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Sep 20, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Tankrabatt 3.0

Wieso führen wir hier in Deutschland einen Tankrabatt ein, der doch nichts bringt?

Sep 20, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

Making nginx use blocklistd

fail2ban is nice and simple to use, but has a brutal overhead on modest hardware that can handle a surprising amount of traffic. There is a more elegant solution which is much less known, called bl...

Sep 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Revolut, Europe’s biggest fintech, confirms breach exposing sensitive customer information

Revolut, Europe’s largest fintech company, has confirmed that an impersonation scam exposed personal information belonging to about 680 customers. Attackers reportedly compromised an Italian govern...

Sep 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Totila the Ostrogoth

Although the coins later minted during his reign as king of the Osgtrogoths name him Baduila, he has become known as Totila through the writings of men like Procopius. "Totila" was a diminutive nam...

Sep 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Age Sardinians Were Trading Metal with Scotland and Sweden— 500 Years Before the Phoenicians

A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or a village in southern Sweden. That is the striking picture drawn by Sere...

Sep 20, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites

I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text html files that I edit by hand (for now). For my needs, paying to host two plain ...

Sep 20, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-09-20

This entry coming in on a Monday because Sunday was busy. My Week Google Fit says I walked 74,807 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, another 70k week! A lot of this week's walking were around eit...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I had nothing 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVIII

Welcome to the 298th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...

Sep 20, 2026 from BattlePenguin

Game Reviews: Dave the Diver, Ghost of Yōtei, Pragmata and Lara Croft Go

Over the summer, I’ve been playing quite a mix of console games. On my PlayStation 4, I’ve been playing shorter titles such as Dave the Diver and Lara Croft Go. Meanwhile, on my PlayStation 5, I’ve...

Sep 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Jurassic Lark, Part 7

Read Jurassic Lark, Part 7 I'm a tour guide at a Natural History Museum. Every so often, I get old or middle-aged guys 'joking' with me by asking deliberately dumb questions or pretending to be stu...

Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday

A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld

A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three figures. There’s an inter...

Sep 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-09-19 22:28: Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it...

Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny is a real bitch! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you...

Sep 19, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Galley House Is Beyond Help

Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still not quite dry, and a range of other bodies scattered about the place. The scene ...

Sep 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026

Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified. (Wikipedia) Of course the people who live in that p...

Sep 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Gang of angry monkeys surrounds and attacks Japanese man in hot spring town

Morning walk interrupted by notorious Troop T1. The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting t...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Teacher's Instructions

From Soliz v. Alamo Colleges Dist., decided by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) on Sept. 16: Plaintiff Joseph Soliz, who… The post When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Te...

Sep 19, 2026 from It's FOSS

Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen

A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the work yourself.

Sep 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Belisarius Returns to Italy

The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern. They were successful, thanks to the strategies and (in one cas...

Sep 19, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

Antwerp Diamond Heist

Belgium · 2003 · Heist — An Italian crew breached the heavily guarded Antwerp Diamond Center vault and emptied 109 safe deposit boxes of gems valued at roughly €100 million. Despite their convictio...

Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...