You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?
Yes.
Everything's going to be fine.

Monday, October 21

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Daily News Stuff 21 October 2024

False Lies Edition

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Disclaimer: Bzz.

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Sunday, October 20

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Daily News Stuff 20 October 2024

Foofenator Edition

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How Is This Hundred Year Old Website So Fast Video of the Day




When ClF3 Is Just Not Dangerous Enough Video of the Day




Musical Interlude Video of the Day



Klangphonics.  Love these guys.

They do a sort of organic techno.  They use electronic instruments and effects, but they also use anything they can get their hands on that sounds interesting.  Sewing machines, empty buckets, alpine horns, cats, wine glasses, lawnmowers...



Doobenated Video of the Day


Clocks reset, D-6.


Disclaimer: Any similarity between Dooby3d and a recently semi-graduated Hololive English Myth member such as the fact that they sound exactly alike is purely a function of your imagination and you probably also lack object permanence so there.

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Saturday, October 19

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Daily News Stuff 19 October 2024

Monotreme Arc Edition

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Disclaimer: That is not dead which can eternal lie, nor indie vtubers who "graduated".  D-2.

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Friday, October 18

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Daily News Stuff 18 October 2024

Crocodile Rock And Roll Edition

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  • WordPress looks to be entering a doom spiral as Mad King Matt Mullenweg tightens his grip.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
    After an exodus of employees at Automattic who disagreed with CEO Matt Mullenweg's recently divisive legal battle with WP Engine, he's upped the ante with another buyout offer - and a threat that employees speaking to the press should "exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance."
    This divides the company neatly into three factions:

    1. Those with principles who will quit - and take advantage of the severance package on offer because principles don't pay the rent.
    2. Those who see the writing on the wall and get while the going is good.
    3. True believers.

    True believers can be good if you're tackling a difficult problem under an experienced leader, like catching an office building falling from space.

    It can also produce Jonestown.

    This is looking more like the latter.

    WordPress itself will survive, since it's open source, but the company and foundation behind it won't.


  • Sad to say I was today years old when I realised why the company is called Automattic.

    One of those things that's cute in a toddler but diagnostic of malignant narcissism in a CEO.


Tech News


Disclaimer: My Calliope Mori Limited Edition Hyte Y40 PC case is currently enjoying a layover in Honolulu.  D-3.

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Thursday, October 17

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Daily News Stuff 17 October 2024

Frosty Inugami Edition

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Disclaimer: Sled dog Shiki for the win!  D-4.

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Wednesday, October 16

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Daily News Stuff 16 October 2024

Unblank Canvas Edition

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Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes.  D-5, unless you count X, in which case D-0.

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Tuesday, October 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 October 2024

Unfazed Invaders Edition

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Disclaimer: I didn't order that.  Did I?  D-6.

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Monday, October 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 October 2024

Requiem For A Butterfly Edition

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  • Turns out 23andMe is a genetic robot vacuum cleaner.  (SFGate)

    If you used the service - or if anyone in your family did - you should probably log in and delete your data.

    This won't do anything but it might work in your favour in the resulting class action lawsuits.

    CEO Anne Wojcicki says she's open to takeover offers.  Or people who want to buy the company.  Either one.


  • Unidentified drones swarmed Langley Air Force Base, and the Pentagon is "stumped".  (MSN)

    The drones circled the base for seventeen days.


  • The average LLM (AI) jailbreak attempt takes 42 seconds.  (SC World)

    20% of attacks succeed, and of those, 90% leak confidential information.


  • A detailed review of the Terramaster F8 Plus.  (Liliputing)

    This is an 8 bay M.2 NAS with 10Gb Ethernet and an 8 core CPU.  It's only slightly larger than an external 3.5" hard drive, and can store up to 64TB of data and hold up to 32GB of RAM for running applications (it ships with 16GB as standard, but it uses a regular SO-DIMM slot.)

    There's also cheaper F8 Nonplus, with a 4 core CPU and shipping with 8GB of RAM.  That should be fine if you just need the server functions and don't want to run apps on it.


  • Gotta catch 'em all, but I'm out of disk space: A Game Freak leak has dumped company info and a terabyte of Pokemons.  (Notebook Check)

    Game Freak is the company developing the Pokemon games, though the franchise is owned by the Pokemon Company and Nintendo.  Anyway, the Skitty is definitely out of the bag now.


  • The Beelink SER9 is the fastest mini-PC you can get right now.  (WCCFTech)

    It has more than twice the CPU performance and three to four times the graphics performance of my Beelink SER5.  But I have three of those and the SER9 costs more than three times as much if you already have memory and SSDs you can reuse.

    The Ryzen 370 used in the SER9 only supports LPDDR5X memory, not regular SO-DIMMS, so you can't install your own unless you have a desoldering station and a very steady hand. It does have two M.2 slots though.

    But if you don't need three computers and just want something small and quiet that gets the job done, it does.


Bling Bang Bang Videos of the Day



Bae and Ina.

Ina famously sent Bae the music for this at 2AM and Bae never managed to get back to sleep.



Disclaimer: Corpsman, address your camel!  D-7.

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Sunday, October 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 October 2024

Doubling Down On Dumb Edition

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Disclaimer: Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
Ban my account so I never come back. D-8.

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Saturday, October 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 October 2024

Fruitcake Edition

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Apropos of Nothing Video of the Day





Apropos of Moo Deng Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Thank you for being a fiend.  D-oops.  Well, it was just a short test, and someone reposted it.  D-9.

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