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Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 9 July 2026 Jul 09, 2026

  Tanuki And Kitsune Go To Market Edition Top Story John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been ...

• Daily News Stuff 8 July 2026 Jul 08, 2026

  Flammenwerfers R Use Edition Top Story Samung has posted an 1800% increase in quarterly profits, catapulting the comp...

• Daily News Stuff 7 July 2026 Jul 07, 2026

  Old Lamps For Old Edition Top Story Beelink has launched its EQi Wildcat Lake mini-PC build around Intel's new low-en...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display Jul 09, 2026

  How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up,...

• Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC Jul 09, 2026

  One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you nev...

• Die Casting Comes Home Jul 09, 2026

  You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, w...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Slices Of History Jul 09, 2026

  Read Slices Of History Me: "It's the best thing since sliced bread." Friend: "Ugh. I hate that expression. It makes n...

• Worst Game Of Twenty Questions Ever Jul 09, 2026

  Read Worst Game Of Twenty Questions Ever Customer: "It keeps giving me some weird message!" I follow her over to the ...

• Untitled Jul 09, 2026

  Read My wife has asked me to pick her up a sandwich from the deli on my way home. While I wait, I see that her first ...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• FOSS Weekly #26.28: Microslop Moment, Rustification, Brave New features, KDE Plasma Tips and Meme Distro and More Jul 09, 2026

  K in KDE stands for Kustomization.

• Avoiding Vendor Lock-in By Using KDE Plasma As Personal Knowledge Base Jul 09, 2026

  Exploring a rudimentary style of notes management with Markdown and KDE Dolphin. Sometimes, simplicity is the best so...

• Another German State Just Kicked Out Microsoft ...Kind Of Jul 09, 2026

  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has replaced Microsoft SharePoint with Nextcloud for over 5,000 government employees.

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Japan reacts to Donald Trump’s “Islamic Republic of Japan” remark Jul 09, 2026

  There are actually three things wrong with the U.S. president’s statement that the Islamic Republic of Japan attacked...

• Starbucks Japan puts a bow on peach season with new limited-edition Peach Creamy Tea Latte Jul 09, 2026

  Starbucks says sayonara to the summer fruit with a new limited-edition beverage. It’s been a peachy start to summer a...

• Grandpa Sensei solo art exhibition returning to Tokyo and he’ll be there every day of it Jul 09, 2026

  Take it easy and enjoy some painting with Harumichi Shibasaki. In the decades following the passing of American paint...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• Morning Docket: 07.09.26 Jul 09, 2026

  * Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case, in case the English language has changed since last...

• A Merger-Sized Wrinkle In Time — See Also Jul 08, 2026

  Doesn't Reviewing 6 Months Of Time Entries Sound Fun?!?! Pour some out for legacy Cadwalader attorneys. Ken Paxton He...

• Former Law School Dean Takes The ‘W’ In Primary Jul 08, 2026

  He's a favorite in the November general election. The post Former Law School Dean Takes The ‘W’ In Primary appeared f...

Rock and Null

Tech, software and whatever comes to mind.

• The age of deterministic software engineering is over Jul 09, 2026

  Software engineering has entered a probabilistic era. As LLMs replace deterministic workflows with uncertainty, the c...

• LLMs changed writing. But our submission processes haven’t caught up. May 28, 2026

  LLMs are changing how we write, communicate, and evaluate information, but many submission and proposal processes are...

• Promies Code Distribution: A hassle-free way to manage app giveaways May 21, 2026

  A smarter way to manage and distribute your app promo codes with the all-new Promies. Effortlessly build customizable...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Claim That State Employee Was Unconstitutionally Demoted "Because She Did Not Share" Education Agency's Views on Race Can Go Forward Jul 09, 2026

  From Spengler v. Coop. Educ. Serv. Agency 7, decided yesterday by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Ch...

• Banning Parents from Possessing Guns Because Their Child Has Described Thoughts of "Harming Herself Using a Rope" Violated Second Amendment Jul 09, 2026

  The ban was imposed even though police officers "examined [the parents'] gun safes, confirming that the firearms were...

• Today in Supreme Court History: July 9, 1868 Jul 09, 2026

  7/9/1868: The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 9, 1868 appeared first ...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• OpenProject 17.6 brings XWiki integration and new agile planning features for backlogs Jul 09, 2026

  OpenProject 17.6 is now available as the latest release of this open source project management platform. This update ...

• postmarketOS introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, better USB gadget handling, and Waydroid updates Jul 09, 2026

  postmarketOS has released a new update that introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, bringing the latest version of this desktop an...

• OpenAI launches new GPT-Live Voice models that enable simultaneous listening and speaking Jul 09, 2026

  OpenAI has launched a major upgrade to ChatGPT Voice Mode powered by GPT-Live, a new generation of real-time voice mo...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• David's Wives Jul 09, 2026

  When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause...

• David of Oxford Jul 08, 2026

  Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he liv...

• Moses of Oxford Jul 07, 2026

  Moses of Oxford was one of the most prominent scholars and legal minds in Anglo-Jewry of the 13th century. Born in Ox...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• The Mystery of Metsamor: A Unique 7th-Century BC Burial in Armenia Reconsiders the Role of Women in the Kingdom of Urartu Jul 09, 2026

  A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has unearthed at the site of Metsamor, in present-day Armenia,...

• The Oldest Evidence of Ridden Horses in the Iberian Peninsula Found at a Bronze Age Site in Madrid Jul 09, 2026

  A team of researchers from the University of Córdoba, the CSIC, and other institutions has documented at the Castillo...

• At Site of Oldest Known Human Burials, 145,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Earliest Documented Stabbing Jul 08, 2026

  The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for traci...

(Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

A technical blog covering enterprise infrastructure, open-source tools, and cloud technologies, with posts on Ansible automation, Kubernetes, Linux, and DevOps practices.

• Red Hat EX467 exam Jul 09, 2026

  Last Friday, I renewed my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform (EX467...

• On Podman 6 and weeding out legacy Jun 25, 2026

  Podman 6.0 was released yesterday. This is a fairly big and important release, since they removed the support for cgr...

• Btrfs scare May 31, 2026

  Last weekend, I updated and rebooted the system, but it did not come back online. Checking with IPMI revealed that th...

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• Türkiye Seeks to Use Syria’s Realignment For Eurasian Energy Leverage Jul 08, 2026

  Sertaç Canalp Korkmaz

• Cossack Resilience in Face of Ukrainian Gains Jul 08, 2026

  Richard Arnold

• Russia’s Shadow Fleet Continues to Sail Jul 08, 2026

  Jax Ellis

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Seid ihr lebensmüde?!? Jul 08, 2026

  Darf man andere für die dumme Sache kritisieren, die man selbst bis einen Augenblick vorher noch gemacht hat?

• Bahn-Wettbewerb Jul 07, 2026

  Katja Diehl hält es für schädlich, dass die Bahngesellschaft Italo in Deutschland zwei Strecken übernimmt.

• Rollenspielszenen: In den Abgrund klettern Jul 06, 2026

  Die anderen sagen Jacksnipe, sie soll nicht in den Abgrund klettern. Aber Jacksnipe lässt sich nicht gerne Befehle ge...

Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

A software engineering blog focused on operating systems, build systems, and reliability engineering, drawing from experience with FreeBSD, Bazel, Rust, and major tech companies.

• Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates Jul 08, 2026

  How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not...

• Is anyone still using Emacs? Jun 20, 2026

  In a recent discussion at the orange site sparked by the Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I’m Already Daily...

• A Markdown-based test suite May 17, 2026

  This article is not about AI and it is not written with AI, but the work that I’m about to present was definitely mot...

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

• “Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage Jul 08, 2026

  Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock char...

• Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30) Jul 08, 2026

  Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.

• Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) Jul 07, 2026

  Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Relevance Jul 08, 2026

  To say that I don't write every day to maintain relevance would be a lie. I do want to stay relevant to my readers, b...

• The Gaps Jul 07, 2026

  Remember the gaps. I've been getting better at it myself, finding those lovely small glimpses of time where nothing s...

• Admonitions Jul 06, 2026

  I find myself becoming a lot less rigid in my prayer life, which to some might sound like a good thing. For me, I don...

xkcd.com

• Airport Meeting Jul 08, 2026
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• Types of Tornado Alert Jul 03, 2026

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• 📝 2026-07-07 18:43: Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster... Jul 07, 2026

  Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster mums. Thanks for reading this post via...

• 📝 2026-07-07 18:34: We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black. Jul 07, 2026

  We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ ...

• 📝 2026-07-07 07:06: First two chicks! Jul 07, 2026

  First two chicks! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by ...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• Day One at Percona Jul 07, 2026

  Today I am excited to announce that I have started a new job as the General Manager for MariaDB at Percona. I’ve been...

• Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Home Assistant Jun 10, 2026

  Back in November of 2024, my father (who is now 86) moved in with us. We are lucky enough to have a house with a base...

• San Francisco Omnistrate Event Jun 05, 2026

  Last month I had the opportunity to attend an event hosted by Omnistrate at the Amazon office on Market Street in San...