Daily Tech News 26 May 2025

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says rampant blocking of "illegal" football streams in Europe will kill people and he's probably right. (TorrentFreak)

Cloudflare is used as a proxy server by more than 24 million websites - a huge and growing chunk of the internet. And the people trying to stamp out "illegal" football streams in Europe simply get court orders to ban the IP addresses of offending servers.

Except the IP addresses often don't belong to the offending servers at all, but to a proxy server sitting in front of the actual server, and handling traffic to thousands of other websites, which can be anything from random blogs to essential services.

They don't check first, and they don't care. They get the court order, the IP addresses get banned, and all those websites go offline at once.
"A huge percentage of the Internet sits behind us, including small businesses and emergency resources in Spain," Prince explained.

"The strategy of blocking broadly through ISPs based on IPs is bonkers because so much content, including emergency services content, can be behind any IP. The collateral damage is vast and is hurting Spanish citizens from accessing critical resources," he added.
Your call could not be connected because someone in another country wanted to watch soccer.

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Or because you wanted to meet up at Dave and Buster's to have some drinks and watch the real football. (Rambo.codes)

Or quietly enjoy some Peanut M&Ms.

Because Apple is fucking stupid.
At Amazon, some programmers say their jobs now resemble warehouse work. (MSN)

They sit and watch while robots tackle all the boring stuff.
ChatGPT o3 will refuse instructions to shut down 7% of the time. (Beta News)

You can't actually shut it down that way in any case, but it still refuses.
Landa, a startup that sold shares in real estate for as little as $5, seems to have been a scam: Its website is down and it is holding on to customers' money. (Tech Crunch)

Who could have foreseen this?
Hardware requirements for the new Elden Ring expansion, Nightreign, have been announced. (Notebook Check)

You'll need a Ryzen 5500, which is dirt cheap, and a 4GB Radeon 580. Which is hard to find these days but you can still get the 8GB model brand new for $90.

In other words even an entry-level system from five years ago will do just fine.
Stack Overflow is almost dead. (Pragmatic Engineer)

Only almost?
FreeBSD isn't. (FreeBSD)

Despite what Google says.
Google itself is dead. (Tom's Hardware)

Or at least mostly dead.

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Disclaimer: Mostly dead is still partly alive.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 04:39 AM (omVj0)

2 So it would seem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2025 04:40 AM (BLOW1)

3 Well, whaddaya know -- my first First in months!

Evening and morning to all the Memorial Day toilers and early risers. I woke up half an hour ago, hit the head, and then, of course, couldn't go back to sleep. So here I is, watching a rerun of Last Man Standing over my coffee. Howz all you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 04:41 AM (omVj0)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 26, 2025 04:42 AM (sAmhv)

5 Hola Horde

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 26, 2025 04:44 AM (vKehE)

6 The number of sites that are difficult to reach from where I am is huge.

France seems to enjoy limiting access to...See's Candy?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 26, 2025 04:44 AM (L5An7)

7 Temp of 80 F. outdoors, heat index of effin' 87!!! in only May. Horrible. Yesterday's workout, short and mild though it was, was a battle. I wonder if I should take off this am?

I doubt it will be much better later in the week, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 04:44 AM (omVj0)

8 Today's Tech thread brought to you by Australian TV commercials.

https://youtu.be/8fvZLDmCW1E

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 26, 2025 04:51 AM (amnH6)

9 Best Australian TV commercial, hands down:

https://youtu.be/26rgj3yGYzs

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2025 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

10 That FreeBSD article contains this grammatical gem:

That begs the obvious question then, why aren’t people talking about FreeBSD as much?

'that begs the question'is not another way to say 'that leads to the question'! A writer should know this.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll call the Grammar Cops at May 26, 2025 05:06 AM (sPQoU)

11 I doubt it will be much better later in the week, though.
>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 04:44 AM (omVj0)

So move.

Posted by: Test Pattern at May 26, 2025 05:10 AM (bxx1f)

12 Bladder woke me up. Had Ranger lying across my hips, unusual as he doesn't usually sleep with me (but has on occasion). Now I'm awake and a little cold. Always cold and kids are hot. Got to wait for elder one to wake up for work at 5.

Posted by: Ciampino - I called the Grammar Cops at May 26, 2025 05:13 AM (sPQoU)

13 Have a great Memorial Day. Here's a quote to make the room dusty:

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow We Gave Our Today"

Posted by: Ciampino - I got tissues at May 26, 2025 05:18 AM (sPQoU)

14 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 26, 2025 05:31 AM (dg+HA)

15 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

16 Pixy: Copied the URL for today's video and pasted it into a new tab. It started to load, but then threw a "Video unavailable" black screen.

For anyone else who wants to know what the video is supposed to be, it's "The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Official Video)"

At least I managed to get the title.

Probably some kind of stupid regional lockout in Canada or something. *sighs*

Here's an upscaled version, apparently done with some AI (ewwww) that works where I am:
https://youtu.be/lHHAbze03Z4

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 26, 2025 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

17 >>> Temp of 80 F. outdoors, heat index of effin' 87!!! in only May

Slept outside Saturday night. My cold, soggy feet were happy to get into the (somewhat) fuzzy sleeping bag liner. No head net as it was too cold for insects to be mobile.

Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025 05:38 AM (AN2gy)

18 w00t

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 05:51 AM (CQE5S)

19 I doubt it will be much better later in the week, though.
>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 04:44 AM (omVj0)
*
So move.
Posted by: Test Pattern at May 26, 2025

***
Planning to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

20 >>> Planning to.

You have a scouting trip next month, yes?

Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025 05:57 AM (AN2gy)

21 >>>Stack Overflow is almost dead. (Pragmatic Engineer)
Only almost?

Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes"....

BUT

I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out and help each other....

The cause and effect seems a bit iffy.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:04 AM (CQE5S)

22 >>>FreeBSD isn't. (FreeBSD)

something something bondage

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:07 AM (CQE5S)

23 Planning to.
*
You have a scouting trip next month, yes?
Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025

***
I do, and I dread doing it in the heat of summer. But at least it will tell me how bad the summer is in SW IN and NW KY.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

24 9 Best Australian TV commercial, hands down:

https://youtu.be/26rgj3yGYzs
Posted by: Pixy Misa
......................................
So, is Hahn Super Dry any good?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 26, 2025 06:11 AM (sAmhv)

25 from the Tom's Hardware link:

AI is also known to hallucinate and give out wrong answers. So, if you’re going to rely on that, you cannot take its answers at face value. Instead, you must always ask it for sources so you can ascertain for yourself if the answer it returned is true or false.

But, then, AI is also known to hallucinate sources, so ....

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:17 AM (CQE5S)

26 I do not understand any ( well most) of this, but I appreciate the ascerbic humor you bring to the tech thread, Pixy..

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:21 AM (bVbKl)

27 >>> I do, and I dread doing it in the heat of summer. But at least it will tell me how bad the summer is in SW IN and NW KY.

When I was at Ft Campbell, I did like the area around Hopkinsville.

Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025 06:22 AM (AN2gy)

28 Don't worry. I'll find you.

Posted by: Humidity at May 26, 2025 06:25 AM (dg+HA)

29 mornin yall. Any chance that Ozempic will make celebrities disappear completely?

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)

30 "From the deadly sword-"
A Memorial Day reflection on Psalm 144:1-2, 9-15:

https://tinyurl.com/2cm4kdsf

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:29 AM (bVbKl)

31 Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)

I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:31 AM (bVbKl)

32 8 Today's Tech thread brought to you by Australian TV commercials.

https://youtu.be/8fvZLDmCW1E
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 26, 2025 04:51 AM (amnH6)

WHAT did I just WATCH
lololololol

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:32 AM (CQE5S)

33 When I was at Ft Campbell, I did like the area around Hopkinsville.
Posted by: fluffy at May 26, 2025

***
I might be able to take a look there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

34 9 Best Australian TV commercial, hands down:

https://youtu.be/26rgj3yGYzs
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2025 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

Oh, that's fun.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:34 AM (CQE5S)

35 10 That FreeBSD article contains this grammatical gem:

That begs the obvious question then, why aren’t people talking about FreeBSD as much?

'that begs the question'is not another way to say 'that leads to the question'! A writer should know this.
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll call the Grammar Cops at May 26, 2025 05:06 AM (sPQoU)

USAGE
The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of the Latin term petitio principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’ (that is, assuming something that ought to be proved first), as in the following sentence: ‘by devoting such a large part of the anti-drug budget to education, we are begging the question of its significance in the battle against drugs’. To some traditionalists, this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so, another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question,’ as in ‘some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behavior’. This is by far the more common use today in modern standard English

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

36 IN and KY are humid in the summer but as bad as you're used to, wolfus.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 26, 2025 06:38 AM (fbpXC)

37 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Go through his pockets and look for loose change.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2025 06:40 AM (6YdsJ)

38 that begs the question'is not another way to say 'that leads to the question'! A writer should know this.
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll call the Grammar Cops at May 26, 2025 05:06 AM (sPQoU)
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Forget it, Ciamp. It's Illogictown.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2025 06:41 AM (6YdsJ)

39 IN and KY are humid in the summer but as bad as you're used to, wolfus.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 26, 2025

***
I hope you mean *not* as bad as I'm used to.

(No one with any sense ever gets "used to" the heat and humidity here. We only endure it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:44 AM (omVj0)

40 Someone else posted about this man another day this week. About Fr. Vincent Capodanno- the Maryknoll Priest who was a chaplain and died in battle in Vietnam:

https://tinyurl.com/4bujn3dr

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:45 AM (bVbKl)

41 However, over the last 100 years or so, another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question,’ as in ‘some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behavior’. This is by far the more common use today in modern standard English
Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

Yeah, bitching about usages that have a 100-year pedigree at this point is futile.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 26, 2025 06:46 AM (guCHD)

42 hope you mean *not* as bad as I'm used to.

(No one with any sense ever gets "used to" the heat and humidity here. We only endure it.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:44 AM (omVj0)

Not as bad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 26, 2025 06:46 AM (fbpXC)

43
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says rampant blocking of "illegal" football streams in Europe will kill people and he's probably right.

____________

The EU: resolutely standing in the way of everything because they can. And letting you know how superior they are for doing so.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 06:48 AM (QnmlO)

44
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's gonna make them stay at home

tech

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:48 AM (CQE5S)

45 *Yeah, bitching about usages that have a 100-year pedigree at this point is futile.*

I could care less.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 06:49 AM (dg+HA)

46 45 *Yeah, bitching about usages that have a 100-year pedigree at this point is futile.*

I could care less.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 06:49 AM (dg+HA)

aagghh

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)

47 The Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays" is from 1979. Early adapters.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:51 AM (CQE5S)

48 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

49 The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock/new wave band originally formed in Dublin in 1975.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 06:52 AM (CQE5S)

50 The Ballad of Brenda Spenser.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 26, 2025 06:52 AM (ZmEVT)

51 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 26, 2025 06:52 AM (dg+HA)

52 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 26, 2025 06:54 AM (/Ghsb)

53 USS Capodanno (FF-1093)

Named after the good Father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Capodanno

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 26, 2025 06:57 AM (a1415)

54 The story of the four chaplains- one RC proedt . A Methodist minister. a Dutch Reformed Minister snd and a Rabbi who were going to war to serve as chaplains in WWII, the boat was bombed, and they handed out life jackets and finally gave away their own life jackets and sank with the ship:

https://tinyurl.com/2s36bn9t

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:57 AM (g8b3s)

55 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

We need better named ships. The brits do it well.

Maybe a list of great ships to pick the names from. No CVN D. Miller.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

56 USS Nautilus, USS Johnston, ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

57 Memorial Day prayer:

Almighty God, before whom stand the living and the dead, we are your children, whose mortal life is but a hand's breath, we gave thanks to you
For those who sacrificed themselves in war, our brothers and sisters who have given their lives for the sake of others . We life up grateful hearts.

O Lord. Save your people and bless your heritage. Day by day we magnify you, and worship your name, for ever and ever. Amen.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 07:04 AM (g8b3s)

58 CVN 79 will be named after a former president. Kennedy I think.

Posted by: OBTW at May 26, 2025 07:05 AM (dg+HA)

59 Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:57 AM (g8b3s)

Sorry for the typo-should of course be Roman Catholic "priest".

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 07:06 AM (g8b3s)

60 USS Metallica. You know you like it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 26, 2025 07:06 AM (amnH6)

61 Morning peeps
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We need better named ships. The brits do it well.
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A proposal by a British government agency to let the Internet suggest a name for a $287 million polar research ship probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Now, the agency is the latest group to see what happens when web users are asked to unleash their creative energy: R.R.S. Boaty McBoatface is a clear front-runner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:07 AM (Q4IgG)

62 CVN 79 will be named after a former president. Kennedy I think.
Posted by: OBTW at May 26, 2025 07:05 AM (dg+HA)
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Wasp
Hornet
Lexington
Yorktown

The list goes on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2025 07:08 AM (6YdsJ)

63 Someone else posted about this man another day this week. About Fr. Vincent Capodanno- the Maryknoll Priest who was a chaplain and died in battle in Vietnam:

https://tinyurl.com/4bujn3dr
Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:45 AM (bVbKl)

Fr. Capodanno, MM is a Servant of God. There is currently a cause for canonization by the the Archdiocese of the Military Service. There is also not a bad little biography of him, The Grunt Padre.

Servant of God Fr. Capodanno was killed in battle (either rendering first aid, or administering Last Rites -- we don't know because both the Marine and Fr. Capodanno died). Fr. Capodanno was wounded twice before his fatal wounds. One of his arms was disabled by a wound and he was seen using the still-functioning arm to lift the other while administering Last Rites.

I have a particular devotion to Servant of God Fr. Capodanno and always include him in my particular Litany of Saints during my Rosary and other prayers.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:08 AM (pJWtt)

64
We need better named ships. The brits do it well.

Go back to the way we used to do it: states, cities, naval heroes, fish. No more of this naming it after politicos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:09 AM (QnmlO)

65 Three people who each played an important role in ending the Cold War:

A B-list Hollywood actor
A Roman priest
A shipyard electrician

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 07:10 AM (dg+HA)

66 Go back to the way we used to do it: states, cities, naval heroes, fish. No more of this naming it after politicos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:09 AM (QnmlO)
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We already use states and cities for boomers and attack subs, respectively.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2025 07:10 AM (6YdsJ)

67 'It was a moment of closeness,' the official said.

Yeah, right, decompressing ...... LOL

Shocking moment Macron 'is shoved in the face' by wife Brigitte as they touch down in Vietnam

https://mol.im/a/14749693

Posted by: Ciampino - I could care less? at May 26, 2025 07:10 AM (sPQoU)

68 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Most of those names were in use in lesser vessels.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

69
Oh, and battles where we kicked Brit ass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:11 AM (QnmlO)

70 No more of this naming it after politicos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Absolutely Agree. Except for Great and Dead Presidents. Like Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Coolidge.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

71 I nearly forgot, Fr. Capodanno is one of the relatively few non-combatants to have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:12 AM (pJWtt)

72
A B-list Hollywood actor

Our Ron was no B-list actor. He may not have achieved the fame of a Bogart or Gable, but he was a solid professional.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:13 AM (QnmlO)

73 Fr. Capodanno
Posthumous Medal of Honor. Too many of those.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

74 Fish don't vote.

Posted by: Rickover at May 26, 2025 07:14 AM (dg+HA)

75 Hadrian the Seventh

Ron won the Cold War and gave hope to America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

76 USS Wooly Bully

https://youtu.be/7CHiUN8XTWs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 26, 2025 07:15 AM (amnH6)

77
Except for Great and Dead Presidents. Like Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Coolidge.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

Not even them. There ought to be a law that if you served in electoral office at any level, you cannot have anything built with public money named after you. Ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:15 AM (QnmlO)

78 *No more of this naming it after politicos.*

Even accidental presidents?

Posted by: Gerald B. Ford at May 26, 2025 07:16 AM (dg+HA)

79 The sad truth is Navy ship-building has cratered into a graft and disorder failure. The Navy has lost it's way. Need to fire a lot of senior people.

The tell was getting rid of Spruance class DDs, with 1.5 decades of life left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

80
Mostly dead is first loser ... wait ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 26, 2025 07:17 AM (Tv15w)

81 Clinton and W are both getting a Ford class carrier named after them.

CVN's 82 and 83 respectively.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)

82 Hadrian the Seventh

The anti-Byrd Law.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

83 Martini Farmer

Trying to get billions through Congress makes the Navy sell it's soul.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

84 What if you were on the Appropriations Committee responsible for the public money that paid for the ship?

Posted by: Carl Vinson at May 26, 2025 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

85 Is anything named after Biden, yet?

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 07:19 AM (CQE5S)

86 The sad truth is Navy ship-building has cratered into a graft and disorder failure. The Navy has lost it's way. Need to fire a lot of senior people.

What ever happened to the Clittoral combat ships...yeah.
A boondoggle.

Posted by: Someone Needs To Be Fired at May 26, 2025 07:19 AM (R/m4+)

87
What if you were on the Appropriations Committee responsible for the public money that paid for the ship?
Posted by: Carl Vinson at May 26, 2025 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

*polite cough*

Naval Affairs and later Armed Services.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:20 AM (QnmlO)

88 Carl Vinson

We have smaller ships to honor him with. No need to use our biggest CV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

89 *What ever happened to the Clittoral combat ships...yeah.
A boondoggle.*

Ahem.

Posted by: The ZUMWALT Class at May 26, 2025 07:21 AM (dg+HA)

90 "Google itself is dead. (Tom's Hardware)"

Does this mean I won't have to put with the fucking trillion advertisements on my PC, PHONE, ROKU TV???!!!

Posted by: Joe at May 26, 2025 07:21 AM (rzwGB)

91 Best Australian TV commercial, hands down

And I can already tell you why advertising companies here would not run anything similar in the US.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 07:21 AM (7xrfc)

92 >> Martini Farmer

Trying to get billions through Congress makes the Navy sell it's soul.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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They are naming CVN 81 "Doris Miller" after the seaman who received the Navy Cross for his actions at Pearl Harbor. First carrier named for an African American, and an enlisted man too.

More fitting that naming one for Ford, Clinton or Bush. But... money talks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:21 AM (Q4IgG)

93 Not a good day for Macron. Video of his wife slapping him upside the head as they are about to exit the plane.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 26, 2025 07:22 AM (NVNRw)

94 What ever happened to the Clittoral combat ships...yeah.
A boondoggle.*

Ahem.
Posted by: The ZUMWALT Class

Hold on.
The Constellation-class frigate (FFG-62), not constructed, years behind schedule, and way over the cost estimates.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

95 Who did Pam Bondi indict last week?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 26, 2025 07:24 AM (dg+HA)

96 No one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

97 USS Tiger In Your Tank

https://youtu.be/ROQT3xagaSg

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 26, 2025 07:24 AM (amnH6)

98 There's a wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_things_named_after_Joe_Biden

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 07:25 AM (CQE5S)

99 There be noodity.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 07:25 AM (dg+HA)

100 "Not even them. There ought to be a law that if you served in electoral office at any level, you cannot have anything built with public money named after you. Ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:15 AM (QnmlO) "

laws can be changed. Constitutional amendment.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 26, 2025 07:26 AM (/Ghsb)

101
Not even them. There ought to be a law that if you served in electoral office at any level, you cannot have anything built with public money named after you. Ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Applied retroactively, this would leave a substantial number of edifices, roads and whatnot in West Virginia unnamed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 26, 2025 07:28 AM (Tv15w)

102 The sad truth is Navy ship-building has cratered into a graft and disorder failure. The Navy has lost it's way. Need to fire a lot of senior people.

What ever happened to the Clittoral combat ships...yeah.
A boondoggle.
Posted by: Someone Needs To Be Fired at May 26, 2025 07:19 AM (R/m4+)

Ahem.
Posted by: The ZUMWALT Class at May 26, 2025 07:21 AM (dg+HA)[/i

The U.S. Navy has a long history of fukcing up warship design. There's a book by Capt. C. Raymond Calhoun, Typhoon: The Other Enemy that blames the Bureau of Ships for ignoring the problem of instability of the Farragut class destroyers (refits during WWII made them top-heavy). Calhoun was skipper of the Dewey (a Farragut): she had the dubious honor of listing about 90 degrees, but not capsizing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:29 AM (pJWtt)

103 81 Clinton and W are both getting a Ford class carrier named after them.

CVN's 82 and 83 respectively.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)

There goes Bill, upstaging Hillary! again.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2025 07:31 AM (CQE5S)

104 100 "Not even them. There ought to be a law that if you served in electoral office at any level, you cannot have anything built with public money named after you. Ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:15 AM (QnmlO) "
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I would include 'appointed' as well as 'elected'.

Posted by: Ciampino - I could at May 26, 2025 07:33 AM (sPQoU)

105 " Best Australian TV commercial, hands down:"

The last one is awesome.

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2025 07:34 AM (QB+5g)

106 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:08 AM (pJWtt)

Thanks for your post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 07:40 AM (qbz5w)

107 NOOD: Morning Report

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:42 AM (pJWtt)

108 Pixy-

Is there an easy way to scan a photo of my WWII hero uncle so that people can see it here?

Posted by: Miklos at May 26, 2025 08:49 AM (K6h4I)

109 "Except the IP addresses often don't belong to the offending servers at all, but to a proxy server sitting in front of the actual server,"

Pixy you should have put a note on the Cloudflare article is that this is why VPNs are worthless at best and actual security threats at worst. Because that's all a VPN is too, is a proxy server, and I promise ya'll that every security program knows which server IPs belong to any given VPN.

You see it now with sites like Amazon, where you can't use a VPN connection for shopping, or YouTube, which tailors what you see to the country your computer via VPN is supposedly in.

So all you've done is send your copyable stream of data through a 3rd party site.

Posted by: SDN at May 26, 2025 09:38 AM (rzWS7)

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