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Search Is Broken

I was listening to Late Night Linux 390 during my evening walking with the pooches tonight, and they were talking about (among other things) Kagi search. I've tried Kagi myself, but ultimately canc...

Rollenspielszenen: Verdorben und fermentiert

Ist eine verdorbene Gottheit fermentiert? Wo ist der Unterschied? Und ist es wichtig?

Daily News Stuff 19 June 2026

Decimal Edition Top Story Apple CEO Tim Cook says prices are going to increase so that the company can maintain its 1000% markup on commodity components. (Tom's Hardware) Apple is, right now, only ...

Cyberduck 9.5 adds Liquid Glass design for macOS and support for AWS IAM Identity Center

Cyberduck 9.5 has arrived as the latest version of this open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage. This update brings a mix of visual enhancements and expanded connectivity, pa...

Pokémon coming to Japan’s highway rest stops with exclusive merch and stamp rally this summer

Pikachu and pals make a compelling reason to skip the bullet train while traveling in Japan over the next few months. They say it’s not the destination that matters so much as the journey, and a vi...

Bahariya Oasis was sacred 800 years before its temple, and Romans used it for wine and oil, archaeologists find

The systematic survey work carried out at the site from 2014 to the current 2026 campaign has allowed researchers to document a significant set of architectural evidence that substantially expands ...

Iran's Post-Conflict Political Structure

Javad Heiran-Nia

Weekly Notes 25/2026

I am back from Chennai. It was fun meeting lots of students, hearing what they think, etc. This time I met some old-time friends, which was a bonus. Conducting the workshop was also fun. I hope to ...

Clerical Celibacy

The last post talked about attempts by popes to "monasticize" parish priests, preventing them from having families that could be a drain on church resources and potentially lead to sons inheriting ...

Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type

Myna runs entirely on local hardware and is set to debut with Ubuntu 26.10.

How I'm Solving Local Inference

How I bridged my MacBook Air and Framework 13 using LM Studio's LM Link to run powerful local models, avoid token costs, and gain portability.

Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman

I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian s...

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

While cleaning out my office today, I found this, which I wrote in 1992: In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer lang...

Side Effect

The Only Thing I Can Do

I was at a baseball game with my folks yesterday, and it was a good time. I didn't really spend much time watching the game, but it was cool to see those guys playing; it was a visceral experience ...

Proton Mail launches Easy Switch for Business to help companies move away from Google

Proton Mail has introduced Easy Switch for Business, a migration tool for companies moving from Google Workspace to Proton Mail. The tool transfers business emails, calendars, and contacts from Gma...

The Case Against Share Buttons

Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part because I did not think they added anything useful to my site and in part because of...

Happy Juneteenth! — See Also

Is Your Firm Observing The Holiday?: Be sure to let us know! Trump Nominates His Own Lawyer To Be A Top Federal Prosecutor: The Sullivan & Cromwell partner's cozying up with Trump is paying off. SC...

Cossacks Continue International and Domestic Resurgence

Richard Arnold

Building A Panel Mount OLED Display

There are a million and one cheap OLED display modules out there. Only, the problem is, they’re all assembled on bare PCBs and they’re all slightly different, and that frustrates …read more