Sunday, April 26
Daily News Stuff 26 April 2026
Tasting History is a fun YouTube channel (and cookbook) where the presenter tries to prepare historically accurate recipes. Sometimes that fails, and sometimes that's because it's just awful.
Don't have time to let authentic Roman garum ferment for three months in your back yard? Try new Bachelor Chow, made from an artisanal blend of McDonald's hamburgers, Domino's pepperoni pizza, or complete KFC meals.
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Top Story
- Samsung's mobile division could lose money in 2026 - for the first time ever. (SammyGuru)
You don't need to feel bad for them though. Samsung's memory division - all by itself - is now the third most profitable company in the world, behind only Apple and Saudi Aramco.
Tech News
- Half of Australian teens admit that despite government bans, they still have access to social media. (Yahoo)
The other half are lying.
- Colorado has suffered a brief moment of partial sanity and revised its age verification legislation to not include open-source operating systems. (Linuxiac)
California less so.
- Linux 7.1 is dropping support for ISDN, ATM, PCMCIA network adaptors, and networking over ham radio. (Phoronix)
This comes from using AI tools to scan this code for bugs, finding lots of them, and not really having any active users. ATM died twenty years ago; ISDN is still in use in a few particularly backwards places, such as the United Kingdom.
- You can make software run faster by optimising it, which makes it run faster, says Intel. (Tom's Hardware)
Thanks guys.
- What async promised vs. what it delivers. (Causality)
Async - writing event handlers into a fundamentally single-threaded body of code - is what we did before we had threads.
We stopped using it once we had threads, because it was horrible.
- Intel's Druid video cards are expected to arrive in 2027. (WCCFTech)
That's the fourth generation. There won't be any mainstream third-generation "Celestial" cards, though the design is already being used in the company's Panther Lake laptop chips and there are two professional models expected.
Tasting Misery Video of the Day
Tasting History is a fun YouTube channel (and cookbook) where the presenter tries to prepare historically accurate recipes. Sometimes that fails, and sometimes that's because it's just awful.
Making Misery Video of the Day
Don't have time to let authentic Roman garum ferment for three months in your back yard? Try new Bachelor Chow, made from an artisanal blend of McDonald's hamburgers, Domino's pepperoni pizza, or complete KFC meals.
Musicalish Interlude
Disclaimer: Rushe, rusher, rushest.
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