Cool and wet. It was 75F and dripping when I went to bed last night. Houston got rain. The BOL did not. It was mid 90sF in the evening, without any breeze, and with the sun drilling holes in my head. It would be nice if today stayed a bit cooler. I’m not going to hold my breath though.
Spent the day doing stuff. Mostly outdoor work. Cut my lawn and the HOA lot next door. That’s my civic duty for the month. Did some other small things on the list, but mostly it was the outdoor stuff. Found some time to read in between, and I did sleep in. I guess that counts as a vacation?
Back to work this week though. Either today or tomorrow I will do a service call for my last client. He’s having issues that sound like network/IP address issues. Joy. I’ve got stuff to sell, stack, and sort here too. Got confirmation that I’m checked out of my storage unit. Now I need to go through the pile of stuff and make it a smaller pile.
There is always more to do. But that’s the gig and I can deal with it. Time to make some money with all that stuff I bought to sell.
Money is a prep. Stacks are preps. Stacks of money are a super prep!
nick
73.xF and some sun is poking thru. First morning under 74F since Spring, I think.
Lunch is made, tea is steeping. I’m tired still, but it’s time to get the kids moving.
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March to war
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/electromagnetic-weapon-destroys-drone-swarm-seconds-singularity-event
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4246987/pentagon-to-increase-low-cost-drone-production-in-us/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html
Mohammed Becomes Most Common Name Among Welfare Benefit Recipients In Germany
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Tractor Supply sells pitchforks.
If, for some unfathomable reason, you want a less pokey solution, fry up a pound of bacon, waft the smell into the bedroom, and announce that you’ll be eating three pieces per minute. If they’re not out in time, they get none. Literally, you snooze, you lose.
I think that the descendants of Europeans should give serious thought, while they are still the majority in their own nations, to shooting, lynching, running down, and burning alive anyone who does not have a traditional European name.
Yes, that includes “Shaniqua”.
While most of Europe has a problem, Germany has been particularly stupid, paying asylum seekers full welfare benefits. At most, they deserve 3 meals and a cot, nothing more.
TSCO institutional ownership at 99%.
Not only will Blackrock and Vanguard sell them the rope they use to hang us, they will sell the pitchforks and torches as well.
Kill, convert, or extract tribute. Welfare counts as the latter.
The quaint theme parks known collectively as “Europe” are running out of time.
At my wife’s office in Florida, one of the backstabbing cretins the B*tchy Doctor’s Wife subsidized was named Shanique.
That isn’t happening ever again, girlfriend.
To be fair, over the years, the backstabbing cretins the B*tchy Doctor’s Wife subsidized across three private practices came from many different demographics.
The zaftig RN in WA State who asked for our house equity for a retirement scheme she wanted to buy into was lily white married to an Irish surname, but she grew up in the San Francisco area.
Huh, thumbs aren’t working for me. That’s new.
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thumbs are really slow to update.
I noticed that, since the Cracker Barrel fiasco, Yahoo! Finance no longer breaks down institutional stock holder percentages by company, and instead, the site only reports the outstanding share ownership percentages held by the individual funds.
>>I read somewhere that you can set your phone to send all calls from folks not in your contacts directly to voice mail.
I can’t find the setting. But that’s ok. I don’t answer unknown numbers anyway… unless it’s like from the plumber, etc. and I’m expecting a call. From a local number.
@paul…
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+screen+all+non-contact+calls&oq=android+screen+all+non-contact+calls&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTg0NDU1ajBqN6gCALACAQ&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
To screen all calls from non-contacts on your Android phone, open the Phone app, go to Settings, and then Spam and Call Screen (or just Call Screen). Here, you can find an option like “Automatically screen calls” or “Call Screen”. By setting your protection level to Maximum protection on a Pixel phone or by checking “Block strangers” in the blocked rules on other devices, you can screen all calls from numbers not in your contact list.
spending trillions to give democracy to those that don’t care about it.
– john wilder makes some good observations…
https://wilderwealthywise.com/living-in-the-past-the-world-war-ii-hangover/
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The cloud is a wonderous thing until it breaks. We are down at work as everything is in the cloud. I can’t even login to my computer since there is no backup local authentication. Corporate is blaming it on an area wide Deathstar outage.
If you don’t have it on physical media under your physical control, you don’t have it.
That’s bad enough when applied to documents. It’s much worse when applied to operating systems.
How do the developers write the code without the connection to the AI server?
Better.
Maybe they get stoned and get their vibe on that way.
Related: Programming IDEs which provide hints for filling in function call arguments and which help with restructuring a project are all well and good, but I’m dubious about any programmer who needs the IDE in order to function at all. If he can’t sit down with Notepad, Vi, or Emacs and write a bare-bones bubble sort program from scratch, should he be employed as a programmer? This goes double if he needs VSCode and an LLM plugin before he can write a simple program.
…is on someone else’s computer. For a few things, mainly websites and services, the cloud makes sense.
For authentication? For data storage? No, just…no. IMHO, any company that has that needs to fire their (bribed) CIO and hire someone actually competent.
Ah, vi.
I was using it the other
daymonth, and I just couldn’t remember how to do some vertical columns editing stuff properly, had to look it up.I did remember how to quit tho 😉
Never got into EMACS, but then I already had VMS and AIX for an operating system.
Kill, convert, or extract tribute. Welfare counts as the latter.
The quaint theme parks known collectively as “Europe” are running out of time.
Yes they are.
My 2008 Samsung 27 inch monitor was dead today. So I have a new LG 27 inch monitor that I bought in 2022 as a in box backup.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R7636MH?tag=ttgnet-20
The 1920×1080 resolution is not as good as my old Samsung which was 1920×1200. So the picture is not as pretty. Maybe I need a 35 inch monitor now as I am getting more blind by the day.
I’ve got four 24″ monitors on my desk.
Left is my dad’s old machine, used for solitaire. Center and right are my main pc. Above center is my NVR and linux box.
There is a 15″ touch screen on the table to my far left. It’s on the old pc that runs my vinyl cutter, so it’s not usually on.
I’m thinking about putting one of the lappys on an arm mount to float over the mess to the left and just run radio software on it.
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Join the club. Cataracts here.
I use a TCL 43″ TV as a monitor, 4k, works great.
Generally TV’s make for bad monitors, but TCL went the extra mile to make it usable. Not sure what the current model is, mine is a couple of years old, still working great.
Even two 27″ monitors side-by-side look cramped now, and I can sit back in my nice chair and work, not hunched over.
Join the club. Cataracts here.
I am scheduling my right eye cataract on my Thursday eye surgeon visit. Gonna change from -7 diopters nearsightedness to 20/20 vision. Hopefully.
My wife had her second cataract done two weeks ago. She can see way better in that eye, she was -2 before the cataract, she got a plain lens done for monovision so she can read without reading glasses using one eye. Her first eye is now 20/20. She was uniformly -2 before the cataracts.
“Southwest Airlines begins service of aircraft equipped with secondary barrier”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/southwest-secondary-barrier-21026625.php
“The airline says it is “enhancing safety wherever possible.””
I wonder when they will put us in cages.
Join the club. Cataracts here.
I use a TCL 43″ TV as a monitor, 4k, works great.
Generally TV’s make for bad monitors, but TCL went the extra mile to make it usable. Not sure what the current model is, mine is a couple of years old, still working great.
What do you have your text ratio set at ?
I am at 110% on this 2K 27 inch monitor.
Still fussing with the new 13″ iPad M3.
Hardware-wise things are fine, no issues, battery lasts all day.
The quarter pound(ish) of extra weight isn’t as bad as I feared. Bought a case, but the bumper part is only about 100g without the stand and cover part, so not a big deal (my old 9 working fumble fingers and no ridges on my finger tips make one essential). I like not being crammed into 64GB too. Brighter screen.
Syncing isn’t as good as the old 11″ for some reason. About 90% of texts. I am used to 99%+, and it makes a difference. BT interference maybe? It’s a plastic bumper, same make as the last one, tho there are magnets on the back.
Getting bigger text on screen was an issue.
Changing “font size” made essentially no difference: Safari respected the web pages request and what millennial web designers in perfect health like is generally too small for me to read on my lap.
Using “Display Zoom” under Accessibility worked, though it is a bit too big and there is no customizing that.
Other stuff like icons, which I had no trouble with, are also now unnecessarily big.
Some stuff didn’t “migrate”. My Gmail password for example. I redid it and it pretty much insisted on going “passkey” rather than password. I admit I don’t understand what is supposed to be improved, I am still typing in a set of ascii.
Weirdly tho, that also pushed the YT subscription list to the M4 desktop. Strange.
Anyway, a few more days and I will probably factory reset the newish 11″ and give it a new home.
“Know Your Pedals”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Q_9Nmat9uaYwTTRbLG6YO9jsvfovGDL6mSV5RYFkrd1CnTOCQ44jTlnzDiTZ6qfLKgsMZDxXnLxH6OuwlgO1Ekmco__2zMkt_4Nl56-7EG2iOjUcHCKKUs6zT7RXc7gIHG2M0Zi5XP3AiGPpur6lg-0HLCCTHz34OD_U4MOdmwYMPyXubLjCPzw_Rj0/s550/Meme%20-%20know%20your%20pedals.png
From:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-that-made-me-laugh-276.html
“Google Calls Reports of Mass Gmail Warning ‘Entirely False'”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-calls-reports-of-mass-gmail-warning-entirely-false
“Google denies recent reports that it urged billions of Gmail users to change their passwords.”
Huh. I guess that nothing is trustworthy now in the media.
I really don’t have anything special set.
I actually run a 2680xXXXX (forget the exact number) sometimes, if I want a bigger font, instead of the 3840 full 4K. The text stays quite sharp.
A capital “I” on this forum is exactly 3/16″ high.
Interesting.
I am -9.0 presbyopia with cataracts and astigmatism in the left eye, the right is a bit better, but not by much. The doc says I won’t pass my eye exam in a year, even with glasses.
The very idea of someone using a knife on my eye gives me shivers. Not much choice tho.
Bah.
“Neighbor says she warned boys about playing ding-dong-ditch before 11-year-old was shot to death in east Houston”
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/boy-shot-ding-dong-ditch-prank-houston-neighbors-react/285-88534072-c663-492d-b5ae-229fc6f976af
“Police say a homeowner shot and killed the victim, who was with a group of kids ringing doorbells on Mimbrough Street and then running away late Saturday.”
Not good but I cannot totally blame the homeowner.
That picture of a secondary barrier on Soutwest sure looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
It specifically closes the path for passengers to the front exit doors. I assume the design is to protect the crew from passengers.
Sure, their operating procedures will say to have it open for takeoff and landing, but one mishap and the families of the victims will own Southwest airlines.
And yet, based on the reporting, it’s pretty much murder. He chased the kid and shot him in the back… supposedly.
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I was wondering about that. Mine is 20 characters of alphanumeric gibberish so I wasn’t too worried.
They’ll get it by a hack I imagine, eventually, but nothing I can do about it.
They call it ding-dong-ditch, but it’s likely the new Amish game where they run up to the porch and kick the door with all their might before running away.
Which prudent homeowners see as attempted breaking and entering of an occupied house, requiring immediate and powerful response.
If you’ve got the genes and the money, this is what 60 looks like…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15059505/Salma-Hayek-models-red-bikini-59th-birthday.html
yes please.
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If true, certainly wrong. If true.
Could be due to fatigue. Even Amish get fatigued of Amish.
They call it ding-dong-ditch, but it’s likely the new Amish game where they run up to the porch and kick the door with all their might before running away.
Which prudent homeowners see as attempted breaking and entering of an occupied house, requiring immediate and powerful response.
– yeah, the tictoc “challenge” from a few weeks ago, and if the door pops open, they enter…
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The barrier seems pretty flimsy to me.
More Kabuki. The airlines and the various unions don’t want to talk about the crew fraternization problem which is what I’ve always believed was the key to the successful hijackings on 9/11.
The hijackers flew those routes multiple times that year. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were on a first name basis with some of the cabin crew members and knew the rotation schedules along with who was having sex with whom.
If you’ve got the genes and the money, this is what 60 looks like…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15059505/Salma-Hayek-models-red-bikini-59th-birthday.html
yes please.
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Looks like about a half million in plastic surgery to me.
Naw, she’s always looked like that.
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Reportedly, both parties were/are Hispanic.
“California ‘Green Accounting’ Rule on CO2 Can Cost Companies Nationwide Billions, With No Benefit to Environment”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/california-fights-trump-deregulation-by-implementing-its-own-green-accounting-rule/
“California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies operating in the state to produce audited reports on their carbon dioxide emissions, and analysts say these rules may soon apply to companies throughout the United States.”
“California is preparing to implement two laws, SB 253 and SB 261, which would require companies operating in the state to monitor and report their CO2 emissions, as well as those of their suppliers and customers. These rules, originally passed in 2023, are similar but broader in scope than the mandate that was imposed nationwide by the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Biden administration, but which was effectively canceled under the current Trump administration.”
SCOTUS will eventually knock this down. But it is just another thing that makes operating in kakafornia very expensive for a business.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Tennessee Valley Authority signs agreement for 6 GW of small nuclear”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/tennessee-valley-authority-tva-6-gw-smr-nuclear/758965/
That is a lot of those little 77 MW nukes, 78 of them. However, those small nukes do not require containment domes from what I have read. And the containment dome is the most expensive part of the nuclear power plants to date.
We get people here complaining about “developers”. I got sick of hearing it and jumped in. “Where do you think that hospital came from? Where do you think the stores you shop at come from? Where do you think that house and neighborhood you live in come from?”
Anti business is one of the dumbest things. Businesses have the money. They pay the employees. They pay the rent. They provide the services.
But you’ll never bet wrong if you bet on people being stupid.
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TikToker Who Towed ICE Vehicle Now Faces 10 Years in Prison
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/09/02/man-arrested-for-towing-ice-vehicle-n2662644
Wait until he finds out they’re going to put a “Butch Cam” in his cell…
I can – because the kid was RUNNING AWAY. He wasn’t a threat. You shoot people who are a distinct THREAT, or likely to become one quickly. If you shoot people who aren’t an immediate threat, and aren’t going to BECOME one, then you go to jail.
There is a line in one of the articles that suggests the kid was filming the prank. And another that seems to say it was the third time the kid rang or knocked on this particular guy’s door.
Filming for social media? Another death for likes. F’d with the wrong guy? Seems to be. Kept F’ing with the guy? Seems to be. There are bad people out there, and poking at them is dumb.
It’s murder if half the reporting is half right, but there were lots of times when it all could have been avoided.
File this one under “don’t do stupid things”.
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Brian Kernigan speaks. 83 and still teaching.
The Rust believers are not going to be happy with the answer to one question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg
At one point during the Q&A, his VPN fails. GlobalProtect. No further comment.
Thank you, was very interesting. I knew a lot of this from porting to various unix boxen back in the 1980s and 1990s and the meteoric rise of Windows killing them and mainframes off.
I learned C from the original K&R C book, about 1985 or so. Here is the second edition, the ANSI version.
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628
There is a line in one of the articles that suggests the kid was filming the prank. And another that seems to say it was the third time the kid rang or knocked on this particular guy’s door.
Filming for social media? Another death for likes. F’d with the wrong guy? Seems to be. Kept F’ing with the guy? Seems to be. There are bad people out there, and poking at them is dumb.
It’s murder if half the reporting is half right, but there were lots of times when it all could have been avoided.
File this one under “don’t do stupid things”.
There is a fine line between harassment and terrorism. Did these kids cross that line ?
Good luck in getting 12 people to convict the homeowner. Especially if this was the third time.
“Officer Needs Help (Can You Shoot His Attacker?)”
https://www.deltadefense.com/offers/68a780485578e/join-the-uscca-today
Oof, that is a tough decision.
That was a neat B. Kernigham talk.
And it was a bit of a slam at Rust, at the end, but he admitted that he only written the one program in it.
I haven’t used Rust myself but it’s sort of tracks with what I’ve heard about it.