May 16, 2026 from bearblog Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hackers invading your privacy. However, this doesn't bear out in reality.
May 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Remains of a self-sufficient village from the late 3rd century AD—predating the Germanic migrations—and a strange “large, dark, opaque glass bead” discovered in Saxony Gravel extraction at the Liebersee site, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Belgern-Schildau in Saxony (Germany), has brought to light a series of archaeological structures that document the...
May 16, 2026 from It's FOSS I Gave Desktop Email Clients Another Shot and This New App Delivered Btw, it is lightweight, open source, and not built on Electron.
May 16, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026 Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture...
May 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Piss On Concrete I've been thrown the fuck off. I am feeling formulaic, creatively destitute. No matter; these things are part of it all, and in my mind's eye—a small glimmer of light will shine and show me the way...
May 15, 2026 from Above the Law Selective Viewing — See Also Ken Paxton Sets His Sights On Suing Netflix: Less to do with consumer protections and more with handling Trump's enemies. Davis Polk Is Committed To California: They're looking to build out a full-...
May 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum Decision Today's order is here; the application that was denied is here. The state's argument for a stay, which the Court… The post S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum De...
May 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP Read No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP A young guy comes over holding a vinyl album: Customer: "Is this region specific?" Me: "Region specific? You mean, like region locked?" Read No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP
May 15, 2026 from Hackaday Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more
May 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google is shrinking free storage from 15GB to 5GB unless you add a verified phone number Google has reportedly introduced a new policy for free storage on newly created accounts. Some users have reported that newly created accounts now start with only 5GB, instead of the 15GB that was ...
May 15, 2026 from Kev Quirk Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were some things I wanted to do with my network that my ISP-provided router wasn't ca...
May 15, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 15 May 2026 Octopole Edition Top Story AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardware) A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the...
May 15, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria the salary arrived. so did the sinkhole. It is Friday, May 15th, 2026.Five days since I wrote that all roads lead to rot, and unfortunately, the road has not developed better civic planning since then. It is still the same road. Same poth...
May 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26 After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Su...
May 15, 2026 from SIGPLAN Blog The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the source of truth—where humans declare intent, agents turn it into executable artif...
May 15, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Studio Ghibli’s president is leaving the company. Will it change how they make anime? Three years after being acquired by Nippon TV, there’s a shakeup at the top levels of Ghibli’s leadership. Between its unparalleled commitment to anime artistry and larger-than-life creative keymen...
May 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval Edmund's Second Wife After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, died on 16 November 1271. The succession passed to Edward, who was still returni...
May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugitives), a new analysis of the materials recovered at the time has succeeded in as...
May 15, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 20/2026 We are in Thrissur. We left at around 2 AM and reached by 11 AM, with two breaks. The drive was comfortable. The traffic was friendly this time. Echo is getting old, and Uma is more active now. So ...
