2026-10-23 10:10:44
If you ever wonder what someone would do with a receipt printer outside of business use, look no further than the tinkering community. They've found many different ways to put them to good use, such as letting people send them messages from the internet. Now, someone has found a way to turn a receipt printer into a daily family digest, complete with weather forecasts, puzzles, and a chore rota for the kids.
2026-10-23 08:25:06
If you haven't heard the news already, there was a major security concern with website certificates. The issuer, eMudhra, had distributed very easy-to-crack private keys, with the worst offender simply being the number "4." Well, it seems this issue has convinced the Fedora community to hold off on the release of version 45, as it was one of four reasons why the release is now a No-Go until November.
2026-10-23 08:00:20
I already use a local LLM with Home Assistant to handle requests that its built-in voice commands don’t understand. Most of what I say still goes through regular intent matching, but having a model interpret more complex requests makes the setup much more convenient. I can phrase things naturally and have it select an existing routine without remembering the exact command. Once that works, giving a local model more control over your automations is a tempting next step.
2026-10-23 07:01:21
I have lost count of how many productivity tools I have experimented with over the years. Notion was my go-to for organizing information. Obsidian Bases also looked promising, and Trello kept my projects moving with its intuitive Kanban boards and automations.
2026-10-23 06:00:21
Since its launch, the Xbox 360 controller has been the gold standard for PC gaming (and, frankly, a bar every console controller needs to meet). If you've ever used one, it's not hard to see why; the Xbox 360 controller fits most hands comfortably — yes, even the tiny ones — and is incredibly durable.
2026-10-23 05:31:20
I write about AI coding agents a lot, and somewhere along the way I'd decided the model was doing all the heavy lifting. Swap Claude Code for Codex or Cursor, keep the same brain underneath, and you should get the same work back. So I put that to the test.
