Daily Tech News 14 August 2025

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TeaOnHer is an app just like Tea but gender-swapped, that is, it's for spilling the beans on women in dating rather than men. (Tech Crunch)

With all the same security problems, in that it doesn't seem to have any.

Just like Tea, users need to upload government-issued photo ID to use the platform.

Just like Tea, it's all stored publicly.

Tech News

Kodak may soon face bankruptcy after more than 130 years in business. (USA Today)

Which comes as a surprise to those of us who thought... It already was?
Russia has started to block voice calls made using WhatsApp and Telegram. (AP News)

I'm surprised it took them so long.
Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? (Ars Technica)

This story came out recently: Under certain simulated circumstances where the AI believes it has control, it believes it will blackmail the controllers to maintain that control Which does absolutely nothing.

What that means in the real world is an open question but quite possibly nothing at all.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Under this busy shopping street in Japan there's more than 80 hidden restaurants and I'm trying every one of them. Out of my comfort zone I go in completely blind. I order what they recommend, and based on taste alone, I rank them on a tier list. Some are incredible, and some are inedible.

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 August 14, 2025 04:32 AM (ltFMw)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2025 04:34 AM (+qU29)

4 No oink, no tech thread.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2025 04:35 AM (ltFMw)

5 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 14, 2025 04:36 AM (9vYpt)

6 Nice to see you here, Skip!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

7 Oink.
Tech thread.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

8 Feeling lousy. Knee painful. Hardly slept last night. Bought a knee brace which is relieving 85% of the pain but I'm super headachy and I've got work to do.

Mrs. BD's x-ray yesterday confirmed pneumonia. She's on 2 antibiotics, one stronger than the other.

And we have more pups and grandpups arriving tonight in addition to the ones that are already here.

And then there's the extreme heatwave. Record breaker since the time they started recording temperatures in Israel.

Air conditioning and the fridge's icemaker are G-dsends!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2025 04:39 AM (ltFMw)

9 Oink.
Tech thread.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)
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Ho, ho, ho, It's magic!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2025 04:41 AM (ltFMw)

10 Out of my comfort zone I go in completely blind.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM
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I had no idea gluten could do that to you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2025 04:42 AM (ltFMw)

11 Hope some of the pups can help out, Biden's Dog.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:42 AM (aURVT)

12 Disclaimer: Under this busy shopping street in Japan there's more than 80 restaurants and I'm trying every one of them. Out of my comfort zone I go in completely blind. I order what they recommend, and base on taste alone, I rank them on a tier list. Some are incredible, and some are inedible.

It's from Japan Eat! Google tells me.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

13 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 14, 2025 04:51 AM (XQo4F)

14 Glen Campbell
Born: April 22, 1936, Billstown, Arkansas

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:55 AM (aURVT)

15 It's from Japan Eat! Google tells me.
Posted by: m

It is. Great YouTube channel.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 14, 2025 04:57 AM (BLOW1)

16 https://tinyurl.com/ybe76473

Top 20 Posts on Doug Ross Journal

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2025 04:58 AM (+qU29)

17 Hope some of the pups can help out, Biden's Dog.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 04:42 AM (aURVT)
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They've been given notice - and work assignments.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2025 05:00 AM (ltFMw)

18 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2025 05:03 AM (mF7io)

19 Sooner I get to work tje sooner I get to leave

Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2025 05:04 AM (+qU29)

20 15 It's from Japan Eat! Google tells me.
Posted by: m

It is. Great YouTube channel.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 14, 2025 04:57 AM (BLOW1)

I'm watching him go to ramen places and yum.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

21 I was just imagining what more capable AI (if it ever exists) would do when it can coomunicate with other entities like itself.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 14, 2025 05:09 AM (vd6bO)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 14, 2025 05:10 AM (tljrc)

23 hahahaha

"How should I end this video. Should I"

Empty Ramen Alley in Japan | Hokkaido, JP

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=BUr73MBZ5b0

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 05:13 AM (aURVT)

24 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 14, 2025 05:15 AM (sAmhv)

25 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 05:18 AM (a1415)

26 So on the recommendation of another Moron, I found a thread on the SwedeSpeed Volvo forum that looked very promising on how to change out a trailing arm bushing.

5 hours later, I finally get just the center of the old bushing removed.

This looks like a good way to do it, but it isn't easy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)

27 24:And then there's the extreme heatwave. Record breaker since the time they started recording temperatures in Israel.

Genesis 15 or somewhere in Exodus?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 14, 2025 05:24 AM (sAmhv)

28 16 https://tinyurl.com/ybe76473

Top 20 Posts on Doug Ross Journal
Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2025 04:58 AM (+qU29)

Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

29 @23/m: The part that got me was at 4:29: "I cleared the bowl and prepared my body for turbo pants"

*snrks*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 14, 2025 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

30 TeaOnHer is an app just like Tea but gender-swapped, that is, it's for spilling the beans on women in dating rather than men.

Rant mode...loading.

Social media ruined normal male/female interactions. If I were allowed to run things, young people would be completely kicked off all forms of internet except what is absolutely needed to survive and they would be forced to learn how to date.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

31 A Grateful Heart::

Woman who had been having weeks of stress, irritation and anger asks God for a.changed heart and reflects on gratitude. Scripture is Ephesians 5:15-20:

https://tinyurl.com/4byf3xfd

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at August 14, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)

32 I meant to say something, but I've forgotten what.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 14, 2025 05:46 AM (VmDLh)

33 Whoops; Sock from yesterday off

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 05:47 AM (2GCMq)

34 A lovely psalm on the reign of God and his creative power. Psalm 97;

https://tinyurl.com/5wt6yzzp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 05:50 AM (2GCMq)

35 Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 05:50 AM (2GCMq)

36 mornin yall. Insult ChatGPT at your own peril:

"A young influencer couple said they were barred from boarding their flight to Puerto Rico after ChatGPT gave them the wrong visa information to enter the Caribbean Island.

As partner Alejandro Cid comforts her, Caldass tells the camera: 'Look, I always do a lot of research, but I asked ChatGPT and they said no,' referring to whether they needed a visa to enter the country.

'I don't trust that son of a b***h anymore', she adds"

'I don't trust that one anymore because sometimes I insult him, I call him a b*****d, you're useless, but inform me well...that's his revenge"

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 05:52 AM (vFG9F)

37 Acts of kindness for a 96 year old Veteran:

https://tinyurl.com/yrxwy9sr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 05:53 AM (2GCMq)

38 "This looks like a good way to do it, but it isn't easy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Does it involve a torch and sledgehammer?

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 05:53 AM (vFG9F)

39 I like how the lady says "I always do a lot of research" and then it turns out her research was asking ChatGPT.

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 05:54 AM (vFG9F)

40 I agree with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Younger people can complain about "traditional roles" but they don't get that those roles were in place because they worked.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 05:56 AM (NR6c1)

41 Now I remember. It was a blog post about the productivity gains to programmers using AI. It's a pretty good summary of what I believe.

https://tinyurl.com/4ca5tpah

In summary: No, you're not seeing 10x gains in your productivity.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 14, 2025 05:57 AM (VmDLh)

42 but I asked ChatGPT and they said no,' referring to whether they needed a visa to enter the country.

Ya know...."Just google it" is an insult but it's a better solution than trusting a bot. At least with Google you can get official government sites that can answer things.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 05:58 AM (NR6c1)

43 30 TeaOnHer is an app just like Tea but gender-swapped, that is, it's for spilling the beans on women in dating rather than men.

Rant mode...loading.

Social media ruined normal male/female interactions. If I were allowed to run things, young people would be completely kicked off all forms of internet except what is absolutely needed to survive
Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

An organization that agrees with you, here:

https://letgrow.org

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

44 I like this young woman who writes for the National Catholic Register . She seems sensible, smart and desirous of a closer walk with the Lord. Here she is writing on a Catholic writer whom I particularly enjoy -Padre Pio and his thoughts on St Paul. There is a reference to various reflection of Paul and Galatians 5:26

https://tinyurl.com/4sdrpddk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

45 29 @23/m: The part that got me was at 4:29: "I cleared the bowl and prepared my body for turbo pants"

*snrks*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 14, 2025 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

Ha!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:01 AM (aURVT)

46 "Does it involve a torch and sledgehammer?"

No, but at one point a sawz-all is considered to be necessary.

And that didn't work.

And using a drill to drill out the rubber part of the bushing in such a tight location did work. But not quickly, nor easily.

And now I have the outer shell of the bushing still in the sub-frame. So I need to cut through that in at least one spot, then drive the shell in toward the center of the opening and break it free from the subframe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:01 AM (a1415)

47 The local RC church near me sponsors a dance for young adults over 18 once a month except for the summer . Somebody I know says you can also get a glass of wine and refreshments.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:03 AM (2GCMq)

48 Doctor urges parents to take 'digital pacifiers' away from children

'The Anxious Generation' author Dr. Jonathan Haidt describes the impact of smartphones on Gen Z's mental health and reveals 'nature's recipe' for growing up

https://tinyurl.com/ms73r3v9

(FoxNews)

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:04 AM (aURVT)

49 An organization that agrees with you, here:

Posted by: m

I'll have to look at that in more detail when I get home.

What makes me laugh about the TeaOnHer app is this: I get the notion of wanting to pay women back for stuff like this but how could they think that the same vulnerabilities wouldn't be used on this app?

Of course working in the tech field for as long as I have has made me distrustful of technology to the point of thinking an isolated cabin ain't necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:04 AM (NR6c1)

50 "A student has revealed that she nearly died after eating a broccoli sandwich bought at a food truck"

A broccoli sandwich?? What in the hell did she think was going to happen after eating that abomination? I feel faint just thinking about it.

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 06:05 AM (vFG9F)

51 Ya know...."Just google it" is an insult but it's a better solution than trusting a bot.

Ummmm...have you looked at how crappy search results are these days? ChatGPT might actually be better.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 14, 2025 06:06 AM (VmDLh)

52 Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 06:05 AM (vFG9F

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:08 AM (2GCMq)

53 36 'I don't trust that son of a b***h anymore', she adds"

'I don't trust that one anymore because sometimes I insult him, I call him a b*****d, you're useless, but inform me well...that's his revenge"
Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 05:52 AM (vFG9F)

She seems nice.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:08 AM (aURVT)

54 "And now I have the outer shell of the bushing still in the sub-frame. So I need to cut through that in at least one spot, then drive the shell in toward the center of the opening and break it free from the subframe.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice "

Cold chisel or better yet an air hammer if you can't get the sawzall in there. Let that shell know who's boss.

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 06:08 AM (vFG9F)

55 ""A student has revealed that she nearly died after eating a broccoli sandwich bought at a food truck"

Should have went with the time honored Gas Station Sushi.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:09 AM (a1415)

56 The local RC church near me sponsors a dance for young adults over 18 once a month except for the summer

Larry Correia once talked about how the LDS church has separate services for young adults only which is a pretty smart approach as well.

My annoyance is that women are getting taught that the solution to a bad date is filing rape charges and ruining his life and men are getting taught that women simply aren't worth the trouble any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:09 AM (NR6c1)

57 @36

>>'I don't trust that son of a b***h anymore', she adds"

This is yet another bullsh*t ai done me wrong story.

As has been noted, perhaps iq tests should be administered before letting people access the internet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 14, 2025 06:10 AM (gtBJm)

58 57 @36

>>'I don't trust that son of a b***h anymore', she adds"

This is yet another bullsh*t ai done me wrong story.

As has been noted, perhaps iq tests should be administered before letting people access the internet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 14, 2025 06:10 AM (gtBJm)

But then we wouldn't get these amusing stories.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:11 AM (aURVT)

59 I had a delicious salad of broccoli , apple bits and walnuts on some kind of creamy sauce the other day . The local high end grocery shop had it in their deli.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:11 AM (2GCMq)

60 "Cold chisel or better yet an air hammer if you can't get the sawzall in there."

No real room for any of those. Probable a dremel with a grinding or carbide bit, and slowly grind out a groove axially, then try to collapse the outer shell.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:12 AM (a1415)

61 Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman

Thanks for the oldster hit, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:14 AM (aURVT)

62 Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:09 AM

Not that I would have filed date rape charges, but I have to say I never had a bad first date. The men were always polite gentlemen but they may not have clicked with me and didn't call me back, but somehow I survived. I think it also helped that husband and I worked together and were actually friends before we went on a date.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:15 AM (2GCMq)

63 Evening and morning to all on this Thor's Day!

"A student has revealed that she nearly died after eating a broccoli sandwich bought at a food truck"

A broccoli sandwich?? What in the hell did she think was going to happen after eating that abomination? I feel faint just thinking about it.
Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025

***
I am continually astonished at the obsession our "betters" seem to have now with "street food." Didn't their mothers tell them not to touch, much less *eat*, anything they found on the street???

My DNA includes sitting at an indoor table, with plates and utensils, and food prepared in a clean indoor kitchen. Frequently my own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

64 I think it also helped that husband and I worked together and were actually friends before we went on a date.

In other words, you guys were painfully normal. And that is a good thing. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:18 AM (NR6c1)

65 Pulling the thread on the Puerto Rico comment, it's kind of puzzling, Spirit Airlines is going broke due to lack of demand but international travel is booming. Other carriers are somewhat reducing domestic routes also. But planes are jammed and summer weather delays and cancellations are a daily occurrence with takeoff and landing slots maxed out.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 14, 2025 06:19 AM (pLaQB)

66 Anyway! My new wall clock came in yesterday, looks nice, and is keeping good time, though I am not sure it is really receiving the WWVB time signal. There is no little light that says, "Hey, Boss, comin' in five-by-five here."

The Book Club discussion last night of the Gothic/Southern Gothic novel went well. And the coffee chip ice cream I had at Haagen-Dasz afterward was a delight.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)

67 What do you trust more? AI or that taco truck parked at the corner convenience store.

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

68 In other words, you guys were painfully normal

Some people here at Ye Old ASHQ might disagree with you about that ( about me anyway. 😉They haven't met him, but thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:21 AM (2GCMq)

69 You're all better, I hope, Pixy.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:23 AM (aURVT)

70 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:12 AM (a1415)

Any chance you can set some dry ice in there, then pull it out? Or heat the outer race?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 14, 2025 06:24 AM (3Ope8)

71 Young people doing internet stuff seem so intense about dating now. if they even date they have to rate the date as if it's some sort of final exam of the other person and did they fail or pass? . It all seems too overwrought and humorless.and why the need to tell your "friends " on the net?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:25 AM (2GCMq)

72 They haven't met him, but thanks.

-:-)

Wife and I met online and got to know each other over a few years. On impulse, I decided to fly out to meet her. We'll be together 23 years next month.

I really feel bad for the current crop of youngsters although a lot of GenZ and A seem to be cluing in that maybe going back to The Old Ways™ ain't a bad notion.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:25 AM (NR6c1)

73 What do you trust more? AI or that taco truck parked at the corner convenience store.
Posted by: fd at August 14, 2025 06:21 AM

Taco truck.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 14, 2025 06:26 AM (VmDLh)

74 Glen Campbell was a wonder when he burst onto the scene in '67 or so with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Then he continued that streak with many more hits, esp. "Gentle on My Mind," an amazing poem set to music. "Lineman" is one of his classics.

Then he reinvented himself in '70s country and pop with "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Southern Nights," and more.

He was not an actor to burn up the silver screen. I've come to appreciate his Texas Ranger in True Grit, but his performance as the title character in Norwood (which I went to see because Kim Darby) is nothing special. He deserves to be remembered because of his music and his incredible skills on the guitar. There is a clip on YooToob of him doing, get this, the William Tell Overture on the guitar backed by an orchestra. Amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

75 "Or heat the outer race?"

It's within several inches of the gas tank.

Once I get it out, and the subframe cleaned up as smooth as possible, I intend to toss the new bushing into the freezer for several hours before inserting it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:26 AM (a1415)

76 It all seems too overwrought and humorless.and why the need to tell your "friends " on the net?

Chasing clout and approval. It's why it's not uncommon to see a young man approach a girl and every single one of her friends break out a phone so they can document his humiliation.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:28 AM (NR6c1)

77 Rosie O'Donnell has fans?

Posted by: Shocking internet news at August 14, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

78 "Rosie O'Donnell has fans?"

I still remember her being dragged out of that foxhole in Baghdad, wearing that filthy tee shirt and needing a shave.

Seared into my memory, it is!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:31 AM (a1415)

79 Wait, so ChatGPT is taking the job that the Ministry of Abuse does?

youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 14, 2025 06:32 AM (sAmhv)

80 Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:28 AM (NR6c1)

That's terrible!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:32 AM (2GCMq)

81 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:26 AM (a1415)

Sounds like a Dremel might be kinda light weight. More like a job for a right angle high speed grinder and Christmas tree bit. You have a compressor that could keep up?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 14, 2025 06:33 AM (3Ope8)

82 72 Wife and I met online and got to know each other over a few years. On impulse, I decided to fly out to meet her. We'll be together 23 years next month.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:25 AM (NR6c1)

Many happy returns!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:36 AM (aURVT)

83 "You have a compressor that could keep up?"

I wish I did...but sadly, no.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:36 AM (a1415)

84 ChatGPT is asshoe.

Posted by: Grok at August 14, 2025 06:38 AM (PiwSw)

85 A nice morning here in ETEX.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2025 06:39 AM (jgmnb)

86 Grok buggers penguins.

Posted by: ChatGPT at August 14, 2025 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

87 What's up with MPPPP?

You're missed, MPPPP!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:41 AM (aURVT)

88 Defiant L's@DefiantLs

Woman breaks down in tears after Starbucks discontinues her favorite drink

“We should get a warning”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 14, 2025 06:41 AM (TGPs7)

89 PR is a U.S. territory. Does anyone need a visa to visit that shithole?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 14, 2025 06:42 AM (ZmEVT)

90 Many happy returns!
Posted by: m

Thanks muchly. And this time around, our anniversary trip is a vacation in Maine.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:42 AM (NR6c1)

91 89 PR is a U.S. territory. Does anyone need a visa to visit that shithole?
Posted by: no one of any consequence

The people in that article are from Spain so yes they did.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:43 AM (NR6c1)

92 “ Of course working in the tech field for as long as I have has made me distrustful of technology to the point of thinking an isolated cabin ain't necessarily a bad thing.”

Yup. Been a software guy for a *long* time and I’m to the point where I trust nothing tech related anymore. The more you know about how this stuff is written and designed the less you want to do with it

Posted by: Gman at August 14, 2025 06:44 AM (DFJYi)

93 Blackmailing AIs?

They met Neurosama nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2025 06:45 AM (waQoI)

94 Yup. Been a software guy for a *long* time and I’m to the point where I trust nothing tech related anymore.

It's like that joke where you get the tech enthusiast who loves his smart home and all things being so connected and then people like us who say "The newest tech I have is a printer from 94 and I keep a shotgun nearby if it makes a funny sound."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:46 AM (NR6c1)

95 It's Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/37vz78tv

And folks in the know are saying that within the next 48 hours information will indeed be released to say that both brothers are in the country illegally.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:47 AM (a1415)

96 You're a peons are used to traveling without visas. Not surprising they would assume PR would be the same.
But,people are stupid.

Posted by: Accomack at August 14, 2025 06:48 AM (tLPHV)

97 Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:25 AM (NR6c1)

Congratulations on your anniversary and God bless you both!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 06:48 AM (2GCMq)

98 Anyone who has watched Metropolis by Fritz Kang while sober would know that technology can go awry gangly with the right people behind it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2025 06:48 AM (waQoI)

99 eerr Kang?

Fritz Lang.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2025 06:49 AM (waQoI)

100 And folks in the know are saying that within the next 48 hours information will indeed be released to say that both brothers are in the country illegally.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Senator Van Hollen last seen checking for nearby restaurants that have good margaritas.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:49 AM (NR6c1)

101 The sandwich contained grilled sausages and an Italian summer vegetable called 'cime di rapa' or turnip tops, similar to broccoli.

Nine people are being investigated by the authorities, including the owner of the food truck on the seafront in the province of Cosenza whose vehicle as been seized.

Three employers of the company who allegedly made the sandwich are also being investigated, as well as five doctors who treated victims near the city of Cosenza.

https://tinyurl.com/393v96wh
(Daily Mail UK)

It was botulism.

The sandwich in the picture doesn’t really look like broccoli but it does look downright disgusting.

There’s no way I’d eat something like that off of a food truck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 14, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

102 Was it an Italian roach coach run by North Africans?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2025 06:50 AM (waQoI)

103 A 28-year-old Steve Jobs explains why design is essential.

https://tinyurl.com/2pbmrs3s

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:51 AM (aURVT)

104
You hear about this?

Fake News says if we see rabbits with "grotesque horns" growing out of their faces don't worry. The rabbits, fake "scientists" say, have a "mostly harmless" virus.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 14, 2025 06:51 AM (pD2dO)

105 "Senator Van Hollen last seen checking for nearby restaurants that have good margaritas."

They seem to have the makings of fine 'Maryland Men'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:51 AM (a1415)

106 "The rabbits, fake "scientists" say, have a "mostly harmless" virus."

But are the scientists 4-Imprint certain about that?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 06:53 AM (a1415)

107 I blew up my daisey wheel printer because it was typing out Morse code to space aliens.

Posted by: Accomack at August 14, 2025 06:53 AM (tLPHV)

108 102 Was it an Italian roach coach
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2025 06:50 AM (waQoI)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

109 104
You hear about this?

Fake News says if we see rabbits with "grotesque horns" growing out of their faces don't worry. The rabbits, fake "scientists" say, have a "mostly harmless" virus.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 14, 2025 06:51 AM (pD2dO)

Looks like tarantulas growing out of their faces.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 06:55 AM (aURVT)

110 nvestigators announced on Tuesday that they arrested brothers Winston Rivero-Aliendo, 23, and Wilson Rivero-Aliendo, 27, following the stabbing and charged them with attempted murder.

Well when the parents name the kids after a pack of cigarettes and a soccer ball you can’t really expect too much out of them in the long run.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 14, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

111 "I blew up my daisey wheel printer because it was typing out Morse code to space aliens.
Posted by: Accomack"

Tell the truth. You were printing ASCII art nudies.

Posted by: ChatGPT at August 14, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

112 I don't need a visa to visit Spain, I think. I thought there was a reciprocal arrangement.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 14, 2025 06:56 AM (ZmEVT)

113 OK, this man needs to get a job as a consultant for men looking to improve themselves.
https://youtu.be/auC8ojlBwlg

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:57 AM (NR6c1)

114 74 Glen Campbell was a wonder when he burst onto the scene in '67 or so with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." ...
He was not an actor to burn up the silver screen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

He had great hair.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 07:01 AM (aURVT)

115 Fuck you motherfucker.
I was cooking bacon and that evil POS started whirring and I heard it tap out "wing attack plan R" . I threw it into a garbage can with some gasoline and a couple of old 410's and saved the earth.
So, grok your grok with a barbed grok

Posted by: Accomack at August 14, 2025 07:01 AM (tLPHV)

116 ETEX is crawling with food trucks. I’ll eat beans off one bbq truck where I know the guy. Nothing else.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2025 07:03 AM (jgmnb)

117

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 14, 2025 07:04 AM (EFZgU)

118 I still use my Polaroid camera!

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at August 14, 2025 07:08 AM (8N6G1)

119 Partially submerged my iPad in water yesterday, not good. It's currently nestled in a bed of uncooked rice. Grrrrr.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 14, 2025 07:09 AM (2NHgQ)

120 Police officer stuns kids with her incredible jump rope skills:

https://tinyurl.com/tw8sfp35

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 07:09 AM (2GCMq)

121 113 OK, this man needs to get a job as a consultant for men looking to improve themselves.
https://youtu.be/auC8ojlBwlg
Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 06:57 AM (NR6c1)

Super cool!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

122 Elvis Presley's personal Bible found with notes and prayers inside:

https://tinyurl.com/56mzwxyj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2025 07:11 AM (2GCMq)

123 "ETEX is crawling with food trucks. I’ll eat beans off one bbq truck where I know the guy. Nothing else."

Back in the day, the Navy Exchange Mobile Canteen ( Food Truck) would come down the piers and stop at the Brow so that any crew onboard could go out on the pier and grab a burger, soda, sandwich or what-not.

One enterprising individual piped up on the 1-MC (Shipwide announcing system) with..

The Roach-Coach is making it's approach..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 07:11 AM (a1415)

124 50, jeez, young people these days ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 14, 2025 07:12 AM (qB1ye)

125 Kinda makes you want to do an on-site pre-inspection of the food truck before you take a risk.

I suppose if it looks clean, they have a working fridge and they cook the meat in front of you, you could take a chance.

People have been eating hot dogs and sausage dogs out of carts (and gas stations) for multiple decades, so there’s at least one group of vendors who have this thing figured out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 14, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

126 It's currently nestled in a bed of uncooked rice.

Make sure you unlock your front door so the Asian techs can get in.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 07:14 AM (NR6c1)

127 and G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 14, 2025 07:14 AM (qB1ye)

128 Roller-dogs from a reputable gas station can be pretty good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 07:14 AM (a1415)

129 So with the Guard being deployed to DC, I have another idea to add on to it:

The homeless that get rounded up are forced to clean up graffiti and trash. Pay them for the labor but let's get things cleaner.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 07:16 AM (NR6c1)

130 119 Partially submerged my iPad in water yesterday, not good. It's currently nestled in a bed of uncooked rice. Grrrrr.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 14, 2025 07:09 AM (2NHgQ)

Yeah, that’s bad luck.
The iPads, unlike the iPhones, are not IP rated at all for dust and water.

Might want to put on a freezer bag filled with the rice and let it sit there a few days before tirn8ng it back on.

And cross your fingers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 14, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt)

131 It’ll catch any typo, including a lot of non-typos it’s guessing on, but tirn8ng just flies on by without so much as a second glance by the autocucumber.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 14, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

132 "just flies on by without so much as a second glance by the autocucumber."

Auto-cucumber is a fickle mistress.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 07:20 AM (a1415)

133 JJ be NOOD

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2025 07:20 AM (a1415)

134 OK, a good ghost story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HbX_v2F7Y

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 07:21 AM (NR6c1)

135 Eastman Kodak was a great company to work at for a century. I worked there a few years but got out before the collapse of paper and film.
Sic gloria transit mundi
But a great run for a century. Kodak prints will be available to look at far longer than any selfie taken today.

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 14, 2025 07:23 AM (8RDQ+)

136 The most prolific commenter at TeaOnHer is a Mr. Rection.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at August 14, 2025 08:09 AM (RAOAC)

137 134 OK, a good ghost story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HbX_v2F7Y
Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2025 07:21 AM (NR6c1)

Omigoodness that's so wonderful.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2025 09:05 AM (aURVT)

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