning Ben Had,

I share Grumpy’s ambivalence about the hostage deal. Be great to get the remaining living hostages back but that “purchase” will have a significant cost down the road in blood, pain and treasure.

These feuds will only end when one of the two sides is unable and unwilling to continue. And I fervently hope that side is never Israel.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 14, 2025 06:53 AM (/Elj1)

92
Of course, as an owner of dogs, I have no business talking about tiresome bores.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 06:54 AM (dxSpM)

93 What is this insanity, anyway? These people were all kidnapped over a year ago, during an utterly barbaric and inhuman smash and grab terroristic pogrom... and we're gonna act like we can put on a coat and tie and sit down and negotiate with their torturers? It's beyond farcical. It would be hilarious if it weren't so disgusting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 06:55 AM (+iIV1)

94 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 14, 2025 06:55 AM (6K6Eu)

95 it's your standard "re-arm and recruit, then attack again within 10 years"

Hudna. And it should never be accepted under any circumstances.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 06:52 AM (RjOoY)
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In Hamas' case, it's more like "attack again before the ink is dry on the agreement."

They'll be back to their old tricks before a week has passed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 06:55 AM (BpYfr)

96 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

May your exercise and shared good health have a spiritual revival as well.

For whatever reason, the human species seems to have a spiritual dimension to a good life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

97 The deal is only happening because on January 21, Trump would impose his own conditions and whatever deal they could make or agree to will likely be worse for Hamas, and they know it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW
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Simple question: Who is pressuring Israel to rush into the deal a week before Trump is in the WH? The current DC Regime? Trump? Israel?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 06:57 AM (aSBjH)

98 95 They'll be back to their old tricks before a week has passed.

To borrow from Warhammer 40K: Israel needs to use Exterminatus on Hamas.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 06:57 AM (RjOoY)

99 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Make Gaza self-reliant then. No aid for them. Just water and seeds.

Another alternative is to keep the population moving from one tent city safe zone to another. Destroying all evidence that there was a Gaza infrastructure once they leave.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

100 69 Australia has herds of wild camels? Now there's a trivia bonus I bet no one knew.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2025 06:34 AM (ivLWF)
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I did! I did!

Posted by: Ciampino - It's I Did day! at January 14, 2025 07:01 AM (i0xsb)

101 Joe says Gaza is 'on the brink' of peace. Sure, if they level the place and keep the "Palestinians" out.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

102 NR Pax

Get the wealth of Hamas from Qatar, and the leaders as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

103 fd

Joe continues to be delusional.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

104 According to FBI Director Wray there is absolutely no threat at all to the Inauguration.

Also, we are deploying 7500 National Guard for it, and we are taking unprecedented security measures.

Of course this guy said Antifa doesn't exist so maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted by: blaster at January 14, 2025 07:04 AM (QfvaV)

105 This "deal" leaves Hamas in place, so as stated once again there is a hudna not a new reality. The first hostage release does not stipulate alive and requires a partial withdrawal and then a week before any release.
Ben Gvir and Smotrich are going to walk out of the government if this happens.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:04 AM (0wWvl)

106 you can't just get my physics, you also get the fact that I'm a trans person

Take a STEM major, they said. Guaranteed job for life, and you get to blame all the world's problems on arts majors, they said.

Well, they lied. You're going to have to live in a new world now.
Tried to warn you; you just ranted and raved. And here we are.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)

107 blaster
FBI leadership makes Hamas seem benign.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

108 @41 Depends on the branch of the Lutheran church. Liberal varieties will allow anyone to take communion (like most lib churches of any sort).

The more conservative branches (LCMS, WELS, etc.)
will fence the table to varying degrees. This means discussing communion with the Pastor beforehand.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 07:05 AM (Jfw7U)

109 Someone is messing around and contaminating our food supply. --- Aldi-frozen-chicken-taquitos-recall

https://tinyurl.com/3bh5pwx8

Posted by: Ciampino - Tired of this nonsense at January 14, 2025 07:05 AM (i0xsb)

110 Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 07:05 AM (Jfw7U)

Thanks for the explanation . I was thinking of the more liberal variety of Lutherans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 07:08 AM (kEzD7)

111 {{{Ben Had}}}

The process of evolving Gaza involves repeatedly trimming the population. Because it is not just Hamas, it is every person in Gaza.

Maybe they need COVID-19 vaccines.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

112 The National Archives is looking for people who an read cursive. 50 years ago this wasn't a problem for most people.

https://tinyurl.com/uhfez9hz

Posted by: Ciampino - Wow I'm shocked at January 14, 2025 07:08 AM (i0xsb)

113 Posted by: Ciampino - Wow I'm shocked at January 14, 2025 07:08 AM (i0xsb)

I read that. I found it so interesting. I think I would like to do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 07:10 AM (kEzD7)

114 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be peace and love in your area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

115 Posted by: Ciampino - Wow I'm shocked at January 14, 2025 07:08 AM (i0xsb)

I read that. I found it so interesting. I think I would like to do that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 07:10 AM (kEzD7)

For a second i thought you were replying to the food safety link....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 07:11 AM (+iIV1)

116 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 07:14 AM (cY18j)

117 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 14, 2025 07:14 AM (dg+HA)

118 Biden's Dog , you have a better answer to that question than any of us here.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:14 AM (0wWvl)

119 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 07:17 AM (gbOdA)

120 Biden's Dog , you have a better answer to that question than any of us here.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:14 AM (0wWvl)
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Trump.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:17 AM (aSBjH)

121 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 07:11 AM (+iIV1)

Lol. I don't want to contaminate anyone's food. although I will admit to irritation with some of the people who are sometimes a part of the ASHQ insult factory and mind reading circle. Fortunately, they're not the whole makeup of folks here, nor their entire personalities here and I wish them well.

I just know and like cursive writing and I think that would be a neat thing to translate unless you got the cursive 18th century equivalent of "how to install a widget" ( widgets not being my thing) 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 07:18 AM (qU497)

122 86 AI joke;

It just occurred to me that the opposite of Artificial Intelligence is …

Real Stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 06:50 AM (WeYuK)
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That's a good one but it got me thinking
AI IS REAL STUPID

Right now the answer it gives can never be trusted unless known beforehand.

Posted by: Ciampino - like the dimwit in class at January 14, 2025 07:18 AM (i0xsb)

123 Biden's Dog, Thank you. That is my feeling as well. Vance's statement confirms that.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:19 AM (0wWvl)

124 Posted by: Ciampino - like the dimwit in class at January 14, 2025 07:18 AM (i0xsb)

Yes, it is . I try to avoid AI

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 07:20 AM (qU497)

125
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 14, 2025 07:21 AM (w9Ycv)

126 122
So we have linguistically, the OPPOSITE of AI = real stupid
but logically, or in practice, AI = real stupid.

How can this be; heads will explode; AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Posted by: Ciampino - like the dimwit in class? at January 14, 2025 07:23 AM (i0xsb)

127 Biden's Dog, Thank you. That is my feeling as well. Vance's statement confirms that.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:19 AM (0wWvl)
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Maybe you misread me. Trump is putting pressure on Israel to close a deal.

Listening to Vance, all I hear about is pressure on Hamas. Or am I not listening to the correct interview of Vance?

https://tinyurl.com/mrx8u23k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:29 AM (aSBjH)

128 I happen to mention to my younger one that I hadn't read anything as to how LAX was weathering the fires and she being a digger of facts (I taught her well) came up with this which one or more of you may find useful.
As of the latest information available, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is open and operating normally despite the recent wildfires and associated conditions. There have been no reports of closures due to the fires, although there have been flight delays and cancellations due to various factors including weather conditions. Travelers are advised to check their flight status with their airline for the most current information.

Posted by: Ciampino - Ta very much at January 14, 2025 07:31 AM (i0xsb)

129 >The National Archives is looking for people who an read cursive.

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I use cursive every day
what's the problem

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

130 Biden's Dog, I am agreeing with you as I believe it is Trump. I was talking about Vance's statement included in the Arutz Sheva article this morning and quoted in my comment at #58.

Did I read that wrong?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:35 AM (0wWvl)

131 I don't know why anyone would be surprised by the hostage deal, other than a lot of people somehow convinced themselves that 10//7 fundamentally changed Israeli politics, which no one should have fell for after living through 9/11 here. Israel is every bit as screwed up or more in its domestic politics than we are. So it'll just do this all over again at some point. Same old, same old. It's pathetic, but Israeli's best hope is that the Palestinians do something so offensive that they scotch the deal.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 14, 2025 07:39 AM (nd2ez)

132 Noodity.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 07:39 AM (dg+HA)

133 For a second i thought you were replying to the food safety link....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 14, 2025 07:11 AM (+iIV1)

My house, two weeks ago:
Me: D's sandwich has been out on the counter for a while. I'm not sure he should eat it.

Daughter: (long level stare)

Me: You know how I am about food safety.

Daughter: Yes, I do and thank you for passing that on to the three of us so we can make our own husbands crazy.

Posted by: sal at January 14, 2025 07:40 AM (f+FmA)

134 9 Trying again with a third video of that song. The one Grumpy and Recalcitrant linked isn't available in Australia...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2025 04:14 AM (BLOW1)

Great photos!

Posted by: m at January 14, 2025 08:28 AM (VnUSN)

135 Pixie: Do you have an email account that you allow us to communicate with you thru? I've got a song of like to share with y'all that I produced using Suno. But would like to run it by you and discuss it first. Please let me know. Thanks

Posted by: Jamie Walker at January 14, 2025 09:53 AM (/t1JJ)

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