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MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?

Archived, unarchived, and archived again, the repo's status may keep changing, but MinIO's direction hasn't.

Schrödinger’s Ayatollah and Umineko: When They Cry

I read a cleverly-titled article by Amit Segal titled Schrödinger’s Ayatollah: Is Mojtaba Dead or Alive? The article examines the life status, or lack thereof, of Iran’s purported Supreme Leader, M...

Self-Whatever

I received my catechumen prayers yesterday, praise God! I knew prior to receiving these prayers, there would be exorcism prayers involved in them. During the prayers, the priest blows air on you, m...

🌱 we corkscrew through space and time

This idea has been rattling around my brain for a while, but I’ve struggled to put it into words (though I did my best for the alt-text below). Is it a poem? An idea? A model of the world? All thre...

Soniferous Aether

Weekly Robotics #358

The glider from today's issue seemed to have scratched an itch I didn't know I had. I seriously feel like doing a simple project like this, especially since it doesn't require so many resources (as...

Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?

After 10 years of loyal service, the motorbike jacket that I wear most often gave up the ghost recently and ripped. Being a piece of protective clothing, a rip isn't a good thing, so I've been shop...

Soßenerfolg

2014 habe ich in meinem Kochprojekt holländische Soße gemacht. Jetzt, 12 Jahre später, habe ich es endlich geschafft, sie ohne Hilfe richtig zu machen.

Daily News Stuff 26 April 2026

FUNEX Edition Top Story Samsung's mobile division could lose money in 2026 - for the first time ever. (SammyGuru) You don't need to feel bad for them though. Samsung's memory division - all by itse...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 24

Hiked part 24/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.8 kilometres from Otterlo to Hoenderloo. Walked from Otterlo through De Hoge Veluwe National Park to Hoenderloo. The route crossed pine forest, sandy...

What’s up with the “mosquito buzz” noise at Shibuya Station?

If you’ve ever felt irritated around this part of Tokyo, this might be the reason why.  The area around Shibuya Station is one of the busiest places in all of Tokyo, and right now it’s a nightmare ...

Procurement Documents Reveal AI Chip Workarounds

Sunny Cheung & Kai-shing Lau

King of the Romans

Richard of Cornwall was only two years younger than his brother Henry, who became King of England. He rebelled against Henry a few times, using his wealth from Cornwall and Poitou to try to become ...

Over 100 Game Boards Discovered Carved in the Ruins of the Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya

The ruins of Ptolemais, one of the largest Greek cities of antiquity, hide within their crumbling walls a unique archaeological phenomenon: hundreds of grids carved into stone formed by small circu...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 26] - Ars Poetica for a Room That Keeps Interrupting

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 26] Day Twenty-SixHello, everyone, and welcome back for Day Twenty-Six of National/Global Poetry Writing Month. Today, our featured participant is Jay Siegmann, whose response...

Stop using Cloudflare’s default 1.1.1.1 DNS (changing one digit blocks malware at the router level)

“Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS server is popular for its speed, reliability, and support DNS over HTTPs (DOH), which gives you some added privacy. However, 1.1.1.1 doesn’t do much besides lookup IP addr...

Weeknotes 2026-04-26

The World Iran crisis is still ongoing. Trump has extended his "ceasefire", but the strait is still largely closed and negotiations seem to be going nowhere at the moment. Trump attended the WHCD f...

When a tiny publication becomes something you have to run

A tiny publication starts becoming something you have to run when small fixes stop staying local. The archive begins carrying enough promise and consequence that coherence needs a little deliberate...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released V4, its first major model update in over a year

DeepSeek has released DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Flash, its first major model update in over a year. The new V4 models introduce a context window of up to 1 million tokens, allowing longer con...

They once called me coach 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVII

Welcome to the 277th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form writing sister...