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    | MelonLand Forum
    If you're into anime there's Galaxy Express 999, about a boy who travels on a space train to get a robot body. I also like older sci-fi anthology shows like the Twilight Zone (not obscure but hey it's good), Tales from the Darkside, and The Outer Limits. I know there's a few even more obscure ones b [...]
    | insert credit
    Does anyone have KVM switch recommendations? I have to switch to an organizational laptop for work and am not happy about it. Particularly looking for something that will not interfere with #gaming.
    | VOGONS
    Is there a good, preferably free, Windows program that will batch convert folders of images to separate .PDF files, please?I have some magazine scans in .jpg format, each issue is in a separate folder, like this:\Your Spectrum 01\\Your Spectrum 02\\Your Spectrum 03\\Your Spectrum 04\and I want to b [...]
    | VOGONS
    What is written to the highest byte of the descriptor base address when a 16-bit SGDT/SIDT instruction is executed with a non-zero A23-A31 byte in the cache? On a 386+ of course (286 is documented to always store 0xFF there).Statistics: Posted by superfury — Today, 17:46 — Replies 0 — Views 17
    | Raddle
    Just been thinking about these things lately, as my AuDHD brain meanders about. In my personal aesthetic is pretty minimalist. Nothing flashy or extravagant, but I'm curious what y'all think? Similar curiosity about utilitarianism and altruism and how that relates to anarchism. I would say I probabl [...]
    | MetaFilter
    Unreal Tournament 99 multiplayer is now playable in your browser.Not a fan of UT99 multi? How about Quake 3 Arena instead? Or Half-Life DM? You can also check out the main site for all your old-games-in-a-browser needs.
    | MetaFilter
    Milan prosecutors investigate alleged 'sniper tourism' during Bosnian war - "Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s. [...]
    | LWN
    One of the many objectives of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP), which just completed ten years of work, is to ensure that all array references can be bounds-checked, even in the case of flexible array members, the size of which is not known at compile time. One of the most challengin [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    Genetic, isotopic, and forensic evidence has conclusively identified the remains of Duke Béla of Macsó and uncovered remarkable details about his life, ancestry, and violent death. The study reveals a young nobleman with Scandinavian-Rurik roots who was killed in a coordinated, emotionally charged a [...]
    | LWN
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and lxd), Fedora (docker-buildkit, firefox, gh, gitleaks, lasso, runc, and seamonkey), Mageia (perl-Authen-SASL, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA, perl-JSON-XS, python-flask-cors, python-py, python-setuptools, and ruby), Oracle (java-1 [...]
    | Kagi Small Web
    Scottish Independence is an extremely attractive prospect to states at the United Nations, and for reasons that you might not expect. Every state knows that the current UN structure is outdated and indefensible, with five states – US, China, Russia, UK and France – having a permanent seat and a tota [...]
    | Search My Site
    I find it funny when people announce that they will share their screen “really quick”, then proceed to sing-song softly, or talk to themselves about what they are doing, or why things are not working the way they want them to. 😂
    | The Daily WTF
    ... when I'm eight thousand and three? Doesn't quite scan. Old soul jeffphi hummed "It's comforting to know that I'll have health insurance coverage through my 8,030th birthday!"   Scififan Steve muttered "I asked Copilot if Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were the same age. Apparently, they have [...]
    | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    [Revised entry by Daniel Moseley and Eric Juengst on November 13, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] At first glance there does not seem to be anything philosophically problematic about human enhancement. Activities such as physical fitness routines, wearing eyeglasses, taking music lesson [...]
    | Matrix
    🔗The Matrix Conference 2025 - The Matrix.org Foundation Updates Today's Matrix Live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UfbTkWKtaFk You can find the same video mirrored on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-81434-the-matrix-org-foundation-updates. All Conference content [...]
    | indieblog.page
    I’ve been hosting minecraft servers for my kids since around 2019. First on my OpenBSD home server for local play, and then on Shockbyte for ease of playing with friends. Overall the minecraft hosting experience on shockbyte has been pretty great, but I recently discovered Exaroton and they have a [...]
    | ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
    when i first talked about this my friend ivana said to me "I can't believe that a normal digital watch can be referred to as a "dumb watch" in today's time.". she is so right lmao but i am still going to roll with the sensationalist phrase. i used to have a small digital casio as a child. it had an [...]
    | ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
    Today I revisited a place where I’d done a house inspection four years ago. I was happy to see that the owner had embraced many of the recommendations from my last visit. My job was mostly about removing things from the old list, since it was now fixed. Before I left, she said: “Next time there will [...]
    | OpenBenches
    In loving memory of FRED and OLGA BATCUP Late of Sherborne Walk ‘This Park was a very special place’
    | The Daily WTF
    Wolferitza sends us a large chunk of a C# class. We'll take it in chunks because there's a lot here, but let's start with the obvious problem: private int iID0; private int iID1; private int iID2; private int iID3; private int iID4; private int iID5; private int iID6; [...]
    | arXiv
    arXiv Labs, arXiv’s framework for assessing and integrating community-built tools into the arXiv platform, is temporarily pausing new arXiv Labs proposals. This “hiatus” will not affect any current arXiv Labs, or arXiv Labs that have already been submitted through the arXiv Labs support portal and a [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on November 2, 2025 7:24 PM GMTThere is a temptation to simply define Goodness as Human Values, or vice versa.Alas, we do not get to choose the definitions of commonly used words; our attempted definitions will simply be wrong. Unless we stick to mathematics, we will end up sneaking in int [...]
    | Pepper & Carrot
    After spending the last few months quietly working on a longer Pepper&Carrot webcomic chapter alongside my weekly "MiniFantasyTheater" comic strips, I'm happy to announce Episode 39: "The Tavern" is finally out! You can read the episode right now: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep39_The-T [...]