Aug 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-27-26 I have a deadline today, so while the weekday Pook-Emu Bee streak continues, this will be another minimalist entry in my ongoing series. 1 | Israel: Law Adopted to Preserve the Memory of the Octobe...
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday All The Best Computers Boot To BASIC Anyone whose first computing experience came in the form of an 8-bit home computer will tell you about booting straight into a BASIC interpreter. The machine invited you to program …read more
Aug 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Xbox's new disc-to-digital feature brings the benefits of digital to your physical games Microsoft has announced a new feature that bridges the gap between physical and digital gaming on its Xbox platform, granting disc-based game owners the flexibility and convenience of digital entit...
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, …read more
Aug 27, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.35: Performance Boost in Kernel 7.3, Omarchy Rising, Kernel, Root Demystifed, and More Linux Kernel 7.3 is one of most performance focused releases ever.
Aug 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Armbian 26.8 launches with Linux 7.1 kernel, a rewritten installer, and UEFI ISO Images Armbian 26.8 delivers a major update to this system image framework for single-board computers, introducing feature, compatibility, and workflow enhancements for its users. The installer has been c...
Aug 27, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-08-27 12:35: This is what rainy days were made for. 🌧️🐶 This is what rainy days were made for. 🌧️🐶 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday Analog Optical Feedback Generates 4K Fractals With No Computer For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the Mandelbrot set or other fractals slowly render on screen is …read more
Aug 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AWS acquires DuckLabs, makers of DuckDB, while keeping project independent & open source Amazon has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company responsible for the open source analytical database DuckDB. The move signals a deepening of existing ties b...
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday eeink Provides eInk, ESP32 Powered Text Adventures There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted …read more
Aug 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net TeamSpeak 6 will finally introduce direct calls, 4K screen sharing, and picture-in-picture TeamSpeak 6, now in beta, is being described by its developers as the platform’s most substantial revision yet. Active beta testing began in January 2025, progressing through multiple builds. Build...
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say [RobDevBuilds] made a MOD tracker that uses …read more
Aug 27, 2026 from It's FOSS You Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment There's no guarantee it leads to an official release, but it would give Linux users another way to run Chromium or Chrome.
Aug 27, 2026 from Hackaday Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map of Supermassive Black Holes The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like …read more
Aug 26, 2026 from Hackaday Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing …read more
Aug 26, 2026 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts How to (properly) apply for an apartment viewing I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen inbox This is in the context of a flat search, but it should also apply to your...
Aug 26, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Recovery eines verlustbehafteten Dwarf Fortress-Screenshots Wie ich einen verlustbehaftet komprimierten Dwarf Fortress-Screenshot mit ein bisschen Kontextwissen teilweise rekonstruieren konnte.
Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Open source X viewers Nitter & XCancel are offline following cease-and-desist letters X, previously known as Twitter, has sent cease-and-desist letters to the maintainers of Nitter, an open-source project that let users view X posts without an account or using the official platform....
Aug 26, 2026 from Hackaday Emulating the iPod These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot. Now, though, a particularly …read more
Aug 26, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 26 August 2026 CNO Orrery Edition Top Story Apple has announced new Mac Mini models based on the M5 Pro and M6 CPUs. (MacRumors) The M6 is a marked upgrade over the M4 - the M5 never showed up on the Mac Mini - b...
