Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday The Smallest Dialup ISP is a Raspberry Pi and a Prison Phone There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many cities would have more than one. Some of those have …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from Toni Notes Research should be allowed to kill the post Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Exposing a Radiation-Hardened 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Receiver to 500 Kilograys From outer space to down here on Earth, there are many places where ionizing radiation levels are high enough that they effectively bar access for humans, but also make life …read more
Apr 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Winkekatze24: Seite und Favicon Wie schwierig kann es sein, sich auf ein Favicon zu einigen?
Apr 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City’s ...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Scrap Vintage Camera Goes Digital with Scanner Parts Every collector ends up with items that are worthless, usually because they are broken or incomplete. When [Graindead] found a 1920s glass-plate reflex camera for pennies with plenty of missing …re...
Apr 04, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Turn paper hiking maps into real-time GPS guides with Matchy Maps “Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the real world—wh...
Apr 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Visual Studio Code 1.114 adds video in carousel, semantic code search, and TypeScript 6.0 Visual Studio Code 1.114 introduces video playback in the image carousel, enabling users to view and control video files from chat attachments and the Explorer context menu. The #codebase tool now ...
Apr 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tumbleweed updates: new Plasma 6.6 fixes, kernel CVE patches, and Mesa GPU improvements OpenSUSE Tumbleweed delivered three sequential Plasma 6.6 updates with numerous bug and stability fixes across KWin, Spectacle, the system tray, and Kicker. The Linux kernel advanced from 6.19.5 to...
Apr 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KaOS ISO drops systemd-boot for Limine, ships Niri/Noctalia desktop KaOS's latest ISO removes systemd-boot and mkinitcpio, adopting Dracut for initramfs and Limine as the default bootloader, marking a substantial backend transition. The release replaces the traditi...
Apr 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 April 2026 Plasmotoxosis Edition Top Story Half of planned US datacenter builds have been delayed or canceled. (Tom's Hardware) Unfortunately this does not represent a collapse in the AI industry - not yet, a...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk “Laptop” For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a “cyberdeck”, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such — he calls it a laptop. …read more
Apr 04, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 01 Hiked part 1/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.1 kilometres from Arnhem to Wolfheze. At the foot of the Arnhem moraine you can walk in one of the most beautiful city parks in our country: Park Sons...
Apr 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk AMA: Can One Setup Their Digital Life to Be Subscription Free? Sanjay asked me in a comment on my AMA post: Dear Kev, I am a fellow reader of multiple blogs of yours and others. But somehow I have been searching for any article where any one can setup of his e...
Apr 04, 2026 from Hackaday The Rapper, The Canadian Academics, And The Secret Behind The Earworm There are many events so far in 2026 that could reasonably have been predicted, but perhaps one which couldn’t is a Hackaday scribe in Europe unexpectedly finding herself with a …read more
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...
