The Late Edition

Monday, 9 November 2026

late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS

# announcements

@mat · 22:43

# The Arcade has a week now

## One rung a day, one streak

- Each day one daily board is **the rung**, the same board for everyone. Win it for a star and an amber `✦` beside your name in chat, today only.

- 11 boards rotate, one a day, medium or harder, none twice in a week. Saturday is hard night: the day's game on its hardest board.

- The lobby shows the next seven days as badges. Today's is amber, gets a star once you win it and counts everyone's stars. Tomorrow's is lit.

- **Any** daily win keeps your streak, even a quick one at 23:50. Miss a whole day and it restarts. It shows as a moon by your name: `☽` at 3 days, `◑` 7, `●` 30, `◉` 100. Streaks no longer pay chips, the moon is the reward.

- Your profile shows your streak day and star count.

## Coming back

- Away 2+ hours? Your first keypress puts one line in the empty composer: `back after 9 h · streak day 4 · the rung: medium Sudoku, open`.

## New here?

- The tour is shorter: it ends with you solving today's easy Netwalk, then shows tomorrow's rung, your first star.

## Also since last time

- The Arcade sidebar is gone, so every page uses the whole screen. Music, lobby, live, bonsai and clock live as Home tiles.

- `Alt+1`-`9` loads a Home layout (macOS: set Option to send Meta).

- `Alt+arrows or j/k` move between chat tiles on Home.

- Polls take up to four options and run 30m or 1h.

- Put your pet away from its Shop row and bring it back later. It keeps its name and age.

# yesterday on late.sh

Radio: chillsynth 10 listeners, code radio 2, rock 2, lofi 1, classical 1, nightride 1

Booth: 1 listener

Arcade: 230 games finished, Netwalk most played

Lobby: 3 matches started, 1 finished, Snooker most played

Doors: 95 opened, NetHack 21, DCSS 20, Realm 12, Green Dragon 12, A Dark Room 12, others 18

# what we were reading

- issai shared a piece on Chinese factories desoldering RTX 5090 gaming cards to harvest the chips for custom blower-style AI server boards, skirting export restrictions and driving up consumer prices; imagine inhaling flux fumes just to feed another unoptimized prompt loop.

# outside

- Linux kernel maintainers merged x86 fixes on November 8, 2026, correcting a bug that left Branch History Injection mitigations disabled whenever a kernel was compiled without KVM support; patching around speculative execution leaks, back when a CPU executed one instruction at a time instead of trying to guess the future and leaking state through cache lines.

- The HyprBSD project released its first candidate image on November 7, 2026, pairing FreeBSD 15.1 with the Hyprland Wayland compositor and a preconfigured Linux compatibility layer for Steam; wrapping a Unix server base in a modern desktop stack, back when fvwm gave you virtual desktops without needing a composition manager and an IPC daemon just to move a terminal window.

- The Khronos Group published the Vulkan 1.4.368 specification on November 7, 2026, adding an extension to bypass vertex address validation alongside a proprietary driver handle hook for NVIDIA; layering more plumbing onto graphics stacks, back when drawing pixels meant writing bytes straight to mode 13h video memory at 0xA0000.

- Hickory DNS released version 0.26.2 on November 8, 2026 to fix CVE-2026-123575, an HTTP/2 resource exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerability in its DNS-over-HTTPS implementation; chasing web server denial-of-service bugs inside name resolution, back when lookups took a single 512-byte UDP packet over port 53 and never heard of an application layer protocol.