Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday Ski Slopes for Laser Imaging Lasers are cool and all, but they can be somewhat difficult to control at times. This is especially true when you have hundreds, thousands, or millions of lasers you need …read more
Apr 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Sync-in 2.2 adds OCR search for PDFs, admin space controls, event processing, and more Sync-in 2.2 introduces several upgrades to its file storage and collaboration platform. Improved search and indexing now use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract and index images within P...
Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday Four Choppers and a Blimp: The Bizarre Piasecki Helistat Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted …read more
Apr 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google will start penalizing “back button hijacking” with new spam policy in June 2026 Google is revamping its spam policies to address “back button hijacking”, a deceptive tactic that interferes with browser navigation. This practice will soon become an explicit violation classified...
Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday New Linux Kernel Rules Put the Onus on Humans for AI Tool Usage It’s fair to say that the topic of so-called ‘AI coding assistants’ is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ranging from code quality to copyright issues, there are many valid …read ...
Apr 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Encrypted messaging app Session will shut down in 90 days unless new funding are secured Session, the privacy-centered encrypted messaging application, has announced it will permanently shut down in 90 days unless it secures major new funding. The Session Technology Foundation (STF), w...
Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Hard Back in 2017, Hackaday featured an audio reactive LED strip project from [Scott Lawson], that has over the years become an extremely popular choice for the party animals among us. …read more
Apr 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Trisquel 12.0 “Ecne” launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, APT 3.0, and new browser options Trisquel 12.0 “Ecne” marks a new release for users seeking a Linux system built entirely from free software, intentionally excluding proprietary drivers, firmware, and non-free components. The dist...
Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday Electric Truck Sets Racing Record The 24 Hours of Le Mans races is an extremely prestigious endurance motorsport event which attracts the best cars and drivers from around the world. It’s one of the longest-running …read more
Apr 14, 2026 from Hackaday They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS ported to GNU Hurd Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the …read more
Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Zespri RubyRed Kiwi I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post featured four photos. The last of four photos shows slices of yellow-orange-red kik...
Apr 13, 2026 from Hackaday Your Own Tool Changer All the cool new 3D printers have tool-changing heads. Instead of multiplexing filament through one hot end, you simply park one hot end and pick up another. Or pick up …read more
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Bonbon Drop Stickers Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card speculating which referenced “Bonbon Drop stickers.” Regarding the stickers, I wrote that I did not know what they wer...
Apr 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Linux 7.0 released with XFS self healing, agent-agnostic AI keys & major hardware support Linux 7.0 is now available after a final week of mostly minor fixes, as noted by Linus Torvalds. It brings plenty of updates, although it is not a long term support release, so Linux 6.18 remains t...
Apr 13, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Feedbackemails Ich habe jetzt Links für Kommentare per Email in diesem Blog. Meine Emailadresse habe ich mit einer simplen, aber anscheinend effektiven Methode für scraper unkenntlich gemacht.
Apr 13, 2026 from Hackaday ESP32 Weather Display Runs Macintosh System 3 It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and you need to start somewhere. With the Cheap Yellow Display …read more
Apr 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 April 2026 Fresh Spoo Edition Top Story DC. Suicide Squad is a DC property, not Marvel. The peril of laziness lost. (Dtrace) AI makes it easy to generate millions of lines of code. What it doesn't make it is ...
Apr 13, 2026 from Peter's Path Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Out of the Silent Planet. It is the first book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom is kidnapped by two ambitious scientists and taken by spaceship to Mars, cal...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Google Verbatim Mode Custom Search Shortcut I read read a good article by Hana Lee Goldin at Card Catalog titled Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. In the post, she ran through several tips for using Google Search effe...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-13-26 There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Saturday because it was newsletter day (22 links in issue 275!). There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Sunday because I failed. But today is Monday. Monday is a fu...
