Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines? “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — so …read more
Apr 08, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekend drive to Camden We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also perfect fir for the ...
Apr 08, 2026 from It's FOSS PyTorch Foundation Expands Its Open Source AI Portfolio With Helion and Safetensors Meta's Helion and Hugging Face's Safetensors are now hosted projects under the PyTorch umbrella.
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PeaZip 11.0 boosts archive browsing, upgrades drag and drop & enhances fractional scaling PeaZip 11.0 brings several user-focused improvements for those using this open-source file manager and archiver. The latest update accelerates archive browsing for faster file operations and introd...
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple Arcade launches Nick Jr. Replay and adds new games for families Apple Arcade introduces Nick Jr. Replay! on May 7, offering over 50 retro Nick Jr. games with beloved children’s characters in a preserved, interactive environment. The same day, three new titles—G...
Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday Espressif’s New ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V with WiFi 6 and GBit Ethernet In a move that’s no doubt going to upset and confuse many, Espressif has released its newest microcontroller — the ESP32-S31. The confusing part here is that the ESP32-S series …read more
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net CompressO 3.0 adds image compression and new editing tools CompressO 3.0 now supports image compression for JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF formats with adjustable quality settings. This update also introduces built-in tools for cropping, rotating, and flipping i...
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Alacritty 0.17: enhanced mouse bindings, TOML 1.1 support, and Wayland updates Alacritty 0.17 introduces the ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown actions in mouse bindings, expanding customization options. The release adds TOML 1.1 syntax support and brings window.resize_inc...
Apr 08, 2026 from It's FOSS Glass UI Is Making a Comeback on Linux — Thanks to KDE For those who never warmed up to Breeze, Oxygen and Air are shaping up to be compelling alternatives again.
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net DNS resolver Quad9 enables DNS over HTTP/3 and QUIC globally, expanding encrypted options Quad9 has rolled out support for DNS over HTTP/3 (DoH3) and DNS over QUIC (DoQ) across its global resolver network. This update expands encrypted DNS options for users who prioritize privacy and se...
Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday A History on the “Impossible” VLIW Computing A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just switching between tasks very quickly. But a …read more
Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cloudflare and GoDaddy partner to help websites fight back against AI crawlers Cloudflare and GoDaddy have announced a partnership to address how AI crawlers from Big Tech companies are affecting website traffic and publisher revenue. The move focuses on the growing problem o...
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both posts are interesting and include valuable tips for protecting digital photo col...
Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday Intel 486 Support Likely to be Removed in Linux 7.1 Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In …read more
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Japan’s Oil Imports Access to natural resources has long been a challenge for Japan (see e.g., World War II). According to a report by Alex Kimani for OilPrice.com, prior to the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, Ja...
Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes When to split one idea into two posts Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.
Apr 07, 2026 from Hackaday Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not! When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of …read more
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social April’s Pink Moon The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...
Apr 07, 2026 from Kev Quirk Obfuscating My Contact Email I stumbled across this great post by Spencer Mortensen yesterday, which tested different email obfuscation techniques against real spambots to see which ones actually work. It's a fascinating read,...
Apr 07, 2026 from Hackaday TinyGo Boldly Goes Where No Go Ever Did Go Before When you’re programming microcontrollers, you’re likely to think in C if you’re old-school, Rust if you’re trendy, or Python if you want it done quick and have resources to spare. …read more
