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CachyOS adds Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC support, and Python & GCC performance boosts

CachyOS has released its June update, marking the fourth distribution release of 2024 and enhancing its focus on CPU-specific package builds and advanced kernel scheduling. The installer now includ...

SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #142

A few days ago, Swift Package Index (SPI) announced that it had joined Apple. The two sides will work together to build a comprehensive package registry for Swift developers. At the same time, SPI’...

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 69

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than ever to society.Canon 69 of the Fourth Lateran Council dec...

A Complete Self-Sufficient Settlement from the Second Intermediate Period Discovered in the Eastern Nile Delta

The discovery, the result of excavation work carried out by the Egyptian archaeological team in this eastern delta site, offers an unprecedented overview of the social and economic organization of ...

You Can Spend Up to $11,944 on Purism's Librem 16 Linux Laptop

The laptop starts at $2,899 and scales up to an eye-watering $11,944 for a custom config.

2026W26

Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading frequency from square wave pulses sounds trivial until you realize that during en...

Autodidacts Newsletter #26

Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to

OPNsense on a Palo Alto Firewall Appliance

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered ...

Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”

Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dut...

Asteroid Threat

Yet Another Pursuit

Since I started my job search, the leads I've been using have gone cold. I know I have to send out another wave of applications and make more phone calls, but I've been reconsidering whether I even...

Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more

Order 66 Minutes In The Oven

Read Order 66 Minutes In The Oven Customer: "I want it burnt." Me: "So, like… extra crispy?" Customer: "No. Burnt. I want it to have two full passes through the oven." Me: "Oh, so… really burnt." C...

Weekly Robotics #366

If you happen to be in Europe and going through the heatwave… Good luck! The last two days over here has been quite an experience. Can’t wait for winter already! This issue is brought to you by our...

Cal Newport on Big AI “Doom Trolling”

Cal Newport wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on big AI companies to stop “doom trolling” and published a short summary of his argument on his personal website. He specifically criticizes some o...

Creating the Ultimate Outdoor Audio Experience in West Islip, NY

It’s amazing how introducing audio into your backyard can transform the space. It can make family barbeques, dips in the pool, and gardening all the more fun. If you’re looking to enhance your outd...

Der Little-Endian-Zug

Endianness im Zug: Wagennummern vs. Sitznummern.

Hyper-local Temperature Display

Building a small temperature display as a weekend project.

Daily News Stuff 28 June 2026

Myne Character Syndrome Edition Top Story You might not be interested in Langford's basilisk, but Langford's basilisk is interested in you. (Nerds.xyz) Langford's basilisk is a science fiction conc...

Taco Spaghetti appears in Japan, and our taco fan rushes to try it[Taste test]

Tacos and spaghetti have earned love around the world, but will their meeting in Japan be a tragedy? Japan loves spaghetti, but doesn’t necessarily feel bound to tradition when it comes to the dish...