Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Using Flatpak to Run a 1996 Version of the GIMP on Modern Linux Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com George Washing-Ten Percent Off Read George Washing-Ten Percent Off Morning Worker: "They're saying because it's July 4th, they should get a… uh… a Founding Fathers discount." Me: "A what?!" Morning Worker: "They claim their fami...
Jul 04, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop1) charges via USB-C. When I got it, I bought a Ugreen Nexode charger, an Anker Powerline Flow III...
Jul 04, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Independence Forever! 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXVII Welcome to the 287th 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 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Living Signatories to The Declaration of Independence and the American Jubilee America celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 4, 1826. Just three signatories to The Declaration of Independence, Adams, Jefferson, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lived to see the day. I look...
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 LBV Magazine English Edition DNA analysis of the “Golden Man” reveals that a few elite families ruled Scythian nomadic society 2,500 years ago The discovery of the Golden Man in the Issyk kurgans in Kazakhstan had become a national symbol and one of the most significant archaeological finds of the Eurasian steppe. But until now, researche...
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 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 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
