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Apr 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Barbarians Who Didn’t Invade Rome: Groups from Northern Europe Were Already Plowing the Lands of Southern Germany a Century Before the Fall of the Empire

A genomic analysis conducted on 258 individuals buried in the so-called row cemeteries of southern Germany has just demolished the 19th-century image of a great Germanic migration that supposedly b...

Apr 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)

The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.

Apr 30, 2026 from Autistic As Fxxk

What’s In and Out for me in 2026

This is probably the kind of post I should’ve done at the beginning of the year or end of last year, but if you’ve read some of my recent posts, you’ll know I haven’t been in the right headspace si...

Apr 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Second Barons' War—Causes

The Second Barons' War started in 1264 by Simon de Montfort, the 6th Earl of Leicester, against King Henry III of England. Henry was relying to much on favorites for advice—many of them from France...

Apr 30, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Google quietly fixed AirPods compatibility with Android, and the LibrePod app is all you need

“It’s long been a poorly kept secret that AirPods technically work with Android phones. However, certain features have always been broken due to Apple’s disregard for Bluetooth standards. That’s fi...

Apr 30, 2026 from Darek Kay

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A blue local train mirrored in a body of water next to the rails. Cherry trees frame the train.

Apr 30, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Getting Mercator'd

You ever just feel like all you'll ever amount to is just a series of impulses that can only see life as a series of unreliable snapshots and not the full, fluid thing it actually is? Yeah, me neit...

Apr 30, 2026 from Tim Hårek

April 2026

Summer is approaching, my family is getting bigger, and life keeps on giving! From the blog since my last recently post: Subscribe via RSS 🍀 Life Our second daughter was born this month! We are now...

Apr 30, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Fedora 44 released

Three days ago, the Fedora project released Fedora 44. This release was delayed a couple of times due to an issue with the NVIDIA driver and installer. Since neither of those was relevant to me, I ...

Apr 30, 2026 from Toni Notes

A newsletter should extend a publication, not duplicate it

A newsletter earns its place when it gives a publication a narrower, more direct return surface instead of just repeating the archive in the inbox.

Apr 29, 2026 from Hackaday

How to Kill Humidity Sensors With Humidity

An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments y...

Apr 29, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Bean Counters Aren’t Paid In Beans

Read Bean Counters Aren’t Paid In Beans Customer: "I read online that the production cost for this frappe is only $2.89." Me: "Possibly. I'm not aware of the production costs." Customer: "So then w...

Apr 29, 2026 from Above the Law

Dhillon Pays More Attention To Twitter Than The Work Coming Out Of The DOJ — See Also

The Fools Sent Out The Draft Doc: Nobody was awake enough to catch that? Cool If I Flip The Bird?: Flashing the finger as patriotic duty. Keep The Hate Outside The Club: Metropolitan Club members w...

Apr 29, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Russia’s Summer Push for Donbas Faces Troop Shortages and Ukrainian Innovation

Yuri Lapaiev

Apr 29, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Free Speech Unmuted: "Defamacast" and More: How American Defamation Law Works

Jane and I lay out the structure of American defamation law, using the recent lawsuits brought by FBI Director Kash Patel as a launching point. Special bonus: Almost no discussion of New York Times...

Apr 29, 2026 from LifeDev.net

How Habits Shape Identity? 12 Daily Habits That Change Who You Become

Understanding how habits shape identity is the single most powerful insight you can apply to personal growth, and once you grasp it, the way you approach every daily decision changes permanently. M...

Apr 29, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 29 April 2026

Five By Five Edition Top Story Six AI datacenters have been proposed in a small rural town in Pennsylvania, the equivalent of 51 Walmart Supercenters or three-and-a-half median meteorite late bomba...

Apr 29, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

GrafanaCon 2026

I recently attended my first GrafanaCon, held in Barcelona, Spain, from 20-22 April. I hated it. TL;DR; There was a lot to hate about this conference. It was incredibly well organized, which made m...

Apr 29, 2026 from Peter's Path

The Westminster Confession of Faith

Why read the book? The Westminster Confession of Faith was written in 1646 by Puritan ministers at the request of the English Parliament. It is a clear summary of what the Bible teaches on the main...

Apr 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Gaming-focused Linux distro Bazzite 44 brings Linux 6.19 kernel, GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.6

Bazzite 44 launches as the newest release of this Fedora-based Linux distribution focused on gaming and everyday usability. By rebasing atop Fedora 44, which debuted only yesterday, users benefit f...