Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hoppin...
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday The Stages of Grief in Repairing a Trinitron Found in the Trash Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the case of a once rather nice Sony TV …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Track Bird Visitors With A Raspberry Pi And A USB Mic “Avian Visitors is a lovely project by Teddy Warner that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colourful illustration of recent...
Aug 09, 2026 from HunterDavis.com Full Steam on Termux, Because Why Not? I’ve been having so much fun running full steam games on my switch lite! Just this weekend I got Psychnauts running well (with no overclocks!) These can be good times even if they are complicated t...
Aug 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 9 August 2026 Fossas Civets And Coatis Edition Top Story Five of America's top tech companies - Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle - are expected to burn through $125 billion in cash this year on their ...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf ...
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday The Chinese Smart Glasses Proving that Smart Glasses can be Repairable It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how compact and waterproof they must be, yet there are plenty of …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Converting a PS4 Persona 5 Royal NG+ Save to Steam with Adversarial Interoperability Sony is locking the PlayStation down more and more. I just want to free my PS4 Persona 5 Royal save so I can play on Steam.
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from GadgeteerZA I turned my security cameras into AI assistants with open-source LLM Vision “LLM Vision is a free, open-source Home Assistant integration that lets an AI model examine the images from your cameras and describe what is happening in those images. LLM Vision doesn’t replace s...
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes with Compressed Air [Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two different materials and extrudes one as a shell around the other. …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers. It wasn’t...
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem that hard until you try to do it. He’s got the …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Used Game Stores in an All Digital World Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physica...
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, paper is not an easy material …read more
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social /e/ OS’s App Lounge Apparently Still As I Remember I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I publishe...
Aug 09, 2026 from William Lyon's Blog From a Neo4j Graph Back to an OKF Bundle Part two of the Neo4j and OKF series. A projection is a selection query with a serializer on the end: it reads a governed subset of the graph and writes a portable Open Knowledge Format bundle. Tru...
Aug 08, 2026 from Hackaday Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a …read more
Aug 08, 2026 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts A forum for All About Berlin Immigrants need a space to discuss the challenges of settling in Germany. Those discussions should happen in public, so that others may benefit. That space should feel welcoming and helpful. I am b...
Aug 08, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Netflix accounts taken over in South Africa through session cookie hijacking “These cookies allow users to stay logged in to websites or to save items in a shopping cart even after they exit a site. Through these cookies, cybercriminals have found an exploit that has allowe...
