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Feb 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

A Reptile Dysfunction

Read A Reptile Dysfunction I managed to tear a van I was trying to tow almost in half the other day. It wasn't some rattling rust bucket where breaking apart was going to happen sooner or later. It...

Feb 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Does Light Consist of "Object[s]"?

In HAC v. ER, decided in August by the Michigan Court of Appeals (Judges Sima Patel, Michael Riordan, and Brock… The post Does Light Consist of "Object[s]"? appeared first on Reason.com.

Feb 17, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

CSS, grau, grey und gray

Ist es in CSS „grey“ oder „gray“? Und wie ist es mit hellgrau und dunkelgrau?

Feb 17, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

February 2026 So Farrr...

Wow. It has been long, yet all it has been is a lot of ruminating, longing, yearning, guilting, depressing, daydreaming, waiting, intruding, and not a lot of change, huh? Since the last update in J...

Feb 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 February 2026

Abandon Sheep Edition Top Story After all the fuss, OpenClaw, fomerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot until Anthropic made rumbling noises, isn't all that. (Tech Crunch) What it does achieve is making i...

Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS

Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again?

Debian's official tagline is "Universal Operating System". It's more than just a tagline: it's a deeper concept that underpins the very nature of Debian as a project.

Feb 17, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs

The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazing, I wanted to respond to a post I saw recently on Mastodon. Disclaimer: I curre...

Feb 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.

Feb 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan has trams that say “sorry” while they ride around town…but why?

Gomen means sorry in Japanese, but in this town you’ll see it written on the streetcar destination displays.   You’ll encounter a lot of fascinating sights while travelling around Japan, and the fu...

Feb 17, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG

The ‘Serialized’ Series

I’ve realized that as of the first batch of my blogging on furiousnads.com to have been restored here from that site’s mid-2010s edition, all four of my posts on a longstanding pet peeve of mine ar...

Feb 17, 2026 from The Jaxson

11 Black cultural heritage sites to visit in town

In honor of Black History Month, here are eleven historic African American cultural heritage destinations in Jacksonville to visit. - Cedar Point Preserve 7222 Cedar Point Rd. The ruins of the Fitz...

Feb 17, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: Speak Up, Chesterfield! – The First Doctor Audios, Part 1

After the brief first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles tested the waters for their particular audiobook/audio drama hybrid format, Big Finish felt emboldened to turn them into a month...

Feb 17, 2026 from seize the dev

Will Software Engineering Survive?

Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.

Feb 17, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty

This is a follow-on post to yesterday’s, um, last Friday’s post about curiosity driven approaches to reinforcement learning. I intended to publish this post on the 14th, but it was Valentine’s day ...

Feb 16, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG

Writing Is Not Optional For Journalism

Chris Quinn, editor of the The Plain Dealer, published a “letter from the editor” over the weekend about “a college student [who] withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom th...

Feb 16, 2026 from riz#000000me

better browsing for non-technical people

you can pick up your mom's phone and do this stuff and it won't change how she interacts with the internet

Feb 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Blog Questions Challenge Answers

NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell answers eight questions presented in a Ava's Space's Bear Blog blog questions challenge (with one question modified for broader applicability).

Feb 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

From a decision last week in Smith v. Solomon, by Judge André Birotte Jr.: Plaintiff files the [application] in a… The post No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe a...

Feb 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 16 February 2026

Fixed Clicks Edition Top Story The word of the day is ClickFix, the favourite tool of lazy hackers everywhere. (Microsoft) They don't need to hack you if they can convince you to hack yourself, usu...

Feb 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Poop is in full bloom at the Unko Museums for cherry blossom season

Spring is in the air. In Japan, it has long stood as a symbol of both nature’s boundless fertility and its delicate transience, serving as a regular reminder that all is not long for the world and ...