May 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 May 2026 Omnispoo Edition Top Story Utah has decided to make it a crime to use VPNs to bypass age verification checks. (Tom's Hardware) Since anyone can set up a VPN of their own in minutes using open sourc...
May 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japanese hair salons going bankrupt in record numbers Salons are dying in more ways than one. One of the great things about gradually losing my hair is that I don’t have to worry about getting it cut in any significant way. I can get the job done myse...
May 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-04-26 Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled li...
May 04, 2026 from Peter's Path Monthly update #0432 • April 2026 Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis The Problem ...
May 04, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Getting AI from Handy to Heartfelt - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #134 It's been three years since I started using AI tools in earnest. Over these three years, I've witnessed AI's remarkable leaps in capability — and grown increasingly aware of its limits. By now, AI ...
May 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Second Barons' War Begins So the first phase of the Second Barons' War happened very quickly. The rebellious barons invaded London and captured King Henry III and Queen Eleanor of Provence. Simon de Montfort, who was marrie...
May 04, 2026 from It's FOSS A Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon Is Coming to the Netherlands on May 16 OS-SCi's Lomiri Tech Meeting includes keynotes, free books, and a new bounty program reveal.
May 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A large circular Bronze Age ditch with 3 access gates and another 60 structures found in a Hungarian mine The archaeological research team from the Herman Ottó Museum has resumed its excavation work in the vicinity of the Bükkábrány open-pit lignite mine in northern Hungary, continuing the efforts that...
May 04, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 yumi and the nightmare painter - a book review Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this makes it clear why. It’s an imaginative, fascinating world. The thing that separ...
May 04, 2026 from Julia Evans Links to CSS colour palettes A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light...
May 04, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bullshit King Being good is a privilege. I was thinking about how life has gone over the last several years, and I came to a stark realization that if my circumstances weren't as favorable as they are, I'd have ...
May 03, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026 Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to …read more
May 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com How Do I (In)Put This Gently Read How Do I (In)Put This Gently One day, a lady called in and stated her new computer "wasn't doing anything." Me: "Is the unit powering up?" Caller: "Oh, it is, but it's not doing anything." Rea...
May 03, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #359 Today issue turned into a bit of a YouTube party as I'm traveling and I don't have as much time as I would like to do some proper research for the newsletter. Still, these are some solid engineerin...
May 03, 2026 from Above the Law Accidentally Filing A Draft Motion Might Be The Least Embarrassing DOJ Story Of The Week — See Generally Tell Me The DOJ Didn't Check The Filing Without Telling Me: Justice Department files motion complete with giant "DRAFT" watermark on every page. Cracker jack lawyering! Somehow This Wasn't The Most...
May 03, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Our Coblogger Stewart Baker Has Died It grieves me to report that our coblogger, and my friend, Stewart Baker died suddenly a few days ago at… The post Our Coblogger Stewart Baker Has Died appeared first on Reason.com.
May 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 May 2026 Sorry Not Sorry Edition Top Story The CPanel exploit is being exploited as a ransomware attack that encrypts your entire website. (Bleeping Computer) Well, I dodged that one, at least.Numerous sour...
May 03, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Samurai Coffee: Try Edo period coffee once enjoyed by Japanese warriors Cafe in Japan uses a recipe from an old document to recreate a historic brew. Japan might be commonly associated with tea, but coffee is also a big part of the culture, having first been introduced...
May 03, 2026 from The Linkfest Linkfest #44: Microchimerism, Sonic-Boom Duct Tape, and the Hidden Tetris Champion Hello there! It’s time again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest Linkfest, for which I have sifted through the entire dang Internet, top to bottom, looking for the finest items in scien...
