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UC's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement $15K Non-Residential Fellowships (Applications Due March 21)

From the webpage: Applications are due by Monday, March 30th at midnight. If you have questions, please feel free to… The post UC's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement $15K Non-Res...

The Reading Canary: Seeing the Aardvark’s Shadow

Attempting to read Cerebus the Aardvark for what you could describe as “the good bits” is a bit like being Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day in reverse: if I don’t see the shadow of Dave Sim’s lat...

Daily News Stuff 23 February 2026

Version Number Edition Top Story The US spent $30 billion giving every schoolchild a laptop or tablet. It made them dumber. (Yahoo) And particularly less capable to maintain attention to the task a...

E2EE Backend part 2: Private Information Retrieval

This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can look up data in an encrypted database w...

Highest Starbucks in Japan set to open this spring in the Tokyo sky

New cafe will offer beautiful views of the city, Mt. Fuji, and cherry blossoms. In Japanese, the word for expensive is takai. So when Starbucks Japan announced that they’ll soon be opening the most...

Migrate Netbox from Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

Summary In this article I will be working through migrating Netbox from Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS. Given that the world is all containers and microservices. I like to insta...

The Spring Festival Gala, Robots, AI, and LLMs - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #124

As a television program with over a billion viewers, the China Central Television's Spring Festival Gala is undoubtedly an exceptional showcase platform. In this year's Gala, multiple Chinese robot...

Melisende

Baldwin II, Count of Edessa, and Morphia of Melitene had four daughters. When it seemed likely that a son was not going to happen, Baldwin named his eldest daughter Melisende as his heir presumptiv...

OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices

You don't need a MacMini for running OpenClaw. These alternative projects can run on SBCs and ESP32 microcontrollers.

IRC Log: The Cloud Scale Incident

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A walk through Walton County's Rosemary Beach

Founded in 1995 by Patrick D. Bienvenue, Rosemary Beach is a New Urbanism–inspired planned community located just west of Panama City Beach. Its design draws inspiration from the French Quarter in ...

Weeknotes 2026-02-22

This entry coming in late because I had a busy weekend! The World USPol: The US supreme court has rejected Trump's reciprocal tariffs! He was so mad! PHPol: Sara Duterte announces her candidacy for...

Weekly Robotics #349

No intro today, let's jump straight into some interesting robotics projects and write-ups! This issue is brought to you by our sponsors: Six Things I Learned Watching a Robotics Startup Die from th...

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Bellairs At the Crossroads

John Bellairs as an author was prolific in his lifetime, and ended up being one of those authors whose signature series get extended by other hands for well after their deaths, but there are two no...

Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn, Part 39

Read Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn, Part 39 Customer: "Your worker here needs to be reprimanded for speaking to me so rudely." Manager: "Not once did I hear her being anything but p...

How Do You Turn a Plain Backyard Into a Space You’ll Actually Use?

If you’re tired of looking at the same patch of lawn, then it’s time for you to redesign your backyard to make it a welcoming outdoor space. By making your backyard practical and comfortable, you’l...

‘Spitting In The Wind Comes Back At You Twice As Hard’

Sometimes blogging is serendipitous even when you initially have some sort of a plan. I’ve been wanting for the past day to find a way to mention a particular blog post by someone but didn’t feel l...