Daily Lobsters for 2026-09-25

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
  

  android
  

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• The Story of Mel
  

  assembly historical
  

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• Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
  

  design
  

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• SAML: A fractal of bad design
  

  rant security
  

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• I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted
  

  cryptography networking
  

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• I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB
  

  vibecoding
  

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• F-Droid 2.0
  

  android
  

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• Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain
  

  vibecoding
  

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• SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
  

  security
  

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• Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
  

  databases historical osdev
  

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• A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
  

  windows
  

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