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8.4 Months of Daily Driving GrapheneOS

I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!

Daily News Stuff 2 March 2026

Solid Snake Drive Edition Top Story The entry-level PC market - systems priced between $500 and $1000 - is predicted to be wiped out by 2028. (WCCFTech) The leading cause of this mass extinction is...

Age Verification: Protection Tool or Surveillance in Disguise?

As more governments push age checks into our apps and operating systems, the dystopian future doesn't feel so far off anymore.

Old Game, New Clothes

Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, yo...

Monthly update #0430 • February 2026

Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté You're Not Enough (and That's Ok) by Allie Beth Stuckey Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson Develop...

Chance to play Teris on a massive staircase in Kyoto Station coming in March

The one time you won’t get in trouble for playing on the stairs. Four decades ago, Alexey Pajitnov created one of the most groundbreaking and universally beloved video games of all time in Tetris. ...

OpenClaw Is Impressive — I Just Don’t Really Need It (Yet) - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #125

On the morning of March 1st, I received a message from OpenClaw. It was part of a scheduled task I had set up after installing it: on the first day of every month, it sends me a summary of the main...

Baldwin vs. Melisende

The young King Baldwin III of Jerusalem really wanted to be seen as a military commander. To do this, he would have to take steps to overcome people's (and his mother's) memories of his previous la...

Movies / TV - Jan & Feb 2026

Movies I have not really been watching movies this year so far! There are a bunch of new-to-streaming ones from 2025 that I'm interested in, but sitting down to watch a movie requires a certain com...

Building a Live BGP Map

Building a cool looking, real-time BGP map

On Museum Memories: Daniel’s Story

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by James, whose prompt post asks us to think about the “places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future”: museums...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-01-26

I am late with today’s selection of Pook-Emu Bee Links, but we need not allow a backlog to form (I have enough backlog as it is). 1. The Eerie ‘Blood’ Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thank...

Weekly Robotics #350

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been receiving lots of feedback about the redesign of this newsletter. I greatly appreciate all these insights, and I'm hoping to have some time to implement thi...

Electric Vehicles

Beating ChatGPT and Gemini at Brick Figures

This post is not only be written by a real person but also hopefull short and to the point! The what Last year I blogged about img2lego, now renamed brickportraits to remove all connection to LEGO....

Humble Spirit

CHECK OUT SOMNIA, A NOVEL | NEW CHAPTERS (ALMOST) DAILY I've finally gotten the ball rolling on Somnia. It's a project I've been stewing on for a while, and I finally feel like, after a period of m...

Underrated reasons to dislike AI

The big arguments for and against AI have been endlessly discussed, and I don’t feel I have much to add. AGI and existential risk; human obsolescence; power use; cybersecurity; safety + censorship;...

Chief Justice Roberts Stares Into The Abyss — See Generally

Chief Justice Roberts Relishes Role As President's Favorite Doormat: John Roberts traded his credibility so Trump could hold press conferences calling the Chief "very unpatriotic." But Don't Call I...

Digital Independence Day: Wero?

Heute ist wieder Digital Independence day und ich mache… nichts? Warum?

Daily News Stuff 1 March 2026

Preying Mantis Edition Top Story OpenAI has announced a deal with the Department of War with - apparently - the same limitations that Anthropic was demanding. (Tech Crunch) Guess Dario Amodei, the ...