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Jun 13, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

As Opposed To The Kind That Come From A Buffalo

Read As Opposed To The Kind That Come From A Buffalo Customer: "No, like, what kind of chicken wings do you have?" Me: "Oh, I'm sorry. Bone in, or boneless." Customer: "No, what kind of chicken win...

Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday

Bambuddy Says Bye to Bambu Lab Cloud Services

If you have a Bambu Labs printer and aren’t keen to send your files to Bambu’s servers with each print job, then check out Bambuddy, an open-source, self-hosted, cloud-free central …read more

Jun 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts

How to fit Qwen 3.6 35B A3B into 16GB of VRAM, & run it with Llama.cpp on an RTX 3080

The belly hangs over the belt, but it fits

Jun 13, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Two Potential Upcoming Canadian Secession Referenda and the Broader Issues they Raise

Two Canadian provinces - Alberta and Quebec - may hold secession referenda in the near future. The issues at stake have broader implications for the morality of secession and other matters.

Jun 13, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch”, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a very small LLM. The idea was to d...

Jun 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 13 June 2026

Out Of Ink Edition Top Story Welcome to Earth Delos D. Harriman, our new-minted trillionaire! (Tech Crunch) May I say how delightful it is to watch the wailing of the worst people on the planet at ...

Jun 13, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Lawson transforms convenience store food with massive katsu burger and an insane curry bread

Japanese convenience store food, like you’ve never seen it before.  If you’re looking for value-for-money on your next convenience store run, then Lawson is the place to go right now, because the c...

Jun 13, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad’s Women’s Wing: Jamaat-ul-Muminat

Animesh Roul

Jun 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Innocent Meddling

Pope Innocent III believed in the absolute power of the pope over secular authorities, and he did what he could to assert that power wherever he could.A couple months after Innocent became pope, in...

Jun 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Anthropic disables all Fable 5 and Mythos 5 model access after Trump blocks foreign access

Anthropic has suspended all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the Trump administration, through the U.S. Commerce Department, invoked national security export controls on June 12. The order bloc...

Jun 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

How one GPL lawsuit accidentally created the homelab router that changed networking forever

“No company sets out to make a product that exceeds its purpose and becomes a legend. In some cases when it happens, the company might even regret it. I recall a few NVIDIA GPUs, like the 8800GT an...

Jun 13, 2026 from Roy Tang

Mighty Gunvolt (Steam)

Trying to very slowly work through my Steam backlog (an impossible task) by playing through some shorter games in addition to my favored very long RPGs. First up is Mighty Gunvolt. This 2014 game i...

Jun 13, 2026 from It's FOSS

There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI

Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.

Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0

ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...

Jun 13, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse

Egyptian fractions for 2/105

The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for , but everything else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that for example h...

Jun 12, 2026 from Above the Law

Even Biglaw Is Celebrating The Knicks! — See Also

Knicks Supporting Partner Tells Associates The Work Can Wait Until Later: If your partner didn't, they're probably a Spurs fan. Judge Ross's Sorry Apologies Have No Consequence: Chief Judge Pryor s...

Jun 12, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Wrong On Every Account

Read Wrong On Every Account Me: "He's going on and on about me sabotaging his security verification steps, but he's just not getting any of the answers right. He's not hanging up." My manager nods,...

Jun 12, 2026 from Hackaday

The Air Position Indicator for the B-29

When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an …read more

Jun 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Assessing Non-Packing Rationales For Increasing the Size of the Supreme Court

These arguments are relatively weak. And to the extent they are valid, they can be addressed without changing the Court's ideological balance.

Jun 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts

I share various tools for finding backlinks to one's own articles, blog posts and other online media.