Tech crowd in TX especially. It is looking like not only did TX go for Talarico, it is going for every dem in a state wide race. The only I think not called yet is Ag Commissioner. And the D is ahead there as well. From RR commissioner to Lt Gov, to Atty Gen all dem. RR may be particularly important as it controls oil & gas. Kind of weird it is called RR(Rail Road), probably an artifact from the 1800's. One thing the new D gov ran on was a moratorium on DC's. That could be the most immediate thing.

I don't use auto raise ever. Moving the cursor in my setup changes only focus, never stacking. I click to bring things forward.

Interesting, mouse cursor never bothered me, but like I said before, everyone is different, and *NIX lets us all have our preference. I don't think apple offers the option, one of the reasons I never adopted apple. For me I expect ancient muscle memory. Pretty sure suntools used focus follows.

I think we do the same thing, I set focus follows mouse as the first thing I do on a new box. Click to focus is just the worst for me. And that auto-raise thing, satan came up with that one. But I do get it, everyone works differently, which is why I like *NIX, you get to pick. Well, maybe not in wayland, not sure, still use X11. For those who use click to focus, why the preference?

and Lake America come to mind. Only the faithful have adopted the new names. At least I think that is what the orange one renamed things to. Oh and how could I forget, the strait of trump I think was another. Those names will be completely forgotten in a few years. Maybe sooner if we are lucky.

Anyone who has been inside a co at the higher levels knows just how bad it is. Not until I went to a startup did I see just how slimy the biz world is. At lower levels in co's that sort of stuff is just never talked about. Too much legal liability. I've met some real shits in my life.

I expect the reason they'd do it is they are desperate. The mere fact they are repurposing jet engines to make juice demonstrates it. The backlog on nat gas turbines for power is years. The backlog for jet engines is now years, and is so bad that relatively young aircraft are now being sent to the grave for the engines. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/2... I'm not sure in the history of man anything has caused so much disruption to the economy as ai/dc's. War yes, not surprisingly. New ideas, I don't think so. Computers did not, steam engine did not, cars did not.

It is no win for everyone. Well except ai scrapers. If you run a website and look at the logs, it is 99% scraping and 1% human now. As you say, most just look at the google ai answer and don't bother visiting the source from the ai scrape. Google gets a little cash and not the site they got the info from. So if reddit walls off, they stop the scrape. But they stop the humans too. If they don't wall off, the humans don't come anymore because they just read the answer from the scraper.

While I agree it is maybe an hour a month after you get it started, there are spurts of much more. Like when as you mentioned, you had to add SPF's to get others to play nice. That was a while ago though, maybe a decade even. Its been awhile and I forget the timing. I'm kind of expecting another shoe to drop which is TLS only required for email. A true irony since almost everyone uses gmail, yahoo, hot, microsoft, ... that are all scanning your email. Encryption I guess so only google gets to read it, oh and you.

I've also had to add a always allow to a few co's that really just can't seem to get it right on email. CC cards, health insurance, even a couple government agencies all seem to be incapable of following the email protocol correctly. Bad DNS entries is usually the culprit.

No kidding about gmail. Run my own server, have a rule for gmail which is if you aren't on the list, nope to delivery.

I initially disabled the ai search on google but still used google. Switched to a new laptop, forgot how I disabled the ai, so switched to duck duck. So google lost me as a search user as a result of ai. I doubt I'll go back. Certainly not for ai search.

schedule sex? "She even proposes that her AI assistant could coordinate plans with her husband's AI assistant."

And if they do, will she and her husband both be there. That Woody Allan movie with the orgasmatron was so ahead of its time.

Didn't use EMACS or vi. I used NED, which came out of DARPA I think. I first used it in 1978 I think and thru the end of school in 81. IBM where I first worked did not have it, then next co had VAXen with EDT. But around 85 I got a tape with source from somewhere for the VAX. Ported it for sun3, then sun4. I did a total rewrite in Linux around 2004. I couldn't get the port to go in Linux with all the crud from the ages. Easier to rewrite.

Serious conversation with AI. An oxymoron. As to whether it would work, I would not trust ai. The world has had mini-ice ages multiple times. Massive volcano eruptions have caused them. The sulfuric acid reflects energy, which is sort of like what a big shade would do. I'm skeptical a big shade is feasible though. I do think in the end we are going to need to geo engineer the earth. Humans are greedy, they are not going to downgrade energy use. Case in point, your use of AI for your post. How much carbon did you blow to have that serious conversation? Other more blatant ones. Just saw an article about lux yachts are on like a 4 or 5 year back order. These are the really massive ones, basically small aircraft carriers for very rich people. Turns out US economy is doing just fine, the builders have noticed increased orders from the US while ME, and EU customers are backing off. Also saw another interesting article about the near rich. That endless lux cruise co just filed for bankruptcy. They dumped everyone in Cambodia. https://www.newsweek.com/endle... Fuel costs per cabin went up to 8 grand/mo. Imagine what fuel costs are for those giant personal yachts.

I'd like that to be standard on EV's.