100R — permacomputing 101
This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine that took place on August 11th for Critical Signals 2025. Watch the video version on (YouTube). The slideshow presentation was made using Adelie.
TIL Tolkien supported fascist Spain
Web de Jose Manuel Ferrandez - Gimli - y sus actividades sobre TOLKIEN
KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing
Can we really play GTA VI on PC before an official port?
I changed my license
In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.
Household Laser Cuts
After making my keyboard holders I did some other laser-cutting projets. Here’s a bit of that journey.
TIL about The Law of the Tongue
This is the story of an orca named Old Tom, who during the early 20th century spent almost four decades helping fishermen catch baleen whales off the coast of Australia.
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
By Christine Lemmer-Webber on Fri 17 July 2026
Tim Cook handed $47m package for new role as executive chair of Apple
Pay and shares deal nearly matches $58m award to John Ternus, his successor as CEO at the $4.7tn tech company
Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget
But you'll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.
QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those …
There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
[Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse”, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothin…
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others. The bl…
People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public: a full third of all AI users admit to havi…
Chatbot users are shockingly comfortable sharing their intimate details with AI, despite the many people watching on the other side.
Asahi now officially supports the Apple M3 CPU series
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
DON'T NOD is running out of funding and may cease operations on January 31, 2027 - IG News
Things are looking grim for DON'T NOD, the French company behind games such as Life is Strange, Jusant, Lost Records, and Aphelion. After announcing aâ¦
Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users
Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.
Recreating a 2010 Experiment
Hooking a BBC Master up as a serial terminal to browse the web again
Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis
Entergy and Google plan to fund two-thirds of the project with a nearly $6 monthly increase for ratepayers.
Stealth Games Are Flawed (And Hard To Fix)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL Reagan's CIA director aimed Cold War-style propaganda at Americans and recruited billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Sc…
Special Report: The rapid expansion of America’s right-wing media began in the 1980s as the Reagan administration coordinated foreign policy initiatives with conservative media executives, including Rupert Murdoch, and …
TIL Reagan's CIA director aimed Cold War-style propaganda at Americans and recruited billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Sc…
Special Report: In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered “perception management” to get the American people to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome” and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure con…
Mega Man: Dual Override interview: devs comment on graphics, music, difficulty, collections, future, more
At Gamescom 2026 recently, we were given the opportunity to speak with members of the Mega Man: Dual Override development team for an interview. Producers Shinngo Izumi and Hiroyuki Minamitani as well as director Shinya…
Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
A JPEG XL decoder is heading for Firefox 157! Here's how we're shipping it safely…
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN
Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN's internal DNS handles all queries.
TIL why the Mona Lisa became one of the most admired paintings in the world
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, Famous Paintings, Art History, World Art, Louvre Museum, Renaissance Art, Famous Artworks
Microsoft executive vice president bemoans employees sending him "AI slop," saying "This is a doom loop."
The company flooding the internet with AI slop has started to realize how dumb its technology actually is in most scenarios.
Gaming Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games
Tetris has distanced itself from a White House browser game inspired by the iconic puzzler, warning that it takes copyright infringement “very seriously.”
[AIP] CookTrace v1.2.0: Ingredient-Linked Steps, Wide-Screen Desktop, Cookbook Drag-and-Drop
Minor release. Big themes: ingredient-to-step linking with inline Cook Mode rendering, a wide-screen desktop pass across six main pages plus the Cookbook view, real drag-and-drop cookbook reorderin...
White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Account…
Donald Trump's White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
"Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horri…
Withering Rooms was an unexpectedly devious and absorbing slice of dollhouse action-RPG horror. As such, I've been look…
UK class action: seeking £2bn from Apple over its tracking prompts, Since 2021 apps must ask permission before tracking Apple users — but t…
London, 3 September 2026 – Apple faces a £2 billion collective action, filed on behalf of thousands of UK app developers in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) by ATT Collective Action Limited whose director Ann Po…
The Fallacy of “Audience Aligned” Reviews | Unpacked
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information. Apple normally releases new Mac m…
An Ecologist-Feminist-Socialist Utopia is in New Video Game, 'Future? No Thanks!'
By Ashton Starr Envision an ideal world 19 years into the future. Do we still need to work to survive, or is our labour voluntarily distributed where and how we want? Are we still electing blue- and red-striped politica…
[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.
Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI
MrBeast’s videos are about to feature a lot more Gemini.
Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026) by @eshol
Is "responsible use of generative AI" in the room with us right now?
/e/OS Security Updates
This page tracks official /e/OS releases and the security update information that can be verified from public release notes and GitLab backlog issues. It starts at /e/OS 3.0. Notes: this page is still a work in progress…
Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study]
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
DayOtter v0.4.0 - open-source, self-hostable Calendly alternative with a built-in scheduling assistant
The AI-native, open-source scheduling platform. Otter books meetings, protects your focus, and clears the back-and-forth — confirm-first. Self-host it all under AGPLv3. - Dayotter/dayotter
Microsoft Collects ‘Massive’ Amounts of Info From K-12 Students Without Parental Consent, Class Action Lawsuit Claims
A class action lawsuit alleges that Microsoft employs unlawful data mining to collect and profit from information about K-12 students in Washington.
Google has started encrypting its search results' URLs with "goto?=" links for logged out sessions and/or scrapers ( 28 August, 2026 )
Google now hides the destination URL on every search result behind an encrypted blob. I took the encryption apart, and I can still read every ranked URL off the page in one pass.
My experience with Navidrome
It's been a while since I dropped Lostify for my own Navidrome instance. And this is what I learned, what I've used, and what makes me happy about it.
"I Don’t Have a Smartphone…"
I Don’t Have a Smartphone… par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the companyâs next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Goo…
The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.