Some things I found interesting from 2026-05-03 to 2026-05-10

Internet Discoveries between 3 and 10 May

GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub
Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431
NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes
Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub
Do_not_track
VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage
www.abc.net.au
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future
A desktop made for one
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection
British Broadcasting Corporation
Critical Apache HTTP Server Flaw Exposes Millions of Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shenanigans
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke
Construction Workers Digging for a New Building Unearthed a 24.5-Meter Medieval Ship Buried Beneath the Street Since the 1360s
GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Block
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Show HN: Hallucinopedia
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep

Interesting details

GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub - Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.

Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 - Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): a 732-byte Linux LPE — straight-line, no race, no per-distro offsets. Same Python script roots Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE since 2017. Page-cache write bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses container boundaries. Found by Xint Code.

NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes -

Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub - Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository - add_repo_secrets.py

Do_not_track - DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.

VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage - Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

www.abc.net.au -

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

A desktop made for one - Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth -

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro - Use Claude Code’s autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. - aattaran/deepclaude

How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London? -

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

British Broadcasting Corporation -

Critical Apache HTTP Server Flaw Exposes Millions of Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks - The Apache Software Foundation has released a critical security update for Apache HTTP Server, patching five vulnerabilities, including a dangerous double-free flaw capable of enabling Remote Code Execution (RCE) in version 2.4.67, released on May 4, 2026.

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages - What happened? In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com. The setting git.addAICoAuthor has three different values: off - no attribution no matter w…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shenanigans - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Construction Workers Digging for a New Building Unearthed a 24.5-Meter Medieval Ship Buried Beneath the Street Since the 1360s - Construction workers cracked open the ground for a new building and pulled out a 660-year-old secret that is rewriting what historians thought they knew about medieval seafaring.

GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub - Contribute to V4bel/dirtyfrag development by creating an account on GitHub.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Block - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) -

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE -

Motivation #

I wanted to test out the new Unsloth models for Qwen3.6 and Gemma4 on my gaming PC. llama.cpp on Windows is tedious to compile, and I have littered my Windows installation with too many toolchains already. Python venvs, Mingw, Cuda, UCRT64 & WSL to name a few. Windows still does not feel developer friendly to me. I think I’m ok with it being a frontend for Steam’s Big Picture mode. I didn’t want to disturb my Windows setup that I use for gaming. Windows has a nasty habit of breaking GRUB on updates. UEFI fixes that to some extent, but it’s a pain to maintain the UEFI entries manually and change them every time the kernel updates. One of the best benefits of using the method described here is that GRUB is also on the remote drive. I have a couple of NVME drives in the PC, both contain a few games that I play frequently. I didn’t want to get into the hassle of repartitioning everything that the boot loader works with both Linux & Windows. Sure I can use a USB drive and in the past I have done so, but I tend to misplace my USB drives everywhere and when I urgently need one, I tend to pick the USB that’s readily available e.g. for some FedEx printing or as backup drive for photos when on vacation. I end up wiping the Linux USBs more often than not. I already have a NAS, so why not use remote boot ? I always wanted to know how PXE worked over iSCSI.

Limitations #

Installing Debian on a network drive will indeed be noticeably slower than a native install. Since I’m going to use some portion of my local NVMe drive to store & load the models, I didn’t really care about the OS performance as I have enough RAM to run everything smoothly once the OS has booted up. I won’t be using this for browsing stuff using Firefox.

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license - Modders, start your engines. - With the rather excellent Steam Controller now on its way to the lucky few that managed to order one, Valve has released a ful…

Show HN: Hallucinopedia - An encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

All this was saved to my Link Ace and YouTube Interesting playlist over the week