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Jul 09, 2026 from riz#000000me

Hacks for D&D to Do Less Math

D&D outside of combat is way too fiddly.

Jul 09, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

"But What About My Goats?": The Roman Poet Martial on Lawyers

Reposting an item from 2015, which I've used often in my Amicus Brief Clinic, and which some of my students say they found enlightening.

Jul 09, 2026 from It's FOSS

FOSS Weekly #26.28: Microslop Moment, Rustification, Brave New features, KDE Plasma Tips and Meme Distro and More

K in KDE stands for Kustomization.

Jul 09, 2026 from Rock and Null

The age of deterministic software engineering is over

Software engineering has entered a probabilistic era. As LLMs replace deterministic workflows with uncertainty, the challenge is no longer eliminating variability; it's building systems that delive...

Jul 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David's Wives

When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause. In Jewish law, a wife must consent to a divorce, which Muriel did not do. She ...

Jul 09, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Deadbeats

Most salesmen are thieves who steal with their tongues. It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or some homeless schizophrenic; everyone lives hand-to-mouth. The true act of discernment lies in u...

Jul 09, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Red Hat EX467 exam

Last Friday, I renewed my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform (EX467) certification. As I’m already a Red Hat Certified Architect and have passed th...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

D.C. Circuit Denies Stay of Order Removing Trump's Name from Kennedy Center

From D.C. Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas today in Beatty v. Trump: On May 29, 2026,… The post D.C. Circuit Denies Stay of Order Removing Trump's Name from Kenne...

Jul 08, 2026 from Above the Law

A Merger-Sized Wrinkle In Time — See Also

Doesn't Reviewing 6 Months Of Time Entries Sound Fun?!?! Pour some out for legacy Cadwalader attorneys. Ken Paxton Heal Thyself: Or at least get your voter registration issues in order before going...

Jul 08, 2026 from Hackaday

An Analog Synth For The Modern World

We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more

Jul 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

This Roll Is Lit

Read This Roll Is Lit I work at a sushi restaurant, and we have a special roll that we set on fire when we bring it out to you. If you have it to go or delivered, it's just wrapped in foil. A custo...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Türkiye Seeks to Use Syria’s Realignment For Eurasian Energy Leverage

Sertaç Canalp Korkmaz

Jul 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Deepin 25.2 upgrades Treeland Wayland compositor, adds image content search & improves DDE

Deepin 25.2 arrives with a major focus on upgrading the Treeland Wayland compositor. Over 20 issues affecting stability and high-frequency user interactions have been fixed. Treeland now integrates...

Jul 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 8 July 2026

Flammenwerfers R Use Edition Top Story Samung has posted an 1800% increase in quarterly profits, catapulting the company past Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world. (Tom's Hardware)...

Jul 08, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Seid ihr lebensmüde?!?

Darf man andere für die dumme Sache kritisieren, die man selbst bis einen Augenblick vorher noch gemacht hat?

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

At Site of Oldest Known Human Burials, 145,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Earliest Documented Stabbing

The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for tracing the first steps of Homo sapiens outside Africa, but a new examination of the ...

Jul 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan now has a Pokémon airport that features every species of Flying-type ever[Video]

Noto Satoyama Pokémon With You Airport wants to help bring travelers to a part of Japan that could use more visitors. For domestic flights, the standard recommendation is to get to the airport an h...

Jul 08, 2026 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates

How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not featureful enough. When using this build system, it’s common practice to wrap i...

Jul 08, 2026 from It's FOSS

ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux

A compact 4-bay NVMe enclosure with USB4 connectivity, tested on Linux with benchmarks.

Jul 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David of Oxford

Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he lived in a house on St. Aldate's (now site of the Oxford Town Hall), where Oxford J...