Oct 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-10-18 13:22: Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide... Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wal...
Oct 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk Year 4 at the Smallholding So today marks the 4th anniversary of us moving to our 2.5 acre smallholding in north Wales. I can't believe it's been 4 years already - it feels like 5 minutes ago that I wad writing my 3 years at...
Oct 18, 2026 from Hackaday Evolving RC circuits We are surrounded by evolving algorithms and AI models, and it feels like we have to evolve to them as well. Of course, the world itself is always evolving, and …read more
Oct 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Unabhängige Infrastrukturen Meta hat den Instragram-Account der No Kings-Bewegung gesperrt. Ein Fehler eines automatischen Systems, sagt Meta.
Oct 18, 2026 from kmcd.dev Visualizing the Internet (2026) - Part 2 Updating map.kmcd.dev with an interactive 3D globe, more BGP cities, historical submarine cables back to 1858, and live internet outage alerts.
Oct 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Meta launches Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight AI model for Macs requiring 1TB of RAM Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model designed to run locally on Apple Macs. It supports a context window of up to one million tokens, is natively multimo...
Oct 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Forgejo 17.0 adds workflow webhooks and job summaries Forgejo has released version 17.0 of its open-source, self-hosted code collaboration platform, introducing improvements to Forgejo Actions, repository management, and migration tools. The update ch...
Oct 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Brave Leo adds encrypted AI chats with verifiable computing Brave has added end-to-end encryption, Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP), and verifiable confidential computing to Leo, its built-in AI assistant. Available in Brave Release, Beta, and Nightly, the new protec...
Oct 18, 2026 from Hackaday Turning a Wi-Fi Adapter into an SDR Since the discovery of an undocumented I/Q sampling feature in ESP32 chips about two weeks ago, there’s been a flood of similar features being found in other wireless chips, including …read more
Oct 18, 2026 from Hackaday Making a New Mechanism for a Reciprocating Pencil Sharpener An engineer’s greatest tool is the writing utensil. Be it pen or pencil, we use them for everything from making diagrams to marking out cuts. But as with any practitioner …read more
Oct 18, 2026 from Hackaday Busting the Myth that Plastics are Chemically Inert in Water One of the often made claims about plastics is that they are chemically inert under most conditions, such as when exposed to water. This long-held belief has also challenged the …read more
Oct 18, 2026 from EmailShot Blog How to Attach an Email to a Google Calendar Invite Google Calendar only attaches Drive files, not emails. Here is how to attach a Gmail message to a Calendar event in two clicks with EmailShot, plus the workarounds compared.
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Runs Remote DOS Games Classic DOS games never ran from within stand-up arcade cabinets in dollhouses, but [Juha Lilja] imagines a world in which they did. His Micro DOS arcade cabinet is described as …read more
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday Building a Flying Drone With a Single Propeller Technically all that you need in order to make a drone fly is a single motor and single propeller, but realistically it becomes basically impossible to fly it at that …read more
Oct 17, 2026 from R74n Newsletter R74n Refresh #1 – Rue Street; Handwriting; Wordslop; New Mini Today’s Refresh goes over the past few months of events, including minigame updates and our Halloween event.
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Oldputer Gives Old Eyes Relief with E-ink Display Modern computers are towers of glass and metal with very few large deviations from one to another. Monitor A will go against B, except you can’t tell them apart unless …read more
Oct 17, 2026 from Thejesh GN Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hallucinated my full name. Now that I have a post titled with my full name, it shoul...
Oct 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 October 2026 But I Don't Want To Cure Cancer Edition Top Story CoreWeave, an AI company involved in... Nobody really knows what they do, it would seem... Is blaming the implosion of the planned IPO by Australia...
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday Discovering SDRs Everywhere To quote commenter [douyarou], “It’s like our little version of a Precambrian explosion”. A bunch of hackers have discovered, independently and building on each other’s work, software-defined radio...
Oct 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Notes on “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss” I think I saw it today. “My farmhouse.” The inspiration for the ghost story, “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss.” Recently my wife, son and I took a short bike ride to see a house for sale in the v...
