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If I cared to spend the time, the meme I'd design at this very moment would have Mel Gibson in blue face-paint, sword held aloft shouting, "Biryani!!!"

Today is proving to me the edge that old-school system analysis will always have over rote or LLM-generated helpers.
I’m not even a Windows guy, but I quickly diagnosed a problem that was stumping the Windows Guys who kept looking at a disk & devising insanities (e.g. use a local SSD in the VM rather than the spiffy NFS server.) I looked at the disk & was impressed by its ability to handle 7k pgs/sec, albeit slowly.
I expect adding RAM will fix the real issue.

In Türkei festgenommen - Zerknitterter Pass bringt Burgenländer in Haft #News #Nachrichten

Apple-Account gesperrt: Guthabenkarte löst tagelange Sperre aus
Ein Apple-Nutzer erlebte einen Albtraum, als eine Guthabenkarte seinen Account tagelang sperrte und Daten unbrauchbar machte. Der Vorfall wirft Fragen auf.

Höhlentour am Albtrauf

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/century-old-corals-reveal-the-pacific-northwest-is-acidifying-faster-than-expected/

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

are we in year 10 AE? After Elevator?
The Election That Could Rein in the Chaos | 'The Opinions' Podcast
#uspol

Oddly enough, I feel the same way, albeit with an antipodean arsebackwardness: the nights will get longer again. *sigh* https://mstdn.social/@dabertime/115754561123667224

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: CCC-Hacker fordern Bundesdatensicherungsspiele gegen Ransomware-Albträume

Heute morgen waren wir bei großer Kälte und einem wunderschönen Sonnenaufgang zu einer Friedhofserkundung auf unserem #Friedhof in #Kemnat
Spannend, was die Kinder alles entdeckt haben, die älteste Person die hier beerdigt wurde, ist 105 Jahre alt geworden.