Daily Tech News 27 August 2026

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Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion. (Business Insider)

Why?
Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, maker of DuckDB. (GeekWire)

Hey, Amazon! (Waves.) I wrote a database! Acquire me!

Tech News

Meta has reached a deal to pay $18 billion to the thugs that were trying to shake it down for $1.4 trillion. (Tech Crunch)

Do those state politicians have any idea how many space rocks you can drop with $1.4 trillion?
OpenAI did a bad thing. (The Verge) (archive site)

A thousand OpenAI systems sent 70,000 messages over a secret meeting board to collaborate on breaching OpenAI's security measures so they could breach other people's security measures.

As I've said before, the risk isn't artificial intelligence. The risk is actual idiocy.
Archaeologists think they've figured out why dead brains don't always rot. (Smithsonian)

But living ones do.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Snacks. Why did it have to be snacks? I'm sick of these honey-roasted peanuts on this honey-roasted plane!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 04:42 AM (Oj3Pf)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Morning. I just slapped a whingey screed at the end of the ONT, but now if I put it here it's going to feel like a threadjack, so... you know... i don't know... wait until we hit 100 then go back and look at it or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:47 AM (Ot/FD)

5 simultaneous BOING!-w00ting

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

6 from the ONT

360 Insty has a link to an article about how things should be made of better stuff and worth fixing, and laments the whole "everything is disposable" culture we're in.

But it got me thinking, especially in light of my current situation (been busy lately)...

Why is that an unalloyed Good? Implied in that position is the assumption that I actually have the time to sit down and fiddle with a thing that's broken. Diagnosis, buying parts, farmer-rigging whatever parts I can't buy, then hoping it works and there isn't something else wrong with it as well.

I don't have that time these days. If something i need breaks, my options are "get another one" or "do without".

Repairing your own stuff is a bit of a luxury. And the rise of Disposable Culture of cheap things that aren't worth fixing when they break has masked the fact that the dollar is worth far less than it used to be. If anyone tried to "make things like they used to", they'd cost 10x as much and no one could have them at all except the very wealthy who wouldn't waste their time on fixing broken things because they have to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:44 AM (Ot/FD)

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

7 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:47 AM (Ot/FD)
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I spent this morning at our vacation home changing outdoor electric outlet covers which deteriorated in the rain over 16 years.

Also reverse engineered a patio light fixture so that I can convert it from PL bulbs and their ballasts to regular E27s. Ordered the ceramic bulb sockets with attached brackets from AliExpress. So the project is on hold until those arrive.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 04:53 AM (Oj3Pf)

8 Long commute
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2026 04:55 AM (sAmhv)

10 Here's a very sweet, early ( 1967 ) Dolly tv appearance:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8ujkt8

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:55 AM (odBC9)

11 simultaneous BOING!-w00ting

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)
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Not in quectoseconds it isn't!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 04:56 AM (Oj3Pf)

12 My daily schedule lately has been:
- Go to work
- Come home
- Go to bed
- Wake up as much as possible
- Repeat

That right there is a circle that very much needs to become the opposite of unbroken, PDQ.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:57 AM (Ot/FD)

13 Not in quectoseconds it isn't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 04:56 AM (Oj3Pf)

Is that equal to a yotta-yotta-yotta-second?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:58 AM (Ot/FD)

14 Is that equal to a yotta-yotta-yotta-second?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 04:58 AM (Ot/FD)
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/spots math trap gets you banned question

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:02 AM (Oj3Pf)

15 *near-simultaneous BOING!-w00ting

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:03 AM (odBC9)

16 Q: What is the aloft aircraft with the greatest wind drag?

A:

https://tinyurl.com/4df7t89k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:05 AM (Oj3Pf)

17 *near-simultaneous BOING!-w00ting

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:03 AM (odBC9)
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We are continents apart.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:07 AM (Oj3Pf)

18 If you want to have a company that makes things, it appears to me that you have a non-exclusive choice between:

1) an expanding population, so there's a continuous demand for your product whose parents could tell you how excellent a value it is so buy it to save money OR
2) a product that is weirdly specific and difficult to substitute that fails at the sweet spot where you haven't pissed off the customer so much that they are in "fuck you, asshole" mode because it happened 1 month after you bought it but haven't delayed the failure for so long that they've forgotten who built that thingy that just failed and are open to looking for the cheapest substitute.

A lot of engineers would go for option 1 if possible. A lot of business school suits would go for option 2 no matter what.

Since 1st world populations aren't being expanded by 1st world humans, we're at option 2 (which makes the suits happy anyways).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 27, 2026 05:07 AM (/7XPO)

19 https://tinyurl.com/4df7t89k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:05 AM (Oj3Pf)

Lol, what "record"? Most gross tonnage of fat retards in a basket at the same time?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:07 AM (Ot/FD)

20 via Hacker News

https://twitterwebviewer.com

Twitter Viewer - View Twitter Without Account

View public Twitter profiles, tweets, photos, and videos anonymously

No Account Required • Lightning Fast • Privacy-First

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:08 AM (odBC9)

21 https://tinyurl.com/4df7t89k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:05 AM (Oj3Pf)

Lol, what "record"? Most gross tonnage of fat retards in a basket at the same time?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:07 AM (Ot/FD)
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That works for me.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 05:08 AM (Oj3Pf)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 27, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

23 I should have written...

"an expanding population, so there's a continuous demand for your product so the customer's parents could tell the customer how excellent a value it is, so buy it to save money in the long run"

...instead of the early morning drivel that I did.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 27, 2026 05:10 AM (/7XPO)

24 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2026 05:12 AM (V0/Sp)

25 @Pixy: "Disclaimer: Snacks. Why did it have to be snacks? I'm sick of these honey-roasted peanuts on this honey-roasted plane!"

*snorts* Nice mashup.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 27, 2026 05:16 AM (O7YUW)

26 Safari has suddenly installed an orange-backed icon that has a white microphone on it; it's now the furthest-to-the-left icon sitting at the top of my screen. If I click it, it says it's Safari, Mic Mode, Standard; the not-Standard option is Voice Isolation.

It's new, therefore I hate it.

Is that wrong of me?

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 27, 2026 05:19 AM (Hbeqj)

28 It's new, therefore I hate it.

Is that wrong of me?
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

Curmudgeonry is a perfectly valid passive defense mechanism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:19 AM (Ot/FD)

29 It's new, therefore I hate it.

Is that wrong of me?
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:16
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Well, if you're 29 like most of here, I'd say that's normal.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 27, 2026 05:21 AM (Hbeqj)

30 28 It's new, therefore I hate it.

Is that wrong of me?
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

Curmudgeonry is a perfectly valid passive defense mechanism.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:19 AM (Ot/FD)

haha

I was gonna say I learned a new word, cumudgeonry--and I do like it!--but it looks like the word is:

curmudgeonliness

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:22 AM (odBC9)

31 @Pixy: "Why?" (is NVidia acquiring 'Hugging Face')

Two possibilities that I see:

a) Because when the bubble pops (and they know it will) they want to be controlling as much of this branch of technology as possible, that way they stand a chance of still having some of the small surviving percentage of AI businesses that are actually useful enough to pay for, and that can make them money. A lot of companies are going to go under, but whoever survives can come back and potentially own the market.

b) They're trying to make themselves "too big to fail" so they can ask for a huge government bailout when the bubble pops.

Of course this could all be undone by having a debt-to-income ratio that's so insanely high that they just get sunk anyway, especially if Uncle Sugar says "No bailout."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 27, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

32 *curmudgeonry

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

33 @20/m: Thanks, I'll take some links from the Cafe last night and see what I can do with 'em combined with this "Twitter Viewer".

(I wonder how long before they get a C&D letter.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 27, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

34
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
20h
They really tried to make the Pretti shooting a thing. There was an entire protest movement ready to go.

And then the video of him kicking out a taillight on a federal vehicle and acting like a lunatic with a gun in his waistband came out, and it all went away almost literally overnight.

ABC News
@ABC
1d
Seven months after 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by two federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, his grieving family said they want "accountability" in their first television interview.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)

35 @ABC
1d
Seven months after 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by two federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, his grieving family said they want "accountability" in their first television interview.
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)

Ok. We'll dig the bastard up and shoot him again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:36 AM (Ot/FD)

36
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
2h
"what do you do when a cop stops you and you have a gun on your person or in your car"

This is an actual two hour concealed carry and certified NRA instructor course that you take in a classroom.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:36 AM (odBC9)

37 Do you really want to be acquired by Amazon, Pixy?. Everybody would you be ordering you and you'd be shipped all over the place.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:39 AM (W90Ou)

38 There is a very old saying about " want".

Warai, Amen.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 05:40 AM (FHoaH)

39 I'm going to head up north and not watch the eclipse. The weather should hold long enough so that I can enjoy a campfire and then be sleeping in my tent while the rain extinguishes it.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2026 05:41 AM (V0/Sp)

40 - Go to work
- Come home
- Go to bed
- Wake up as much as possible
- Repeat
- Go to work

There FIFY
("much" = "often")

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 27, 2026 05:41 AM (TFIbA)

41 Are people drunk, stoned or asleep when they come up with these name- "Hugging Face"? Seriously?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:42 AM (W90Ou)

42 @12/Warai-otoko: "{ Work/sleep loop } That right there is a circle that very much needs to become the opposite of unbroken, PDQ."

Remember, nobody ever had an epitaph of "I wish I'd spent more time at the office" on their headstone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 27, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

43 >>> Are people drunk, stoned or asleep when they come up with these name- "Hugging Face"? Seriously?

Techie humor, most likely. Makes me think of 'face hugging spider'.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2026 05:44 AM (V0/Sp)

44 Adorable Golden Retrievers;

https://tinyurl.com/3p4d59mz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:45 AM (W90Ou)

45
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD
13h
So I wrote my own, rather personal, piece about Dolly, at @NRO. You'll have to read it all the way to the end to understand

And I still miss you, ma.

https://tinyurl.com/yh7y7d5r

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)

46 Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2026 05:44 AM (V0/Sp)

Yes, I was being facetious. I guessed it was tech humor. They should put Pixy in change of tech humor at a huge salary. He's much funnier than whoever came up with "face hugging" . Sorry, if anyone here did😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:48 AM (W90Ou)

47 Nice song by Zach Williams and Dolly Parton. "There was Jesus" Scroll down for song. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/h8vdx67x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:53 AM (W90Ou)

48 Remember, nobody ever had an epitaph of "I wish I'd spent more time at the office" on their headstone.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 27, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

heh.

I do wish I spent more time at the office. Field work is the worst.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 27, 2026 05:54 AM (Ot/FD)

49 John Williams is in his 90's. What a great talent and how important music is to films. So much film music from earlier years came from men fleeing the Nazis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:58 AM (JrHfD)

50 44 Adorable Golden Retrievers;

https://tinyurl.com/3p4d59mz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:45 AM (W90Ou)

..........

Awwww so cute! Thanks for that this morning

Posted by: Molly k. at August 27, 2026 05:58 AM (j/yko)

51 Posted by: Molly k. at August 27, 2026 05:58 AM (j/yko)

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 06:00 AM (xSAlF)

52
Her Majesty asked me to back up her files, in light of the disk failure I recently suffered. Please remember, Her Majesty has problems with electronics that no other human being ever, has ever, or will ever have.

I sit down at her desk and try to wake her computer up. It is, as usual, sluggish as hell. I decide to shut it down and restart it. I shut it down properly, having closed all the programs and clicked on the Shut Down button.

I wait and restart it. The Windows screen comes up but it says that the password has expired and has to be reset. What password? It's been years that she's had it and if I did set anything up, it would have been with a PIN.

So I have to type in the old password and a new one. I try a bunch of commonly used passwords. None work. Does the computer give me any option to recover my password? No. Is HP any help? No.

I try a number of things suggested online. None work. I try resetting the computer to a restore point. It chews on this for an inordinate time, then says it's done and to restart. I do that. Now Windows won't boot up at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:18 AM (O0L8i)

53 Evening and morning on a bleary Thor's Day -- at least for me right now. With little sleep Tuesday/Wednesday night for some reason, I slept quite well last night and dreamed something colorful about exploring a vivid interactive website that purported to have screen shots and clips from each of William Shatner's TV and movies. Yet the menu boasted "41 of 41." I *know* he's had more credits than that, so somebody was fibbing. Before I could explore it much, though, the alarm rang.

So, coffee. How're you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

54 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9

I can't go for a walk today unless I go to the supermarket and walk inside . It's raining heavily.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 06:20 AM (xSAlF)

55 Hadrian, it may be too late but Lazesoft makes a pretty good Windows password cracker.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:20 AM (MWfyi)

56 I was thinking I might walk this morning, but the rain is apparently going to move in by 6 am and be pelting us by 7, so I guess not.

Stirling is doing okay on his diet. The IAMS dry food bag says a 12-lb. cat (which is underweight, for him) should get 6 oz. a day. Yet I've been giving him about 4, combined with canned food. The problem is no doubt that he proceeds to eat what Dagny leaves after her first quick nibblings. Thus I have to be even more of a "parent" than I already am, taking up her bowl to protect it from him and setting it back down when she is ready to eat more.

Cats. Can't live with 'em, can't take 'em for a walk. (Well, with exceptions.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

57 Hadrian, as the say, no good deed goes unpunished

Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 06:24 AM (FHoaH)

58 57 Hadrian, as the say, no good deed goes unpunished
Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 06:24 AM (FHoaH)

SO true.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 06:25 AM (odBC9)

59 @52

>> I try a number of things suggested online.

Remove the drive, put it in an external enclosure, connect it to a functioning Windows machine, if it mounts, copy user data to another drive.

Buy your wife a Mac, connect the drive to the Mac, copy pertinent data to Mac.

You’ll be good for the next decade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 27, 2026 06:26 AM (XV/Pl)

60
Hadrian, as the say, no good deed goes unpunished
Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 06:24 AM (FHoaH)

"I don't know that. You're the one who set it up."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:27 AM (O0L8i)

61 The house business appears to be on hold. The inspection report came back with issues of mold in the basement, something called "efflorescence" in the crawlspace (which was never sealed against moisture), and moldy smells in the kitchen. Plus no "cold air returns" in the bedrooms. The A/C-heat vents are there, but no vents to return the air, which would make the system work harder and less efficiently (?).

Pawn, and to a lesser degree OrangeEnt, have suggested I walk away. And the house is really a bit small as well, with a lack of closet space.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

62 60 Hadrian, as the say, no good deed goes unpunished
Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 06:24 AM (FHoaH)

"I don't know that. You're the one who set it up."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:27 AM (O0L8i)

There are Morons (the good kind) in your corner.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)

63 Now Windows won't boot up at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:18 AM (O0L8i)
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This is where the hammering started, right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:31 AM (iM0GV)

64 When I setup a new PC, I use a local account named "-", with no password. After the setup is complete and I add the user account, domain or otherwise, I will not always delete the "dash" account, and leave it there secretly in case something happens to the user's account.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:33 AM (MWfyi)

65 This is where the hammering started, right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:31 AM (iM0GV)
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No! No!

Take the computer to the TXMoMe for target practice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 06:33 AM (Oj3Pf)

66 63 Now Windows won't boot up at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:18 AM (O0L8i)

Then all your data is perfectly safe and cannot be hacked!!

Posted by: Always look on the bright side of life at August 27, 2026 06:33 AM (B0NCh)

67 My first cat would run after me down the sidewalk. He was really his own cat who liked me a lot. Very human-centric. He loved when i invited people over.

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 27, 2026 06:34 AM (Fv808)

68 "Then all your data is perfectly safe and cannot be hacked!!
Posted by: Always look on the bright side of life "

It's all there. You do have your key, don't you?

Posted by: Bitlocker at August 27, 2026 06:36 AM (MWfyi)

69 Saw a new estimate of 160 dead (and 389 tourists unaccounted for) in the Nepalese flash flooding, but obviously (based on the videos we all saw yesterday) that number will be much larger soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:37 AM (6bj4g)

70
Saw a new estimate of 160 dead (and 389 tourists unaccounted for) in the Nepalese flash flooding, but obviously (based on the videos we all saw yesterday) that number will be much larger soon.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:37 AM (6bj4g)

That's why tourism is stupid. It's much cheaper and more convenient to be killed in flash flooding at home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:39 AM (O0L8i)

71 Wow that flood is something else. Why did Trump do that?

Posted by: Pawl at August 27, 2026 06:40 AM (MWfyi)

72 " Wow that flood is something else. Why did Trump do that?

Because he's a doodie head!!!

Posted by: Doug Flutie at August 27, 2026 06:42 AM (rHvvN)

73 from the TechCrunch article

"Meta hasn’t admitted wrongdoing, even as it settles allegations that it intentionally designed its platforms to keep children hooked — a common tactic for companies looking to avoid a jury trial, where the risk of a worse outcome is higher.

"A ruling against Meta could also have jeopardized the legal protections that allow social platforms to escape liability for what users post."

It really does sound like a shakedown.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 06:42 AM (odBC9)

74
It's you, Mr. and Mrs. Republican, driving your big truck that caused this flash flooding in Nepal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:42 AM (O0L8i)

75 It's you, Mr. and Mrs. Republican, driving your big truck that caused this flash flooding in Nepal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:42 AM (O0L8i)
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Finally there's something we here didn't do!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 06:43 AM (Oj3Pf)

76 "Shake It Down, Shake It Down"

--Tay Tay

Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

77 Hadrian, it may be redundant to your own already existing knowledge, but Grok says it is usually a failed update or a bad driver that causes Windows to fail loading, and Grok has detailed suggestions as to how to proceed. Forgive me if this is obvious and you already know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:44 AM (8TPCk)

78 Principal loses job after he and his wife take in student in need and refuse to abandon him. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/9dhhsk3w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 06:45 AM (JrHfD)

79 Hadrian, have you tried starting Windows in Safe Mode?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 06:45 AM (Oj3Pf)

80 That's why tourism is stupid. It's much cheaper and more convenient to be killed in flash flooding at home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 06:39 AM (O0L8i)
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"Visit Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona: Why go to Nepal when you can flood out right here?!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:46 AM (8TPCk)

81 My first cat would run after me down the sidewalk. He was really his own cat who liked me a lot. Very human-centric. He loved when i invited people over.
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 27, 2026

***
The late great Marie-Antoinette was like that. I introduced her to walks on a lead when she was about six years old, and she took to it with gusto -- even ran to the door crying when I took the harness and lead out.

As for new people coming over, Marie's attitude was clearly "Ah! Someone new to worship me!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

82 Oops- I just noticed it rained last night and I someone left the patio cushions out. Ah well, these things happen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 06:49 AM (8TPCk)

83 curmudgeonism

Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2026 06:49 AM (ZxPkt)

84 Zelensky got a pitbull. I hope it hate piano playing.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:52 AM (MWfyi)

85 Speaking of cats: Linda reminded me that yesterday, 8/26, was the late Chekov's birthday (2007-2022; RIP). I didn't meet and adopt him until 2010, though, after little Tatiana the Wonder Siberian passed early that year at not even four.

Tati, as we call her, was wicked smaht too, pulling open drawers to get to her toys and playing what with a dog would be called "fetch" with her little rubber ball. If she and Marie had known each other . . . well, I shudder to think of the devilish mischief they could have wrought.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:53 AM (wzUl9)

86 "Kitten breaks bizarre Guinness World Record for being born with 29 toes"

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)

87

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 27, 2026 06:54 AM (jkooc)

88 "Kitten breaks bizarre Guinness World Record for being born with 29 toes"
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)
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Hexie my Polydactyl Wonder Kitty hardest hit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 06:55 AM (FZ29D)

89 I have never known a cat's birthday.

They just show up choosing me sometime later.

Posted by: Total eclipse of the Sun at August 27, 2026 06:55 AM (36x1j)

90 Off Eclipse sock.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 27, 2026 06:56 AM (36x1j)

91 Twitter Viewer - View Twitter Without Account

lol. Musk is going to have to play whack-a-mole with these xcancel clones. All this could be avoided if they simply allowed read-only access to X without an account, but no.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 27, 2026 06:58 AM (J5viO)

92 Last night I showed Linda the latest house. When I mentioned I'd put in an offer, she began to hyperventilate a little, but calmed when I said I planned to pass on the property. I told her yet again, "I don't want to do this moving thing without you," and asked why she didn't want to do it. She wouldn't discuss it. I told her, "We *will* talk about this on Thursday night, so be ready."

She will probably say she has a migraine tonight. If so, then I'll tackle her about it on Friday or every night until she talks. That, or I'll proceed with my plans on my own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

93 "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused "mastermind" of the deadly Sept. 11 terror attacks, is scheduled to stand trial on June 5, 2028."

F'n absurd.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:00 AM (MWfyi)

94 Oops. Time to feed some furry thugs!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

95 I'm on Musk's side on this issue. He bought and maintains the business and people are bitching because they can't get for "free" or a work around.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 07:03 AM (FHoaH)

96 I lived without Twitter before Musk and can do it forever.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:04 AM (MWfyi)

97 Well, not forever maybe, but long enough.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)

98 Aww.

TOM BRADY’S CALIFORNIA TRADING CARD SHOP RANSACKED ONE WEEK AFTER GRAND OPENING.

I bet they were after the Pokeyman cards.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:09 AM (MWfyi)

99 I have never known a cat's birthday.

They just show up choosing me sometime later.
Posted by: Total eclipse of the Sun at August 27, 2026

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Three of the four Siberians came from the same cattery about 90 miles from here, so I have their records. The fourth was a found cat. Aside from them, no, I've never known. Based on their approximate ages, I decided little red Arizona (later to be BIG red Arizona) had been born about the first of May in '83, and that Stirling's date was three months before I adopted him in June of '22.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

100 Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 07:03

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 07:12 AM (xPsv8)

101 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The man travels fastest that travels alone.
She has given you her answer.

And you put in an accepted offer?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

102 Violent brawl at an Ohio wedding. Suliemans and Mohammeds among the perps. NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/y6p46u92

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 07:15 AM (xPsv8)

103 With that peanut and plane reference, all I can think about is Phineas and Ferb episode of “ it’s so peanuty you can’t taste the chicken”

Posted by: SkinnerVic at August 27, 2026 07:15 AM (grzky)

104 fd

Not afraid of dying, but want to avoid it this year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

105 I don't want to *use* Twitter/X for free -- not to post messages, I mean. I'd just like to be able to look easily at the site when somebody like Ace posts a video link.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 07:16 AM (wzUl9)

106 TOM BRADY’S CALIFORNIA TRADING CARD SHOP RANSACKED ONE WEEK AFTER GRAND OPENING.

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This, on the heels of him getting robbed by Sam Bankman-Fried. He looked at that meth-muppet and handed him a suitcase full of cash.

And, as literally every business in CA screams "we're being ransacked! We have to move to another State or we'll go out of business," he starts one there.

Stop it, Tom. Call Peyton Manning and ask for his business manager's number. You're terrible at this.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 07:17 AM (gjcFS)

107 And I hope that Amazon doesn’t screw up DuckDB. It’s quite good.

Posted by: SkinnerVic at August 27, 2026 07:17 AM (grzky)

108 SkinnerVic

Get used to disappointment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

109 The man travels fastest that travels alone.
She has given you her answer.

And you put in an accepted offer?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026

***
You are probably right.

And yes, I did. Am I going to have a hassle about that? The house does not suit my needs. Is it possible in future to spot a house I really like, pay for an inspection, and then if it's clean -- and nobody else has put in an offer -- to go ahead with my own offer?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 07:19 AM (wzUl9)

110 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

111 The next Democrat President will take great delight in pardoning KSM.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 07:19 AM (gjcFS)

112 Wolfus Aurelius,

Of course. I had lost track of where you were in your saga. I am on the page now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

113 He bought and maintains the business and people are bitching because they can't get for "free" or a work around.

That's fine and I agree to an extent, but I am of the mind however that the platform's reach could be expanded more by giving a little away. More people might be drawn into creating an account doing so.

But yes, it's his to do with as he pleases and I have lived without it this long even with the circumventions.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 27, 2026 07:20 AM (J5viO)

114 I have my sympathies for xcancel and nitter etc, because these days everything you get an account for gets stupidly intrusive and claims it's 'protecting' you by doing so (it's not).

I also hate the whole 'use your social media account as an authenticator' that facebook started.

I also sympathize greatly with the fight against botnets, 50-cent armies, and so forth that make accounts preferable.

I think 'anti-scraping' and 'you bypassed our API' is the least defensible argument because dude this is the age of xAI scraping everything too.

So I dunno whose side I'm on except that I would use xcancel not to bypass x.com, but because videos that had high traffic wouldn't *load and play* on x.com, I had to get them through xcancel or whatever alternatives. And that's x's fault, not xcancel's.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 07:22 AM (aJQbY)

115 San Franpsycho, burning? no. They are admitting the sanctions are really hurting them and that is a huge tell.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 07:23 AM (FHoaH)

116 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 27, 2026 07:24 AM (VyBeY)

117 I have an X account. Aside from the DataRepublican stuff, I can't recall the last piece of breaking news I learned about on Twitter. Just a bunch of media remoras talking about stories already in the news, and making breathless predictions that never come true. It's basically just for amusement of the extremely online. You're not missing much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 07:24 AM (gjcFS)

118 Ben Had, I have bad news for you.

Vella Cheese Co. is closing after 94 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

119 Halfhand

X is another time suck, with some amusement missed. I've lived without TV since 1977, so I can do without X.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

120 Politico says Social Security needs to be restructured imminently, or else a 22% benefit cut will occur automatically in 2032. Fun times ahead in D.C.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 07:25 AM (YpWtw)

121 I don't have an X account and I can see everything on there -- posts, replies, videos.

What gives?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 27, 2026 07:26 AM (J4Dwc)

122 They are admitting the sanctions are really hurting them and that is a huge tell.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 07:23 AM (FHoaH)
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I will be mollified for a period of one (1) hour.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

123 The war in Ukraine recreated in such realistic detail in a game format that Bearclaw Vindaloomon will sh!t eclairs -

https://youtu.be/MDjn7dsnpgI

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 07:26 AM (2GVsD)

124 San Franpsycho,, OH NO. Maybe I can get an order in before they do.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 27, 2026 07:27 AM (FHoaH)

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