Mar 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval Egypt Again January 1169 saw the death of Bertrand of Blancfort, the master of the Templars. Bertrand was not as keen on invading Egypt as was Amalric I, King of Jerusalem. In August of that year, no doubt wi...
Mar 10, 2026 from Kev Quirk Pure Blog Is Now Feature Complete...ish I've just released v1.8.0 of Pure Blog, which was the final big feature I wanted to add1. At this point, Pure Blog does all the things I would want a useful CMS to do, such as: Storing content in p...
Mar 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection to the outside world with a screwdriver
Mar 10, 2026 from Julia Evans Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so I worked on adding (or improving) examples to two of my favourite tools’ man pag...
Mar 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Post-Irony Just before starting my timer to sprint out this entry, I sat for a moment to try and think of some kind of game plan for how I wanted to structure this entry. After about maybe fifteen seconds of ...
Mar 10, 2026 from Heitor's log TIL: how to check why a Nix package is in the Nix Store Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.
Mar 10, 2026 from The Fly Blog Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practically nothing when idle. They’re the best and safest place on the Internet to run a...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Russia Expects Iran to Endure U.S.–Israeli Strikes Pavel K. Baev
Mar 09, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software New Laptop It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one needs to qualify for a laptop replacement. When I joined I could choose a 14-inc...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "See MAGA, Shoot MAGA" in TikTok Video Was Criminally Punishable Threat From U.S. v. Segari, decided today by Judge Kathryn Mizelle (M.D. Fla.): In August 2025, Desiree Doreen Segari posted TikTok… The post "See MAGA, Shoot MAGA" in TikTok Video Was Criminally Punishab...
Mar 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Meteorit in Koblenz In Koblenz hat ein Meteorit ein Loch in ein Hausdach geschlagen.
Mar 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 9 March 2026 Petabyte Pie Edition Top Story Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo) And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly. Will the Anthropic's Pentagon co...
Mar 09, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Pikachu and Eevee become handmade Lladró porcelain sculptures to celebrate Pokémon’s 30th birthday Pokémon franchise celebrates its 30th anniversary with a partnership with the Spanish luxury ceramics craftsmen. When looking for a Pokémon to grace your home, the usual choice is between a cuddly ...
Mar 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Lost Page of an Archimedes Manuscript Is Found, with an Enigmatic Image Added Over the Ancient Text The history of science and classical philology experienced this March 2026 a chapter worthy of an academic intrigue novel, although in this case the setting was not a remote archive in Istanbul nor...
Mar 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval Like a Mouse in a Wallet Yesterday's post introduced the phrase more muris in pera, "like a mouse in a wallet." It was said by William of Tyre about Andronikos Comnenos, a cousin of the Byzantine Emperor who came to the Ki...
Mar 09, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria So Much of Whatever-the-fuck Has Happened So Far 07th March 2026, 3:33 PM-5:16 PMI have been pushing and dragging and coercing and compelling myself to write this. Write here. Come here and write. Open the incognito and log in to my alter self an...
Mar 09, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog MacBook Neo: The Starting Point of Apple's Return to Campus - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #126 Last week, Apple launched several new hardware products. Unlike previous launch events, this release was unusually low-key. Initially, I was only interested in the newly announced monitor, but afte...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Disabling Some Truly Bad Parenting Read Disabling Some Truly Bad Parenting Kid #1: "Mom, why does that man only have one foot?" Mom #1: "I don't know. We can ask him if you want." Mom #2: "No, don't do that. I know why he's without ...
Mar 09, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Cracking The Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) Safe Summary I have a Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) safe I bought a few years ago to store valuables or keep firearms away from children. Not to mention keep away from those who may attempt to steal th...
Mar 09, 2026 from It's FOSS MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.
