Notes for August 11, 2026

Modder Creates SteamBoy Handheld From The Steam Deck

A user on Reddit called PhyFawkes (thanks SteamDeckHQ) has taken their Steam Deck and done some extraordinary (or sacrilegious things depending on your thoughts) to [it], taking it apart and turning it into a handheld that takes inspiration from the original Game Boy DMG. And it actually works, although mainly as a controller for playing games on your TV for now.

This is sick! I have an Anbernic GBA SP-style handheld, and one of the classic R36S devices, but they're both pretty low tech. They can play anything up to PS1 ROMs though, so that's more than enough for the 90s kid in me. This would be perfect for retro action RPGs and metroidvanias. So many good indie games on Steam I wish I could play on the Anbernic. I'm too dumb to figure something like this out though, and if I had a Steam Deck, the last thing I would ever do is open it up and scramble all of its guts around.

A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

The project received its first public test Friday at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Swearingen worked with Donut Media to cover a 2009 Toyota Yaris with one of his patterns and drive it past a Flock camera. "We proved it was effective," Swearingen, a cybersecurity professional and founder of SIXCYBER, told TechCrunch.

I would totally deck my Honda out in this wrap 😏

Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge Got So High with Cypress Hill That They Wanted to Go Home

"It was like my body was working, but everything up here was silent, and I was noticing stuff I don’t normally notice,” he said. Apparently, DeLonge wasn’t having much of a better time. Halfway through the set, the guitarist came up to Barker and told him, “I wanna go home.”

"And I was like, ‘Me too,'” Barker continued. “It was so awful.”

Brother, I get too high and have to bail out on a trip to Kroger sometimes. And I'm smoking absolute trash compared to whatever B-Real probably has. I love when someone can actually admit they're too stoned. The kids I grew up with would be like a slab of fucking silly putty stuck to the couch talking about "I don't feel shit bro."

How to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse on a Live Stream, Witnessing the Rare View of the Sun's Corona From Your Own Home

As the eclipse moves over the planet, the European Space Agency (ESA) will stream the event from the Astrophysical Observatory of Javalambre in Teruel, Spain.

Here's the link to the live stream on YouTube tomorrow — and you won't even need to break out your crusty old eclipse glasses from the 90s to watch it.