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Matthew Brunelle's Blog
Aug 16, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

I've Inadvertently Opted Out of Smart Notifications Thanks to GrapheneOS.

I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed phone usage. I'm happy I had the chance to opt out of them.

Kev Quirk
Aug 16, 2026 from Kev Quirk

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Working great šŸ‘šŸ» Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ā¤ļø You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

SoraNews24 -Japan News-
Aug 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Stay at a hotel with a bed for your plushie in Japan

Complete with tiny matching pyjamas for your little friend. The world of fandom is vast and varied in Japan – on one hand you have fans who might show a casual interest in an actor, idol, VTuber, o...

Daily Medieval
Aug 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Pepin the Hunchback's Treatment

Charlemagne's first son was named Pepin. Shortly after his birth he developed a spinal deformity that has caused historians to refer to him as "Pepin the Hunchback."His mother was the concubine Him...

GadgeteerZA
Aug 16, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

nfSensei is an open source fork of pfSense, by the original creator, for Linux

ā€œnfSensei is a modern network operating system built from scratch in Rust with a React frontend, designed around a single principle: one API to rule them all. The CLI, the web UI, and the on-device...

The Volokh Conspiracy
Aug 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933

8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The Supreme Court declared… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933...

Roy Tang
Aug 16, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-08-16

My Week Another rainy week, though it let up a bit the past few days. Google Fit says I walked 76,313 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, breaking well past my quota and making up for my shortfall...

Sulayman Bowles — Writing
Aug 16, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing

An AI megawatt is not a megawatt.

A conditional GB300 model turns facility power into installed GPUs. A grid request alone leaves the fleet unknown.

The Newsletter Leaf Journal
Aug 15, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Deflated Bee 怜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIII

Welcome to the 293rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (ā€œNLJā€) and its short-form writing sister...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com
Aug 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

More Than A Few Loose Shingles

Read More Than A Few Loose Shingles Me: "Okay, that's going to be a special-order item, which has a minimum-purchase quantity of nine bundles, and a ten-business-day turnaround time." Caller: "But ...

Hackaday
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday

Peeling Fruit with the Power of Steam

Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engineer studying heat cycles. But because food is largely made of water, steam …read...

The Volokh Conspiracy
Aug 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Israeli Settler "Terrorists" Unjustly Expel West Bank Palestinians From Their Land

I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.

GadgeteerZA
Aug 15, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

FairEmail is an open source privacy orientated email app

ā€œSetup was IMAP credentials for each of my personal accounts. There’s no account to create with the developer or a sign-in step before you can reach your inbox. Two things in the listing made it ap...

Ambient Irony
Aug 15, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 15 August 2026

Twenty Essential Classical Elements Edition Top Story Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media ac...

Peter's Path
Aug 15, 2026 from Peter's Path

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a coded message from an old Icelandic explorer. He sets out with his nephew Axel...

Daily Medieval
Aug 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Hunchbacks

In William Shakespeare's Richard III, someone refers to Richard asĀ ā€œthat foule hunch-backt toade.ā€ It's the first recorded instance of the term for someone who had a less-than-straight spine, and—p...

LBV Magazine English Edition
Aug 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Philogelos is the oldest joke book in the world, and why some of its jokes still work 1,600 years later

In 2008, British comedian Jim Bowen stepped onto a stage to try out new material. Only the material wasn’t new at all: it had been written since the 4th century. Bowen read to a contemporary audien...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-
Aug 15, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese gacha machine in Shibuya now sells tiny capsule terrariums

We join the ā€œkoke katsuā€ trend to find out if these little ecosystems are as easy to make as they say. Japan is famous for its gacha machines, which dispense all sorts of products at random, throug...

The Jamestown Foundation
Aug 15, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Institutions Outpace Ideas in ā€˜Autonomous Knowledge System’

Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt

It's FOSS
Aug 15, 2026 from It's FOSS

Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check

Powered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure.

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