Daily Tech News 20 October 2025

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Four words to drive a stake into the heart of Sam Altman: Artificial intelligence is mid. (Anil Dash)

Put less succinctly:
Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.
But who exactly feels that way?

Turns out, almost everyone in the industry:
What's amazing is the reality that virtually 100% of tech experts I talk to in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality.
Can't risk bursting that don't-ever-call-it-a-bubble.

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The modern English translation (and we're talking 16th century as "modern") of the only copy of a 12th century sermon quoting fragments of an otherwise entirely lost medieval saga known as The Song of Wade that was so popular it was referenced in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knowing that the audience would all catch the meaning... Contains a typo. (Smithsonian)

There weren't any elves.
North Korean hackers have embedded malware into contracts on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain where it can never be removed and poses no threat to anyone. (Tom's Hardware)

Because the code is in JavaScript and Ethereum and compatible blockchains use an entirely different programming language called Solidity.

And only idiots would use JavaScript to interact with Ethereum.
Bitlocker will encrypt your drives without you ever asking it to. (Tom's Hardware)

Another reason to avoid Windows 11.
Windows 11's October update just broke the Recovery Environment. (Tom's Hardware)

USB keyboards and mice no longer work in the Recovery Environment, rendering it entirely useless.

Another reason to avoid Windows 11, or alternately to be very glad you've held on to that PS/2 keyboard these last thirty years.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I'm going to change.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2025 04:01 AM (4tvN6)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 20, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2025 04:03 AM (+qU29)

5 Pixy, I don't like my hash. May I have another hash, please?

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

6 >>USB keyboards and mice no longer work in the Recovery Environment, rendering entirely useless.

... rendering them entirely useless.

I think.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

7 ... rendering them entirely useless.

I think.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)
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Grammar Nazi.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2025 04:06 AM (4tvN6)

8 Yay, a BOING!

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

9 Yay, a BOING!

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
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Heading out to exercise on a beautiful Jerusalem day!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2025 04:13 AM (4tvN6)

10 J-Pop. I don't get it.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 20, 2025 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

12 Pixy, is that song Love & Honey? Or is that the album name? I'm trying to figure it out at the YouTube link.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

13 Good Morning rectangular friends

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 20, 2025 04:17 AM (P03Aq)

14 Disclaimer: I'm going to change.

You're going to change ... what.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:18 AM (RuTUS)

15 >>>And only idiots would use JavaScript to interact with Ethereum.

To be fair . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 04:19 AM (i24o9)

16 >>>be very glad you've held on to that PS/2 keyboard these last thirty years.

Who's been snooping in my PC parts bin?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 04:22 AM (i24o9)

17 I installed the latest version of Linux Mint on my old laptop. It had windows 10. I have Win11 on my Beelink minipc. I'm not sure how much longer. Microsoft is wretched.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 20, 2025 04:28 AM (sAmhv)

18 Microsoft is wretched.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 20, 2025 04:28 AM (sAmhv)

That bitlocker article is nightmare fuel.

I have been very happy with Linux Mint.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 04:36 AM (i24o9)

19 13 Good Morning rectangular friends
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 20, 2025 04:17 AM (P03Aq)

I understand you did some cookin'!

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:37 AM (RuTUS)

20 We got some downpours last night, left my jacket somewhere outside Saturday

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2025 04:47 AM (+qU29)

21 haha

Aelfred The Great retweeted
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
9h
(walking past the protest to get a croissant)

me: so, people go to protests when they're mad about something

4yo: why are they mad?

me: they don't like kings

4yo: (concerned) do they like princesses?

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:57 AM (RuTUS)

22 AI is a surveillance tool.
A typo is a letter or two. Changing two words because you want to is selfish.

Posted by: Accomack at October 20, 2025 05:01 AM (+sNap)

23 A good King is far, far better than a bad soviet.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 05:04 AM (ZmEVT)

24 bzzzt I was wrong

6 >>USB keyboards and mice no longer work in the Recovery Environment, rendering entirely useless.

... rendering them entirely useless.

I think.
Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 05:05 AM (RuTUS)

25 * Stretches * *Yawns * Evening and morning to all the late toilers and insomaniacals across the AoSHQ Empire! Yes, yes, it's Monday, but please to remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:11 AM (omVj0)

26 Looks like AWS is having issues.

Posted by: Politcal McGuffin at October 20, 2025 05:16 AM (md5vd)

27 Anyway! (As our former pretend "president" used to say . . .) I'm up, awake (basically), sipping some coffee, with the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space with me. Stirling is sprawled on the floor near my feet, and Dagny is pacing like she's waiting for a bus.

Stirling caught, but didn't manage to kill, a tiny gecko that got into the apartment last night. He'd been clearly hunting something, and then suddenly there it was on the carpet, trying to get away while he patted at it. Linda sprung into action, tossed him into the bathroom, then got a plastic tub and scooped the gecko into it so she could release the creature outdoors. It baffled Stirling -- at least until I gave him some kitty treats in compensation for losing his quarry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:19 AM (omVj0)

28 Temp is 63 F., humidity way down for here. I'll need a light jacket during the warmup for my workout this am. Dee-lightful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:20 AM (omVj0)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 20, 2025 05:21 AM (tljrc)

30 A good King is far, far better than a bad soviet.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 05:04 AM (ZmEVT)

A bad King is far, far better than a bad soviet.

They act in the same sorts of ways but there are fewer people who need to be replaced.

A good soviet, OTOH, doesn't exist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 20, 2025 05:22 AM (ExV1e)

31 I installed the latest version of Linux Mint on my old laptop. It had windows 10. I have Win11 on my Beelink minipc. I'm not sure how much longer. Microsoft is wretched.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 20, 2025

***
I'm gonna have to get serious about doing that soon. The older (2020) laptop is Win10, and the last time I fired it up, MS wanted to update it to 11. I turned them down -- but who knows whether they will sneak it past me in the future.

I use the Win laptops very little, though. The Mac on the desktop and the MacBook Air work just fine for me. Changing one of the others to Linux will give me something to play with.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:24 AM (omVj0)

32 I had to stop my brother from stomping on a lizard one night years ago. Not because I'm a big lizard fan but because the lizard was in the house and I didn't feel like cleaning up lizard guts out of the carpet.

So I said: "No, don't kill it!" while he looked at me like I was some kinda PETA hippy.

And then I grabbed two red Solo cups and corralled the little green guy into one and covered it by sliding the other in on top. Then I took it outside to lizard freedom.

Cockroaches and other bugs are one thing, but lizards are a lot more messy for cleanup.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:26 AM (6ydKt)

33 22 A typo is a letter or two. Changing two words because you want to is selfish.
Posted by: Accomack at October 20, 2025 05:01 AM (+sNap)

Change "typo" to "transcription error"?

A Tiny Typo May Explain a Centuries-Old Mystery About Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ and ‘Troilus and Criseyde’

[T]he exact wording of the sermon itself—copied by a scribe in an unsteady calligraphy—has been the subject of debate since at least the late 1500s.

“Lots of very smart people have torn their hair out over the spelling, punctuation, literal translation, meaning and context of a few lines of text”....

... In the new study, Falk and Wade suggest the scribe incorrectly transcribed two key words....

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 05:27 AM (RuTUS)

34 I had to stop my brother from stomping on a lizard one night years ago. Not because I'm a big lizard fan but because the lizard was in the house and I didn't feel like cleaning up lizard guts out of the carpet.

So I said: "No, don't kill it!" while he looked at me like I was some kinda PETA hippy.

And then I grabbed two red Solo cups and corralled the little green guy into one and covered it by sliding the other in on top. Then I took it outside to lizard freedom.

Cockroaches and other bugs are one thing, but lizards are a lot more messy for cleanup.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025

***
Yes . . . and since Stirling for some reason doesn't usually eat all of what he kills, there would have been some small mess to clean up. Linda keeps saying he's an "immoral" cat because of that -- her other cats all ate their kills. I keep telling her he's *amoral,* not immoral. Cats have no moral code. (Or maybe it's "unmoral"?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

35 I'm starting a new job in a few hours.
I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to work from home or in the office. Hoping at home because I hate traffic.

I'm updating and redesigning a website I did for this company years ago that really needs it.

To Pixy's great disappointment, I'm going with WordPress, probably. But it's the easiest way to make a site that will work with all screen formats (PC, Tablet, Phone) and it's a breeze to update as needed once everything is up and running.

I don't know of any WordPress replacements that are ready to go on most server hosting, either.

It'll work for now unless I find something better.

Wish me luck on this new chapter in my life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

36 Yes . . . and since Stirling for some reason doesn't usually eat all of what he kills, there would have been some small mess to clean up. Linda keeps saying he's an "immoral" cat because of that -- her other cats all ate their kills. I keep telling her he's *amoral,* not immoral. Cats have no moral code. (Or maybe it's "unmoral"?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

My sister-in-law's last cat always like to bring her dead birds as presents, which got left on the floor with a broken neck.

I don't think that cat ever thought to eat them, but who knows what he did when he wasn't bringing people lunch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:34 AM (6ydKt)

37 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

Congratulations on your new job and may the Lord bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 05:34 AM (Nx5jP)

38 Thanks Fen.
Going kinda stir crazy in an empty house so this will help a lot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:38 AM (6ydKt)

39 After I work out, get cleaned up, and eat, I may head uptown in the less-hot and drier weather to have a coffee -- maybe even outdoors! -- and to pick up some supplies at the pipe shop. Then a quick visit to Aldi on the way home for some victuals.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2025 05:40 AM (omVj0)

40 Bitlocker is one of those "good intentions" sort of things, as in "The road to Hell is paved with..."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

41 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:38 AM (6ydKt)

Don't t go crazy😉 . You're too valuable to people here and elsewhere. I hope it is a very good experience to use your gifts and talents!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 05:41 AM (Nx5jP)

42 So a blood type of Type-P on someone's chart is a Type-O typo.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

43 40 Bitlocker is one of those "good intentions" sort of things, as in "The road to Hell is paved with..."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 05:40 AM (O7YUW

After reading that article I'm going to hacve to check that Windows hasn't bitlockered my four drives on this machine.

I know it's done it on the laptop.
But I don't remember getting any keys for the PC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:47 AM (6ydKt)

44 Jonah 4:5-11 Christian devotional related to God's infinite care and Jonah who someone over there at "Our Daily Bread" amusingly refers to as the "pouting prophet"

https://tinyurl.com/2kbntpp5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 05:48 AM (Nx5jP)

45 Don't t go crazy😉 . You're too valuable to people here and elsewhere. I hope it is a very good experience to use your gifts and talents!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 05:41 AM (Nx5jP)

Thank you, very sweet.

It'll be fine once I get back into the groove, I hope.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:48 AM (6ydKt)

46 I'm gonna have to get serious about doing that soon. The older (2020) laptop is Win10, and the last time I fired it up, MS wanted to update it to 11. I turned them down -- but who knows whether they will sneak it past me in the future.

In your settings...

- set your network as a metered connection
- use advanced update setting to not download over metered connections

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 20, 2025 05:49 AM (ExV1e)

47 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 20, 2025 05:50 AM (SeSfo)

48 Woman wins giant plushie . Gives to stranger on train who is delighted:

https://tinyurl.com/bdrpc7ej

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 05:51 AM (Nx5jP)

49 Very early (1929) Gary Cooper in The Virginian on Encore Westerns now.

The only real connection I can see to the TV show is that there's a character named Trampas.

He's so young and thin as a rail in this one.
I had no idea the man worked that long, probably close to thirty years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

50 LLMs are not overhyped. And they are not going to go away. This ain't 3D movies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 20, 2025 05:53 AM (fen1u)

51 A good King is far, far better than a bad soviet.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 05:04 AM (ZmEVT)

A bad King is far, far better than a bad soviet.

They act in the same sorts of ways but there are fewer people who need to be replaced.

A good soviet, OTOH, doesn't exist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 20, 2025 05:22 AM (ExV1e)

Meh. The whole issue is cooked up by a bunch of retards who lied to themselves for four years that FJB wasn't a dementia patient, and who acquiesced to being told who their nominee would be after it became untenable to deny FJB was legally incompetent to hold office.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 05:53 AM (i24o9)

52 Wish me luck on this new chapter in my life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

Best, to you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 05:55 AM (i24o9)

53 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 20, 2025 06:00 AM (hoCmQ)

54 Posted by: olddog in mo at October 20, 2025 06:00 AM (hoCmQ)

Good morning to you. I don't think I had seen you . How are you doing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 06:01 AM (Nx5jP)

55 I only see two Bitlocker keys in my Microsoft account.

One for a laptop I got that I returned and one more for another laptop.

Apparently it's not setup on this PC.

*whew*

I'm glad I haven't updated to Windows 11 25H2 yet.
But it's still bugging me with the Update symbol in the taskbar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:05 AM (6ydKt)

56 "typo" requires typography, a tech not in use by a 12th-century scribe

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 06:06 AM (RuTUS)

57 Yesterday, I was doing some google searches to find out how to remove old kernels in LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) as it's slightly different than the standard Linux Mint.

The first result was Google's AI telling me explicitly how to list out and manage those kernels in the Update Manager. The problem is that this is one of the critical differences between Linux Mint, and LMDE. In LMDE you don't have access to manage installed kernels through the Update Manager. (And yes, I verified this in the current installation.)

So the LLM was wrong. Again.

It happened with another thing I was searching for as well. For three tech searches today in regards to working with LMDE, two of the three AI results at the top of Google's search results were just flat out incorrect in important details.

This is why I normally ignore the AI results.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

58 Today is my day off and FenSpouse has a day off as well because teachers have an in service day, so I think we'll do something exciting like go to the supermarket and maybe stop and get a coffee and an order of snacking bacon at Dunkin' ( formerly Dunkin Donuts) on the way . Have a good day, everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 06:06 AM (Nx5jP)

59 I have worked with Joomla and WordPress.

WordPress is easier to update pages.

Joomla's file management made composing a monthly newsletter far, far easier.

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

60 A lunch date with your sweetheart?

Just wonderful.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 06:07 AM (ZmEVT)

61 Morning, Fen. Doing fine. Been bach'ing it past week as wife and daughter are visiting son. I home babysitting the pup and cats.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 20, 2025 06:08 AM (hoCmQ)

62 Reddit isn't working very well, right now... I suspect because of the AWS glitch happening now. Also, I can't get one of the podcasts I subscribe to.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 20, 2025 06:10 AM (gHSfI)

63 Confirming bitlocker status on all your drives:

Run your command prompt (cmd.exe) as Adminstrator (this might require right clicking on the icon for it and selecting "Run as Administrator")

The command to list out the status of all drives:

manage-bde -status

For each drive, you want to see:
Conversion Status: Fully Decrypted
Protection Status: Protection Off
Lock Status: Off

To decrypt a drive (let's use a data drive, D: as an example)
manage-bde -off d:

This can take a while! (continued in next comment)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

64 (continued from last comment)

Now to prevent not being able to write to data drives that are not encrypted by Bitlocker:

Local Group Policy Editor

Computer Configuration
- Administrative Templates
- Windows Components
- BitLocker Drive Encryption (expand this)

Three options:
- Fixed Data Drives
- Operating System Drives
- Removable Data Drives

- Fixed Data Drives
- Deny write access to fixed drives not protected by BitLocker

SET THIS TO: Disabled

(again, continued)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

65 Article somewhere this morning, paraphrasing
They don't want a King, they want 10,000 Dukes to run the fiefdoms

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2025 06:13 AM (xatjc)

66 And finally, once a manage-bde status command shows all drives fully unlocked and decrypted, you can turn the Bitlocker service OFF:

Under the services panel in Windows

Find:
BitLocker Drive Encryption

Change from Manual to Disabled

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

67 I'm not calling it a scribe-o.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:14 AM (06Hmj)

68 Obviously, don't disable the service until all the drives are fully decrypted, otherwise you might have a really bad day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 20, 2025 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

69 Posted by: olddog in mo at October 20, 2025 06:08 AM (hoCmQ)

Glad to hear from you !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 06:15 AM (rZCVI)

70 A fine Pertalote stewed in jalapeño BBQ sauce will make a tasty treat for tonight’s supper, I think.

Posted by: Chanticleer at October 20, 2025 06:16 AM (T3vgT)

71 I've only overheard a tiny bit of people out in the wild commenting on this no kings bullshit.

It's universally scorn and mockery, regardless of who is saying it. Dude bros. Hipsters. College kids. No one takes this crap seriously.

It's just a bunch of boomers fucking up traffic, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:17 AM (06Hmj)

72 There's a very zowie illustration of the textual errors here (linked in the article):

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/
song-of-wade-lost-english-legend-decoded

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 06:18 AM (RuTUS)

73 ... so it's delightful that all the pedocrats seem to be sinking Real Money into this nonsense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:18 AM (06Hmj)

74 It's just a bunch of boomers fucking up traffic, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:17 AM (06Hmj)

Every one of my wife's siblings. So retarded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 20, 2025 06:18 AM (ExV1e)

75 If there were some way to make a Molotov Mocktail, these groin idiots would find it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:19 AM (06Hmj)

76 Thanks Flounder!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:20 AM (6ydKt)

77 75 If there were some way to make a Molotov Mocktail, these groin idiots would find it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:19 AM (06Hmj)

groin idiots?

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 06:20 AM (RuTUS)

78 Huckin' half-finished yankee candles at the police....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:20 AM (06Hmj)

79 67 I'm not calling it a scribe-o.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:14 AM (06Hmj)

Day-o,
day-o.
Daylight come and we want go home.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)

80 The Bouge-a-loo Boys

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:23 AM (06Hmj)

81 59 WordPress is easier to update pages.

Joomla's file management made composing a monthly newsletter far, far easier.

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

I have not looked into Joomla.
This is a business site with several categories of products.
No e-commerce sales as most of it is customized.
No newsletters. Anything like that they have a Facebook page for, which I'll probably be updating as well.

It'll basically be static once complete, with updates for new products and upgraded products and updated photos of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:24 AM (6ydKt)

82 For those that enjoy the Bible, I appreciate this humorous and thoughtful take on the "pouting prophet" Jonah:

https://tinyurl.com/yf3dkncx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2025 06:25 AM (ix8EF)

83 Good morning, one and all! Taking the day off so I'm absorbing my coffee at home.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 20, 2025 06:26 AM (7xrfc)

84 Then WordPress is good for your application.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 06:27 AM (ZmEVT)

85 "And only idiots would use JavaScript to interact with Ethereum."
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Or malicious actors who infect a website with a javascript payload that tries to do mining in the background? The two might interract in a very negative way, with users not aware until their machine halts and catches fire (HCF).

Posted by: Another Anon at October 20, 2025 06:31 AM (4h45B)

86 Then WordPress is good for your application.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2025 06:27 AM (ZmEVT)

I think so too.
Now it's just deciding on which pagebuilder and theme to use and then it's off to the races remaking the old site to start.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

87 I must've skipped right over BitLocker when I installed Windows on here, because I'm not even seeing a BitLocker section in Control Panel.

Even typing in BitLocker takes me nowhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

88 I've only overheard a tiny bit of people out in the wild commenting on this no kings bullshit.

It's universally scorn and mockery, regardless of who is saying it. Dude bros. Hipsters. College kids. No one takes this crap seriously.

It's just a bunch of boomers fucking up traffic, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 20, 2025 06:17 AM (06Hmj)

I've heard them throwing around a number of 7 million attendees, largest ever, blah, blah. That not even the 30% or so number of lefties who back castrating children. Congratulations for not burning down your shithole cities or something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 06:36 AM (i24o9)

89 Honey Cutie can shimmy into my kitchen anytime she wants and make me a sammich. She's a toe tapper!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 20, 2025 06:37 AM (KOZ5c)

90 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I checked my work email this morning after being away for a few days.

I had 34 unread messages, not one of which was particularly important....Just a meeting invite that I needed to accept. That's it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 20, 2025 06:37 AM (IBQGV)

91 "be very glad you've held on to that PS/2 keyboard these last thirty years."

Laughs in Model M ...

Posted by: Packetman at October 20, 2025 06:37 AM (54BAK)

92 No Kings barely happened, and I live in a socialist college town. Maybe twenty people, talking wuietly among themselves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 20, 2025 06:38 AM (KOZ5c)

93 Tom's Hardware explains how to check BitLocker in a guide:

https://tinyurl.com/56c6t75x

Apparently, I don't have to worry about it because I installed Windows 11 Home on this PC.

So if you're just using home, no worries.

But if you're on a laptop with Win11, check it out and copy your BitLocker key(s) as I think most OEM's put BitLocker encyption on laptops automatically for security reasons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:39 AM (6ydKt)

94 I had 34 unread messages, not one of which was particularly important....Just a meeting invite that I needed to accept. That's it.

My approach to work email when I get back from vacation is this.

1. Check the subject lines of all of them. See if anything needs my attention.

2. Select all of the others. Mark as read and then delete.

If it's important, the sender can reach out to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 20, 2025 06:40 AM (7xrfc)

95 "be very glad you've held on to that PS/2 keyboard these last thirty years."

Laughs in Model M ...

Posted by: Packetman at October 20, 2025 06:37 AM (54BAK)

I'm old enough to remember the old DIN connectors.
Those snazzy new PS/2 connections were a lot easier.
I've probably still got one of those keyboards in the attic, but I'm not sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

96 It's nice weather and people are bored. They want to get outside and do something and they don't have the good fortune of being able to attend a Southeastern Conference football game. So they flatten one of their many Amazon boxes, get out the big old chisel tipped Sharpie marker and make a lame sign.
Then put on the threadbare Che t-shirt and go to the nearest gathering of other people trying in vain to feel significant.
Yawn.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 20, 2025 06:43 AM (SeSfo)

97 G'morning from a chilly (48 degree) Tuscaloosa Alabama.

Should be on the road in about two hours for the final stretch of the return to Summerville from the TxMoMe.

As always, an amazing time, hosted by a wonderful lady.
And the efforts of an untold number of fellow Horde members.

Time to go home though....we miss the kitties.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 20, 2025 06:43 AM (46b7k)

98 No Kings barely happened, and I live in a socialist college town. Maybe twenty people, talking wuietly among themselves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 20, 2025 06:38 AM (KOZ5c)

I don't know. I was out camping and getting dumped on.

It appears from reviews there is more enthusiastic online back-slapping than there was participation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2025 06:44 AM (i24o9)

99

It's the start of a new week, so good morning to the survivors of MoMe and I hope a fantastic time was enjoyed by all.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 20, 2025 06:44 AM (vFbHf)

100 5 Pixy, I don't like my hash. May I have another hash, please?
Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

Et bru, rutus?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 20, 2025 06:51 AM (znREB)

101 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2025 06:54 AM (kHop/)

102
the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone

C-Suite types are the biggest herd of boldly innovative thinkers around. And these AI hypesters corral them better than any Border Collie. Read LinkedIn any time. "Has your company implemented AI? Why not? Do you want to be left behind? Your AI-infused competitors are going to eat your lunch! Your stock price will fall!!!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2025 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

103 They are claiming 7 million people showed up for the various No Kings protests.
I'm finding that hard to believe.

And they changed the name to "No Tyrants" in countries with monarchies, so there wouldn't be any confusion.

Oh the irony.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

104 Safe travels, VIA.

It's a balmy 53 back here.
High around 70 today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 07:00 AM (6ydKt)

105 It is with some sadness I note that ocean of pdf dot com appears to be down, perhaps terminally. This was my favorite place to download books at no cost. Archive is just a blueball tease, with their “preview only” business and clunky reader

Posted by: Common Tater at October 20, 2025 07:01 AM (3lPIc)

106 100 5 Pixy, I don't like my hash. May I have another hash, please?
Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

Et bru, rutus?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 20, 2025 06:51 AM (znREB)

Russian TUS.
Whatever a TUS is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

107 rootin' tootin'

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 07:03 AM (RuTUS)

108 "It's a balmy 53 back here.
High around 70 today."

It will not get out of the 60's at home till around three o'clock this afternoon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 20, 2025 07:06 AM (46b7k)

109 103 They are claiming 7 million people showed up for the various No Kings protests.
I'm finding that hard to believe.

And they changed the name to "No Tyrants" in countries with monarchies, so there wouldn't be any confusion.

Oh the irony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

And in America, they were all arrested and imprisoned by the king's minions.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 07:07 AM (RuTUS)

110 "They are claiming 7 million people showed up for the various No Kings protests. "

oddly enough, the same number they said would show up last week ...

IOW, all made up. Lies, actually, What a surprise.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2025 07:10 AM (kHop/)

111 Disclaimer: I'm going to change.

How many Koda Kumis does it take to change a Pixy?

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

112 eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
13h
this seems right and the point about rockets is v interesting

Israel Radar
@IsraelRadar_com
15h
Reports that the Gaza ceasefire collapsed are greatly exaggerated.

There's lots of pressure (from the US and Arab states) to keep the truce intact despite breaches.

Israel and Hamas also don't want to resume full-scale fighting anytime soon.

So don't be surprised to see brief eruptions of military action that end quickly.

With that said, the situation in Gaza will remain tense for some time.

But there's one very noticeable change from the past: Such eruptions no longer involve large Hamas rocket barrages. Hamas no longer has the ability to do it.

Posted by: m at October 20, 2025 07:16 AM (RuTUS)

113 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 20, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

114
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 20, 2025 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

115 Home.

Home safe from the MoMeet. 10 hours on the road, and my butt hurt. Fine now.

Great memories. Great people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 20, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

116 I don't know how people can be such monsters! Don't they know the federal government is shut down and millions will die and it's like the earth is on fire! I asked my 12 year old daughter how this made her feel and she said she was angry!

Posted by: Katie Porter, fat california democrat bitch at October 20, 2025 07:19 AM (R/m4+)

117 My mom's a hag. So I scalded her with a pot of Chef Boyardee. That was for daddy, you old troll!

Posted by: Katie Porters 12 year old daughter at October 20, 2025 07:24 AM (BI5O2)

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