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Mar 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Joke is on the Crunchyroll Hackers

Crunchyroll is investigating a potential hack which may have led to the exposure of customer email addresses. As readers of my anime writing on NLJ may know, I am a Crunchyroll subscriber (I have b...

Mar 26, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Kennedy Center Director & Ambassador Richard Grenell Loses Libel Lawsuit

He sued over a claim that he "associated with Nazis" and "tried to have Vice President Pence attend a white supremacist event while he was on an overseas trip."

Mar 26, 2026 from It's FOSS

FOSS Weekly #26.13: Age Verification Added in systemd, Systemd forked, Btrfs Subvolumes, New Backup Tool, Yazi Manager and More

Controversies all around.

Mar 26, 2026 from Palladium

Permanent Games For Progress

As politics weakens and private power grows, building a great future will depend on permanent games that convert private wealth into lasting progress. The post Permanent Games For Progress appeared...

Mar 26, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

2026 Monki Gras

Hazel Weakly starts off her presentations with the words “I have thoughts, lots of thoughts”. That pretty much sums up my mental state after having attended this year’s Monki Gras conference. Monki...

Mar 26, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

Mar 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Isabella I of Jerusalem

With the death of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem during the Siege of Acre, her husband, Guy of Lusignan, lost his claim to the throne and the succession fell to Sibylla's younger sister, Isabella, curr...

Mar 26, 2026 from kmcd.dev

Faking protobuf data in Go

Stop hand-writing test fixtures

Mar 26, 2026 from Ploum.net

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ?

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pétrole grâce à des panneaux solaires contrôlés par des logiciels… appartenant aux ...

Mar 26, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Pilgrim

This morning, I've been thinking about my past, particularly the crossroads I found myself at when graduating high school. During my senior year, many of my classmates were rampantly applying to do...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

OpenAI’s “Checkout Experiences”

I have been hard on “AI” tools at times. Among other things, I have questioned the wisdom of outsourcing ones online commerce activities to “agents” (see my posts on Ebay and Amazon). OpenAI is app...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Russian Indoctrination of Ukrainian Children is War on Ukraine’s Future

Aliide Naylor

Mar 25, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Can’t Resist A Fire Sale

Read Can’t Resist A Fire Sale The fire alarm has gone off in the store, so I am telling the customers in my vicinity to please exit. One of them is lingering. Me: "Ma'am, please leave by the neares...

Mar 25, 2026 from Above the Law

Susman Godfrey Ditches Giving 1Ls Exploding Offers — See Also

Proper Evaluation Takes Time: The firm has enough sense to not force 1Ls to rush their careers. Bill Barred From Executive Privilege At Airport: Stand in line like everybody else! You Can't Juggle ...

Mar 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

I just moved from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS

I’ve been on Manjaro Linux for a good ten plus years now and been pretty happy with it. Not only that, but I love the rolling distro type updates as there has been no need to ever reinstall the OS....

Mar 25, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Band aus zwei Bassspielern.

Anis und Cracker wollen eine Band gründen.

Mar 25, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Sam Altman et al. "May Not Inquire into Musk's Ketamine Use" at Trial of Musk Suit Over OpenAI

But "evidence related to his political activities, attendance at Burning Man in 2017, and relationship with Shivon Zilis" will be allowed.

Mar 25, 2026 from BEEW

Tolstoy, Dr. Robby, and What We Owe Each Other

Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom · March 25 “As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they are the products of people’s work. When you damage or destroy these objects, you...

Mar 25, 2026 from Kev Quirk

A Year With The Framework 13

It's been a little over a year since I bought my Framework 13 laptop and shared my initial thoughts, so I thought it would be a good time to provide you guys with an update on what I like, and disl...

Mar 25, 2026 from It's FOSS

Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API

He thinks a cross-distro API standard can be a practical solution to tackle age verification.