Nov 02, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog The Case of the Rapidly Disappearing Disk Space - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #160 My MacBook contains almost nothing but development tools and related data, and I’ve long maintained at least 500–600 GB of free space. For quite some time, I assumed its internal storage was more t...
Nov 02, 2026 from It's FOSS Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.
Nov 02, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Haruna media player 1.9 released with many usability, interface & performance enhancements The latest version of the Haruna media player has been released, introducing a suite of features aimed at improving workflow efficiency and user control. Version 1.9 adds a newly implemented open f...
Nov 02, 2026 from Hackaday Static Radio For The Chumby One If you haven’t heard of Static Radio, it’s basically an online radio station made up of podcast content. [Brendan Fitzpatrick] decided to take an old 2009 Chumby One and turn …read more
Nov 02, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.21 brings faster WoW64 OpenGL, initial Voice Capture DSP library, and 20 bug fixes The Wine Project has released Wine 11.21, a development update to its compatibility layer that enables Windows applications and games to run on Linux and Unix-like systems. This release brings thre...
Nov 02, 2026 from Hackaday A Hackable Analog Phone System Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to …read more
Nov 02, 2026 from It's FOSS France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year! France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.
Nov 02, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Etsy cracks down on AI slop: bans AI-generated patterns & recipes and tightens photo rules Etsy recently announced sweeping new restrictions on how artificial intelligence can be used in its listings, saying the technology threatens the integrity of its sellers' work and leaves buyers vu...
Nov 02, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Reddit is moving toward mandatory logins for everyone, citing AI scraping and targeted ads Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has revealed plans to make Reddit a logged-in-only platform, meaning users may soon need an account just to browse posts and discussions. The change would end nearly two de...
Nov 02, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mistral AI launches Large 4 Le Chonk, a multimodal model for security & agentic workflows Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, its new flagship open-weight multimodal model, following a public preview earlier this month. The model supports both text and images and is available for d...
Nov 02, 2026 from Hackaday Building The Stranger Things Lights For Halloween When Stranger Things came out all those years ago, one image left an indelible mark on pop culture. A set of Christmas lights, lined up with letters of the alphabet, such …read more
Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tamawashi (41) Becomes Oldest Sumo Wrestler to Return to Top Division Tamwashi began the year as the oldest sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division at 41. Unfortunately, his records of 5-10 in January and March and 2-13 in May saw him tumble from his M5e rank to s...
Nov 02, 2026 from It's FOSS This Tool Lets You Install Linux Without a USB Key, Straight From Windows Wubi reimagined? Here's a new open source project that lets you dual boot Linux from Windows without needing any USB or DVD.
Nov 02, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: November 1, 2026 We’re less than a week away from the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, and things are getting a little… intense. So we trust you’ll forgive us if this week’s post weighs in …read more
Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social If I had to rewatch a TV anime 10 times in a row… I came across the following writing prompt on the Umai Yomu Anime Blog: “If you HAD to rewatch an anime 10 times in a row, which anime would you choose? .” I ordinarily do not like these kinds of q...
Nov 02, 2026 from Hackaday Cheap FPGA Board Becomes Retro-Style Computer The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out …read more
Nov 02, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog On stretched Kubernetes clusters During conversations at work, and outside it, Kubernetes high availability comes up. And every time that happens, the idea of stretched clusters comes up. The idea is appealing, since stretching cl...
Nov 02, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #383 Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: gearboxes vs robot hands, an open-source robot library with 450+ robots, vision-language-delta-action models, and more!
Nov 02, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing How to find out who owns a property in Texas An appraisal account supplies the starting name. Matching its legal description to a county deed connects that name to the land.
Nov 01, 2026 from R74n Newsletter R74n Refresh #2 – Treats; Exploits; Trackers; Style October was a big month for R74n! After the Human Tier List, the main website got 4 more pages.
