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One of my favorite easter eggs in Nethack was the way a Mailer Daemon would arrive in-game and deliver a scroll when you received an email on the host Unix system. Which then becam…

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Bazzite mostly suggests installing stuff via Flatpak or Homebrew. (No, really, brew on Linux lol). You can also layer in things with rpm-ostree but it's clunky. I think the immutab…

One thing that's lovely about Linux is this kind of analysis is not only possible, but meaningful. These results will get reported back to the graphics software authors and the dis…

Grok is many things but it is not "neutral". https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/25/ai-models-valu...

People give them money because of the moral stance. They are either actively fine with the CSAM or just don't care.

The premise of this statement is wrong.

I realize as a Californian we may not count as "American" in this particular zeitgeist stereotype. But FWIW we have a firework ban in Nevada County that is widely respected. There …

numerous vulnerabilities in secure boot deployment over many years. e.g. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/secure-boot-neuteri...

I'm surprised more people aren't freaking out about this. It seems likely a whole lot of Linux machines are going to fail to reboot in the next few months. The problem affects VMs …

I love stuff like this. But if it's serious as a thing you might use, would be nice to see some example programs and evaluation of how well they work. Also a test suite.

If you like the idea of smart corvids, Adrian Tchaikovsky's scifi novel "The Children of Memory" is a fun read. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60850767-children-of-...

Backrest is so good as a frontend to Restic I stopped looking for anything better. Is there anything better now?

We once deleted the lost+found folder on an old Unix system* by accident. Things went very badly the next time the system rebooted, fsck did not handle it at all well. * Probably D…

Summary from the study author: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-st... PDF of article (page 62) https://cdn.coverstand.com/61061/865273/2c88ea662e2b57478723…

This is the classic Terry Moore 3 minute video. It boils down to "tie a square knot". It changed my life too! I love this video because it's both the perfect TED video and the perf…

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Is Start9 a well known company? The page by itself seems indistinguishable from a scam, but maybe they have a reputation that justifies their asking for $250,000?

I like TopoJSON and have used it in projects. But it's weird to set it up as opposition to GeoJSON. It's a complement. GeoJSON is a general data format meant to replace uses of ESR…

This reminds me ChromeOS has some USB-C cable identification superpowers: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1pyojjd/comme... Not sure if it's using the same thing this…

How did a bug like this get past their testing?

I keep hearing a lot of good buzz about their product. Haven't tried it myself but I mean to.

This video is another good demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLncut79vE

Most old-timers here are familiar with a Prolog-variant: make. Anyone who's struggled over a complex Makefile wishes they had a more sane declarative language!