RegularJoe

What is not my absolute favorite joke. He tries really hard when he plays.

What's on second, Who's on first, and I Don't Know's on third.

No orcing way....

Whaddaya orcing know...

I can sort of see it.

Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it "Walking Dead" fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.

"This technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance," warns Julian Todt from KASTEL. "If you regularly pass by a café that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without noticing it and be recognized later -- for example by public authorities or companies."

Later...

Inexpensive or older routers either don’t store history at all or keep it for a short time.

Newer models can store more information for more extended periods.

https://www.thetechwire.com/how-long-does-a-router-store-history/

The development comes after Fender secured a landmark ruling in Germany, in which the Regional Court of Dusseldorf established a legal precedent to protect the Stratocaster body design.

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It established the Stratocaster as a "copyrighted work of art” based on “original creative expression”, and any firms operating or selling Stratocaster-inspired guitars in the EU were believed to be at risk of falling afoul of the ruling.

S for Stratocaster.

Way more Waymos (Way mo' Waymos) than expected.

Just as there are Americans who are not enamored with Trump who are not getting the media spotlight, there are Christians reacting negatively. But the media is focusing on the Maga Nationalist Christians. It's simply more profitable to focus on the extremists.

Here are some examples that the media has only touched on lightly.

"While I'm at it, I'm going to say what I feel right here. I wish the president of the United States would clean up his language. I wish he would stop insulting people. A leader should not give himself to insulting people all the time, and using foul language. And while I'm at it, I'm going to finish: everybody in the White House cusses except two women that say they are born again. But they're all foul mouthed. Let me tell you what the Bible says: "From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Listen, don't you dare get being conservative mixed up with being a Christian. Conservative does not mean Christian. You can be pro-life, you can be pro-Biblical family, you can be pro-Israel and die and go to Hell. You can be all of that stuff and that does not make you a Christian. Folks, I am a Christian. I am not a white Christian. You're not a black Christian. I'm not in a white evangelical movement. There's no such thing as a black church. We are one in Christ. There is neither male nor female. There is neither black, or white, or slave, or poor. We are all one in Jesus Christ. No! Go ahead and praise the Lord! Don't talk about the people that represent you. They don't represent me."

Pastor Loran Livingston, Central Church, FEB 28, 2026

https://youtu.be/3ZeWDtREdW4?t=5078

https://churchleaders.com/news/2215893-heresy-paula-white-cain-trump-jesus-easter.html

John Piper Under Fire for Referring to Trump’s Re-Election as an ‘Evil’

NOV 7, 2024

https://churchleaders.com/news/500345-john-piper-under-fire-for-referring-to-trump-as-a-test-from-god.html

He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.

Who is he? Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention.

AUG 8, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2053207948294574577

During his Sunday sermon, Pastor James Rigby who leads St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin, he noted that people have “mixed feelings” about the shooting but affirmed, “It’s really really important if we are going to be the healing agents of the world to realize that violence is not going to get rid of the problem that we have.”

“I said last week, if violence could have gotten rid of racism, the Civil War would have worked,” he continued. “But if you look at the Bible Belt and the heart of the MAGA movement, it is the Confederacy. The America they want to get back to is the Confederate States of America, not the United States of America.”

The pastor further stressed that “It’s very important that even as we fight for justice, even as we protect each other from this fascistic movement, that we not do to them what they're doing to the rest of us.

APR 27, 2026

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/04/27/james-talaricos-pastor-said-the-trump-administration-wants-to-revive-the-confederacy-n2675128

MAY 4, 2026

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/world/video/bishop-trump-critic-lamb-live-050404aseg1-cnni-religion-fast

The Bishop of Palm Beach Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez wrote on X on Thursday: "The renewed attacks directed by President Trump against our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, are entirely inconsistent with the Pope’s longstanding witness to justice, peace, and the dignity of every human person."

Rodríguez has previously criticized Trump's immigration rhetoric and policies

MAY 07, 2026

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-criticized-bishop-palm-beach-hours-before-marco-rubio-pope-leo-meeting-11923091

“I think a lot of moderates, a lot of centrist Republicans and Democrats, are saying, ‘This is not right,'” Hamilton told Religion News Service. “Whether it’s how we treat immigrants and making people afraid in our own borders, or the rhetoric that comes out of Washington, or cutting programs like SNAP and other programs that affect low-income children and families in America, I think there’s a lot of pastors and a lot of Christians who have just said, ‘This is not us.'”

MAY 03, 2026

https://www.alternet.org/megachurch-trump/

https://www.instagram.com/pastorbrandonaz

Edit: inserting dates so that you can see it's not all recent, but has been going on for years. Yes, I did focus on a lot of the recent ones. And this is not all, I simply got tired of typing. It's tiring reporting on what the media resists reporting.

get content creators.
hide their feeds so they don't make money. Use the algorithm to feed up creators the viewer didn't subscribe to, so that they watch randos.
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Profit.

Organizers for Kid Rock's 'Rock the Country Tour' are begging for grace after attendees slammed the MAGA music festival over muddy conditions and extreme delays on day one.

The tour, which is a 7-show small-town festival celebrating the country's 250th anniversary, kicked off on Friday, May 1, in Bellville, Texas. Organizers pleaded for leniency as festivalgoers slammed the tour for having 'the worst event management' amid calls for refunds. Kid Rock is expected to close out the show on Saturday, May 1.

The complaints came after attendees were left stranded in the rain for hours on day 1 of the MAGA music festival.

Thanks for the additional info!

This is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there's not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.

According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it's 6 years old)

What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources

Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.

Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.

The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.

In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).

The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.

The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.

Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.

Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.

The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.

Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.

"Yeah, but it's great for Limbo parties, once."

Strait of Economic Infarction.

It's the assumption that what works for me will work for you. Situations change. Markets change. Skill relevancy changes (ask IT workers).

As for university in Romania, I can't speak to that. What I can say about it in the US is:

"Go to college and get a good job." sounds great until you go to an elite school for a Sociology degree. Oh, you've got a law degree? The firm expects you to work pro-bono to establish yourself. Work for little pay while establishing yourself while paying off student debt.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-is-right-a-lot-of-students-at-elite-schools-have-student-debt/

and not just students at elite schools.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/29/nx-s1-5762975/competing-in-tough-job-market-college-grads-are-asking-is-there-anybody-out-there

https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/experience-creep-jobs-ai-entry-level/

Bottom line: have a couple of career paths/options.

For clarity the platform is called Snowflake.

While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, BleepingComputer has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake.

The headline is not calling the customers snowflakes.

The Document Foundation's official reply came from Italo Vignoli, a founder Collabora lists as having already exited TDF membership.

He has kept it short, confirming that the removals happened, pointing to TDF's recently adopted Community Bylaws as the basis. Those bylaws include a clause requiring anyone affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with TDF to step down from membership.

Link to those bylaws from Jan 15

https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472

Quote from that link [bylaws] above

Members involved in legal claims for endangering the Foundation, eg. by means of putting the charitable status at risk, or misusing TDF’s funds, or by damaging any of TDF’s assets, or by attempting to do any of these must relinquish their membership by means of notification to the MC. If the legal claim, in relation to the mentioned matters, involves a company/organisation then also their affiliated members must relinquish their membership.

Back to the original linked article:

The stated rationale is that past situations saw people put their employer's interests ahead of the foundation's, and the clause exists to stop that happening again. The specifics of the legal dispute between TDF and Collabora are not mentioned by either party.

TDF also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing "when the time comes."

So without details, all the article really details is that this happened. The why is murky. It seems the TDF is trying to protect itself, but there's no description of Collabra or TDFs legal dispute.

You know what would make that article better? Explaining that MCP means "Model Context Protocol" and at least explaining that it is a protocol for applications to provide context to LLMs. I get it, they're talking about Claude, so they know what they're talking about and assume that the reader is in the know, but then some bot comes along and drops it into Hacker News, and then we have to go and look it up.

I didn't mean to imply that they had elderly parents, I just meant that is something to consider if they did.

If you're young and your parents aren't old, it's doable.

It's also doable when you have siblings to take care of older parents. I know you say "Most of our families will be gone in a few years." But what if in less than that time they need care?

Relocating back to where your elderly parents are, especially if you're older can be a hassle. For example, if you are 50 years old and your parents are 75 years old, and they need a caretaker, you would need to relocate, and get a new job later in life (often at a pay decrease).