Feb 24, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 24 February 2026 Hardly Working Edition Top Story Is age verification a trap? Yes. (IEEE Spectrum) Online age verification intrinsically damages user privacy, while failing to work in both directions:False positive...
Feb 24, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read (I’m at a famous coffee shop and the worker says “can I help you?” I say that I want a medium coffee, and can hear garbled background noise plus my own voice. It sounds like he’s on the phone ...
Feb 24, 2026 from It's FOSS Australia's Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Repository Think of it as a searchable, automated knowledge base for malware.
Feb 24, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Arrest of Commenter at City Council Meeting for Accusing Police of Being "Fascist" and "Pro Domestic Abuse" Violated First Amendment An excerpt from yesterday's long decision by Chief Judge Stephanie Rose (S.D. Iowa) in Petersen v. City of Newton: The… The post Arrest of Commenter at City Council Meeting for Accusing Police of B...
Feb 24, 2026 from LifeDev.net How to Stay Consistent in Your Life Development Journey: 7 Strategies In the context of life development, learning how to stay consistent is one of the most powerful skills you can build. It’s not about being perfect – it’s about coming back, again and again, even wh...
Feb 24, 2026 from ttntm.me - Blog Done Moving If you had told me a year ago, that I’d be living in a new apartment now, I wouldn’t have taken you seriously, laughing very hard… But somehow, we ended up finding a great place, without really loo...
Feb 24, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Theft Of An Ideal Five days is a bit too far down the road for me just to add an addenda onto my most recent post about burnout, but I do need briefly to circle back because had I been thinking clearly, I’d have rem...
Feb 24, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Survey finds that one in five high schoolers don’t know who music legend Masaharu Fukuyama is We simply cannot accept the results and now feel compelled to rectify this grievous generational lack of knowledge among the youth of Japan. As far as legendary solo singer-songwriters of Japan go,...
Feb 24, 2026 from Above the Law Where Were You During Chief Justice Robert’s Humiliation? — See Also "I'll Never Forget This" To "An Embarrassment" In A Year's Time: Trump shamed the hell out of Republican justices that didn't see it his way. Aileen Cannon Knows Better Than To Go Against Trump: No...
Feb 23, 2026 from Above the Law Why High-Trust Contracts Closed Faster In 2025, Without Being Simpler Speed and simplicity do not always go together. The post Why High-Trust Contracts Closed Faster In 2025, Without Being Simpler appeared first on Above the Law.
Feb 23, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com So THAT’S What Happened To The Entwives Read So THAT’S What Happened To The Entwives Supervisor: "What are you talking about?" Me: "Weekend plans. [Coworker] is going tree hunting." Supervisor: *Looks at [Coworker], confused.* "Why would...
Feb 23, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog I Almost Had a Good Support Experience With Google Google support is unwell. In fact, it never really has been good. The staff in their physical store in Boston was great, but the rest of support really dropped the ball when my Pixel 9 Pro Fold died.
Feb 23, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy UC's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement $15K Non-Residential Fellowships (Applications Due March 21) From the webpage: Applications are due by Monday, March 30th at midnight. If you have questions, please feel free to… The post UC's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement $15K Non-Res...
Feb 23, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The Reading Canary: Seeing the Aardvark’s Shadow Attempting to read Cerebus the Aardvark for what you could describe as “the good bits” is a bit like being Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day in reverse: if I don’t see the shadow of Dave Sim’s lat...
Feb 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 23 February 2026 Version Number Edition Top Story The US spent $30 billion giving every schoolchild a laptop or tablet. It made them dumber. (Yahoo) And particularly less capable to maintain attention to the task a...
Feb 23, 2026 from Peter's Path E2EE Backend part 2: Private Information Retrieval This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can look up data in an encrypted database w...
Feb 23, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Highest Starbucks in Japan set to open this spring in the Tokyo sky New cafe will offer beautiful views of the city, Mt. Fuji, and cherry blossoms. In Japanese, the word for expensive is takai. So when Starbucks Japan announced that they’ll soon be opening the most...
Feb 23, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog The Spring Festival Gala, Robots, AI, and LLMs - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #124 As a television program with over a billion viewers, the China Central Television's Spring Festival Gala is undoubtedly an exceptional showcase platform. In this year's Gala, multiple Chinese robot...
Feb 23, 2026 from It's FOSS OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices You don't need a MacMini for running OpenClaw. These alternative projects can run on SBCs and ESP32 microcontrollers.
