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Movies / TV - July & August 2026

Feels like I didn't watch a lot of movies the past month or so, mostly because I've been working my way through all 15 seasons of ER lol. Movies Oppenheimer (2023) Watched on 2026-07-17: ★★★★★ Oppe...

Handedness

Drifting

This morning has so far been going well, but almost too well. I've been feeling more manic these last few days, which was much scarier when I was a bit younger. But now with more experience under m...

I Don’t Have a Smartphone…

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting th...

Links From Feeds and the Story of “Sugar Baby Riri”

An RSS feed subscription about visual novels pointed me to the real-world Japanese criminal matter of "Sugar Baby Riri."

The Soggy Railroad

Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are deeply in love – with each other, and with the occult. After a ritual went badly w...

It’s Not Illegal If Nobody Has Standing To Say So — See Also

Nice Office You Got There: Let's tear down the Supreme Court building! After all, the Court says no one can stop a president from unilaterally destroying a historic building. 'A Whorehouse And Las ...

The Mouth Runneth Over More Than The Cup

Read The Mouth Runneth Over More Than The Cup Customer: "This drink is filled too much! I'm gonna spill it if I carry it to my table!" Me: "Oh, well you could—" Customer: "This happens to me all th...

Building An Airsoft Claymore Mine

The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build …read more

Ode to Metadata

Make your projects 4-dimensional

Crawler oder Heuschreckenplage

git.kernel.org hat ein Problem mit Crawlern von LLM-Unternehmen.

Pokémon is Older than Tamagotchi

I read an August 31, 2026 article in SoraNews24 titled Tamagotchi evolves into a ring for its 30th anniversary, preorders now open. I had a Tamagotchi at some point in the 90s, but I do not think i...

Passbolt Password Server

For $REASONS I decided to cancel my 1Password subscription. It renewed in February so I have time to get comfortable with another password manager (I won’t lose access until the end of my current s...

Daily News Stuff 1 September 2026

Tableaux Edition Top Story I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years. Then I didn't code. (About Amazon) If you count code generators, my LOC count is in the tens of billions. Shipped to ...

Where an Active Lifestyle and Sports Betting Cross Over

There’s a big crossover between living an active lifestyle and betting on sports. In fact, you can apply a lot of what you learn from participating physical activity to sports betting. Here are som...

Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets

This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction. When it comes to Kagawa, udon is king. Not only is the climate ideal for growing wheat – udon is a wheat noodle – but locals in Kagawa eat more udo...

Free Speech Unmuted: The Process Is The Punishment: ABC v. FCC with Stuart Benjamin

ABC is challenging the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that the agency is using its licensing authority to punish the network… The post Free Speech Unmuted: The Process Is The Punishment...

Vanilla OS 3 Comes in Hot, Packing ARM64 Support After a Long Wait

The release, codenamed "Reunion," also ships GNOME 50 and Linux kernel 7.1.3.

Unity 6.6 adds WebGPU, build analysis and CoreCLR prep

Unity 6.6 is now available as a Supported release, adding a scene-only Enter Play Mode default for new projects as preparation for Unity 7’s CoreCLR transition. The release makes WebGPU production-...

Scientists Discover Why Ice Ages Occur Every 100,000 Years

An international study published in Nature Communications reveals that minimal changes in solar radiation were enough to relocate the dominant winds of the North Atlantic and permanently alter the ...