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Aug 06, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

Controlling Orphans in SwiftUI Text: Uncovering the Undocumented avoidsOrphans

SwiftUI's Text has a default behavior: when the final line of a paragraph is left holding a single stranded word or character, it proactively pushes the complete word group from the preceding line ...

Aug 06, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Read I’m using a public toilet when I overhear a conversation in the next stall between a mother and a small child. Small child: “Mommy, what’s that?” Mother, stern but kind: “How about we don’t to...

Aug 06, 2026 from Hackaday

Amiga and Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of)

The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees …read ...

Aug 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: August 6, 1792

8/6/1792: Justice Thomas Johnson takes judicial oath.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 6, 1792 appeared first on Reason.com.

Aug 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 August 2026

Holo Live Edition Top Story Cloudflare has announced its new open-source operating system, Cloudflare OS. (Phoronix) It is not an operating system. It's an application. Written in JavaScript. That ...

Aug 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover Hidden Structures Beneath the Fortified Hellenistic Settlement of Castiglione di Paludi in Calabria

What lies beneath one of the most important fortified settlements of Hellenistic Calabria? A study combining archaeology and geophysics has begun to answer this question. Thanks to the application ...

Aug 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Kochia calling: Right now is a great off-season season to visit this beautiful Japanese park

Before Hitachi Seaside Park turns red for autumn, it’s got a beautiful summer color to show you too. Japan is a country with strong swings between its seasons, often resulting in splashes of color ...

Aug 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Zantigo

I do not recall having heard of Zantigo before reading an August 5, 2026 piece in Atlas Obscura about its small revival. According to the article, Zantigo filled the same niche as Taco Bell but wen...

Aug 05, 2026 from Above the Law

Things Must Be Busy At Milbank — See Also

Milbank Offers An Early Start, And Actually Means 'Optional': The firm is offering its incoming class a start date three weeks early, and citing 'exceptionally strong client demand' to explain why....

Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday

Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD

After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to …read more

Aug 05, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Sugar Rush To Judgment

Read Sugar Rush To Judgment Mother: "My son can’t have white chocolate. They're fine with milk chocolate." Me: "Can I confirm what ingredient specifically they have an issue with?" Mother: "Just wh...

Aug 05, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-08-05 22:52: I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for...

I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have: Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song...

Aug 05, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions for Being Unregistered Russian Foreign Agents

From today's decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew… The post Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions fo...

Aug 05, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Don't be negligent

Cory Doctorow beschreibt, wie die Google-Suchergebnisse ein Paradies für Betrüger geworden sind und das Google etwas dagegen tun könnte, aber es nicht macht.

Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Recent reports reveal Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is leaking users’ real IP addresses

Researchers have discovered that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, an iCloud+ feature designed to hide users’ IP addresses while browsing in Safari, can be bypassed through a Passkey WebAuthn request, ...

Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-05-26

Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dr...

Aug 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 5 August 2026

Spain And Suffering Edition Top Story On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon. (Yahoo) Wait, that was... Two hours ago. Well, can't see the Moon right now. Guess it worked...

Aug 05, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Starbucks Japan to open Shinkansen platform stores at Kyoto and Nagoya stations

New stores add a fresh taste and aroma to high-speed travel on Japan’s busiest bullet train route. One of the joys of Shinkansen travel is being able to bring your own food and drinks on board. How...

Aug 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the 7 Stations of the Vigiles, the Firefighters of Ancient Rome, Discovered on the Caelian Hill

Excavations carried out as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) have brought to light an architectural complex of incalculable value in the heart of Villa Celimontana. Under the...

Aug 05, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse

The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game In the previous article we saw how to interpre...