Daily Tech News -1 January 2026

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Binance's Trust Wallet Chrome extension turned out to be misnamed. (Web3isGoingGreat)

It got hacked - from the inside, a so-called supply chain attack where a developer's system is compromised and used to slip malware into critical applications - and users lost $7 million.

Binance has updated the extension and will reimburse users who lost money due to the attack.

Tech News

To protect MongoDB servers from that MongoBleed attack, just disable Zlib compression. (Yopp)

Other forms of compression (which libraries are supported depends on your version of MongoDB) will work just fine. This doesn't affect stored data, just compression of network packets, so if your server isn't open to the internet and if it is you're an idiot you can just turn compression off entirely.

You do need to restart your database, but that's better than having it bleed to death.
Samsung is planning to go straight to 2nm at its new chip factory under construction in Texas. (WCCFTech)

That will leapfrog TSMC's US plants and bring the latest technology closer to its largest customers.
TSMC has responded by bringing forward the schedule of its Arizona 3nm plant by a full year. (WCCFTech)

Now expected to be in full production by 2027.
Meanwhile TSMC's Taiwan fabs are cranking out 2nm chips right now. (Tom's Hardware)

The N2 node is 10-15% faster than the current N3E node, and will be followed next year with an upgraded N2P process which is 10% faster again, and also an A16 process node - 1.6nm - which is 10% faster than that.
Wired's database has been hacked, leaking 2.3 million user records. (Bleeping Computer)

Passwords, emails, names, all the usual stuff.

I don't think I ever had an account at Wired. Chrome doesn't have any record of one, anyway.
You can get 4TB of RAM for just $76,999. (Hot Hardware)

That's 16 256GB DIMMs.
The Ayaneo Pocket Vert - a modern GameBoy but with literally 10x the resolution - has a price. Prices. (Liliputing)

Ranging from $269 for the 8/128 model on preorder to $439 for the 12/512 model at retail.
Good Old Games - known as GOG by its fans, who are legion - has been bought. (GOG)

By its co-founder, separating from game translator and more recently game developer CD Projekt, of which he is also a co-founder.

Nothing will change. CD Project Red's games like The Witcher and Cyberpunk: 2077 will continue to be sold on GOG, as will pretty much every other game worth buying.
Windows on Arm has had a good year. (The Verge) (archive site)

Would someone do a wellness check on The Verge? I think they might have fallen and hit their head.
As Microsoft transforms Windows into an "agentic OS," stuffing it with more semifunctional AI bloat, it risks further pissing off users, who might find greener pastures elsewhere. Maybe the question in 2026 won't be "Should you buy a Windows on Arm laptop?" but "Should you buy a Windows laptop at all?"
Never mind, all is well.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: A pox on all three of your houses.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Nrg. Coffee mornin'.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

3 >>>To protect MongoDB servers from that MongoBleed attack, just disable Zlib compression. (Yopp)

It sounds like you're speaking Alien.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)

4 Good Old Games - known as GOG by its fans, who are legion - has been bought.

Y'know it might be time to refresh my installation library for all my GOG games, even though in this case it doesn't look like there's about to be a ton of screwage after a company gets bought out. Thanks for this, Pixy.

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

5 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:05 AM (PD8dm)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 30, 2025 04:05 AM (sAmhv)

7 5 BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:05 AM (PD8dm)

There's a grandpop!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

8
To protect MongoDB servers from that MongoBleed attack, just disable Zlib compression. (Yopp)

MongoDB just pawn in game of life

It had to be said.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:06 AM (xG4kz)

9 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 04:08 AM (HTCU3)

10 If MPPPP shows up:

Pinned Tweet
DepressedBergman
@DannyDrinksWine
Dec 26
What's the hottest someone has ever looked while wearing glasses?

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

11
Wired's database has been hacked, leaking 2.3 million user records. (Bleeping Computer)

The irony of a tech / lifestyle mag whose swagger was "We're hip, with it, and on top of things!" getting hacked is just too delicious.

My Wired subscription expired two decades and two cities ago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (xG4kz)

12
Every time I see "The Verge", in my mind I hear the "Hey, Vern!" guy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:12 AM (xG4kz)

13 11
Wired's database has been hacked, leaking 2.3 million user records. (Bleeping Computer)

The irony of a tech / lifestyle mag whose swagger was "We're hip, with it, and on top of things!" getting hacked is just too delicious.

My Wired subscription expired two decades and two cities ago.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (xG4kz)

... and, doggone it, people like us!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:14 AM (RuTUS)

14 Need a laugh? Sound on:

https://tinyurl.com/bd6h8tpf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:14 AM (PD8dm)

15 14 Need a laugh? Sound on:

https://tinyurl.com/bd6h8tpf
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:14 AM (PD8dm)

Funny!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

16 There's a grandpop!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)
-

Mrs. BD is doing a 2nd day of helping babysit grandpups in Tel Aviv while I stay at home working.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:16 AM (PD8dm)

17 I *think* this is my second cup of coffee. I perhaps have lost track.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:18 AM (RuTUS)

18
... and, doggone it, people like us!
Posted by: m at December

I grew to dislike its use of odd color pairings of text with background. Some of its blurbs were nigh on unreadable because the pairings were so bad (i.e., so close in appearance to each other).

A lot of fontophilia suffused their product, too.

The graphics art department must have had compromising material on all and sundry in that print shop.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:19 AM (xG4kz)

19 10 If MPPPP shows up:

Pinned Tweet
DepressedBergman
@DannyDrinksWine
Dec 26
What's the hottest someone has ever looked while wearing glasses?
Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

https://xcancel.com/dannydrinkswine

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:22 AM (RuTUS)

20
Pixy jumped the calendar gun!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:22 AM (xG4kz)

21 20 Pixy jumped the calendar gun!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:22 AM (xG4kz)

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hahahahaha

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)

22 @20 & 21 (Krebs & m):

Okay I'm completely missing this one.

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

23 22 @20 & 21 (Krebs & m):

Okay I'm completely missing this one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

Look at the very top of the post!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:30 AM (RuTUS)

24
Not jumped the gun so much as jumped over to negative days in the countdown.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:32 AM (xG4kz)

25 21 20 Pixy jumped the calendar gun!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:22 AM (xG4kz)

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hahahahaha
Posted by: m
...................................
Australia time is different.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 30, 2025 04:32 AM (sAmhv)

26 24 Not jumped the gun so much as jumped over to negative days in the countdown.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:32 AM (xG4kz)

I'd say he left out a space, and that he meant to type:

Daily Tech News - 1 January 2026

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:33 AM (RuTUS)

27
DepressedBergman

Is there any other kind of Bergman?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:33 AM (xG4kz)

28
It is very windy here.

It is funny how the absence of leaves on the trees leads to high winds having more of a persistent and harsher sound that, in my mind's eye, strongly suggests that it would be unpleasant to be out in that cold.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:38 AM (xG4kz)

29 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 23 windy, cold degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with nothing but cold predicted as far as the eye can see.

Barely an hour's worth of work waiting for me, so it looks like it's going to be one of those slow days spent waiting for files to come in. Still, I'll be glad when the day is over and I can take a nap.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 04:39 AM (ufSfZ)

30 It's definitely the -1th day of next year.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 30, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

31 If MPPPP shows up:

Pinned Tweet
DepressedBergman
@DannyDrinksWine
Dec 26
What's the hottest someone has ever looked while wearing glasses?
Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

Well, that's subject to opinion. At the moment, I'll cast a vote for the actress Beatrice Blinn, as she appeared in the 1936 Three Stooges short False Alarms.

Can't find the picture, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)

32
In my family genealogical wanderings, I have cone to learn that a large number of my forebears resided on the Great Plains a century ofr more ago. I can only imagine how dreary and depressing the sound of winter's winds must have been for them.

Give me a winter beside one of the Great Lakes any day, which is where I grew up. The sound of the wind combined with the persistent rumbling of the lake made for a different aural experience that was somehow more enjoyable.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:45 AM (xG4kz)

33 G'Day everyone
Think just heard a piece of aluminum get ripped off

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

34 Or neighbor's flying by

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

35
Think just heard a piece of aluminum get ripped off
Posted by: Skip at

"Hey! This is chrome plated! I ordered silver plated, dammit!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:52 AM (xG4kz)

36 @33/Skip: "a piece of aluminum get ripped off"

Welcome to the party, pal!

Posted by: John McClane trying to by DDR5 memory at December 30, 2025 04:53 AM (O7YUW)

37 Or neighbor's flying by

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Almira Gulch?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 04:55 AM (KSR/Y)

38 @23/m: Thanks. I sometimes forget Pixy plays with the date header. Also, I've only had 5 hours of sleep.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 04:55 AM (O7YUW)

39
Our three wheeled waste containers -- trash, recycled, and yard waste -- are performing intricate wind driven dance maneuvers on the driveway next to our garage.

The really racy ones do it with their lids open, those tramps.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:56 AM (xG4kz)

40 "Windows on Arm has had a good year." (The Verge)

My Surface Pro 8 had a hinge snap a few days before the holiday sales. This made the box useless as a PC. I ended up with a Surface Pro 11 with the Qualcomm X Plus CPU as a replacement. It does everything I need or want, does it very well, has great battery life and all the software I use is natively compiled for ARM.

The new V2 CPUs that are hitting the market in the first half of the 2026 look to be speedy things. Depending on price and performance improvements selling the SP11 is not out of the question.

I am hoping that small form factor desktop PCs with these CPUs hit the market too. The performance numbers I have seen so far indicate the V2 CPUs can easily function in a desktop box; how such a box is implemented will drive if Intel or AMD will be considered if these come to market.

As usual, YMWV based on your specific needs, but based on my experience Qualcomm PCs are viable today, and with the native software and Prism emulation rapidly improving in a few years all the compatibility concerns will/should mostly be over.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 04:59 AM (HTCU3)

41 So looking up DDR5 memory at NewEgg: 2 x 32 gig sticks (DDR5 5200 / PC5 41600) $1,299.00 CDN

Haha. No.

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

42 In my family genealogical wanderings, I have cone to learn that a large number of my forebears resided on the Great Plains a century ofr more ago. I can only imagine how dreary and depressing the sound of winter's winds must have been for them.

There's a magnificent 1928 film, The Wind, which stars Lillian Gish as a Texas settler driven crazy by the constant windstorms.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 05:06 AM (ufSfZ)

43 There's a magnificent 1928 film, The Wind, which stars Lillian Gish as a Texas settler driven crazy by the constant windstorms.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Back in the day, Lilian Gish had a limited series on PBS. She talked about and commented on silent movies and " The Wind" was one of them. I still remember it.

Posted by: Tuna at December 30, 2025 05:14 AM (lJ0H4)

44 26 24 Not jumped the gun so much as jumped over to negative days in the countdown.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:32 AM (xG4kz)

I'd say he left out a space, and that he meant to type:

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Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:33 AM (RuTUS)

30 It's definitely the -1th day of next year.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 30, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

It was just a theory!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS)

45
Minnesota's Department of Children announces the "Quality Learing Center" has been closed.

Substandard Learing triumphs again!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 05:16 AM (xG4kz)

46
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 30, 2025 05:17 AM (tljrc)

47 "Minnesota's Department of Children announces the "Quality Learing Center" has been closed."

Sheesh, now all the jugdishes, sloupdounks. crouphems, have to somewhere else for learing.

Will the harm never end?

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 30, 2025 05:22 AM (G+z4C)

48
In what I hope is a sign that efforts like DOGE and PDJT's executive orders have fired a torpedo or two below its financing waterline, the media leviathan that farts out "Sesame Street" has taken to running "Send us money!" pleas via radio ads, thus sullying their formerly pristine facade that "public funding" provided.

"Ads! We're running icky, icky ads!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 05:22 AM (xG4kz)

49 in my mind's eye, strongly suggests that it would be unpleasant to be out in that cold.
——-

Should be in your mind’s ear. Might want to have that checked. When it gets well below 0F. the snow crunches when walked or driven on. Power steering pumps on cars start groaning in protest making turns. That’s my cue to stay in bed if practicable.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 30, 2025 05:23 AM (5MnqL)

50 So looking up DDR5 memory at NewEgg: 2 x 32 gig sticks (DDR5 5200 / PC5 41600) $1,299.00 CDN

Haha. No.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I saw this amount of RAM selling for $650 USD. Using the current exchange rate $1300 CDN should be $950 USD. Why so expensive in Canada?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 30, 2025 05:23 AM (HTCU3)

51 @50/Alteria Pilgram: "Why so expensive in Canada?"

Could be a Canadian reseller on newegg.ca trying to take advantage of people because of the shortage. Could be tariffs, duties, shipping into Canada, or a combination of all of these things.

I just look at that price and it's an automatic "No."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

52
Should be in your mind’s ear. Might want to have that checked. When it gets well below 0F. the snow crunches when walked or driven on. Power steering pumps on cars start groaning in protest making turns. That’s my cue to stay in bed if practicable.
Posted by: Common Tater

The movie "Nobody's Fool" features a wide range of "snow sounds", including the squeaks made when one walks on snow when temperatures are really, really cold.

Once you become aware of them in the film, you notice that its sonic continuity was compromised by putting scenes where it was severely cold up against scenes where it was raining, and yet all were supposed to be the same day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 05:31 AM (xG4kz)

53 G'morning, all!

34 degrees out. Gonna wait till after the sun comes up to go walk.

After finally getting the tp-Link Deco X60 mesh system up and running correctly, it rekindled my interest in home media servers. Which was kinda the reason to upgrade the home WiFi to begin with.

Am I going stupid, or is all this memory cost increase beginning to drive the cost of that little project upward?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 05:31 AM (iMotb)

54 Maybe winds have calmed down some, don't hear that roar

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:41 AM (Ia/+0)

55 I posted this is the wrong thread--and with a sock:

Apparently a high percentage of kids not using a cell phone- because they were removed from their schools-( /Yay!) cannot read an analog clock. Why is that? They don't have an analog clock in their classrooms, or nobody taught them to read one? I am glad that I grew up before cell phones, and that my son knows how to read an analog clock. Thanks to whatever kindergarten teacher I had- who has long gone to be with the Lord I expect -taught me this

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:43 AM (Nx5jP)

56 No, just a short break, their back

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:43 AM (Ia/+0)

57 “ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

Thessalonians 5:18

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2025 05:43 AM (63An5)

58 I saw that announcement from GOG yesterday and I'm happy that nothing is really changing. It's a good company and I like the approach of letting people own their own games. Hate the fact that such a view is seen as odd by major companies.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 30, 2025 05:43 AM (jjoN6)

59 And this as well:

It is still windy and there are some cats ( I guess) outside either mating or fighting and giving long screeches. The inside cat is vey nervous and running from room to room.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:44 AM (Nx5jP)

60 I once had a girlfriend that high winds increased her amorous tendencies, which were already of a highly stimulating variety, now that I think about it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 30, 2025 05:45 AM (5MnqL)

61 Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2025 05:43 AM (63An5

Thanks, Marcus. Very encouraging verse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:45 AM (Nx5jP)

62 Well Australia is a day ahead, maybe a couple who knows?

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:47 AM (Ia/+0)

63
Maybe winds have calmed down some, don't hear that roar

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:41 AM

same here, it's only 15 mph-ish

it's was a constant 25+ mph from Sunday night until this morning

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 30, 2025 05:48 AM (tljrc)

64 "I grew up before cell phones, and that my son knows how to read an analog clock."

I have vague memories of as a child, having a red plastic clock face, with movable white hands, and 12 round bluish removable inserts that were numbered with the 12 hours of the clock face.

So you had to be able to place the numbers in the correct locations on the clock face, and then the hands could be positioned at any time that was desired by the parent, and you had to be able to correctly determine what time the clock face was displaying.

Never needed a firmware upgrade, and was guaranteed to be malware free.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 05:49 AM (iMotb)

65 Windy today and tomorrow, 30s for highs all week ahead
I H8 winter

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:50 AM (Ia/+0)

66 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:45 AM (Nx5jP)

You are welcome ma’am. God Bless all.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2025 05:51 AM (63An5)

67 Devotional on God's faithful love and Genesis 39: 20-23. Devotional is followed by some insights about the passage and a reflection:

https://tinyurl.com/y4zhe7fh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:53 AM (Nx5jP)

68 "Never needed a firmware upgrade, and was guaranteed to be malware free."

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 05:49 AM (iMotb)

Very true!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 05:54 AM (Nx5jP)

69 Said on ONT , for a few months now there is no visible clock in bedroom. I think there are advantages in this kind of experiment.
Even insomnia one can't just watch clock move forward.
But sometimes as I often do wake before alarm ( phone now) and no idea if its 3:30 or 12:30.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:55 AM (Ia/+0)

70 Windy today and tomorrow, 30s for highs all week ahead
I H8 winter
Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:50 AM (Ia/+0)

Same here. November through April is just awful.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 05:57 AM (ufSfZ)

71 Evening and morning to all on this New Year's Eve Eve! Chilly here with a lot of wind, so no workout today. Things will warm toward the end of the week. I may have to force myself to work out in the *afternoon* [ *shudder* ] for a few days.

Re the analog clock: I don't recall when I learned how to read one. It was before I went to school, I think. I remember telling my mother that the hour after lunch ought to be "thirteen o'clock" instead of "one." Wisely, she did not confuse me by introducing military time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 30, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

72
I certainly knew how to read before I started school. One day in the first month of first grade, my teacher asked me to stay behind after school. "Oops," I thought in terror, "I'm in trouble." But she merely sat me down and said, "Wolfus, you know how to read, don't you?" I nodded. Hey, I'd thought *everybody* knew and had wondered why my classmates stumbled over simple words during reading time. "Dick & Jane" books were hardly Shakespeare or Thomas Hardy.

So I got a field promotion to second grade. Had to go take some tests over the next summer to confirm that I was ready for third.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 30, 2025 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

73 Could be sort of fun to write down the instructions for reading an analog clock face....
in cursive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:04 AM (iMotb)

74 I could get moving and stop at donut shop, I don't need to but could

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

75 Old time hymn sung by a woman who has a guitar:

""Rock of ages"

I read in the site that she and her husband have seven children . My goodness , they'd need something else -a rock (someone else) to bring up all those kids!

https://tinyurl.com/2n948hbj

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

76 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 30, 2025 06:06 AM (AN2gy)

77
Windy today and tomorrow, 30s for highs all week ahead
I H8 winter

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 05:50 AM

Same here. November through April is just awful.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 05:57 AM

agreed

November through April is the absolute worst

tbh, October & May ain't no great shakes, either

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 30, 2025 06:08 AM (tljrc)

78 32.4 degrees out.

27 degrees colder than it was 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:10 AM (iMotb)

79 >>> The sound of the wind combined with the persistent rumbling of the lake made for a different aural experience that was somehow more enjoyable.

I was near a pond about a week ago. It was a cold morning after a thaw a day or two prior. The ice sheet was blooping continuously.

Posted by: fluffy at December 30, 2025 06:12 AM (AN2gy)

80 32.4 degrees out.

27 degrees colder than it was 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025

***
We're at 39, almost thirty degrees less than Sunday morning and forty less than that afternoon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 30, 2025 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

81 >>> Could be sort of fun to write down the instructions for reading an analog clock face....
in cursive.

You may walk on my lawn, if you wish.

Posted by: fluffy at December 30, 2025 06:16 AM (AN2gy)

82 11 deg F here. Brrrr.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

83 MongoDB just pawn in game of life

It had to be said.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:06 AM (xG4kz)

CompressionGram for MongoDB.

Me MongoDB.

MongoDB like compression.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 30, 2025 06:17 AM (JRP2U)

84 Quick walk around house see nothing amiss
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 06:22 AM (Ia/+0)

85 Technology I was grateful for today: heated car seats.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 30, 2025 06:23 AM (WPL6O)

86 85 Technology I was grateful for today: heated car seats.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 30, 2025 06:23 AM (WPL6O)

It appears that at 36 or 38 as shown on the dash my seat and steering heater come on.
I am sure there is a setting for that.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 30, 2025 06:27 AM (gbOdA)

87 32.4 degrees out.

27 degrees colder than it was 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025

***
We're at 39, almost thirty degrees less than Sunday morning and forty less than that afternoon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 30, 2025 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

It was 23 at 4.00am. It is now 20.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 06:28 AM (ufSfZ)

88 mornin yall. Clooney is now a French citizen. They can have him and his anal wife. Don't try to come back you corksucking traitor.

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

89 Technology I was grateful for today: heated car seats.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 30, 2025 06:23 AM (WPL6O)

I don't know why Honda doesn't have that option in their Accords. I would pay for it.

I was driving a Subaru with heated seats yesterday and loved it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 06:30 AM (ufSfZ)

90 G'mornin' everyone!

coffee will be required immediately.

4 degrees, overcast, breezy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2025 06:31 AM (Cjt/F)

91 Good morning.

Who knows where the cold wind blows?

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 30, 2025 06:31 AM (yD9pg)

92 81, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2025 06:31 AM (Cjt/F)

93 The wind was so bad that when I opened my car door, it was torn out of my hand. Thankfully, the car parked next to mine was not within the lines so no damage was done.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 30, 2025 06:32 AM (jjoN6)

94 There was a mini-series in the late 70s, "Centennial." Julie Sommars played plains wife that went crazy and killed the children. The wind. The never-ceasing wind.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:32 AM (qFwJc)

95 Oh, yes. Another thing I'm glad about - that I can read and write cursive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:32 AM (PFs9e)

96 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 30, 2025 06:33 AM (bQ4nt)

97 So looking up DDR5 memory at NewEgg: 2 x 32 gig sticks (DDR5 5200 / PC5 41600) $1,299.00 CDN

I bought a 64GB AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ 4TB of Samsung 990 Pro SDD (and 1TB of some other performance SSD) for less than that just a few months ago (and the memory is 8000 not 5200)

And six months before that for $400 less for an otherwise similarly configured box using the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS.

I was looking at a modest upgrade to the Stryx latest with 128GB but I think I'll wait a year or two and just see what the processors are like then for the mini PC.

Not ready to do ARM but may look at it when I know that all of the docker components I'm using are ARM friendly.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:35 AM (a4flb)

98 88 mornin yall. Clooney is now a French citizen. They can have him and his anal wife. Don't try to come back you corksucking traitor.

Posted by: fd

Bottom story of the day.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 30, 2025 06:35 AM (sAmhv)

99 >>> I don't know why Honda doesn't have that option in their Accords.

Not at all? We have it in a Pilot and a CRV. Both have trim package EX-L.

Posted by: fluffy at December 30, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)

100
ISS overflight coming over here visible in about 8 minutes. 26F outside. Miley wanted me to wake her up to see it this time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 06:36 AM (w6EFb)

101 C

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 30, 2025 06:36 AM (bQ4nt)

102 I've got a heated seat liner that Mrs fd gave me a few years back. It works well but I rarely use it here, mostly in the motorhome. It plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet, which is what they called it when the motorhome was built. Nowadays they call it a 12V DC outlet and they don't come with a lighter or ashtray. The left ruins everything.

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

103 dagnabbit

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 30, 2025 06:37 AM (bQ4nt)

104 Well, if George Clooney is now a French citizen doesn't that make him unable to become President? There was some talk some time ago of his running for office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:37 AM (PFs9e)

105 Well, apparently I have missed an Apollo event, Tom Hanks' Moonwalkers, which has been in Boston since June and is closing this coming Sunday. I wonder why I didn't hear about it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 06:37 AM (ufSfZ)

106 When I bought my 2007 Sienna, I ordered the cigarette lighter and ashtray. When the parts arrived, the dealer installed it.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:38 AM (qFwJc)

107 "Oh, yes. Another thing I'm glad about - that I can read and write cursive."

Isn't it amazing?

Before Progressives got their hands on our public school systems, children could:

1. Write in cursive
2. Tell time on an analog clock
3. Perform basic math functions
4. Read english at grade level.

Ah.....progress.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:39 AM (iMotb)

108 Clooney, like most actors, are too lazy to be POTUS.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:39 AM (qFwJc)

109 Not at all? We have it in a Pilot and a CRV. Both have trim package EX-L.

Mine is a pre-owned model and didn't have heated seats. I wonder if that's something I can have added?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 06:40 AM (ufSfZ)

110 "Clooney, like most actors, are too lazy to be POTUS."

So if Obama were an actor, he would not have been President?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:41 AM (iMotb)

111 "Astronaut reveals depression after an 'avalanche of misogyny' following Blue Origin all-female space flight"

Maybe you are not really an astronaut but instead an overemotional ditz.

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

112 Notre Dame is breaking the tradition of playing a game every year with USC (So. Cal, not So Car).

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:42 AM (qFwJc)

113 "Mine is a pre-owned model and didn't have heated seats. I wonder if that's something I can have added?"

I see You Toob videos that suggest that most vehicles come with all the necessary components installed in the vehicle. Just that the switches in the dash are not installed. And that for the touch screen controlled stuff, it's a matter of the software blocking the activation of that feature.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:43 AM (iMotb)

114 Technology I was grateful for today: heated car seats.

I thought a heated steering wheel was a bit over the top

It isn't.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:44 AM (a4flb)

115 Call your dealer. You might just have to pay for a subscription and a software update.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:44 AM (qFwJc)

116 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:39 AM (iMotb)

I'd be embarrassed if I were a young pastor and had to ask someone else to read the lovely cards some of the older congregation members have sent to me because they're in cursive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:45 AM (lQ+/f)

117 Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who supposedly has no managerial role at Binance after he and the company were criminally charged in the US — announced that Binance would reimburse users who lost funds

Seems legit

Posted by: Halfhand at December 30, 2025 06:45 AM (edbiH)

118 @111/fd: "Maybe you are not really an astronaut but instead an overemotional ditz."

Attempt to steal valor, get disparaged. (Talk shit, get hit.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW)

119 Android Auto came with my car when I bought it. The last time I took the car in for service, those effers disabled it. That was the last time I will ever take it to them.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 06:46 AM (qFwJc)

120
It's 43 degrees here. 43! Survival is in question.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2025 06:46 AM (tgvbd)

121 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2025 06:46 AM (tgvbd)

Quick. Throw yourself over the dogs to keep them warm!😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:48 AM (lQ+/f)

122 "Astronaut reveals depression after an 'avalanche of misogyny' following Blue Origin all-female space flight"

Except this Cluster B attention whore didn't even qualify for "Astronaut".

For someone who got to do something that nearly no one else on earth will ever experience, she somehow managed to mangle the thrill into a depressing victimhood.

Good things should not be wasted on bad people.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:48 AM (a4flb)

123
Clooney is now a French citizen. They can have him and his anal wife. Don't try to come back you corksucking traitor.
Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

Oh, good. Now we can bar his re-entry as an undesirable alien.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2025 06:48 AM (tgvbd)

124 I see You Toob videos that suggest that most vehicles come with all the necessary components installed in the vehicle. Just that the switches in the dash are not installed. And that for the touch screen controlled stuff, it's a matter of the software blocking the activation of that feature.

I'll check that out. If I don't find anything, I'll ask the dealership.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 06:49 AM (ufSfZ)

125 I see You Toob videos...

There is your problem. Anybody can say anything as long as it doesn't hurt a liberal's feelings.

Lying about features in a car that THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW is right there next to the 100 MPG carburetor.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb)

126 Kindly custodian spends his Thanksgiving decorating the school halls for Christmas
"Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/4sf7zkjp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:51 AM (lQ+/f)

127 Here's your 'nothing will happen' scandal for the day:

" A US Department of Housing and Urban Development report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration — including to around 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens,"

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

128 Well, that's subject to opinion. At the moment, I'll cast a vote for the actress Beatrice Blinn, as she appeared in the 1936 Three Stooges short False Alarms.

Can't find the picture, though.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)

Not a photo but the film is on YT. https://youtu.be/btKrq27FwO8

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 30, 2025 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

129 Someone over at Insty's place asked the question.

' What if the entire national deficit consisted of fraud?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:54 AM (iMotb)

130 Shaquille O'Neal helps a man get a second chance:

https://tinyurl.com/4u6ce2zw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:55 AM (lQ+/f)

131 I'd be embarrassed if I were a young pastor and had to ask someone else to read the lovely cards some of the older congregation members have sent to me because they're in cursive.

Google Translate's OCR allegedly can read cursive - but only if the the handwriting is clear, legible and not overly stylized.

But still... he must have gone to the same school as Rachel Jeantel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:56 AM (a4flb)

132 "For someone who got to do something that nearly no one else on earth will ever experience, she somehow managed to mangle the thrill into a depressing victimhood. "

no kidding. sad, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2025 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)

133 @129/Village Idiot's Apprentice: "What if the entire national deficit consisted of fraud?"

'They just write it off' joke goes here.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 06:57 AM (O7YUW)

134 Clooney is now a French citizen.

Is he a French citizen, or a US citizen living in France to demonstrate that he's just too good for us?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 30, 2025 06:57 AM (ExV1e)

135 "What if the entire national deficit consisted of fraud?"

Include outright waste and I think that's probably true. We've never had an income problem.

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

136 ""For someone who got to do something that nearly no one else on earth will ever experience, she somehow managed to mangle the thrill into a depressing victimhood. "

Omaha Beach survivor: I was lucky, lot's of my friends died that day.

Astronette: I had to suffer through mean words!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 06:58 AM (iMotb)

137 ' What if the entire national deficit consisted of fraud?

Fraud comes in different packaging.

Straight up fraud like the Somalian money laundering? or the more covert stuff like programs that have no constitutional authority? Or the fraud that is typified by the cuntry's government education cartel where trillions are spent and buys very little actual education?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:58 AM (a4flb)

138 oh, thank you, different nic!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2025 06:58 AM (Cjt/F)

139 Happy Birthday Rudyard Kipling:

https://tinyurl.com/2z3xvrtn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 06:59 AM (lQ+/f)

140 They say Clooney got a French passport but I don't know if he has dual citizenship, which no one should have.

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

141 "Astronette: I had to suffer through mean words!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

She couldn't even get out of bed!

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

142 Shaquille O'Neal helps a man get a second chance

I've never heard anything bad about Shaq. He seems to be a pretty based guy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 30, 2025 07:01 AM (ufSfZ)

143 "Or the fraud that is typified by the cuntry's government education cartel where trillions are spent and buys very little actual education?"

Start with the easy stuff. Baltimore city gets funding based on the number of children with ass-in-seats.

Turns out that a rather large number of those children are of the same variety as Somali day care attendees.

Checks are getting cut and cashed, and the kids are nowhere to be found.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 07:02 AM (iMotb)

144 135, 137, all the signs say that this is absolutely correct.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 30, 2025 07:03 AM (Cjt/F)

145 "He seems to be a pretty based guy."

I like the commercials that he is in.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 07:03 AM (iMotb)

146 That's a very good movie from the 70's with Sean Connery and Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer , based on the work by Rudyard Kipling, "The Man who would be king."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 07:04 AM (rZCVI)

147 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent

Yes, I've heard a number of stories about his kindness in reaching out to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 07:06 AM (rZCVI)

148 There are 222 active licensed daycare centers in Hennepin County.

There are 3x as many in Dakota county with 35% of the population.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 30, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

149 Some of the most peaceful and loving guys are big. Nobody ever messed with him growing up. Everyone was nice.

Posted by: no one at December 30, 2025 07:06 AM (qFwJc)

150 I'm going to start compiling all my 2025 tax stuff today. I'm going to get it all out of the way early this year. The one thing I know is I'm not getting anything back from the government. I haven't in years.

Posted by: fd at December 30, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

151 148 There are 222 active licensed daycare centers in Hennepin County.

There are 3x as many in Dakota county with 35% of the population.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 30, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

I ran these numbers in 1 minute. How fuckin hard is it for local regulators to look at statistical anomolies?

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 30, 2025 07:08 AM (gbOdA)

152 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 06:56 AM (a4flb)

I don't want to have to ask Google Translate to go anything for me or if the case of my phone, "Co Pilot"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2025 07:08 AM (rZCVI)

153 They say Clooney got a French passport but I don't know if he has dual citizenship, which no one should have.

The French Passport is slightly more valuable than a US passport in that your mobility options increase.

Things like visa-free travel in the Schengen zone, the ability live, work, own property without restrictions, start businesses or invest (think FATCA restrictions) in the EU.

I think the French passport also allows visa-free or visa on arrival in Japan, Australia and most of South America.

The French Passport is better than the US passport and French travelers are treated better than US travelers due to the Hate America First stigma around the globe.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 07:09 AM (a4flb)

154 Why does taxpayer money go to these daycare fraudsters? Send the money straight to the worthless egg and sperm donors to spend as the moochers see fit.

Posted by: Moochers and Looters at December 30, 2025 07:12 AM (bC9HI)

155 Why does taxpayer money go to these daycare fraudsters? Send the money straight to the worthless egg and sperm donors to spend as the moochers see fit.

Or pay in arrears - like I have to do for business expense accounts.

I just OCR / upload my receipts and qualified purchases get compensated.

I would have zero problem if some AI company with really damned good OCR abilities would get the government contract to take a phone image of a receipt and process it. AI could also do increasingly great job of real time auditing and validation.

a 50 billion dollar contract would result in a trillion in savings.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 30, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

156 "Send the money straight to the worthless egg and sperm donors to spend as the moochers see fit."

That is already covered by the SNAP program.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 07:16 AM (iMotb)

157 154 Why does taxpayer money go to these daycare fraudsters? Send the money straight to the worthless egg and sperm donors to spend as the moochers see fit.
Posted by: Moochers and Looters at December 30, 2025 07:12 AM (bC9HI)

Because everyone knows that people who need "free" daycare are to irresponsible to be entrusted with the money directly.

Posted by: all welfare is a scam at this point at December 30, 2025 07:16 AM (J9Ut8)

158 JJ is nood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 30, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

159 I am always fascinated by the dynamics that take place when schools are closed for a snow day.

And the parents who's children receive free meals at school complain that their children won't get fed that day.

When the parent is receiving SNAP benefits.
To be able to provide their children with food.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 07:19 AM (iMotb)

160 "I am always fascinated by the dynamics that take place when schools are closed for a snow day.

And the parents who's children receive free meals at school complain that their children won't get fed that day.

When the parent is receiving SNAP benefits.
To be able to provide their children with food."

Please tell me where this is actually happening other than in your mind.

Posted by: pawn at December 30, 2025 07:22 AM (Rmqfl)

161 "Please tell me where this is actually happening other than in your mind."

How to tell me that you have never been to Baltimore, without saying that you have never been to Baltimore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 30, 2025 07:25 AM (iMotb)

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