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• Your Browser Probably Lies to the Big Sites (Blame Chrome) May 17, 2026

  When you visit certain large sites in Firefox or Safari, the browser may detect your visit and change its behavior. I...

• Asimov is an Open Source Humanoid Robot For the Rest of Us May 17, 2026

  Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets...

• After Stumbling From CVE to CVE Will Linux get a Kill Switch? May 16, 2026

  For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the ...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• April 2026 at The New Leaf Journal May 17, 2026

  Wherein I review The New Leaf Journal's sixth birthday month with a new and original inflatable spring decoration pho...

• Blogging Promises, Schedules, and Burnout May 13, 2026

  On how to establish a sort of blogging/online writing rhythm or routine while avoiding what the kids call "burnout" o...

• Sliwa for NYC Mayor Lawn Signs Seen in May 2026 May 11, 2026

  On seeing the first Curtis Sliwa 2025 mayoral campaign signs in Brooklyn Heights on Mother's Day 2026, more than six ...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• 7-Eleven Japan now sells canned water, but does funky packaging mean funky flavor?[Taste test] May 16, 2026

  Lotte’s canned water makes its convenience store debut. The first time you take a look at the drink section in a Japa...

• The top 12 incomprehensible school rules, as chosen by high school students May 16, 2026

  Plus some surprising extra requirements, like having to say “thank you” at least 10 times a day.  Every school in Jap...

• Let’s hike a Japanese mountain (that isn’t Mt. Fuji) – Mt. Tsukuba[Photos] May 16, 2026

  A beautiful, highly customizable hike that’s an easy day-trip from Tokyo. We’re finally in that not-too-cold, not-too...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. It is written by Nicholas A. Ferrell, the editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal. Our weekly issues include links to the newest articles at *The New Leaf Journal* and its sister projects and associated new...

• Virid Burnout 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXX May 16, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 280th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• Niche bouquet 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIX May 09, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 279th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• Weathered letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVIII May 02, 2026

  Welcome to the 278th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Selfie-Incriminating Evidence May 16, 2026

  Read Selfie-Incriminating Evidence Customer: "My phone has stopped charging!" Me: "Have you got it wet or left it in ...

• When The System Doesn’t Apply, Neither Do Its Products May 16, 2026

  Read When The System Doesn’t Apply, Neither Do Its Products Customer: "The menu says $6.99! Why does it cost more?!" ...

• Forcing Them To Make A Curse-Correction May 16, 2026

  Read Forcing Them To Make A Curse-Correction Hotel Manager: "I am going to have to charge you [amount] per room and a...

The Linkfest

The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free archives here. I'm Clive Thompson, a longtime science and tech reporter (Wired, New York Times ...

• Linkfest #44: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb May 16, 2026

  Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I scroll through the endless B...

• Linkfest #44: Microchimerism, Sonic-Boom Duct Tape, and the Hidden Tetris Champion May 03, 2026

  Hello there! It’s time again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest Linkfest, for which I have sifted throug...

• Linkfest #43: Archaeoacoustics, "Nocotourism", and the 8-bit Backrooms Mar 18, 2026

  Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — a new Linkfest, in which I sort through the planet-wide ...

Peter's Path

Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

• Marskramer Path part 04 May 16, 2026

  Hiked part 4/20 of the Marskramer Path, 21.5 kilometres from Delden to Rijssen. You walk through the stream valley of...

• Ascension Day May 14, 2026

  Happy Ascension Day to all of you. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a clo...

• The Wide Paved Road versus the Narrow Footpath May 14, 2026

  Stories from many times and places show two ways of life. One way is wide and smooth like a paved road. It offers eas...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News stuff 16 May 2026 May 16, 2026

  Dipole Edition Top Story SpaceX has shown of its Starship V3 and is planning for a test flight as early as this week....

• Daily News Stuff 15 May 2026 May 15, 2026

  Octopole Edition Top Story AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardwa...

• Daily News Stuff 14 May 2026 May 14, 2026

  Thursday Edition Top Story This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Fragnesia is the fourth lo...

Chuniversiteit

A personal blog about programming, design, and software engineering research

• I’m not sure what to make of Google’s Pixel 10 Pro May 16, 2026

  The Pixel 10 Pro is supposed to be Google’s flagship phone, but it certainly doesn’t feel like one.

• The Eurovision Song Contest and the European Union May 10, 2026

  The Eurovision Song Contest is technically not related to the European Union, but it does affect how the EU is percei...

• Access your Docker Compose services via easy-to-remember names May 05, 2026

  Did you know you can make your Docker web app containers available via simple names instead of hard-to-remember port ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale? May 16, 2026

  Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas writes about the warning signs that Bitwarden might be h...

• Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max May 15, 2026

  So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were ...

• Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre May 12, 2026

  As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest ...

Stranger Than Usual

• Goodbye Search Console May 16, 2026

  Warum ich Google Search Console nicht mehr nutze und warum ich es überhaupt genutzt habe.

• Webbloat reduzieren May 14, 2026

  1,5 Megabyte? Das sind ja fast zwei Megabyte! Sechs Megabyte unkomprimiert! Zwanzig Megabyte im Debug-Build!

• LMAA May 14, 2026

  LMAA („Lokale Märkte. Alternative Anbieter“) listet online-shops auf, die nicht zu den großen Anbietern gehören.

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Edmund at War May 16, 2026

  There were few times in England's Medieval period when it was not at war with someone. Even when they were not forced...

• Edmund's Second Wife May 15, 2026

  After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, ...

• Funding a Crusade May 14, 2026

  When Henry III's son Edmund Crouchback was 23 years old, he pledged to go on crusade with his brother, Edward, and a ...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Today in Supreme Court History: May 16, 1918 May 16, 2026

  5/16/1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is enacted. The Supreme Court upheld prosecutions brought under this law in Schen...

• Open Thread May 16, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum Decision May 15, 2026

  Today's order is here; the application that was denied is here. The state's argument for a stay, which the Court… The...

bearblog

Writings by Alexander Harkness

• Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre May 16, 2026

  The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...

• Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Nov 01, 2023

  Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...

• Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates Aug 12, 2022

  London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Remains of a self-sufficient village from the late 3rd century AD—predating the Germanic migrations—and a strange “large, dark, opaque glass bead” discovered in Saxony May 16, 2026

  Gravel extraction at the Liebersee site, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Belgern-Schildau in Saxony (German...

• A Mycenaean Palace and a Sanctuary Rewrite the History of the Lacedaemonians, and How the Spartans Joined Them May 16, 2026

  Imagine a fertile valley in the Peloponnese, crossed by the Eurotas river. There, more than 3,300 years ago, a Mycena...

• A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption May 15, 2026

  More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugit...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• I Gave Desktop Email Clients Another Shot and This New App Delivered May 16, 2026

  Btw, it is lightweight, open source, and not built on Electron.

• Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative May 15, 2026

  Two council members have retracted their approval votes after people raised concerns.

• Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux May 15, 2026

  Want to run AI models locally without expensive hardware? I tested 8 LLMs on a CPU-only machine to find out what work...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026 May 16, 2026

  Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odd...

• Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries May 08, 2026

  This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised...

• Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals May 01, 2026

  This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and cons...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Piss On Concrete May 16, 2026

  I've been thrown the fuck off. I am feeling formulaic, creatively destitute. No matter; these things are part of it a...

• Art Therapy May 15, 2026

  A simple realization I somehow didn't arrive at until just now: this project is self-imposed art therapy. I remember ...

• Boats May 14, 2026

  This one's gonna be a bit dark, so don't read further if that's not what you can handle right now. My uncle shot hims...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• Selective Viewing — See Also May 15, 2026

  Ken Paxton Sets His Sights On Suing Netflix: Less to do with consumer protections and more with handling Trump's enem...

• This Firm’s Bonuses Are The Stuff Of Biglaw Mythology May 15, 2026

  One elite firm’s compensation reputation continues to tower over the competition. The post This Firm’s Bonuses Are Th...

• Is Private Equity’s Involvement In Beauty Stifling Brand Individuality? May 15, 2026

  Growth capital can accelerate success, but it can also compromise the identity that made a brand worth investing in t...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Google is shrinking free storage from 15GB to 5GB unless you add a verified phone number May 15, 2026

  Google has reportedly introduced a new policy for free storage on newly created accounts. Some users have reported th...

• OpenAI brings Codex to ChatGPT mobile app for remote coding project access May 15, 2026

  OpenAI has integrated Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android, giving users a way to review and manage ...

• Laravel PAO brings AI-optimized output when some PHP tools are being run by an AI agent May 15, 2026

  Laravel has introduced Laravel PAO, a PHP agent-optimized output system designed to reshape the way AI agents interac...