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L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages

The Fibonacci sequence is so-called because in Western mathematics is first appears in connection with a problem from Fibonacci's 1202 book Liber Abaci. Fibonacci asks us to consider a rabbit farm ...

Justinian's Empire

We've been talking lately about Emperor Justinian I and the Eastern Roman Empire trying to reunite with the Western Roman Empire in the Gothic Wars. Ostrogoths had taken over much of Italy, and Jus...

The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.

Don’t boil the ocean: Reach passive positives

The 2026 fall vaccines should be available, for free, to everyone who needs them.

F-Droid’s Android open-source app store has been rebuilt from the ground up

“Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a community-driven source for free and open source Android apps, b...

Fuck off, Azazel

The man makes the times, huh? Come on now, Young Buck. There's still pockets of mania, but managing it with the medications has allowed my tongue to let its silver hues shine through a bit more, we...

Slab Graveyard

Active Search, Meet Bonsai

How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension

It’s easy, once you know you can

We’ll Give You 10% Of Nothing

Read We’ll Give You 10% Of Nothing Customer: "You're having a 10% off everything sale?" Me: "That's right!" Customer: "How much is that?" Read We’ll Give You 10% Of Nothing

Robot Makes Literal Daisy Chains

[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with …read more

Transnistria’s Republic Day Tests a Fraying National Myth

Laurențiu Pleșca

The Most Frightening Law Firms In America — See Also

The Fearsome Foursome: Which law firms strike fear into the hearts of opposing counsel? Another Day, Another Law Firm Hacked: The human element is getting to be a problem here. Start Reading Again:...

The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Coin-moving games with no coins Productive pro...

Damit ich es nicht vergesse: Linux Capabilities

Was sind Permitted, Effective, Inheritable, Bounding Set und Ambient Capabilities in Linux?

Daily News Stuff 24 September 2026

Handsome Psychedelics Edition Top Story Nothing happened. Then, after a while, nothing continued to happen. Communist stooges are upset that the feds know what they are. (Ken Klippenstein) They can...

Osaka may name a district after mascot Myaku-Myaku

I wonder who will become Myaku-Myaku Mayor. For quite a while now, the ruling political party in Osaka Prefecture, the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin no Kai), has been wanting to change Osaka into a...

White House Says It's Complying with TRO Requiring Restoration of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico Reporters' Access, Despite …

apparent denial of access to the reporters early this morning.

Grav 2.2 cuts cold starts and memory use on large sites

Grav 2.2.0 changes page-cache rebuilding so it no longer writes and compiles one PHP file per page, cutting reported cold-start times by about half in tests with 1,081 and 10,321 pages. On the 10,0...

Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame

Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.