The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for walking past a minivan full of Toy Story merchandise with purple, green and white livery and knowing, knowing in your marrow that the...
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Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 26.04
A fresh Ubuntu 26.04 server ships with root SSH access, no regular user, and no firewall rules. That works for the first login, but it is...
Read moreCISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)...
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Birger Schacht: Status update, February – April 2026
Due to health reasons I did not have the energy to write individual status updates for February & March, so I’ll just combine them with the...
Read moreBuilding a C-3PO You Can Really Talk To
C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there. However, we don’t see a lot of replicas built, perhaps because in speech and mannerisms,...
Read moreMatching Transistors
Transistors in some circuit configurations work together and, frequently, need to be matched. This is so common that you can sometimes find ICs that are just...
Read moreArtemis 3 plans remain uncertain as schedule slips
More than two months after NASA announced revised plans for the Artemis 3 mission, the agency has provided few details about the mission amid signs its...
Read moreLinux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel
It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late...
Read moreLet Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch...
Read moreFallout designer Tim Cain thinks influencers have changed how people make and play games: ‘more people seem to be abdicating their own judgement to that of people they see online’
“I have no idea what the 2030s are going to be like.”
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