Daily Tech News 24 April 2025

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TSMC's N3P process is now in full production and N3X is set to follow later this year. (Tom's Hardware)

N3P is a slight shrink of N3E which in turn is a small update to N3. We're only talking about 5% improvements each time, but if you design a chip for N3E you can produced in on N3P and get free performance and power improvements.
A little further out, TSMC plans to introduce 14A - 1.4nm - production in 2028 and add backside power delivery in 2029. (Tom's Hardware)

Many people would benefit from a little backside power delivery.
Russia is on track to introduce 28nm chips by 2030. (Tom's Hardware)

28nm is actually a very reliable node and a good choice if you're not trying to win Apple as a customer. Embedded chips are commonly still produced at 40nm.

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Motorola tried to make Perplexity its default AI assistant and Google said no. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

Google was just enforcing the terms of its contract with Android phone makers. But with the recent antitrust decisions on Google's search and advertising divisions, they may no longer be allowed to enforce those terms.
The EU is fining Apple and Facebook a combined $800 million for not respecting European values. (Hot Hardware)

Which either means they didn't disappear for an entire month in August, or didn't invade Belgium without leaving a tip.

One of those.
Cluely is an AI app designed to let you cheat on anything. It's so bad it's actually easier to just tell the truth. (The Verge) (archive site)

Its terms of service also forbid you from using it for its advertised purpose, which is... Suspect. They might be high on their own supply over there.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No pets in the pool!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 time

Posted by: Ciampino - we dreaded those shots at April 24, 2025 04:30 AM (sPQoU)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at April 24, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

3 Mornin' Pixy, Ciampino, m, and the rest of the Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2025 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

4 I noooooooooded

Posted by: Ciampino - we dreaded those shots! at April 24, 2025 04:31 AM (sPQoU)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 04:32 AM (ypFCm)

6 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 04:33 AM (a1415)

7 Present and accounted for. Well, sort of...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 04:34 AM (mH6SG)

8 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 24, 2025 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

9 Watching the Chinese launch.
Weird. The whole rocket is inside that gantry. The whole thing was moved to a new spot at this late stage!! Now it's open and we finally see the rocket.

https://www.youtube.com/live/VrRtxYadXms

Posted by: Ciampino - Oriental logic at April 24, 2025 04:36 AM (sPQoU)

10 Present and accounted for. Well, sort of...
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 04:34 AM (mH6SG)

In my case, neither.

Posted by: RickZ at April 24, 2025 04:36 AM (gKDq2)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

12 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Wife has doctor appt out of town. That means it take-the-new-puppeh-to-work day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 24, 2025 04:38 AM (hoCmQ)

13 it=it's

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 24, 2025 04:39 AM (hoCmQ)

14 It's tech, in that it uses 12 volts and is used to find vacuum leaks on engines.

So I just received a smoke machine, designed to pump smoke into your cars induction air and vacuum hose system in order to locate minute air leaks, which can cause problems.

Let me tell you, that thing works!

After only about three minutes I was able to locate a minute gap in the intake air filter lid, allowing a small amount of unfiltered air into the intake. Other than that...the entire system is absolutely air tight.

It's also tech related as it uses an attached, and fixed set point 1/2 psi air reducer to provide only very low pressure air so as to not damage any delicate evap components.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 04:39 AM (a1415)

15 backside power delivery.
.......................
What is it, though I can probably guess.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

16 Roger Miller, King of the Road reminds me of when I was a wee lad. My Pop loved that song and used to play it on the "hi-fi" every now and then. Yikes, I ain't gettin' any younger.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 04:41 AM (mH6SG)

17 "backside power delivery.
.......................
What is it, though I can probably guess."

Does this involve a 'Personal Massage unit' and jumper cables?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 04:41 AM (a1415)

18 Thanks, Pixy. Hope you are well.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 04:42 AM (mH6SG)

19 I don't know how JJ does it, not finding much news out there this morning

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 04:43 AM (ypFCm)

20 What is it, though I can probably guess."

Does this involve a 'Personal Massage unit' and jumper cables?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
.................................
A night with Klaus Schwab.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 04:44 AM (sAmhv)

21 Notorious BFD yeah my dad had that on his play list, might still today. Not sure he plays music or not.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 04:45 AM (ypFCm)

22 At what point does miniaturization of the chips reach a point where random computational errors start showing up two years post-production when the chips are in widescale use in thousands of different end-products?

Because that'll be "fun".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2025 04:46 AM (O7YUW)

23 Definitely a movie plot -- An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses and fraudulently obtaining death certificates, according to court documents.

https://tinyurl.com/yt3amp4j

Posted by: Ciampino - Macabre at April 24, 2025 04:47 AM (sPQoU)

24 "I don't know how JJ does it, not finding much news out there this morning"

Well, there is this little update on that 'Maryland Man'...

https://tinyurl.com/mnbkk669

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 04:49 AM (a1415)

25 Don't read this and then complain: -- Another wonderful fellow here: Illegal migrant arrested for ....

https://mol.im/a/14640617

Posted by: Ciampino - Macabre definitrly at April 24, 2025 04:50 AM (sPQoU)

26 Child sex slave uber driver is not what I expected to see when I logged in this morning.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie's Pope interview - What is a woman, and how old is the Earth? at April 24, 2025 04:51 AM (6GvqP)

27 Boy, 13, suspended by school over his Dr. Pepper 'artwork'

https://mol.im/a/14639489

Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of schools at April 24, 2025 04:53 AM (sPQoU)

28 22 At what point does miniaturization of the chips reach a point where random computational errors start showing up two years post-production when the chips are in widescale use in thousands of different end-products?

Because that'll be "fun".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

If you own a recent Intel CPU, the answer is about three years ago.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 24, 2025 04:54 AM (BLOW1)

29 Ciampino, no don't get it
LoL

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 04:57 AM (ypFCm)

30 23 Definitely a movie plot -- An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

https://tinyurl.com/yt3amp4j
Posted by: Ciampino
...............................
Love is Love.

Maybe he was reenacting 'Re-Animator'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 04:57 AM (sAmhv)

31 Definitely a movie plot -- An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

https://tinyurl.com/yt3amp4j
Posted by: Ciampino

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My favorite part of that article is how it sums up modern journalism so well.

"Hey, here's a news report about a person experimenting with dead people" and there's just a photo of a police SUV slapped in there for no reason.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie's Pope interview - What is a woman, and how old is the Earth? at April 24, 2025 05:02 AM (6GvqP)

32 12 minutes to launch

Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of schools at April 24, 2025 05:06 AM (sPQoU)

33 The new Logitech mechanical keyboard is really nice! Feels like I am actually typing on something solid. And since I type on a typewriter every day, I can't stand the typical computer keyboard.

It's full sized and has Pixy's favorite four keys. The keys are labeled with some techno font, so took a few minutes to figure out if yhe keys were in the same spots. I like it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:06 AM (cvWHI)

34 @33/Notsothoreau: What model # is that keyboard? I think I want to look that up...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2025 05:11 AM (O7YUW)

35 Certainly have had a great week in Spring weather

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 05:12 AM (ypFCm)

36 So a nes story without what the story is about.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 05:14 AM (ypFCm)

37 14 It's tech, in that it uses 12 volts and is used to find vacuum leaks on engines.

So I just received a smoke machine, designed to pump smoke into your cars induction air and vacuum hose system in order to locate minute air leaks, which can cause problems.

Let me tell you, that thing works!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 04:39 AM (a1415)

Yay!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2025 05:14 AM (CQE5S)

38 G'mornin folks.
Apparently, t-storm on the way.
Saw no lightning yet.
What a cra-cra world. smh
Guess I better attend to my readings for tday before I become aware of the latest ,"wrongs".
There sure is a bunch of that stuff going on.
But, God is Great!
Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Posted by: OkJohn at April 24, 2025 05:16 AM (NC/it)

39 30 23 Definitely a movie plot -- An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

https://tinyurl.com/yt3amp4j
Posted by: Ciampino
...............................
Love is Love.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 04:57 AM (sAmhv)

!!!

Posted by: m at April 24, 2025 05:17 AM (CQE5S)

40 Okay, less than 60 seconds to go till launch. Watching.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2025 05:17 AM (O7YUW)

41 33 took a few minutes to figure out if yhe keys were in the same spots
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:06 AM (cvWHI)

Looks like maybe the "y" key and the "t" key got switched?

Posted by: m at April 24, 2025 05:19 AM (CQE5S)

42 Logitech K845

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:19 AM (cvWHI)

43 No, much stranger. I was trying to see if the & key was in the same spot. It's a gaming keyboard, TTC style.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:22 AM (cvWHI)

44 @Notsothoreau: Nice looking keyboard. Thanks for the model number.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 24, 2025 05:24 AM (O7YUW)

45 We had thunderstorms and rain last night. Supposed to get close to two inches of rain today. I am hoping we don't get a lot of wind too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:25 AM (cvWHI)

46 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 24, 2025 05:25 AM (dg+HA)

47 It really is great to type on! I wish it was a bit smaller. It is a wired keyboard.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2025 05:27 AM (cvWHI)

48 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

49 46 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering
.............................................
An Austin mortuary employee 'experimented' with it. Keep Austin weird and all that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 05:32 AM (sAmhv)

50 Hitting the road, wifi today so will be around

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 05:34 AM (ypFCm)

51 The 'jump to bottom of page link doesn't jump to the bottom of page. It goes to another page, full of ads

FYI

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 05:34 AM (sAmhv)

52 'Jump to bottom of comments' I mean.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

53 'Jump to bottom' works fine here. Bottom is tickled pink.

Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of school rules at April 24, 2025 05:38 AM (sPQoU)

54 Nap time for everybody!

Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of school rules at April 24, 2025 05:46 AM (sPQoU)

55 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 24, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

56 Small tip for your new smoke machine:

Get a nice rubbermaid container or whatever that seals up to store the thing and all its gubbins.

Those things get stinky after you've used them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 24, 2025 05:46 AM (kBh81)

57 An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

Back in a bit. Going to update my will to make sure my body is burned to ashes immediately upon my death.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025 05:49 AM (lXoJ5)

58 57 An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

Back in a bit. Going to update my will to make sure my body is burned to ashes immediately upon my death.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025 05:49 AM (lXoJ5)

Not willing to bet you'd be in the "control group", huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 24, 2025 05:49 AM (kBh81)

59 "Your girlfriend's ugly!"

"Hey, man, don't speak ill of the dead like that. That's rude."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 24, 2025 05:51 AM (kBh81)

60 Not willing to bet you'd be in the "control group", huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Heck no. I'm also looking at removing my name from the organ donor registry after a few horror stories made the news.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025 05:54 AM (lXoJ5)

61 Testing

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 05:54 AM (lJ0H4)

62 Strange. I posted "Good morning" several times but they never appeared and I'm getting a bunch of ads when I try to jump to the bottom.

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 05:58 AM (lJ0H4)

63 Don't jump straight to the bottom.
Take your time.

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at April 24, 2025 06:00 AM (dg+HA)

64 "Let my people go". Rabbi's daughter from the "International Fellowship of Christians and Jews" reflects on going and growing in faith:

tinyurl.com/3fsk6ezm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 06:02 AM (pphdb)

65 Family sings acapella version of an old time hymn, "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus". If you chose to listen you can skip the commentary and go right down to the hymn:

https://tinyurl.com/4uswr9x9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 06:09 AM (pphdb)

66 Evening and morning, fellow insomaniacals! I well remember "King of the Road" on the local top 40 station in 1964. For Christmas '63 I'd received my first transistor radio, and was listening before falling asleep one night in early '64 when a new group called "The Beetles" (or so I thought it was spelled) sang "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Miller's "Dang Me" and "King of the Road" came along a little later that year, along with Terry Stafford sounding like Elvis with "Suspicion" and Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me."

The six-to-midnight DJ would take dedications. Mostly his callers seemed to be teenage girls from local high schools -- as you might expect.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

67 "Your girlfriend's ugly!"

"Hey, man, don't speak ill of the dead like that. That's rude."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 24, 2025

***
"I saw yo' wife the other day, and man, she is UG-LEE!"

"Yeah, she's ugly, but she sure can cook, baby!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

68 And the poignant story behind the hymn, "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/3eebhrmf

Very often, hymns do not come out of times when things are "Sunny and bright" but when people have been dealing with losses and tragedy and need their faith to sustain them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 06:23 AM (vs63F)

69 "For Christmas '63 I'd received my first transistor radio, and was listening before falling asleep one night in early '64 when a new group called "The Beetles" (or so I thought it was spelled) sang "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "

I still remember my first transistor radio. It was red and soft leather case. I also remember how quickly the batteries died.

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 06:24 AM (lJ0H4)

70
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 06:25 AM (QnmlO)

71
The EU is fining Apple and Facebook a combined $800 million for not respecting European values.

Bathing too often, good dentistry, not smoking.

Really, the EU never innovates, it's a parasite on the successful elsewhere. I saw something where if you compare the market caps of US and EU startups over the last 50 years, the total of the EU is on par with that of Home Depot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 06:33 AM (QnmlO)

72 The EU is fining Apple and Facebook a combined $800 million for not respecting European values.

It's just another form of tariff. The EU will pass a regulation which only affects US companies and then fines them some ridiculous amount to drop in their slush fund. But, because they call it a fine and not a tariff, the idiots who get all their information from paid shills on X (or Bluesky now, I suppose) will hoot and slap their chests about how wonderful the EU is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

73
Back in a bit. Going to update my will to make sure my body is burned to ashes immediately upon my death.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Not joking, you probably should. Everyone should. Setting aside the "lets sew dead people's ears onto mushrooms" abominations, people should be paid for the things that we're giving the medical industry to turn around and charge us for.

Think about that blood people donate left and right. It's $1200+ per unit when they get to the hospital.

That $70K eyeball is nothing but profit when someone who is still living in the 70s or 80s falls prey to the continuous advertising campaigns.

Let them start paying for it. Once it become a precious commodity again there will be some responsibility in how it's handled, and the Fauci style horror shows will end.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Were you taught the absurd lie that new animals lived on the Galapagos Islands? at April 24, 2025 06:39 AM (SsQQd)

74 Saying "Your girlfriend is ugly" is silly talk that is not so bad as the saying sometimes have here: Just put a bag over her head"
( when having sex) because Why would someone want to have sex with someone whom you needed to put a bag over their head? They couldn't find "two breasts and a hole" over someone more attractive? Sorry; I'm a little tired and crabby today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 06:40 AM (cWGcu)

75 Re: bags, men don't have choices with sex. Women have control over that. Men only have opportunity, and rarely refuse it.

Same as women looking for marriage/relationships, and that's the aspect men have control over. Women choose the opportunity, and often refuse it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Were you taught the absurd lie that new animals lived on the Galapagos Islands? at April 24, 2025 06:43 AM (SsQQd)

76 Fine. I'll put the bag on MY head.

Posted by: Some desperate guy at April 24, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

77 #22

They reached that point a long, long time ago. They just learned to incorporate a lot more error correction checks in the hardware and design for it. This is why you see stories about a company like Intel or TSMC touting its first working samples of a new process node years before any products using it appear on the market. It takes a long time to work out the details of how to work with it. But since we're now commonly putting chips with tens of billions of transistors into consumer products like high end gaming GPUs, the silicon real estate for all that error correction isn't a severe penalty.

It's part of the reason why die shrinks are no longer the slam dunk solution to major price cuts in things like game consoles. The last time that worked was for the PS4 Slim and Xbox One S. After that, every major process node advance worked differently from its predecessor, so that porting an existing design was not a trivial task. It was enough of a hassle that you might as well use a newer chip design created with the new node as its target. No 5NM for Ryzen 2 or RDNA 2 This is why the MSRP on the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles hasn't improved much in the five years since launch.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 24, 2025 06:49 AM (/0z9K)

78 Never donate your organs.

They will kill you for fun and profit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 24, 2025 06:50 AM (ZmEVT)

79 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 06:52 AM (/Ghsb)

80 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

81 no one of any consequence

I found out I could not donate my wife's corneas. The FDA has not relaxed the Mad Cow Prion restriction from the 1980s. My two Med deployments still make me ineligible to donate blood or corneas.

Sheesh. It's 2025, not 1980. How long do Mad Cow prions last?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

82 78, yup, saw that coming a long way off, never did sign up, and sure as hell not gonna.
I expect that's gonna be the up-and-coming thing when the demonrats next get into power ... the 2024 state income tax forms had an elaborate signup form on page 5.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 06:56 AM (/Ghsb)

83 FenelonSpoke

True beauty is within. Some men are too shallow.

Hope you and yours are well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

84 Luke 24:36b-37 Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.

Off to workie !!

Posted by: OkJohn at April 24, 2025 06:59 AM (NC/it)

85

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 24, 2025 06:59 AM (5hfjS)

86 Monty Python had that routine where an organ donor was asked for his liver. But he was still using it. Alas for him.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

87 Hillary Clinton

Speaking of ugly to the bone: Good morning. Have all your mirrors cracked yet?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

88 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks, dear. Some women are too shallow as well.

I'm just tired, but we're o.k. Did you find your marriage license? Sorry that you have to work out details about her funeral arrangements; One of those very difficult things spouses have to do. Am praying for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:04 AM (42Vb+)

89 I notice Jewells45 is on the list, but not Vic.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

90 First radio? It had an earphone, no speaker, and a wire with a clip that you had to fasten to something like a radiator or the finger stop on the dial of the telephone or a curtain rod if you wanted to pick up any stations...

WLS in Chicago (Art Roberts top 40 in the afternoons). WVON ditto (Yvonne Daniels at night, playing a bunch of early 60s Motown)...

Them was the days.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 24, 2025 07:06 AM (q3u5l)

91 Posted by: Some desperate guy at April 24, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:07 AM (42Vb+)

92
I finally had an extended experience playing a "journey" game with a young game player and it was neither pleasant nor enjoyable.

An endless barrage of impatience was rained upon me. And he wonders why I find such "entertainment" offputting and a waste of time.

At some point we will talk about this, but now is not the time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 24, 2025 07:07 AM (P8t9A)

93 I notice Jewells45 is on the list, but not Vic.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

-

If I understood a conversation from last week correctly it was because Vic noticed things.

Also I'm just seeing the news in Fen's #88 post. I'm sorry.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Were you taught the absurd lie that new animals lived on the Galapagos Islands? at April 24, 2025 07:08 AM (SsQQd)

94 David Thomas (Pere Ubu) RIP. A "unique" singer and interesting lyricist.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 24, 2025 07:08 AM (WPL6O)

95 FenelonSpoke

Yes. She had an excellent filing system. But nothing saying Marriage. I was sure we were legally married, or she would not have stayed with me.

I opened our wedding photo albums for the first time since marriage, Nothing there but memories.

I finally got to a large folder with my name on it.
Inside was everything I ever wrote to her. And there was a keepsake folder with copies of my marriage lisence.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

96 Autocucumber mocks me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

97 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks where we spent a lovely, soft Spring day watching the vegetation positively explode into new growth. Today promises a repeat.

As always, may all effort from you result in maximal benefit, with corresponding heartburn on the part of the leftwit fungi who molest us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 24, 2025 07:12 AM (hKoQL)

98 Time for work preps.

Everyone have a great day. Hug those close, and enjoy a beautiful Spring.

Even those large dark clouds with lots of rain, lightning, and quarter sized hail are magestic. From a distance. Yesterday was close aboard, but still safer than those in the North County area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

99
So there are moves afoot to create AI that specializes in cheating?

A SWAG as to what experience base they used to train it is this -- they asked each long-sitting member of Congress how they came to be worth millions of dollars apiece while earning a salary of under $200,000 per annum.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 24, 2025 07:15 AM (P8t9A)

100 Definitely a movie plot -- An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses

https://tinyurl.com/yt3amp4j
Posted by: Ciampino

Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, 50,
Looks like a woman
Article refers to "him"
Another tranny?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 24, 2025 07:17 AM (WbaIk)

101 Yesterday afternoon I had a hell of a time with the Capital One people about their website. I tried to log in, an dthe only phone number they offered as a choice to receive a text with a verification code was my old phone -- which I ditched two years ago. I've been receiving verificaiion texts on the new phone for all that time; I updated my number on their website. Yet, when I called, they insisted that my account *has never been updated*, that the old number is the only one they have, they can't send me a text to the new one, and the only way to verify my identity is to have me send them a pic of my driver's license.

They insisted, too, that my records show that I've logged in, but I've never received a verification text. Patently absurd. That's been the only way for me to get into the website. The only difference now? I'm on my home computer, a different IP address, and not my work computer. Yet they cannot admit there might be something wrong on *their* end. Infuriating.

I don't need the damn website, and will use their card very rarely from now on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)

102 Morning, Horde...

Ran out of electrons at home (internet is down) so I have to come to the electron mine, as Wolfus puts it, to harvest some more...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2025 07:21 AM (7fElN)

103 85

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 24, 2025 06:59 AM
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You gotta start in the morning if you're gonna drink all day

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at April 24, 2025 07:22 AM (qelIc)

104 I finally got to a large folder with my name on it.
Inside was everything I ever wrote to her. And there was a keepsake folder with copies of my marriage lisence.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

❤️

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 24, 2025 07:22 AM (WbaIk)

105 Technology is great until it isn't.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:23 AM (KfeQT)

106 Technology is great until it isn't.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:23 AM (KfeQT)
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Yep.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2025 07:25 AM (7fElN)

107 Technology is great until it isn't.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:23 AM (KfeQT)

Unfortunately, you're usually well into isn't before you realize you've reached the border of is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

108 The only reason I used the CO website was to apply whatever "reward" amount I'd earned to my current card balance. I can do that on the phone, as I have with Chase for years. And I may try the "complaint" line, and ask them, nicely, to create a trouble ticket to investigate the problem.

Somehow I suspect it will come to naught -- and then, three months from now, a tiny news item will show up where CO admits they have had a "glitch" where customers changing computers cannot access the website because their account seems to have the wrong data.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

109 I don't need the damn website, and will use their card very rarely from now on.

Call them to close your account and when they ask why, tell them that your new bank makes it easy to update your information. They'll break land speed records to solve the issue.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025 07:28 AM (lXoJ5)

110 From the NY Post:

"The USS Yorktown retrieved two Enterprise aircraft that were damaged in an attack on the Japanese navy carrier Kaga, according to the agency, citing records. The planes were moved down to the hangar deck before they caught fire when underwater missiles by the Japanese pounded the ship."

"underwater missiles"? Sheesh. Was this article written by AI?

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

111 Anyway: I've had a good breakfast, will shave and then finish my morning pipe as I watch Have Gun -- Will Travel, and then try to cook up a plot for a new short story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 07:29 AM (omVj0)

112 I don't need the damn website, and will use their card very rarely from now on.

Call them to close your account and when they ask why, tell them that your new bank makes it easy to update your information. They'll break land speed records to solve the issue.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025

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I might try that. Though I suspect it will be a waste of my time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 07:30 AM (omVj0)

113 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

I know you're gone to work now, Salty, but I'm glad you could find what you needed and also look at the photos and have those memories..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:30 AM (42Vb+)

114 I know you're gone to work now, Salty, but I'm glad you could find what you needed and also look at the photos and have those memories..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025

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Seconded and thirded.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2025 07:31 AM (omVj0)

115 For those who pray, my father in law has triple bypass surgery this morning. Trusting God for a good outcome.

Posted by: CanuckJack at April 24, 2025 07:31 AM (aMOsu)

116 That Yorktown article was so badly written that I suspect the editors went to Harvard.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

117 I might try that. Though I suspect it will be a waste of my time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Good luck. Hopefully you get a good resolution.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2025 07:35 AM (lXoJ5)

118 They insisted, too, that my records show that I've logged in, but I've never received a verification text. Patently absurd. That's been the only way for me to get into the website. The only difference now? I'm on my home computer, a different IP address, and not my work computer. Yet they cannot admit there might be something wrong on *their* end. Infuriating.

You made too many changes without notifying them, that makes your account fail a KYC filter and you look like a hacker. Change IP and phone - yeah, you are a hacker. Any pen tester will tell you that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 24, 2025 07:36 AM (a4flb)

119 Posted by: CanuckJack at April 24, 2025 07:31 AM (aMOsu)

I will pray for your FIL. Would you mind telling me the first initial of his first name? Surely God knows "CanuckJack" and his FIL,

but I like to have an initial I can connect with in my prayers. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:36 AM (42Vb+)

120 Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thank you Fen, his name is John

Posted by: CanuckJack at April 24, 2025 07:37 AM (aMOsu)

121 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

122 I finally got to a large folder with my name on it.
Inside was everything I ever wrote to her. And there was a keepsake folder with copies of my marriage lisence.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

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Love is a heck of a thing.

Hang dai brother.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 24, 2025 07:39 AM (5IqhH)

123 I have two Logitech K845 corded keyboards and I think they are great.

However they have not improved my speeling.

Posted by: pawn at April 24, 2025 07:44 AM (QB+5g)

124 Yesterday my husband had a doctor's appointment - when we got there they saw him right away, called an ambulance & sent him to the local hospital. Tests showed that he had a minor heart attack. He is there, all hooked up to monitors, waiting for an angiogram to see if he needs a stent.
I spent the day communicating with family and cancelling stuff.
Now I am off to spend time with him in the ICU.
We would appreciate prayers.
Thank you

Posted by: Trudy at April 24, 2025 07:46 AM (/poSy)

125 I still remember my first transistor radio. It was red and soft leather case. I also remember how quickly the batteries died.
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 06:24 AM (lJ0H4)

I still have my Zenith 275 transistor radio I received for Christmas 1959. Carried that everywhere on my bike, or on walks as a kid. That radio was $49.95 back then, a big chunk of change, but was built with typical Zenith quality. The 7 transistors were actually seated in little sockets, not directly soldered into the PC board. I spent a lifetime working in the electronics field, and I still marvel at the level of quality back then when it came to American built electronics.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 24, 2025 07:51 AM (5xuJ/)

126 Posted by: Trudy at April 24, 2025 07:46 AM (/poSy)

. It sounds like a hard day. Of course, I will pray for both of you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:55 AM (42Vb+)

127 Posted by: CanuckJack at April 24, 2025 07:37 AM (aMOsu)

Thanks for giving me John's name. Prayers ascending.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2025 07:56 AM (42Vb+)

128
I left Belgium a US$20 on the dress before leaving.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 24, 2025 10:24 AM (1hM1d)

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