Valhalla’s Things: And now for something completely different
Posted on January 4, 2026 Tags: topic:walking Warning mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense. A lot...
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Surprise, surprise: Silksong wins Steam’s Game of the Year
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also...
Read moreWhat Happens Next in Venezuela—and the Rest of Latin America?
Donald Trump says that Venezuela’s governance will remain in the hands of senior US officials until a “proper and judicious transition” can take place. The rest...
Read moreTeardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System
Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these...
Read moreSomeone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture
Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The...
Read moreIs Agentic Metadata the Next Infrastructure Layer?
AI agent development is booming. Ninety percent of enterprises are actively adopting AI agents, according to Kong, and Gartner predicts that one-third of enterprise software applications...
Read moreDisinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture
From seemingly AI-generated videos to repurposed old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the...
Read moreWhy AI Workloads Are Fueling a Move Back to Postgres
I have spent the last couple of years watching the database landscape move through waves of excitement and disappointment. Vectors, graph, multimodal and NoSQL systems all...
Read moreThe Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958
[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in...
Read moreBox64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable
While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great...
Read moreMeta’s Quest 3S is still $50 off and comes with a $50 gift card
We posted a couple of times about Meta’s Quest 3S during the holidays. The virtual reality headset that typically sold for $299.99 was — and still...
Read moreThe US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro. ChatGPT Disagrees
Some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news. Others decidedly don’t.
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