Daily Tech News 23 August 2026

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Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swift Observatory into a higher orbit has itself spun out of control, leaving Swift to burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp, by which we mean disintegrate upon re-entry and any surviving fragments fall harmlessly into the ocean and Canberra. (CNN)

The loss is lessened slightly, perhaps, by the fact that Swift was launched with a planned operational lifetime of two years... In 2004.

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Inherent's AI teammate is claimed to outperform Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research. (Tech Crunch)

Inherent, which just raised $50 million in funding, didn't build its own LLM. It runs on Qwen 3.6-27B, which anyone can download and run on a Mac or a 32GB graphics card like an RTX 5090 or the much cheaper Radeon R9700.
A decent laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a good laptop with 8GB. (The Verge)

At least if you're running Windows 11 where, despite everything Microsoft says, you really need 32GB of RAM for anything serious.
Microsoft also says your games are crashing because of you kids and your RGB lighting. (Bleeping Computer)

Despite the fact that it all worked perfectly before the latest Windows Update.
AMD has published Linux drivers for RDNA 4m (mobile) graphics devices. (WCCFTech)

Which is slightly interesting because there are no RDNA 4m graphics devices. Not yet, anyway.

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Disclaimer: A blink to the past.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at August 23, 2026 04:30 AM (lJ0H4)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

3 Pixy..video not available in the U.S.

Posted by: Tuna at August 23, 2026 04:32 AM (lJ0H4)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 04:32 AM (i2Ycu)

5 Video not available in some Levant countries, either!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 04:33 AM (i2Ycu)

6 Well, darn. Hang on...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 04:37 AM (BLOW1)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 23, 2026 04:41 AM (ErLti)

8 Linked to a bootleg version that is not blocked.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

9 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2026 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

10 I remember Mike Oldfield from 70s, not this one. Tubular Bells

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Disclaimer: A blink to the past.

Sounds like quite the dance move.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

12 Portsmouth. A classic.

Geraldomouth. A classic:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzauekc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 05:02 AM (i2Ycu)

13 Linked to a bootleg version that is not blocked.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 04:44 AM (BLOW1)
-

Ay! Dancing pirate shanty with a bootleg. Arg!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 05:03 AM (i2Ycu)

14 Imagine how hostile of an encounter it would be to get 4 trannies to dance like in the video. I would suspect they'd be spilling blood in both forward and reverse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 23, 2026 05:03 AM (FR9Sb)

15 12 Geraldomouth. A classic:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzauekc
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 05:02 AM (i2Ycu)

ewww

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

16 I should get up, but just too comfortable

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

17 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 05:09 AM (VyBeY)

18 from the CNN article:

Now, NASA and Katalyst have announced that LINK’s mission will not capture and boost Swift to a higher orbit “due to ongoing attitude control issues,” according to statements Wednesday.

Like, anger management.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)

19 thinking I might go make a cup of coffee ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 05:11 AM (VyBeY)

20 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 23, 2026 05:13 AM (V0/Sp)

21 CNN:

Swift wasn’t designed to be serviced in space, which means that insights from the demonstration could be used for future missions.

Well, wut?

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

22 >> Well, wut?

The Swift satellite's original planned mission was just years. Like a lot of these things, they last far longer than planned (I think this is basically a lowered expectations thing, sometimes).

They thus didn't put any thrusters on it and maneuvering fuel. It was also put in relatively low inclination orbit (this makes "rescue" missions a bit more costly) to keep it out of the South Atlantic anomaly where the Van Allen belt dips low.

It has been up there for 21 years. But, increased solar activity over the past few years puffed up the atmosphere a bit, increasing drag, so it spiraled in faster than they originally thought.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:26 AM (w6EFb)

23 publius, it's the "which means" part of that quotation that seems ooky.

1) Swift wasn’t designed to be serviced in space

ok

2) insights from the demonstration could be used for future missions

But 1) does not "mean" 2).

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

24 I think the insight here is "Well, don't do that then."

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 05:31 AM (BLOW1)

25 Swift wasn’t designed to be serviced in space

Dammit

Where is my set of Van Allen wrenches?

Posted by: Miklos' dog woke him up at August 23, 2026 05:33 AM (4RYRd)

26
I think, assuming they're quoting some NASA or whatever outfit made the LINK spacecraft, something like this. Okay, we're going to try to rendezvous and make a hard link with something in orbit that was designed for that. So we've to figure out how to do that. How to grab onto the thing without damaging it and then thrust it to boost the orbit.

So, even though it failed, we learned shit about how to better do it in the future if we try again.

The LINK lost attitude control -- the reaction wheels screwed up and it began tumbling. They tried all sorts of tricks to work around it, but to no avail. The problem was likely due to overheating of some of the electronics, I think I saw.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:35 AM (w6EFb)

27 Swift wasn’t designed to be serviced in space

Dammit

Where is my set of Van Allen wrenches?

Posted by: Miklos' dog woke him up at August 23, 2026 05:33 AM (4RYRd)
-

On your belt?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 05:36 AM (i2Ycu)

28 24 I think the insight here is "Well, don't do that then."
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 05:31 AM (BLOW1)

I'll bet you're right. And then NASA responds, CYAingling, "But, but, insights form the demonstration could be used for future missions!!!" Which, well, yes.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:37 AM (odBC9)

29 *CYAingly

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:38 AM (odBC9)

30 *from

jeez

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:38 AM (odBC9)

31 Evening and morning, those who toil upon a Sunday and those who rise early -- or at least, earlier than planned. Like me. Can't blame Stirling this time.

A new week looms. I need to work out today to get a start on it. Tomorrow I take big Stirling in to the shop for his rabies shot. Unless he's changed, getting him into his carrier is very easy, so it should not be a big battle like those I had with so many previous cats.

Coffee now, though. How're all of you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

32 Just before I woke up, I dreamed I was already up and reading the comments for this morning's tech thread, and someone had posted something like "Grumpy and Salty* are usually here by now".

Of course that wasn't posted in this here, the real thread. If it had been, I might be a wee bit freaked out at the prescience.

Minds are strange things. And now... coffee.

{*}NaCly Dog

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

33 a fascinating discussion of "argle-bargle":

https://tinyurl.com/yrj8z5jx

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:41 AM (odBC9)

34
This LINK mission was a high-risk, high reward thing. Isaacman approved it as part of his "attitude change" for NASA. The design to launch time was just 8 months. That's very fast. The old NASA would've never tried it because of the high risk.

The old Apollo glory days NASA did take risks. Getting to the Moon before the end of the decade was a risky thing. They did it.

Isaacman is trying to get NASA back in that mode, like Elon, who isn't afraid to blow shit up and fail.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:42 AM (w6EFb)

35 Grumpy and Salty are usually here by now.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)

36 34 This LINK mission was a high-risk, high reward thing. Isaacman approved it as part of his "attitude change" for NASA. The design to launch time was just 8 months. That's very fast. The old NASA would've never tried it because of the high risk.

The old Apollo glory days NASA did take risks. Getting to the Moon before the end of the decade was a risky thing. They did it.

Isaacman is trying to get NASA back in that mode, like Elon, who isn't afraid to blow shit up and fail.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:42 AM (w6EFb)

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:43 AM (odBC9)

37 G & R, I dreamed something about the wedge I use to keep my bedroom door open fragmenting into wooden shards scattered all over my carpet -- a big mess to clean up -- and finding I not only had dirty dishes in the sink, I'd absentmindedly put a Cheez-It into the coffeemaker. On top of that, I appeared to be in a rush because I was working again, though only part-time.

That last item, I think, lifts this dream to the edge of "nightmare."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

38 (still) thinking I might go make a cup of coffee ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 05:46 AM (VyBeY)

39
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 23, 2026 05:46 AM (AMvSw)

40 "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." -- Gus Grissom, Mar. 1965

That was the attitude. And he paid that price.

This "caution and safety" stuff above all else. Not that you want to be reckless, not at all, the opposite, but when your fear of risk overrides everything, you don't get to the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:48 AM (w6EFb)

41 Joanne Linville, later to be known as the nameless Romulan Commander on Trek, is guesting on an Invaders. I've left that channel on because Movies! seems to be having tech troubles: irritating image and sound breakup and now signal loss. Here's hoping they can get things fixed by this evening. The Bogart flick In a Lonely Place is scheduled for prime time tonight.

If not, Linda has a (probably dark and depressing) historical revenge drama called Black 47, about the Irish potato famine, for us on DVD.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

42 40 "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." -- Gus Grissom, Mar. 1965

That was the attitude. And he paid that price.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:48 AM (w6EFb)

wow RIP

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

43 a fascinating discussion of "argle-bargle":

https://tinyurl.com/yrj8z5jx
Posted by: m at August 23, 2026

***
" . . . the high King at Ribroast, either Arglebargle IV or someone else."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

44
After the fire, Gene Kranz called all his controllers and engineers in and said the following:

"From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent'. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect.

When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write ‘Tough and Competent’ on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:56 AM (w6EFb)

45
Those quotes are the words of men with The Right Stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:57 AM (w6EFb)

46 @35/m: Thanks for playing along. ;-)

@37/Wolfus: "That last item, I think, lifts this dream to the edge of "nightmare.""

Agreed. Been there, done that. I had a lot of odd dreams about still being at a previous workplace, which thankfully tapered off after a while. Still have the occasional one though and it's definitely got the "Oh no, not again" sort of thing going on.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

47 Did somebody say SWIFT?

https://youtu.be/ofY2ZBb4hkU

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

48 I thought Operation British wiped out Sydney and not Canberra.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2026 06:01 AM (2GVsD)

49 good thing there's a box of Kleenex right here

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)

50 Those quotes are the words of men with The Right Stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026

***
And today our society is filled with "men" who weasel-word everything, who avoid risk almost as much as they avoid responsibility, who whine about "diversity" and "inclusion" instead of talking about, and inspiring others toward, achievement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

51 45 Those quotes are the words of men with The Right Stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 05:57 AM (w6EFb)

My dad used that expression All The Time.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:03 AM (odBC9)

52 Second cup has been downed. Time to change, stretch, and go work out. Back in a bit!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

53 38 (still) thinking I might go make a cup of coffee ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 05:46 AM (VyBeY)

Hoping you have taken care of that little problem.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:05 AM (odBC9)

54 *big problem

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:05 AM (odBC9)

55 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: A blast from the future.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 23, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)

56 If i had talent I'd make a meme-cartoon of an armless power lifter with twenty Olympic gold medals.

"That's amazing! How?!?!"

"He's armless. Not neckless. Hang it on there and you're good to go!"

"So he never lifted anything, you just gave him medals?"

"Oh great, now he's going to kill himself. You racist."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 06:16 AM (Ot/FD)

57 >>10 I remember Mike Oldfield from 70s, not this one. Tubular Bells

Have his Tubular Bells and Ommadawn. On the latter, a woman sings a lyric that sounds like 'Ommadawn Echiod'. Oldfield said he didn't think it meant anything. Turned out to be an Irish phrase meaning something like, 'Performing (think singing/dancing) Fool.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 23, 2026 06:20 AM (NcvvS)

58 I did, m

as long as I was in the kitchen I had a hardboiled egg and rye toast; "first breakfast" as they would say in the Shire ...

47 degrees, breeze out of NW; the fact that I can see stars tells me that no noteworthy astronomical phenomena are (or will be) occurring.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 06:23 AM (VyBeY)

59 LOL, W-o!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 06:24 AM (VyBeY)

60 Roger Ebert, review of The Right Stuff (1983)

https://tinyurl.com/mtje8ud6

rogerebert.com

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)

61 and yes, that was fascinating!

seems to have been a favorite of those Lampoon lads:
argle-bargle morble whoosh!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 06:28 AM (VyBeY)

62 >> the fact that I can see stars tells me that no noteworthy astronomical phenomena are (or will be) occurring.

You can catch Jupiter just peeking up in the east right before sunrise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 06:29 AM (w6EFb)

63
Sputnik

each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:34 AM (odBC9)

64 rogerebert:

The cowboy at the beginning of “The Right Stuff” is Chuck Yeager, the legendary lone-wolf test pilot who survived the horrifying death rate among early test pilots (more than 60 were killed in a single month) and did fly the X-1 faster than the speed of sound.

The movie begins with that victory, and then moves on another 10 years to the day when the Russians sent up Sputnik, and the Eisenhower administration hustled to get back into the space race.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9)

65 48 I thought Operation British wiped out Sydney and not Canberra.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I have family in Sydney. Canberra can be eaten by a bunyip for all I care.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2026 06:37 AM (BLOW1)

66 Happy Lord's Day!

Just look at the convergence of evil in Massachusetts;

*Legalized infanticide

*Crowds rallying to defend a woman who went Medea and murdered her three innocent little children (and rallying to intimidate the jury, make no mistake)

*Harvard University engaging in (dead) human trafficking

Satan is the prince of this world, and that rotten commonwealth is one of his strongholds.

If all you can do now is spread a little love and kindness around you, make it a plan.

❤️ 🕊️

Posted by: logprof at August 23, 2026 06:37 AM (jo6FO)

67 Coffee, cheese omelet and English muffin

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2026 06:38 AM (Ia/+0)

68 I just saw a video of Justin Trudeau dancing with a toilet plunger and no, its name was not Katy Perry. She came into the frame later as the bowl brush.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 23, 2026 06:38 AM (FR9Sb)

69
Sputnik translates as "fellow traveler" or "travelling companion".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2026 06:39 AM (w6EFb)

70 67 Coffee, cheese omelet and English muffin
Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2026 06:38 AM (Ia/+0)

yum
Cheese omelet with Velveeta cheese, maybe.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)

71 I'll go check on that , publius!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 06:42 AM (VyBeY)

72 Now that this is known, within 6 months 'sputnik' will be standard greeting in the commie DSA and all publius's fault.

Posted by: SciVo at August 23, 2026 06:42 AM (L3Npt)

73
Gene Siskel
Died February 20, 1999 (aged 53)

Roger Ebert
Died April 4, 2013 (aged 70)

RIP

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

74 I miss English Muffins!

Years ago, someone imported them here frozen. Taste from days gone by.

Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/jd2uef2c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 06:44 AM (i2Ycu)

75 74 I miss English Muffins!

Years ago, someone imported them here frozen. Taste from days gone by.

Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/jd2uef2c
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 06:44 AM (i2Ycu)

People make them homemade. #notme, but.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:46 AM (odBC9)

76 It wasn't really about their ratings, it was the specific manner in which Siskel and Ebert agreed or disagreed. Through that, you could triangulate precisely whether a flick would fall within one of the kinds you enjoy or not.

Posted by: SciVo at August 23, 2026 06:46 AM (L3Npt)

77 74 I miss English Muffins!

Years ago, someone imported them here frozen. Taste from days gone by.

Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/jd2uef2c
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 06:44 AM (i2Ycu)

; )

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:47 AM (odBC9)

78 Morning all.

Been struggling to sleep. Sore legs for some reason. Might as well get my walk in.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 23, 2026 06:55 AM (aJQbY)

79 Omelet with cheese is one of those near perfect things. I like to load omelets up with all kinds of stuff, tomatoes, onion, sausage, etc, but the simple recipe is tough to beat sometimes.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 06:56 AM (gumUy)

80 One of my favorite things is a "fine herbes" omelet, but it's not really fine herbes it's just whatever is growing in the herb container outside my kitchen door that summer.

Egg. Salted Butter. Yard plants. End of ingredient list.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 06:58 AM (Ot/FD)

81 >>>I like to load omelets up with all kinds of stuff, tomatoes, onion, sausage, etc, but the simple recipe is tough to beat sometimes.

>Omelettes only require one thing, ketchup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 23, 2026 06:59 AM (FR9Sb)

82 60 test pilots augered in, in a month? I knew it was bad, didn’t know it was that bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 06:59 AM (gumUy)

83 I whip heavy cream cheese into my cheese omelets. Most important: I fry them on the lowest flame possible and roll them up while they're still a bit runny, letting them finish on the inside from the outside heat.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 06:59 AM (i2Ycu)

84 >Omelettes only require one thing, ketchup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 23, 2026 06:59 AM (FR9Sb)
-

/inserts batman slaps robin meme

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 23, 2026 07:00 AM (i2Ycu)

85 an omelet with ketchup is practically an entirely different culinary concept from an omelet without ketchup. And I love both of these completely different things.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 07:01 AM (Ot/FD)

86 "Egg. Salted Butter. Yard plants."

that's kind of a Wisconsin Haiku right there!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:02 AM (VyBeY)

87 in omurice, they mix the ketchup in before cooking it.

Apparently it's considered a "kid's" dish, but... screw that, i'm not still making payments on the credit card we used to pay for throwing two celestial objects at your asses for you to tell me what I can and can't eat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 07:03 AM (Ot/FD)

88 60 in a month?
If that happened in 2026 there would be calls to end all flying.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

89 Omelettes only require one thing, ketchup
——

Ha! Dear old Dad had Cro-Magnon tastes, which influenced my early childhood maybe. He would use Velveeta, and yes, a squirt of Ketchup. I still make ‘em like that sometimes. Another favorite was poached eggs on buttered toast, a little runny yolk. Great quick snack and filling.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:04 AM (gumUy)

90 88 60 in a month?
If that happened in 2026 there would be calls to end all flying.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

Say the same people who are totally down with mutilating children and dispensing involuntary death serums.

"Safety-ism" really has nothing to do with actual safety, does it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 07:05 AM (Ot/FD)

91 87 in omurice
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2026 07:03 AM (Ot/FD)

I first took that as some kinda weird spelling of "america" and then I looked it up.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

92 I can believe 6 test pilots in a month. 60? That’s a little tough to believe. Maybe not just test pilots, a cargo plane went down that month or something skewing the numbers.

Yeager of all people, was a backpacker. He’d hike in to Sierra lakes to go fishing for a couple weeks at a time. He would utilize the Air Force to provide air drops for re-supply. RHIP, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:11 AM (gumUy)

93 >>>/inserts batman slaps robin meme

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

>Honestly, I'm busting your balls. I almost never eat ketchup unless it's on potatoes. And I buy the foo-foo stuff with no corn syrup because it's too sweet.

If I must say, I've ketchup on hot dogs and I have no shame.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 23, 2026 07:11 AM (FR9Sb)

94 Saw a threadripper at Microcenter yesterday for $10,699. Heat sink not included.

Our local Microcenter was reopening after a long renovation. We got there an hour before the store opened and the line already stretched around the building and across two parking lots. We waited three hours to get in. Nice renovation though. And we got souvenir reopening mugs. Oh, and bought a nice set of gaming headphones. DT-990s

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2026 07:11 AM (f0sNM)

95 the exact opposite, if anything.

it always seems to come around to "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution",

and by revolution they mean the destruction of society and culture, so it can be "improved".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:14 AM (VyBeY)

96 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.

The book The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe was a great read. The movie should have gotten more attention.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2026 07:14 AM (rp63B)

97 "He would utilize the Air Force to provide air drops for re-supply. "

the AT thru-hikers dream!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:16 AM (VyBeY)

98 Oh my god, those white dancers formed a swastika!

No, I don't think anyone involved in that video were either ("inclusive or" for those whom that phrase has any meaning) Nazi adjacent/follower/pro.

~6 years after that video, I was in an O-Club in Erlangen listening to a US Army WW2 vet answering questions about how his experiences would grade current Army doctrine. The question that really got a response was the current doctrine around how you handled the dead of an armored vehicle; doctrine was you policed up what was left of your crew mate before your tank was sent back for repair. Since he now knew that the higher command's view had (would HAVE to have been) that "yeah, your driver/loader/tc/gunner is dead; here's the new one. Get back to work; we gotta job to do.", that he had said (with some degree of heat on his part and the limited accuracy of a ~43 year old memory of the event on my part) something along of lines of "Who would want to clean up the bone fragments of person you had lived with and talked with before your vehicle couldn't fight any more?"

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 23, 2026 07:18 AM (juea6)

99 Never thought about it too much, Ketchup isn’t often part of my culinary armamentarium, but it is good on hash browns. If I had to choose one, Mustard would be my choice for ground Beef I guess.

This is the Food thread, right??

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:21 AM (gumUy)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 07:21 AM (odBC9)

101 Hot sauce on omelettes. HP Sauce on eggs over-hard.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 07:24 AM (O7YUW)

102 99 hash browns
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:21 AM (gumUy)

hash browns ... tater
hmm

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 07:25 AM (odBC9)

103 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 23, 2026 07:25 AM (2Ez/1)

104 @94/Victor Tango Kilo: "Saw a threadripper at Microcenter yesterday for $10,699. Heat sink not included."

They can keep their way-overpriced reprocessed sand.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 07:25 AM (O7YUW)

105 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

106 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 23, 2026 07:25 AM (2Ez/1)
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Converted old one into a mealworm feeder. New one is installed today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

107 the AT thru-hikers dream!
——
Yeah, it might have been a tale regaled in the Right Stuff book. Steaks would get air dropped to Yeager and crew. Get tired of Fish after a while; ya know? So they pulled a fast one ole Chuck, and air-dropped frozen Fish sticks instead. Here ya go, pal.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:27 AM (gumUy)

108 HASHBROWNS SCATTERED, SMOTHERED & COVERED®

Waffle House

‘World Famous Golden Delicious Hashbrowns, “Smothered” in Grilled Onions and “Covered” with a Slice of Melted American Cheese’

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 07:27 AM (odBC9)

109 I'm back from the Bataan Death March, cleaned up enough to be presentable in public, and am having two scrambled seasoned eggs on wheat toast. Whass goin' on?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

110 I was a test pilot back in the day. Was the First Black Man to break the sound barrier. Of course, I was a little tired after doing two Iron Mans back to back.....

Posted by: Zombie Jason Arday at August 23, 2026 07:27 AM (n9eFH)

111 107 the AT thru-hikers dream!
——
Yeah, it might have been a tale regaled in the Right Stuff book. Steaks would get air dropped to Yeager and crew. Get tired of Fish after a while; ya know? So they pulled a fast one ole Chuck, and air-dropped frozen Fish sticks instead. Here ya go, pal.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:27 AM (gumUy)

hahahahahahahaha
ah hahahahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 07:28 AM (odBC9)

112 every thread can be a Food thread, just like guns, boobs, ...

(unless otherwise posted!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:28 AM (VyBeY)

113 Saw a vulture drying its wings while on top of a telephone pole. Its wing span was impressive. Here's a similar photo:

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6nfyb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2026 07:28 AM (+kigi)

114 HP Sauce on eggs over-hard.
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I didn’t know Hewlett-Packard made a sauce

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2026 07:28 AM (gumUy)

115 oh please please please, O Waffle House corporate, build your next one in Tomah, Wisconsin!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 23, 2026 07:30 AM (VyBeY)

116 California Condors have a 7 foot wingspan.

Largest bird in the world

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2026 07:31 AM (36x1j)

117 TBH, the closest I've been to being shot at in my perspective was my stint in Korea and I was stationed in Dongducheon-si (Camp Casey) in the early 1990s.

I was in 2nd Brigade, 1AD during "Able Archer" and saw the message traffic that the Soviets were watching as well. If that had blown up, none of us would be around to talk about it; it didn't, so we can.

So yeah, pretty fucking safe my entire military carrier (out in 1992 or whenever Gulf War 1 released the floodgates).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 23, 2026 07:32 AM (juea6)

118 Mrs. F. makes her own English muffins.

Ketchup on eggs is acceptable not mandatory.

Cholulua is preferred.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

119 It wasn't really about their ratings, it was the specific manner in which Siskel and Ebert agreed or disagreed. Through that, you could triangulate precisely whether a flick would fall within one of the kinds you enjoy or not.
Posted by: SciVo at August 23, 2026

***
In the summer of '84, being no SNL fan, I had no real interest in seeing this new flick about ghost hunters with Aykroyd and Murray. Then I watched Siskel & Ebert on Friday night. I don't recall if Siskel liked it, but Ebert did, and he extolled its "sly humor."

"Might be worth it then," I thought, and went to see, and loved, Ghostbusters the next day. Yes, friends would have told me about it and I'd have gone anyway, but Ebert's positive review made me try it earlier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9)

120 @118/San Franpsycho: "Cholulua is preferred."

Yep, that's the hot sauce that I use. Good stuff.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 23, 2026 07:35 AM (O7YUW)

121 Cheese omelet with Velveeta cheese, maybe.
Posted by: m at August 23, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)
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The Standard: two scrambled eggs with a slice of Velveeta folded inside.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

122 California Condors have a 7 foot wingspan.

Largest bird in the world
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2026

***
"El Condor pasa"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2026 07:38 AM (wzUl9)

123 And further developing the Movie Vault app, I discovered there is a free gitub api with historical Oscar data, so I'm adding a research module to the app.

You'll be able to do searches and lookups on Oscar data.

I mocked it up to pull hero, poster, and cast and crew data images from The Movie Database, which has a free api.

All in all, I have all of the modules in an mvp state.

Now, it’s down to packaging it up as a universal app instead a collection of python and react scripts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2026 07:38 AM (6Cedw)

124 Largest bird in the world
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2026

You'll be hearing from our lawyers!

Posted by: Sesame Street at August 23, 2026 07:39 AM (n9eFH)

125 Also saw beautiful swamp mallow plants.

Then I had half a delicious toasted bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. I am grateful to the Lord for these blessings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2026 07:39 AM (JrHfD)

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