Tai

Framedeck and [Mainboard Terminal](Mainboard Terminal) are great projects that offer custom enclosures to serve as alternative Framework Laptop mainboard enclosures. I'll definitely look into them in the future.

System76 is keeping up with security by patching Dirty Frag and Copy Fail:
https://system76.com/blog/post/linux-zero-day-dirty-frag-and-copy-fail-vulnerability-fixes-released

(Recovered from May 12, 2026)

In Alan Wake 2, Return is the name for Saga's story chapters, while Initiation is the name for Alan's story chapters.

Well, Node.js is always a security nightmare to manage w.r.t. supply chain attacks - so, I'm not too surprised.
https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

(Yet another reason for me to start using Qubes OS.)

Wow, I explained the Monty Hall problem in a bar-like setting. I remembered my reasoning for switching doors by pointing out that deducing the correct answer is much easier when the total number of doors is made large - say, n=100 - & you pick 1 door at random.

In that case, when the host opens the other 98 non-winning doors, then it's much clearer to immediately reason it's very unlikely you chose the winning door on your first try. So, you always switch doors.

I thought I was going crazy when I first encountered this new form of Google's reCAPTCHA 3 days ago. I was totally taken aback, because I don't have any Google Play Services on my GrapheneOS phone (& it wasn't immediately clear to me in the moment if even sandboxed Google Play Services would work on GrapheneOS).

Keep yourself informed on the latest pice-of-crap gatekeeping measure of 2026:
https://techlore.tv/w/2VLg3in4fLeWYQV5xZu1RQ

At first, Splendor Solis is the closest reference I was able to obtain to the "splendor" symbol.

But then I found the "smiling sun" on the "Sun (heraldry)" Wikipedia article.

Timestamp to Wendigoon's video on the soon-to-be-released The Backrooms 2026 film:
https://youtu.be/ezC0Z4S0I94?t=4392

I'm not blanket anti-AI. However, there are only a handful of situations in which I genuinely need to use AI (regarding what is available in early 2026). To be clear, I am not an AI maximalist.

For example, I was reading a legal form at a local brewery, and I wanted to know what "to bargain at arm's length" meant in an extremely short amount of time. Yes, I could've opened the first link few links from DuckDuckGo, but I don't read that fast on my phone.

I can buy "Scarlet Fire" by Otis McDonald for $1.50 US!
https://otismcdonald.bandcamp.com/track/scarlet-fire

(As a DankPods fan, it's about time for me to put a hi-fi copy of the song onto my Tangara. I'm not sure why I couldn't find it earlier, but better late than never.)

The original album on Bandcamp is here:
https://otismcdonald.bandcamp.com/album/hits

Also, the same album on vinyl has extra tracks:
https://elasticstage.com/otismcdonald/releases/hits-and-more-album

An interesting development has occurred: Firefox now uses Brave Browser's adblock-rust since version 149.
https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust