Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Der inner-platform effect Wenn das Datenbankschema eine schlechte Kopie des Datenbanksystems ist.
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp adds @all group mentions, poll deadlines, and fast group creation WhatsApp is adding an @all mention to notify every member of a group chat, similar to @here and @everyone on Discord or Slack. In groups with more than 32 members, only admins can use it, while any...
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D printer filaments. Of those that do improve over stock filament, the …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among 8080 and Z80 computers and while there …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 August 2026 Teratornia Edition Top Story Who is legally liable for Anthropic and OpenAI accidentally murdering eleven trillion people? It's complicated. (Tech Crunch) Oops, sorry, that was next week's question...
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Peter's Path 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4 by Nick Needham Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4: The Age of Religious Conflict. It is the fourth book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers...
Aug 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-04-26 My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby s...
Aug 04, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software Galera Clustering and MariaDB Server Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I was hired to manage and develop our business around MariaDB Server. Percona has ...
Aug 04, 2026 from It's FOSS Linux's Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Figma introduces Nested Folders for improved file organization and team collaboration Figma Projects now offer nested folders, enabling teams to organize files across multiple levels for greater scalability. This release required a full redesign of Figma's underlying content and per...
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Dia Browser lets you swipe between profiles and import from Arc & Chrome Dia Browser now lets users swipe between Profiles, providing separate logins, tabs, and AI for streamlined context management. Users can create new Profiles by right-clicking the tab bar. The brows...
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net bitchat adds offline Android app sharing with direct device transfer bitchat now allows Android users to transfer the app directly from one device to another using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, without needing an internet connection. This peer-to-peer method ensures the trans...
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1) In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net HeyGen launches Video Podcast tool for instant show creation HeyGen has launched Video Podcast, a tool enabling users to create two-host video shows from any document, link, or idea. The platform includes studio scenes, multi-cam cuts, and B-roll to support ...
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net 4MLinux 52.0 debuts Linux 6.18 LTS, legacy GPU support, easier Wi-Fi 4MLinux 52.0 is now available, featuring the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and Mesa 26.0 for enhanced hardware and gaming support. This update also brings support for Ultra HDR images, better compatibility...
Aug 04, 2026 from ttntm.me - Blog A New Guitar I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will laways be n + 1, haha. Anyway, a lucky find on a second hand platform that I was monitoring ...
