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SiriusXM radio service pushed out an update that expected the infotainment system to be at version x.5. Or whatever. If it wasn't, it rolled back. And therein's the rub. Sirius was unable to revert to its former state, so it tried to download its newest image. Which wasn't compatible with the current state of the infotainment system. Reboot the infotainment system, rinse, repeat.

For some Audi owners, this went on for MONTHS.

I would be seriously pissed if this were to happen to me! Now, my Subaru is 10 years old, and I replaced the radio with a newer Kenwood to get some additional functionality out of Apple's Car Play, and I'm glad I did it. But if I had a newer car with a touchscreen, and it got borked like this? WOW. Very unhappy camper!

The problem was that there are people with car that, for whatever reason, were not running the latest version of their car's infotainment OS. Maybe they had a bad antenna, who knows. Then this APP update comes along and blows everything up. Once again, bad programming that was unable to fail safe and properly revert back to its previous state. I don't know anything about how these infotainment systems are programmed, but you'd think the first thing you'd do when pushing an update would be to read what version is out there - which you can presume is working properly - and write that version identifier off to a safe memory space that won't be overwritten. If your update fails, reload THAT saved version! Then figure out what happened.

*sigh*

https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-siriusxm-update-sent-some-audi-screens-into-a-forced-reboot-loop-for-months

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/003245/a-siriusxm-update-sent-some-audi-screens-into-a-forced-reboot-loop-for-months

I woke up this morning wondering, "Why am I so cold?" I have the bed's heating mattress set on high, even though the temperature outside is only at freezing (well, 2C/35F anyway), but I'm still cold.

The cat demanded food, so I went downstairs to feed her. I checked the house thermostat. Ah! The batteries on the thermostat were drained, so the furnace was not running at all. I put the batteries in the recharger, but I have no AAA-sized batteries right now that are charged. It will be hours before I can get even a temporary respite from the cold.

I went back upstairs and checked the thermometer (the CO2 meter) by my bedside. It's 12C/54F in my bedroom. That's why I'm so cold this morning. Problem identified, and the fix is on the way.

P.S. The cat finished her meal, came back upstairs, and clawed her way under the sheets in my bed. I turned the heating mattress back on for her. I'm at my computer, wrapped in a thick bath robe for warmth.

and since we have a ton of computer mice (mouses?) already I just swapped it out. But I still was bugged by the ton of crud that I know was embedded in my old mouse, so before I tossed it I took it apart to clean the scrollwheel.

So much cat hair, much of it felted, and I'm honestly surprised the scrollwheel was functioning at all. But it was so cheaply made that putting it back together would've been a hassle and a half, so I'm glad I had the sense to just replace it rather than depending on my own repair skills!

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Big con appearances maybe not worth it to studios in the very online age.

Bonus link this week is about saving a piece of sfnal history.

Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners

1. Why does a bed need to be smart?
2. Why does everything have to be a subscription nowadays?
3. Why didn't they design the damn things to just be normal beds if cut off from the internet?

Seriously, you couldn't have written this 30 years ago, nobody would ever have accepted the premise! I'd say something about fools and their money, but....

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A true feel-good story.

Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is a very fun, and potentially very rude, party card game. A few years ago they decided to tweak President 45's nose and bought an acre of land in Texas in the path of a proposed wall building. And sold 1" parcels of it to fans of their game, making the acre so subdivided that any attempt to purchase it or to seize it through exercising eminent domain over it that it would be insanely complicated.

Well, the site just so happens to be near Boca Chica, the location of a certain space company's launch platform. And said space company moved in a bunch of trucks and dumped gravel, debris, and all sorts of stuff on this acre that they didn't own. CAH had posted no trespassing signs on it, which said space company's trucks ignored and drove over. CAH complained to said space company and was ignored, so they sued.

And got a settlement! Shortly before the suit would have gone to trial before a jury, the space company blinked.

Sadly the terms of the settlement are sealed and CAH can't talk about it, but the space company cleaned up the acre, remediating it back to its original state. And the owners of said acre will be receiving a CAH card pack extolling the many manifold virtues, or lack thereof, of Leon Muskbrat.

I don't know if said card packs will be available to buyers outside of those acre property owners, but I'd love to have one. Had I known about this land purchase, I would have liked to have been a part of it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/

Posted by Matt Kiser

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/10/22/day-1737/

Day 1737

Today in one sentence: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the House in federal court to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva; Trump told Republicans to “hold the line” on the government shutdown, saying “We will not be extorted” and that he would meet Democratic leaders “only” after they vote to reopen the government; 59% of Americans say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about rising health care costs in the next year; Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke for more than 18 hours on the Senate floor, accusing Trump of “shredding our Constitution” and acting as an authoritarian; North Carolina’s Republican Legislature approved a new U.S. House map designed to add one Republican seat; the U.S. military carried out its eighth strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel; Trump will host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November; the White House began demolishing the entire East Wing for Trump’s planned ballroom before submitting construction plans to the National Capital Planning Commission; and 62% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction.

1/ Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the House in federal court to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a Sept. 23 special election. The filing claims Johnson lacks authority to delay and asked a judge to let “any person authorized by law” administer the oath if he refuses. Johnson called the suit “patently absurd,” said “We run the House,” and argued he was following a “Pelosi precedent” to wait until regular session or the shutdown ends. Democrats said Johnson has delayed swearing-in Grijalva to block the 218th signature needed for a discharge petition to release Jeffrey Epstein files. (NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / CBS News)

2/ Trump told Republicans to “hold the line” on the government shutdown, saying “We will not be extorted” and that he would meet Democratic leaders “only” after they vote to reopen the government. Democrats have tied reopening the government to extending enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, while Republicans insist that talks can only happen after voting to fund the government. The nonpartisan health policy group KFF estimates that premiums will rise 18% on average, with the typical marketplace consumer paying $1,904 next year, up from $888. Meanwhile, 13 vulnerable House Republicans urged Speaker Mike Johnson to address the credits “immediately” after reopening. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said public pressure would make it “readily apparent” why Congress must extend the credits now. (NPR / The Hill / Washington Post / Bloomberg)

poll/ 59% of Americans say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about rising health care costs in the next year. About 4 in 10 are worried they won’t be able to afford needed care, access services, or keep their insurance. 80% say health care is “extremely” or “very” important to them personally, placing it alongside the economy as a top national concern. (Associated Press)

3/ ✨ Well, that’s fantastic: Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke for more than 18 hours on the Senate floor, accusing Trump of “shredding our Constitution” and acting as an authoritarian. The Oregon Democrat said “tyranny has already arrived” as he protested Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland and Chicago and the indictments of Trump’s political opponents. The speech came on day 22 of the government shutdown. Republicans dismissed the marathon speech as political theater. (The Guardian / CNN / Associated Press / Reuters / NBC News)

4/ North Carolina’s Republican Legislature approved a new U.S. House map designed to add one Republican seat, with the House voting 66-48 a day after the Senate passed it. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein can’t veto redistricting, and the map will take effect for the 2026 elections. Trump, meanwhile, praised the “improved” map and said it would “give the fantastic people of North Carolina the opportunity to elect an additional MAGA Republican.” (Associated Press / NPR / Politico / NBC News)

5/ The U.S. military carried out its eighth strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel, hitting a boat off Colombia in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed two people were killed and claimed the vessel was operated by a “designated terrorist organization” carrying narcotics. He offered no evidence beyond a video showing the vessel engulfed in flames. The attack, ordered by Trump, expands a campaign that has killed at least 34 people since Sept. 2. (New York Times / Reuters / CBS News)

6/ Trump will host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November. It will be the crown prince’s first U.S. visit since the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, which the CIA concluded he likely ordered. Officials said the trip could produce a defense cooperation deal enacted by executive order, along with agreements on trade, artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, and security. (Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / Semafor)

7/ The White House began demolishing the entire East Wing for Trump’s planned ballroom before submitting construction plans to the National Capital Planning Commission. A senior administration official said the tear-down should be finished this weekend and that full demolition was “cheaper and more structurally sound” than building an addition. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, meanwhile, warned that the 90,000-square-foot project “will overwhelm the White House itself” and must undergo “legally required” public review. The White House dismissed objections as “manufactured outrage” and said it would submit construction plans “soon.” (The Guardian / New York Times / CBS News / Reuters / Washington Post)

poll/ 62% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, including 92% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 24% of Republicans. 65% say the economy and the federal government’s functioning are going in the wrong direction, and 60% say the same about U.S. foreign policy. 56% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, including two-thirds of independents. (PPRI)

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Now, I have to admit that I didn't know there was such a thing as smart beds. I'm not in the least bit surprised, but I didn't know it.

First, the problem. Amazon Web Services, AWS, had a DNS problem that clobbered a whole bunch of systems around the world that relied on processes running within their cloud services. We had problems at work in the library Monday and Tuesday, though those seem to be clearing up. The data center that had the problem is one of Amazon's oldest, and it's had serious problems before in 2020 and 2021.

(In short, DNS translates domain names, such as Amazon.com, into internet server addresses, such as 192.68.25.1, and sends data requests to the correct server. If it gets borked and you're a data packet, it becomes a lot more difficult to get where you need to go.)

This is why I'm an advocate of not having your IT system relying on cloud systems! But management likes to think they're saving money by putting stuff "in the cloud" where people have little direct control over things and security risks multiple. But whatever, as long as management is happy.

So, these "smart beds". They're made by a company called Eight Sleep. Not only do the beds cost $5,000, you pay $200-$500 annually for this bed to be connected to the internet so it can adjust its position, temperature, "provide soundscapes and vibrational alarms", etc.

GAH!

Whatever. I guess if you have the cash to throw $5K at a bed, go have fun. I'm not going to do it.

ANYWAY, when the DNS problem happened, and the bed could no longer talk to the ~~spy~~mothership, the beds freaked out (probably along with their owners), including some folding themselves double. Apparently Eight Sleep's programmers never considered a scenario where the beds lost connectivity and didn't design a fail safe mode for the bed to, you know, just be a bed. The CEO of the ~~idiotic~~smart bed company said "...engineers were racing to build an outage-proof mode in the event of a future outage." Livestock, meet barn with open doors.

"Sorry, boss. I was late today because someone unplugged my bed."

I am going to laugh my butt off if this company goes bankrupt and all of those beds freak out or die when the servers get unplugged.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/cloud-computing/smart-beds-flipped-out-during-the-aws-outage-and-so-did-their-sleepy-owners/ar-AA1OYol8

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1347211/smart-beds-malfunctioned-during-aws-outage

Hint: it's not the Nobel.

He was awarded the Richard Nixon Foundation's Architects of Peace Award.

Yeah. Tricky Dick is back in the news!

Previous recipients: Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney. I'm sure he'll be proclaiming that it's a much better award than the Nobel.

Good company there, Li'l Donny! Irony doth know no bounds.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-wins-peace-prize_n_68f88ee0e4b0dbac459201ca

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2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate: The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
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Every so often I see some politician Gotcha'd with "Can women have penises?" - and the results have always either be flailing or in a very rare case (new Greens leader Zack Polanski) just saying "Yes", in a way which basically hands everything to the interviewer.

And I know that it's really hard to deal with an interviewer who is determined to make you look bad. But it bothers me occasionally that people don't try and explain "But here is my point of view, and where it comes from" - because while saying "Yes" might be very reassuring to people already on your side, it does nothing to persuade others who are just confused by/mildly hostile.

So here, in a simple set of 4 steps is my view.

1) Nobody is choosing to be transgender. It's a difference in brain development.
See here. This isn't new, it's the medical view, and has been for many years.

2) Forcing people to live in the gender that they don't identify as is incredibly destructive to their mental health.
This is also long well known. The vast majority of attempts to raise boys as girls and vice versa have appalling impacts on people. The poster-boy for this was David Reimer, who suffered a terrible accident as a baby which destroyed his penis (in the 60s), never knew he was born a boy, and was raised a girl (on the advice of a doctor who believes that gender was just cultural conditioning). And it made him *incredibly* unhappy - within weeks of his parents breaking the rules they'd been given and telling him (at age 13) that he had been born a boy he'd changed his name and presentation. Details here.

3) Most transgender people are not publicly out.
You might get the impression that trans people are all out activists. But the vast majority aren't. They don't want to be "The person who was born one way and is now another", they want to be the person that they are on the inside. So almost nobody they interact with on a daily basis knows that they are transgender. The ones where "Everyone knows about this transgender person" are the exception, most of them are not public about it. As a friend said "My identity is female and back when I transitioned the advice was to deal and vanish into the big bad women's world."

4) Therefore, as a society, we have a choice between either forcibly outing people whenever they want to use a toilet, get married, throw a ball, or otherwise interact with society, or letting them live in the gender that they are presenting*.

There you go. That's the humane, liberal approach to transgender people. And every time you get hooked into arguments about the definition of the word "woman", you get pulled away from those very simple things: Nobody asked to be born in a body that destroys their mental health. Most people don't want to be public about that having happened to them (because it stops them just living as the gender they are in their brains). So we can either be supportive or we can torture them.

*And that's the approach that the European Court of Human Rights took, in Goodwin vs The United Kingdom in 2001. They balanced the right of someone to not have to out themselves, against the the negative consequences thereof. And found that the proven negative consequences were basically nonexistent. Which is what then led to Labour being forced to pass the Gender Recognition Act. The rights coming from that, to live in the gender that you choose, are what is currently under attack.

Storybundle is at it again. This series includes: The Monarchies of God 1-5 by Paul Kearney, The Gales 1-3 by Tanya Huff, Shadowkings 1-3 by Michael Cobley, Dark Delicacies 1-3 by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Queens of Fate 1-3 by Natania Barron, Triggernometry 1-3 by Stark Holborn, Yolen's Short Fiction 1-3 (The Emerald Circus series) by Jane Yolen, Assassin's Code 1-3, and The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire 1-3 by Rod Duncan.

PHEW!

I can't imagine what the page count of all that is for $33! For me, the Triggernometry, the Tanya Huff, and the Jane Yolen series are the ones that I'm most interested in. Here's the description of Triggernometry: "Stark Holborn's Triggernometry series mixes the grit of the Western with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a unique and explosive adventure." Wild/Weird West and dueling mathemeticians? Okay.... Just weird enough to really interest me!

You control the split between the authors and Storybundle, and can designate 10% of the proceeds to the Locus charity.

Like most of the Humble Bundles, these are DRM-free. You can get three books for $5, but you have to pay a minimum of $33 to get them all.

The deal is available for another 15 days and 22 hours as of my posting this.

https://storybundle.com/trilogies

It's wrong and bad and wrong and I don't like it. She was little just yesterday! Now she is not little, and her sibling is even less little, and I just don't understand how that happened.

Happy birthday to her, I guess.

Posted by Matt Kiser

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/10/21/day-1736/

Day 1736

Today in one sentence: A man pardoned by Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries; Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel “is not going to pass” following reports that Paul Ingrassia sent text messages that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and admitted he has “a Nazi streak”; Trump demanded that the Justice Department he now oversees pay him about $230 million for federal investigations into him, including probes of Russian election interference and the 2022 Mar-a-Lago search; Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approved a new congressional map designed to give the Republicans an additional U.S. House seat; Republican farm-state senators and major rancher groups called Trump’s idea to import more Argentine beef to lower U.S. prices a “betrayal of America first principles”; White House said there are “no plans” for Trump to meet Putin “in the immediate future”; and the Treasury Department told employees not to share photos of the White House East Wing demolition or construction on Trump’s ballroom.

1/ A man pardoned by Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Authorities said Christopher Moynihan sent text messages stating, “I cannot allow this terrorist to live” and “I will kill him for the future,” referring to an event Jeffries was scheduled to attend in New York City. Police said the FBI received an anonymous tip warning of Moynihan’s “homicidal ideations” and drug abuse before his arrest. Jeffries called Moynihan “a dangerous individual” and blamed Trump’s “reckless blanket pardon” for forcing police “to keep our communities safe from violent individuals who should never have been pardoned.” Speaker Mike Johnson, meanwhile, called the threat “terrible” but repeated that “violence on the left is far more prevalent than the violence on the right,” even though federal and academic data show right-wing violence has been more frequent and more lethal since 2001. (Politico / New York Times / NPR / Associated Press / CNBC / Axios / Washington Post / Reuters / NBC News / CNN)

2/ Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel “is not going to pass” following reports that Paul Ingrassia sent text messages that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and admitted he has “a Nazi streak.” Thune suggested that the White House should withdraw him with Republican Sens. Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and James Lankford saying they would vote no, short of the votes needed to advance. Ingrassia’s attorney, meanwhile, questioned the messages’ authenticity and called them “self-deprecating and satirical humor.” (NBC News / Semafor / Politico / Wall Street Journal / Axios / New York Times / Associated Press)

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions plans to hold a confirmation hearing next Thursday for Trump’s nominee for surgeon general. Trump said he nominated Casey Means in May after withdrawing his first pick, Janette Nesheiwat, because “Bobby thought she was fantastic,” referring to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While Means earned an MD from Stanford, she dropped out of her residency after becoming “disillusioned” with the health care system and instead persued a career as a “wellness influencer.” (Bloomberg / ABC News)

3/ Trump demanded that the Justice Department he now oversees pay him about $230 million for federal investigations into him, including probes of Russian election interference and the 2022 Mar-a-Lago search. Trump claimed he “was damaged very greatly” by “malicious prosecution” and that “any money I would get, I would give to charity.” The claims are being reviewed by department officials who previously served as his defense lawyers, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. “I’m sort of suing myself,” Trump said, adding that “it sort of looks bad” because approving the payout “would have to go across my desk.” (New York Times)

Trump fired the inspector general of the Export-Import Bank, making Parisa Salehi the latest of roughly two dozen watchdogs he has dismissed or sidelined. Senator Charles Grassley said Trump “hasn’t told Congress he was firing the Ex-Im Inspector General,” calling the move a violation of federal law. (New York Times)

4/ Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approved a new congressional map designed to give the Republicans an additional U.S. House seat. The plan would likely give Republicans control of 11 of the state’s 14 seats. Democrats called the move “beyond the pale” and said it dismantled Black communities for partisan gain. The state House is expected to approve the map later this week, and Governor Josh Stein cannot veto redistricting, leaving legal challenges as the only recourse. (Washington Post / New York Times / Associated Press / CNN / Democracy Docket)

5/ Republican farm-state senators and major rancher groups called Trump’s idea to import more Argentine beef to lower U.S. prices a “betrayal of America first principles,” warning it would hurt producers. “Bottom line: if the goal is addressing beef prices at the grocery store, this isn’t the way,” Sen. Deb Fischer said. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the goal is to cut grocery costs, while ranch groups including the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said the plan “does nothing to lower prices.” Argentina supplies about 2% of U.S. beef imports. Trump defended the idea, saying, “We would buy some beef from Argentina […] that will bring our beef prices down,” and argued, “Argentina is fighting for its life.” (Politico / Associated Press / CNBC / New York Times / Bloomberg)

6/ The White House said there are “no plans” for Trump to meet Putin “in the immediate future,” reversing last week’s announcement of a Budapest summit would happen “within two weeks or so.” Trump said he didn’t want “a wasted meeting” and would “see what happens.” White House claimed that a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made an in-person meeting “not necessary.” The Kremlin, however, said “you can’t postpone what was not scheduled” and called for “serious preparation.” (ABC News / Politico / Bloomberg / Axios / CNN / Washington Post / Associated Press / New York Times)

7/ The Treasury Department told employees not to share photos of the White House East Wing demolition or construction on Trump’s ballroom. A Treasury spokesman said photos could “potentially reveal sensitive items, including security features or confidential structural details.” Demolition started Monday, and the White House has said the new ballroom will be about 90,000 square feet with seating for more than 650 and funded by private donors. (Wall Street Journal)

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told me that one of them, the friendliest, died today. Poor baby. The person who was supposed to trap them hasn't been in touch, apparently, so I'll talk to some people.

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You apparently are flabbergasted that two of your students have asked you not to call CPS on one of them. "I would never do that! Why is that your first thought!"

Well, maybe it's their first thought because you have a moral and legal responsibility to inform the authorities if you know that children are being as badly neglected as your nephew and his sisters are? I mean, if you wanted to solve this without getting a social worker involved, you had four years in which to do that.

I'm just saying, that might be why both of them thought you'd do that. Because that was what you were supposed to do, and shame on you for instead choosing to do nothing for so long. You are not the hero of this story, no matter what the author seems to think.

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and they're pretty much all fanfic right now? I've clearly been falling behind.

(Don't ask how long this has been the situation, just do not ask.)

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To me, one silly task is like another.
I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.
This flesh will never give a child its mother,
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again. I am the chosen no hand saves:
The shrieking heaven lifted over men,
Not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves.

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