Daily Tech News 16 August 2025

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GPT-5 is getting warmer and friendlier. (The Verge)

Not better, mind you. Indeed. they seem to have rather embraced the shambles of a rollout.

But what can you do except not use it which I already am doing. Or not doing, depending on how that works.
How to avoid your AI therapy driving you crazy. (WCCFTech)

You know, there seems to be a theme here.

Tech News

GitHub now supports BMP and TIFF file attachments. (GitHub)

And they're working on WebP. At this rate you can expect it in 15 to 20 years.
Is Proton - as in ProtonMail and ProtonVPN - leaving Switzerland? (TechRadar)

Very probably. The country, once a safe haven for secure data, has become significantly less so.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Oh naur.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:30 AM (9vYpt)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 16, 2025 04:32 AM (m5P/4)

4 Daily Tech ews

ews?

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

5 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 16, 2025 04:35 AM (hoCmQ)

6 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2025 04:35 AM (qA0BY)

7 Daily Tech ews

ews?
Posted by: m

The website has to cut back on capital Ns. They're getting expensive.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

8 from the therapy article:

AI use was generating psychosis by not allowing users vulnerable to psychosis to update their belief systems after checking reality

... like lefties getting their news from the NYT.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

9 So Proton's leaving Switzerland because the fascists have taken over. I'm really disappointed that they're thinking of going to Germany and Norway. I would have went with Albania because they're not fascists there; last I heard they were communists and when that didn't work out they just stole all the plumbing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:41 AM (9vYpt)

10 7 Daily Tech ews

ews?
Posted by: m

The website has to cut back on capital Ns. They're getting expensive.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

We could maybe spot him just a little "n."

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:42 AM (aURVT)

11 Oh naur.

Nein, oh ja.

Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2025 04:42 AM (qA0BY)

12
Just get out of Europe.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 16, 2025 04:43 AM (Tv15w)

13 from the comments in the therapy article:

People have had heard voices and endured the thralls of psychosis from just watching TV or listening to music, let alone hearing their dog tell them to wax their whole family. If you're mentally ill, you're mentally ill, AI is no different from coloring in a coloring book, if you lose contact with reality, that's on you and your mental state.

I mean, yes?

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:45 AM (aURVT)

14
Daily Tech ews

That's an offering of pictures of the most obese, most shrapnel-ed, most inked beauties working in tech, correct?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 16, 2025 04:46 AM (Tv15w)

15 Just get out of Europe.

Not sure how many lilypads are left.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 16, 2025 04:49 AM (N+9KM)

16 Richard Lewis Springthorpe changed his name to Rick Springfield because Buffalo Springfield was already taken plus he was Australian. There never was a any Buffalo there so that was probably a good idea. He's also a pescatarian which is a lot like being a Unitarian but with less rules. He also became an American citizen which he announced when he was in Florida before being in Florida was fashionable.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:52 AM (9vYpt)

17 Daily Tech Mews, maybe.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:53 AM (aURVT)

18 16: He acted in soap operas for a while. General Hospital I think.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 16, 2025 04:53 AM (m5P/4)

19 Daily Tech ews

That's an offering of pictures of the most obese, most shrapnel-ed, most inked beauties working in tech, correct?

As it has been some time since I was involved with tech nerds, the few who were female did not sport tats, non-earring piercings and were generally underweight. These days, if I were to return to such a space, having any females displaying such extreme characteristics would be an indication that I should look for some other place of employment.

Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2025 04:54 AM (qA0BY)

20 I am declaring myself a beefatarian. It's a lot like being a Rastafarian but with cheeseburgers.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:58 AM (9vYpt)

21 The backdrop in that video, they look like they're playing in a gym at a junior high school.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)

22 Daily Tech Mews, maybe.

We are not a mews.

Posted by: just the punchline at August 16, 2025 04:59 AM (qA0BY)

23 18 16: He acted in soap operas for a while. General Hospital I think.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 16, 2025 04:53 AM (m5P/4)

He looks the part!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

24

Wax your dog's butthole.

Seriously.

Give it a nice cosmo.

Show your friends.

Instant envy..

Posted by: Just Sayin... at August 16, 2025 05:00 AM (hjaBp)

25 Daily Tech News

It's been fixed.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)

26 Good morning! Well, can't get out in the garden or do lawn work for about another 10 days or so. I guess that's OK since the heat index is gonna be about 108 today but the lawn is getting pretty tall. Probably gonna need to let the neighbors lawn guy do it while I lounge on the patio and have a cigar.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 05:02 AM (3Ope8)

27 ***

Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2025 05:03 AM (qA0BY)

28 from the warmer and friendlier article:

We’re making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before. Changes are subtle, but ChatGPT should feel more approachable now.

You'll notice small, genuine touches like “Good question” or “Great start,” not flattery. Internal tests show no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.

Changes may take up to a day to roll out, more updates soon.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

29 There are 10 kinds of people in this world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2025 05:07 AM (EctuH)

30 20 I am declaring myself a beefatarian. It's a lot like being a Rastafarian but with cheeseburgers.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:58 AM (9vYpt)

Eye Round > Irie

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2025 05:09 AM (EctuH)

31 9 So Proton's leaving Switzerland because the fascists have taken over. I'm really disappointed that they're thinking of going to Germany and Norway. I would have went with Albania because they're not fascists there; last I heard they were communists and when that didn't work out they just stole all the plumbing.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 16, 2025 04:41 AM (9vYpt)

Maybe Hungary? Poland? It is tough because the lights seem to be going out all over Europe. It's depressing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:10 AM (bss/y)

32 cheeseburgeratarian?

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:11 AM (aURVT)

33 29 There are 10 kinds of people in this world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2025 05:07 AM (EctuH)

Retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:11 AM (bss/y)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

35 New Oxford American Dictionary

hahahahaha look at the second sentence illustrating usage:

oversell
verb (past and past participle oversold) [with object]
sell more of (something) than exists or can be delivered: a surge in airlines overselling flights.
• exaggerate the merits of: computer-aided software engineering has been oversold.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

36 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2025 05:15 AM (AN2gy)

37 • exaggerate the merits of: computer-aided software engineering has been oversold.
Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

AI as well.

Wait, have you been a way a long time or is it just I have been sleeping better and so have missed the threads you're on?

Good to see you either way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:16 AM (bss/y)

38 G'morning, all!

Beefatarian is nice.

But imagonnago with Meatatarian.

Gives me more options.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:18 AM (a1415)

39 ***

What's the clearance, clarence?

Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)

40 Six year old spots trouble on train tracks and helps avert trouble . Scroll down for video:

https://tinyurl.com/k4me7cdf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 05:19 AM (2GCMq)

41 • exaggerate the merits of:

That seems to be the go-to for many things besides computer assisted engineering.

Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2025 05:19 AM (qA0BY)

42 39 ***

What's the clearance, clarence?
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)

Roger, Roger- what's our vector, Victor?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:19 AM (bss/y)

43 37 • exaggerate the merits of: computer-aided software engineering has been oversold.
Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

AI as well.

Wait, have you been a way a long time or is it just I have been sleeping better and so have missed the threads you're on?

Good to see you either way.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:16 AM (bss/y)

Salve, Aetius. I took "computer-aided" to include AI--?
I live on this thread, mainly. I was on the list for most comments this past Friday!!!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:21 AM (aURVT)

44 In what should be the final chapter of the Trailing Arm Bushing saga...

It's in.

Just need to put two bolts in the trailing arm, install a brake line bracket that needed to be removed to gain access to the forward trailing arm bolt. Put the tire on, and see if the whole thing works.

Which s all a good thing because I need to do a dump run, mow the lawn and take the yard clippings to the lawn waste site today.

Seems like enough exercise that I can forgo the morning walk today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

45 Fen

Saw your prayer request yesterday evening.

I hope your situation has improved.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)

46 Christian Devotional on man helping to care for an ill wife. Scripture Matthew 10:26-31. Thought fir the day: "Even in uncertain times, Jesus watches over me":

https://tinyurl.com/35mdvxut

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 05:24 AM (2GCMq)

47 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)

Thanks. Things are uncertain, but I appreciate the prayers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

48 33 29 There are 10 kinds of people in this world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2025 05:07 AM (EctuH)

Retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:11 AM (bss/y)

wut

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

49 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025 05:27 AM (+qU29)

50 wut
Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

It's making fun of binary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:29 AM (bss/y)

51 Also engaging in math before 6am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:29 AM (bss/y)

52 What's the clearance, clarence?
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)

Runway 27 right, unrestricted climb, maintain 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 05:30 AM (3Ope8)

53 >>> Runway 27 right, unrestricted climb, maintain 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

Hike!

Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

54 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 16, 2025 05:36 AM (XQo4F)

55 Male quartet sings old time hymn, "Leaning on the everlasting arms":

https://tinyurl.com/mryyw98u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 05:36 AM (2GCMq)

56 "Runway 27 right, unrestricted climb, maintain 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

Hike!"

It's on the green....

It's rolling slowly..

Hole in one!!!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

57 And that reminds me, I haven't even looked at the bird bath in four day.

So finish car, dump run. clean bird bath. mow yard.

Lawn waste run.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)

58
I wonder it Donald Trump is awake, typing a text message.

Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2025 05:40 AM (Y8DZL)

59 51 Also engaging in math before 6am.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 05:29 AM (bss/y)

!!! moar covfefe

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 05:43 AM (aURVT)

60 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

https://tinyurl.com/4hnjxp4v

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 05:49 AM (3Ope8)

61 https://tinyurl.com/4hnjxp4v
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

What makes that clip funny is that DeChanbrough probably could use a 5 iron to hole out from 185 yds.

Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2025 05:54 AM (Y8DZL)

62 " https://tinyurl.com/4hnjxp4v
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead"

Yes!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 05:58 AM (a1415)

63 Maybe Hungary? Poland? It is tough because the lights seem to be going out all over Europe. It's depressing.

While I am glad that I paid for a Proton subscription for me and my wife, this is cause for concern.

Hell, at this point they should set up shop in Antarctica although Big Penguin may have a problem with that.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:00 AM (7xrfc)

64 Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2025 05:54 AM (Y8DZL)

Bryson would be an unrivaled champion, right up there with Tiger if he could stay in the fairway and putt. I sure do enjoy watching that guy though. He does more for to promote the game just by bringing energy and enthusiasm and his interface with the fans during the round.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 06:03 AM (3Ope8)

65 Can't seem to get moving

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025 06:09 AM (+qU29)

66 Evening and morning on this Saturn's Day to all the weekend toilers and early risers!

Runway 27 right, unrestricted climb, maintain 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025

***
65 F.? What's that? Sounds like a mythical monster to me.

Trying to wake up with coffee; I've fed the furry thugs. Later I'll go out to wash the car, then stagger back inside to detail *me*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

67 Monday have to be out of house before 4:30am, going way north for work

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+qU29)

68 Can't seem to get moving
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025

***
+100

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:11 AM (omVj0)

69 Proton has a chatbot called Lumo? I guess it's only available to paying users? I don't recall seeing a link to it anywhere on my free mail page.

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

70 "then stagger back inside to detail *me*."

Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine!

-Ren and Stimpy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:15 AM (a1415)

71 I don't recall seeing a link to it anywhere on my free mail page.

It might be a paid service but this is the link:

https://lumo.proton.me/u/0/

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:17 AM (7xrfc)

72 Here's an actual tech related questioned. Is there something you can buy for a cell phone- not unlike a holster for a gun -to carry a cell phone? Recently we've had adventures- and not the thrilling Indiana Jones type of adventure- where the cell phone drops out of spouses pocket from shorts or shirt and the stupid "find your phone " doesn't say " Your phone is in your car trunk" but that it's. "Within 2/10 of a mile " so we've had to chase all over the beach or at the boardwalk.

And no, this was not the problem I asked prayer for yesterday and yes, we found the phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 06:20 AM (2GCMq)

73 >>>Is Proton - as in ProtonMail and ProtonVPN - leaving Switzerland? (TechRadar)

Move it to the US?

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:21 AM (aURVT)

74 Meant "find your phone" ap.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 06:21 AM (2GCMq)

75 Good morning, Fen. Perhaps something like this?

https://niteize.com/clip-case-universal-phone-holster

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:21 AM (7xrfc)

76 Okay, Lumo has its own page, lumo.proton.me. It goes to a guest page. Apparently there is a free version and a paid one. They use a cute purple cat with blinking eyes and even shifting head as its logo/mascot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:22 AM (omVj0)

77 Fen,
There are almost like belt mounted holsters for cell phones.

Usually carries the phone in a horizontal manner.

Almost always seen on middle age or older males.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:22 AM (a1415)

78 Move it to the US?
Posted by: m

I don't have any faith that our government would be interested in allowing Proton to maintain the level of privacy they want.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:22 AM (7xrfc)

79 Vertical at least, thought about taking a Melatonin last night early, certainly didn't need to as it turned out.

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025 06:24 AM (+qU29)

80 There are almost like belt mounted holsters for cell phones.

Usually carries the phone in a horizontal manner.

Almost always seen on middle age or older males.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025

***
I leave the phone in the car's center console if I'm not likely to need it inside a store and won't be long. I know the heat is not good for phones. Certainly I leave it when I go into the library; I can turn the ringer off, of course, but I hate being tethered to the thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)

81 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:22 AM (a1415)

Thanks. Spouse is an older man😉 You get this at a cell phone store or order it online? Sorry if that's a stupid question.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 06:26 AM (2GCMq)

82 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 06:20 AM (2GCMq)

Cargo shorts. For. the. win!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 06:26 AM (3Ope8)

83 Move it to the US?
Posted by: m

I don't have any faith that our government would be interested in allowing Proton to maintain the level of privacy they want.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025

***
Hungary and Poland seem to be resisting the destructive wave that is washing over Europe. Maybe they would be locations, as Aetius suggested above.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

84 They use a cute purple cat with blinking eyes and even shifting head as its logo/mascot

It is a cute mascot. I will admit that.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:26 AM (7xrfc)

85 Fen, some location tips, and how it works.

A rather long read.

https://www.simplymac.com/ios/how-accurate-is-find-my-iphone

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (a1415)

86 Hungary and Poland seem to be resisting the destructive wave that is washing over Europe.

The problem is that the destruction is persistent. The EU is fond of pulling the "Oh, you people voted for the wrong person and we must correct you."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (7xrfc)

87 Although.... having an apple watch and air pods is a game changer. Leave the phone at home or in the car.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (3Ope8)

88 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (a1415)

I will give it to spouse. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2025 06:28 AM (2GCMq)

89 Amazon link for cell phone holsters.

Might give you some ideas.

https://tinyurl.com/3r5sczjm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:29 AM (a1415)

90 67 Monday have to be out of house before 4:30am, going way north for work
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+qU29)

That's early!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:31 AM (aURVT)

91 The problem is that the destruction is persistent. The EU is fond of pulling the "Oh, you people voted for the wrong person and we must correct you."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (7xrfc)

Or the Erdogan: Keep voting until you get what you want once. Then you stop allowing voting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 16, 2025 06:33 AM (bss/y)

92 So I just watched a Youtube video on interior decorating ideas that need to die.

HGTV hardest hit!

The Top-10 list of crappy ideas that it turns out that folks hate was like a who's Who of HGTV.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:36 AM (a1415)

93 'Don't cooperate with ICE!

I don't think this is gonna play as well as she might think it will.

https://tinyurl.com/5bs36dr2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:38 AM (a1415)

94 I've forgotten. What did they call the immigration enforcement division before it was ICE?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

95 Lumo just told me ICE was called Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS. That sounds familiar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

96
Good morning, Hordians. Got a good night's sleep for once. Went to bed at 10:00, woke up at 5:30. Weight is up a pound to 182 because yesterday was a remarkably idle one. Back on the treadmill today and yard work.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 06:50 AM (kkTda)

97
The EU is fond of pulling the "Oh, you people voted for the wrong person and we must correct you."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:27 AM (7xrfc)

'Tis true. Democracy in Europe consists of asking the same question until the "correct" answer is given.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 06:51 AM (kkTda)

98 Your Guide to the Gen Z Term “Naur”

“Naur” is the word “no” spoken with an Australian accent.
It’s the literal spelling of how someone with an Australian accent says the word “no,” poking a bit of fun at the drawn-out and nasally-sounding word.

(wikihow)

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

99 The purple cat is cute but it does the “impatient” thing where it looks at you and then the text box waiting on you to type something.

Video game characters do that a lot now, too, if you leave them standing there.

They’ll start getting antsy then look back at you like “WTF? I’m waiting here!”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

101 96 Got a good night's sleep for once. Went to bed at 10:00, woke up at 5:30.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 06:50 AM (kkTda)

Excellent.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:54 AM (aURVT)

102 Went to bed at 10:00...

I can only imagine. If the shades aren't down and the fan isn't running by then, Hercules would be whining. Hell, he starts pacing the floor in front of the recliner and barking at 2030.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2025 06:56 AM (3Ope8)

103
https://www.wikihow.com/Naur-Meaning

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:56 AM (aURVT)

104 Democracy in Europe consists of asking the same question until the "correct" answer is given.

Not unlike dealing with a cat.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:56 AM (7xrfc)

105 The purple cat is cute but it does the “impatient” thing where it looks at you and then the text box waiting on you to type something.

Video game characters do that a lot now, too, if you leave them standing there.

They’ll start getting antsy then look back at you like “WTF? I’m waiting here!”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2025

***
There was an arcade game back in the mid-'80s called "Major Havoc." You were an astronaut who had to thread your way through a maze full of deadly hazards to turn off a nuclear plant about to explode, then make your way back out. But you were given only so much air in your space suit, so you had a deadline. If you waited too long at the edge of a hazard, the little figure would fold its arms and tap its foot at you.

When you ran out of air, it would put its hands to its helmet, shake its head, and expire noisily: Game Over!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

106 Little Dagny La Siberienne slept on the bed with me again, as she has for the whole last week. This is weird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:59 AM (omVj0)

107 “Oaur naur, a mosquitaur.” = “Oh no, a mosquito.”

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)

108
Not unlike dealing with a cat.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2025 06:56 AM (7xrfc)

Except that the cat can have you arrested and held in durance vile.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 06:59 AM (kkTda)

109 There are almost like belt mounted holsters for cell phones.

Usually carries the phone in a horizontal manner.

Almost always seen on middle age or older males.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2025 06:22 AM (a1415)

I have one of these.
I always wear it when out of the house with my phone. Solid, secure velcro safely imprisons the phone.
On the hip, pockets are free.
Highly recommend.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 16, 2025 07:04 AM (ufFY8)

110 Off to wash the car, all. Back later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 07:07 AM (omVj0)

111 There was an arcade game back in the mid-'80s called "Major Havoc." You were an astronaut who had to thread your way through a maze full of deadly hazards to turn off a nuclear plant about to explode, then make your way back out. But you were given only so much air in your space suit, so you had a deadline. If you waited too long at the edge of a hazard, the little figure would fold its arms and tap its foot at you.

When you ran out of air, it would put its hands to its helmet, shake its head, and expire noisily: Game Over!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)
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Those old-school video games were VERY unforgiving.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2025 07:08 AM (IBQGV)

112 There was an arcade game back in the mid-'80s called "Major Havoc."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

I’ve never played it but I did see a video on YouTube awhile back where a player finishes the final levels and it looks quite difficult.

I think Pixy might’ve posted it here but I can remember.

It’s a nice little vector graphics game from that era.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2025 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

113 So is the Ukraine war over?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 16, 2025 07:10 AM (XQo4F)

114
While I fall asleep without a problem, I wake up a large number of times during the night. I fall asleep again quickly but it's annoying all the same.

I don't have coffee after the morning, don't drink, don't eat after about 6:00, etc., so I'm a bit baffled as to why this happens. I've started taking Gabapentin before going to bed, but I don't want to make it habitual. It may be that I'm just getting old and my sleep patterns have changed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 07:11 AM (kkTda)

115 Nite Ize Clip Case Sideways Rugged Phone Holster.

Got it at the I-80 Truck Stop.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 16, 2025 07:13 AM (ufFY8)

116 Perhaps it's sleep apnea. If you live alone you'll have to record yourself sleeping with a phone app to listen for snoring.
Or go see an ENT for a sleep study. You can do them at home now.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 16, 2025 07:15 AM (XQo4F)

117 Yeah, any more news about the Vlad/Trump love fest last evening?

I hope the MFM are stuck in Alaska for a week.
Just because.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 16, 2025 07:16 AM (ufFY8)

118 "Drive for show. Putt for dough."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 16, 2025 07:19 AM (ZmEVT)

119 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

120 How dare that cat actually be affectionate?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 16, 2025 07:21 AM (ZmEVT)

121 That car crash video in the ONT was very tough to look at. Lots of totaled cars.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

122
I hope the MFM are stuck in Alaska for a week.
Just because.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 16, 2025 07:16 AM (ufFY

In Barrow. Or whatever the name is now.

I took a day trip to Barrow long time ago. August 2nd. I got off the plane and it was snowing. Had lunch at Pepe's Mexican Restaurant (since burned down). Still have the baseball cap.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 07:22 AM (kkTda)

123 mornin yall. The highest paid High School football coach in Ga makes $220k a year. But the schools don't have enough crayons and paper so they have to beg for it every year.

Posted by: fd at August 16, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

124 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 16, 2025 07:25 AM (qB1ye)

125
The last Victoria Cross winner from World War II has died, age 105. Sir Arthur Harris said, "Any action worthy of the Victoria Cross is probably not worth repeating."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 07:25 AM (kkTda)

126 New York Post
I'm not going to read the article:

Babysitter weeps as she learns her fate for delivering young girls to boyfriend so he could molest them

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 07:26 AM (aURVT)

127
The highest paid High School football coach in Ga makes $220k a year. But the schools don't have enough crayons and paper so they have to beg for it every year.
Posted by: fd at August 16, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

Coach likely does a better job of educating his charges than the rest of the teaching staff combined.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 07:27 AM (kkTda)

128 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Hope all is well with you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

129 mornin yall. The highest paid High School football coach in Ga makes $220k a year. But the schools don't have enough crayons and paper so they have to beg for it every year.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at August 16, 2025 07:34 AM (R/m4+)

130
My experience with black ice occurred in the spring of '75, driving north from Milwaukee to Green Bay and beyond. Daytime temperatures were above freezing and powdery snow was blowing across the cleared surface of the roads, so it melted. All was well and good until later in the afternoon when the temperatures began falling. That's when the black bands of snow melt across the road became black ice. It took but one episode of lost control and sliding, which I controlled, to persuade me to slow down.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 16, 2025 07:35 AM (Tv15w)

131
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at August 16, 2025 07:34 AM (R/m4+)

It has always been thus. We celebrated the prom queen and jock while turning out engineers who built the Saturn V. However we no longer celebrate what engineers do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)

132
The 18-wheelers in that black ice video acted as a dealer's or croupier's hand sweeping everything before them off the table (road) and into the pile up.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 16, 2025 07:43 AM (Tv15w)

133 Thanks, Pixy! Hope you're on the mend or mended.

Posted by: m at August 16, 2025 08:08 AM (aURVT)

134 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

I totally disagree.

Math Olympiad Champs are a different breed and may not seek out the celebrity as a person who devotes their time to vanities (prom queen or jock). Many engineer types are not calibrated to seek out attention and the better ones are far more interested in solving problems than having their peers beat-off to their year-book photos.

Recognition be nice? Yes. Required? No.

Prom Queens, Social media influencers, jocks, all require recognition and constant praise or they end up with drug habits and drama.

Praise among technical/geek peers is far more valuable than a name flashed for a few seconds on the stadium's giant monitors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 16, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

135 The highest paid High School football coach in Ga makes $220k a year. But the schools don't have enough crayons and paper so they have to beg for it every year.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

I don't understand why billions of dollars are wasted each year to stroke the vanity of a few thousand narcissistic teenagers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 16, 2025 08:31 AM (a4flb)

136 Noodus caffeinana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 16, 2025 08:35 AM (omVj0)

137 "GPT-5 is getting warmer and friendlier." Possibly because Redditors freaked out about losing their "friend", tnerapist, and/or smut fanfic writers. Which is to say Redditors are less in need of GPT upgrades than they are of padded rooms.

Posted by: Saber Alter at August 16, 2025 11:22 AM (AZg1Q)

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