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My new favorite Terminal

My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. However there was one thing that was starting to bug me. I usually prefer my termina...

Daily News Stuff 10 August 2026

Aud Hep Edition Top Story A Google developer has vibe-coded an entire new browser - albeit one that doesn't browse the web. (XDA Developers) Instead it interprets every URL as an AI prompt and vibe...

Police ask Kumamoto residents to not get blackout drunk as much during earthquake relief efforts

Hard times and hard drinking don’t mix. Of course, there’s never a good time to experience a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, but late July and early August is a particularly bad season for it. The additi...

Inventing ELIZA (Review)

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26

Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...

Ahvazi Militancy Muted in Iran’s Khuzestan Amid Wartime Pressures

Jacob Zenn

CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition

The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.

A Group of Hunter-Gatherers Survived the Younger Dryas 14,000 Years Ago in a Cave in Northern Türkiye

A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavat...

Apple Intelligence Has Passed Chinese Government Review and Is Coming to China - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #148

In July, Apple Intelligence appeared on the latest list of generative AI services registered with China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Then, just two days ago, Apple confirmed that Ali...

The Mortimer Kidnapping

Young Edmund Mortimer, who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, was being raised by the usurper Henry Bolingbroke, now King Henry IV. Edmund's u...

2026W31

Elevators — The counterintuitive result is that destination dispatch, the kiosk where you punch your floor before boarding, performs worse than plain up/down buttons. Locking in the assignment earl...

Wine 11.15 adds NTLM support, ARM64EC build and fixes 41 bugs

Wine 11.15 introduces support for local NTLM authentication, expanding compatibility with Windows environments. The release also adds support for ARM64EC builds in Mingw mode and new KDF algorithms...

Thumb First, Screen Second: Designing a Music Review Site

I built music.vfiles.no as a place to publish music reviews, artist pages, and yearly top lists. It’s a Gatsby and React site under the hood, but this post isn’t really about the stack. It’s about ...

L’arnaque du bilan carbone

L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consom...

TIL: Unminimizing Ubuntu Docker images

How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.

Size and Lifespan

Little Cloud

One can be smart and disabled, you know? I remember as a teenager during the peak of Obama II how the increasing rhetoric of "invisible disability" felt like such a grotesque cop-out. Funnily enoug...

Trump Rewrites Supreme Court Loss As A Win — See Generally

Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn't Get Worse: The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it's even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a client to keep t...

Getting Five Nights At Lockup

Read Getting Five Nights At Lockup When we finally told her, no, it’s just not here, and she’d have to wait, she flipped out. She accused us of hiding them for ourselves and demanded to be let into...

Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and …read more