Daily Tech News 2 August 2025

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UK premium luggage service Airportr, which provided door-to-door service and worked with ten European airlines, was not hacked, exactly. (Wired) (archive site)

Because it had no security at all. Anyone could look up anyone's personal information, or even log in as an administrator and redirect their luggage.
The vulnerabilities resulted in complete confidential private information exposure of all airline customers in all countries who used the service of this company, including full control over all the bookings and baggage. Because once you are the super-admin of their most sensitive systems, you have have the ability to do anything.
It was found by security analysts before anyone took advantage of it. The CEO of security group Cyber9X is quoted above.

Tech News

Three senior executives are retiring from Intel Foundry, Intel's foundry division. (Tom's Hardware)
The departures come as Intel implements a major cost-cutting plan, aiming to reduce its global workforce by 15%. The company expects to close the year with approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, which means that the company will have fired 30,000 people in 2025.
Those numbers don't add up because Intel has already laid off 15,000 staff this year.
Titan Quest II is out in early access right now, available on Steam at 50% of the planned launch price of $50. (WCCFTech)

Titan Quest was a great game - linear, yes, but a very long line - but that was all the way back in 2006.

Titan Quest II is reportedly good as well, though the playable content in the early access release so far only lasts about four hours.
Google has filed an emergency motion in its failed case against Epic, arguing that it needs more time to make the changes ordered. (Thurrott)

Google has been given only 14 days to deliver, which is not a lot of time, true.

But the lawsuit started five years ago, and Epic won the case - on all counts - twenty months ago.

Time for Google to pull an all-nighter.
Atlassian - Australia's largest tech company as far as I know - fired 150 of its European staff via prerecorded video. (Cyberdaily)

I used to kind of like Atlassian because small companies could buy any of their products for $10 and host them on they own servers. They did get their fangs into you as you grew, of course.

Now it's just loathing all the way down.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Crunch crunch crunch squeak.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 02, 2025 04:29 AM (aURVT)

2 slow as usual

Posted by: clarence at August 02, 2025 04:30 AM (HEnIi)

3 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at August 02, 2025 04:33 AM (HEnIi)

4 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:33 AM (u82oZ)

5 m

Congratulation on a First. So are you branching out from the 100s posts?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:34 AM (u82oZ)

6 >>Now it's jut loathing all the way down.

I don't see why people would loath a jut, those h8ers.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

7 How many 'no security at all' stories have there been just this week?

Posted by: clarence at August 02, 2025 04:36 AM (HEnIi)

8 Help us Pixy

You're our only hope!

Posted by: Hackable Miklos at August 02, 2025 04:36 AM (whVCA)

9 5 m

Congratulation on a First. So are you branching out from the 100s posts?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:34 AM (u82oZ)

Branching out all the time! New worlds to conquer!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

10 No security at all. I wonder how much of the system was AI or vibe coded?

Posted by: WarEagle82 at August 02, 2025 04:37 AM (YcfMX)

11 Hackable Miklos

Up early with Darlene and Marlene, or out late with Charlene and Darlene at Waffle House? Good to see you posting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:38 AM (u82oZ)

12 >>Now it's just loathing all the way down.

But I swear, it was

Posted by: m at August 02, 2025 04:39 AM (aURVT)

13 m

Impressive. Do you cover your "I love me" walls with your achievements?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:40 AM (u82oZ)

14 m

I saw it too. The power of Pixy Misa is considerable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:41 AM (u82oZ)

15 Always loved this song

Posted by: Steven at August 02, 2025 04:43 AM (HS1/y)

16 I actually didn't"'t think Three Dog Night was singing the hymn " Joy To The World" but I always thought the name of that song was "Jeremiah was a bullfrog",. The lead singer has/had a nice strong voice, but I never liked that song. I realize this makes me a big old grouch.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 04:44 AM (2GCMq)

17 Up early with Darlene and Marlene, or out late with Charlene and Darlene at Waffle House? Good to see you posting.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Darleen is "visiting" her "cousin" down at Frogmore.

Charleen and Marleen are at the Bass Masters Tournament.

Peace and quiet for me, and some damn money in three weeks

Posted by: Miklos doing some Bidniss at August 02, 2025 04:45 AM (whVCA)

18 FenelonSpoke

I am in accord with your assessment. It reminds me of some bad days as a yute.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:45 AM (u82oZ)

19 Joy
G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at August 02, 2025 04:46 AM (NC/it)

20 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2025 04:48 AM (cHNrw)

21 Good morning good people.

Gearing up for a long drive home today. These 500 mile drives are starting to wear on me.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 02, 2025 04:48 AM (6WCwE)

22 FenelonSpoke

May you and FenelonSpouse continue to thrive and support each other. And may your love for FenelonSon buoy him in his vicissitudes. Please tell him from me that you can overcome shyness. When I say that, my friends laugh, because they can not imagine the shy me of early days.

My family arrived yesterday, and it went a lot better than expected.

The 11 AM Celebration of my late wife's Life is almost here, and just three things are required tomake it work fro the throng.

So off to do those things.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:50 AM (u82oZ)

23 I actually didn't"'t think Three Dog Night was singing the hymn " Joy To The World" but I always thought the name of that song was "Jeremiah was a bullfrog",. The lead singer has/had a nice strong voice, but I never liked that song. I realize this makes me a big old grouch.
Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 04:44 AM (2GCMq)

Three Dog Night had terrific "three part harmon-ny'.

Very underrated band. Lots of catchy tunes all over the airwaves when I was growing up. Not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 04:51 AM (gKDq2)

24 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Life is short, so enthusiastically meld with those closest to you. We need more love and strong groups of people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:52 AM (u82oZ)

25 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:45 AM

I had a friend/roomate who went to our college reunion . I could not go . She said " They were playing all those old songs " ( No; she and I did not graduate from college in 1971) she made me laugh when she said " I didn't listen to them back then either .". She snd I were cranking out LPs of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart .

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 04:53 AM (2GCMq)

26 Life is short, so enthusiastically meld with those closest to you. We need more love and strong groups of people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

What seems a loss for us, is gift for those who go.

Posted by: Miklos at August 02, 2025 04:53 AM (whVCA)

27 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 02, 2025 04:54 AM (XQo4F)

28
Jeremiah was a peat bog?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 04:55 AM (Tv15w)

29 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2025 04:50 AM (u82oZ

Thanks, Salty. May the Lord bless you with a special day with all those who knew and loved your wife.

I will tell son. I think he's getting better at talking with people .

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

30 Good morning! Looks like yesterday's rain dance (watering the lawn) had no effect and the rain showers in the area passed us by. Gonna have to mow and edge and try to harvest the figs before the squirrels and birds take them all.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 02, 2025 04:59 AM (3Ope8)

31 Apparently, according to the 'net one of the most
misheard lyrics of Rock/ etc was

Rocket Man’ by Elton John

Misheard Lyrics: And I'll be high, -igh, -igh Hezekiah by then.

Original Lyrics: And I'll be high, -igh, -igh as a kite by then.

I can't remember if I heard it as Hezekia or not . I rather like that mistake since he was. a Jewish king from the Bible .

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:02 AM (2GCMq)

32 And Hezekiah was ( among some baddies) one of the righteous kings.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:04 AM (2GCMq)

33 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

JT

Posted by: Miklos sez Hiya at August 02, 2025 05:05 AM (whVCA)

34 Man repairing a car finds a wallet in engine from 11 years ago, tracks down owner and returns wallet:

https://tinyurl.com/5bxhfmhm

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:12 AM (2GCMq)

35
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 02, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

36 A good time to pray . James 5:13-16:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9k3p3b

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:17 AM (2GCMq)

37 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)

38 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 02, 2025 05:23 AM (hoCmQ)

39 Posted by: Tonypete at August 02, 2025 04:48 AM (6WCwE

Wow; That is a long drive. May you have traveling blessings!

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:24 AM (2GCMq)

40 Dog not a big fan of a freshly caught fish. Story from " Sunny Skyz":

https://tinyurl.com/2urj3mvb

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)

41
Good morning, Hordians. Woke up at 3:00 and that's all she wrote. Couldn't get back to sleep at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2025 05:29 AM (HZi96)

42 I can't find a reference for it, but I think there may have been a children's church song that began with the words "Jeremiah was a prophet" that was the inspiration for this song. As I understand it, it was written by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae. Perhaps her influence.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 05:31 AM (XQo4F)

43 Sorry, Hadrian. And I guess you're too busy with dog duties to take a nap later?

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:32 AM (2GCMq)

44 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 05:31 AM (XQo4F)

That's interesting . Poor, faithful Jeremiah did not have an easy time of things.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:34 AM (2GCMq)

45 Bird feeder drama. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/mrna3rdu

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:35 AM (2GCMq)

46 Behind the name:
According to the band’s official website, the name Three Dog Night comes from a phrase often used by Aboriginal Australian hunters as a barometer for how cold a night in the Outback would be.

The hunters would dig a hole in the ground and then use dingos to keep warm. If it was cold they’d sleep with two dogs. If it was freezing it would be a “three-dog night.” They wanted to include the number three somewhere in their moniker as a representation of the idea that there are three lead singers.

As any school child can tell you.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 05:39 AM (XQo4F)

47 And the reason I didn't really like " Joy to the World by Three Dog night was not because I really dislike the words or lyrics. It's just that it was overplayed and I got tired of it

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:42 AM (2GCMq)

48 The Internet by Design is not really secure and that's why it's so difficult to build security into it

Now one could resolve this dichotomy by implementing significant punishments for things like cybercrime

But we've gotten much less serious about punishing traditional crime in the current ERA and we've never been serious about punishing cybercrime

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2025 05:43 AM (kyl+V)

49 >>> Bird feeder drama

We have had such drama over the years and mitigating drama is a twice daily chore for nine months of the year.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 05:44 AM (AN2gy)

50 "One is the loneliest number " was a good song by Three Dog Night .

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 02, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)

51 Successful consumption of a bacon, 2 eggs and cheese on a toasted roll.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 05:51 AM (gKDq2)

52 Evening and morning to all the Saturn's Day toilers and early risers! 'Tis the weekend yet again, innit? Pining for the fjords, are we?

Okay, that's all the Michael Palin and John Cleese for today. I'm up with coffee, having fed the furry thugs, and looking at a busy morning with a haircut, feeding the car, and a flying visit to Walmart. How is ever'body?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

53 Three Dog Night's "I Must Let the Shogun Yawn" was how I heard the lyrics of that song.

The 'Net says they had twenty-one Top 40 songs between 1969 and 1975 -- three a year for seven years. Pretty solid credentials.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

54 It was just an old fashioned love song.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

55 Coming down in three part harmony.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 06:06 AM (XQo4F)

56 Eli's Comin', Celebrate, both good tunes. Celebrate had the really good a cappella parts that really showed off their amazing harmonies.

They released early a live record from the Hollywood Bowl which is quite good. I also had "Harmony," with the hits 'Never Been To Spain' and 'Old Fashioned Love Song'. Liked that album.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 06:18 AM (gKDq2)

57 Fen, is your nic in the past tense now, or perhaps just a typo?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

58
Dogs let out, morning prayers said, coffee consumed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2025 06:26 AM (HZi96)

59
To be fair, "Joy to the World" is a better drinking song than "Piano Man".

But then, what isn't?

Posted by: Auspex at August 02, 2025 06:28 AM (Y8DZL)

60
Question for the intelligent people here. I want to get some WiFi signal down to the kennel, a metal building about 100 feet away from the house, so we can run our cameras there without waiting a long time for a connection to get established. Would an ordinary WiFi extender work or do I need to set up some point-to-point? Running an ethernet line down there is out of the question.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2025 06:30 AM (HZi96)

61
Being part of the Boomer self-love fest, "The Big Chill", killed off "Joy to the World" for me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:33 AM (Tv15w)

62 Hadrian, if you have power at the kennel that feeds from the house, a pair of power line Ethernet adapter may work to extend your network. Then you can put a wifi access point in the kennel.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

63 mornin yall.

"Experts reveal why you could spend thousands more to own a car this year "

I could spend thousands more any year to own a car. I think the Experts are FOS.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2025 06:37 AM (vFG9F)

64 Being part of the Boomer self-love fest, "The Big Chill", killed off "Joy to the World" for me.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:33 AM (Tv15w)

Had the 45s of that, the Bullfrog song and Mama Told Me Not To Come. Still laugh with that one. The reaction videos to that song can be hilarious.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 06:37 AM (gKDq2)

65 Sarah Hoyt appears to be on vacation or something, so no memes at AccordingToHoyt.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 06:37 AM (AN2gy)

66 It's @#$&* 3:30 on the left coast and I have no good reason for being unable to sleep. I'm going to be at least 25% more of a cranky bastard today than normal.

On that note, good morning, day walkers.

Posted by: PabloD at August 02, 2025 06:38 AM (ux+px)

67 Needless to say, I did enjoy the music of Three Dog Night.

It's an everlovin' bloody crime they aren't in The Hall.

Okay, rant off.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 06:39 AM (gKDq2)

68 "Experts reveal why you could spend thousands more to own a car this year "

Funny, Scotty Kilmer, YooToob's greatest Toyota salesman, seems to think car prices will drop significantly.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 06:39 AM (AN2gy)

69 "Experts reveal why you could spend thousands more to own a car this year "

Funny, Scotty Kilmer, YooToob's greatest Toyota salesman, seems to think car prices will drop significantly.
Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 06:39 AM (AN2gy)

My theory is if you always predict gloom and doom and you're wrong, nobody remembers. But if you get lucky that one time, you're a friggin' economic genius worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 06:42 AM (gKDq2)

70 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

The former handle was a typo when I got something on the stupid phone that didn't keep my former handle and I mistyped it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2025 06:44 AM (9oXIp)

71
Having had relatives work in what were called foundries back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, the name Intel Foundry brings up a dissonant vibe. I don't associate vessels of molten metal being poured with computer chip manufacturing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:46 AM (Tv15w)

72 The BOE in the county just South of me is going to raise property taxes 12%. They say they need the money to pay their employees more. No mention of actually improving education.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2025 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

73
But if you get lucky that one time, you're a friggin' economic genius worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Posted by: RickZ

I know, right?

-- Paul "Trillion Dollar Coin" Krugman

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:48 AM (Tv15w)

74 I think the One Big Beautiful Bill did away with the penalties automakers have to pay for not meeting CAFE standards.

Consequently we may see a Renaissance in small pickup trucks that about half the guys in the country would like to own.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025 06:49 AM (XQo4F)

75
The BOE in the county just South of me is going to raise property taxes 12%. They say they need the money to pay their employees more. No mention of actually improving education.
Posted by: fd

Did they license David Bowie's "Heroes" for the soundtrack of the campaign's ads?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:50 AM (Tv15w)

76 “ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Galatians 5:13-15

Posted by: Marcus T at August 02, 2025 06:51 AM (7TdnZ)

77 It should be 10am

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 06:51 AM (cC5Hl)

78 Hadrian, look up "TP-Link Powerline Wi-Fi 6 Extender TL-WPA7817". It might do what you want.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

79 - Eli's Coming
Easy to be Hard
Just to add a couple more to the mix.
Golden Biscuits, if I remember correctly, is their greatest hits LP.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 06:53 AM (jocM1)

80 Most misheard lyrics?

Manfred Mann's Earth Band‘s “Blinded By The Light”.

It is:
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

Not:
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

I blame the singer or sound engineer, because it does sound like he’s singing that.

And most people don’t know what a deuce is when it comes to cars,1932 Ford).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

81 According to the band’s official website, the name Three Dog Night comes from a phrase often used by Aboriginal Australian hunters as a barometer for how cold a night in the Outback would be.

The hunters would dig a hole in the ground and then use dingos to keep warm. If it was cold they’d sleep with two dogs. If it was freezing it would be a “three-dog night.” They wanted to include the number three somewhere in their moniker as a representation of the idea that there are three lead singers.

As any school child can tell you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2025

***
I'd always heard it was the Eskimos!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

82 71
Having had relatives work in what were called foundries back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, the name Intel Foundry brings up a dissonant vibe. I don't associate vessels of molten metal being poured with computer chip manufacturing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 02, 2025 06:46 AM (Tv15w)

Well, in this case it is vessels of molten sand/silicon.

So it is correct from that perspective.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:00 AM (6ydKt)

83 Breakfast is done. About time for me to shave; it's always a polite thing to do, to shave before going to the barber (unless he's going to shave you), like brushing your teeth before a visit to the dentist.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

84 Teej,

3DN's Greatest Hits was my youth well into high school. Still listened to them in college when there were much heavier alternatives in my collection that got 'airplay'. When people skimmed through my collection seeing names like King Crimson, Humbe Pie and they'd hit upon a 3DN album, they'd give me a look. I just liked 'em. I was 12 when they first hit the airwaves. Like I said, a group who made songs of my youth and whose songs were everywhere. Lyrics? I may not remember now until you put the song on. Muscle memory by this point.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:00 AM (gKDq2)

85 - Sleeping with dingos?
Aren't those Australia's version of a wolf?

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 07:03 AM (jocM1)

86 >>> I'd always heard it was the Eskimos!

Similar, I heard Siberia, which allegedly could have a six dog night.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 07:04 AM (AN2gy)

87 Doubt I even got 6 hours of sleep should just get up , make breakfast and nap later

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 07:04 AM (cC5Hl)

88 I just liked 'em. I was 12 when they first hit the airwaves. Like I said, a group who made songs of my youth and whose songs were everywhere. Lyrics? I may not remember now until you put the song on. Muscle memory by this point.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:00 AM (gKDq2)

I got the same looks over my Bee Gees albums.

But tell me a better three- part harmony band that ruled the late-70s disco craze.

I still love their singing and will stop and listen to “Staying Alive” any time I hear it.

Those brothers could sing like angels together.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

89

>>Funny, Scotty Kilmer, YooToob's greatest Toyota salesman, seems to think car prices will drop significantly

Inflation never goes away, the rate of change gets less, that is all, unless you are in a deflationary environment, then your economy is f****d.

Data point, the Ford Maverick, the sub-20k pickup, now has a starting price of 28k.

And all new vehicles are roughly 40pct more expensive than they were 5 years ago.

I don't expect the prices to budge an inch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2025 07:08 AM (XV/Pl)

90 @87/Skip: Meanwhile in Casa del Recalcitrant, six hours of sleep was not enough. Blergh.

Drinking coffee now.

G'morning Horde...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2025 07:09 AM (O7YUW)

91 morning everyone, looking forward to a dryer weekend to get some work done outside.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 02, 2025 07:09 AM (Wg6v7)

92 85 - Sleeping with dingos?
Aren't those Australia's version of a wolf?
Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 07:03 AM

###

Don't let them near your baby!

https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 02, 2025 07:10 AM (XQo4F)

93 Three Dog Night was my first concert. 1970. It was a good show.

Posted by: Vin at August 02, 2025 07:11 AM (cC0M+)

94 "...should just get up, make breakfast and nap later."

I lost the ability to nap somewhere in my mid- to late-20s. I have to be on death's door to sleep during the day. I'm envious of anybody who can.

Posted by: PabloD at August 02, 2025 07:12 AM (ux+px)

95
Colorado Rockies were down 9-0 after 1, 15-6 after 5 and 16-10 going into the bottom of the 8th. They walked it off, 17-16.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2025 07:13 AM (HZi96)

96 And all new vehicles are roughly 40pct more expensive than they were 5 years ago.

I don't expect the prices to budge an inch.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2025 07:08 AM (XV/Pl)

It’s like the prices jumped in 2021 because “supply chain” and never went down again when the supply chain became oversupplied.

Oil/Gas is the same.
Something causes the price to go up and the change the price at the gas stations the next day.

But when the price goes down it takes months to go through the system.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

97 Pro tips on how to sleep in a chair:

1) Be old.
2) Sit in a comfortable chair.

Posted by: Follow me for more tips at August 02, 2025 07:14 AM (XQo4F)

98 SpeakingOf,

When I first heard 'Masachusetts' by The Bee Gees, this rocker was impressed. Their disco was a part of everybody's life in the late '70s, a cultural phenomenom thanks to movies. But I wasn't a fan of that music. By then I was into rock/blues and the two don't really mix.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:14 AM (gKDq2)

99 Coffee is another thing that seems to be a victim of night shift. Haven't made any for days.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 07:14 AM (cC5Hl)

100 - RickZ
Pretty much the same here. Though I think I was two or three years older when they landed. I was a month shy of nine when one day my older sister by 4 years was running around the house yelling "The Beatles are going to be on Ed Sullivan."

Me - What's a beetle? I found out. The next 4 years, if I wasn't fishing or playing baseball, my red, Sears transistor was glued to my ear.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 07:15 AM (jocM1)

101 Inflation never goes away, the rate of change gets less, that is all, unless you are in a deflationary environment, then your economy is f****d.

It can go away, if your money is spent on 1) a good or 2) a service.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2025 07:17 AM (WeMfR)

102 In our local news, Khoury Costello Booze was arrested for, you guessed it, DUI.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

103 TeeJ,

8-years-old for me. I was in front of the television 10 minutes early, just to make sure the rabbit ears were getting channel 3. For some reason, my parents didn't put up much of a fuss. Little did they know. The road to all day concerts ruination.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:19 AM (gKDq2)

104 @66/PabloD: "I'm going to be at least 25% more of a cranky bastard today than normal."

ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED!

1) "Boom Boom, Out go the Lights!" (You kicked out at least three random cars' driver's side headlights.)

2) "Is anybody out there?" (You pennied the hinge side of a door, preventing the occupants from leaving the building.)

3) "Honk Honk Rattle Rattle Rattle Crash Beep Beep" (You filled your rear bumper with cement and then brake-checked at least three other cars and drove off, all while using stolen license plates.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2025 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

105 We had a bit about this yesterday. If Kamala Harris disses on Biden's cognitive dysfunction. apparently Biden's aides will go "Palinesque" on her. Sarah Palin got savaged by the leftist press. Of course, as we all know, she never said " I can see Russia from my house" ( That was from an SNL skit.) and the left seriously believed that the Governor of Alaska didn't know that Africa was a continent and not just one country?! Yep, the left is all about affirming women as long as they're fake transgender " women" or not Republicans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2025 07:19 AM (2GCMq)

106
Had to stop the morning walk because of the Canadian smoke.

It's been around all week but it smells so bad this morning you can taste it.

Posted by: Auspex at August 02, 2025 07:21 AM (Y8DZL)

107 Their disco was a part of everybody's life in the late '70s, a cultural phenomenom thanks to movies. But I wasn't a fan of that music. By then I was into rock/blues and the two don't really mix.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:14 AM (gKDq2)

I guess I’m no longer bothered by genre love.

If it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, I’ll give it a listen.

Other than a few songs by KC and the Sunshine Band, I’m not into disco either, but it certainly was a unique time in music.

Even the late 70s 007 movies (Roger Moore) had some disco funk in the background music in those days.

Led Zeppelin had some disco-ish sounds on a few songs from “In Through The Out Door”.
You couldn’t escape it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

108 Posted by: Auspex at August 02, 2025 07:21 AM (Y8DZL)

Sorry!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2025 07:25 AM (2GCMq)

109 Waiting to be born again
Wanting, the saddest kind of pain
Waiting for the day when ai will crawl away.

Nothing is what I feel.
Waiting for the drugs to make it real.
Waiting for the day when I will crawl away.

Waiting to be disciplined.
Aching for your nails across my skin.
Waiting for the day when I will crawl, waiting for the day when I will crawl away

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2025 07:30 AM (WeMfR)

110 - Porcupine Tree, “Waiting”

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2025 07:31 AM (WeMfR)

111 >>> Led Zeppelin had some disco-ish sounds on a few songs from “In Through The Out Door”.
You couldn’t escape it.

Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street.

Posted by: Grateful Dead at August 02, 2025 07:32 AM (AN2gy)

112 - "The road to all day concerts ruination."

My mom was good with it. Ended up forcing me to take band in 7th grade because of it. "Fine. I'm gonna play the drums."

Thanks mom!!!
Couldn't afford private lessons so never had the "uzi" stick work of a Carl Palmer but later in life, after 15 years of not playing at all, I got a drum set. Ended up doing 15+ years total on "stage."

The last 11 with a couple guys I always saw as way out of my league. I guess they didn't think so.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 07:33 AM (jocM1)

113 Sarah Hoyt appears to be on vacation or something, so no memes at AccordingToHoyt.
Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 06:37 AM (AN2gy)

Hoyt memes are up now.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 02, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

114 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 02, 2025 07:33 AM (dKEEs)

115 ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2025 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

Who knew Grumpy plays a lot of Grand Theft Auto in his spare time?

It is kind of a stress reliever playing that game.

You can do some serious road rage without having to worry about serious jail time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

116 I read somewhere that Danny Hutton was a devil worshipper and did some strange things with strange people while climbing to the top of the rock n roll charts.

Posted by: Joy To The World My Ass at August 02, 2025 07:34 AM (R/m4+)

117 Mars Volta just wants to scream at you.

I am convinced that Porcupine Tree wants to hurt you emotionally.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 07:35 AM (AN2gy)

118
I wonder if Airportr luggage service will survive the news about its utter incompetence. The security company that investigated appears to have done so on an entirely unsolicited hostile basis. If they had been paid they would have kept everything confidential. What's in it for them? Advertising their own services?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 02, 2025 07:35 AM (ES1Rb)

119 Other than a few songs by KC and the Sunshine Band, I’m not into disco either, but it certainly was a unique time in music.

Even the late 70s 007 movies (Roger Moore) had some disco funk in the background music in those days.

Led Zeppelin had some disco-ish sounds on a few songs from “In Through The Out Door”.
You couldn’t escape it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

In college, went to see The Band at UVa. Drove a couple a hundred miles with a double date. We were the only ones dancing in the aisles to their music. ZThe drummer, Levon Helm, saw us, pointed a stick at us and smiled. Then back to drumming, swatching us a lot. Just havin' a good ol' time. Every music has a beat and sometimes you can dance to it.

I like Earth, Wind and Fire and 'black' bands like that. They made music. Damn good music.

Musically speaking, the mid '60s to the early '80s truly was a great time to be alive.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:35 AM (gKDq2)

120 >>> Hoyt memes are up now.

Thanks! I guess I was just early.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2025 07:36 AM (AN2gy)

121 Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street.
Posted by: Grateful Dead at August 02, 2025 07:32 AM (AN2gy)

Never heard it,
Listening on YouTube.

It has the serious disco twang, though.

I had no idea The Dead went disco, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:38 AM (6ydKt)

122 I prefer the Issac Watts hymn, " Joy to the World anyway. Issac Watts wrote about 600 hymns which may have been more that the lyricist(s) for Three Dog Night, but of course some people like one kind of music and others a different kind and that's ok

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2025 07:39 AM (2GCMq)

123 @113/I used to have a different nic:

The one about the doctor's waiting room: I see that meme creator has experienced Canadian health care...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)

124 Ugh. I can't stand the Atlassian tools. In theory they're supposed to be used for project management, but in every case I'm aware personally they were used to micromanage employees like rats in a cage.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 02, 2025 07:42 AM (B9Dv5)

125 Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street.
Posted by: Grateful Dead at August 02, 2025 07:32 AM (AN2gy)
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Never heard it,
Listening on YouTube.

It has the serious disco twang, though.

I had no idea The Dead went disco, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:38 AM (6ydKt)

The Dead did a version of 'Dancin' In The Streets' with a disco nod.

David Bowie with 'Let's Dance'. That wasn't 'Rebel, Rebel', that's for sure, but I still liked it.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:43 AM (gKDq2)

126 "They made music. Damn good music."

Truth. And you could hear it all on the same radio station.
The British invasion, Motown, West coast, etc.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2025 07:45 AM (jocM1)

127 And anyway , I like this story about wiseacre Issac Watts:

As a young man, Watts had complained about the dismal singing in the churches. His father told him that if he was dissatisfied, “write something better.” Watts believed that the Psalms should be more singable than people were accustomed to and that Jesus Christ should be more strongly reflected in the Psalter terminology. With a natural skill at rhyming, (for which he had been rebuked as a child) and a profound sense of the necessity of praise, prayer, thanksgiving, and theological expression, he produced a psalter, well-received by most churches.

In 1707 he published Hymns and Spiritual Songs, which included the all-time favorite, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. He rewrote the Psalter in Psalms of David Imitated in the language of the New Testament, with Psalm 78 becoming Joy to the World, Psalm 72, Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun, and Psalm 90, Our God Our Help in Ages Past.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2025 07:46 AM (2GCMq)

128 I like Earth, Wind and Fire and 'black' bands like that. They made music. Damn good music.

Musically speaking, the mid '60s to the early '80s truly was a great time to be alive.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:35 AM (gKDq2)

I like “September”, maybe some other songs from them that I can’t remember the names of.

I’d extend that out another decade to mid-90s for me. I was really into the grunge & indie scene then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:46 AM (6ydKt)

129 .
NOOD

Coffee and Prayer thread is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2025 07:48 AM (O7YUW)

130 I agree, TeeJ.

The fragmentation once Top 40 went away really sucked. Radio had Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, The Stones, Diana Ross and the Supremes, et. al. in that vein. On the same 3 Top 40 am stations. So the car, stores, everywhere. A common culture, if you will. We all knew each other's music. Blacks knew white music, whites knew black music. Hardly anybody knew jazz. That's the way it went. Still not a heavy jazz fan though I do have some favorites. Defitnitely not danceable.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:49 AM (gKDq2)

131 Let me spread my branches: It's my first willowing.

Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:52 AM (gKDq2)

132 Consequently we may see a Renaissance in small pickup trucks that about half the guys in the country would like to own.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Gals would like to see small trucks come back too. I still miss my 94 Ranger.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 02, 2025 07:52 AM (7HoOO)

133 David Bowie with 'Let's Dance'. That wasn't 'Rebel, Rebel', that's for sure, but I still liked it.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 07:43 AM (gKDq2)

He was following the British New Wave at that point.

Can’t forget the Brits.
They had real talent at taking American sound and turning it into pop gold from The Beatles onwards.

The New Wave just relied on synthesizers instead of blues guitars.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2025 07:54 AM (6ydKt)

134 wow..after all these years someone actually said... Mars Volta

Posted by: qmark at August 02, 2025 08:21 AM (+t9Oi)

135 109 Waiting for the day when ai will crawl away.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2025 07:30 AM (WeMfR)

I read this as "AI".

Posted by: m at August 02, 2025 02:44 PM (aURVT)

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