Jul 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Archa System The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of debts owed to Jewish moneylenders (as well as possessions and property of every J...
Jul 12, 2026 from Kev Quirk đź“ť 2026-07-12 10:08: It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to... It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat. Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, ...
Jul 12, 2026 from It's FOSS 8 Linux Handheld Computers You Can Splurge On The rest are ready to use out of the box without requiring a spare Raspberry Pi or tinkering.
Jul 12, 2026 from Roy Tang Weeknotes 2026-07-12 The World Iran: Trump says the ceasefire is done (though negotiations are still proceeding) and Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is officially closed, so things are not looking bright. The gaming ind...
Jul 12, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Reinstalling 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXVIII Welcome to the 288th 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...
Jul 11, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Suntanned Hello Kitty steals the show in Japanese magazine’s Sanrio freebies Proof that magazines in Japan are unlike anywhere else in the world. One thing we love about magazines in Japan is the amount and quality of freebies that often come attached to them. That’s certai...
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday The First New WW2 Jeep Since 1945 Online publications sometimes work with sponsors. Over at the Autopian, they landed a sponsorship deal with eBay, but due to an unguarded comment, fulfilling the sponsor’s requirements turned out t...
Jul 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Soon To Become A Liquid Asset Read Soon To Become A Liquid Asset I used to work in a novelty ice bar. What is that? It's a bar in the basement of a building where the temperature is kept below freezing, all the customers are gi...
Jul 11, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog Home Assistant Transplant Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short while ago, homeassistant was suddenly no longer responding. Neither web ui nor a S...
Jul 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "A Black Robe Is No Guarantee of Gray Matter" "There's no shame in admitting error. There's only shame in not admitting error."
Jul 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Android This is a very feature packed and functional keyboard. I’ve found its word suggestions as good as GBoard and other Big Tech keyboards. I managed to import an Afrikaans dictionary and HeliBoard hand...
Jul 11, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist Explosive foodborne outbreak It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you.
Jul 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 July 2026 Ship Aisle And Edition Top Story Commies to the left of me, commies also to the left of me: Meta faces fines in the trillions of dollars from Europe and a cartel of US states unless they make their...
Jul 11, 2026 from LifeDev.net Digital Minimalism 2.0: It is Time For Cutting Your Tool Stack Down to Five Apps Digital minimalism used to mean deleting Instagram and turning your phone grayscale, but in 2026 the problem has quietly changed shape. The apps stealing your attention are no longer just social fe...
Jul 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval Keeping Track of Jewish Debts The catalyst for the 1189Â tragedy in York after the coronation of King Richard I was three men who wanted to criminally erase the debts they owed to the Jewish moneylender Aaron of York. Richard Ma...
Jul 11, 2026 from It's FOSS I Mined and Built My Way Through Space Haven An indie game studio out of Finland, Linus Torvalds' birth country, built this game, treating Linux as a first-class citizen.
Jul 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition How Ancient Is Being Right-Handed? First Evidence of “Right-Handedness” Discovered in a 550-Million-Year-Old Fossil Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Riverside, have documented what could constitute the earliest...
Jul 11, 2026 from Jasco's Website On AI 2: Agentic Boogaloo I talk about my evolving opinion on AI, A failed attempt to run local models, and a broken Macbook.
Jul 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 with Sol, Terra, and Luna models for wider public use OpenAI is rolling out its new GPT-5.6 models to the general public, calling the series “its best coding model yet” and positioning it as a direct competitor to Anthropic’s recently released Fable. ...
Jul 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Chosen I think I need to start doing less shit. Even less than what I've already been doing—can you believe that? I had to surrender Arthur to the shelter yesterday, so that was a hard day. Somehow I made...
