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Linh Pham @linh.social · 17h

Just a short blog post with updates to the Wait Wait Graphs and Wait Wait Reports Sites to fix an issue where shows with an all men panel were not getting counted correctly.

I found the issue after entering information for this week's #WaitWaitDontTellMe 🤦

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Wait Wait Stats Updates: November 2025

The Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! that aired on November 1, 2025 was the very first show that had a panel consisting of three men: Adam Burke, Alonzo Bodden and Josh Gondelman. This happened a little over...

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 1d

Whoa! This is the very first time the show has had an all men panel!

Here's the report of the panel mix before this week's show: reports.wwdt.me/shows/panel-...

#WaitWaitDontTellMe

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 6d

...in order to keep the battery charged and you are hauling around a lot more weight that isn't contributing to the actual work in moving the vehicle.

Also, a complementary report...

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Smoke screen: the growing PHEV emissions scandal

New analysis finds long-range plug-in hybrids and extended-range electric vehicles are a diversion on the road to zero emissions.

www.transportenvironment.org

Linh Pham @linh.social · 6d

The only way that PHEVs and REx-EVs have lower emissions than ICE (and maybe standard hybrids) is if the vehicles are driven almost entirely in EV mode.

Driving PHEVs and REx-EVs like ICE or hybrid vehicles (ie: not charging them nightly) means that the car has to generate more emissions...

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 6d

Even though I don't have a means of charging an EV overnight, I will be going with a full BEV and not a plug-in hybrid or range-extended EV because of the extra complexity, weight, and emissions that PHEV and REx-EV end up having.

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Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars – EU data

Even in electric mode, PHEVs still burn fuel and emit 68g of CO2/km, on average. Their hidden fuel consumption costs the average PHEV driver €500 extra a…

www.transportenvironment.org

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 6d

Just a thought...

Maybe Crowdstrike isn't exactly the best brand to sponsor a race car given that crashes can happen and pieces of the car may strike the crowd.

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 7d

For #Pixelfed, you can view the photos of my #WaitWaitDontTellMe notes or follow me at @[email protected].

Linh Pham (@[email protected])

60 Posts, 71 Following, 18 Followers · Wait Wait Stats Person, Software Release Engineer, Trekkie, Whovian, Pythonista, TBTL Ten. I use Fedora, BTW.Stats Page: https://stats.wwdt.me | Flickr: https://...

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 7d

Just a reminder that I post photos of the notes that I take when listening to (or when I get a chance to attend a taping of) #WaitWaitDontTellMe on both #Flickr and on my #Pixelfed accounts.

The album on Flickr is sorted oldest to newest entry.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Notes

Photos of the notes that I write down for each Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show from late 2017 onward. Photos are published under the terms of CC BY-NC-SA.

flickr.com

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 8d

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social I don't have a fedora, but I do use Fedora 🙃

#Fedora #Linux #TBTL

System information for a Framework Laptop 16 running Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 8d

Speaking of people that spark joy, meet Sarah Langs, stats nerd/maven, who wakes up every day determined to convince the world that Baseball Is The Best.

She's also living with ALS, and always fundraising to find a cure. You can donate here: fundraise.projectals.org/campaign/fis...

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 8d

Unsurprisingly, when an LLM is trained continually on "junk web text," researchers found that process ends up inducing "lasting cognitive decline" for the model.

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

Models trained on short, popular, and/or “superficial” tweets perform worse on benchmarks.

arstechnica.com

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Unofficial: Live Wire Radio Podcast Announcer @lwr-podcast-bot.bsky.social · 8d

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Edgar Gomez, River Selby, and Hunter Noack

Writer Edgar Gomez discusses his collection of essays Alligator Tears, which follows his various hus...

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 10d

If it's not DNS that breaks things, it's expired SSL certificates and GPG keys. I suppose it's the latter right now...

#MySQL

MySQL Bugs: #119212: Expired GPG signature key for package repository

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 10d

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social If you want to check out another great creator who repairs older computers and CRTs, I highly, highly recommend @adriansdigitalbasement.com.

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 10d

The reason why GM wants you trapped into their spin of Android Automotive is to milk as much data and subscription money off of you as possible.

For me, if there's no CarPlay or Android Auto, it's off my list. I have everything on my phone and don't need yet another fscking subscription!

Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay

GM CEO Mary Barra and new product chief Sterling Anderson on the company’s Gemini-powered AI assistant and self-driving EVs.

www.theverge.com

Linh Pham @linh.social · 10d

Also,

3. East Palestine, Ohio was where the horrific train crash happened

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 10d

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social A little late to listening to yesterday's pod:

1. Nutritional Yeast
2. I worked for a regional lumber and hardware supplier that had popcorn machines at some locations. I would always nosh on some when I go on yard visits for IT stuff

#TBTL

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 11d

Explaining the differences between #Intel and #AMD modular processor designs using LEGO? Yes, please!

@craftcomputing.bsky.social: Explaining Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon and Intel 18A with Lego!

Explaining Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon and Intel 18A with LEGO!

YouTube video by Craft Computing

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Linh Pham @linh.social · 12d

a black and white drawing of snoopy in the rain with a cloud over his head .

Alt: An animated black and white image of Charlie Brown in the rain with a cloud raining all over him.

media.tenor.com

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 12d

Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns