Daily Tech News 6 February 2026

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losetup is the key
Nvidia will not be releasing any new video cards this year. (Tom's Hardware)

Their money is all tied up in not investing in OpenAI.

They aren't likely to release anything new next year either. The 5000 Super series appears to be dead and the 6000 series has been pushed back to 2028.

That leaves the field wide open for AMD to fumble.
Valve meanwhile will be releasing its new Steam Cube this year, just not quite yet. (Liliputing)

Real soon now though.

Tech News

Razer's new limited edition Boomslang costs $1337. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a mouse.
If you already have an Nvidia graphics card, congratulations! (Tom's Hardware)

The latest Windows 11 update causes major problems, including reduced performance and graphics glitches.

You can roll it back but the same update patches 114 security holes.
It's 2026. Just use Postgres. (Tigerdata)

Postgres is something of a database construction kit, but that is likely still less work than (as in the example provided) running seven different databases.
There are multiple critical flaws in n8n, whatever that is. (Bleeping Computer)

So what counts as critical these days?
According to Pillar Security, exploiting CVE-2026-25049 enables complete compromise of the n8n instance and could be leveraged to run arbitrary system commands on the server, steal all stored credentials, secrets (API keys, OAuth tokens), and sensitive configuration files.
Yeah, sounds pretty critical to me.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Down on the corner, out my back door.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Morning all.

Posted by: Tuna at February 06, 2026 04:03 AM (lJ0H4)

2 Good morning! Up early to download data for a new project. teh interwebz seem to be slow....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2026 04:07 AM (3Ope8)

3 Morning!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 06, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

4 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isiah 41:10

Posted by: kingsman at February 06, 2026 04:09 AM (ehY6c)

5 Another outstanding musical choice. Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2026 04:29 AM (+NW8W)

6 Good morning Tech thread.

Is the deep freeze easing for you?

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 06, 2026 04:29 AM (qIWqI)

7 Is the deep freeze easing for you?
Posted by: Pete Bog

Yep. Gonna be in the 60's here in Nashville land next week.

Posted by: Tuna at February 06, 2026 04:33 AM (lJ0H4)

8 w00t

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 04:37 AM (8NTVk)

9 Mid 70s for the next 4-5 days, and dry like a popcorn fart. Gonna be great golf weather.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2026 04:38 AM (3Ope8)

10 >>>losetup is the key

wut
covfefe

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 04:39 AM (8NTVk)

11 a new hash I have

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 04:41 AM (8NTVk)

12 It is almost like they don’t want us to have fancy CPU’s or RAM or something.
Monitors we can have, and cannabis, but nothing else, except sex with robots, that’s ok, and cannabis smoking robot sex workers, that’s cool, but no vaping or cigarettes

Posted by: Accomack at February 06, 2026 04:41 AM (/Chlc)

13 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 06, 2026 04:42 AM (bQ4nt)

14 Creedence Clearwater Rivial, damn that takes me back to the days of no Grammy's show (?) Real music and no shitting on the USA. Vietnam was still going and I was in college in NYC.
Damn I miss those days when life was worth living, as they say.

Posted by: Colin at February 06, 2026 04:43 AM (e8qy3)

15
Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com › item
If you have a full dd image of the disk, you can just do losetup -Pf /path/to/your/image.___ and that will pick a loopback device and perform the partprobe

ok!

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 04:43 AM (8NTVk)

16 It is expected to be 9° here Sunday morning. Most thermometers in LSD stop at 20° cause everything else does

Posted by: Accomack at February 06, 2026 04:44 AM (/Chlc)

17 willowed

270 Grandbaby is home with mom and dad. I will be there tomorrow giving lessons in baby stuff. Also, bringing dinner, I suspect. These kids are clueless, which is fine, because I am not.

Those huge, huge gray eyes. He does know who the really fun grandma is. Already.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2026 03:06 AM (I40wl)

Many congratulations!

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 04:45 AM (8NTVk)

18 giving lessons in baby stuff...

Congrats! Spoiling grandkids is the best!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2026 04:48 AM (3Ope8)

19 15
Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com › item
If you have a full dd image of the disk, you can just do losetup -Pf /path/to/your/image.___ and that will pick a loopback device and perform the partprobe

ok!
Posted by: m

That's exactly what I was doing. Complicated magic trick but saves my employer twenty grand in Amazon bandwidth charges.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 06, 2026 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

20 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 06, 2026 04:50 AM (AN2gy)

21 I was always told (when hopping for a raise) that you had to be worth more to the company than what they paid you. Is that a thing of the past now? But with all the tech layoffs, must be a lot of worthless jobs out there.

Posted by: Colin at February 06, 2026 04:57 AM (e8qy3)

22 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 04:57 AM (u82oZ)

23 Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord.
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 04:58 AM (u82oZ)

24 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 06, 2026 05:01 AM (PzBTm)

25 I have a 4 minute commercial before the video starts. Hate You Tube, but limited options for such a packed resource.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:01 AM (u82oZ)

26 @Pixy: "losetup is the key"

Was there supposed to be a link with that?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 05:01 AM (O7YUW)

27 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

* Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:02 AM (u82oZ)

28 m

Did you change a router or something to get a new nic?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:03 AM (u82oZ)

29 Wow today's tech news was just chock full o' suck. Give it up for AI and vibe coding, everybody!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

30 {{Salty!}}

Good to see you!

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 06, 2026 05:06 AM (PzBTm)

31 Four minutes of commercials? I just have regular YT, and the videos are just one before they show whatever you want to see. Prime runs a series of commercials before a movie but haven't seen that any where else. Hanging out with wrong crowd I guess.

Posted by: Colin at February 06, 2026 05:07 AM (e8qy3)

32 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Here is a video I shared with former coworkers:

https://x.com/hot_pepper76/status/ 2017981965958291740.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:10 AM (u82oZ)

33 G'Day everyone
Its Friday and road trip day

Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2026 05:10 AM (Ia/+0)

34 Belated BOING!

Busy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 06, 2026 05:11 AM (xLaq1)

35 26 @Pixy: "losetup is the key"

Was there supposed to be a link with that?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

The link is left as an exercise for the reader. We could all do with a little exercise.

(m found it)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 06, 2026 05:12 AM (BLOW1)

36 Rosasharn

Your twirling is an event to be savored.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:12 AM (u82oZ)

37
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 06, 2026 05:13 AM (tljrc)

38 Colin

Wrong crowd indeed.

I have to have the window open and being viewed for the timer on the commercial to advance. This is extortion, and I refuse to pay $14 per month to make it go away. I can live my life without You Tube.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:15 AM (u82oZ)

39 Waiting for the winter hocky tournament to begin. USA!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2026 05:16 AM (3Ope8)

40 @NaCly Dog: "Here is a video I shared with former coworkers: "

Link no worky.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 05:16 AM (O7YUW)

41 CrotchetyOldJarhead

Mind the gap.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:17 AM (u82oZ)

42 But with all the tech layoffs, must be a lot of worthless jobs out there.

When they say "tech jobs" it may not necessarily mean actual coders but people of unclear purposes hired as DEI quota filling.

There is a remarkable amount of specialization these days. Was eavesdropping in on a "technical meeting" between a third party and the bank on integrating a payment system into a mobile app. 65 people. Probably only needed 10 at most. Lots of people with "Director" and "Manager" in the titles, and exactly zero of them had anything to contribute, and nothing of value to receive.

Heard a bunch of "We need to check on that" which means the people who knew what was going on were not there.

Had a quick five minute with the architect on the mobile team following, and he has one person working on a PoC. One person.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 06, 2026 05:18 AM (a4flb)

43 I have to have the window open and being viewed for the timer on the commercial to advance. This is extortion, and I refuse to pay $14 per month to make it go away. I can live my life without You Tube.

Then how are you ever going to know why manhole covers are round in a thirty minute instructional video?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 06, 2026 05:21 AM (a4flb)

44 ED Sullivan, ha "we've got a a really big shoe"

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 06, 2026 05:21 AM (MmTZZ)

45 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 06, 2026 05:23 AM (wBh67)

46 Found the answer on You Tube. I have an ad blocker. So You Tube ads an unskippable ad before the showing. I got off easy with only 4 minutes. Some are an hour long.

Remove the ad blocker, and I should get 15 to 30 second ads, or pay $168 dollars a year for no ads.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:25 AM (u82oZ)

47 @NaCly Dog: Can you please test that link you sent to co-workers in #32? I had no luck with it at x.com or xcancel.com and suspect the end digit might have gotten fat-fingered when pasting.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 05:31 AM (O7YUW)

48 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I did test it. I copied it into a tab, removed the two spaces, and it played on my computer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:37 AM (u82oZ)

49 Evening and morning, all! It's Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

I'm up a little earlier than I planned, but I can't blame Stirling the big black cat for waking me. Well, you know, I *can* blame him, but it won't stick.

No matter. It's 46 F., almost no wind, going up to 70 today with some west wind, so I'll work out in the afternoon.

So, what's new?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

50 >>> Can you please test that link you sent to co-workers in #32?

Remove the space in the middle and the period at the end.

Posted by: fluffy at February 06, 2026 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

51 Greetings everyone! The temporary crown has settled and I can eat normally again. I took some pain killers last night just in case I had problems and I'm happy to say that I slept well.

Now to just deal with having to work extra hours to get my PTO back.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 05:39 AM (svLOV)

52 t is almost like they don’t want us to have fancy CPU’s or RAM or something.
Monitors we can have, and cannabis, but nothing else, except sex with robots, that’s ok, and cannabis smoking robot sex workers, that’s cool, but no vaping or cigarettes
Posted by: Accomack at February 06, 2026

***
I'll skip the cannabis, but where do I put in my order for the "Young Nicole Kidman" model?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

53 @NaCly Dog and fluffy:

*SNORTS* Okay, that's getting shared around the bus yard. :-)

Thanks you two, that removal of the space (and period) did the trick. I didn't even see the space in the middle. My eyes are getting old and tired.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

54 I'll skip the cannabis, but where do I put in my order for the "Young Nicole Kidman" model?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026

***
If that one's a little out of my price range, I'd love the "Young Jan Smithers" model. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

55 . . . My eyes are getting old and tired.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026

***
"The Leader of the Band is tired
And his eyes are growing old. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

56 NR Pax, I'm glad to hear your dental issues are on their way to being resolved.

Rosasharn, your twirling is as always appreciated!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

57 No graphics cards for two years? Fine. I'll play Zork I. And Zork II. And Zork III.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2026 05:50 AM (BydOW)

58 “A hundred million guns are loaded. Satan cries: Take Aim !”. - The Prophet, John Fogarty.

Whenever I see servicemen, I think, were we really that young? Yeah, they are and we were. We became old hands in our mid thirties.

Anyway. Greetings from the Carolinas. Enjoying a return to normal winter weather.

Who is John Galt?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 06, 2026 05:51 AM (zqeQL)

59 Good morning all. Warming up for today, maybe mid-50's.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 06, 2026 05:52 AM (+HIcA)

60
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayer said, house dogs taken care of, kennel dogs let out. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with my coffee and a salami and provolone on toast sandwich.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2026 05:52 AM (tgvbd)

61 56 NR Pax, I'm glad to hear your dental issues are on their way to being resolved.

Thank you, Wolfus. It's not too bad a thing; basically, the one tooth that has been with me the longest was showing its age and some fractures were showing up. I'm the kind of person who hears things like that, breaks out the credit card and says "How soon can we fix this?"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 05:53 AM (svLOV)

62 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

We regret that the Young Nicole Kidman and Young Jan Smithers sex robots are out of stock.

The good news is that young Maxine Waters is available.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

63 “A hundred million guns are loaded. Satan cries: Take Aim !”. - The Prophet, John Fogarty. . . .

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 06, 2026

***
I always thought that line was “A hundred million guns are loaded. Satan cries: Fair game!” It works either way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

64 Another outstanding musical choice. Thanks Pixy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2026 04:29 AM (+NW8W)

---

It's so right it even sounds good on my phone.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2026 05:56 AM (1kYfW)

65 We regret that the Young Nicole Kidman and Young Jan Smithers sex robots are out of stock.

The good news is that young Maxine Waters is available.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026

***
Might have known --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

66 JM in Illinois

A popular option, unused by all tech companies, is to freeze upgrades and have a computer that plays the games you want, without making them unplayable.

It is a crime against GAIA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:57 AM (u82oZ)

67 The good news is that young Maxine Waters is available.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

No mute button and when you try to ask it to do anything, it yells "RECLAIMING MY TIME!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 05:58 AM (svLOV)

68 NR Pax

** Shudder **

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:59 AM (u82oZ)

69 A popular option, unused by all tech companies, is to freeze upgrades and have a computer that plays the games you want, without making them unplayable.

That's crazy talk! Next up, you're going to say that once you buy a game it's your property!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 05:59 AM (svLOV)

70 Little Dagny La Siberienne is up here on the sofa arm with me, pushing her little hint that breakfast is overdue. A few more minutes, girl, while I get dressed, then I'll feed us all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

71 We regret that the Young Nicole Kidman and Young Jan Smithers sex robots are out of stock.

The good news is that young Maxine Waters is available.

There are some Pamala Anderson models remaining, but you will end up with a VD.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 06, 2026 06:00 AM (a4flb)

72 NR Pax

Free the Game Rice Bowls. Make ownership a reality again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 06:00 AM (u82oZ)

73 68 NR Pax

** Shudder **
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Did you see the video on Not The Bee where Scott Bessent fought back against her?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 06:00 AM (svLOV)

74 "Make ownership a reality again."

GOG has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 06:01 AM (svLOV)

75 Damn I miss those days when life was worth living, as they say.
Posted by: Colin at February 06, 2026 04:43 AM (e8qy3)

--‐

And a communist takeover was an external threat. So we'll fight them here.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2026 06:02 AM (VVQO9)

76 NR Pax

Yes. Yes, I did.

Needs to happen much more. Those corrupt people are energy vampires to the bright promise of a clean, advanced, civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 06:03 AM (u82oZ)

77 Those corrupt people are energy vampires to the bright promise of a clean, advanced, civilization.

Agreed. The phrase I've used when people are wailing about what's happening with ICE: "We are going to have civilization back one way or the other. Your feelings mean nothing."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 06:05 AM (svLOV)

78 Friday. Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Eromero at February 06, 2026 06:06 AM (IAc3W)

79 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Run through the jungle with Proud Mary.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 06, 2026 06:07 AM (7Zi37)

80 >>>>Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord.
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 04:58 AM (u82oZ)
*****
Thanks NaCly, I enjoyed that. Made me smile and be happy.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 06, 2026 06:10 AM (+HIcA)

81 Good morning morons

The Munich talks have been moved from Turkey to Oman.

Trump 2027: "I fvcked up, I trusted them."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2026 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

82 @NaCly Dog: That video now copied to my phone. Thank you for that laugh this morning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

83 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

You are welcome.

Now, don't drive like a knucklehead. May every light turn green for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

84 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be rejoicing in your life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

85 SanFranpsycho, Tousi has a very good analysis about the talks.

Trump has a "trump card"

Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2026 06:35 AM (0KSrI)

86 I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2026 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

87 @NaCly Dog: It's the passenger vehicle drivers that are driving like knuckleheads. The last two days have been extremely bad for driver impatience and stupid decisions on their part. I've got my head on a swivel, and it needs to be.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2026 06:36 AM (O7YUW)

88 G'mornin' everyone!

and thank you, Rosasharn, for making Friday official! Yay Friday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 06, 2026 06:38 AM (Cjt/F)

89 Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2026 06:35 AM (0KSrI)
===

Thank you dear I will take a look.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

90 SanFranpsycho, you are going to love the trump card.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2026 06:41 AM (0KSrI)

91 "That leaves the field wide open for AMD to fumble."

Ground can't cause a fumble.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 06, 2026 06:43 AM (KAi1n)

92 It's worse than I thought. Not only was there two drone incidents, the IRGC has seized two foreign ships and "arrested" 15

Trump should bring his shinebox to the talks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2026 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

93
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

I used to be able to long press on a link to highlight the whole thing. Then just a tap.
No longer works that way.Maybe I need a new browser

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2026 06:45 AM (VmoTc)

94 SanFranpsycho, you are going to love the trump card.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2026 06:41 AM (0KSrI)
====
b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

95 91 "That leaves the field wide open for AMD to fumble."

Ground can't cause a fumble.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 06, 2026 06:43 AM (KAi1n)

I’m sure AMD will find a way for the ball to fall out of their hands.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 06, 2026 06:46 AM (vMhK6)

96 The IRGC tried to seize an American tanker and failed because our navy moved in to escort the tanker The nationality of the two tankers and the crew that were seized have not been disclosed.

This scenario is possible
The tankers were Chinese and the seizure was a ruse .

Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2026 06:51 AM (0KSrI)

97

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 06, 2026 06:51 AM (DDJSl)

98 Should head off soon

Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)

99 Cold today, high winds and 19 degrees tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2026 06:59 AM (Ia/+0)

100 Has the global search for Guthrie been resolved yet?

I'd keep my eye on the Clintons.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 06, 2026 07:01 AM (TOSLe)

101 When I was young, there was a lot of "exploiting the workers" stuff.

That is socialist crap. If you are in an enterprise, you want to be paid less than your are worth so the enterprise can be profitable and you get to keep your job.

Nowadays, the only folks not being exploited are in government (all facets). They don't have to be productive, so they are not.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 06, 2026 07:01 AM (qFwJc)

102 Donuts have been brought into the office. Life is good.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2026 07:01 AM (svLOV)

103 A 1964 pilot for a horror series (that never was picked up) called The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre is on Movies! It's a neat-looking B & W movie with Martin Landau, Diane Baker, and Dame Judith Anderson, in a story written and directed in atmospheric style by the Outer Limits head honcho, Joseph Stefano. Landau plays an architect who investigates possible psychic phenomena. The thrust on this one is that ghosts and the supernatural are real, though the hero at first approaches the mystery as if it were a series of tricks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

104 The Marxists mostly have given up on Workers of the World Unite for race and class warfare.

Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2026 07:08 AM (Ia/+0)

105 103: And Landau's apple-cheeked housekeeper is a hard-headed realist who says, "Someone's got to *not* believe in ghosts." So we have the chance for Landau and the housekeeper, Mrs. Finch, to discuss the evidence for and against ghosts. Interesting characters!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

106 That leaves the field wide open for AMD to fumble.
++++
Who knows. Maybe they won't! Maybe Intel won't, either. And then when Nvidia comes back to the consumer market after the AI bubble collapses, it will only have, say, 70% market share. That would be great, because then "only runs properly on Nvidia" would be less appealing for developers, since that means leaving 30% of the market experiencing a substandard product.

An "Nvidia and the two dwarfs" situation wouldn't be a terrible outcome. If neither competitor fumbles. My money - if I were betting - would be on Intel not fumbling. They're still focused on consumer, business general and non-AI datacenter. They might end up laughing all the bank by default when the AI bubble comes to an end - its recent malaise notwithstanding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 06, 2026 07:12 AM (MABZ1)

107 Red Chinese ships are floating toilets manned by slave crews.

Nasty people, nasty ships.

Posted by: Nasty Nasty Nasty at February 06, 2026 07:15 AM (hXJe5)

108 Off to war
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2026 07:24 AM (Ia/+0)

109 The history of socialism since the 1920s, starting with Gramsci and Mussolini, is largely concerned with the problem of Marxian dialectics being a deterministic, self-referential fantasy.

None of it was playing out like it was supposed to in the Western countries this nonsense was supposed to naturally develop in. The proletariat in the industrial economies simply failed to develop the class consciousness as predicted, and socialism was only able to emerge by force in an agrarian monarchy several steps behind the bourgeois capitalist stage of the self-referential fantasy.

Since then, it's all been about major overhauls of the fantasy to include the institutional vanguards, the emergence of fascism, and of course the replacement of the uncooperative proletariat that had so disappointed the fantasists - so we got this mutated racial and cultural Marxism.

The "working class" ceased being the focus of Western Marxists a hundred years ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 06, 2026 07:25 AM (BI5O2)

110 you too, Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 06, 2026 07:25 AM (Cjt/F)

111 mornin yall

"Panic as Bitcoin crisis escalates as value plunges in half and crypto geeks see entire fortunes vanish"

Are the tulips coming home to roost?

Posted by: fd at February 06, 2026 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

112 spot-on, YD!

far from a vehicle to help people, it's a vast self-perpetuating conspiracy of psycho / socio paths to enslave and torture the entire world

if they ever acheived that, they would try to spread the toxin across the galaxy like the Eddorians.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 06, 2026 07:30 AM (Cjt/F)

113 Panic as Bitcoin crisis escalates as value plunges in half and crypto geeks see entire fortunes vanish

It's now priced below its mining cost from what I've read elsewhere.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 06, 2026 07:30 AM (56/oC)

114 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 06, 2026 07:30 AM (Cjt/F)

115 Join us for our launch today at 8 a.m. EST. Check your cable listings.

Posted by: The 24/7 Nancy Guthrie News Channel at February 06, 2026 07:31 AM (Y1sOo)

116 24 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at February 06, 2026 05:01 AM (PzBTm)

Omigosh, it is!
Thank you, Rosasharn.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 07:47 AM (8NTVk)

117 28 m

Did you change a router or something to get a new nic?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2026 05:03 AM (u82oZ)

The electric company did some work in the neighborhood yesterday, which involved cutting off the power for about half an hour. Maybe that did it?

Posted by: m at February 06, 2026 07:49 AM (8NTVk)

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