Feb 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk Kids and Smartphones My oldest son is 11. He'll be starting high school in September, and my wife and I want a way of keeping in touch with him as he'll be making his own way to school. The default here would be to get...
Feb 19, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ The Life and Work of George Boole (Review) George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic that acts as a fundamental layer within digital systems. Although he never gain...
Feb 19, 2026 from Peter's Path You're Not Enough (and That's Ok) by Allie Beth Stuckey Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote You're Not Enough (And That's Okay). She calls the book an escape from the toxic culture of self-love. Stuckey says modern ideas tell us we are enough on...
Feb 19, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Adding A User On Linux With adduser(1) Summary In this note I’m going to discuss adding a user to a Linux system using the adduser(1) command. This provides a friendly front end for creating a new user. Where with the useradd(1) command...
Feb 19, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Adding A User To A Group On Linux Summary Using usermod(1) One command I use the most is the usermod(1) command. I generally just append group membership; using the -a flag, to give the user another group as opposed to making it th...
Feb 19, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Create A User Group On Linux Using addgroup(1) Summary This note discusses using the addgroup(1) command to add groups to Linux systems. Which is coupled with the adduser(1) command as a friendly front end for adding users and groups to Linux s...
Feb 19, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.08: KDE Plasma 6.6, Mint Release Schedule Change, ASCII Weather, Firefox Tweaking and More Linux Stuff Quizzes and Puzzles? Yes or no?
Feb 19, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Ways To Lock And Unlock Linux User Accounts Summary In this note I will be going through a few ways to lock and unlock Linux user accounts. This is useful for the sake of making sure accounts can be put in time out of they misbehave. passwd(...
Feb 19, 2026 from It's FOSS This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source) If you are looking for a free video downloader that just works on Linux, Windows or macOS, VidBee is the ideal choice here.
Feb 19, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #04: Coromandel Peninsula A travel journal from my visit to Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand.
Feb 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Sonnenuntergang und Schleimpilz Ein Arbeitskollege von mir hat eine Sonnenuntergangs-/aufgangssimulation programmiert. Und eine Schleimpilzsimulation.
Feb 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 18 February 2026 Anthrax Leprosy Pi Edition Top Story Had an instructive argument with Grok today. Someone asked if a video was AI, and Grok said it indeed appeared to be fake. It was overlaid on a web page from Th...
Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard The release also includes a new color blindness filter, an on-screen keyboard, and better high refresh rate display handling.
Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out It is open source, vendor-neutral, and free to self-host.
Feb 18, 2026 from Saeed Esmaili Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical at first. Claude Code is a terminal-based tool, and I was used to IDEs. With Cur...
Feb 18, 2026 from kmcd.dev Visualizing the Internet (2026) Mapping global Internet infrastructure and routing dominance over time
Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contrib...
Feb 18, 2026 from Julia Evans Notes on clarifying man pages Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (t...
Feb 18, 2026 from Isaac Clayton Symbolic grounding After yesterday’s massive post (and given the two assignments I have to do today) I figured I would write something a little shorter today. A little observation, perhaps. In the 70s and 80s, people...
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?
