Daily Tech News 28 December 2025

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So what's the real story behind Nvidia spending $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to Groq's (not that one) inference technology?

Definitely not fraud.* (Ossa-ma)

Or so argue Nvidia and Groq's lawyers as the FTC no doubt prepares for a endoscopic examination of their respective corporate records.

Nvidia buying another AI company would lead to messy stuff like regulatory approval, and Nvidia doesn't have time for that. So they paid $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to the technology... Oh, and that also included Groq's executive and engineering teams and all their patents and trade secrets.

But not the company itself, or any duty to support its customers. GroqCloud has been left to quietly die under control of the former CFO, drained of its engineering talent and indeed its entire reason to exist.

What Groq actually does is interesting: They make chips that use hundreds of megabytes of internal SRAM rather than tens of gigabytes of external DRAM, and have staggering amounts of bandwidth - 80 terabytes per second per chip.

Not suitable for training LLMs but great for running them once they have been trained.

As for the deal: Is this technically illegal? Possibly. Will Nvidia get away with it? Probably.

* Though if not fraud, why fraud shaped?

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In other dirty Nvidia tricks, the company has dropped support for Pascal on Linux. (Hack A Day)

Who uses Pascal on Linux?

Oh, that Pascal. Nvidia's RTX 1000 series from 2016.

Still, more than nine years of support, and with some messing around you can make things work using open source drivers.
Meanwhile the Linux driver for the Radeon R300 has received fresh updates. (Phoronix)

That card is from 2002.

And if your card is only 12 years old Radeon HD 7000 and RX 200 cards have received updates in Linux kernel 6.19 as well.

They now run 30% faster.
The MinisForum DEG2 dock is now available. (Liliputing)

It has a lot more features than the DEG1 - it supports ThunderBolt 5 as well as OCuLink, and provides an M.2 slot, 2.5Gb Ethernet, a second ThunderBolt port for other peripherals, and two USB 3.2 ports.

Priced at $240. If you have OCuLink and don't need that extra stuff, the DEG1 is still available at $99.
Mirari is a modern - ish - Amiga motherboard. (Tom's Hardware)

It uses a PowerPC CPU (which the Amiga never did but might have done if Commodore hadn't gone extremely bankrupt) and a standard micro-ATX motherboard. It provides three PCIe slots, two M.2 slots, four USB ports, and a single DDR3L memory slot.

Which accepts 8GB modules which is more than any Amiga dreamed of.

And... No video of any kind. Which is a little odd for an Amiga project. But you can put something in those PCIe slots to solve that problem.
ChatGPT could soon start pushing ads in the middle of it's supposedly personalised responses. (Tom's Hardware)

I say "could" here as does the article but given that OpenAI is projected to be losing $74 billion per year by 2028 even if it meets revenue forecasts I'd upgrade that probability to 100%.

Maybe higher.
Graphics cards are next. (Tom's Hardware)

Expect price hikes and rationing.
Acemagic has succeeded in creating a Ryzen AI Max 395 system that I do not want. (Liliputing)

Yes, it has 128GB of RAM and is priced at a relatively reasonable $2399.

It's also gouge-your-eyes-out ugly.
The internet now causes cancer in New York. (Tech Crunch)

Or something. Sorry - no offence to Tech Crunch here, they're just reporting the news - but the story was so dumb it gave me both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. And also the other kind, the kind they don't talk about, that erases your memories in parallel universes where you didn't even read the article.

Shoe On Head Interlude

"This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube." Because warning about a problem gets you censored but causing the problem is absolutely fine.

It's like these people are actively working to prove those ban-happy politicians correct.

(Link goes to a Shoeonhead video about teen dating apps which are every bit the cesspool you are expecting.)

Musical Interlude

I still remember where I first heard this song.

Disclaimer: Dalton Brooks got his coffee but we never got the game promised in the trailer.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 28, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

2 >>>* Though if not fraud, why fraud shaped?

haha

Posted by: m at December 28, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

3 Planted the remainder of my plants this weekend, but I dropped one and kind of broke it. Hope it survives.

Also got the shipping notice for the last of my mini-PCs. I should be set for forty days of rain or three years of memory drought, whichever comes first.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 28, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 28, 2025 04:08 AM (v9vY1)

5 What plant "broke" Pixy?

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2025 04:09 AM (rdVOm)

6 Mornin' Puddleglum! Hope you had a nice Christmas in spite of having to work!

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2025 04:10 AM (rdVOm)

7 One of my kangaroo paws. I decided I really needed to plant them properly because they were starting to take root through the holes at the bottom of the pots.

One of them seems to have broken the main stem. I was struggling to pry it out of the pot and then it popped out and fell on the ground. It should be able to regrow that - they grow several stems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_paw

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 28, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

8 Meanwhile the Linux driver for the Radeon R300 has received fresh updates. (Phoronix)

That card is from 2002.

And if your card is only 12 years old Radeon HD 7000 and RX 200 cards have received updates in Linux kernel 6.19 as well.

They now run 30% faster.

I really need upgrade the drivers. I have an old HP laptop with Radeon graphics. Every now and then, it freezes and the video goes off and on. I reboot, see a bunch of GPU errors (I'll have to look around at the logs at some point) and after reboot, it's fine. No idea what type of Radeon vid chip it is but whatever HP used in there laptops 10 years ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 28, 2025 04:18 AM (v9vY1)

9 kangaroo paw
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Cool! Should be okay. Most rhizomatous plants can withstand mild abuse. Better than annuals, for sure!

Happy gardening!

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2025 04:18 AM (rdVOm)

10 'Night, all.

Happy weekend...

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2025 04:19 AM (rdVOm)

11 Thanks, JQ. Christmas was ok. I've worked plenty of holidays over the decades. (shrugs)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 28, 2025 04:26 AM (v9vY1)

12 11 Thanks, JQ. Christmas was ok. I've worked plenty of holidays over the decades. (shrugs)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 28, 2025 04:26 AM (v9vY1)

#metoo

Posted by: m at December 28, 2025 04:37 AM (RuTUS)

13 kangaroo paw

Interesting plant.

Posted by: pawn at December 28, 2025 04:45 AM (EMg+d)

14 10 'Night, all.

Happy weekend...
Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2025 04:19 AM (rdVOm)

Fun to see you on the tech thread, JQ!

Posted by: m at December 28, 2025 04:51 AM (RuTUS)

15 BOING!

Busy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 28, 2025 05:05 AM (swH89)

16 Ĝ'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2025 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

17 Historic Vids
@historyinmemes
Dec 27
A Nintendo Power Line representative coaching a player through The Legend of Zelda over the phone, 1990s.

https://tinyurl.com/mpbd7bvy

The comments are endearing.

Posted by: m at December 28, 2025 05:09 AM (RuTUS)

18 Good morning. Excelsior!

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 28, 2025 05:12 AM (QugwE)

19 Looks like if I ever want to do gaming again, it'll have to be Zork. What are the young folks going to do?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 28, 2025 05:14 AM (fovWB)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 28, 2025 05:25 AM (tljrc)

21 Greetings Everyone!

So this is the tech thread...

This is what messing up your sleep cycle completely over Christmas looks like on this end........

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025 05:30 AM (QGaXH)

22 This is what messing up your sleep cycle completely over Christmas looks like on this end........

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025 05:30 AM (QGaXH)

We don't sleep here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 28, 2025 05:32 AM (dK+Kv)

23 Coffee is on, it will be awhile

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2025 05:32 AM (Ia/+0)

24 We don't sleep here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 28, 2025 05:32 AM (dK+Kv)

Like the girl in The Ring.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 28, 2025 05:33 AM (QugwE)

25 22 This is what messing up your sleep cycle completely over Christmas looks like on this end........

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025 05:30 AM (QGaXH)

We don't sleep here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 28, 2025 05:32 AM (dK+Kv)

Apparently we don't anymore on this end either....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025 05:35 AM (QGaXH)

26 Evening and morning, all,

We don't sleep here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 28, 2025
*
Apparently we don't anymore on this end either....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025

Especially not when you have an energetic young black cat who hits you in the ribs, four times, as he jumps over you at 4:15 am. He's still busy playing with Thursday's wrapping paper, damn him.

Guess what, Thug Boy. You don't get your breakfast for another forty-five minutes. Heh, heh, heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

27 If I had a dime for every shoe on head video that I finished watching I wouldn't even have a dime. I find that particular person easy to ignore.

ymmv

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 28, 2025 05:48 AM (G+z4C)

28 Anyhoo . . . 68 F. here, foggy and damp, almost no wind. The "cooler" or "arctic" weather is supposed to happen starting tonight, with temps dropping into the 50s, high tomorrow about 60, and a low of 35 on Monday night. And finally, decent temps (spring-like, not wintry) through 1/6.

New Year's plans? To avoid crowds as much as possible. The way I do the rest of the year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

29
Very foggy here at Schloss Hadrian this morning. Better to go to the 8:00 Mass up the road rather than the 7:00 at my usual parish, which, unfortunately, is 45 miles away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2025 05:49 AM (tgvbd)

30 Good morning, JQ, if you're still here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

31 G'morning, all!

58.8 degrees out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 28, 2025 05:51 AM (iMotb)

32 27 If I had a dime for every shoe on head video that I finished watching I wouldn't even have a dime. I find that particular person easy to ignore.

ymmv
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 28, 2025 05:48 AM (G+z4C)

Her existence is absurd.

Her channel exists only because The Thirst is real.

Posted by: Hate Has a Home Here at December 28, 2025 05:53 AM (yxWsE)

33 Crystal clear, still air and 48 F here 'at the beach' - not 'On the Beach' which was the second-most depressing movie I've ever seen....'Life of Oharu' was the most depressing.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 28, 2025 05:55 AM (QGaXH)

34 I need to work out this morning, and tomorrow am as well. The chilly air after that will give me a break.

Monday morning we plan to drive the eighty miles or so to the Tecovas store to check out their boots. The three outlets for Western wear here did not have anything I liked that I could afford. I'll spend a bit more if I can get just what I want, i.e., a lighter color in a round toe model that fits and feels comfortable right in the store. Hey, they may even have some end-of-year specials -- what they dub their "last calls."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

35 Got a dusting of snow here.

Posted by: Don Black at December 28, 2025 05:57 AM (ZxPkt)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 28, 2025 05:58 AM (bQ4nt)

37 High for today is 70. Tomorrow's high 29. Ugh.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 28, 2025 05:59 AM (bQ4nt)

38 It's 61 here at 6 am. Tomorrow at 6 am forecast to be 16.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 28, 2025 06:01 AM (XvL8K)

39 If I order something from Amazon, I can now have it delivered in my garage. What will they think of next. Not sure how they can open the door, but it works.

Posted by: Colin at December 28, 2025 06:02 AM (wlQdF)

40 27 If I had a dime for every shoe on head video that I finished watching I wouldn't even have a dime. I find that particular person easy to ignore.

ymmv
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at
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I find her entertaining , but this one I could not finish. Too much talk of kids being exploited.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 28, 2025 06:02 AM (D/9SZ)

41 Forecast.: high today 61 low 14. Tough way to start a Monday

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 28, 2025 06:06 AM (D/9SZ)

42 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I got nothing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 28, 2025 06:08 AM (qbLEp)

43 mornin yall. I suppose most parents have experienced the melancholy of their children departing after a visit. The holiday is over and the house seems empty again, but I can take solace in the knowledge that we raised two fine boys who have their own lives to live. Anyway, they'll be back in a few weeks for Mrs fd's birthday and maybe we will get around to some of those things we never seem to have enough time to get around to.

Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:12 AM (vFG9F)

44 I guess it's time I changed and stretched. Suppose I'd better feed the Killer Kittenz before I head out to walk/run. (More of a walk/trot these days, but it works for me.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

45 When your cat hits you in the head four times, are the claws out? (I don't have cats)

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 28, 2025 06:13 AM (qYbxT)

46 Huh. The Daily Mail has MTG in a bikini. Don't rush over there though, she's a House of Representatives 4.

Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)

47
Don't rush over there though, she's a House of Representatives 4.
Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)

"Better looking than Rosa DeLauro" is not saying much.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2025 06:20 AM (tgvbd)

48 Brigitte Bardot est most.

Posted by: Tuna at December 28, 2025 06:20 AM (lJ0H4)

49 Don't rush over there though, she's a House of Representatives 4.
Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)
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Is that like a Waffle House 2? I'm unsure of the conversion tables.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 28, 2025 06:21 AM (qbLEp)

50 Mort not most. Stupid auto cucumber. Geez.

Posted by: Tuna at December 28, 2025 06:22 AM (lJ0H4)

51 Matthew 13:1-9

Devotional on "The Seeds we sow.":

https://tinyurl.com/2ws2xtmy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2025 06:23 AM (ix8EF)

52 Bridget Bardot has passed away at 91. She was convicted five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred because she was no fan of the Mussulman.

Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

53 "Congress! Half of Congress is already on this App."

Posted by: no one at December 28, 2025 06:38 AM (qFwJc)

54 Veteran inspired drone company finds lost dog:

https://tinyurl.com/yszazwpr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2025 06:40 AM (PFs9e)

55 AceMagic has been putting out those ugly cube-shaped Mini-PCs for several years now. I was looking at one in 2023 with an AMD Ryzen 9 and a RTX 4060 in it, which they probably still sell.

Never bought it, and glad I didn’t because AceMagic had a problem a few months later due to their Windows image having some kind of malware on it.

Near as I can tell they were using some. Windows ISO they scavenged somewhere and never bothered to run a virus scan on it before loading it on customer PCs. Apologies followed after an “unintentional oversight”, I’m sure.

***

shoe0nhead is cute and occasionally funny (rare among modern leftist women).
Can’t ask for more than that for free on YT.
If she wasn’t a populist socialist she’d be even better, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 28, 2025 06:42 AM (6ydKt)

56 Greetings from the Carolinas. Another cold front predicted. Otherwise, nothing to report.

Posted by: Going deep. Out at December 28, 2025 06:47 AM (jt/rW)

57 Barely going to get above freezing today, rain and warmer tomorrow for a day only

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2025 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)

58 Thanks for the post on Nvidia & Groq, Pixy.
That explains what this deal was about.

You got to give it to Jensen on this one.
He knows Nvidia can’t ride this bubble forever and stay on top. ASICs and all of these GPU alternative chips are eventually going to replace his products.

So with hundreds of billions floating around Jensen is just going to buy his way out of the problem.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 28, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

59 The Hives song is a good one.

Their Hate To Say I Told You So song is just as fun:

https://youtu.be/Uz1Jwyxd4tE

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 28, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

60 The Hives are full of catchy songs, and they're tremendous live.

Posted by: Hate Has a Home Here at December 28, 2025 06:59 AM (yxWsE)

61 In local news, Zitavious D’Arius Treyquez Jacobs was arrested again. Also, Santana Outlaw just can't stay out of jail for some reason.

Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

62 Yesterday was looking up historical information, was running into dead ends seeing all that was available except for the AI search. I could argue since AI just seems to be made up information, how correct can that be?

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)

63 Good morning! Except for a couple of really cold days in November, we've had an unseasonably warm couple of months and now I need to spend most of the morning doing lawn work. And, I guess starting around noon the temps will begin the plunge into the 30s and we'll have a couple of days of chilly weather.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2025 07:04 AM (3Ope8)

64 43 mornin yall. I suppose most parents have experienced the melancholy of their children departing after a visit. The holiday is over and the house seems empty again, but I can take solace in the knowledge that we raised two fine boys who have their own lives to live. Anyway, they'll be back in a few weeks for Mrs fd's birthday and maybe we will get around to some of those things we never seem to have enough time to get around to.
Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 06:12 AM (vFG9F

____

And God willing, you'll see them live out much of their adult lives as two fine men bringing on the next generation. Well done.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 28, 2025 07:05 AM (Rsf1e)

65 A career criminal can't stay out of jail
Where have I heard that story before?

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

66 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
@61, funny Zitavious Jacobs doesn't look Jewish

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 28, 2025 07:16 AM (2vrAX)

67 Other local arrests this weekend include Mandy Gladden, who was picked up for impersonating Joxer from "Xena: Warrior Princess".

tinyurl.com/2ujekwd9

Posted by: fd at December 28, 2025 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

68 Serious fog here on the Space Coast. Very clear skies last night.

Posted by: pawn at December 28, 2025 07:30 AM (EMg+d)

69 Brigitte Bardot has died at 91. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 28, 2025 07:35 AM (2vrAX)

70 Brigitte Bardot est most.
Posted by: Tuna at December 28, 2025

***
She certainly was -- the mostest, even!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2025 07:37 AM (wzUl9)

71 It's 10° here. Commencing at about 5pm we are going to get up to 1/4 of an inch of ice after which it rains till mid Mon morning and gets up to 45° tomorrow. Then it freezes again. Power outages and many accidents expected. Fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 28, 2025 07:41 AM (2vrAX)

72 Just read Bardot's biography. A beautiful but very flawed person. The part about not wanting her only child and how she tried to abort him and how she treated him after his birth, very sad.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 28, 2025 07:42 AM (2NHgQ)

73 G'mornin' everyone!

"hundreds of megabytes of internal SRAM rather than tens of gigabytes of external DRAM, and have staggering amounts of bandwidth - 80 terabytes per second per chip."

O brave new world, that has such chips in it!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 28, 2025 07:42 AM (Cjt/F)

74 The only reason to get a suped up PC if you’re an average person is to play video games, and video games absolutely blow donkey dick right now.

That being said ,128gb of ddr5 is hovering around 1200 dollars, that’s f***ing absurd.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2025 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

75 most > moist > mort

Posted by: they mostly come out at night
mostly at December 28, 2025 07:44 AM (GGeTC)

76 Democrat bought your gold (at gunpoint) on 4/5/33 for 21 bucks with paper.
On 1/1/34 they declared that gold was worth 35 bux.

And you all think Obamacare is bad.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 28, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

77 67 going to 80 down here by the Bay.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 28, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

78 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 28, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

79 G'morning all.

We're facing freezing rain, rain, and high winds, all starting today at 4 PM.

I'm just praying the power stays on.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 28, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

80 G'morning Salty, how's things in your corner of the world?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 28, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

81 Mental health professionals are beginning to warn about a new phenomenon that’s been called “AI psychosis,” where people slip into delusional thinking, paranoia or hallucinations triggered by their interactions with intelligent systems. In some cases, users begin to interpret chatbot responses as personally significant, sentient or containing hidden messages only for them.

This has happened for a 100 years. People thinking that a radio or TV host is speaking directly to them.
I routinely listen to a AM talk show where some callers go right into a conversation with the host like they have been discussing the subject for the last hour.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 28, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

82 @72 read that also. They only reconnected after the son became a grandfather and she a great grandmother.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 28, 2025 07:50 AM (2vrAX)

83 A balmy 44℉ and very windy.

Tomorrow is back to winter, with morning temps of 14℉.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 28, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

84 Morning peeps.

Currently 65 going up to 72 here in Bourbon country. This time tomorrow it'll be in the low teens. A "wind event" is expected tonight that will usher in the cold air.

We always seem to have these weather events at night. Never during the daylight hours, regardless of the time of year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2025 07:53 AM (NwnyJ)

85 I'm getting the "age-restricted" bit a LOT on videos lately. I think it's a method of abusing the rules to get more people logging in - which equals monetization for youTube.

We really need more active competitors to youTube. But users are stupid and won't move. (Does youTube require you post your videos exclusively there to get monetization?)

Merry Christmas, Pixy!

Posted by: GWB at December 28, 2025 07:54 AM (6lxHi)

86 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Good. I had a refreshing Christmas with NoSoThoreau cooking! Kerry Gold butter enters the chat.

How are you doing?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 28, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

87 67 going to 80 down here by the Bay.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 28, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)
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We're expecting a high of 75 today, dropping down to a high of 28 tomorrow. That's nearly a 50-degree swing overnight.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2025 07:56 AM (ESVrU)

88 33 degrees, dense fog

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 28, 2025 07:56 AM (Cjt/F)

89 We're expecting a high of 75 today, dropping down to a high of 28 tomorrow. That's nearly a 50-degree swing overnight.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2025 07:56 AM (ESVrU)

53 manana

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 28, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

90 GWB
In my protest to the absurd length of copyright coverage, I refuse to pay for less ads on YouTube.

Fortunately, the music I like is out of fashion. But I do watch oYuTube less and less. It's like a boot on the neck of humanities treasures.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 28, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

91 A "wind event" is expected tonight that will usher in the cold air.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2025 07:53 AM (NwnyJ)

Ummm, yeah. We call that a "front." At least, we did in the days before naming snowstorms and rain squalls to make everyone afraid. A front is the area where the temperature and pressure change between cells. And that means air trying to get from one to the other. The bigger the differential the higher the wind.

I'm not slapping at you, Martini Farmer, but at the weather guessers who have to feel important by telling you technical things that make you see them as your guardian experts. (Most weather maps no longer even display fronts on them. I still remember the symbols - triangles are cold and the semicircles are warm.)

Posted by: GWB at December 28, 2025 08:01 AM (6lxHi)

92 Have a great day, everyone.

May plans for the New Year flow smoothly. Amd may winter play nice with your travels.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 28, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

93 https://tinyurl.com/3kymdv38

Just for you, GWB

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2025 08:08 AM (3Ope8)

94 Yeah, FDR outlawed it via XO, congress and the courts knew that was illegal but went along with it anyway. They reneged on gold bonds as well, and forbade gold clause contracts, very common with 99 year lease agreements.

This came to a head in the 90s, a sharp real estate attorney in Des Moines noticed a gold clause lease on a large office building, the tenant was paying a couple hundred bucks a month for the whole building. He demanded payment in gold, since gold had been decriminalized. Eventually prevailed. Terwilliger I think.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 28, 2025 08:09 AM (90Mjm)

95 >>Mental health professionals are beginning to warn about a new phenomenon that’s been called “AI psychosis,”

The AI app that produces interactive avatars of dead loved ones is a bit creepy, IMO. Forgot the name of it. There's probably more than one.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 28, 2025 08:10 AM (Y1sOo)

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