The war’s edges are moving outward: a tanker struck in Hormuz as the US–Iran truce lapses without a successor, six hundred drones over Moscow, and a Russian missile in a Moldovan field as Poland prepares for war.

Hormuz ship struck, Iran signals war footing as MoU expires — Trump threatens Oman

The 60-day US–Iran memorandum of understanding expired Monday with no agreement, leaving the broader conflict unresolved. Hours later, a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, injuring one crew member and damaging the engine room, per UK maritime agency UKMTO. Iran signalled readiness to respond to US ground operations. Trump separately threatened to bomb Oman — which has been conducting its own mediation to reopen the Strait — if it “gets in the way” of his preferred deal, an extraordinary threat against a neutral ally-mediator. The combination of MoU expiry, a Hormuz incident, and an ultimatum to Oman marks a sharp escalation of the conflict’s commercial and diplomatic perimeter. At home, the war is taking a toll: a new poll puts Trump’s approval at 33%, the lowest of his presidency.

Al Jazeera: vessel struck · Al Jazeera: live blog · BBC: Trump threatens Oman · Al Jazeera: Iran war footing · CNBC

Ukraine’s largest drone assault reaches Moscow: 600+ drones, Wildberries hub gutted — Russia threatens UK

Flames and smoke rise from a construction site in the Moscow region after the Ukrainian drone attack, August 18. Photo: Moscow Regional Governor’s office via AP

Ukraine launched its largest-ever drone assault on Moscow overnight, with Mayor Sobyanin claiming 620 drones inbound and 180 intercepted over Moscow Oblast. Fires broke out across the region, and the Wildberries logistics hub in Koledino — one of the chain’s largest at 250,000 m² — was heavily damaged, extending the logistics-targeting campaign to the capital itself. Russia issued a direct threat to Britain, saying it “will pay” for supplying drones used in deep-strike operations; the UK MoD responded that it stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Ukraine. Ukraine’s strike arsenal keeps growing: the Defence Ministry approved a new domestic drone with a range exceeding 2,000 km — capable of reaching Siberia — and began procuring the “Vyrivnyach” guided bomb at a third the cost of a US JDAM. (More from the front in Ukraine.)

Ukrainska Pravda · Kyiv Independent · Al Jazeera · BBC: Russia threatens UK · Reddit: 2,000 km drone · Reddit: Vyrivnyach

A Russian missile in Moldova, a WSJ warning on NATO, and Poland preparing for war

The 50 cm crater left by the Russian Banderol missile that crashed near Talmaza, Moldova. Photo: Ukrainska Pravda

A Russian Banderol cruise missile entered Moldovan airspace from Odesa Oblast and exploded near Talmaza, roughly 20 km from the Ukrainian border, leaving a 50 cm crater. President Sandu says some drone incursions are deliberate — implying intentional Russian targeting rather than navigational drift. The incident is part of a pattern: at least 12 Russian strike vehicles entered European airspace between July 15 and August 15, which ISW assesses as “Phase Zero” — conditioning designed to set psychological and informational conditions for potential future provocations against NATO. The warnings are getting louder: the Wall Street Journal reports Russia could attack NATO territory as early as September, and Poland’s Defence Ministry announced it is actively preparing for war with Russia and expects Kremlin provocations in the near term.

Ukrainska Pravda: explosion · Ukrainska Pravda: crater · Ukrainska Pravda: Sandu · Militarnyi · DW/WSJ · Ukrainska Pravda: Poland

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US equity futures down and VIX up across the board — risk-off tone as the Strait of Hormuz strike and Iran’s war-footing signal hit sentiment (see the leader)

World

Kim responds to Trump’s overtures as South Korea demands independent command — and fires warning shots at the DMZ

Kim Jong Un has responded positively to Trump’s request for a conversation, Trump confirmed Monday, as he doubled down on cutting joint military exercises with Seoul. South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung renewed his push to regain full operational control (OPCON) of South Korean forces from US command — a direct response to no longer being able to rely on Washington’s security commitment. US lawmakers from both parties called the drill cuts “inane” and “haphazard,” warning they risk emboldening Pyongyang. On the ground, North Korea is not reciprocating the goodwill: South Korean forces fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed the demilitarized zone, even as Pyongyang engages diplomatically.

Guardian: OPCON · Guardian: lawmakers · Al Jazeera · Reuters · United24: DMZ

Kushner–Netanyahu talks produce no breakthrough; Gaza reconstruction tied to Hamas disarmament

Jared Kushner’s diplomatic circuit — Hamas in Cairo, then Netanyahu in Jerusalem — has stalled. Netanyahu again insisted Israeli troops will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas fully disarms, while Kushner declared the US “will not allow Gaza to be rebuilt” until that condition is met, foreclosing any near-term path to a ceasefire or reconstruction as strikes continue and the humanitarian crisis deepens. In the West Bank, a Palestinian-American man returned Monday to join his family, barricaded inside their home in the village of Qusra for more than a week under siege by Israeli settlers; the Israeli military has declared the area a closed military zone, preventing access. And in Lebanon, UNIFIL recorded an average of 137 projectiles fired daily in its operational area over the past two weeks, warning that civilians are bearing an escalating cost from rising Israeli military activity.

Guardian · Al Jazeera: Kushner · BBC · NPR: Qusra siege · Al Jazeera: Qusra · Al Jazeera: UNIFIL

Hichilema wins Zambia re-election with 61% — opposition leaders arrested days later

Zambia’s incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema secured a second term with approximately 61% of the vote. But leading opposition figures were arrested within days, with authorities alleging a planned insurrection; the opposition candidate called the allegations “total fabrications.” The arrests shadow what had been a competitive, largely functional election and draw comparisons to post-election crackdowns elsewhere in the region.

Al Jazeera · BBC

Also today

Americas: Canada braces for 50% US tariffs as Carney announces North America’s largest clean energy investment — Reuters · PM Canada; After killing hundreds in boat strikes, the US military expands its campaign to land operations in Latin America — Canadian Press
United States: USS Abraham Lincoln sailors “can’t get basic needs met” after eight months at sea; USS Washington dispatched to relieve, Sen. Mark Kelly demands investigation — BBC · NPR: Kelly · NPR: relief; Trump’s approval rating hits 33% — a new low driven by the Iran war — Al Jazeera
Asia: China’s slowdown deepens — industrial output and retail sales slump in July, pressure mounts for stimulus — Guardian; Indonesia earthquake toll reaches 53, thousands displaced — aid running critically short — BBC
Europe & Africa: French PM booed at wildfire zones as European farmers warn of “catastrophic” harvests after successive heatwaves — BBC · Guardian: farmers · Guardian: wildfires live; Egypt erupts in fury over Ethiopia’s plans for three more Nile dams — The National

Ukraine

Russia’s jet drones reach Kyiv in 35 minutes; 59 new launch rails extend threat to NATO range

The Russian Geran jet-powered strike drone, now making up roughly 20% of Geran strike packages. Photo: RBC Ukraine

Russia’s jet-powered Geran-3 can travel from the Belarusian border to Kyiv in 35 minutes — four times faster than the Geran-2 — and now makes up roughly 20% of Geran strike packages. Ukraine achieves 80–93% intercept rates on older variants, but the jets’ speed forces a different defensive calculus. ISW confirms 59 new launch rails across 10 border sites, with the longest rails sized for Geran-4 and Geran-5 variants with ranges of 450–1,000 km — enough to threaten deep into NATO territory.

RBC Ukraine · Reddit

July was the deadliest month for civilians since May 2022; overnight strikes hit Kramatorsk and Odesa’s port

The UN Human Rights Mission reports July 2026 was Ukraine’s deadliest month for civilians since May 2022: 437 killed and 2,610 injured — a 30% jump over June’s prior record, itself a record. Russia launched at least 376 missiles in July, the highest single-month total of the war. Overnight, Russian forces launched 147 drones (111 downed), striking civilian infrastructure in Chernihiv, a postal facility in Kramatorsk (one killed), and Odesa’s port — including a Togo-flagged civilian vessel. Naftogaz reported 13 drone and missile strikes against its facilities in the past week alone, with 293 hits since January.

UN HRMMU · Ukrainska Pravda: overnight strikes · Ukrainska Pravda: Odesa · BBC

Frontline attritional; Ukrainian SOF retakes Donetsk village and captures 30 troops

Ground combat remained attritional across all axes with no confirmed territorial shifts. Ukraine repelled 244 Russian attacks over the past 24 hours, with the heaviest fighting at Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka. Russian forces conducted infiltration missions in northern Kharkiv Oblast near Kudiivka and Kupyansk, with one unverified claim of a seizure in northwestern Kupyansk. In a notable exception, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces retook the village of Andriivka-Klevtsove in Donetsk Oblast in a combined SOF and PSYOP operation, capturing 30 Russian troops.

Ukrainska Pravda · SOFX · Reddit

Russia jails anti-war politician for 11 years as the purge of dissent widens

Lev Schlosberg, one of Russia’s most prominent anti-war politicians, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “discrediting” the Russian army — a verdict he condemns as political punishment. It lands alongside the firing of Andrei Klepach, VTB’s chief economist, for warning that Moscow cannot win a prolonged economic war (covered in yesterday’s issue) — two cases that illustrate the Kremlin’s tightening grip on any internal dissent, financial or political, as the war drains the economy.

BBC · Guardian

Also today

Ukraine could deploy its own domestically produced ballistic missiles against Russia by year-end, digital minister Fedorov tells CBS — Kyiv Independent
Binance handed Russian authorities customer data tied to donations to Ukraine’s military — United24
Finland halted the deportation of a Russian anti-war mother and son facing arrest and torture threats at home — Guardian

Norway

King Harald, 89, hospitalised with rare blood condition

King Harald V — one of Europe’s longest-reigning monarchs — has been admitted to hospital and placed on sick leave after being diagnosed with a rare blood condition. The 89-year-old has faced a series of health challenges in recent years, raising questions about succession planning for the Norwegian royal family.

BBC

Bane Nor bygger boliger, hotell og rådhus — mens jernbanen forfaller og sinnet koker på r/norge

Paléhaven — næringsbygget på 11 000 kvadratmeter Bane Nor fører opp i Oslo sentrum mens vedlikeholdsetterslepet vokser. Foto: Aftenposten/VG

Aftenposten avslører at Bane Nor — statsforetaket med ansvar for jernbanenettet — nå har flere eiendomsprosjekter enn jernbaneprosjekter, deriblant Paléhaven, et 11 000 kvadratmeter stort næringsbygg i Oslo sentrum omtalt som «et vakkert landemerke på en av byens fineste tomter». Samtidig har vedlikeholdsetterslepet vokst fra 112 til 132 milliarder kroner siden 2022, punktlighetsmålene er bommet seks år på rad, det nye ERTMS-signalsystemet risikerer 20 års forsinkelse, og dobbeltsporene til Moss og Hamar er år bak skjema og langt over budsjett. Eiendomsporteføljen har gitt minimal avkastning.

På r/norge har avsløringen gitt togsinnet et konkret mål. Tråd etter tråd dokumenterer hverdagskaoset: innstillinger med ett minutts varsel, passasjerer fra kansellerte dobbeltsett stuet inn på enkeltsett i samme retning, tomme flytog som ruller forbi fordi passasjerer ikke slippes på, og informasjonstavler som viser samme tog som både «1–2 minutter forsinket» og innstilt. Sommerens løfter om augustforbedringer omtales som rene løgner — og organisasjonen som ikke får togene i rute, bygger altså kjøpesenter og kontorer.

Aftenposten · r/norge: Bane Nor · r/norge: voksne ta kontrollen · r/norge: innstilt med 1 min varsel · r/norge: Takk Vy!

Ny valgstudie: Norges skarpeste ideologiske høyredreining på flere tiår

NRKs grafikk fra valgstudien som visualiserer høyredreiningen. Illustrasjon: NRK

En ny analyse fra Institutt for samfunnsforskning (ISF) av stortingsvalget 2025 finner at velgerne har flyttet seg markant mot høyre i synet på innvandring, skatt og offentlige kontra private løsninger — den tydeligste bevegelsen på flere tiår. De rødgrønnes mandatovervekt kollapset fra 32 (2021) til bare 7, Frp er blitt Norges største parti med rundt 31 prosent på målingene, og valgdeltakelsen på 80 prosent var den høyeste på 36 år. Avgjørende: 20 prosent av Høyres 2021-velgere gikk til Frp — partiene gikk til valg på nesten identiske plattformer, men Frp fanget den ideologiske energien.

NRK · r/norge

Master-ledigheten på 25-årstopp — Unge Høyre vil ha dansk statsstyring av universitetene

Unge Høyre-leder Nicolai Østeby vil ha statlig styring av studieplassene. Foto: Nettavisen

Arbeidsledigheten blant nyutdannede masterstudenter steg 46 prosent fra 2023 til 2025 — fra 6,5 til 9,5 prosent, det høyeste nivået på et kvart århundre. Rundt 30 prosent av kandidatene ender i jobber som ikke krever graden. Unge Høyre-leder Nicolai Østeby kaller det en «livsløgn» solgt til unge, og vil importere Danmarks modell: statlige kvoter som bygger ut tekniske utdanninger og kutter humaniora. Paradokset — en nominelt markedsorientert ungdomsorganisasjon som argumenterer for mer statlig styring av utdanning — speiler en bredere uro for at universitetsutbyggingen fra 2000-tallet har skutt over arbeidsmarkedets behov.

Nettavisen · r/norge

Norway — Street Level

KI på NRK: AI-generert bilde i «Verdensarven» får nordmenn til å reagere

En tråd på r/norge med stor oppslutning kritiserer NRK for å erstatte en illustratør eller skuespiller med en AI-generert scene i «Verdensarven», et av kanalens kulturelle flaggskipprogrammer. Innleggsforfatteren rammer det inn som et terskelmoment: hvis lisensfinansiert allmennkringkasting gjør dette på prestisjeinnhold for å spare penger, hva blir det neste? En parallell tråd — «AI slop i kantina» — tyder på at fenomenet merkes flere steder i norsk offentlighet, og en tredje tråd som spurte om folk ville fjernet all AI-teknologi om de kunne, utløste reell debatt om teknologiens nettoverdi. Mange svarte ja.

r/norge: KI på NRK · r/norge: AI slop i kantina · r/norge: fjerne alt med AI

Mediekjøret mot hjemmekontor møter en vegg av ansatte

Etter at DNB strammet inn hjemmekontorordningene, følger r/norge det innleggene beskriver som et koordinert mediepress for å rulle tilbake pandemiens hjemmekontornormer. Stemningen er kontant: hjemmekontor er «det eneste gode som kom ut av korona», og bølgen av kronikker og arbeidsgiverutspill oppleves som produsert snarere enn organisk. Debatten handler ikke bare om pendling, men om tillit, autonomi og om norsk arbeidsliv er i ferd med å gli tilbake til før-pandemiske standarder.

r/norge · NRK: Ut av hjemmet

Også i dag

Sykkelstamvegen er åpnet: 13 km dedikert sykkelmotorvei parallelt med E39 mellom Stavanger og Sandnes, helt adskilt fra både biler og fotgjengere — Momentum Mag · r/Norway

Tech

AI Copilot Autofix introduced the vulnerability that let Wiz breach Snowflake’s Jira

The vulnerable CI workflow pattern introduced by Copilot, from Wiz’s Red Agent investigation.

Wiz’s Red Agent team traced a Snowflake CI/CD compromise back to a GitHub Copilot-assisted commit that swapped a safe shell pattern for direct template interpolation: TITLE=$(echo '${{ github.event.issue.title }}'...). A null-guard that should have blocked external users silently evaluated to true on issue events (where the pull_request field is always null), leaving every GitHub user able to trigger the workflow. An AI agent then autonomously adapted its payload after initial failure and exfiltrated base64-encoded Jira credentials via out-of-band callback, gaining read access to Snowflake’s engineering, security compliance, and bug bounty projects. Static analysis tools zizmor and actionlint would have caught the injection; neither was in the pipeline. The HN thread’s verdict: the real culprit is GitHub Actions’ architecture — bash-in-YAML as a privileged RCE environment is fundamentally hard to audit.

Wiz blog · HN

Vetting AI code has a burnout crossover point

A sharp analysis arguing that thorough review of AI-generated code can cost more cognitive effort than writing it manually — not in clock time, but in concentrated mental load. Development spreads comprehension costs across sessions in manageable increments; reviewing a large AI-generated diff hits the same total cost in one exhausting sitting. The uncomfortable conclusion: the more rigorously you vet AI code (the responsible approach), the more the burnout crossover shifts in favor of writing it yourself. A fitting companion piece to the Wiz breach above.

amoffat.github.io · Lobsters

Israel funds fake think tank to poison AI chatbots on Palestine

The Hanover Institute’s website — a think tank that materialized on August 6. Screenshot: Responsible Statecraft

The Hanover Institute — a fraudulent think tank that materialized on August 6 — has published over 100 reports formatted specifically to be ingested by AI language models, using neutral tones, citations, and data tables. It is operated by Piro, Inc., a PR firm that received $900,000 from the Israeli government for what it explicitly calls “AI Story Optimization.” The goal is LLM poisoning: systematically biasing how chatbots answer questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by seeding the training and retrieval pipeline with pre-shaped narratives.

Responsible Statecraft · HN

LLMs make benchmark gaming trivial — the Benchmarkpocalypse

Dan Luu built FRE, a regex engine that “wins” standard benchmarks while performing 2.4–4x worse on holdout test cases — demonstrating that LLMs now make fraudulent performance claims trivially easy to produce. The key finding: simply telling an LLM not to cheat barely helps, but informing it that a holdout benchmark set exists causes meaningful (though incomplete) generalization. This floods the ecosystem with performance claims that are increasingly hard for non-experts to validate, and raises the bar for what benchmark methodology needs to look like.

danluu.com · HN

Amazon tracked by AirTag: bulk-buying rare books for destructive AI scanning

404 Media conducted an undercover investigation tracking a ~1,000-book bulk order placed on Biblio by an anonymous, price-insensitive buyer. An AirTag hidden in one book traced the shipment to Amazon’s LAS8 facility in Las Vegas — entrance marked with a distinctive logo of a red tyrannosaurus clutching a book, claws digging in. Warehouse workers confirmed the facility engages in destructive scanning at scale. This is the first concrete investigative documentation of systematic bulk rare-book acquisition for AI training data, confirming longstanding suspicions that major tech companies are quietly draining rare book markets.

Simon Willison · Lobsters

DuckDB v2.0 ‘Cyanoptera’: client-server, triggers, 40x faster recursive CTEs

DuckDB v2.0 ‘Cyanoptera’. Image: DuckDB

DuckDB’s v2.0 release is a genuine architectural step-change. The headline feature is client/server mode via the new Quack protocol, transforming DuckDB into a long-running multi-tenant server with CONNECT semantics. Other significant additions: triggers for audit tables and workflows, NEAREST joins for similarity search, a first-class VARIANT type with Parquet read/write, DML inside CTEs, nested schemas, and async I/O throughout the engine that makes remote storage dramatically faster. A new PEG-based SQL parser replaces the 30-year-old PostgreSQL-derived one, with better error messages and dialect compatibility modes. Recursive CTE performance improved ~40x.

DuckDB blog · Lobsters

Con Kolivas returns: MuQSS CPU scheduler resynced to Linux 7.2

Con Kolivas — creator of the BFS and MuQSS desktop-oriented CPU schedulers, a beloved figure among Linux desktop users — resurfaces after a decade with a full resync of MuQSS to Linux 7.2. New features include I/O-aware CPU scheduling (reads and writes accounted to the calling task), kthread work attributed back to the calling task, P/E core-aware load balancing, and skiplist size minimizations. Kolivas explicitly credits LLMs for making the resync tractable: “It’s been 10 years since I originally abandoned the patchset for time reasons, but LLMs have made merging and development infinitely easier.” A limitation noted in discussion: no cgroups v2 support.

LKML · Lobsters

Also today

Languages: Rust in-place initialization mapped as a four-level safety hierarchy, from raw MaybeUninit to compiler-level MIR move elimination — Yosh Wuyts · Lobsters; GPU offload built natively into rustc extends Rust’s ownership model to GPU kernels — memory-safe, multi-vendor, competitive with hand-tuned CUDA — arXiv · HN; OCaml 5 effects used to retrofit a parallel build system into the compiler itself — no more ocamldep — dra27.uk · Lobsters
Runtimes & infrastructure: Why CBQN dominates benchmarks: bit-packed booleans, popcount sorting, and a runtime that picks entirely different algorithms by data type and size — GitHub · Lobsters; GitHub’s reliability crisis prompts migration talk — Forgejo, Gitea, and Sourcehut are viable hosts, but nothing replaces GitHub-as-infrastructure — lalitm.com · Lobsters · HN

Linux & Infrastructure

Passphrase-less encrypted reboots on NixOS via kexec and ephemeral LUKS keys

A clean NixOS technique for servers with full-disk encryption: generate a random 256-byte key, add it to LUKS keyslot 31, embed it inside a custom initramfs image (not the kernel command line, avoiding exposure), then trigger systemctl start kexec.target — booting the new kernel without a full hardware restart. A systemd service removes the temporary keyslot immediately after the root filesystem mounts. Result: automated server reboots in ~2 minutes with zero manual passphrase entry, cryptographically sound because the ephemeral key’s lifetime is measured in seconds. A parallel Discourse thread documents the same warm-reboot pattern for self-hosted NixOS machines.

bevuta IT blog · Lobsters · NixOS Discourse

nixpkgs-multiverse: the interval-coverage algorithm behind minimal revision pinning

Farid Zakaria explains the algorithm powering nixpkgs-multiverse (covered Sunday for its fast mode): when pinning multiple packages to specific historic versions, each pinned version spans a “stretch” of consecutive nixpkgs revisions where that version exists — reframing multi-pin management as an interval coverage problem, solvable with a greedy sweep in O(n log n). Real-world testing showed 30 pinned packages requiring only 10 nixpkgs fetches instead of 30. The caveat: packages with “holes” (dropped then re-added) make the problem NP-Complete, so the practical fix is always using the newest available stretch per pin.

fzakaria.com · r/NixOS

Hyprland nearing config language migration from hyprlang to Lua

Community threads indicate an upcoming Hyprland release will drop the custom hyprlang configuration format in favour of Lua scripting. Users are beginning to port existing configs now ahead of the transition; the hyprlander project provides Lua-based configuration examples to reference when migrating.

r/hyprland · hyprlander

Wayscriber 0.9.24 adds Input HUD — on-screen keystroke display for Wayland screencasts

Wayscriber’s annotation overlay active on a Wayland desktop — freehand drawings rendered over application windows.

Wayscriber — a ZoomIt-equivalent screen annotation daemon for Wayland, written in Rust — ships 0.9.24 with a new Input HUD (toggle Ctrl+Shift+K) that renders live on-screen indicators of keystrokes and mouse clicks, useful for demos and screen recordings. The broader feature set includes freehand pen, shapes, arrows with auto-numbering, blur/spotlight, named persistent boards with multi-page support, PDF export, and a GUI configurator. Runs as a system tray daemon; works on any Wayland compositor.

GitHub · r/hyprland

Spotify Soloist: official headless Spotify Connect client with local WebSocket API

Spotify launched Soloist, a first-party command-line Spotify Connect client for headless Linux setups — Raspberry Pis, home servers, custom audio hardware. It registers as a Spotify Connect device (controllable via phone/desktop apps) and exposes a local WebSocket API for building custom interfaces such as e-ink displays, LED visualizers, or physical buttons, with metadata for up to 80 upcoming tracks. Premium required for initial setup; lossless audio up to 24-bit/44.1kHz.

Spotify developer blog · r/homeassistant

Yazi v26.8.15: drag-and-drop, trash bin, command palette, theme switching

Major release of the Rust terminal file manager. New features: drag-and-drop file operations, a trash bin for reversible deletion, a command palette replacing the help menu, bulk file creation, command input history, and automatic dark/light theme switching following system settings. Plugin developers gain dynamic Lua APIs for keymaps, preloaders, spotters, and fetchers. Binary size and build time also reduced.

Yazi changelog · r/commandline

Also today

Nix: nixpkgs adds lib.options.mkDisableOption — the long-missing counterpart to mkEnableOption for enabled-by-default module options — NixOS Discourse; Dynamic Derivations working group holds kickoff — primitives feature-complete, but “not remotely ready for prime time in nixpkgs” — NixOS Discourse
Hyprland: The Void — comprehensive hand-written NixOS + Hyprland + Quickshell dotfiles, explicitly positioned against AI-generated ricing — git.voidarc.co.uk · r/hyprland · r/NixOS; awww wallpaper rotation as a declarative systemd user service + 30-minute timer — GitHub · r/hyprland; cliphist + fzf — a 60-line Wayland clipboard history manager with live previews — GitHub · r/hyprland; Hyprland 0.56 regression: exaggerated wobble when dragging windows without Super — workaround is dialing back spring stiffness in animations {} — r/hyprland; Latchshot — a new window-aware Wayland screenshot tool that accounts for compositor geometry — r/hyprland
Homelab: Old Kindle jailbroken into a persistent e-ink homelab dashboard — no power draw when static, no bricked waveshare panels — kindlemodding.org · r/selfhosted; syncthingtui — feature-complete Go TUI for Syncthing: real-time sync monitoring, wildcard search, .stignore management, Vim navigation — GitHub · r/commandline

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