Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 13, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Top photo: Honeymoon Island State Park - from ArmyBrat68]

Did you celebrate this anniversary yesterday?

Admit it - you broke out your old episodes of Compute! magazine to commemorate this.

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AI can be asshoe. It can also be made to do some clever and funny stuff.

Leftist travels through time to save George Floyd

Does he fare any better traveling back in time to meet Che Guevara?

I hope more of these hit my feed soon!

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You probably heard that Karoline Leavitt is stepping down as White House Press Secretray. Lots of speculation as to who will replace her.

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Flock segment of the night

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley Posted This garbage on X today

I've learned a lot in nine years of building @Flock_Safety . Some of it from our customers, and some of it from the communities they serve.

Today we’re announcing the changes that came from listening. A new standard for privacy, security, and accountability in public safety technology.

We're also asking state legislators to go further. Mandate real auditing on every law enforcement data system. Raise the penalties for misuse. And if your state wants help building it, we'll do it for free.

The post itself is heavily ratioed (more comments than likes). Comments are not friendly to him. There is a link at the post to a longer post on Flock's website - should that be something that interests you.

More here - Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network

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From Orwell Day on X - a collage of headlines about Flock cancellations.

Moar, please!!

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Another H/T to CBD for this one

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Back to Orwell Day. What an interesting discovery - an area strangely devoid of Flock cameras.

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From the "I saw it so now you have to" department

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Save your stuff on devices you own. Music, photos -- yeah, we all know that. It even applies to TV broadcast footage!!

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut off the station’s data access even though it still had 30 days to retrieve its data after the contract ended.

The station dug a little bit deeper when it discovered that the OSS website no longer existed and was listed as delinquent under the Colorado Secretary of State. It also discovered that OSS utilized Iron Mountain’s services, so it sent a demand letter to the latter to preserve its data and to "pay any reasonable costs associated with its demand." At the time, Iron Mountain did not confirm or deny that it possessed Nine PBS’ data.

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

DJ Doof - R.I.P. To My Local Classic Rock Radio Station Edition

100.7 "The Bay" - Classic Rock radio station in Baltimore went off the air last night, just before Midnight. The station was sold and the frequency is now a Christian Contemporary music station.

The folks at The Bay posted their playlist from their final hour on the air. Seems like they had fun taking a poke at the new format.

From The Bay's Facebook page

If you're interested, here are the final 2 hours of The Bay over the air broadcast. The segment starts with the 10pm "Get the Led out" block of Led Zeppelin songs -- something they've done for as long as I can remember. Although I think they used to call it "Zeppelin O'clock".

These are the last 3 songs they played. Put on an O's hat and pour out some Natty Boh in honor of The Bay, Hon!

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