Posts tagged "tech"

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-29-26

Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. There will be no Pook-Emu Bee tomorrow, but you will find even m...

Eurobloat #0192 • April 2026

April was the month Brussels announced it would cut its own red tape, which sounds splendid until you read the small print and find that the real project is to pull yet more power up from the membe...

Rocky Linux 9.8 released with major software updates and new image builder features

Rocky Linux 9.8 is now available, offering updated installation, container, cloud, and live images. This release includes major package updates such as OpenSSH 9.9, MariaDB 11.8, PostgreSQL 18, Rub...

Weekly Notes 22/2026

This Saturday, we drove to Palakkad to meet Pradeep and Dhanya. It was a short morning walk and breakfast meet. We met at the fort, walked around, and chit-chatted while having breakfast at Indrapr...

A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing

For a certain kind of intricate, highly-detailed manufacturing, there’s really no substitute for a resin 3D printer, and it’s therefore unfortunate that they require so many poisonous chemicals. Th...

This Week in Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, and FreeBSD Joins the Club you Don’t Want to Join

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities …read...

Steam Deck OLED is Absurdly Overpriced Now, Yet It Sold Out in North America Overnight

The handheld returned at $789 and $949, sold out in North America within 24 hours, and is now back with inconsistent availability.

Farewell AWS

Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings. The outpouring of support on LinkedIn was...

When is an Apple Laptop Not a Macbook? When it’s an Apple II

Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the …read more

Medication Reminder Uses Only One Button

As anyone who takes medicines regularly will attest to, the days have a tendency to blur together, making it hard to remember if you did something like take that day’s …read more

Executed

ExecutedAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 06 June 2017Rating: ★★★★☆The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn’t think they needed a leader. But t...

Mistral AI relaunches its Le Chat chatbot as Vibe with work automation & new coding tools

Mistral AI has rebranded Le Chat as Vibe, turning its consumer chatbot into a broader AI work agent for emails, reports, coding, and recurring business tasks. Existing conversations and settings ca...

Proton Mail adds Gmail account support for sending emails and importing messages

Proton Mail now lets users send emails from their Gmail address directly inside the Proton Mail app, making it easier to move away from Gmail without changing addresses everywhere at once. Once ena...

Make Linux Detect SD Card On Boot

An Atic Atac Minimap For The ZX Spectrum

The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great ...

Video: A Defense of Visual Novels

I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been colle...

Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0

This site is (as of the publication of this post) on WordPress 7.0. I became aware that WordPress added some AI features through articles and blog posts instead of the WordPress admin area. The fac...

How to Let Everyone Keep a Secret

Someone calls you at work and says, “Don’t tell anyone, but…” If you are like most people, there are one or two people you will pass it along to with …read more

Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive

Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards ...

Camping on Unconventional Watercraft

The fjords of Norway are world famous for their beauty, but even though the word itself is Norwegian, there are fjords all over the world in areas that used to …read more