Daily Tech News 1 April 2025

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OpenAI has raised another $40 billion in funding, valuing the company at $300 billion. (Tech Crunch)

And claims that the service is used by 500 million people each week, which I rather doubt, unless they're counting everyone who uses a service that uses OpenAI in some way.

So I guess we're not going to be rid of them any time soon.

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Micron is planning to increase memory prices, though it's not saying by how much or when. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a cyclical business, and the past couple of cycles killed off most of the major manufacturers, so I'm not going to object to them making money while there is money to be made.
AI copilots are not a silver bullet. (M Lagerberg)

Though AI translation software seems much closer. I didn't realise this post was translated from Dutch until I saw the notice at the bottom.

The revolution vs. evolution bit wasn't anything special, though: The words are almost the same in Dutch and the translator only needed to adjust the spelling.
Intel is planning to spin off its non-core assets. (Thurrott)

Though precisely what those are varies from day to day.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Come for the circus peanuts, stay for the elephants.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:00 AM (ypFCm)

2 BOING!

Busy today.

If you want to realize how awful Netanyahu is, it took him ages to fire Israel's corrupt and progressive chief of the General Security Service (GSS, i.e., Shin-Bet). Yesterday he hired a replacement who was just the same. After enough people went public and screamed about this madness, today Netanyahu dropped the new candidate.

Either Netanyahu has no idea what he's doing, or he's corrupt, or he's compromised. Take your pick!

https://tinyurl.com/bdcvhdmr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 04:00 AM (ky0NK)

3 Tried everything I could think of to get mesh router working. Keeps saying phone can't find a mesh router. Tried reconnecting old router as it worked then but that just got my hash changed again.

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:02 AM (ypFCm)

4 Ricardo Montalban.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:06 AM (bss/y)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 04:07 AM (sAmhv)

6 I'm reasonably sure that any new AI company that is suddenly worth a kings ransom with out producing any profit. I remember the tech boom of the early 2000's when every new company was worth billions and billions. Now most are gone with the wind.

Posted by: Colin at April 01, 2025 04:09 AM (wlQdF)

7 Now most are gone with the wind.
Posted by: Colin

But..!!! This is all new, and computery, and shiny...

Posted by: Bruce at April 01, 2025 04:14 AM (kcNOc)

8 There is another version of that song from the same movie, where the tables are turned and the young lady is trying to get Red Skelton to stay 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2025 04:20 AM (SRRAx)

9 Here ya go:

https://tinyurl.com/RedSkeltonBettyGarrett

It's really cute!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2025 04:24 AM (SRRAx)

10 Skip: I've been following along with the trials and tribulations of you swapping routers and attempting to set up a mesh network in your house with a newly purchased router at the head of it.

If there's a name to the mesh that all the devices recognize, maybe use a new name for the mesh on the new router, so that none of the devices are hanging on to credentials (tokens, etc...) from the old mesh name and attempting to use those to authenticate to the new router?

Just a stab in the dark, but I thought I'd mention it in case it helps.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 01, 2025 04:24 AM (O7YUW)

11 Let's try that again:

https://tinyurl.com/RedSkeltonBettyGarrett2

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2025 04:27 AM (SRRAx)

12 Grumpy that was my thinking to reconnect old router since everything worked fine then. It's connecting to mesh router that's impossible. No mesh router found I get from the app

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:28 AM (ypFCm)

13 I remember the tech boom of the early 2000's when every new company was worth billions and billions. Now most are gone with the wind.

Posted by: Colin at April 01, 2025 04:09 AM (wlQdF)
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https://youtu.be/-6Pbc8SQwV8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 04:43 AM (CL9Gz)

14 Ricardo Montalban.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:06 AM (bss/y)

Ricardo Montalban > Ricky Ricardo > Rick Rolled

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 04:45 AM (CL9Gz)

15 Skip: So with the old router in place as if you'd never purchased the new one:

Did you have a mesh set up? If so, how many nodes did it have in it?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 01, 2025 04:46 AM (O7YUW)

16 7 Now most are gone with the wind.
Posted by: Colin

But..!!! This is all new, and computery, and shiny...
Posted by: Bruce at April 01, 2025 04:14 AM (kcNOc)

I just had a thought: AI is like annoying cocktail people or college discussion retards. Parroting phrases and concepts they heard somewhere else, but not understanding them or how they connect to anything else. But it makes them 'look' smart.

Knowledge is only useful when you 'get' it and see how it connects to everything else. And 'AI', by definition, cannot 'get' it. There is no intelligence in the artificial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:50 AM (bss/y)

17 I remember the whole dot.com explosion and the dot.bomb implosion as claims were being made about the "new economy" and how the old economic rules didn't apply anymore.

Meanwhile, the old economic rules hadn't been suspended, it just took a few months for the old economy to go fetch a decently sized clue-by-four to smash these idjits upside the head with.

The smashing was very satisfying to watch.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 01, 2025 04:51 AM (O7YUW)

18 Only 2 devices, connected old router, did get a log in but still then no mesh router device found.

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:55 AM (ypFCm)

19 I have to hit the road, long commute today.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:56 AM (ypFCm)

20 Knowledge is only useful when you 'get' it and see how it connects to everything else. And 'AI', by definition, cannot 'get' it. There is no intelligence in the artificial.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:50 AM (bss/y)

The moment when you go from feeling a bit outclassed to realizing you're just arguing with Wikipedia....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 04:57 AM (KtIIi)

21 The moment you find out that the "socialist" who really wants to argue with you has never even heard of Engels or the labor theory of value....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 04:59 AM (KtIIi)

22 Either Netanyahu has no idea what he's doing, or he's corrupt, or he's compromised. Take your pick!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 04:00 AM (ky0NK)

All three.

We need Menachem Begin back.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 04:59 AM (oSFyF)

23 What's the Hebrew letter for "W"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:01 AM (KtIIi)

24 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks. Have I mentioned I despise Windows 11 and within that the "co-pilot" function most of all? Was unaware that a machine could be so insufferably condescending.

Anyhow, may all effort from you this day and ALL other days result in maximum benefit to you and maximum heartburn for the leftwit bipedal fungi who infest our environs.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 01, 2025 05:01 AM (hKoQL)

25 Donut shop is on way, see if it's open when I get tjere

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 05:02 AM (ypFCm)

26 What's the Hebrew letter for "W"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:01 AM (KtIIi)

There isn't one.

I guess "vav" is the closest. Ve don't have a "W!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:03 AM (oSFyF)

27 11 Let's try that again:

https://tinyurl.com/RedSkeltonBettyGarrett2
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Yes, that version is great.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 01, 2025 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

28 We need Menachem Begin back.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 04:59 AM (oSFyF)
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Yeh. The guy who returned the entire Sinai to Egypt:

https://tinyurl.com/4u94yyuj

The guy who promised Sadat he would work for autonomy for the "Palestinians" of Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

The guy who didn't have Arafat eliminated on the piers of Beirut when Arafat was in Israel's sites.

Yeh.

No.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:09 AM (CL9Gz)

29 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2025 05:11 AM (Q4IgG)

30 What's the Hebrew letter for "W"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:01 AM (KtIIi)

There isn't one.

I guess "vav" is the closest. Ve don't have a "W!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:03 AM (oSFyF)
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Yes. So "Wisconsin" in Hebrew is pronounced "Visconsin."

Warai-otoko, vhy do you ask?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:12 AM (CL9Gz)

31 Yeh.

No.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:09 AM (CL9Gz)
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In short, the guy who invented the failed strategy known as "Land for Peace."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:14 AM (CL9Gz)

32 Warai-otoko, vhy do you ask?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:12 AM (CL9Gz)

It was just a side comment obliquely connecting Bush and Netanyahu.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:14 AM (KtIIi)

33 It was just a side comment obliquely connecting Bush and Netanyahu.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:14 AM (KtIIi)
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Ah. George Double-voo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:16 AM (CL9Gz)

34 "Micron is planning to increase memory prices, though it's not saying by how much or when."

I thought we just had an announcement a couple of months ago about memory prices imminently going up, but that didn't happen because the market demand simply wasn't there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 01, 2025 05:16 AM (O7YUW)

35 Eternal war, an allergy to victory, hollow patriotism, a willingness to treat enemies as friends and friends as enemies.

It all sounds too familiar.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:17 AM (KtIIi)

36 G-d bless Sen. John F. Kennedy!

https://tinyurl.com/w98ye3a8

When is the administration just going to tell the judges to drop dead?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:19 AM (CL9Gz)

37 Eternal war, an allergy to victory, hollow patriotism, a willingness to treat enemies as friends and friends as enemies.

It all sounds too familiar.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2025 05:17 AM (KtIIi)
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/clicks like button under comment box

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:20 AM (CL9Gz)

38 34 I thought we just had an announcement a couple of months ago about memory prices imminently going up, but that didn't happen because the market demand simply wasn't there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Given how short the list of manufacturers is, it's also possible that they're trying to make this happen rather than responding to demand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 01, 2025 05:21 AM (BLOW1)

39 Yeh.

No.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:09 AM (CL9Gz)

Every PM has made significant mistakes. Who would you suggest? Hell, look what Sharon did!

I think Begin would have cast off whatever accomodationist feelings he had after 10/7/2023.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:21 AM (oSFyF)

40 Given how short the list of manufacturers is, it's also possible that they're trying to make this happen rather than responding to demand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 01, 2025 05:21 AM (BLOW1)

It is amazingly inexpensive now! Even if prices go up 10%, will it matter much?

Of course I paid $250 for 4MB of RAM back in the day....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:24 AM (oSFyF)

41 Good morning from the Carolinas. Until this trans nonsense is settled, Major Pete should assign them all to a super secret psyops unit stationed on some remote island in the Pacific.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 01, 2025 05:24 AM (FIXtj)

42 Who would you suggest?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:21 AM (oSFyF)
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Moshe Feiglin. There is no one else with a complete national purpose and plan. Others just give lips service to this or that part of his policies and outlooks but will never carry them through.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:25 AM (CL9Gz)

43 Good morning, one and all. I am dealing with insomnia and what I suspect is lingering crud from a recent flight to go see my parents.

At this point, I will looking at an IV drip for my caffeine needs.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 01, 2025 05:29 AM (NR6c1)

44 Them's fighting words!

https://tinyurl.com/yz5aut9y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:31 AM (CL9Gz)

45 Moshe Feiglin.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:25 AM (CL9Gz)

That would be nice!

By the way, according to Wiki his father served with the Jewish Settlement Police (the timing seems odd, so it may be wrong). My grandfather served with them!

Annexing Judea and Samaria and making it Israel is a wonderful goal, and one that I support 100%. But how to do it is the sticking point.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:32 AM (oSFyF)

46 IF Israel had reacted to the initial terrorist act decades ago in the appropriate manner, we would not be enacting this sick charade on a DAILY basis. A swift, brutal response that showed exactly what would happen as a result may well have stopped further offenses.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 01, 2025 05:34 AM (hKoQL)

47 You probably already know that people are exploiting disqus spam algorithms to actually censor and ban people they disagree with by falsely reporting all their posts as spam?

The discus admin I spoke with doesn't really seem to care. I've about contacting Discus Corp but they are so damn insulated it's almost insulting.

Posted by: Fen at April 01, 2025 05:39 AM (c5hJL)

48 Knew an iron ore.
She was tough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM
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But you should have smelter.

Ugh.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 05:41 AM (/tzYP)

49 "Tried everything I could think of to get mesh router working. Keeps saying phone can't find a mesh router. "

Damn engineers. It's the 21st century. Why is this still a thing. What have you been doing with yourselves? It's not like this is lost knowledge

Posted by: Fen at April 01, 2025 05:46 AM (c5hJL)

50 44 Them's fighting words!

https://tinyurl.com/yz5aut9y
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

I always make the mistake of reading the replies. The internet was a mistake.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 05:49 AM (sAmhv)

51 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 44 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. A windy day predicted, with lots of rain coming along on Thursday.

A note on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - the song was written by Broadway songwriter Frank (Guys and Dolls, Greenwillow) Loesser as a party piece for him and his wife* to perform. When he sold the song to MGM for 1949s Neptune's Daughter (the source of the clip above), she was furious at him cashing in on "our song," and compared it to finding him in bed with another woman.

*Lynn Garland, known to his friends as "the evil of two Loessers."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 01, 2025 05:50 AM (Q0kLU)

52 And now to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 01, 2025 05:51 AM (Q0kLU)

53 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Mar 31
Israel named Eli Sharvit as the new head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency after political rifts led to the dismissal of his predecessor. - Bloomberg

https://tinyurl.com/apu7x5x3
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 05:52 AM (/tzYP)

54 Everyone say hello to the NEWEST director of the CIA:

https://tinyurl.com/mur4kz32

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:52 AM (CL9Gz)

55 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Mar 31
Israel named Eli Sharvit as the new head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency after political rifts led to the dismissal of his predecessor. - Bloomberg

https://tinyurl.com/apu7x5x3

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 05:52 AM (/tzYP)
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Outdated news. See comment 2.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:53 AM (CL9Gz)

56 If nothing is finding the main mesh router, I'd say it's a bad router. We added them by serial number on the eeros.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 01, 2025 05:55 AM (cvWHI)

57 Last Minute Leak @LastMinuteLeak 14m
BREAKING: GOLD HITS NEW ALL-TIME HIGH AT $3149.
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$3,160.30 on TV right now.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:00 AM (/tzYP)

58 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 2h
"Numerous" homemade explosive devices were discovered by a citizen who was walking near a park outside of Dallas, Texas, according to authorities.

"Bomb technicians worked through the day and into the night to safely render each device inoperative," Garland police said.
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Is there a Tesla dealership in Garland, TX?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:10 AM (/tzYP)

59 Biden's Dog, I have read that Smotrich has been annexing parts of Judea and Samaria. Is this true?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2025 06:11 AM (keLsF)

60 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 2h
Myanmar Junta Chief says death toll from Friday's earthquake at 2,719 with 4,521 injured and 441 missing.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:12 AM (/tzYP)

61 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 3h
BREAKING: At least 112 people injured, including 63 hospitalized, from gas pipeline explosion and fire in Putra Heights, Malaysia; at least 49 homes impacted.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:12 AM (/tzYP)

62 > "Numerous" homemade explosive devices were discovered by a citizen who was walking near a park outside of Dallas, Texas, according to authorities.
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Out = pallets of bricks on the corner
In = numerous homemade explosives in the park

This summer's going to be lit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2025 06:12 AM (Q4IgG)

63 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 01, 2025 06:15 AM (hoCmQ)

64 Currently 35 and clear. High today 65. Then rain for the next 5 days.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 01, 2025 06:18 AM (hoCmQ)

65 @38/Pixy Misa: Given how short the list of manufacturers is, it's also possible that they're trying to make this happen rather than responding to demand.

Oh, absolutely. They're welcome to try but there's always these three things waiting to cudgel some sense into the producers:

1) Anticompetitive legislation.
2) A majority of the market's customers refusing to buy at the higher price.
3) One lone producer breaks with the pack and tries to grab market share through lowering its prices, shattering the agreement.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 01, 2025 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

66
Disclaimer: Come for the circus peanuts, stay for the elephants.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM
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Boiled or roasted?
Unsalted or salted or assaulted (as per meme)?

Posted by: Ciampino - Himalayan salt because Chemistry cares at April 01, 2025 06:23 AM (sPQoU)

67 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: tough crowd.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 01, 2025 06:27 AM (6K6Eu)

68 Triumph of kindness in Christ. A reflection on 1st Peter 3;8-12:

https://tinyurl.com/5fabckvy

Often we posters on ASHQ are quite kind and supportive to fellow conservatives. Sometimes not so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:30 AM (N65PV)

69 42 Who would you suggest?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 05:21 AM (oSFyF)
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Moshe Feiglin. There is no one else with a complete national purpose and plan. Others just give lips service to this or that part of his policies and outlooks but will never carry them through.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:25 AM (CL9Gz)
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Me, a dilettante of the ME: Golda Meir?

Posted by: Ciampino - any good? at April 01, 2025 06:35 AM (sPQoU)

70 Young man gives powerful performance of Gospel song on "American Idol": Don't feel compelled to read the description. If you have an interest just scroll down to the performance, although it may take a while to load- or maybe your phone is quicker:

https://tinyurl.com/pbvhhbmt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:39 AM (N65PV)

71 48 Knew an iron ore.
She was tough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM
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But you should have smelter.

Ugh.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 05:41 AM (/tzYP)
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You shouldn't nickel and dime it.
I steeled myself and labored through.

Posted by: Ciampino - any good for this? at April 01, 2025 06:39 AM (sPQoU)

72 Peeps morning!

Oh wait, that is a little ways off.

Posted by: somejoe at April 01, 2025 06:41 AM (RCAte)

73 I steeled myself and labored through.
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So you finally founder. Well done.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:42 AM (/tzYP)

74 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 01, 2025 06:46 AM (dg+HA)

75 56
If nothing is finding the main mesh router, I'd say it's a bad router. We added them by serial number on the eeros.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 01, 2025 05:55 AM (cvWHI)
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My suggestion too. Get it replaced.

Posted by: Ciampino - Best advice at April 01, 2025 06:46 AM (sPQoU)

76 Either Netanyahu has no idea what he's doing, or he's corrupt, or he's compromised. Take your pick!

https://tinyurl.com/bdcvhdmr
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 04:00 AM (ky0NK)

I have tried hard not to be critical of Netanyahu, but this was a really stupid own goal on his part. How can he not have figured out who his enemies are by this point?

The war against Hezbollah was done well; but the war against Hamas has been shot through with incredible strategic mistakes combined with wishful thinking from the start.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2025 06:46 AM (jDZeQ)

77 "Come for the circus peanuts, stay for the elephants.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM
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Boiled or roasted?
Unsalted or salted or assaulted (as per meme)?
Posted by: Ciampino

I prefer my elephants roasted.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

78 It was a lovely day off for the Fenelon family yesterday. We went to a beautiful shrine of "Our Lady of Częstochowa" in the historic community of Doylestown, PA. I love stained glass windows and they have beautiful ones and a huge statue of a smiling Pope John Paul 2 outside the building The original icon of Mary and Jesus in Poland has s long, long history and is very important to the Polish people. Anyway, I feel good in seeing people pray and Protestant though I am in a RC church I prayed as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:50 AM (42Vb+)

79 As someone who use ai on an hourly basis, it’s become an indispensable tool for my workflow.

And now that I’ve decided to build my own ERP PM tool, it’s going to help me accomplish in a couple of months what would have taken a team of developers years to accomplish.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 01, 2025 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

80 I prefer my elephants roasted.
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How many can you get into an air fryer?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 01, 2025 06:50 AM (6K6Eu)

81 Hoe enough for ya??

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 2h
#NEW: A source close to Hezbollah tells @AFP that last night’s IDF strike on a key terror hub in Beirut eliminated Hassan Badir, a top aide to the group’s “Palestinian file chief” and brother of its propaganda chief.

The IDF said the strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who was directing Hamas operatives and helping plan an imminent attack on Israeli civilians.

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 1h
Overnight, with the direction of the ISA, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Hassan Ali Mahmoud Bdeir, a terrorist in Hezbollah's Unit 3900 and the Iranian Quds Force, in the Dahieh area, a key stronghold of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

Bdeir recently operated in cooperation with the Hamas terrorist organization, directed Hamas terrorists, and assisted them in planning and advancing a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians.

Given the immediacy of the threat, Bdeir was struck immediately in order to eliminate the threat posed by a terror attack intended to harm Israeli civilians.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:51 AM (/tzYP)

82 "Thousands of federal employees who were forced to return to their offices in recent weeks have made some disgusting discoveries - including a lack of toilet paper and rodents."

Fake news. There is no lack of rodents in DC.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

83 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

84 #81 Hot enough for ya??

Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:53 AM (/tzYP)

85 80 I prefer my elephants roasted.
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How many can you get into an air fryer?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 01, 2025 06:50 AM (6K6Eu)
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Industrial air fryer? Probably a leg at the time. I'm not sure about the butt.

Posted by: Ciampino - Open hearth roasting while you smelt the iron ore at April 01, 2025 06:53 AM (sPQoU)

86 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 01, 2025 06:54 AM (/Ghsb)

87 Musical version of hymn, "What a friend we have in Jesus" Scroll down for the performance:

https://tinyurl.com/3njek7dp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:54 AM (42Vb+)

88 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

As long as we are advising people:

CENTCOM

Arrange to have six separate groups of B-52s loaded with gravity bombs.

Stage them over the capital city of North Yemen.

Create 6 different bomb lanes. But have the lines in two triangles, so we put the Star of David in bomb damage over the city.

Please?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

89 Wonderful musical interlude today, courtesy of a Hollywood that once-upon-a-time could entertain.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 01, 2025 06:55 AM (AU1fa)

90 Intel's non-core assets might end up being a pretty substantial part of the present portfolio of assets

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 01, 2025 06:56 AM (AU1fa)

91 Arrange to have six separate groups of B-52s loaded with gravity bombs.
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Kill-o-Newtons??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:57 AM (/tzYP)

92 81
Why all the details and why and wherefores? Just say an IDF strike killed so-and-so and be done with it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Open hearth butt roasting while you smelt the iron ore at April 01, 2025 06:58 AM (sPQoU)

93 andycanuck

The technical term is Mark 82s and other smaller bombs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

94 Dog in an animal shelter wouldn't let go of a journalist. So journalist adopted him:

https://tinyurl.com/39p7ywkr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:58 AM (42Vb+)

95 "Industrial air fryer? Probably a leg at the time. I'm not sure about the butt.
Posted by: Ciampino "

The manner in which this is done is as follows:—A party, provided with sharp-pointed sticks, dig a hole in the ground for each foot and a portion of the trunk. These holes are about two feet deep and a yard in width; the excavated earth is embanked around the margin of the holes. This work being completed, they next collect an immense quantity of dry branches and trunks of trees, of which there is always a profusion scattered around, having been broken by the elephants in former years. (Cont)

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

96 These they pile above the holes to the height of eight or nine feet, and then set fire to the heap. When these strong fires have burnt down, and the whole of the wood is reduced to ashes, the holes and the surrounding earth are heated to a high degree. Ten or twelve men then stand round the pit and take out the ashes with a pole about sixteen feet in length, having a hook at the end. They relieve one another in quick succession, each man running in and raking the ashes for a few seconds, and then pitching the pole to his comrade, and retreating, since the heat is so intense that it is scarcely to be endured

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

97 "AI is so incredibly cool and hip and for many people the only intelligence they know"

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Niiice
Interesting article, well-written

Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at April 01, 2025 06:59 AM (GhIJO)

98 When all the ashes are thus raked out beyond the surrounding bank of earth, each elephant’s foot and portion of the trunk is lifted by two athletic men, standing side by side, who place it on their shoulders, and, approaching the pit together, they heave it into it. The long pole is now again resumed, and with it they shove in the heated bank of earth upon the foot, shoving and raking until it is completely buried in the earth. The hot embers, of which there is always a great supply, are then raked into a heap above the foot, and another bonfire is kindled over each, which is allowed to burn down and die a natural death; by which time the enormous foot or trunk will be found to be equally baked throughout its inmost parts.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

99 When the foot is supposed to be ready, it is taken out of the ground with pointed sticks, and is first well beaten, and then scraped with an assagai, whereby adhering particles of sand are got rid of. The outside is then pared off, and it is transfixed with a sharp stake for facility of carriage. The feet thus cooked are excellent, as is also the trunk, which very much resembles buffalo’s tongue.’

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

100 The technical term is Mark 82s and other smaller bombs.
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Apple-busters??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:00 AM (/tzYP)

101 It's kind of an elaborate process so I don't do it very often.

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

102 When all the ashes are thus raked out beyond the surrounding bank of earth, each elephant’s foot and portion of the trunk is lifted by two athletic men, standing side by side, who place it on their shoulders, and, approaching the pit together, ...
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Real ash-holes.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:01 AM (/tzYP)

103 2 dogs and 1 cat were together on the street and find a home together;

https://tinyurl.com/ys5ya5fa

Sunny Skyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 07:02 AM (JMu4f)

104 andycanuck

DOD has a place in Marketing just for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

105

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 01, 2025 07:02 AM (EFZgU)

106 Dog in an animal shelter wouldn't let go of a journalist. So journalist adopted him:

https://tinyurl.com/39p7ywkr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 06:58 AM (42Vb+)
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Love that one!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 01, 2025 07:02 AM (AU1fa)

107 Hillary Clinton
Running for Haiti's warlord? Again?

Must be nice to be so corrupt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

108 > "Thousands of federal employees who were forced to return to their offices in recent weeks have made some disgusting discoveries - including a lack of toilet paper and rodents."
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When the covid op started to ramp up in late 2019 - early 2020 and I was still coming into the office I noticed that the rolls of toilet paper that usually were in or on cabinets in the restrooms were all gone.

Then realized there was also none in the stores either.

About that time my wife started to horde TP.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2025 07:03 AM (Q4IgG)

109 Martini Farmer

We have enough TP for several lockdowns. Or trade goods in the burning Tesla times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

110 Evening and morning, late toilers, early risers, and slug-a-beds! Here I am, first day of retirement, having slept two hours later than usual (after going to bed two hours later as well). I'm dressed in my house clothes, having a pipe and coffee, and thinking about breakfast.

No, it hasn't sunk in yet that I am no longer employed and don't have to worry about getting re-employed. At the moment it merely feels like a day off in the work week. The true realization will take a little while to happen, I suspect.

Anyway: Whass happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 01, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

111 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Congratulations on the first day of your new adventure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

112 Congratulations Wolfus!

Maybe break out the atlas and look for a less swampy place to hole up?

Posted by: fluffy at April 01, 2025 07:07 AM (AN2gy)

113 Biden's Dog, I have read that Smotrich has been annexing parts of Judea and Samaria. Is this true?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2025 06:11 AM (keLsF)
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No. Needs a Knesset vote. Not in the works AFAIK.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:07 AM (CL9Gz)

114 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I am still operational after I retired some 20 years ago. I relax by driving a school bus. I ask the younger kids if those are happy cows or not, and regale them with stories of chickens, the most common animal on the planet.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

115 I saw gold over $3,100 / oz. yesterday morning. The story is that 20% tariffs on everyone roiled the international markets.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 01, 2025 07:09 AM (ZmEVT)

116 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Been thinking about offering my services to the local homeschool network.

I can give talks on a number of topics, from the Constitution, to science, to chickens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

117 99
Assegai so probably Zulus.

Posted by: Ciampino - Open heart butt kicking? at April 01, 2025 07:11 AM (sPQoU)

118 $3,161.00 right now

And even even on the cents!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:11 AM (/tzYP)

119 I have tried hard not to be critical of Netanyahu, but this was a really stupid own goal on his part. How can he not have figured out who his enemies are by this point?

The war against Hezbollah was done well; but the war against Hamas has been shot through with incredible strategic mistakes combined with wishful thinking from the start.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2025 06:46 AM (jDZeQ)
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You had 30 years to smell the Netanyahu coffee.

Nothing was well done, not against Hamas and not against Hizballah - although relatively that was somewhat better.

Keep in mind that as much as the GOI, IDF and GSS are to blame for their failures, the DC Regime endlessly threatened Netanyahu and the Regime's lackeys emplaced within the judicial, military and security services ensured Israel's failures even further.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:12 AM (CL9Gz)

120 Everyone say hello to the NEWEST director of the CIA:

https://tinyurl.com/mur4kz32
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 05:52 AM (CL9Gz)
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Yet another Bush appointee, and John Roberts buddy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 01, 2025 07:12 AM (Ykvda)

121 Ciampino

Biden and the Deep State, starting with Obama, are the assegai thrust into the body of the US of A.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

122 Congratulations Wolfus!

Maybe break out the atlas and look for a less swampy place to hole up?
Posted by: fluffy at April 01, 2025

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Oh, Fluffy, I've been examining my atlases for *years*. My plan later this month is to run up to Indiana and Kentucky and have a look around, talk to some actual people, see what the road surfaces are like to drive on. That's very important to me.

In the meantime: a conference with Notsothoreau's financial advisor this am; bringing an iMac I've had for years to a recommended shop to see why it does not recognize the keyboard and mouse that belong with it. Car maintenance tomorrow. Then, Thursday, Miss Linda and I are road-tripping along Hwy. 90 to the town of Franklin, which has an Historic District to explore. I *will* stay busy, believe me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 01, 2025 07:13 AM (omVj0)

123 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)
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Saw yesterday. Waiting for the head of the snake to be cut off - and it's not in Houtiland!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:13 AM (CL9Gz)

124 Biden and the Deep State, starting with Obama, are the assegai thrust into the body of the US of A.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)
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Soros. Gates. WEF. There are more. Follow the money.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:14 AM (CL9Gz)

125 iden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

We have 25% of our entire B-2 fleet in Diego Garcia. We have a limited number of MOABs, but the B-2 can deliver them.

What to do? What to do?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

126 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Plenty of minions of evil want to rule an ant-hill, and forget about a broad-based civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

127 What to do? What to do?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)
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Pray that one part of the barbarian Islamic world is destroyed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:17 AM (CL9Gz)

128 Work preps start now.

Have a wonderful day, everyone. May it be full of pleasant surprises and zephyrs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

129 >>> My plan later this month is to run up to Indiana and Kentucky and have a look around

When I was at Ft Campbell I liked Hopkinsville, KY and that general vicinity.

Posted by: fluffy at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (AN2gy)

130 I am still operational after I retired some 20 years ago. I relax by driving a school bus. I ask the younger kids if those are happy cows or not, and regale them with stories of chickens, the most common animal on the planet.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025

***
Eventually I will not be against the idea of part-time employment. As for now, I plan to see if I can do some online editing work (so *many* Amazon authors desperately need editors!), and more writing of my own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (omVj0)

131 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
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Need I say that great morons think alike.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (CL9Gz)

132 Elon Musk really did screw up with this Ashley St. Clair woman.

Dates her for a few months, and she gets pregnant.

Elon visits with her and the child a few times after he was born, but for whatever reason Elon and Ashley aren’t working out.

So Elon gives her $2.5 million in cash, and $500,000 a year as long as she keeps her mouth shut and doesn’t make it a spectacle.

Apparently that’s not enough for Ashely in “child support.”

She is a conservative influencer who has written a book or two, so she has some cash flow on her own. St. Clair lives in a doorman apartment building in Manhattan.

But because Elon is mad at her for the way she went about announcing to the world he’s the father of her second child, he cuts the money in half.

So this woman, obviously, calls up the Daily Mail, to let them know she was going to be at Carvana at a certain time to sell her $100k Tesla Model S, that I guarantee you cost her nothing, because “she can’t afford to keep it after Elon cut her child support in half.”

Elon should have seen this coming from a mile away.
I hope it was worth it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

133 "Assegai so probably Zulus.
Posted by: Ciampino"

I looked up "Assegai" and it's also the name of a mountain bike tire, which I am coincidentally in the market for.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

134 Elon should have seen this coming from a mile away.
I hope it was worth it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 01, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)
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Life's lessons. Musk will hand this off to a lawyer and move along. This is not the war against Tesla.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:22 AM (CL9Gz)

135 TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog Mar 31
Significant movement from Osan AB, South Korea to Isa AB, Bahrain is underway.

At least 13 US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III's have arrived at Osan in the last 3 days. Four have left Osan and arrived at Isa AB. Mission coding is sequential suggesting that these flights are linked. It is unknown what is being transferred from Osan to Isa.

TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog 8h
One flight today made it into Isa AB, Bahrain (OBBS):
AE2FA4 as RCH331

This flight, AE2FA7 as RCH179, was to go to OBBS as well, however it turned around abruptly over Poland.

Several more C-17s are en route to OBBS at this hour.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:23 AM (/tzYP)

136 The roads here in SC vary from county to county. Some counties are more prosperous than others.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 01, 2025 07:23 AM (ZmEVT)

137 Elon has more conquests than Wilt Chamberland, fortunately, being the richest man in the world means you can indulge your peccadilloes without a care.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 01, 2025 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)

138 #132 Breaking911 @Breaking911 15h
WATCH: Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St. Clair sells her $100k Tesla, & conveniently, the paparazzi are there to cover it.

"I need to make up for the 60% cut that Elon made to our son's child support."

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:25 AM (/tzYP)

139 Iran issues nuclear retaliation threat:

https://tinyurl.com/3bh8czhz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:26 AM (CL9Gz)

140 3 AM wakeup pee finally hitting me.

See y'all later this morning.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 07:27 AM (/tzYP)

141 Posted by: andycanuck

BEADWINDOW

I say again:

BEADWINDOW

Posted by: one hour sober at April 01, 2025 07:27 AM (Y1sOo)

142 Life's lessons. Musk will hand this off to a lawyer and move along. This is not the war against Tesla.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 07:22 AM (CL9Gz)

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Yeah, in the grand scheme of things it’s no big deal.

Elon seems to be a genius at everything but picking women.

I get it, of course.

He should’ve stayed with Grimes, who as far as I can tell, never badmouthed him or went public with her gripes about him.

And, I also like a few of her songs, which helps my opinion of her greatly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 01, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

143
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

144 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

145 136 The roads here in SC vary from county to county. Some counties are more prosperous than others.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 01, 2025 07:23 AM (ZmEVT)

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Yup, you can go from potholes in the cities and suburbs to sunburned, hasn’t been repaved in two decades so it’s almost back to gravel, out in the sticks.

They do repair and repave I-26 & I-95 every now and then, though. Gotta keep the New Yorkers driving to Florida happy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 01, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

146 I think Perplexity.ai uses chatGPT, so it's entirely possible that 500,000,000 people use it a week. That thing is great for things like, "What is the name of the movie that guy from Dirty Dancing was in with Goldie Hawn and a bunch of kids?"

I use it 10 times a week for questions like that.

Posted by: Kevin at April 01, 2025 07:55 AM (6oHLy)

147 w00t late

Posted by: m at April 01, 2025 08:02 AM (CQE5S)

148 "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

They're all so darling and perfect!

Posted by: m at April 01, 2025 08:10 AM (CQE5S)

149 73 I steeled myself and labored through.
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So you finally founder. Well done.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 01, 2025 06:42 AM (/tzYP)

; )

Posted by: m at April 01, 2025 08:37 AM (CQE5S)

150 150

Posted by: m at April 01, 2025 09:09 AM (CQE5S)

151 Microsoft uses AI to find flaws in GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox bootloaders

Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders.

GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot loader for most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, while U-Boot and Barebox are commonly used in embedded and IoT devices.

Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in filesystem parsers, command flaws, and a side-channel in cryptographic comparison.

Additionally, 9 buffer overflows in parsing SquashFS, EXT4, CramFS, JFFS2, and symlinks were discovered in U-Boot and Barebox, which require physical access to exploit.

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