Aug 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-31-26 We bring August to a close with one Pook-Emu Bee for the road. 1 | Understanding And Dealing With Kim Jong-Un’s Resilience (Mario Alexis Portella for American Thinker. August 31, 2026.) I attribute...
Aug 31, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 31 August 2026 Fuck Yeah Edition Top Story Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast) Oh no. Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system ha...
Aug 31, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W34 Git at any scale — The move that stuck with me is putting a write-ahead log in S3 as the source of truth and treating the local NVMe repos as a warm cache you can throw away. That flips the usual p...
Aug 31, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Could flipping Raise wrist to wake and Always On Display (AOD) improve battery life? This is an interesting option to try (I have a Pebble watch, so battery life is not an issue). The theory is that raising the wrist normally kicks the full CPU on to check time, and that probably t...
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday What’s Mu Metal? If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal. Old timers will tell you it’s called mu metal, and its purpose …read more
Aug 31, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Just a Few Keystrokes - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #151 Last weekend, I attended an App Accelerator event hosted by Apple in Beijing. The event focused primarily on app development, operations, and business models in the age of AI. Most of the attendees...
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google's AI Mode can now track flight prices, book hotels, and see cost in miles or points Google is adding travel planning tools to AI Mode in Search, including flight price alerts, points and miles pricing, and hotel booking. AI Mode already provides real-time flight and hotel comparis...
Aug 31, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net Creepy crawlies That’s how Konstantin Ryabitsev titles his post creepy crawlies, where he explains the scale of the problem of the “AI crawlers” in the kernel.org git repositories website. I have discussed it here...
Aug 31, 2026 from It's FOSS Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux The open source offering syncs iMessage, SMS, and OTP codes between iPhone and Linux without needing a Mac device.
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net EndeavourOS Titan Nova brings Linux 7.1 kernel before major Wayland-based Triton release EndeavourOS has released Titan Nova, a minor update for its Arch-based, terminal-centric Linux distribution. The release is intended as a bridge while the team continues work on the delayed Triton ...
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday Digital “Film” For Your Pi Camera The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make one that’s …read more
Aug 31, 2026 from It's FOSS AI Crawlers Are Bleeding The Linux Kernel Repo's Compute Power By comparison, only about two percent of the six million daily requests hitting the repo are likely human.
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Calibre 9.14 adds AI ebook cover generation, image preview on hover, and new AI providers Calibre 9.14 has been released as the latest version of the free and open-source ebook management application. The release introduces AI-assisted cover generation and changes to its provider option...
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Brave updates Ask Brave with faster, tailored AI answers Brave has released an updated version of Ask Brave, the AI chat mode in Brave Search. The company says it generates faster, higher-quality answers and better tailors response depth to each request....
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an …read more
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash launches with scene extension, 4k upscaling and keyframe transitions Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a set of generative-video controls available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and in Google Flow. The company says the release is ready for pr...
Aug 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk Carl's Doomsday Scenario Carl's Doomsday ScenarioAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantasy, Sci-fiReleased: 2021Rating: ★★★★★"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the ...
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport. One which suffers like so many sports from requiring at least two players since …read more
Aug 31, 2026 from Coding Horror You Can't "Vibe Code" Love About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at j...
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF with a Browser Tool If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack. But you needn’t …read more
