The Friday News Dump has been around a lot longer than Trump. Market Manipulation Day is every day for Trump. He doesn’t wait until the end of the week for that shit.

I love Jazz, I just hate the sound it makes.

They’re nice to have for generally cleanliness, but for dogs with long or curly coats they can be absolutely vital to prevent them from looking like this after a winter walk:

Man, what an absolute rabbit-hole this turned out to be. This comment from a lobste.rs post seems to have a timeline of the whole ordeal. This seems to be the blog post that kicked everything off. Calling that doxxing strikes me as making a mountain out a molehill. The blog author found some names attached to domain registration (if the registering individual didn’t want those public then they should’ve enable domain privacy), inferred the archive.is site admin’s location to maybe Germany, maybe Eastern Europe, maybe Russia (based on publicly accessible forum posts), noted that it’s a one-man show that can’t possibly cover its own costs and may not exist in the future, and even offered to support the archive.is admin:

It’s a testament to their persistence that they’re managed to keep this up for over 10 years, and I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee.

And for that the archive.is admin changed their site to hijack visitors into a DDOS botnet against the blog site. That is some crazy work.

The rate hike is a surprising turnaround for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump and took over the top job in May. While under consideration by Trump last year, Warsh often suggested the Fed could reduce its key rate, echoing the president’s call for lower borrowing costs.

Common Trump L. Appoint someone who’s telling you what you want to hear, then watch them turn around and do the exact opposite once they’re secure in their position. Trump can’t fire Warsh now that he’s been appointed Fed Chair, just like he couldn’t fire the preceding Chair, Jerome Powell. The inevitable storm of late-night rage-tweets is going to be delicious.

I had a propane grill with a natural gas conversion and hookup at one point. Really nice not having to worry about whether there’s enough gas in the propane tank. No discernable difference I could see between cooking on propane vs. natural gas.

I have no idea what it costs to set that up though, that natural gas line setup was already in that house when we moved in. I would have looked into it for my current house, except I’d switched to charcoal before I moved here. Love the flavour of charcoal, but convenient it ain’t.

Would Larian even want the studio? The current culture inside Bioware seems to be pretty dysfunctional. I don’t see how Larian would want to take on all that baggage. Larian might not be all that interested in the IP either, since they’re currently focused on developing their own IP.

They might release nothing and get shuttered. Both of those publishers have acquired and later closed multiple studios, with no release to show for it.

You’re 10-ply bud!

Oof, yeah, that sounds painful. It does sound like some kind of hardware-related issue, maybe the default settings in the Fedora kernel are seriously aberrant when mixed with one or more of your hardware components? Given the broad range of issues (GPU, network speed, audio), I’d be inclined to suspect the problem was related somehow to something core/common like CPU or mobo. Almost certainly not a pure hardware fault, given the problems didn’t follow the hardware when you changed distros.

Sorry but I just don’t like it. Not to say I think it’s a bad distro it’s just clearly not one for me.

I totally get it. Doesn’t take much of that kind of frustration to leave a bad taste in your mouth. I had some perplexing intermittent lockup issues years ago that turned out to be BTRFS, or at least the issue went away when the VMs were rebuilt with a different root FS. I’m still leery of BTRFS, even though it was a fairly esoteric stack (SLES, ESX, NFS datastores served from a ZFS-backed storage server), so entirely possible the fault didn’t lie exclusively with the filesystem. But I still avoid it, just because I’ve been burned once.

Care to elaborate? Not saying I doubt you, it’s just the polar opposite of my experience and I’m curious why that is.

What an odd way to say “America started a drone war without enough weapons to intercept drones.”

The frogurt is also cursed.

destroying the ozone layer

This made me ask “wait, is that true” and apparently it is. Super, skin cancer for everyone. 🤦

GrapheneOS aims to maintain update support for at least 5 years (from their FAQ). GrapheneOS still supports Pixel 5 for example (released 5 years, 8 months ago), Google stopped updating that model in Nov. 2023. GrapheneOS likely won’t maintain support for older models forever, but for older devices they can extend the life a good few years past Google’s end of support.

ETA: In fairness to Google, their support window on newer models is a lot better. From https://endoflife.date/pixel, for Pixel 8, 9 & 10 series they’ve committed to 7 years of Android updates. My Pixel 7 is only getting 4 years of updates, hence my interest in GrapheneOS.

I know, but… The opportunity cost of her occupying that position! Imagine if we’d had someone actually willing to exercise power to rein in Trump, instead of someone making tut tut noises while conducting massive insider trading. She deserves all the dragging we can muster.

This is it. A 2006 Ford F150 has a hood height of 51 inches, or just over 4 feet. Getting hit by one of these would be bad, but for many people it wouldn’t likely result in a head injury. A 2026 Ford F150 has a hood height of 75 inches, or more than 6 feet tall. Getting hit by one of these as a pedestrian is practically a guaranteed head injury.

I’m sure there are other factors. Higher speeds, lack of investment in infrastructure, political unwillingness to make any changes that might increase congestion or slow down drivers. But I believe hood height is playing a huge role in the type and severity of pedestrian injuries in the US and Canada.

I think that part kinda makes sense. The lid is domed, which increases its strength. The seam where the lid meets the walls would tend to be the weakest point. I’m more surprised there was such a violent explosion in the first place, usually they just burn. Could be that tank was partially empty and the area beneath the lid was a highly combustible fuel/air mix. Drone hits the tank, vapour ignites, and pop.

Possibly some form of insurance. “Be a real shame if someone were to lob a drone at your big, slow, expensive oil tanker…”

after rubbing alcohol was thrown onto a lit torch

Why would you even do that?? Props to the medical team, and I’m happy the victim healed so well, but seems like something that just shouldn’t have happened in the first place.