Tax relief for long-term investments
January 26th 2026 (week 5 of 2026)Wiener Börse presents their case for a tax relief for profits made from shares held long-term.
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The Rise and Fall of CORBA
January 18th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)An article about The Rise and Fall of CORBA, by Michi Nenning. The fall was well deserved.
In defense of swap
January 13th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)"In defense of swap: common misconceptions" is an article by Chris Down, a Linux kernel developer at Meta.
Automatically unload inactive tabs in Firefox
January 12th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)Even if you are using a completely reasonable amount of tabs, say around a thousand, memory usage of Firefox may grow over time. Tab unloading to the rescue!
The European Way to Die
January 10th 2026 (week 2 of 2026)An article on euthanasia and assisted suicide written by Michel Houellebecq, and translated by Robyn Creswell.
Economics of Nuclear Reactor
January 9th 2026 (week 2 of 2026)An interesting video by Professor David Ruzic at Center for Plasma-Material Interactions, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
IPv6 just turned 30
January 7th 2026 (week 2 of 2026)And it still has not taken over the world, according to the Register.
TSMC logic technology timeline
January 1st 2026 (week 1 of 2026)A well-presented timeline of TSMC's progress.
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[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5
January 26, 2026The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification. The GPG 2.4 branch, the last one to adhere to OpenPGP, will be reaching the end of life …
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January 23, 2026 via xkcd.comGenerated by openring