Daily Tech News 18 November 2025

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If you gaze too long into CoreWeave, CoreWeave gazes back at you. (The Verge) (archive site)

Some actually sound reporting from The Verge's usually reliably crazy Elizabeth Lopatto, about deeply dubious datacenter holding company CoreWeave.
But as I began to look more closely at the company, I began feeling like I'd accidentally stumbled on an eldritch horror. CoreWeave is saddled with massive debt and, except in the absolute best-case scenario of fast AI adoption, has no obvious path toward profitability. There are some eyebrow-raising accounting choices. And then, naturally, there are the huge insider sales of CoreWeave stock.
Yes, naturally there are those.

Wait, what?
After I unfocused my eyes a little, I realized CoreWeave did make a horrible kind of sense: It's a tool to hedge other companies' risks and juice their profits. It's taking on the risk and the costs of building data centers that bigger tech companies can then rent while they build their own data centers which may very well wind up competing with CoreWeave. What's more, it's part of a whole stable of companies that are propping up demand for the behemoth of the AI boom: Nvidia.
The usual names pop up in the list of investors in CoreWeave. Nvidia is a major investor and is selling the company billions of dollars worth of GPUs, which CoreWeave then provides access to for customers like OpenAI and Microsoft, which are also major investors.

It also has billions in outstanding loans at variable interest rates.

It's not a bubble.
Meanwhile Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is deeply worried about the power a handful of unelected people like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have to shape the future of AI. (Business Insider)

Deeply worried, I tell you. Deeply.

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Why, when AWS was down, we were not. (Authress)

Just use DNS to switch point to somewhere that isn't down.

Also, don't use AWS US-East-1 (Virginia). Yes, it's the flagship location, but it's also the least reliable in terms of major incidents in recent years.
Speaking of Virginia, NetChoice has sued to overturn the state's one-hour limit on social media access for children under the age of 16, on the grounds of, and I quote, "Are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?". (The Verge)

Well, paraphrase.
The EU is looking at whether it can subject the major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and AWS to the idiotic rigours of the Digital Marketplace Act without them simply pulling the plug on the entire reeking continent and leaving them to calculate the penalties on abacuses. Abaci? Holy crap, it actually is abaci. The more you know. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

The leading European cloud provider has a reputation for becoming entirely too cloudy at times.
Professional bloviator and occasional US Representative from California Ro Khanna is now complaining about the use of AI in video games. (PC Magazine)

AI has been used in video games since 1951.

Yes, the game in question - the latest game from the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 7 - is kind of crap, but the culprit there is human laziness and not AI.
Luminal has raised $5.3 million to develop a better standard framework for code running on GPUs. (Tech Crunch)

This is one of the most sensible investment stories I've seen in months. GPUs simply calculate lots of numbers very quickly, so even without AI distorting the market, better tools for making use of that power are well worth a few million.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Yeah, I read it as $5.3 billion for a moment.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 04:00 AM (DWIDB)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

3 G'Day everyone
I am.not well

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

4 284 Ten minutes 'til Pixytime!
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 03:50 AM (RuTUS)
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https://youtu.be/W-apaIOOoAo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 03:59 AM (DWIDB)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)

5 Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29

What's the matter, Skip?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:02 AM (PFs9e)

6 G'Day everyone
I am.not well

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)
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רפואה שלמה והחלמה מהירה

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 04:03 AM (DWIDB)

7 Cold, head is stuffed up, getting chest congestion slowly

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:04 AM (+qU29)

8 Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:04 AM

Could you stay home today?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:05 AM (PFs9e)

9 Good morning. The hidden ninth principle of bushido is fluffiness.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 18, 2025 04:08 AM (WKHVO)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 04:08 AM (sAmhv)

11 I'm going in, but it will get worse as days go on

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:10 AM (+qU29)

12 Cold, head is stuffed up, getting chest congestion slowly

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:04 AM (+qU29)
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Had that 2 weeks ago. Based on a moron's comment weeks ago, I bought a very simple sinus wash bottle kit. Added the included salt sachet to the water along with one drop of pure eucalyptus oil. Was a big help. Doesn't replace meds but it gave instant relief.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 04:10 AM (DWIDB)

13 284 Ten minutes 'til Pixytime!
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 03:50 AM (RuTUS)
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https://youtu.be/W-apaIOOoAo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 03:59 AM (DWIDB)

Been watching this. It's like a time capsule.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)

14 3 G'Day everyone
I am.not well
Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

From the melatonin switcheroo?

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

15 I loved this story. RC seminarians give up cell phones for a year:

https://tinyurl.com/mjsaect3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:16 AM (PFs9e)

16 Man who runs and who lives in VA talks about trust in God. Scripture is the Gospel of Mark 10:46-52:

https://tinyurl.com/bp6cspbh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:19 AM (PFs9e)

17 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 18, 2025 04:28 AM (Cjt/F)

18 Keep on praying! International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/43bkstbf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:32 AM (PFs9e)

19 Meanwhile Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is deeply worried about the power a handful of unelected people like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have to shape the future of AI. (Business Insider)

Deeply worried, I tell you. Deeply

I agree Pixy. Really now that it’s proven that only elected people are completely trustworthy and incapable of mistakes I cannot imagine why that wouldn’t be a requirement for societal decision making.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 18, 2025 04:37 AM (eUQTM)

20 I think this is a very weird story, but I liked it. Man teaches octopus to play piano:

https://tinyurl.com/4mwck33b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 04:37 AM (PFs9e)

21 talk about market penetration, or whatever the best&brightest would call it; the amazon shopping page on my kindle had a small ad for core weave last night. didn't click it, so no idea what "information" it wished to impart; maybe I will next time lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 18, 2025 04:38 AM (Cjt/F)

22 If only he could persuade the octopus to give up its cell phone for a year.

Posted by: old man as the papal see at November 18, 2025 04:42 AM (nM7hQ)

23 I cannot imagine why that wouldn’t be a requirement for societal decision making.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 18, 2025 04:37 AM (eUQTM)

Agreed.

How dare people be allowed to spend their money in ways they choose, without the benevolent and wise direction of our elected officials!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2025 04:44 AM (n9ltV)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 24 bitter degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Not as much work ahead this morning as usual, but still enough to probably keep me going until 9.

Weird dreams last night; I was in a version of the Sinatra Ocean's Eleven mashed up with a 1960s musical rom-com. Sometimes I was Sammy Davis Jr's buddy, sometimes not, but each time in the middle of a hopeless unrequited love affair with some Hollywood beauty (romantic frustration being a constant in my dreams).

Hoping for an easy day today, as I could really use a long nap after work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 04:48 AM (ufSfZ)

25 abacuses. Abaci? Holy crap, it actually is abaci. The more you know.

Now I want to start a math-rock band just to call it Abaci.

Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 04:49 AM (nhCoE)

26 Took right vitamin C and zinc today.
Was a bit tired as usual all day yesterday, wanted a nap when I got home but didn't

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:57 AM (+qU29)

27 French Toast and sausages will make me feel better

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 04:58 AM (+qU29)

28 Speaking of Virginia ... (The Verge)

“Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents,” Taske says. “By asserting that authority for itself, Virginia not only violates its citizens’ rights to free speech but also exposes them to increased risk of privacy and security breaches.”

yep

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:03 AM (RuTUS)

29 Reading American Thinker
$5,000 a month for a NY apartment?

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2025 05:04 AM (+qU29)

30 I have instances on US-East-1. Wasn't affected at all.

I just use elastic IPs and have a domain registered with a totally different company that redirects to that address.

Skated right through, no problems.

...

It could also be that no one bothered to use my app that day, including me, so it was down and nobody even noticed. That's also possible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 18, 2025 05:04 AM (06Hmj)

31 25 abacuses. Abaci? Holy crap, it actually is abaci. The more you know.

Now I want to start a math-rock band just to call it Abaci.
Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 04:49 AM (nhCoE)

ABBAci!

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:04 AM (RuTUS)

32 Recently glancing at lotsa bad X posts about Virginia.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 05:05 AM (DWIDB)

33 abacuses. Abaci? Holy crap, it actually is abaci. The more you know.

Now I want to start a math-rock band just to call it Abaci.

Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 04:49 AM (nhCoE)

ABBAci!

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:04 AM (RuTUS)
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The BEADles?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 05:05 AM (DWIDB)

34 33 The BEADles?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 05:05 AM (DWIDB)

the CEEkers

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:06 AM (RuTUS)

35 34 33 The BEADles?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 05:05 AM (DWIDB)

the CEEkers
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:06 AM (RuTUS)

Or ... wait! Bob CEEger.

Bob CEEger & The Silver Bullet Band - Still The Same

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:10 AM (RuTUS)

36 "Embrace the suck."

Posted by: no one at November 18, 2025 05:10 AM (W7XSX)

37
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

38 28 Speaking of Virginia ... (The Verge)

“Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents,” Taske says. “By asserting that authority for itself, Virginia not only violates its citizens’ rights to free speech but also exposes them to increased risk of privacy and security breaches.”

yep
Posted by: m

Except Virginia just elected CIA Barbie as Gov, an Iman as Lt. Gov, and an Khmer Rouge enthusiast as AG. Also, state house is solidly Marxist/muslim now (guessing on the muslim part, I just assume the worst. saves time). Free speech, privacy, and rights are not what they are all about.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 05:14 AM (sAmhv)

39 37 g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

Any relation?

https://youtu.be/W-apaIOOoAo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 03:59 AM (DWIDB)

(Jackson Five - I'll Be There)

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

40 MEEp

Posted by: BEEker at November 18, 2025 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

41 Yeah, I got nothin'.

Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

42 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 05:23 AM (RuTUS)

43 Not sure if Pixy covered this in past, but ran across this yesterday (goes to eff.org):

https://tinyurl.com/4arj57zp

Apparently Wisconsin and Michigan (which have internet related child protection laws) have discovered that VPNs exist, that kids can use them to get around restrictions, and these states are profoundly unhappy that people would choose to go around those laws in this manner and so wish to ... ban VPNs entirely.

I think this might actually be worse than the repeated demands by various governments to "put backdoors in encryption routines so we can access all encrypted content - we won't ever abuse it and the forces of darkness could NEVER exploit this weakness, swearsies".

{ Hrm. Maybe I did have something afterall. }

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

44 Posted by: old man as the papal see at November 18, 2025 04:42 AM (nM7hQ)

That's funny. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 05:31 AM (rZCVI)

45 There are four commie critical infrastructure states: NY for finance
Cali for propaganda
N. Carolina for personal banking
Virginia where the ruling class lives

Posted by: Accomack at November 18, 2025 05:32 AM (Dpv2s)

46 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! Tiu's Day yet again. Foggy here, in spots anyway.

MP4, your dreams sound much like mine! Sometimes they're nightmarish or difficult; sometimes they're situations you don't want to leave even as your mind is generating them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

47 Really now that it’s proven that only elected people are completely trustworthy and incapable of mistakes.

Unless it's TRUMP!!! of course.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 05:41 AM (RjOoY)

48 So yesterday, my dog Kroger had to go to the vet. He's been limping quite a bit and we wanted to see what was going on. The good news is that it was not osteosarcoma (A nasty disease that seems to hate greyhounds for some reason) but arthritis. This means he's on a new drug regimen and we have to enforce bed rest for him.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 05:42 AM (RjOoY)

49 Trump accused of calling a reporter named Peggy "Piggy."

A tensed vowel moment is all they can complain about.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 18, 2025 05:48 AM (p2GXS)

50 The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space, aka the Furry Thugs, are doing well. Stirling slept with me and for a change did not try to wake me by leaping and dashing across the bed like a leopard after its prey. Dagny, I found, was curled on a couch cushion like a fluffy gray version of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

Which, by the way, I watched the first three hours (!) of last night on Movies! A beautiful film, the settings and appointments and casting all being great. Rex Harrison as an older Julius Caesar, and Roddy McDowell as his nephew and heir Octavian. Liz was gorgeous. Burton, I found, spent too much time declaiming his lines and talking too fast. People who complain about William Shatner's "staginess" or "ham" tendencies should watch Burton here. Like Bill, he's electric and you can't take his eyes off him . . . but unlike Bill, he sometimes fails (at least here) to come across as a living human being.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

51 Trump accused of calling a reporter named Peggy "Piggy."

A tensed vowel moment is all they can complain about.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 18, 2025

***
A couple of typos there are the story of my life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

52 Thank you for the Furry Thugs update, Wolfus.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

53 51 Trump accused of calling a reporter named Peggy "Piggy."

He should be grateful that he treated her with that level of respect.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 05:53 AM (RjOoY)

54 Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 05:42 AM

Glad he didn't have the nasty disease that affects greyhounds. And now easy is it to enforce bed rest for a greyhound?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 05:55 AM (PFs9e)

55 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 18, 2025 05:57 AM (AN2gy)

56 >>> Trump accused of calling a reporter named Peggy "Piggy."

Oy veh.

She should have a glass of melk and sharpen her pincil. It's a common slip.

Posted by: fluffy at November 18, 2025 06:00 AM (AN2gy)

57 Glad he didn't have the nasty disease that affects greyhounds.

Me too. Especially since that's what took my boy Duncan last year.

And now easy is it to enforce bed rest for a greyhound?

Pretty easy because they are quite lazy. But he likes to be glued to my wife's side so he may need to go in his crate every so often.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 06:03 AM (RjOoY)

58 MP4, your dreams sound much like mine! Sometimes they're nightmarish or difficult; sometimes they're situations you don't want to leave even as your mind is generating them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

The new issue of Fortean Times magazine has a piece about 'lucid dreaming' which I will have to forward to you. One part of the article which really interested me talked about how, during dreams, people with no aptitude for the fine arts can 'create' masterpieces in their dreams, yet can never transmit the art to waking life. That happens with me - I cannot read nor play music, and yet I have dreamed songs and even whole movements of symphonies which, conscious, I could never even begin to attempt.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 06:03 AM (ufSfZ)

59 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 18, 2025 06:06 AM (XQo4F)

60 The new issue of Fortean Times magazine has a piece about 'lucid dreaming' which I will have to forward to you. One part of the article which really interested me talked about how, during dreams, people with no aptitude for the fine arts can 'create' masterpieces in their dreams, yet can never transmit the art to waking life. That happens with me - I cannot read nor play music, and yet I have dreamed songs and even whole movements of symphonies which, conscious, I could never even begin to attempt.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025

***
True. In dreams I am often aware of a flavor to the moments, a sensibility, that in waking times I struggle to get down on paper in a similar scene. Of course many writers have professed themselves disappointed in their own work, that they felt they failed to encapsulate or express the important parts of a scene or an entire work -- even though others think they did beautifully.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

61 Dagny, I found, was curled on a couch cushion like a fluffy gray version of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

Which, by the way, I watched the first three hours (!) of last night on Movies!

Cleopatra is my next-favorite movie after Sunset Boulevard. I love it, even with Burton's hamminess and Taylor's less-than-commanding voice. The ending of part 1 and the very ending of the movie are both breathtaking set pieces.

Ben Mankiewicz of TCM did a 6-part (I think) podcast called The Plot Thickens about the making of the movie and how it destroyed his great-uncle. You can find it on Sirius XM.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 06:08 AM (ufSfZ)

62 The UN must be scared they are going to lose US funding. UN votes to adopt PDT'S plan for Gaza.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:18 AM (IB/RY)

63 Oh, I admire Burton overall. Ten years before Cleopatra, I think, he would have made a fine James Bond had someone done a film version of one of the early Fleming books like Live and Let Die or Moonraker. At times in the 1953 The Desert Rats you can see it -- he even resembles the young Sean Connery in some shots.

But those who think William Shatner overacts need to have a look at some of Burton's work.

Still, the panoramic scenes in Cleopatra -- the opening shots after Caesar has defeated Pompey, for instance, or Cleopatra's barge arriving in Tarsus harbor -- are stunning. You get the feeling it might really have looked like that in life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

64 People are funny. My manager insists on holding my annual review tomorrow despite the fact that I'll have only 10 workdays left in my career.

I assume she'll say that I'm not a team player over my refusal to push my retirement back.

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

65 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 18, 2025 06:21 AM (bQ4nt)

66 People are funny. My manager insists on holding my annual review tomorrow despite the fact that I'll have only 10 workdays left in my career. . . .

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025

***
Mine did the same in February, though I'd informed him I was retiring at the end of March.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

67 64 People are funny. My manager insists on holding my annual review tomorrow despite the fact that I'll have only 10 workdays left in my career.

I assume she'll say that I'm not a team player over my refusal to push my retirement back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e)

Maybe you'll get a gold watch?

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

68 @64/I used to have a different nic: "I assume she'll say that I'm not a team player over my refusal to push my retirement back."

If she dares to use the phrase "There is no 'I' in TEAM", point out that the 'i' is in the 'a' hole.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

69 I used to have a different nic, apparatchiks gotta apparatchik.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:25 AM (IB/RY)

70
64 People are funny. My manager insists on holding my annual review tomorrow despite the fact that I'll have only 10 workdays left in my career.

I assume she'll say that I'm not a team player over my refusal to push my retirement back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e)

--------

The box in the document must be check-marked. No exceptions.

Posted by: Colonel at November 18, 2025 06:26 AM (azNOR)

71 Maybe you'll get a gold watch?
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

Unlikely. She offered to take the team out to lunch in my honor and I said that I'd rather cut my own throat.

I'm a people person, you see.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

72 I used to have a different nic, apparatchiks gotta apparatchik.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025

***
It's probably a requirement of *her* job -- she has to file the reviews of all those who report to her, or somebody will ask some pointed questions. Higher-level apparatchiks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

73
71 Maybe you'll get a gold watch?
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

Unlikely. She offered to take the team out to lunch in my honor and I said that I'd rather cut my own throat.

I'm a people person, you see.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

------

I get the sense that you don't like your job.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2025 06:29 AM (azNOR)

74
“Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents,” Taske says.

Does that ringing principle apply in other areas as well, Mr. Taske?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:30 AM (tgvbd)

75 I used to have a different nic, apparatchiks gotta apparatchik.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025

She's okay, she's just part of that generation for whom co-worker == 'friend' rather than "someone I can tolerate for a few hours".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:30 AM (ExV1e)

76 71 She offered to take the team out to lunch in my honor and I said that I'd rather cut my own throat.

I'm a people person, you see.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

Me, too, I've done that. Well, not in those words. The Fake Friendship is not my cup of tea.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

77
Up, dressed, morning prayers said, house dogs run out, kennel dogs let out, coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian collecting ACS references on polymerization catalysts from 2021-2025.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (tgvbd)

78 I get the sense that you don't like your job.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 18, 2025 06:29 AM (azNOR)

It's frequently frustrating and I'm ready to leave but it's more that I'm an introvert who isn't 'friends' with my co-workers. Since I work in a big city software company, they'd likely all want to talk about the glories of communism and when they're having their transition surgery.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (ExV1e)

79 Lord, but I miss those days...

https://tinyurl.com/2nfxjct4

Posted by: Sam Adams at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (X+xvk)

80 "Congratulations. You got a promotion with a 15% bump in salary."

LOL.

Posted by: no one at November 18, 2025 06:33 AM (W7XSX)

81 The dust has settled about Linda and me and Thanksgiving. She agreed (with a marked loss of enthusiasm) about going to the nice suburban restaurant on Thurs. afternoon, and I've made an online reservation for 2:45.

She did insist I buy some potatoes and sweet potatoes at Aldi for us for other meals. And she gave me some $10-off coupons for the store (you have to buy $40 worth to get that $10 off, but that's hard NOT to do nowadays).

I asked her to tell me what she wants for her birthday. Reply: "I don't know. . . ." My rejoinder: "Think harder. You only have four days between T-giving and your birthday this year."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

82
Maybe you'll get a gold watch?
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

Maybe you'll be put on a PIP.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:34 AM (tgvbd)

83 @72/Wolfus: "It's probably a requirement of *her* job"

Nailed it.

Now if she insists on talking about 2 or 5 year long term goals in spite of the upcoming retirement, well, what can you do but have all kinds of trolly fun with that?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

84 Me, too, I've done that. Well, not in those words. The Fake Friendship is not my cup of tea.
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

My choice of words has gotten me spoken to before. I once told someone who was pestering me about a thing that "blood will run in the streets before I permit that to happen". She complained.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:34 AM (ExV1e)

85 Hmmmm.....

X is down?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (DWIDB)

86 The I used to have a different nic I know is always charming and engaging.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (IB/RY)

87 84 Me, too, I've done that. Well, not in those words. The Fake Friendship is not my cup of tea.
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

My choice of words has gotten me spoken to before. I once told someone who was pestering me about a thing that "blood will run in the streets before I permit that to happen". She complained.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:34 AM (ExV1e)

LOL
Easy deadpan: "It was a figure of speech."

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RuTUS)

88 My last week of work, I wasn't super-thrilled at the idea of going to lunch with my co-workers. They're all nice enough, but we'd never been close. I invited the lady who became my successor at my previous job.

One of my former co-workers at this job, I'd have liked to invite her, but that would be have been incendiary with my boss. I settled for having a separate lunch with her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

89
I eventually learned from bitter experience that unless you talk about business with your co-workers you have no business talking to your co-workers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

90 Now if she insists on talking about 2 or 5 year long term goals in spite of the upcoming retirement, well, what can you do but have all kinds of trolly fun with that?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

We've already had one of our monthly meetings to talk about goal. She said that she assumed my goals were to be retired and spent the time being friendly rather than cutting the meeting short.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:37 AM (ExV1e)

91 The I used to have a different nic I know is always charming and engaging.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (IB/RY)

I use a stand-in for the MoMe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)

92 X is down?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (DWIDB)
-

Ignore. My VPN is misbehaving.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 06:38 AM (1o8D5)

93
Now pubs.acs.org is verifying that I'm human. Yes, for certain values of "human".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (tgvbd)

94 85 Hmmmm.....

X is down?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (DWIDB)

Apparently.
https://nitter.net/nikitabier not found
https://nitter.net/elonmusk No items found

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

95 @85/Biden's Dog: "X is down?"

I'm showing it as a Cloudflare error.

If that's widespread, it's going to be a "fun" day for people in the IT world (or those they support.) Oh well, I'll be out driving so I won't care.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (O7YUW)

96 LOL
Easy deadpan: "It was a figure of speech."
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RuTUS)

It's okay. I had another woman complain that I made her feel unsafe because I said that "in general, women are more emotional than men".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

97 Wolfus you should buy her a 2-wheel wheelbarrow. They are more stable and easier for women to handle. The added bonus is that she will almost certainly be surprised.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (EcHpA)

98 96 LOL
Easy deadpan: "It was a figure of speech."
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RuTUS)

It's okay. I had another woman complain that I made her feel unsafe because I said that "in general, women are more emotional than men".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

"Maybe you should put a bandaid on that."

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:41 AM (RuTUS)

99 It's okay. I had another woman complain that I made her feel unsafe because I said that "in general, women are more emotional than men".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)
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Huh. So she validated your claim...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 06:43 AM (IBQGV)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:43 AM (RuTUS)

101 It's okay. I had another woman complain that I made her feel unsafe because I said that "in general, women are more emotional than men".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I can imagine you smiling at how your point was so easily proven.

And I get not wanting to socialize after hours. I want to go home, play with my dogs and decompress.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (RjOoY)

102 >>> "blood will run in the streets before I permit that to happen"

This phrase sparked a memory about an apparatchik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVh0ypdxR0

Posted by: fluffy at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (AN2gy)

103 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (u82oZ)

104
Coffee that is hot is coffee that is good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (tgvbd)

105 Cloudflare fell over and died and then got back up and denied anything had ever happened.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (BLOW1)

106 NaCly, smiling and happy here. Unfortunately I know no leftists to terrify.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:45 AM (IB/RY)

107 m

You still gots those skills.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

108 Coreweave was an obvious scam from the get-go. Huge revenues at double-digit negative margins. I can do that too: sell $100 notes for $80. Watch me grow to the biggest business in the world overnight.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 06:46 AM (1Nv0l)

109 @105/Pixy: Hasn't gotten back up here, still showing Cloudflare rolling around on the ground, swatting at itself, screaming about spiders.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

110 Today I want to drive out to the Buick dealer and ask if they can order me some body parts -- the black panels that dress up the B-pillars; one of mine is chipping -- and how much they'd charge to install them. The parts are $30 each online, but I have no idea how to install them. If this dealer (who is usually a straight shooter) tells me each part is $100, then I'll shift my plan.

It's a good excuse to get in some highway driving, and possibly to drop by the pipe shop for some supplies. And I have to buy dry chow for the Furry Thugs while I'm out.

These are all the kind of errands I used to cram into a Saturday before I retired. No wonder I was still weary on Monday morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

111 Keith Richards of Rolling Stones fame kept a (at the time) fancy new Phillips portable cassette player/recorder with him wherever he went. He was at a hotel and woke up in the middle of the night with a guitar riff in his head. He recorded a bit of it and went back to sleep. By morning he had forgotten all about it, but noticed the tape was at the end of the cassette. He rewound it and played it back. Surprise! Where did that come from, he wondered. The rest of the tape was him snoring. It eventually became I Can’t Get No Satisfaction a big hit for them.

My theory is our brains are like calculators or whatever and recombine melodies and tunes into new derivative tunes from ones we already know. When you hear a new riff in your head it’s best to record it, like Keith, because they are like dreams, and you’ll forget them.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 06:48 AM (QCKtw)

112 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

You smiling and happy is a blessing to the World.

I have had a few leftists still around me. But they have learned not to bait me with Leftist cant. Because I respond. And it crushes them. I even hurt their feelings.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

113 There's gremlins in the interwebs this morning.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 06:48 AM (1Nv0l)

114 Me, too, I've done that. Well, not in those words. The Fake Friendship is not my cup of tea.
Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

I don't go to company Christmas parties.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 06:49 AM (ufSfZ)

115 I've been enjoying Dana Loesch's commentary lately. I'd lost track of her after Breitbart died (she was an early acolyte of his).

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 06:50 AM (t+TFX)

116 Has Skynet become self-aware?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 18, 2025 06:51 AM (wVcYX)

117 Wolfus you should buy her a 2-wheel wheelbarrow. They are more stable and easier for women to handle. The added bonus is that she will almost certainly be surprised.
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at November 18, 2025

***
If she had a garden, then maybe that would be nice. Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry. I dunno. Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 liked getting something for her kitchen (though I was always careful to include a more romantic item with it).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

118 Has Skynet become self-aware?
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 18, 2025 06:51 AM (wVcYX)

I'd say it's China but it's probably something to do with DNS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

119 I used to be a people person, but people ruined it for me

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 06:53 AM (QCKtw)

120 Wolfus, a lovely bouquet of flowers, a thoughtful card with a gift card enclosed.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:54 AM (IB/RY)

121 Cloudflare had an error ("Dallas") just now when I refreshed the page on another forum I frequent. And they want us to have our houses and appliances dependent on the 'Net? Uh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

122 Watching a fake video of Dave Brubeck playing Golden Brown. They use his Take 5 video, and eliminate the original harpsichord from The Stranglers video.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

123 Wolfus, a lovely bouquet of flowers, a thoughtful card with a gift card enclosed.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025

***
That's the default of course, Ben Had.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:55 AM (wzUl9)

124
I used to be a people person, but people ruined it for me

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 06:53 AM

There are two kinds of people:

avoid them, both

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 06:56 AM (tljrc)

125 Cloudflare had an error ("Dallas") just now when I refreshed the page on another forum I frequent. And they want us to have our houses and appliances dependent on the 'Net? Uh, no.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

Other than my Roku and my computer, I don't have a single "household appliance" which requires internet access for any benefit to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:56 AM (ExV1e)

126 Gratitude to the guy that said " there is no cloud, just other people's computers"

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (IB/RY)

127 Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry.
——-

Dad pulled me aside and briefed me early on about that. If there is a household item that needs replacing anyway, that cannot be a gift. Vacuum cleaners, electric fry pans, etc., are right out. He did sort of bend the rule and got her a Microwave oven for Christmas one year, that was OK because it was about 1971 and they were brand new on the market. She was enthused about that.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (QCKtw)

128 There are two kinds of people:

avoid them, both
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 06:56 AM (tljrc)

That should be on a t-shirt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (ExV1e)

129 It looks like cloudflare may have just sh** the bed. This could be interesting.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (g97w6)

130
Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry.

I think if I had a whole-home vacuum cleaner installed, I'd earn Her Majesty's fervent, if fleeting, gratitude.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 06:58 AM (tgvbd)

131 Gratitude to the guy that said " there is no cloud, just other people's computers"
Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (IB/RY)

First day of Distributed Computing class in college the professor said, "Distributed computing is where some computer you didn't know existed being down will halt your entire process."

He didn't add that the administrators of that other computer would by syphilitic monkeys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:00 AM (ExV1e)

132 It looks like cloudflare may have just sh** the bed. This could be interesting.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2025

***
Good thing I made my online reservations for T-giving last night.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

133 banana Dream

*Gasp*

We will have to talk to ... people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

134 There was a huge (biggest ever?) DDOS attack against Microsoft yesterday which it managed to weather. I wonder if the miscreants behind that have now turned their attentions to Cloudflare?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 07:00 AM (O7YUW)

135 122 Watching a fake video of Dave Brubeck playing Golden Brown. They use his Take 5 video, and eliminate the original harpsichord from The Stranglers video.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

Saw that recently. So cool; so believable.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:01 AM (RuTUS)

136 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Who is behind all these attacks? China make sense, but not random asshole criminal organizations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

137 The Gateway Pundit and The Liberty Daily are both offline.

Posted by: Sam Adams at November 18, 2025 07:02 AM (X+xvk)

138 I asked her to tell me what she wants for her birthday. Reply: "I don't know. . . ." My rejoinder: "Think harder. You only have four days between T-giving and your birthday this year."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Laying down the law Wolfus. Good for you.

Posted by: Tuna at November 18, 2025 07:02 AM (lJ0H4)

139 There was a huge (biggest ever?) DDOS attack against Microsoft yesterday which it managed to weather. I wonder if the miscreants behind that have now turned their attentions to Cloudflare?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Next week.

Posted by: CIA at November 18, 2025 07:02 AM (rLVG1)

140 m

We need secret homeschooling and summer camps that teach the real history of Mankind. Which the Left and A/I are eliminating.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

141 105 Cloudflare fell over and died and then got back up and denied anything had ever happened.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 06:44 AM (BLOW1)

Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:03 AM (RuTUS)

142 My Proton email is fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

143 @NaCly Dog: Not sure who's behind these DDOS attacks, but your theory is reasonable - them and NK.

Also, Cloudflare right now:

https://youtu.be/r8G2EM_L2nw

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (O7YUW)

144 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (6vGEN)

145 The Gateway Pundit and The Liberty Daily are both offline.
Posted by: Sam Adams

So is Instapundit.

Posted by: Tuna at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)

146 So... Cloudflare went down, came back up, went down again, came back up again, and is currently down again.

And every time it hiccups, I get automated phone calls for two dozen separate websites.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (BLOW1)

147 Looks like Instapundit got CloudFlare'd. Instead of getting Instapundit'ed.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (4h45B)

148
https://news.ycombinator.com

(Hacker News)

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
(cloudflarestatus.com)

Cloudflare, X, More are down
(cloudflarestatus.com)

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:06 AM (RuTUS)

149 RINK is the culprit, I tell ya. Russia IranNorth Korea.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2025 07:06 AM (IB/RY)

150 Insty has been down-and-up for about 20 minutes. For me, Cloudflare Cleveland is the routing.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (NcvvS)

151 From Cloudflare's own status page, which is one of two pages on the internet that is not down right now, the other being this one:

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTC

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (BLOW1)

152 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

A two minute commercial before seeing your video. Nope.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

153 Good morning, all too early for an exclamation point).

>>We need secret homeschooling and summer camps that teach the real history of Mankind. Which the Left and A/I are eliminating.

And books. Printed books!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (GbwPZ)

154 cloudflarestatus.com
Posted by: m
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cloudflatus

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 07:08 AM (1Nv0l)

155 >>> So... Cloudflare went down, came back up, went down again, came back up again, and is currently down again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:05 AM (BLOW1)

So the dreaded Chumbawamba cycle.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2025 07:08 AM (g97w6)

156 Pixy Misa

Thank you. And thanks for all you do for us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

157 It would be a real shame if the Medicare enrollment robocallers were also down due to CloudFlare.

Yup, a real shame.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 18, 2025 07:08 AM (wVcYX)

158 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
Some conservative sites are offline. Any leftist ones down?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 07:08 AM (bfwj/)

159 >>Cloudflare's own status page, which is one of two pages on the internet that is not down right now, the other being this one

Hacker News is up.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

160 153 Good morning, all too early for an exclamation point).

>>We need secret homeschooling and summer camps that teach the real history of Mankind. Which the Left and A/I are eliminating.

And books. Printed books!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (GbwPZ)

I'm in.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

161 This is up:

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)

162 And when you're up, you're up
And when you're down, you're down
And when you're only halfway up
You're neither up nor down

Posted by: The CloudFlare Song at November 18, 2025 07:11 AM (wVcYX)

163 Lizzy

My house is full of the start of a University library.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

164 Have a fantastic day, everyone.

May you be free of disappointment in computer-driven technology.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 18, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

165 >>Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry.

Eh, it depends on how it's used. For example, your wife loves to bake, then a new standing mixer (or whatever appliance/tool she might need) would be awesome. But yes, that can be a minefield.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:13 AM (GbwPZ)

166 151 ... Cloudflare's own status page, which is one of two pages on the internet that is not down right now, the other being this one ...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (BLOW1)

/snark tag

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS)

167 Looks like a lot of people picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2025 07:15 AM (g97w6)

168 So, can I assume someone on our side will retaliate against whomever they believe is doing this? Or, nah.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 07:15 AM (uQesX)

169 165 >>Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry.

Eh, it depends on how it's used. For example, your wife loves to bake, then a new standing mixer (or whatever appliance/tool she might need) would be awesome. But yes, that can be a minefield.

Posted by: Lizzy

*********************************

I'm guessing a mop would be right out.

Posted by: Sam Adams at November 18, 2025 07:16 AM (X+xvk)

170 The pipesmokers' forum I frequent is back up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 07:16 AM (wzUl9)

171 We need secret homeschooling and summer camps that teach the real history of Mankind.

I recall during the height of Chinese Lung AIDS when parents were forming homeschooling pods. Small groups of kids and one teacher. Naturally, the press screamed "das raysis!" because huwite sooopremasy or something.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:18 AM (RjOoY)

172 >>I'm guessing a mop would be right out.

Well, you could do that and then when she reacts, tell her to 'calm down,' lol!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:18 AM (GbwPZ)

173 But yes, that can be a minefield.
Posted by: Lizzy
---
Indeed. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 07:18 AM (1Nv0l)

174 Eh, it depends on how it's used. For example, your wife loves to bake, then a new standing mixer (or whatever appliance/tool she might need) would be awesome.

My wife is very good at cooking and baking and has no issues with me getting her various implements of destruction for her craft. I benefit from it as well.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:19 AM (RjOoY)

175 >>> The pipesmokers' forum I frequent is back up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 07:16 AM (wzUl9)

I think the technical term for the current state is “bouncy bouncy”.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2025 07:19 AM (g97w6)

176 Good morning, all too early for an exclamation point).

>>We need secret homeschooling and summer camps that teach the real history of Mankind. Which the Left and A/I are eliminating.

And books. Printed books!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:07 AM (GbwPZ)

I'm in.

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

+1

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 18, 2025 07:20 AM (dK+Kv)

177 But we're on sale!!

Posted by: Ironing board covers at November 18, 2025 07:21 AM (XQo4F)

178 If she had a garden, then maybe that would be nice. Though we all know how women are supposed to *hate* being given household or "useful" gifts instead of jewelry. I dunno. Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 liked getting something for her kitchen (though I was always careful to include a more romantic item with it).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 06:51 AM (wzUl9)
-

Obligatory doghouse commercial:

https://youtu.be/OtKQbM9laC8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 07:22 AM (1o8D5)

179 Is the government still closed? I need my purple drank!

Posted by: democrat goblin at November 18, 2025 07:23 AM (5nX5P)

180 The local (iHeart) FM station I often listen to is up.

Time for me to shave and shower, folk. I'll check in later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2025 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

181
https://tinyurl.com/3ejhfnfs

Just a nice story two two brave and helpful women. Faithpot site .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 07:24 AM (ix8EF)

182 An enterprising forward looking firm could put together a Kit of the most commonly used and needed items all together in one handy package.

Mop, bucket, broom, dustpan, ironing board, extra cover, toilet cleaning brush & accoutrements, frying pans, dish scrubbies. It’s thoughtful gifts like this that show you really care

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 07:25 AM (bg8nN)

183 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

184
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

185 172 >>I'm guessing a mop would be right out.

Well, you could do that and then when she reacts, tell her to 'calm down,' lol!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:18 AM (GbwPZ)

... to calm her whats-its?

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

186 There are two kinds of people:

avoid them, both
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 06:56 AM (tljrc)

That should be on a t-shirt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 06:57 AM (ExV1e)

Introverts unite. Indoors. Separately.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 18, 2025 07:40 AM (dK+Kv)

187
I just turned and walked away
I had nothing left to say

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (RuTUS)

188 >The EU is looking at whether it can subject the major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and AWS to the idiotic rigours of the Digital Marketplace Act

One of the reasons given in the article was the recent AWS and Azure outages.

I do this for a living, and any company that doesn't have at least a multi-region strategy if not a multi-cloud strategy is a company that doesn't care whether they're down. This isn't a problem with "a small number of players controlling the market", there are dozens of Tier 2 cloud providers out there. It's a problem with developers with no operations or system design skills thinking "cloud" means "we don't need Operations any more".

Posted by: Daniel Ream at November 18, 2025 08:35 AM (LgYtf)

189 NYPost:

A senior conservative legal scholar who holds one of Princeton University’s top academic chairs has resigned from the Heritage Foundation’s board in protest of the think tank president’s defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Robert P. George, long regarded as one of the right’s leading constitutional thinkers, is the latest figure to step down amid an internal revolt that has already prompted at least seven other staffers, fellows and task-force members to sever ties.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

190 @152/NaCly Dog: "A two minute commercial before seeing your video. Nope."

Blame Google, not me. They're the ones that are ruining everything with inserted advertising.

I have add-ons in FireFox that make sure I never see that nonsense.

You might try the Brave browser and see if that knocks out their advertising...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 10:01 AM (O7YUW)

191 @166/m: "/snark tag"

Pixy is always flying the snark tag. "BLOW1" is perfection.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 10:03 AM (O7YUW)

192 Cloudflare System Status
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Uh-oh!!!
(I forget what city Pixy is near.)

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 10:14 AM (RuTUS)

193 191 @166/m: "/snark tag"

Pixy is always flying the snark tag. "BLOW1" is perfection.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 18, 2025 10:03 AM (O7YUW)

haha

Posted by: m at November 18, 2025 10:14 AM (RuTUS)

194 "The new law will bring discarded syringes, human waste and crime to Connecticut’s streets and parks."

News flash: All that is already there. The once beautiful Seaside Park in Bridgeport and the historic New Haven Green are already close to no-go zones, particularly after dark. I left 8 years ago. I should have left 28 years ago.

Posted by: Mike B at November 18, 2025 12:11 PM (Qa9Qe)

195 Developer withdraws data center plan after legal issue halts zoning meeting

"It was a little bit unexpected. We were anticipating this would be a normal zoning hearing," said Dave Sander, solicitor for the Plymouth Township zoning area.

Less than an hour into the meeting, one of the parties raised an issue that halted the process.

Sander said it "came to light from one of the parties that the applicant did not have legal standing to proceed with the application. It turned out that the agreement of sale that the applicant was signing with the owner of the property was not finalized; therefore, the applicant does not have legal standing."

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

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