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Arch Installer Goes 4.0 With a New Face and Fewer 'Curses'

The release drops curses in favor of Textual, but that's just the highlight.

What many parents are missing about the social media verdict and addiction

Meta, YouTube, Costa Rica, and the bigger picture

Scientists Create Encryption Using DNA So Secure That Not Even a Quantum Computer Can Break It

The protection of confidential communications, a strategic pillar in the information age, has just received a revolutionary boost. A multidisciplinary team of French and Japanese scientists has suc...

Simple systems age better than impressive ones

Publishing systems deserve to be judged by how they behave months later, under maintenance, interruption, and archive weight, not by how elegant they felt during setup week.

March 2026

I must be getting older, because it feels like I just wrote my previous recently-update. I must’ve kept busy this month, let’s dive in! From the blog since my last recently post: Hudd review 🍀 Life...

Creation

Superpower

I was listening to Ye's newest album Bully earlier this morning, and it was good. The standout track for me was "Mama's Favorite." Ye had a wonderful relationship with his mom, and the part at the ...

Iran Conflict Derails Eurasian Transport Development

John C. K. Daly

Now That’s A Signing Bonus! — See Also

Top Biglaw Firm Ups Ante On Hiring Law Clerks: How's $180K-$200K sound? The Internet Remembers: Kara Westercamp's Senate Judiciary Committee appearance is marred by her Twitter history. Federal Jud...

Shell Shocked

Read Shell Shocked I'm a waiter. One lady had gotten some chili lime glazed shrimp scampi. As I set it down, she gets this disgusted look on her face. Me: "Ma'am, is everything okay?" She looks up ...

Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images

Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don’t know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn’t ...

"There Is Evidence That This Particular Proceeding Before the Beijing Court Was Dominated by the" Chinese Communist Party,

holds a federal court in declining to enforce the Beijing judgment, and in therefore concluding that Stanford holds title to documents donated to the Hoover Institution by a Chinese Mao-era dissident.

2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM)

The phrase “the year of the Linux desktop” has become something of a meme. As a 2025 Hackaday headline went, The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year. Note that I write this with all due a...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [31st March: Early-Bird Prompt] - Receipt, or Something Like It

NaPoWriMo 2026 [31st March: Early-Bird Prompt] Get set...It’s March 31, or as we like to call with around here, Na/GloPoWriMo Eve. A time when poetic spirits haunt the land, preparing for their mon...

Daily News Stuff 31 March 2026

Thanks For The Memories Edition Top Story Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds. It did not go well. (Tech Crunch) In three days Attie has accumu...

This Is Not Contained

I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it made was one of contagion, a fire spreading without any formal announcement or cong...

Alltagsmenschen

In Witten stehen „Alltagsmenschen“-Plastiken: Betongiguren von alltäglichen Menschen.

Totoro Fund line of beautiful artwork and apparel lets you help the real-world Totoro Forest

Woodlands that inspired the creation of My Neighbor Totoro sit at the edge of the biggest city in Japan, but this fund helps keep them green. Though My Neighbor Totoro touches on a lot of Japanese ...

A Wall Away, Worlds Apart - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #129

The annual Let's Vision conference was held in Shanghai as scheduled, with this year’s theme being: Born to Create, Powered by AI. Therefore, alongside the regular sessions on Swift and spatial com...

Koala

Uma turned three today. She walks and talks a lot now. We are in Sydney for a short trip to meet her cousin and celebrate. Today we went to Koala Park Sanctuary, Sydney. She has heard The Koala Who...