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Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks

[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …r...

The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled — See Also

The NCBE Called It A 'Historic Milestone.' Washington Canceled It. The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rather than trust the tech again. What About Diploma Privilege? The question answers ...

Central Bank and Finance Ministry Warn Putin of War’s Impact on Economy

John C. K. Daly

Winamp partners with Deezer to launch hybrid streaming service in 2027

Winamp has announced a partnership with music streaming platform Deezer to power its upcoming premium music subscription service. Deezer will provide its white-label streaming technology and global...

Podcast episode No. 0046: What the heck is Brian up to?

A professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.

It's time to leave the man alone.

One day in 2020, I went to a coffee shop.

Rollenspielszenen: Der Vogelschutzbund

Siobhan wird fast von einem Vogelschutzbund zwangsrekrutiert.

Daily News Stuff 29 July 2026

Beware Of Doug Edition Top Story So how are things going a year into the DRAM Apocalypse? (Tom's Hardware) I'm glad you asked. Actually, no I'm not. But anyway, you remember when DDR5 memory was br...

Maximum entry fee for sento public baths in Tokyo increases slightly for adults next month

The rise in the entry fee comes amid an increase in public bathhouse users in Tokyo and a decrease in the total number of sento. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that the maximum ent...

Failure Modes

Graceful degradation is underrated

Does Prayer Change Things? by R.C. Sproul

Why read the book? R.C. Sproul answers a common question: does prayer make any difference? He shows that prayer does not change the mind of God. God already knows and plans all things. Yet prayer s...

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. ...

Liquid Glass: A Field Guide to UIKit Compatibility Pitfalls

Although Liquid Glass has been around for two years, the compatibility issues it introduced haven’t completely disappeared. Drawing on a real-world project, SLIT_STUDIO developer Megabits summarize...

Two 40,000-Year-Old Ivory Bird Figurines Discovered in Hohle Fels Cave, the Smallest Sculptures Found to Date at the Famous Site

Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwest Germany, have yielded two new discoveries of extraordinary imp...

Nicholas Brembre

Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the Wheel of Fortune—one-time Nicholas Brembre, who had persecuted former mayor John ...

Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux

They have hired someone to bring the GOG GALAXY client to the platform.

How Do Decision-Making Frameworks Work? 8 Methods That End Overthinking

Decision-making frameworks exist because the human brain, brilliant as it is, turns into a hamster wheel the moment a choice has more than two options and any real stakes. Everyone knows the feelin...

The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals In the previous articles I talked about the game of Nim, a very simple game for t...

My 2026 Birthday

28 July 2026 marked my 34th birthday. Being the birthday person did not mean I did not need to do chores when it was necessary. In the morning, I did the laundry. Near afternoon, I went our with my...

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