Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Zabbix 8.0 LTS adds AI enablement, observability, event processing, and scalability gains Monitoring platform Zabbix has released version 8.0 LTS, which the company describes as its most significant release yet. The headline additions center on observability and artificial intelligence:...
Nov 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 years Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 yearsby FairphoneThe Fairphone team talk through two examples of where the original Fairphone 1 from back in 2013 are "still very much in use", but I think ...
Nov 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk Knowember 2026 Knowember in the brainchild of Robert Birming. At first I thought it was a bit of a pointless exercise as it only asks fore 3 things from bloggers: A photo Name or nickname What your blog is mostly...
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net MPV 0.42 brings enhanced Wayland & HDR support and AMD frame rate conversion filter The open-source media player MPV has released version 0.42, headlined by a new networking stack built on libcurl that introduces HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support along with connection reuse, a meaningful ...
Nov 06, 2026 from It's FOSS Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart The release also adds docked windows, three new cursor trail shaders, and touchscreen support on Wayland.
Nov 06, 2026 from Hackaday The Goat Emoji Is 100% Valid Machine Code, and It Doesn’t Stop There Did you know emojis can be executables? Well, they are if you treat them like Intel 8088 or 8086 machine code, anyway. [GloriousCow] shared this clever revelation, demonstrating that executable …re...
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KeePass 2.62 released with enhanced UI, new XPath extensions, and integration enhancements The developers of the KeePass password manager have announced the release of version 2.62, a stable update recommended for all users of previous 2.x versions. While not introducing major groundbrea...
Nov 06, 2026 from Hackaday Making Xibalba 64, a New N64 Release in 2026 [Dominic Szablewski] created something that we don’t see every day: a no-kidding new physical Nintendo 64 game for sale, complete with cartridge, manual, and box art. He wrote about what …read more
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Vivaldi 8.3 brings a more powerful ad & tracker blocker and more polished vertical tabs Norwegian browser maker Vivaldi has released version 8.3 of its browser simultaneously on desktop, Android, and iOS, headlined by a redesigned ad and tracker blocker. The rebuilt blocker gives user...
Nov 06, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Psychology of Letting Go Some time ago I drafted an essay on cutting words from essays, intended for a cheesy writing contest, and never submitted it. I was thinking about this essay, languishing on my hard drive, as I was...
Nov 06, 2026 from The Autodidacts Feeling The Caffeine Wake Up Your Body I drink caffeine. Like, a lot of caffeine. I have for a long time. Every once in a while I go on a ten-day caffeine fast to prune back my adenosine receptors, and when I start drinking coffee and y...
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Stardock announces Start11 v3 with Start menu widgets, taskbar grouping and layout sharing Stardock has released a preview of Start11 v3, its Windows 11 Start menu and taskbar customization tool, introducing interactive widgets directly into customized Start menus. The update includes mo...
Nov 06, 2026 from It's FOSS Passbolt is an Open Source Password Manager Built Specially For Teams Passbolt offers both a free self-hosted edition and a managed cloud version of its team focused password management solution.
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp launches an Events hub with shareable invites, even for people without an account WhatsApp is expanding its Events feature with a fully dedicated Events hub in the app’s Settings menu, allowing users to create invitations, manage RSVPs, and view past and upcoming events in one p...
Nov 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Omarchy 4.5 adds floating desktop mode, Apple Silicon support, and major AI agent upgrades Omarchy 4.5, also known as Quattro RS, is now available with major desktop improvements, expanded hardware support, and new applications. The release introduces a traditional floating desktop mode ...
Nov 06, 2026 from Hackaday Translating An Old Display To A New One A quick search through AliExpress will find PCBs that take HDMI or VGA and translate them to DSI lanes for TFT panels, and even boards that translate DSI to HDMI …read more
Nov 06, 2026 from Hackaday Reviving Google Cardboard, Without Google or Cardboard Remember Google Cardboard? The late, unlamented practice of strapping a phone to your face so you could get motion sickness in a virtual environment? [brenpoly] wants you to reconsider, because …re...
Nov 06, 2026 from The Fly Blog Well, That Wasn't Fun: October 16 '26 October 16, 2026 began like any other day at Fly.io (meaning, we were anticipating only a medium amount of chaos). By that evening, we had patched and rebooted our entire fleet in response to a Lin...
Nov 06, 2026 from Michael Lynch The MustCreate Pattern for Go Tests I recently discovered a handy way to make Go tests more readable and less repetitive. Suppose I have a constructor that can fail: func NewUsername(raw string) (Username, error) { ... } And I have a...
Nov 05, 2026 from Kevin Cox's Blog The Sidewalk Game When new sidewalks are poured they are stamped with the year and construction company, presumably so that if they aren’t properly made they know who to blame. Our family has taken to playing a “gam...
