Jul 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 July 2026 Birthday Edition Top Story Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 240! (Actually you look a lot better than you did at 240, but we won't go into that.) US life expectancy is expected to...
Jul 04, 2026 from GadgeteerZA This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it “Copy-on-write (CoW) changes that bargain in a way that almost feels like cheating. Instead of rushing to overwrite old blocks, a CoW file system writes the changed data somewhere else and then upd...
Jul 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The discovery of an abandoned defective ingot leads to the uncovering of a Roman-era lead smelting workshop in Germany The first systematic excavations on a hillock of the Rothaargebirge massif, near the town of Brilon in the German district of Hochsauerland, have documented a metallurgical workshop dating back two...
Jul 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Call It A Patriot Tax! Read Call It A Patriot Tax! Customer: "It's the Fourth of July." Me: "It is!" Customer: "So where's the discount?" Me: "We don't have a Fourth of July discount on potato salad, I'm afraid." Read Ca...
Jul 04, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Best Wishes for a Happy 250th! And for many happy returns of this day.
Jul 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Der Gruppenheiler Als nach dem Kampf alle Gruppenmitglieder für Heilung zu Fredegar kommen, versteht Fredegar, warum die Klerikerin Celeste immer so genervt war.
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk This blog is written in en-GB This blog is written in en-GBby Terence EdenTerrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British language and that, no, he won't be making his writing more global.Read post ➡ I ...
Jul 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Don’t judge this Kiki’s Delivery Service book by its cover, because it’s not actually a book! Studio Ghibli pseudo-literature isn’t for reading, but is still something fans will want on their shelf. Ghibli specialty store Donguri Kyowakoku has a sub-brand called Donguri Closet. Aimed at fas...
Jul 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Plex Lifetime Pass price is now $750 as Plex adds a new 5-year recurring pass at $250 Plex’s new Lifetime Plex Pass price has been in effect since July 1, raising the cost for new customers from $249.99 to $749.99 (three times the original). The increase was first announced in May, ...
Jul 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval Ashkenazi and Sephardic and Mizrahi The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside of the Southern Levant. Because Jews traveled to various parts of the known wor...
Jul 04, 2026 from It's FOSS Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.
Jul 04, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open mu...
Jul 04, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Proof of Something You get to fuck off; I have to fuck off. That was a negative piece of self-talk I had in an internal monologue against the haters who probably don't even exist. What, you don't internally monologue...
Jul 03, 2026 from Roy Tang The End is Nigh for Physical Gaming Physical gaming collectors, enthusiasts, and preservationists got a lot of bad news over the last week or so. First, it was announced that the much anticipated GTA6, probably the biggest most antic...
Jul 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Star-Spangled Rebanner Read The Star-Spangled Rebanner It’s a week before July 4th, and we’re selling holiday supplies. Customer: “Do you have any American flags in different colors?” Me: “Different colors?” Customer: “Y...
Jul 03, 2026 from Hackaday A New Twist on the To Do List Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for tracking the progress of tasks that must be accomplished. [Simone …read more
Jul 03, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Das Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch Über ein Kochbuch meiner Mutter, dass sie von meiner Oma geerbt hat.
Jul 03, 2026 from GadgeteerZA I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full picture OK this was not “me” obviously, as I run Linux as my main OS. But interesting as I always thought CrystalDiskInfo was the best tool out there for SSD checking (or maybe that was the marketing PR th...
Jul 03, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection Elfquest Revisited Following in the wake of their Kickstarters to put out special archival rereleases of old RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu material, Chaosium have done the same for Elfquest. In some respects this is ...
