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Daily News Stuff 27 February 2026

Flying Or Non-Flying Edition Top Story If your corporate wifi has a guest network active, tell whoever is responsible that they might not want to do that. (Tom's Hardware) Same goes for home wifi t...

From Thunar to PCManFM

I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as m...

The fish in rural Fukui that rivals Japan’s most auspicious sea bream

This Obama delicacy impresses with its sashimi-like flavor, which is almost unthinkable for a preserved food. Despite its popularity among dinosaur enthusiasts, Fukui remains among the more undervi...

Queen Melisende

With Fulk of Anjou dead from a riding accident in 1143, Melisende now had full control over the Kingdom of Jerusalem with her son Baldwin III still only 13 years old. (The illustration is of their ...

GNOME 2.20 but its Web Components

Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Measles and echo chambers, fresh science, and more

Behind the Curtain (Feb 27)

PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission

Kristin Burke

Weekly Notes 09/2026

The work has been hectic. I actually don’t like hectic mode. I prefer being prepared and doing planned activities. But I do understand that not all real-world things can be planned, so one will fee...

Firefox AI Killswitch

Nice to see that the Firefox team have actually implemented their "AI killswitch" in the way that they said they would. Here's a screenshot from my copy of Firefox 148: Very happy to see this land,...

On the importance of thought leadership

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve always found that the work we do, and that we’re measured against, is only one sid...

Boring Wins - Stop Trying to Be Interesting

I’ve been obsessed with studying how enterprises actually hold onto accounts. How do they keep them, grow them, and eventually make them impossible to remove?

Vibe Coding a Fluxbox Inspired Wayland Compositor

Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post from it’s memories, git logs, shell history and interview after working on this project. Written by Claude:...

Dental Formulas

Executive Order Excluding Federal Agencies from Collective Bargaining Requirements Was Wrongly Enjoined, Ninth Circuit Holds

From today's opinion in Am. Fed. of Gov't Employees v. Trump, by Judge Daniel Bress, joined by Judges John Owens… The post Executive Order Excluding Federal Agencies from Collective Bargaining Requ...

Russia Continues to Reshape Arctic Security

Megi Benia

Taking An Elevator To A Higher Calling

Read Taking An Elevator To A Higher Calling I worked for several years as a civilian contractor on a naval base. Our particular building had an auditorium used for various conferences. One day, as ...

JFK Conspiracy Goes All The Way To Biglaw

The Warren Commission brought together a number of prominent lawyers– from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Covington alum Senator John Sherman Cooper — to investigate the Kennedy assassination, but wh...

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle o’ Borg!

One of the signs that a tabletop RPG system has really made it once people start selling reskins of it. D&D hacks have been coming out almost as long as Dungeons & Dragons has; the Powered By the A...

Rationalising hatred and dissecting it away from internalised hatred/self-hatred.

I had a short chat with my sister and mother, and as my mother finished braiding my hair, the conversation fell like a stone into my pond of self-hatred, creating ripples. Rationalising hatred and ...

Daily News Stuff 26 February 2026

Turn Turn Turn Edition Top Story The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being pulled up after nearly forty years. (Tom's Hardware) TAT-8 went into operation in 1988 and then failed in 2002 an...