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Weekly Notes 28/2026

I started Weekly Notes in 2022, with WN-29/2022. With this week’s note, we will complete four full years. Except for a couple of notes published on Saturdays, I have been on time, publishing on Fri...

A Rant About Modern Cars

I recently bought a new Peugeot and the experience of getting setup on their online platform has been painful to say the least. Yesterday I picked up my shiny new (to me) Peugeot E-3008 GT. It's a ...

Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down

“Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks to its open-source nature. Any phone maker can put Android on its phones with no...

Licoricia of Winchester

Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th century), was a successful businesswoman herself. Her first husband, Abraham son...

The Law Against Long Hair in Rome in the Year 416: Why Did the Roman Empire Ban Manes?

In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of Rome and its surroundings. This regulation, which also forbade the use of fur gar...

Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable

Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint's next release, due Christmas.

Toasting Marshmallows

Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand The Adage About Catching Flies With Honey — See Also

Discovery Really Is The Best Part Of Litigation: ABA wants the deets on the Trump Biglaw executive orders. The World's Best Law Schools: Of course the USA features prominently on this ranking. CSI ...

Radio-Gaga is a Toddler Friendly Remote In a Radio

Humans of all ages like music, but you can’t exactly pass a toddler the aux cable. That’s not to say the younger set don’t have their own particular tastes– they …read more

There’s No Thinking Happening Outside This Box

Read There’s No Thinking Happening Outside This Box Customer: "Wow, it must be cramped in there." Me: *Confused.* "What do you mean, ma'am?" Customer: "Inside the ATM. Must get cramped." Me: "Ma'am...

ByteDance introduces Seedream 5.0 Pro, its new advanced multimodal image creation model

ByteDance has launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a new multimodal image creation model that, according to the company, is more focused on production design than simple prompt based generation. The release ...

Moving Past ‘Spirit of Anchorage’ Could Spur More Realistic Negotiations

Tatiana Vorozhko

Daily News Stuff 9 July 2026

Tanuki And Kitsune Go To Market Edition Top Story John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been granted the same ability to repair the devices as the company's own service tech...

Esparto Footwear Found Used in the Riotinto Mines in the Iron Age 2,400 Years Ago

A team from the University of Granada has examined a set of eight sandal soles made with esparto, recovered in the Nuevo Filón Norte 1 sector of the ancient Riotinto mining district, in the municip...

SIR Online: Everything Is Difficult by Design

I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want them to get the work done1. I have had the same EPIC number since 2002, and it i...

Uniqlo looks back to the very start of Pokémon with new black-and-white pixel art T-shirts[Pics]

The original Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue were in black and white, so these Uniqlo tees are too. The mainline Pokémon video games customarily release as a differently subtitled pair. This tradition...

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

“Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes...

Hacks for D&D to Do Less Math

D&D outside of combat is way too fiddly.

"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.

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

K in KDE stands for Kustomization.