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 It's FOSS Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Wondering about the replacement? Gentoo is betting on Codeberg.
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: "emerge once, deploy everywhere."
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather
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 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 It's FOSS Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support Malware analysis Linux distro gets Ubuntu 24.04 base, a new installer, and many new tools.
Feb 16, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Wishing Everyone a Happy Year of the Horse! - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #123 At this once-in-60-years auspicious moment, I wish all my readers: good health (CPU at full power), a soaring career (performance optimised), smooth sailing in everything (bug-free runtime), and im...
Feb 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Murena Teams Up With German Manufacturer to Offer a €698 de-Googled Android Tablet Featuring 12GB of RAM and a 10,000 mAh battery, this collaboration with Volla brings some decent specs to the privacy-first mobile market.
Feb 16, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Language models imply world models In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general Nobody has objected to this ...
Feb 16, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #348 Finally, today's e-mail comes in the redesigned version (thanks again, Hello Robo). I still have some fixes to apply to the layout here and there, but I'm really happy with the results so far. If y...
Feb 16, 2026 from Brajeshwar Pitch Deck: Keep It Simple Stupid Innovate the Business, Technology, Culture; Not with the Pitch Deck.
Feb 16, 2026 from Ploum.net Préface à « La déception informatique » Préface à « La déception informatique » Ce texte est la préface que j’ai écrite pour le livre « La déception informatique » d’Alain Lefebvre ». Le livre n’est malheureusement disponible en version ...
Feb 15, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #03: Auckland A travel journal from my visit to Auckland, New Zealand.
Feb 15, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual PeerPressure: Videos Ich habe ein Video aus den PeerPressure-Bildern gemacht.
Feb 15, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 15 Februrary 2026 Surfeit Of Sous-Chefs Edition Top Story Flashpoint archive is a free, downloadable, 2.3TB archive of every Flash game ever. (Flashpoint Archive) Pretty much. You can also download just a 1.9MB inst...