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GB Pixel Art Jam 2026 - SpaceDeck Trio

I participated in my first pixel art jam! It was a Game Boy themed one. It was a lot of fun to work with such a limited palette. The theme was Three, and I went with three player ships from SpaceDe...

Daily News Stuff 6 November 2026

Garden Party Edition Top Story Well, that's dumb: A configuration flaw in certainly flavours of Linux - most of them uncommon but the list includes OpenWRT and Alpine - allows anyone to log in usin...

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Why MCP Could Be A Hero For Your Lean Legal Team

[Sponsored] New webinar! Learn more about MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how to use it and get it done right. The post Why MCP Could Be A Hero For Your Lean Legal Team appeared first on Above the...

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew

Read Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew My daughter has moved out of the house and in with her fiancé. I was clearing out some old trash from her room (she told me I c...

Forgot What a Friend Told You? Follow Up Honestly

Forgot an important detail a friend shared? Ask for a small update without pretending to remember, demanding a recap, or storing their private story.

Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 years

Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 yearsby FairphoneThe Fairphone team talk through two examples of where the original Fairphone 1 from back in 2013 are "still very much in use", but I think ...

Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups

New collection brings warmth and style to tumblers and mugs this winter.  When the seasons change in Japan, so too do the limited-edition goods at Starbucks, and this season we’ll be getting a new ...

Florida Ban on Material Support to "Domestic Terrorist Organizations" Can't Be Applied to Legal Advice to CAIR

From CAIR-Foundation, Inc. v. DeSantis Wednesday by Chief Judge Allen Winsor (N.D. Fla.): The Florida Legislature recently enacted a new… The post Florida Ban on Material Support to "Domestic Terro...

King Wamba

When the Third Council of Braga was held in 675 (a century after the Second), the Visigothic king at the time tried to influence it.Wamba, whose name means "big paunch," became king in 672. There w...

What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health

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U.S.–PRC Competition Enters New Phase in Central Asia

Bradley Jardine & Edward Lemon

MPV 0.42 brings enhanced Wayland & HDR support and AMD frame rate conversion filter

The open-source media player MPV has released version 0.42, headlined by a new networking stack built on libcurl that introduces HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support along with connection reuse, a meaningful ...

Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart

The release also adds docked windows, three new cursor trail shaders, and touchscreen support on Wayland.

The Goat Emoji Is 100% Valid Machine Code, and It Doesn’t Stop There

Did you know emojis can be executables? Well, they are if you treat them like Intel 8088 or 8086 machine code, anyway. [GloriousCow] shared this clever revelation, demonstrating that executable …re...

While the Maya built pyramids, builders in Nicaragua kept rebuilding 372 enigmatic mounds in white stone that form a planned pattern you can’t see from the ground

Three kilometres (about two miles) north of the town of Juigalpa, in the Chontales department of central Nicaragua, the hills are dotted with 372 mounds of earth and stone. The site is known as Agu...

The Psychology of Letting Go

Some time ago I drafted an essay on cutting words from essays, intended for a cheesy writing contest, and never submitted it. I was thinking about this essay, languishing on my hard drive, as I was...

Well, That Wasn't Fun: October 16 '26

October 16, 2026 began like any other day at Fly.io (meaning, we were anticipating only a medium amount of chaos). By that evening, we had patched and rebooted our entire fleet in response to a Lin...

The MustCreate Pattern for Go Tests

I recently discovered a handy way to make Go tests more readable and less repetitive. Suppose I have a constructor that can fail: func NewUsername(raw string) (Username, error) { ... } And I have a...

Lawyer’s Film Career Couldn’t Top His Best Line

Maybe acting is a JD Advantage career? The post Lawyer’s Film Career Couldn’t Top His Best Line appeared first on Above the Law.