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"THE ROAD YOU GREW UP ON undoubtedly holds its own, personally meaningful mythology. But all of the meaningful adventures that took place on, say, McClelland Street probably can’t match the stories behind bizarro destinations like Bucket of Blood Street, Mountain Man Road, or Zzyzx Road. Here are seven incredible stories behind seven strangely named roads. "

Huh, just a couple of weeks after I wrote that upgrades hardly ever break Fedora, it turns out that this latest upgrade broke Fedora for a lot of people.
"Solved: authselect was never set up on a system upgraded through many versions"

"When prompted to generate replies to real social media posts from actual users, the AI models struggled to match the level of casual negativity and spontaneous emotional expression common in human social media posts, with toxicity scores consistently lower than authentic human replies across all three platforms."
Great, now a bunch of gen AI platforms are going to deliberately dial up the toxicity to make it harder to spot their output.

"Vulkan-based implementation of D3D7 for Linux / Wine, spun off from DXVK."

"An OS built with the Ironclad kernel and GNU tools"

"Ironclad is a free software formally verified kernel written in SPARK/Ada"
Unix-like, POSIX, designed for embedded systems

Image Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault

"This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table. Comics include Uncle $crooge, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman, and many more."

Some superhero costume redesigns work. Some....don't.