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Monday December 1, 2025. 02:32 AM
The Maclock is a clock that looks like a Mac—an old Mac. The monochrome LCD display has three modes (the time, the date, and Susan Kare's famous 'Happy Apple' pixel art face. It's only 11cm (4.3 inches) tall and doesn't do anything else, but it's only $29.99 and has a...
In shots from Nasa's Perseverence rover on Mars, the skies are usually clear or fogged by dust storms. As it explores the Jazero Crater, the probe's SuperCam has now recorded evidence of a phenomenon familiar on planet Earth: lightning. — Read the rest The post Lightning...
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected. So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this...
Version 25.11 of the NixOS distribution has been released. 'The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release'. Changes include 7,002 new packages, GNOME 49, LLVM 21, a new COSMIC desktop...
Sunday November 30, 2025. 11:30 PM
Looking for speakers that fit perfectly in Ikea's Kallax cube shelving¹, I was surprised to find only a single good fit on offer: the Tangent Spectrum Square. It's exactly what I'm looking for, though there's two problems: they're €249 each, and they're not available in...
An Iowa man accused of flashing drivers on the interstate highway told authorities he 'needed some excitement in his life,' report local media. Danan Ary, 30, was charged with indecent exposure. Drivers saw Ary in his vehicle, exposing his genitals to oncoming drivers,...
Let them bake cake: on Tuesday, a 17-year-old boy dumped flour on Jordan Bardella, the leader of France's far-right National Rally. On Saturday, a 74-year-old man dropped an egg on his head. The boy must attend a citizenship course, according to CTV News, and the senior was...
The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module. Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp. Unlike...
After a hard day downt pit, gaming, I like nowt better than to slip into the massive Mirai Human Washing Machine. Only paid ¥60 million for it and knew I had to have it the moment I visited the Experience Corner at Yamada's flagship store in Ikebukuro. — Read the rest The p...
Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government has seen Israel subjected to a horrific terrorist attack, retaliatory genocide in Gaza, recognition by key Western powers of a Palestinian state, and the total collapse of its international standing. A rarely-mentioned...
Inexpensive 'balcony' solar power panels, which plug into a standard wall socket and provide up to a kilowatt of power, have become popular in Europe and elsewhere—but not in the U.S., where business-friendly regulations prohibit attaching such devices to the power grid. —...
Just last year, Google lodged an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the EU. Now, a week into the probe by investigators, Google has had a change of heart and has withdrawn the complaint. The 2024 complaint was filed by Google Cloud, with Microsoft accused of trying to...
Like death and taxes, ads are an inevitability. This is something that applies to the world of technology, but particularly anything even remotely connected to the internet. Proving the above, as well as the old adage that there is no such things as a free lunch, OpenAI is...
If you have suddenly found it more difficult to log into Windows 11, you should know that you are not alone. Microsoft has just confirmed that a recent update had the unwanted side effect of hiding the password sign-in option from the lock screen. This was not something that ...
Only a few weeks ago, the CHRP variants of Mac OS 7.6 and 8 were discovered and uploaded to the internet for posterity, but we’re already seeing the positive results of this event unfold: Mac OS 7.x can now run on the Mac Mini G4 – natively. The very short of it is as...
Double denim? Rookie numbers. On a good day, I can muster septuple denim: jeans, jacket, cap, boots, scarf, gloves and bag. But soon I shall have the unimaginable power of octuple denim at my disposal, thanks to Xiaomi's Poco F8 Ultra Denim smartphone. — Read the rest The po...
A fine example of whiplash in the news this morning: first, a negative-toned segment lamenting the increased prices of everything due to high tariffs. Then, a positive-toned segment exalting Black Friday spending being up 10 percent. The two segments exist in different...
Saturday November 29, 2025. 09:00 PM
I lose SD cards like socks, but it never struck me that wallet-sized SD card holders might exist, or that they might be cheap enough to buy on impulse. And at $6, the Oda Slim Card Holder is that. It holds two SD cards and two Micro SD cards. — Read the rest The post SD...
Sir Tom Stoppard, the acclaimed playwright who authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun and many other movies, is dead at 88. Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia before his family fled the Nazis and...
PC bits company Silverstone revived the beige plastic PC case in 2024 and is continuing this campaign with these handsome tower cases, out early next year. There's lots of hard-to-dust slit vents to trace gently with one's fingertips; oh my God, one of the models even a key. ...
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