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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support

One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all...

FIU Installs Sanctioned Trump Attorney As Interim Law Dean, Overruling Its Own Search Committee

FIU continues to have an Epstein problem. The post FIU Installs Sanctioned Trump Attorney As Interim Law Dean, Overruling Its Own Search Committee appeared first on Above the Law.

Reverse Engineering A Discount

Read Reverse Engineering A Discount Caller: "Hi, I'm looking for [specific item]." Me: "Yes, we have twelve of those in stock." Caller: "If I buy all twelve, can you quote me your best price?" Me: ...

Daily News Stuff 27 July 2026

Oh President Madagascar Edition Top Story Whenever you copy this weird white text on a white background, a little white light lights up white to let you know you've done it. (Futurism) If only it w...

The Good Parliament

1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with...

Pikachu and Ditto Pokémon desserts at Baskin-Robbins Japan look AND feel like their inspirations

Ice cream chain famous for its 31 flavors celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise with temptingly tactile treats and a salute to every starter Pokémon. As any etiquette expert know...

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old ideas. He shows that the best businesses escape competition by solving unique proble...

📝 2026-07-27 17:54: The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so...

The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hop...

Archaeologists Discover 120 Roman Inscriptions in Spanish Cave that Reveal the Role of Women in the Goddess’s Rituals

The archaeological campaign carried out during May and June 2026 in Cova Dones, located in the Valencian municipality of Millares in southeastern Spain, has completely transformed the previously kn...

Xi Pursues AI Governance Leadership at Beijing Summit

Sunny Cheung & Shijie Wang

FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings

It's been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.

What's next?

Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write any more long and detailed web dev guides and tutorials Killed the /notes section...

It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146

Lately, even tasks that I consider relatively simple often take AI several minutes—or sometimes even tens of minutes—to complete. It gave me the impression that as models become more capable, they ...

Misrepresentation About Ex-Employees May Be Criminal Libel

Cal. Labor Code § 1050 provides, Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who, after having discharged an employee from… The post Misrepresentation About Ex-Employees May Be Criminal Libel appeared...

FireDragon 13 revamps web browser core, adds XDG Base Directories, and new welcome dialog

Garuda Linux has released FireDragon 13, the latest version of its customized web browser derived from Floorp. This update marks a complete re-implementation, delivering a new code base intended to...

“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later

(Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry...

2026W29

Appaji - Software Engineer — The detail that got me is that you didn’t even need to run anything. Just opening the take-home project in VSCode could fire the payload through a hidden .vscode config...

Black Chasm

I think the worst kind of writer is not just one who doesn't read, but one who doesn't go out of their way to read good writing. There are many people with blogs or publications who use writing as ...

Forth

Partner-Associate Park Passion Predicament — See Generally

What's The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral. $1.2 Billion Worth Of 'Are You Sure This Is Legal?': MV Realty has ...