Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers that Disrespect Robots.txt In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from Kev Quirk On Publishing Your Salary One of my favourite things to do online is perusing the IndieWeb. It's fun, and I've been able to discover a tonne of interesting people along the way. But every now and then, I come across someone...
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Mauchly and Eckert’s Other Computers If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life [Epictronics] happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from the late 1980s known as the IBM 7496 Executive …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from It's FOSS LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.
Aug 14, 2026 from PRBS23 Reverse Engineering the Gravity 800 Smoker Controller I recently released FreeFall 800, open source firmware for the Gravity 800 smoker/grill from Masterbuilt. The project started because I needed to open the controller to fix a broken wire. That is w...
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Removing Microplastics from Soil with Tumbling Magnetic Flakes While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …read...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Troubleshooting Video Delay On The Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and video. However, there can be a fair bit of latency …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Five Linux Apps to Install on Day One I read a How to Geek blog post titled 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one (HT Tux Machines). The author, Dibakar Ghosh, recommended the following apps: GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extension...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Finding a Good Monospace Font For Prose Unlike Ben Tsai, I have never been an engineer. But like Ben Tsai, I “appreciate the feel of a monospaced font, [and] want something that is optimized for prose.” In my case, I write drafts (and la...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Tearing Down A Cheap Digital Caliper Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild] decided to take a particularly cheap plastic pair and …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Coin-moving games without the coins Previously...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social “Moments Away” I added a significant number of Google News feeds for specific Brooklyn neighborhoods to my feed collection (future article topic?). I then went through the initial set of articles that came up. I ...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Bridging Older Tasmota Hardware Into Apple Home The Tasmota firmware is a popular choice for flashing to a range of Espressif microcontrollers to turn them into smart home devices. If you have such devices in your house, …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 August 2026 Trurl And Klapaucius Are Dead Edition Top Story The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot) Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei... Tech N...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Nitrux debuts a new Workspace Environment framework with new modular UI components Nitrux has introduced "The Workspace Environment", a new user framework positioned between traditional window managers and desktop environments. This new interface model relies on first-party QML c...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Manjaro 26.1 'Bian-May' released via Stable update with Linux kernel 7.1 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Manjaro Linux has finalized the software stack for version 26.1 “Bian-May” with its latest Stable branch update. Existing Stable users can move to the new 26.1 package state through a regular full ...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Proxmox VE launches official Arm64 support with full feature parity and NVIDIA Grace Proxmox Server Solutions has introduced the first officially supported Arm64 edition of Proxmox Virtual Environment, expanding the platform beyond x86-64 architectures. Available since August 5, 20...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mistral launches open multimodal safety model Shieldstral with adaptable moderation Last week, French AI company Mistral introduced Shieldstral, a 3 billion parameter open weight multimodal safety classifier for content moderation, released under the Apache 2.0 license with model ...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26 I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The ...
