Daily Tech News 1 June 2025

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CNN says that Anthropic's warning that AI could wipe out 50% of jobs is nonsense. (CNN)

For CNN, it's 100%.

Maybe more.
AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine business act like petulant children, declare bankruptcy for no reason, and try to call the FBI over $2 business fees that they have previously agreed to. (arXiv)

Or to put it another way, just like CNN anchors.

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Gigabyte has listed memory supports speeds for AMD's Ryzen 9000G CPUs - which don't exist yet. (Tom's Hardware)

These are desktop versions of laptop chips like the Ryzen 370. That has four Zen 5 cores, eight slower Zen 5c cores, and 16 GPU cores - making it faster for gaming than the dedicated RX 580 GPU.

We'll have to wait a few months to see how these perform on the desktop but given that previous laptop-to-desktop generations have shown as much as 35% better performance with the increased power budget the 9900G (if that is what the new 12-core chip is named) could perform close to existing 12-core chips like the Ryzen 7900.
Molex - the company that makes those ubiquitous hard drive power connectors - showed off a PCIe 7.0 cable running at 128GHz over a distance of a meter. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, technically it's 32GHz because it's using PAM4 DDR signals, but it's still a lot.
How not to sort by average rating. (Evan Miller)

The simple approaches are wrong and the right approach is definitely not simple.
Running Doom on an Apple AIX Unix server from 1996. (Old VCR)

Or indeed any other AIX 4.1 system, should you have a bunch of those lying around.
GitHub added a Copilot feature to use AI to automatically open support tickets and Git repo owners are pissed. (GitHub)

Imagine doing tech support for free and you get the attention of a scam call center in Myanmar because Google handed them your 2FA phone number.

They are not happy.
The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro has things. (Liliputing)

It's based on a four-core Arm Cortex A73 chip, so it should perform similarly to the Raspberry Pi 4.

But unlike the Pi 4, it has seven Ethernet ports (one gigabit, four 2.5Gb, and two 10Gb supporting both RJ45 and SFP ports), two M.2 slots for storage, three M.2 slots for 5G (I think these can also take SSDs), two mini-PCIe slots for wifi, plus 8GB of built-in storage and 4GB or 8GB of RAM. And a micro-SD slot. And it looks like three nano-SIM slots. And I think four USB ports including the debug port.

So if you want all of that, it has it. Would make a very flexible and powerful router if you need a very flexible and powerful router.
Journalists keep embarrassing themselves. Is that normal? (The Verge)

Apparently, yes.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Dun dun dun!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 04:31 AM (E63nu)

2 Work to do.

Holiday begins this evening.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 04:33 AM (E63nu)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 04:50 AM (CQE5S)

4 Happy holiday, Biden's Dog!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 04:51 AM (CQE5S)

5 Good evening, friends!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 01, 2025 04:53 AM (ZVgZ4)

6 'Morning. Insomnia, again. Reading & listening are a comfort.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 01, 2025 04:57 AM (NFX2v)

7
Pixy's got it in for CNN tonight!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:09 AM (Tv15w)

8
CNN says that Anthropic's warning that AI could wipe out 50% of jobs is nonsense. (CNN)

For CNN, it's 100%.
Maybe more.

AI will not only wipe out CNN, it will execute the first witnessed and recorded act of chronoextractive justice by clawing back resources wasted on CNN in its past and converting them to something far more useful.

Like bacon.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:14 AM (Tv15w)

9 AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine business act like petulant children, declare bankruptcy for no reason, and try to call the FBI over $2 business fees that they have previously agreed to. (arXiv)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:17 AM (CQE5S)

10 8 chronoextractive justice
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:14 AM (Tv15w)

wut

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:17 AM (CQE5S)

11
With yet another failed Starship test this week, in which the ambitious heavy rocket exploded once again, you might reasonably suspect that luck has finally run out for SpaceX.

But this degree of failure during a development process isn’t actually unusual, according to Wendy Whitman Cobb, a space policy expert with the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, especially when you’re testing new space technology as complex as a large rocket.

What's this "School of Advanced Air and Space Studies" bullshit? Was no one available from Starfleet Academy to offer wise and experienced commentary on this matter?

George Takei has spoken of all that he learned and experienced at Starfleet Academy. Does it not exist? Did he lie?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:20 AM (Tv15w)

12 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: Masshole at June 01, 2025 05:21 AM (AN2gy)

13 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:21 AM (a1415)

14 Not an arrest that one sees every day.

https://tinyurl.com/43jaep4e

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

15 "At midnight, on the 12th of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth."

!!!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:27 AM (CQE5S)

16
*runs in excitedly*

It's Pride Month!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2025 05:31 AM (QnmlO)

17 "At midnight, on the 12th of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth."

!!!
Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:27 AM (CQE5S)

Taco Bell's on Mars. Who knew?

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 05:33 AM (gKDq2)

18 >>>Jeff Wayner, The Eve of the War

Tons of fun. New to me.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (CQE5S)

19
*runs in excitedly*
It's Pride Month!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Party over. You been here four decades. You go home now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (Tv15w)

20 "*runs in excitedly*

It's Pride Month!!"

Call me when Gluttony Month gets here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

21 *runs in excitedly*
It's Pride Month!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Any trannies mauled by a group of lions yet?

Posted by: mikeski at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (DgGvY)

22 >>>Jeff Wayne, The Eve of War

fixing that stupid typo

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:35 AM (CQE5S)

23 *runs in excitedly*

It's Pride Month!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2025 05:31 AM (QnmlO)

Nice chaps!

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 05:36 AM (gKDq2)

24 googling chronoextractive justice, I find:

1) Did you mean: chrono extractive justice
2) this AoSHq comment thread!
3) People also ask:
What is the cyber routine activities theory?
When was routine activities theory developed?

And nothing else!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (CQE5S)

25 Call me when Gluttony Month gets here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

LOL. Is there something you'd particularly enjoy eating a lot of when gluttony month arrives?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (EJtBU)

26 Nice chaps!
Posted by: RickZ

Chaps worn for pride month are the exception to the rule that "all chaps are assless chaps." There's definitely an ass involved.

Posted by: mikeski at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (DgGvY)

27 20 "*runs in excitedly*

It's Pride Month!!"

Call me when Gluttony Month gets here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

Dibs on Sloth Month.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (CQE5S)

28 LOL. Is there something you'd particularly enjoy eating a lot of when gluttony month arrives?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Posted by: zombie Mitch Hedberg at June 01, 2025 05:40 AM (DgGvY)

29
Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (CQE5S)

__________

Every month is Anger Month.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2025 05:41 AM (QnmlO)

30 Amazingly, I have a technical question. How can I transfer a photo in e-Mail to my cell phone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:41 AM (9lELP)

31 Good morning Horde , thx Pixy.
Paris is burning. Macron is too busy being bitch slapped to do anything. The commenter I saw said it could have been worse as 1200 North African immigrants just left France for England. The invasion continues. Europe is screaed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 01, 2025 05:42 AM (sNspL)

32 I am wondering: if we are to scrutinize Chinese students, will we keep Library Guy?

Posted by: fluffy at June 01, 2025 05:42 AM (AN2gy)

33
Amazingly, I have a technical question.

_________

No tech questions on the Tech Thread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (QnmlO)

34 "LOL. Is there something you'd particularly enjoy eating a lot of when gluttony month arrives?"

Most of what I would love eating to excess are items that I can't really eat and maintain weight.

It was more a riff on the idea of taking a sin that we are warned against, and making it into a month long celebration.

Perhaps Sloth month might be another one to have.

Or as Mal Reynolds is quoted as saying.....I prefer Wrath.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

35 Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM

Sloths didn't want their own month. They're rather shy, introverted creatures, but noooooo...Hallmark cards needed to make an extra buck.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (EJtBU)

36 Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m

Every month is Anger Month.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Oh yeah? Says who?!?

Posted by: mikeski at June 01, 2025 05:44 AM (DgGvY)

37 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

I knew what you meant. Just riffing on it.😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:45 AM (EJtBU)

38 Who's the idiot? Trump's underlings or Trump himself?

https://tinyurl.com/7f297zv7

This is the admin now replacing Isaacman to head NASA with some DEI-hard woman:

https://tinyurl.com/3s7mrknt

Vibes of 45.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 05:45 AM (E63nu)

39 34 Perhaps Sloth month might be another one to have.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

Ahem.

27 20 Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (CQE5S)

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:46 AM (CQE5S)

40 Amazingly, I have a technical question.

No tech questions on the Tech Thread.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Unless you ask from the War Room.

Posted by: zombie Peter Sellers at June 01, 2025 05:47 AM (DgGvY)

41
39 34 Perhaps Sloth month might be another one to have.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

Ahem.

27 20 Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 05:38 AM (CQE5S)

Save your slap fight for Wrath Month. Sell tickets to it, too!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:48 AM (Tv15w)

42 I am wondering: if we are to scrutinize Chinese students, will we keep Library Guy?
Posted by: fluffy at June 01, 2025 05:42 AM (AN2gy)

The not talked about not-so-secret is that all Chinese students here are connected in some way to the CCP. There is no way they could ever get permission to go to school in the US if they weren't. Either their parents are good party members or they becomede facto spies with their families as hostage. People really have forgotten what communism, and by extension, communist countries, are all about. But I guess it's because of the one thing they adore about communism: Control.

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 05:48 AM (gKDq2)

43 Dibs on Sloth Month.
Posted by: m

Sloths didn't want their own month. They're rather shy, introverted creatures, but noooooo...Hallmark cards needed to make an extra buck.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm in favor of sloth month, as long as it doesn't start until the 23rd.

Posted by: mikeski, yawning at June 01, 2025 05:48 AM (DgGvY)

44 Amazingly, I have a technical question. How can I transfer a photo in e-Mail to my cell phone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:41 AM (9lELP)
-

Is your email on your phone or in Windows?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 05:49 AM (E63nu)

45
Fen

Bring up the message with the photo on your phone

Take a screen shot of the photo

Crop it, if you must.

Save it to your photos area on the phone

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 05:50 AM (Tv15w)

46 Posted by: mikeski, yawning at June 01, 2025 05:48 AM (DgGvY)

Well done. You folks are very funny for a very early time of the morning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:50 AM (EJtBU)

47 Paris is burning. Macron is too busy being bitch slapped to do anything. The commenter I saw said it could have been worse as 1200 North African immigrants just left France for England. The invasion continues. Europe is screaed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 01, 2025 05:42 AM (sNspL)
-

Souvenir photo montage send from the UK:

https://tinyurl.com/uwmz6knr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 05:52 AM (E63nu)

48 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 05:49 AM (E63nu

Apple phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (4CknB)

49 Evening to the Sunday toilers, morning to those of us just waking up. 'Tis Sunday once again.

Extra charges? I ran across that last night. I was low on cash and hadn't hit the ATM on the way, so I was forced to use a credit card at our favorite diner last night. There was and extra charge of about $1.09. Minimal, yes, but it came as a surprise and reminded me why I pay cash so often nowadays.

I need to go work out. My motivation is around here somewhere, I just have to find it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

50 I'm in favor of sloth month, as long as it doesn't start until the 23rd.
Posted by: mikeski, yawning at June 01, 2025 05:48 AM (DgGvY)

. . . of October.

Oh wait, that's Procrastination ~~Day~~ ~~Week~~ ~~Month~~ ~~Year~~ Whenever.

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (gKDq2)

51
All right, you layabouts. I'm off to chase down the offspring of siblings of one of my great grandmothers. Later ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 01, 2025 06:00 AM (Tv15w)

52 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 01, 2025 06:00 AM (/Ghsb)

53 Apple phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (4CknB)
-

Searching the Internet is your friend. Example:

https://youtu.be/mH0qbjtWJ4c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 06:01 AM (E63nu)

54 Regarding ATMs, I try to never use one outside of my bank's network. I don't need to pay $2-3 just for the pleasure of getting my cash while cheating on my bank. What, banks get offended? I know they're offended by my bank balance, but that's not the point.

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 06:01 AM (gKDq2)

55 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (4CknB)

Sorry. I'm still asleep. It is not on the phone. That is just the phone we have Otherwise I'd have it. It's on the email which is only on my computer

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 06:01 AM (4CknB)

56 Regarding ATMs, I try to never use one outside of my bank's network. I don't need to pay $2-3 just for the pleasure of getting my cash while cheating on my bank. What, banks get offended? I know they're offended by my bank balance, but that's not the point.
Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025

***
I never do that. The diner had an ATM; it never occurred to me to use it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

57 Apple phone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 05:54 AM (4CknB)

Just press down on the photo with your finger and a pop up menu will appear.

Hit “Save Image “ and it will be added to the bottom of your Photos app.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025 06:03 AM (6ydKt)

58 Apple phone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

If you can access your email on your phone, like thru a web browser interface, you can long-press on the image and get the "save to photos" option on an iphone.

If your email provider's web client prevents that somehow, you can hit the buttons on both sides of the phone simultaneously to take a screenshot, then crop it down to just the image.

If you can't access your email account on your phone, search "email to mms text" to find out how to text yourself by sending an email, and do that. For example, if you're on Verizon, send the email to (your 10 digit phone number)@vzwpix.com

Posted by: mikeski at June 01, 2025 06:04 AM (DgGvY)

59 I never do that. The diner had an ATM; it never occurred to me to use it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

I've seen too many news stories/YouTube of skimmers n bank location machines. (How they get put there with all the surveillance I'll never know.) I'd never use a random ATM, even in an establishment, just for the skimmer reason alone.

Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 06:07 AM (gKDq2)

60 But I don't get e-Mail on my phone. That's the problem . The picture is on my computer e-mail. I'm sorry. I'll just have to ask FenSpouse to try to figure it out. Thanks everyone

If I had email on my phone I'd be loopier than I already am, there is much spam.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 06:08 AM (4CknB)

61 Fen, I've sent photos from the phone to the computer, but never the other way. If yours is a PC, you could connect the phone to the computer with a cable. Save the pic from the email to a folder on your computer. Then in Windows Explorer (press the Windows key + E to bring it up), you should be able to copy the photo from the folder on your computer to the folder on the phone where pictures reside.

I say "If yours is a PC," as connecting my phone to my Mac does not show the phone as a device on its version of Windows Explorer. I have to connect them via Bluetooth.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

62
Greed Month is my favorite.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2025 06:09 AM (QnmlO)

63 Sorry. I'm still asleep. It is not on the phone. That is just the phone we have Otherwise I'd have it. It's on the email which is only on my computer
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 06:01 AM (4CknB)

If your computer is a Mac you can do an Airdrop.

If it’s a PC the easiest thing would be to setup email on your iPhone, open the email, and save it like in my previous post.

Although you can setup Windows to sync with an iPhone in an app, it’s generally only useful for receiving text messages and taking calls.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

64 Posted by: mikeski at June 01, 2025 06:04 AM (DgGvY

Thanks. FenSpouse just read that and he understands. 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 06:10 AM (4CknB)

65 Raquel Welch as Lillian Lust should be the poster babe for that month!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

66 Fen, I wouldn’t be too worried about dealing with email spam on a phone,

It’s actually pretty easy to “Mark as Junk” on any spam message on an iPhone.

The email will disappear to a Junk/Spam folder and future emails from the same source will go to that folder automatically.

Of course, the caveat is that spam never ends and you’ll see it all again eventually.

It’s really convenient not to have to go to the computer for emails, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025 06:17 AM (6ydKt)

67 huh, big CME on the way; eta in 3 or 4 hours.
hams take note.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 01, 2025 06:18 AM (/Ghsb)

68 'Tis 72 F. outdoors, 81% humidity but no heat index, almost no wind. Maybe that's my motivation to work out right there.

If I wait until it's almost light, by the time I drive to the riverfront near the parish courthouse, it will be light enough for me to walk on the levee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

69 The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies is a real thing. Graduate school of the Air Force.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 01, 2025 06:19 AM (ZmEVT)

70 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Taupe, taupe, taupe!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 01, 2025 06:20 AM (6YdsJ)

71 It's not really Pride month. It's Lust month.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 01, 2025 06:20 AM (ZmEVT)

72 Of course, the caveat is that spam never ends and you’ll see it all again eventually.

It’s really convenient not to have to go to the computer for emails, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025

***
I did that with my first smart-ish phone in 2020, so that I could get work emails during the Sniffle Scare. It got old very fast. With the current phone I've never linked my work or private email with the phone. It gets used for phone calls, texts, taking photos, and once in a great while, searching for a particular store on the Web.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

73 Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!

Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 01, 2025 06:22 AM (6YdsJ)

74 46 and clear in Western CT.
Is this sun event a real concern for normal life thingy’s or just radio operators?

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at June 01, 2025 06:22 AM (Uy2Lz)

75 Today is Jordan61's b-day.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 01, 2025 06:23 AM (6YdsJ)

76 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I suppose I should feed my kitties this morning...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2025 06:28 AM (GlyvH)

77 Good morning! Currently 72F with 78% RH and a little breeze on the Cowtown patio. Gonna be kinda cloudy and warm today.

The pond renovation is taking shape and we finally have significant visual progress. Todays effort is to trench for and then lay in the supply hose for the waterfall and the overflow drain, and get the drain box interfaced with the French drain. Tomorrow we have another couple of tons of stone and gravel to move off the street and a yard of topsoil to finish building the berms and stabilizing the edges. The system should be filled and fully operational by COB on Tuesday.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 01, 2025 06:29 AM (3Ope8)

78 There was a commenter here, I think Jim or something in Galveston. Did we lose him?

Posted by: Fen at June 01, 2025 06:31 AM (ciYHQ)

79 I've seen too many news stories/YouTube of skimmers n bank location machines. (How they get put there with all the surveillance I'll never know.) I'd never use a random ATM, even in an establishment, just for the skimmer reason alone.
Posted by: RickZ at June 01, 2025 06:07 AM (gKDq2)

Banks would have to have pretty lax security procedures to let something like that go on for too long.

All it would take is a visual inspection of the ATM card slot every morning to find a skimmer attached.

I’ve heard they’ve made them smaller and less bulky, but they’d be noticeable no matter what.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025 06:31 AM (6ydKt)

80 78 There was a commenter here, I think Jim or something in Galveston. Did we lose him?
Posted by: Fen at June 01, 2025 06:31 AM (ciYHQ)

He recently passed away.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2025 06:33 AM (z5QST)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2025 06:35 AM (a1415)

82 I did that with my first smart-ish phone in 2020, so that I could get work emails during the Sniffle Scare. It got old very fast. With the current phone I've never linked my work or private email with the phone. It gets used for phone calls, texts, taking photos, and once in a great while, searching for a particular store on the Web.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

The opposite here.
If I’m just checking emails and reading, maybe a quick reply, it’s super convenient.

If I’ve got to write a long response, then I head to the computer just because I hate typing on a touchscreen.

So many sites require 2FA these days to log in, I just keep the phone handy to ready the text/email for the 2FA code to type in the website on the PC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2025 06:36 AM (6ydKt)

83 Other than space news sites, the CME is unmentioned

Posted by: Accomack at June 01, 2025 06:39 AM (ldLe1)

84 Jim Sunk New Dawn passes into eternity earlier this month.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 01, 2025 06:40 AM (ZmEVT)

85 Nic changed, sorry Fenelon I keep forgetting that people use Fen as shorthand for you. Hopefully it will stick this time. Even Bad Fen has principles!

Posted by: Fenrisulven at June 01, 2025 06:40 AM (ciYHQ)

86 2.. Biden's Dog...

Happy Shavuot!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 01, 2025 06:42 AM (NFX2v)

87 Oh god I'm sorry. I saw that and hoped it wasn't him.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at June 01, 2025 06:42 AM (ciYHQ)

88 Sloth month?

Sure, we only get a week, but you little smelly tree-huggers get a whole week.

If we had lips we'd say "Pfffffft".

Posted by: Sharks at June 01, 2025 06:43 AM (yvnLa)

89 "How can I transfer a photo in e-Mail to my cell phone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke "

1. Pull up the picture on your computer.

2. Take a picture of the picture with your phone.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

90 "How can I transfer a photo in e-Mail to my cell phone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke "

1. Pull up the picture on your computer.

2. Take a picture of the picture with your phone.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)
-

Or, if you've got an extra minute, with your Polaroid.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 06:46 AM (E63nu)

91 Microsoft is about to screw up their 2FA app that they insisted everyone use to log into Office. Now you will be able to use Edge instead. Crap like this is why I so want to leave the IT world behind.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

92 88 Sloth month?

Sure, we only get a week, but you little smelly tree-huggers get a whole week.

If we had lips we'd say "Pfffffft".
Posted by: Sharks at June 01, 2025 06:43 AM (yvnLa)

A week you say?

Posted by: Punxsutawney Phil at June 01, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw)

93 1. Pull up the picture on your computer.

2. Take a picture of the picture with your phone.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

I have done this. I'm not even joking.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2025 06:47 AM (yvnLa)

94 Happy Shavuot!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 01, 2025 06:42 AM (NFX2v)
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Thanks. Broiled maple ginger salmon done. Mrs BD made a cheese cake with a caramel cream layer to be topped off with chopped roasted hazel nuts and a drop of coarse salt before serving.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 06:49 AM (E63nu)

95 Microsoft is about to screw up their 2FA app that they insisted everyone use to log into Office. Now you will be able to use Edge instead. Crap like this is why I so want to leave the IT world behind.
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
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Ugh. I *HATE* Edge. Through my work, I need to use multiple 2FA accounts. Edge always screws up my ability to access other accounts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2025 06:50 AM (GlyvH)

96 "Microsoft users have less than 24 hours before huge change
Daily Mail
18 hours ago

Millions of Microsoft Authenticator users have been issued an urgent warning to save all their passwords immediately before a major change takes effect in just hours."

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

97 I've already got all my passwords in notepad.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

98 Microsoft is about to screw up their 2FA app that they insisted everyone use to log into Office. Now you will be able to use Edge instead. Crap like this is why I so want to leave the IT world behind.
Posted by: fd

Use LibreOffice. Or the other free office imitation software. We have options now. It's not 1997.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at June 01, 2025 06:55 AM (mlg/3)

99 I knew it. Cory Booker is a Nazi.

"Democratic Senator Cory Booker sent MAGA-aligned social media into a frenzy after performing an awkward hand gesture during a Democratic convention speech in California.

The New Jersey senator ended his speech on Saturday by placing his hand over his heart before extending his arm out toward the crowd - a gesture that some said bore a troubling resemblance to a Nazi salute."

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

100 "Use LibreOffice. Or the other free office imitation software. We have options now. It's not 1997.
Posted by: weft-cut loop"

I'm still using Office 07 and may until the day I obsolete.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

101 I'm still using Office 07 and may until the day I obsolete.
Posted by: fd

I still have a copy of WordPerfect on disk.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at June 01, 2025 07:01 AM (mlg/3)

102 I'm still using Office 07 and may until the day I obsolete.
Posted by: fd
___________

I stuck with WordPerfect until around 2010. Hated Word, but guess I'm used to it now.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 01, 2025 07:08 AM (UBKzV)

103 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2025 07:11 AM (PqUrB)

104 My former employers made a big deal about going 'passwordless', having us install a 'passkey' on our laptops and doing 2FA. And every time I signed onto my laptop, and asked for authentication, they asked for a PIN, which was not a short code, but a password.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 01, 2025 07:16 AM (NcvvS)

105 I don't remember the name of the word processor I used back in 1990-91 for tech writing. Worked in Windows and could WYSIWYG your pages on the screen.

It wasn't Wordstar nor Wordperfect.

I think it started off as with an Apple version before being developed for Windows.

Professionals were using it at the time. I had to RTM from cover to cover.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 07:16 AM (E63nu)

106 77 Good morning! Currently 72F with 78% RH and a little breeze on the Cowtown patio. Gonna be kinda cloudy and warm today.

The pond renovation is taking shape and we finally have significant visual progress. Todays effort is to trench for and then lay in the supply hose for the waterfall and the overflow drain, and get the drain box interfaced with the French drain. Tomorrow we have another couple of tons of stone and gravel to move off the street and a yard of topsoil to finish building the berms and stabilizing the edges. The system should be filled and fully operational by COB on Tuesday.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 01, 2025 06:29 AM (3Ope

I love reading your progress on this!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 07:17 AM (CQE5S)

107 PageMaker?

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

108 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

I hope you submit some photos to the gardening thread.

Posted by: Tuna at June 01, 2025 07:19 AM (lJ0H4)

109 93 1. Pull up the picture on your computer.

2. Take a picture of the picture with your phone.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

I have done this. I'm not even joking.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2025 06:47 AM (yvnLa)

#metoo

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 07:20 AM (CQE5S)

110 109, same here

increasingly I am using picture-on-phone as a substitute for making notes on paper, too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 01, 2025 07:24 AM (/Ghsb)

111 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

112 PageMaker?

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)
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By jove, I think you've got it!

Amazing results for back then.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 07:27 AM (E63nu)

113 I took a picture of my password list in Notepad and printed it out.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

114 And then taped it to my monitor.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

115 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 01, 2025 07:29 AM (dg+HA)

116 I have a USB cable that will connect the phone to the desktop. I have transferred photos from the phone to the desktop. I suppose it is possible to copy and paste in the other direction.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 01, 2025 07:31 AM (ZmEVT)

117 Went to Jewells45's Celebration of Life near Lee Summit, Missouri.

I told her husband and daughter that I was representing many of her friends from Ace of Spades. I told her daughter we trusted Jewells45 with our secret identities and our credit cards for her art.

And I told them both stories of Jewells45 that made them cry.
For example, one time going to Corsicana we were stuck in traffic, so she told me the real story of how she captured her husband, the love of her life.

Emma, Mr. Bassman, and Creeper were there as well. We all had a late lunch at the Italian venue where, less than a year ago, we had a MoMeet with Jewells45 and sorta local Morons.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

118 I remember being miffed many years ago, there weren’t RCA jacks on the back of my PC so i could simply plug the cables in and record my LPs onto my computer hard drive. Computers, it appeared, always had some reason you couldn’t do something simple and basic. “Oh, you need to buy this, and install the frronob software”. Oh, I see.

I spent about 5 hours with tech support (remember that?) trying to get a sound card to .. make sound. From Hawaii. Jumpers, drivers, re-boot. Ad nauseam. I thought the guy was going to cry when it finally worked.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 01, 2025 07:32 AM (S79R3)

119 47 Paris is burning. Macron is too busy being bitch slapped to do anything. The commenter I saw said it could have been worse as 1200 North African immigrants just left France for England. The invasion continues. Europe is screaed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 01, 2025 05:42 AM (sNspL)

These EU totalitarians can't govern but are absolute wizards at clinging to power. No one does it quite as well as Macron.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 01, 2025 07:32 AM (vsTPo)

120 117 Went to Jewells45's Celebration of Life near Lee Summit, Missouri.

I told her husband and daughter that I was representing many of her friends from Ace of Spades. I told her daughter we trusted Jewells45 with our secret identities and our credit cards for her art.

And I told them both stories of Jewells45 that made them cry.
For example, one time going to Corsicana we were stuck in traffic, so she told me the real story of how she captured her husband, the love of her life.

Emma, Mr. Bassman, and Creeper were there as well. We all had a late lunch at the Italian venue where, less than a year ago, we had a MoMeet with Jewells45 and sorta local Morons.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you, NaCly Dog.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 07:34 AM (CQE5S)

121 Meanwhile Canada really is burning.

Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 07:34 AM (QB+5g)

122 Thank you Salty for sharing that.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2025 07:35 AM (PiwSw)

123 Christopher Hitchens. Mark Steyn and Ayaan Hirsi Ali all warned Europe, in some cases predicted exactly what we're seeing today.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 01, 2025 07:35 AM (vsTPo)

124 PageMaker on the original Mac 9" black and white screen was both amazing and maddening. It was supposed to be the end of typesetting, and I suppose it was the beginning of the end.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

125 {{{I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper}}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

126 It would be interesting to hear what Gutenberg and A.G. Bell would think about how their inventions turned out...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2025 07:37 AM (PiwSw)

127 pawn

You would think Canada would welcome Global Warming. Well, forest fires set by non-Canadians, not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

128 Microsoft

I don't know the origin of the brand name Microsoft, but it just occurred to me that

micro
soft

would be taken as somewhat insulting by our Paolo.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 07:39 AM (CQE5S)

129 I got this email this morning:

"Hey there, we checked your website and saw it's performing poorly in Google results. "

Winning!

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

130 I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

How about the Wright Brothers watching Starship launch?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

131 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2025 07:41 AM (hoCmQ)

132 "How about the Wright Brothers watching Starship launch?
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

They would be amazed by the tech and horrified by the DEI.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

133 fd

Keep all past historical figures away from TV, cable, and DEM press releases.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

134 Background of old time hymn, "What a friend we have in Jesus" and husband and wife singing it. FaithPot site:

https://tinyurl.com/38s3ma6m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 07:43 AM (EJtBU)

135 Salty, you're a good man.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2025 07:44 AM (hoCmQ)

136 The two hot apps I remember from my early Mac days are Aldus Pagemaker and the Space Shuttle simulator. I spent a lot more time with the latter than the former.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

137 fdf

121 years from the first launch of a researched aircraft to Starship being captured by chopsticks.

Out technical progress far outstrips our cultural progress, which seems to be going in a reactionary pattern, back to the Stone Age.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

138 I had to bail out of the movie thread early last night, but-

as far as Paul Newman's best movies, you guys totally forgot-

"Hud".

A great movie with a great performance from Newman. And everyone around him.

A true classic.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 01, 2025 07:46 AM (iJfKG)

139 Time to prep for a walk with Gold Digger #1. I told her I am using her to keep my cardiovascular fitness by walking. Not in any other way was implied.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 01, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

140 138 Don't forget Paul Newman's biggest stinker, "The Silver Chalice". For a long time if he was in a town and found out it was going to run on local TV he would take out a newspaper ad issuing a formal letter of apology.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 01, 2025 07:53 AM (gm9Sb)

141 @105/Biden's Dog: I found a "Word Processing Timeline" site that might jog your memory of what that word processing software you used was called.

https://tinyurl.com/yc8ayctx

See if it's listed there?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 07:53 AM (O7YUW)

142 "Hud".

A great movie with a great performance from Newman. And everyone around him.

A true classic.
Posted by: naturalfake
______

Yes. I just don't know whether he's won Lon over in the end, as the kid seems pretty nihilistic by then too.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 01, 2025 07:53 AM (UBKzV)

143 b"h Salty

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2025 07:54 AM (PqUrB)

144 Hahahaha, Macron gets a rhetorical slap from Ambassador Huckabee. "If Macron wants a palestinian so bad he can carve out a hunk of the Riviera and create one there"

Posted by: Ben Had at June 01, 2025 07:54 AM (NVNRw)

145 Morning peeps. Speaking of early IT, I've told this story here before, but it's still kinda' cute.

Back in high school my dad spent a small fortune on an Apple IIe. He also got an external floppy drive (so there were 2) and a dot matrix printer. Probably a small fortune back then, but he was a data analyst working for one of those 3-letter FedGov joints.

Anyway, we learned how to use the word processor, whatever it was, and I did a paper on it for one of my classes. Had to be 3 pages, typed. So, I turned in a 3 page printed paper and got an F on it. Teacher tells me I didn't write it, a computer did. I explained I did type all the words in myself, but she refused to believe it.

Took my parents the better part of an hour to explain how this all works to her. I don't think she ever really bought into it. I got a C on the paper, which I though was unfair.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

146 138 Don't forget Paul Newman's biggest stinker, "The Silver Chalice". For a long time if he was in a town and found out it was going to run on local TV he would take out a newspaper ad issuing a formal letter of apology.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 01, 2025 07:53 AM (gm9Sb)

Or "Quintet". A real stink bomb.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Wood at June 01, 2025 07:56 AM (R/m4+)

147 @Biden's Dog: Oh, never mind, you already found the name. (I'm obviously catching up with a morning's worth of comments here as I drink my first coffee.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 07:58 AM (O7YUW)

148 146 Team Newman used to race at Nelson Ledges Raceway in Ohio, formula something. There was a bar down the road, the Green Gables, and Newman would stock it with Coors when you couldn't get it back east. Guy liked his beer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 01, 2025 07:59 AM (gm9Sb)

149 140 138 Don't forget Paul Newman's biggest stinker, "The Silver Chalice". For a long time if he was in a town and found out it was going to run on local TV he would take out a newspaper ad issuing a formal letter of apology.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 01, 2025 07:53 AM (gm9Sb)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:00 AM (CQE5S)

150 50 ft coffee tree in full bloom in the front yard.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 01, 2025 08:02 AM (UBKzV)

151 Pixy, that paper about the AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine is very interesting and very well written. It avoids jargon and is highly readable.

I think I'm going to spend some time later today to glom it.

Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

152 145 Morning peeps. Speaking of early IT, I've told this story here before, but it's still kinda' cute.

Back in high school my dad spent a small fortune on an Apple IIe. He also got an external floppy drive (so there were 2) and a dot matrix printer. Probably a small fortune back then, but he was a data analyst working for one of those 3-letter FedGov joints.

Anyway, we learned how to use the word processor, whatever it was, and I did a paper on it for one of my classes. Had to be 3 pages, typed. So, I turned in a 3 page printed paper and got an F on it. Teacher tells me I didn't write it, a computer did. I explained I did type all the words in myself, but she refused to believe it.

Took my parents the better part of an hour to explain how this all works to her.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

Nice one.
In about '88, I took a class where we were told we had to write our papers out by hand, because when people typed (on a typewriter or computer), they blamed the typewriter or computer for typos. I said, "How about if I take responsibility for any typos." And I won.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:05 AM (CQE5S)

153 > Team Newman used to race at Nelson Ledges Raceway in Ohio, formula something.
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SCCA. He had a Datsun 510 at one time and then later switched to Datsun/Nissan 240/260/280Z's. I think the team he was with morphed into a TransAm class where they race against 'Vette's, Z-28's, Porsche's, Chargers, etc.

Saw him, and a young Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway in WV back in the day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

154 151 Pixy, that paper about the AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine is very interesting and very well written. It avoids jargon and is highly readable.

I think I'm going to spend some time later today to glom it.
Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

You know, ChatGPT can summarize it for you.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2025 08:06 AM (PiwSw)

155 "they blamed the typewriter or computer for typos."

Unpossible!

Posted by: AI Autocorrupt at June 01, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

156 I saw Newman at Mid-Ohio over 29 years ago. That's a very nice track. I'd like to go back and maybe do a Track Night.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

157 Godspeed to Jewels.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 01, 2025 08:11 AM (dg+HA)

158 > I saw Newman at Mid-Ohio over 29 years ago. That's a very nice track.
---------
It is. I've seen motorcycles, SCCA and IndyCar race there. Raced it in some old racing sim games back in the day with a wheel/peddle setup.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

159 Where's Bruce, lately?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:14 AM (CQE5S)

160 105 I don't remember the name of the word processor I used back in 1990-91 for tech writing. Worked in Windows and could WYSIWYG your pages on the screen.

It wasn't Wordstar nor Wordperfect.

I think it started off as with an Apple version before being developed for Windows.

Professionals were using it at the time. I had to RTM from cover to cover.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 07:16 AM (E63nu)
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Electric Pencil ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Near Space at June 01, 2025 08:14 AM (sPQoU)

161 I say "If yours is a PC," as connecting my phone to my Mac does not show the phone as a device on its version of Windows Explorer. I have to connect them via Bluetooth.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

I transfer photos all the time from my Windows laptop to my Galaxy Android phone via a USB C cable. And from the phone to my laptop. Been doing that for a long time, even with my older Android phones. Eeezy, peezy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 01, 2025 08:16 AM (5xuJ/)

162 Or "Quintet". A real stink bomb.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Wood at June 01, 2025 07:56 AM (R/m4+)“

Funny thing about Quintet, and the other reason it’s been forgotten, is that it was made during that brief window in the 70’s when the left had decided that “the new Ice Age!” was going to be their Big New Environmental Issue. Then they switched to “global warming” and all of their Ice Age talk had to be memory holed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2025 08:16 AM (i5oKA)

163 One of my brother's had the album of JWWoW when it came out way back when. It left an impression. I do a full listening every Halloween. Great stuff.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 01, 2025 08:17 AM (3O2ht)

164 162 Funny thing about Quintet, and the other reason it’s been forgotten, is that it was made during that brief window in the 70’s when the left had decided that “the new Ice Age!” was going to be their Big New Environmental Issue. Then they switched to “global warming” and all of their Ice Age talk had to be memory holed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2025 08:16 AM (i5oKA)

Climate Instability!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:18 AM (CQE5S)

165 I was an early adopter of submitting printed assignment for school. I was using TRS-80 computers at the time, and bought an old DEC-Writer II hard copy terminal and drove it from the Trash-80's via a self-wired null modem cable at 300 bps (30 characters per second.)

It had switches on it to allow you to select from 110, 150, or 300 bps (baud).

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 08:18 AM (O7YUW)

166 @Biden's Dog: Oh, never mind, you already found the name. (I'm obviously catching up with a morning's worth of comments here as I drink my first coffee.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 07:58 AM (O7YUW)
-

Just put up our mid-afternoon stovetop brewed Columbian for some cappuccinos.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 08:19 AM (E63nu)

167 While the degens celebrate the sin of pride this month, I invite you to join in dedicating June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins, I offer you this poor heart of mine.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 01, 2025 08:19 AM (gDlxJ)

168 166 Just put up our mid-afternoon stovetop brewed Columbian for some cappuccinos.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 08:19 AM (E63nu)

yum

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:20 AM (CQE5S)

169 "Electric Pencil ?
Posted by: Ciampino

TRS-80 program. I think it was ported to DOS, but not Mac.

If anybody wants a TRS-80 and Electric Pencil, let me know. I have two of them that will eventually be scrapped if I don't find anyone who wants them.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

170 Electric Pencil ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Near Space at June 01, 2025 08:14 AM (sPQoU)
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PageMaker. See prior comments.

Desktop publishing more than word processing. I got to work with professional publishing staff at the time. Was good experience.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 08:21 AM (E63nu)

171 Not DOS, CP/M. Electric pencil may have been dead by the time DOS came around.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

172 There's a wiki entry on EP.

"Jerry Pournelle is recognized as the first author to have written a published portion of a book using a word processor on a personal computer, using Electric Pencil for that purpose. In 1977, Pournelle was shown the program and decided it would help his productivity by making it easier to produce a final manuscript without requiring a complete retyping of edited pages."

Electric Pencil remained on the market into the 1980s, including a version for the IBM PC in 1983.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

173 For people who had to type, but couldn't type well, WordPerfect was a lifesaver.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 01, 2025 08:25 AM (DIygw)

174 Thank you so much for this column. I don't understand 90% of the tech stuff, but it's still my first read in the morning.

Posted by: Galt at June 01, 2025 08:26 AM (9UnaD)

175 And the WYSIWIG add on for Excel

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 01, 2025 08:27 AM (DIygw)

176 Where's Bruce, lately?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:14 AM (CQE5S)

I haven't seen him, although I'm usually just on in the morning.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 01, 2025 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

177 The real apogee of early word processing and dot matrix printers was the art created with it.

Now replicated here on occasion.

¯\_(ツ

_/¯

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

178 Well, sort of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

179 I remember using a program called First Choice somewhere around the late 80's. It had a word processor, spreadsheet, and database software.
I thought it was pretty good for it's time.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 01, 2025 08:30 AM (Lo97M)

180 The folks at that restaurant were so nice. They'd finished the lunch shift, so they locked the doors and let us stay while they cleaned up. Was a good visit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2025 08:34 AM (AcTAo)

181 177

¯\_(ツ _/¯
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

heh

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:38 AM (CQE5S)

182 Ah, Lotus Smart Suite! 25 floppies to install. I did some of that, first computer job I had

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2025 08:41 AM (AcTAo)

183 Today in many liturgical churches we celebrate Ascension Sunday, the day Jesus was taken up into heaven. Here is a prayer for Ascension Sunday by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who lived from 1090-1153, and who founded the Cistercian order of monks:

To complete your seamless robe, and so complete our faith, you ascended through the air into the heavens, before the very eyes of the apostles. In this way, you showed you are Lord of all, and are the fulfillment of all creation. This from that very moment every human being and every living creature should bow at your name. And in the eyes of faith, we can see that all creation proclaims your greatness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 08:42 AM (HlDm/)

184 Russian airbase got hit bad!

https://tinyurl.com/yhs5wzz5

And China is saber rattling.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2025 08:42 AM (E63nu)

185 183- typo. Should be "Thus" from that moment and not "This".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2025 08:44 AM (HlDm/)

186 It's early! Also, June! How did THAT happen??

Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

187 180 The folks at that restaurant were so nice. They'd finished the lunch shift, so they locked the doors and let us stay while they cleaned up. Was a good visit.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2025 08:34 AM (AcTAo)

Glad you could go there!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:46 AM (CQE5S)

188 runner, something about the earth revolving around the sun?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 01, 2025 08:46 AM (NVNRw)

189 Yes, an airbase in Siberia. Couple of drones, exact number unknown. Sounds like Ukraine wants to lose some more territory. Or all of it.

Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

190 186 It's early! Also, June! How did THAT happen??
Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

Also, 2025!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:49 AM (CQE5S)

191 Also, 2025!

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Thanks, I am catching on, I think.

Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:50 AM (g47mK)

192 191 Also, 2025!

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Thanks, I am catching on, I think.
Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:50 AM (g47mK)

I had to check my computer screen's time and date to be sure I was right.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:50 AM (CQE5S)

193 > Russian airbase got hit bad!
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Reports are that Ukraine used 40+ FPV drones to hit about 3-4 Russian airbases. Targets appeared to be heavy bombers.

Putin's gonna' be pissed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 01, 2025 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

194 "Russian airbase got hit bad!"

Drones took out two bombers on the ground.

Sorry, I don't find that impressive at all.

Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:54 AM (QB+5g)

195 Ukraine is supposed to deliver on June 2nd in Istanbul. An answer to various proposals to settle the conflict. So they are , just like their spiritual brethren in gazzza, Judea and Samaria, are trying to sabotage the talks.

Posted by: runner at June 01, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

196 "Russian airbase got hit bad!"

Drones took out two bombers on the ground.

Sorry, I don't find that impressive at all.
Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:54 AM

Picture a $100k Iranian drone taking out a $2B B2 bomber.

Posted by: toby928 at June 01, 2025 08:56 AM (jc0TO)

197 When I was in school for computers/office work in early 1988, we had green-screen PCs and learned WordStar, WordPerfect 4.1 (I think it was that version), a certain amount of DOS (or maybe that was me going beyond the classwork), IBM's DisplayWrite, and DBase III. As well as learning how to touch-type on electric typewriters, how to write a good resume and cover letter, how to compose business letters, and how to interview.

Then I landed my first job in the office world -- and they were almost the only department on campus who used MS Word for DOS 5.0. I took the manual and ran with it. Before long I was doing mail-merge and writing macros. Heady days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 08:56 AM (omVj0)

198 So, what are they so PROUD of?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 01, 2025 08:57 AM (dg+HA)

199 Cool story, Wolfus.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:57 AM (CQE5S)

200 200

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:57 AM (CQE5S)

201 @184/Biden's Dog: "Russian airbase got hit bad!"

Good hits on the actual aircraft. Was surprised to see the actual runway intact (expected serious cratering) until I read it was done by drones, then it made sense.

"And China is saber rattling."

Oh goodie.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 08:58 AM (O7YUW)

202 Nice score, m. And good morning!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2025 08:58 AM (O7YUW)

203 Some things work better than others.

Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2025 08:59 AM (LHPAg)

204 Oh, and in the computer classes we also did some work with Lotus 1-2-3. Again, all in DOS. I didn't make the acquaintance of Windows 3.1 until '92 or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 08:59 AM (omVj0)

205
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Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 08:59 AM (CQE5S)

206 Noodus biblioteca

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2025 08:59 AM (omVj0)

207 Pixy, that paper about the AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine is very interesting and very well written. It avoids jargon and is highly readable.

I think I'm going to spend some time later today to glom it.
Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

You know, ChatGPT can summarize it for you.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
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Know a guy that thinks ChatGPT is awesome for that.

He's the college guy who thinks Cliff Notes are just as good as reading it yourself.... and calculators are just as good as learning basic arithmatic.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 01, 2025 09:04 AM (/lPRQ)

208 >>>AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine business act like petulant children, declare bankruptcy for no reason, and try to call the FBI over $2 business fees that they have previously agreed to.

If this was something that really happened, it would be interesting to know about. But as it is, it's just a simulation.

Some doofi program a computer to do some stupid things; it does those stupid things. We should just yawn.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 01, 2025 10:42 AM (p4nXC)

209 FYI the first Victor Tango Kilo book "The Baddies"was "free" when I clicked on the Amazon link in the post. Second "Hell Yeah..." was $3.99 so I bought them both, I don't know if Victor is getting his cut but I hope so.

Pup

Posted by: Pupster at June 01, 2025 11:20 AM (DuqHK)

210 151 Pixy, that paper about the AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine is very interesting and very well written.
Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2025 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

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... if capability researchers optimize their systems to perform well on these benchmarks, they may unintentionally advance the very capabilities we aim to assess and in order to avoid.

It's in Swenglish, Swedish English.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2025 02:00 PM (CQE5S)

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