Jul 13, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software I Got Scammed After what happened to me this morning, I expect the North Carolina School of Science and Math to ask for my diploma back. I got scammed. This is very embarrassing for me, as I consider myself pret...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style [lcamtuf] is not just a calculator superfan, but also a skilled builder. That much is evident in the fabulous design of Calcumator 2000, an electromechanical calculator that uses voltmeter readout...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net scrcpy 4.1 launches with VP8/VP9 video encoding, FFmpeg 8.1, and several enhancements scrcpy 4.1 broadens its Android screen mirroring capabilities by introducing support for VP8 and VP9 video encoders. This update lets users stream Android displays using efficient and widely suppor...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #144 Recently, OpenAI’s Codex was found to have a logging issue: the program kept writing large volumes of logs to a local database, causing the files to grow continuously and generating far more disk w...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PeaZip 11.2 adds .ZIM archive support and improves drag-and-drop & keyboard shortcuts PeaZip 11.2 is now available as the latest version of this open source and cross-platform file manager and archiving tool, extending its capabilities with several enhancements and updates. This ver...
Jul 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source Built by one developer over the past year, Chatto is a team chat solution that can be self-hosted.
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Linkwarden 2.15 brings major mobile updates, a much lighter web app & reduced Docker image Linkwarden 2.15 has been released as the latest version of this open-source collaborative bookmark manager. This release introduces one of its largest mobile updates to date, enhancing user experie...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday DIY Steam Controller Puck Offers Xbox, Switch, PlayStation Emulation Modes Valve recently released a new version of the Steam Controller, which features a wired USB puck that serves both as charger and dedicated, low-latency wireless receiver. The downside is they …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling “In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-pr...
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult “Barely a month goes by without an AI laboratory declaring its latest model the smartest ever built. For anyone simply trying to keep up, or trying to pick a tool that drafts a decent e-mail, fixes...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.13 boosts input pointer support, X11 keyboard scancode mapping & FFmpeg on ARM64EC Wine 11.13 is now available, offering an updated compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. This release delivers expanded support for input po...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Newton’s Cradle Isn’t Really Perpetual If any astute Hackaday reader saw [dongvua90]’s Newton’s cradle go on without human intervention all day long, they’d probably suspect the truth: there’s a battery and a magnet involved. But …read ...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Debian 13.6 update delivers key security fixes and Secure Boot changes Debian 13.6, the latest point release for Debian 13, focuses on security patches and critical bug fixes. This update includes a 'fwupd' upgrade with new Secure Boot CA, KEK, and DBX support in resp...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Photoflare v1.7.2 fixes critical bugs and updates translations Photoflare v1.7.2 is now available, addressing several significant bugs related to clipboard paste, cropping, and application packaging. This release also includes updated translations, such as a f...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Brave Search now supports search bangs in suggestions and address bar Brave Search now shows search bang shortcuts within its suggestions, making it easier to find and use site-specific searches. These !bang shortcuts work both directly on Brave Search and in the add...
Jul 13, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-07-13 08:12: Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in... Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, a...
Jul 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.
Jul 13, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W27 Ten years of ClickHouse in open source — The detail that stuck is the monthly drill where they deliberately shut down a datacenter to force the system to survive it. Most teams write high availabil...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday CGI Motion Capture with only a Camera Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to ble...
