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May 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Firefox 151 brings PDF merging, local profile backup, document PiP, and enhanced privacy

Mozilla has released Firefox 151, rolling out substantial updates for privacy, usability, and platform alignment on desktop and Android. Users can now merge multiple PDFs directly within the built-...

May 19, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Embedding user code in your app using Extism

Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful to me. Simple examples are Firefox with its addons or VLC with its plugins. Idea...

May 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The St. Edmund Cult

After Edmund of East Anglia began to be treated as a saint, he became an important focal point for Christians in East Anglia, and as a political tool.The Danish King Cnut (c.990 - 1035), who conque...

May 19, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Ebola international emergency, hantavirus update, ticks, heat, opioid deaths decline, and more.

The Dose (May 19)

May 19, 2026 from kmcd.dev

Zero-Friction Demos with WASM

Bringing Go libraries to life with WebAssembly.

May 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Active Surrender

Carpe diem, amirite ladies? You know, even when I look at pictures of people who are now dead and wonder if they'd actually be telling me to seize the day—there's this small inclination I have to c...

May 19, 2026 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

Scheduled GitHub Actions are now useless

Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I have two graphs I collected from my work GitHub account, one from a daily job we have, and anoth...

May 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

The Missing Part of the State Court Mangione Suppression Ruling?

The federal court denied a similar motion; the state court grants it in part.

May 18, 2026 from Above the Law

‘A Profound Moral Failure’ — See Also

Mother Gives Birth On Courtroom Bench: Rather than reschedule, the arraignment went ahead without her being there. Three Cheers For Due Process: Judge keeps fruit of warrantless search from becomin...

May 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Las Vegas Strip-ped

Read Las Vegas Strip-ped Me: "Hey, [Manager], why was there a robe in the filing cupboard?" Manager: "For the, uh, severely underdressed guests who regularly visit the lobby." Me: "This is a regula...

May 18, 2026 from Hackaday

Electroplating 3D Prints Without Requiring a Big Vat

Electroplating 3D prints is a good way to get a pretty nice coating on even a basic PLA part, but generally you’re expected to dunk the entire part into a …read more

May 18, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Genuine Russian Cossacks Fight For Ukraine Against Putin’s Regime

Richard Arnold

May 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Zstandard

Es gibt einen neuen Spieler auf dem HTTP-Transportkompressionsfeld. *Papierrascheln*: oh, was, schon seit zwei Jahren?

May 18, 2026 from The Autodidacts

All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared

Along with the money bet on them?

May 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 May 2026

Pololalia Edition Top Story Agent harnesses like OpenClaw are changing how we build and run AI models. (The Register) Oh, are they? The creator of OpenClaw burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI usa...

May 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Six towering historical warrior floats will grace Fukui’s Mikuni Festival for three days

This annual procession is the perfect stop for samurai buffs who enjoy traditional Japanese festivals with a warrior twist. The streets of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, are about to be packed when the c...

May 18, 2026 from Darek Kay

Sabbatical #13: Wānaka

A travel journal from my visit to Wānaka, New Zealand.

May 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-18-26

Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts o...

May 18, 2026 from It's FOSS

How I Finally Added Tapo L530 Bulb to Home Assistant

Sharing my home automation journey as I keep on exploring and troubleshooting.

May 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Pulsar 1.132 adds new terminal package, improved Git branch switching & large file setting

Pulsar 1.132 arrives as the latest update of this community-led code editor forked from Atom, introducing several features aimed at improving the daily workflows of its users. The release includes ...