A new French tax on gigabytes
November 2nd 2026 (week 45 of 2026)Liberté. Égalité. La fiscalité d'Internet.
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Midnight Library
November 1st 2026 (week 44 of 2026)"The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig is another recommendation I received from a friend.
Multiline editing with sed
October 27th 2026 (week 44 of 2026)sed(1) is notorious for not allowing patterns containing the newline character, but there are ways to work around this limitation.
The Death of Cleaopatra (1890)
October 27th 2026 (week 44 of 2026)The Death of Cleopathra is a 1890 painting by John Collier.
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[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window
November 2, 2026The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article covering…
via LWN.netEarth Sized Planets
October 30, 2026 via xkcd.comCrow-on-Crow Violence
October 29, 2026I normally have my mini-murder of two or three crows who hang out by my window and tolerate me and my tithe of peanuts. But the other day there were five, and one was not welcome. They kept just sidling over on the wire, screaming, pushing this crow off. …
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