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L’arnaque du bilan carbone

L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consom...

Little Cloud

One can be smart and disabled, you know? I remember as a teenager during the peak of Obama II how the increasing rhetoric of "invisible disability" felt like such a grotesque cop-out. Funnily enoug...

Size and Lifespan

Trump Rewrites Supreme Court Loss As A Win — See Generally

Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn't Get Worse: The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it's even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a client to keep t...

Getting Five Nights At Lockup

Read Getting Five Nights At Lockup When we finally told her, no, it’s just not here, and she’d have to wait, she flipped out. She accused us of hiding them for ourselves and demanded to be let into...

Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and …read more

Some Tentatively Final Thoughts on Substack

I appreciate the emails I received from my two posts on starting a Substack. I am also grateful to David… The post Some Tentatively Final Thoughts on Substack appeared first on Reason.com.

Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping

This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hoppin...

Track Bird Visitors With A Raspberry Pi And A USB Mic

“Avian Visitors is a lovely project by Teddy Warner that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colourful illustration of recent...

Full Steam on Termux, Because Why Not?

I’ve been having so much fun running full steam games on my switch lite! Just this weekend I got Psychnauts running well (with no overclocks!) These can be good times even if they are complicated t...

Daily News Stuff 9 August 2026

Fossas Civets And Coatis Edition Top Story Five of America's top tech companies - Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle - are expected to burn through $125 billion in cash this year on their ...

Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 2

Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this...

Japanese convenience store food gets turned into hyper-realistic stationery you can peel open

The rice ball and hot snack sets let you feel the fun of some of Japan’s best treats anywhere in the world. Japan’s convenience stores are filled with wondrous foods to try, with new delights appea...

Converting a PS4 Persona 5 Royal NG+ Save to Steam with Adversarial Interoperability

Sony is locking the PlayStation down more and more. I just want to free my PS4 Persona 5 Royal save so I can play on Steam.

A Taste of Honey (2009) – Visual Novel Review

Back in 2009, a speculative fiction author named Fred Warren adapted his own 2008 short story into a visual novel after learning about the medium. Here, I review A Taste of Honey, which remains fre...

The Neanderthals of a Cave in Northern Spain Were Already Making and Reusing Bone Tools in a Standardized and Planned Way

A team of researchers from the University of Burgos and the Atapuerca Foundation has published the first detailed analysis of the bone retouchers found in the Valdegoba cave, in the municipality of...

Weeknotes 2026-08-09

Time flows like a river, and history repeats. Or rhymes at least. The World Alex Eala won some tennis open in DC! Kind of a big deal in a #PinoyPride kind of way. She has another tournament ongoing...

The Mortimer Rebellion

Although Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old when Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from Richard II, he was a potential political threat. He was Richard's heir-presumptive, and his lineage ...

Boldly Going Outside of Modiphius’ Range

Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures RPG celebrated its 10th anniversary recently, making it the longest-lasting Star Trek RPG by a comfortable margin (unless you count the weird little oddity which is ...

From a Neo4j Graph Back to an OKF Bundle

Part two of the Neo4j and OKF series. A projection is a selection query with a serializer on the end: it reads a governed subset of the graph and writes a portable Open Knowledge Format bundle. Tru...