Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Heathkit Tuner Saved from Junk Pile We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually reasonable and, even if you could get by with less, …read more
Apr 04, 2026 from It's FOSS Git Isn’t Just for Developers. It Might Be the Best Writing Tool Ever Plain Text, Git, and the Long Afterlife of Written Work.
Apr 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.6 revives Android driver, refines DLL modding, and improves VBScript compatibility Wine 11.6 arrives with several notable improvements for users running Windows applications on Linux, macOS, BSD, and other POSIX-compliant systems. The most prominent change in this release is the ...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Vintage Allen Scythe Electric The Allen Scythe is one of those fantastic pieces of vintage agricultural machinery which would never be allowed to be manufactured today for health and safety reasons. It’s a two-wheel …read more
Apr 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Capcom: DRM-free on GOG, DRM’d on Steam On March 28, 2022, I published On DRM-Free Games on Steam, wherein I examined the status of DRM on Steam, shared resources for identifying DRM-free games on the platform, and offered my unsolicited...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse-Engineering a Handheld Car Tire Pressure Gauge In this wonderful world of MEMS technology, sensor technology has been downsized and reduced in cost to the point where you can buy a car tire pressure sensor for less …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Pi-hole releases FTL v6.6, Web v6.5, and Core v6.4.1 with security fixes, adds MAC control Pi-hole has released FTL v6.6, Web v6.5, and Core v6.4.1, with the latest Docker image tagged as 2026.04.0. The update fixes several security issues across the web interface, FTL, and Core, includi...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Pika Labs launches real-time video chat with an AI avatar version of yourself in meetings The AI video and image generation startup Pika Labs has introduced real time video chat for AI agents, allowing live face to face conversations with AI avatars through its "Pika AI Self" concept (b...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday Simulating a glowing fireplace with an RP2040 Today, fireplaces, their cozy glow once a household staple, are mostly a thing of the past. In fact, a decent amount of old fireplaces are completely blocked up! [David Capper] …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday Burning Wood to Brew Wood to Preserve Wood : Pine Tar Before there was pressure-treated wood, before modern paints, there was pine tar. Everything from tool handles to wagons to ships were made of wood preserved with pine tar, once upon …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Connecting Self-Hosted WP Site to Tags.pub Yesterday I shared Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub in my Pook-Emu Bee links for the day. The post introduces a new feature for the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin: Subscribing a site ...
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Takopi’s Original Sin Review Reminds Me of Narcissu Cabbage reviwed the anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin on her always-fun Cabbage Sorter blog. Takopi was a short six-episode series which aired in summer season 2025. It was one of the last ...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday For Such a Small Program, ZX81 1K Chess Sure Packs a Lot In The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget hardware was certainly pressed into service for some impressive work. Perhaps the most leg...
Apr 03, 2026 from Kev Quirk Update on the eBay Scam Last week I wrote about how I thought I was being scammed by someone on eBay. In the post I said the following: I've asked eBay to step in and help resolve the situation, so we will see what happen...
Apr 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 April 2026 Problems R Us Edition Top Story houston@nasa.gov, we have a problem. (Tom's Hardware) The crew of the Artemis II mission - basically retreading the path of Apollo 10, 97 years ago - ran into an iss...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net MidnightBSD 4.0.4 adds age verification, patches security flaw MidnightBSD 4.0.4 introduces new age verification tools, with the aged daemon and agectl utility enabling account and package-level age checking. This release also fixes a critical remote code exec...
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-03-26 Another non-Saturday day ending in -day means it is time for a new set of Pook-Emu Bee. However, this will be our last Pook-Emu Bee until fun Monday. Tomorrow, Saturday, is newsletter day (which co...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AerynOS updates to GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6.3 with new package manager tools AerynOS now features GNOME 50 with improved parental controls, stable VRR and fractional scaling by default, and a move to Wayland-only sessions. KDE Plasma is updated to version 6.6.3, adding more...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ghost adds official Home Assistant integration for live publication data Ghost has released an official integration with Home Assistant, allowing users to import their publication data into smart home dashboards and automation systems. Key Ghost metrics, such as member ...
