Daily Tech News 30 October 2025

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Microsoft went down. (The Verge)

The outage took out Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services, and most importantly, Minecraft, as well as a whole string of Azure customers like Starbucks, Costco, and Zoom. It even affected some services on AWS and Google Cloud.

It was DNS.

It is always DNS.

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Microsoft keeps disabling workarounds for Windows 11's demand for an online account during setup.

Now Microsoft has YouTube playing cleanup for it, removing videos instructing people how to use the remaining workarounds. (Tom's Hardware)

Because fuck you, that's why.
The problem with Windows handhelds is Windows. (The Verge) (archive site)

I knew it!
Two-time Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is now at Gloo, where he is working on an AI that will... Accelerate the Second Coming? (The Guardian)

Look, it's The Guardian, so take that with a pillar of salt, but I'm not sure this would be entirely a good thing.
Bending Spoons is buying AOL for $1.5 billion. (Axios)

We will always have the free coasters though.
Grokipedia apparently contains insufficient leftist propaganda to satisfy the insufferable moral cretins at The Verge. (The Verge)

That's a promising sign, at least.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Bad Leroy! No biscuit!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 30, 2025 04:01 AM (bM6e/)

2 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 30, 2025 04:03 AM (bM6e/)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2025 04:04 AM (+qU29)

4 Mornin' Pixy, Boss Moss, anyone else who'se joined while I'm typing...

This head and chest cold can go straight back to whatever awful place spawned it. Urgh. Enough already.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)

5 That'd be Skip. Mornin' Skip!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)

6 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 30, 2025 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

7 I hast performed ze noodin' duties.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 04:06 AM (O7YUW)

8 Good morning. As Confucius say: Wise man make time to jump for joy in bounce house of life.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at October 30, 2025 04:06 AM (WKHVO)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2025 04:06 AM (Wg6v7)

10 Not sure I'm going to take Theology from The Guardian. Them being Marxists and all. Couldn't read the Bending Spoons article. Had to subscribe first. (flips the one finger salute)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2025 04:10 AM (Wg6v7)

11 The "free coasters"... LOL!

I threw them all away when that last floppy drive went into the trash.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

12 Thanks for the chuckles, Pixy!

Good night, horde...

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2025 04:19 AM (rdVOm)

13 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 30, 2025 04:37 AM (p6raP)

14 Last I checked windows still has the floppy option in the drive selection. I still have a CD player in one of my older computers and one in my car. The next generation (what ever they will be called) CD? Floppy? whats that.

Posted by: coliin at October 30, 2025 04:41 AM (wlQdF)

15 Microsoft keeps disabling workarounds for Windows 11's demand for an online account during setup.

One of the big reasons I'm switching to Linux. Even the people who manage to use one of the workarounds will wake up one day and find that the most recent Windows update will require them to have an online presence.

Fuck them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025 04:51 AM (ExV1e)

16 Spouse and I are reading Proverbs. Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 04:55 AM (xY6Tn)

17 BOING!

Last night's 14 oz. steaks with crisp jacket potatoes was to die for!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 04:57 AM (uHi2H)

18 This head and chest cold can go straight back to whatever awful place spawned it. Urgh.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)
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Please tell us you didn't try to follow the HQ life-changing revelation a few days ago and breathed through your anus.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:01 AM (uHi2H)

19 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey.....
Don't you realize all the farting that cow did just for you enjoyment. And what that farting is doing to the world, how dare you....

Posted by: coliin at October 30, 2025 05:02 AM (wlQdF)

20 (Pixy) "Look, it's The Guardian, so take that with a pillar of salt"

That's a Lot to ask.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)

21 @18/Biden's Dog: Nah, I just slapped hot iron to it. I'm a traditionalist.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:05 AM (O7YUW)

22 Trying to be sure I am fighting off any colds.

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2025 05:09 AM (+qU29)

23 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey.....
Don't you realize all the farting that cow did just for you enjoyment. And what that farting is doing to the world, how dare you.... .

Posted by: coliin at October 30, 2025 05:02 AM (wlQdF)
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Have no fear! That cow is farting no longer! What I ate helps save the planet. But go ahead and eat your kale.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:10 AM (uHi2H)

24 (Pixy) "Look, it's The Guardian, so take that with a pillar of salt"

That's a Lot to ask.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)
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That's Sodom thing to say!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:11 AM (uHi2H)

25 @24/Biden's Dog: "That's Sodom thing to say!"

Just had to go more, ah?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:17 AM (O7YUW)

26 Devotional by a woman from NSW Australia on "Hold and Step" and Matthew 14: 25-31 . It also has a lovely bit from Psalm 63:8- "My souls clings to you. Your right hand upholds me.":

https://tinyurl.com/mu66t27w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:18 AM (wvguf)

27 AOL handles a fuckton of email.

For instance, my email was handled through verizon for a while who then pawned it off to AOL while maintaining the verizon.net bit of the email address unchanged.

I could be wrong but I think that AOL mutated itself into the generic email handler for those who don't use gmail.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at October 30, 2025 05:18 AM (Unq1O)

28 Has no one ever heard of a burner account?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2025 05:21 AM (06Hmj)

29 @Biden's Dog: I'm surprised FenelonSpoke hasn't sent us both to the penalty box yet. ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

30
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 30, 2025 05:23 AM (tljrc)

31 Please tell us you didn't try to follow the HQ life-changing revelation a few days ago and breathed through your anus.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:01 AM (uHi2H)

Pucker just right and you can whistle a jaunty Neptune.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2025 05:24 AM (06Hmj)

32 Light rain, I knew it was supposed to
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2025 05:24 AM (+qU29)

33

Good morning to all citizens of this most exceptional country--the rest may remain with their noses pressed against the window glass. Be vigilant, though, your time may come.

In the meantime, for us may all effort from you result in maximum benefit to you and grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 30, 2025 05:25 AM (vFbHf)

34 Very nice song, "God of the mountain" The Redeemed Quartet sings in a.beautiful setting on the Colorado Mountains:

https://tinyurl.com/4vur9dzr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:26 AM (SKxYB)

35 @24/Biden's Dog: "That's Sodom thing to say!"

Just had to go more, ah?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:17 AM (O7YUW)
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Ya know Lot's wife deserved to be turned into a pillar of salt. Lucky for her, she didn't sulfur much.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:26 AM (uHi2H)

36 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

Now why would I do that.? You're funny.

And I'm sorry you're still not feeling well, G & V..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:28 AM (SKxYB)

37 @36/FenelonSpoke: Thank you. It'll eventually pass. Some of our mechanics have this and are also doing the "working while sick" thing. Just driving the bus for my morning and afternoon shifts is leaving me exhausted. I can only imagine how those guys feel at the end of the day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

38 @35/Biden's Dog: I yield, I can't think of a suitable comeback to that one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

39 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

. Sounds miserable . May the Lord heal you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:39 AM (IEV/x)

40 Young man gives flowers to elderly people on the street. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7en5cn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:42 AM (IEV/x)

41 If often exhale through my anus if you know what I mean. But I never inhale.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 05:45 AM (W7XSX)

42 Good morning, one and all! It's a day of rain here in the GPROMD so driving in was a bit interesting. Our three guest dogs get picked up today and the house will be quiet until tomorrow. This guest is being dropped off and will either stay until Saturday or for the whole weekend since the owners have World Series tickets.

Fen, I was pondering things about your son and his poor luck in finding a girlfriend. From what I am seeing out there, most ladies his age are looking for the established rich man with the "Three Sixes" (6 feet tall, 6 pack abs, 6 figure income) and they expect it to be handed to them because they deserve it.

I hope he has success in finding someone.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 05:47 AM (+4yJ5)

43 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 05:48 AM (kHop/)

44 Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 05:47 AM (+4yJ5

Thanks. He needs to meet women in real space. All the young women in the young adult church group he attends seem to have boyfriends.

He did talk to the youth minister there and he said that if this girl doesn't come over from abroad ( Yeah right!) he should just give it a pass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 05:52 AM (looXz)

45 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 30, 2025 05:58 AM (XQo4F)

46 He needs to meet women in real space.

Which is more difficult than it was when we were that age. -:-)

And you may appreciate this. Kevin Samuels was once debating with a woman who said she wouldn't look at a "broke man." His most cutting remark was this:

"A broke man can rebuild himself in three years. You can't get any younger."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 05:59 AM (+4yJ5)

47 He did talk to the youth minister there and he said that if this girl doesn't come over from abroad ( Yeah right!) he should just give it a pass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Many of these "online girlfriends" from overseas are nothing but bots. In the event that this "girl" is actually human, your son could be one of many that she is corresponding with and trying to extract money(usually in the form of gift cards)from. Please, please tell him to be wary.

Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:03 AM (lJ0H4)

48 I kind of assume "she" is asking for money for a ticket to come here, Fenelon?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 06:04 AM (kHop/)

49 Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 05:59 AM (+4yJ5)

Yes; so glad I didn't grow up in the internet age. On our first "date" ( spouse and I worked together at a writing and math lab at a college) we walked over to the cafeteria and got a sandwich.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:04 AM (Nx5jP)

50 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 06:04 AM (kHop/)

I don't think she's asking for that. Just money to be put up at a hotel. So, so dumb!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:06 AM (Nx5jP)

51 Wife and I met online and I decided to take a chance and move to MD. 23 years and still going.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:07 AM (+4yJ5)

52 Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:03 AM (lJ0H4

Yes, I've told him. He says, "Don't you think I can figure out who's legitimate and who's not" uhhhh....nope!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:07 AM (Nx5jP)

53 Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:07 AM (+4yJ5

II've performed marriages for people who met online. So I don't think it's all a grift, but the legit people are few and far between..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:09 AM (Nx5jP)

54 A few thoughts, kindly meant:

Perhaps he should visit a larger church. Bigger pool.

He has his degree now? Does he have a job? He has to have a job.

A lot a young guys think they are going to land a supermodel. No. A sweet 5 is better long term than a 10.

What is the purpose of dating? To find a spouse. He has to ask anyone that seems nice out. It's just dinner with no expectation of anything more.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:10 AM (W7XSX)

55 Evening and morning, satraps of the AoSHQ Empire! Teh Emperor demands tribute! (Which means hit the tip jar, I guess)

'Tis Thor's Day, and a 1947 B & W crime film called Boomerang! w/ Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and a slew of other to-be famous and familiar faces, is on Movies! now. Apparently Thursday is their "Noir" day.

I'm up, awake-ish, and having coffee on the first cool morning in Da Swamp since . . . ya know, I really can't remember, it's been so long. I think LBJ was president. No, Nixon. Something like that.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

56 all the same, really - money in front, always.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 06:13 AM (kHop/)

57 Microsoft keeps disabling workarounds for Windows 11's demand for an online account during setup.

One of the big reasons I'm switching to Linux. Even the people who manage to use one of the workarounds will wake up one day and find that the most recent Windows update will require them to have an online presence. . . .

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025

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I'd better print out instructions and get to it soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:13 AM (omVj0)

58 Yes, I've told him. He says, "Don't you think I can figure out who's legitimate and who's not" uhhhh....nope!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I feel for you. When I was working credit card fraud I can't tell you the number of similar conversations I had with men and women trying to explain the reality of their situation to them. Even after they had lost thousands of dollars on their credit card accounts they still did not want to believe they were being scammed.

Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:13 AM (lJ0H4)

59 @55/Wolfus: Just getting ready for work here, nothing special. How are the furry thugs doing this morning?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

60 For a while, I was using X DM to chat with some folks.

Too many bots, Chinese bots.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:16 AM (W7XSX)

61 A sweet 5 is better long term than a 10.

The problem is that a lot of those sweet 5s still want nothing to do with men their age since they have higher ranking men using them for sex.

The guy who goes by the name Hoe Math talks about these problems in great detail.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:16 AM (+4yJ5)

62 Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:13 AM (lJ0H4

I guess some young people can be very stubborn with ( what Charles Dickens refers to as) their "aged parents".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:17 AM (ix8EF)

63 Kevin Samuels was once debating with a woman who said she wouldn't look at a "broke man." His most cutting remark was this:

"A broke man can rebuild himself in three years. You can't get any younger."
Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025

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That, and "Your market value isn't what it was when you were nineteen, girl."

Another good comeback is if the online woman asks how tall you are, you reply, "And how much do you weigh?" She'll sputter, "What do you mean?" "You know, when you get on the scale, what number shows up? You have your standards, I have mine."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

64 Ya know Lot's wife deserved to be turned into a pillar of salt. Lucky for her, she didn't sulfur much.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:26 AM

An eager young Bible School student said that she was a Pillar of Salt by day, but a Ball of Fire by night!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 06:17 AM (bI6eY)

65 Wolfus: Just getting ready for work here, nothing special. How are the furry thugs doing this morning?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025

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They've had their breakfast. Stirling slept with me, as he usually does, but Dagny is still in her aloof mode.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:18 AM (omVj0)

66 Missed this one.

It's just dinner with no expectation of anything more

These days, a coffee date is a lot safer. Less money and time spent finding out if things could work out.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:18 AM (+4yJ5)

67 One or two maybe even legit. But if she is from China, living in Baltimore, in her 30's, in the fashion industry, not religious, run, do not walk away.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:18 AM (W7XSX)

68 23 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey.....
Don't you realize all the farting that cow did just for you enjoyment. And what that farting is doing to the world, how dare you.... .

Posted by: coliin at October 30, 2025 05:02 AM (wlQdF)
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Have no fear! That cow is farting no longer! What I ate helps save the planet. But go ahead and eat your kale.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2025 05:10 AM (uHi2H)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at October 30, 2025 06:18 AM (vwL3N)

69 @58/Tuna: It's best to start with the assumption, "This is always a scam."

I'm now at the point of walking replacement bank cards + letter with them into my bank and asking, "Was this really from you?"

Same with first time communications allegedly from my doctor's office that came through an online system I'd never heard of. First, it was a link in an email, which I copied and took a good hard look at, then pasted into a sheep-dip virtualbox with a browser, the lot of which I could (and would) revert immediately thereafter.

The site that sent me to asked for my birth date. My reaction? "Nope. Asking for personally identifying information and I have no idea who or what this really is." Then I printed the URL, the email, and the website asking for my birthdate to PDF files, put those on my tablet, and walked that into my doctor's office and asked, "Did you send me a communication, and are these from you?"

Then we discussed red flags like "Link in an email" (which you should never normally click) and "Asking for personally identifying information". The secretary agreed with me, and said I'm one of the very few who actually bother to walk in and verify like I did.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

70 mornin yall

"Even after they had lost thousands of dollars on their credit card accounts they still did not want to believe they were being scammed.
Posted by: Tuna"

This is all too common. There is something about people that can prevent them from seeing the snake that has convinced them that it is friendly is about to bite them. The scammers know how to work that blind spot.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 06:19 AM (vFG9F)

71 Dinner lets the girl know this is not a lunch date with a colleague. Dinner implies the guy is looking for a wife.

Or a hookup. But that should be ruled out ASAP.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:20 AM (W7XSX)

72 Another good comeback is if the online woman asks how tall you are, you reply, "And how much do you weigh?"

I saw that kind of exchange on Twitter. A woman posting a picture of her looking disgusted with the caption "When your height starts with 5."

A man quickly replied "When your weight starts with two hundred." She had a rather impressive meltdown about men being judgmental.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:21 AM (+4yJ5)

73 I haven’t looked at my AOL account in ages.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 30, 2025 06:21 AM (vwL3N)

74 @58/Tuna (part 2, I ran out of space)

I like to think I have a healthy level of paranoia, otherwise known as self preservation.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

75 Online dating makes me think of Napoleon Dynamite.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 06:22 AM (bI6eY)

76 The scammers know how to work that blind spot.
Posted by: fd

And that is why I am an asshole to those people. I recall telling one scammer that I was proud of a Dalit like him rising above his station and getting a good paying job. His response to me was not nice. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:23 AM (+4yJ5)

77 I guess some young people can be very stubborn with ( what Charles Dickens refers to as) their "aged parents".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to have those conversations with people anymore. It got to be really depressing.

Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:23 AM (lJ0H4)

78 I had to look up "dalit."

Yikes. Untouchable.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:25 AM (W7XSX)

79 I’m beginning to believe that, at least for young people, the old system of families and parents arranging marriages is better than the system we’ve got now.
At the very least I now understand why they did it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 06:25 AM (bI6eY)

80 Fen, despite my snarky commentary and my irritation at the younger generation on this topic, I truly do hope your son's fortunes improve.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (+4yJ5)

81 Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:23 AM

It does sound depressing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (ix8EF)

82
I saw that kind of exchange on Twitter. A woman posting a picture of her looking disgusted with the caption "When your height starts with 5."

A man quickly replied "When your weight starts with two hundred." She had a rather impressive meltdown about men being judgmental.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025

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And she no doubt had a couple of Twinkies to calm herself down. Or most of a box.

I was thinking it was this area here that contributed to the heaviness epidemic I see everywhere. Nope; pretty much the same in Indiana, though the problem seemed a bit less.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

83 "You know Homer, 1 out of 100 arranged marriages ends in divorce." - Abu, Quik-E Mart owner.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (W7XSX)

84 Yikes. Untouchable.
Posted by: no one

Yep. I went there without regret.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (+4yJ5)

85 Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:26 AM (+4yJ5

I know you do. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 06:27 AM (ix8EF)

86 I like to think I have a healthy level of paranoia, otherwise known as self preservation.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

There are so many desperately lonely people out there. Their sense of self preservation takes a back seat to their loneliness.

Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2025 06:27 AM (lJ0H4)

87 Eleanor Rigby....

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:28 AM (W7XSX)

88 I'm glad my MIL does not use a PC, but my parents both do and it's a scary thing. Not only because of the scammers, the garbage they read from their "news" sites skews their reality towards the leftist worldview.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

89 Go take a class at the community college.
Lots of females there.

Posted by: Just a thought at October 30, 2025 06:30 AM (XQo4F)

90 75 Online dating makes me think of Napoleon Dynamite.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 06:22 AM (bI6eY)

Kip couldn't have done it if he hadn't had the confidence-building experience of Rex Kwan Do.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2025 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

91 Back in the day, lots of singles would go to the local JC to meet other folks their age. It was heavily subsidized by the State. Eventually, a law was passed that forced anyone with an AA, BA, BS or higher to pay full tuition. IOWs, the State was happy to help you get your first degree, but not gonna pay for your second.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 06:34 AM (W7XSX)

92 The local news site are full of stories about the upcoming SNAP crisis. I'm thinking my Halloween treat offering is going to be very popular this year.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

93 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2025 06:36 AM (a1415)

94 Another funny story about dating and its perils. A guy was 30 and going to college on the GI Bill. The professor assigned the ladies to write out a job description for an ideal husband. After telling them to STFU about the three sixes and take it seriously, a list of requirements was created.

Then the men did the same thing with an ideal wife. The normal things you would expect were listed. There was screaming, crying and actual mental breakdowns from the girls leading him to conclude "Women don't want to be wives. They want to be pets. Taken care of and no responsibility on them in return."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:38 AM (+4yJ5)

95 "The local news site are full of stories about the upcoming SNAP crisis."

Seems that some folks are talking about simply erupting into a national Parking Lot Assault Battalion.

Not too sure that will play real well in Peoria.

But...how does that saying go?

Bold move, Cotton...let's see how it plays out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2025 06:38 AM (a1415)

96 Back in the day, lots of singles would go to the local JC to meet other folks their age. It was heavily subsidized by the State. Eventually, a law was passed that forced anyone with an AA, BA, BS or higher to pay full tuition. IOWs, the State was happy to help you get your first degree, but not gonna pay for your second.
Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025

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Colleges used to have "mixers" and dances where you could meet somebody. And before the 'Net took off, local newspapers ran "personal ads" and would hold occasional free mixer events to publicize that, and their papers, at local venues. Hey, even Yahoo! used to have Personals.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:39 AM (omVj0)

97 Bending Spoons is buying AOL for $1.5 billion. (Axios)

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There is no spoon.

Posted by: Neo at October 30, 2025 06:39 AM (IBQGV)

98 In a heartwarming local story, Tiphineigh Madore setup a little food bank in an abandoned little library. In other news, a crooked little man walked a crooked little mile and found a crooked sixpack upon a crooked stile.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

99 The local news site are full of stories about the upcoming SNAP crisis.

If we had a media worthy of the name, questions would be asked of governors as to why the State simply can't pay for its own people instead of waiting for the Feds.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:40 AM (+4yJ5)

100 And three barley corns equalled an inch.

Posted by: Geez. Get a calendar at October 30, 2025 06:41 AM (XQo4F)

101 Local churches used to have Singles' Nights with some activity like a Game Night at their core. I actually met a couple of the ladies I dated between the end of my second marriage and the advent of Miss Linda at such things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:41 AM (omVj0)

102 Seems that some folks are talking about simply erupting into a national Parking Lot Assault Battalion.

I'm going to go to the bakery, buy a cake and candles, put the candles on the cake, light them and then wish a motherfucker would.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:42 AM (+4yJ5)

103 "If we had a media worthy of the name, questions would be asked of governors as to why the State simply can't pay for its own people instead of waiting for the Feds."

Governor Moore seems to be coming down firmly in the 'I ain't paying for that!' column.

Gotta give the man credit.

He's firmly destroying his reputation faster than any opposition could.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2025 06:42 AM (a1415)

104 The "state" doesn't pay for anything.

Posted by: We do at October 30, 2025 06:42 AM (XQo4F)

105 He's firmly destroying his reputation faster than any opposition could.

True but local media will still run cover for him because he's the Second Coming of The Lightworker.™

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:44 AM (+4yJ5)

106 A collection of thoughts and words about the SNAP Shut-down

Stolen from Insty's place

https://tinyurl.com/55m8eexs

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2025 06:45 AM (a1415)

107 If we had a media worthy of the name, questions would be asked of governors as to why the State simply can't pay for its own people instead of waiting for the Feds.
Posted by: NR Pax
_________

Because the states can't print dollars for the fake financing.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 30, 2025 06:45 AM (XvL8K)

108 Local churches used to have Singles' Nights with some activity like a Game Night at their core.

The LDS folks have services that are for younger people only to help them find someone. More churches should borrow that idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 06:46 AM (+4yJ5)

109 "True but local media will still run cover for him because he's the Second Coming of The Lightworker.™

I'm not too sure that they will be able to carry him over the line, though.

The Chocolate Jesus 2.0 thing isn't really selling well since the original has been shown to for the most part be a rather light in the loafers do-nothing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2025 06:47 AM (a1415)

110 Single guys at church are like parking spaces. All the good ones are either taken or handicapped.

Posted by: As any single girl can tell you at October 30, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)

111 Wow- the Thriller video in the ONT lists 1983 as its production date, and so is 42 years old. Time is flying by.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 06:49 AM (e+bdz)

112 The LDS folks have services that are for younger people only to help them find someone. More churches should borrow that idea.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025

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The one I used to go to, a Presbyterian church, had events for all ages. I did all right, as I have no trouble talking to a woman I find attractive -- or did then, before the current "Eek! Harassment!" insanities -- and I was clean, slim, dress well, and have good thick hair. (Still am, if I do say so m'self.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 06:51 AM (omVj0)

113 @111/Huck: "Time is flying by"

I swear, it was the beginning of September. I blinked, and now it's almost the end of October.

This effect has been getting more noticeable the more experience at being 29 I have. *looks down at shirt* I've already gone to "Plaid", I can't wait to hit "Ludicrous speed".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 06:51 AM (O7YUW)

114 My city has an annual Thriller dance downtown on Halloween, but it's looking more and more like the regular denizens on any other day.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 30, 2025 06:54 AM (XvL8K)

115 It's like a roll of toilet paper. Speeds up as you approach the end.

Posted by: Rimshot at October 30, 2025 06:54 AM (XQo4F)

116 I’m beginning to believe that, at least for young people, the old system of families and parents arranging marriages is better than the system we’ve got now.
At the very least I now understand why they did it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 06:25 AM (bI6eY)

Young people...

- don't know what they want
- don't know what they need

Unfortunately, as many people have pointed out, the last 50 years or so society has spent considerable effort in telling men what they owe women but not the other way around. Arranged marriage won't fix that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025 06:56 AM (ExV1e)

117 @114/Biff: I've been driving by one lady on my bus route that I've noticed the past week, always at the same location. She has facial makeup that looks like the early stages of zombification... At least... I hope it's makeup.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

118
Seems that some folks are talking about simply erupting into a national Parking Lot Assault Battalion.
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I'm going to go to the bakery, buy a cake and candles, put the candles on the cake, light them and then wish a motherfucker would.
Posted by: NR Pax

I lurve waking up to a good belly laugh. Thank you for this NR Pax.

Good morning, everyone.

MegaRoy update - he's finished his antibiotics and his apetite is returning again. He goes back in to the vet for a follow up on the 3rd and to schedule a teeth cleaning after his olde man cat blood work is evaluated. Smash is doing better now that MegaRoy is doing better.

Finalizing the budget for my 12 person team today for next year. I was looking at having to lay off half the team, but the 94th, 10th, and 32nd AAMDC commands each asked for a training and planning session for their air defense staffs, so yay. No layoffs next year. Friggin' BD needs to be horse whipped for eating the benefits of my team without funding the seed corn of keeping them alive.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 30, 2025 06:57 AM (QVmho)

119 The local news site are full of stories about the upcoming SNAP crisis.

If we had a media worthy of the name, questions would be asked of governors as to why the State simply can't pay for its own people instead of waiting for the Feds.
Posted by: NR Pax

If we had a media worthy of the name, they'd be asking why one in eight people (40 MILLION) are on SNAP.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 30, 2025 06:58 AM (OC/v1)

120 I remember walking through a Metro station outside of DC (in PG County) on the afternoon after Michael Jackson died, and a large group of high school students with a boombox were listening to his music and working on recreating some of his dance moves. They were very good at it too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:00 AM (15RAy)

121 If we had a media worthy of the name, they'd be asking why one in eight people (40 MILLION) are on SNAP.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 30, 2025 06:58 AM (OC/v1)--------------------
Without facts, I assume at least a large plurality of that number of illegals Biden bought off with gov't. Paid "free" food, free rent, free phones etc

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:02 AM (15RAy)

122 Sent Beelink mini me pc back to Bee for refund because of the windows flytrap electro web of inanity.
Happy with a Soayan mini me with OS linux. Smooth.

Posted by: Kingsman at October 30, 2025 07:03 AM (ehY6c)

123 CBD posted a phone call in the sidebar of a woman calling into an English phone-in show and nailing the politicians to the wall.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:07 AM (GxCWX)

124 S'pose it's time for me to shower and shave. Later today I'm taking Linda up to my old work neighborhood. A big house on the main avenue goes all out on decorating its yard for Halloween, with comic signs, skeletons hanging from a tree, you name it. It goes up on 10/1 every year and is gone on 11/1, so the window to view it is only 31 days.

The sidewalk outside the fence is always crowded between 3:30 and nightfall with parents taking their kids after school. I hope at 10:30 am it won't be too busy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 07:07 AM (omVj0)

125 Youth is wasted on the young.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: always be vibing at October 30, 2025 07:10 AM (AOsQT)

126 Good morning horde
It's dark and raining

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:12 AM (znREB)

127 Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC on 29 October 2025, customers and Microsoft services leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors. We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
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"Happy Halloween to our customers!" From Microsoft.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:12 AM (fcNj0)

128
Do We People set the Cloacas back 1 Hour to the proper Time, this weekend?

Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at October 30, 2025 07:12 AM (rPb2w)

129 Kids, I'm sure, know what they want. It's just that those wants are unrealistic.

At that age I sure did not know what I needed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 07:13 AM (omVj0)

130 FenelonSpouse, sometimes getting our hearts broken is part of God's plan, or can be.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:13 AM (znREB)

131
I love dark & raining.

Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at October 30, 2025 07:13 AM (rPb2w)

132 Microsoft keeps disabling workarounds for Windows 11's demand for an online account during setup.

This is one reason I think software should be treated as a patent, not copyright. Once they say they're not supporting a version of Windows anymore, I should be able to deconstruct it, reprogram it, and then sell it all my own.

Of course, it would just be nice to actually own the software once you buy it. Any other arrangement isn't "protecting IP" it's a license to extortion.

Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2025 07:14 AM (6Us78)

133 Do We People set the Cloacas back 1 Hour to the proper Time, this weekend?
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at October 30, 2025

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The Great Sewer Reset?

Earlier this year I bought a clock which is supposed to update itself via WWV in Fort Collins, CO. I'm not sure that it can pick up the signal where I have it mounted. I'll carefully leave it untouched Saturday night and see if it's got the new time on Sunday. If not, I'll take it down and bring it over by the window, which faces west.

If it still doesn't update within a reasonable time, I'll reset it myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 07:15 AM (omVj0)

134 My toilet doesn't have a clock.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 30, 2025 07:16 AM (bM6e/)

135 131
I love dark & raining.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer

--

Even when you're the designated dog valet?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:16 AM (tcsrY)

136 I love dark & raining.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at October 30, 2025

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So do I . . . as long as I don't have to go out in it. If I can sit at home with a cold drink and a pipe and listen to the rain, great.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 07:16 AM (omVj0)

137 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:13 AM (znREB)

Thanks. Yes, it can be, but no mother wants that for their child. I am telling him to pray about it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2025 07:17 AM (7RYym)

138 W11 won't let you easily configure your system to invoke your VPN, so MSFT knows your actual location. You can, I am told, change that at the command line level but it is aggravating.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:19 AM (fcNj0)

139 Wolfus Aurelius, my grandpa smoked George Washington tobacco for decades. No longer available and its aroma was attractive. Any suggestions as to type of tobacco and pipe?

Posted by: Kingsman at October 30, 2025 07:20 AM (ehY6c)

140 "W11 won't let you easily configure your system to invoke your VPN"
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Before your system checks in with Microsoft in Redmond, I mean

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:20 AM (fcNj0)

141 I'm back after beating a better attitude out of my machine.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:21 AM (NR6c1)

142 The Win11 discussion explains my viewpoint that my technology exists for my convenience not the other way around.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:23 AM (NR6c1)

143 Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:23 AM (NR6c1)
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Microsoft thinks its customers are a source of marketable data.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:25 AM (fcNj0)

144 When setting up a Win 11 system, DO NOT allow it to connect to a network before setting up the user.

The day Microsquat forces people to use a Microsquat account is the day I leave the IT business for good. I've had enough of this crap.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

145 They said, “We goin’ to Walmart. We rollin’ in deep. At 7:30 we walkin’ out with them buggies Full. They can’t catch all of us!

Shoot the first one and you won't have to chase the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

146 "Microsoft thinks its customers are a source of marketable data.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2025 07:25 AM (fcNj0)"

so far, events are proving them correct.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 07:26 AM (kHop/)

147 Wolfus Aurelius, my grandpa smoked George Washington tobacco for decades. No longer available and its aroma was attractive. Any suggestions as to type of tobacco and pipe?
Posted by: Kingsman at October 30, 2025

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There are lots of choices. Briar pipes can range in price, new, from $80 (and still be good smokers) to hundreds (Dunhill brand et al). Estates, used pipes, cleaned up, are available from plenty of vendors on the 'Net. Meerschaum pipes, the ones with the white mineral bowls, are more expensive, but they are supposed to be great smokers.

As for leaf, Prince Albert is still in production, as is Half and Half and the Captain Black line. You probably remember seeing those pouches at the drugstore. There are various kinds like burley, Virginia, and English blends with the smoky leaf called Latakia. Have a look at Smokingpipes dot com and Pipesandcigars dot com. It's a hobby both wide and deep. But it should be something to be enjoyed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2025 07:26 AM (omVj0)

148 What do you want to bet there will be looting regardless of what happens with SNAP?

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

149 They said, “We goin’ to Walmart. We rollin’ in deep. At 7:30 we walkin’ out with them buggies Full. They can’t catch all of us!

Shoot the first one and you won't have to chase the others.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Right. In. The. Face.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 30, 2025 07:28 AM (OC/v1)

150 Microsoft thinks its customers are a source of marketable data.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Most companies do. In return, I take the attitude of "I have paid for your product and that is the whole of our relationship."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:28 AM (NR6c1)

151 If there are looters getting shot, I truly hope to be on the jury for the guy doing the shooting.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:30 AM (NR6c1)

152 Cutting of SNAP is like when Ol’ Massa would stop feeding his slaves because he done died.

Poor Ol’ Massa.

Posted by: democrat plantation at October 30, 2025 07:30 AM (ReS4d)

153 LOL ...
"New Yorkers predict city will become a cesspit of violence and antisemitism under Mamdani in disturbing new poll... but this is why they'll give him a landslide victory anyway"

headline over at the DM

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 07:31 AM (kHop/)

154
"New Yorkers predict city will become a cesspit of violence and antisemitism..."

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How will they be able to tell?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 30, 2025 07:33 AM (XQo4F)

155 LOL ...
"New Yorkers predict city will become a cesspit of violence and antisemitism under Mamdani in disturbing new poll... but this is why they'll give him a landslide victory anyway"

headline over at the DM
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 07:31 AM (kHop/)

I remember when Times Square was - reportedly - safe to visit and all I ever heard from NYers was how the missed the 'gritty' NYC. The smell of urine. The pimps beating the shit out of their whores on the street corner. A real cosmopolitan city.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

156 That pregnant moment when everyone's waiting for Sefton.......

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2025 07:33 AM (LxER7)

157 Jim Croce z"l had an incredible voice

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2025 07:33 AM (A0sqA)

158 Singles, lead the life you would want your future spouse to lead.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:35 AM (znREB)

159 156 That pregnant moment when everyone's waiting for Sefton.......
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

"The world was suddenly silent except for the sounds of an abused F5 button getting pushed as if it owed the user money."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:35 AM (NR6c1)

160 158 Singles, lead the life you would want your future spouse to lead.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

And then prepare for her to complain that you're living it wrong. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2025 07:35 AM (NR6c1)

161
They said, “We goin’ to Walmart. We rollin’ in deep. At 7:30 we walkin’ out with them buggies Full. They can’t catch all of us!

Shoot the first one and you won't have to chase the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2025 07:26 AM

obviously, they mean 7:30 PM

I do my grocery shopping 0630-ish on Sunday mornings and don't see any of the Free Siht Army whilst making my rounds

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 30, 2025 07:36 AM (tljrc)

162 156 That pregnant moment when everyone's waiting for Sefton.......
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

How many centimeters?

Posted by: Push!! at October 30, 2025 07:36 AM (XQo4F)

163 Did Dr. Grabow retire or something?

Posted by: Yabut at October 30, 2025 07:38 AM (Snw0w)

164 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

165 Slapping F5 as though it were an unresponsive sex organ

Posted by: Don Black. Message: always be vibing at October 30, 2025 07:39 AM (AOsQT)

166 I denounce myself

Posted by: Don Black. Message: always be vibing at October 30, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT)

167 Fen, he could join a hiking club. Or a charity walk / run.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 30, 2025 07:42 AM (6U1c2)

168 *Looks outside*

Yeah, so much for "an inch and a half of rain". Looks like we wuz robbed again.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2025 07:43 AM (LxER7)

169 They said, “We goin’ to Walmart. We rollin’ in deep. At 7:30 we walkin’ out with them buggies Full. They can’t catch all of us!

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The gimmedats...living up to their name.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

170 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2025 07:44 AM (kHop/)

171
JJ is nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 30, 2025 07:45 AM (tljrc)

172 Correction, re: Microsoft

It was Indian H1B's.

It's ALWAYS Indian H1B's

Remember kids, the Crowdstrike crisis was caused by an Indian "developer" as well who thought himself incapable of writing a bug, because he was a Brahmin saar, and chose to bypass QA, pushed a NULL access violation to production, and crashed half of the world's Windows computers.

Posted by: Naqamel at October 30, 2025 07:58 AM (72SPe)

173 Becoming a Saint is very much like becoming a U.S. Marine.

The first thing God does is crush you.

Then he puts you back together.

Posted by: no one at October 30, 2025 08:18 AM (W7XSX)

174

A channel I watch sometimes, Cyber CPU Tech, was dinged with his videos showing work arounds the MS sign in..

He explains it here

https://youtu.be/CKdalUzydFE?si=KB4-Nfb60UCRRHeW

Posted by: Blanco at October 30, 2025 09:24 AM (sW/8y)

175 And Microsoft insistance for you to get an MS account of some kind, not to mention the Win 11 shit going on, made the decision to switch to Linux easy.

Mint (Cinnamon) is easy to use and very Windows like in the look and feel..

Posted by: Blanco at October 30, 2025 09:30 AM (sW/8y)

176 >It was DNS.

Well, no. Azure originally claimed it was, but it turned out to be limited to Azure Front Door, their globally distributed CDN and edge network. We have two products, one that uses Front Door and one that doesn't, and the second one was completely unaffected.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 30, 2025 01:34 PM (LgYtf)

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