@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Sounds great! Next time, you have to snap a pic or two. :-)
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crysis, Crysis Wars, CEG-protected games, early support for 32bit OpenXR
Another smaller but great sounding upgrade for Proton Experimental to run more Windows games smoothly on SteamOS / Linux is here.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/proton-experimenta … ⌘ Read more
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail update sounds awesome, and they’re going to test a PvE mode
ARC Raiders is set for the biggest update ever with the Frozen Trail update and just as exciting - they’re going to be testing a PvE mode.
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@prologic@twtxt.net I expected Yeppoon to be way more north. :-D But it’s indeed north of you. Have fun! The weather forecast doesn’t sound too bad.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is unexpected indeed. There was a slingshot involved in the last book I read and that sounded much less terrifying. 😅
/dev/ulpt0. The netbook doesn’t have a parallel port, so this must be done over USB. NetBSD.escp was created by a little custom ESC/P converter written in C. 🥳
@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Sounds promising. 🤔 I’ll check it out!
Really Illegal Golf sounds hilarious that’s basically “Metal Gear Golf With Friends”
I love the silly idea of Really Illegal Golf that the publisher tells us is basically “Metal Gear Golf With Friends”.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/really-illegal-golf-sounds-hilarious-thats-basically-metal-gear-golf-with-fr … ⌘ Read more
Build a city on top of a giant creature in The Crab is Walking
From the developers of the rather good The King is Watching, an apocalypse city-builder with giant creatures! The Crab is Walking sounds fun.
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Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite’s September 13 update adds Strix Halo TDP controls, restores desktop TDP controls and brings fixes
The September 13th update for the popular Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it some excellent sounding improvements for handheld and desktop gamers.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Great photos!
The well sounds really cool, but I’ve always been a physics geek (ex: putting coins down those spinny funnels they used to have in the malls for collecting donations). I would have probably spent hours just there!
Thanks for sharing these.
With a fully destructible simulated world the factory automation game FluxWerks arrives soon
A factory-building automation sim with a destructible world and simulated heat and fluids, FluxWerks sounds like it’s going to stand out in the genre.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/with-a-fully-destructib … ⌘ Read more
Roku’s 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. “Fairground AI Creator TV” is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as “AI Cinema”:
“AI-generated” can make it sound as though someone typed a sentence into a machine and came back five minutes later to find a finished movie. Fairground’s catalog shows why that desc … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds amazing. I look forward to seeing it!
Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices
Following last week’s main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today’s Linux 7.3-rc1 release… ⌘ Read more
Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support… ⌘ Read more
First-person gothic adventure ‘Night Cart: The Immortal Plague’ is a must for your wishlist
Drive a horse-drawn cart through plague-ridden Transylvania in the first-person gothic adventure Night Cart: The Immortal Plague that sounds rather interesting.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/first-person-gothi … ⌘ Read more
Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized computers to run everything from infotainment to driver-assistance systems. Analysts cited by The Atlantic estimate the shortage could add a few percentage points to vehicle prices, which might not sound like much, but could potentially translate to around $ … ⌘ Read more
Live-action sci-fi horror game PRECOGNITION sounds rad from Sam Barlow
PRECOGNITION is the latest from Immortality and Her Story creator, Sam Barlow. a cinematic sci-fi horror game featuring live-action sequences.
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Roguelike assassination game ‘Gone Feral’ sounds hilarious
Playable solo or in co-op, you will improvise and use anything you can find to assassinate your targets of revenge in this roguelike game.
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Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is ‘Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader “crisis of trust” in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued – both on the All-In podcast and on X – that Amodei’s warn … ⌘ Read more
The Pixel Tag Is Google’s Answer To the AirTag
Google has unveiled the $29 Pixel Tag, its long-awaited AirTag rival that combines UWB with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two forms of precision tracking. It launches November 11. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tag is a slim oblong device available in one grayish color – Fog – that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to o … ⌘ Read more
New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human
“If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice,” reports the Shreveport Times:
The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, which is over a thousand … ⌘ Read more
@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Sounds about spot on.
@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Third time luck… oh wait. Maybe you’ll find the disks again in the colder season. Still sounds like a good time with your mate in the outdoors. :-)
Looks like the sign had also been hit with one or the other disk over time. :-D
Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster.
“When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia’s famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours,” reports SFGate.
“Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue…”
Although the approximately 18-m … ⌘ Read more
Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: “Far Larger Than Wished”
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a “new normal” of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were “far larger than wished” ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday… ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That sounds pretty elaborate. We did something similar last year (when this stuff still mattered, lol), but it was super easy to spot.
And then there was this, of course:
🤣
User Frustrations Over The “Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound” Support
Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the “tragic state” of FreeBSD audio/sound support… ⌘ Read more
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Sounds cool, I gotta take a look at it when my brain has some free capacity. :-)
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Congrats! 🤘 That sounds disturbingly low-level to me, but I know that it’s no small feat.
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, sound impressive, I gotta try this. 👌
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ruff, the formatter/linter, yeah.
Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D
No wonder. I just made that up. 🤣
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you! It’s so annoying. Ruff, the formatter?
Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D
@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Hey, sounds exactly like the company I work(ed) for.
Valve give Steam Wishlist and Steam Gifts a major needed upgrade
Valve just upgraded the Steam Wishlist and Steam Gifts system - to bring new features and they sound like truly major upgrades.
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The “New Normal” Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week’s batch of sound fixes that he describes as “A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still “new normal”, but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too.” The “new normal” has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, I’m not an autist. If you walk next to a busy road or airport, I totally get the annoying noises. I’d plug my ears, too. But I meant in the woods where there are almost only nature sounds. Maybe they miss the jackhammers etc. :-D
@david@daiwei.me Hell yeah, let’s finally reintroduce the big predators! :-D
Bethesda roadmap: more Fallout is coming, Starfield support continues, but Elder Scrolls VI is the main priority
Bethesda Game Studios have given a rare update into their roadmap of what they’re working on, and it sounds like quite exciting news.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/beth … ⌘ Read more
Bandwagon is a ‘survivors-lite adventure’ that sounds wonderful from the Dome Keeper devs
Bandwagon is a bullet heaven survivors-lite (that’s a new one?) that takes the genre in a fun new direction with music and you restoring joy to the world.
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@balloon-fu-sen@tw.fus.f5.si Not bad, quite a groovy sound.
Now, that’s cool shit, I have to say! Discovering so many hidden sounds… With Fotric Acoustic Imager: https://youtu.be/CKJT_ECOsK4
@bender@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me Good debugging session 👌 Sounds like the root cause is twtxt.app on mobile — +00:00 timestamps and quoted mentions. I’ll dig into Yarnd’s side of that 🧐
We slept in the forest. It was really great except of my mate’s fucking terror dog who was barking and snarling the entire night to each and every sound. I had maybe half an hour of sleep in total. Despite that, it was pleasantly warm. Well, the night, that is. The heat was brutal during the days. Literally streams of sweat were running down on us on the way there in the evening and back in the morning.
Surprisingly, there weren’t any mozzies around at night, I would have lost all safe bets. On the way there, my mate convinced me to take a shortcut through the taller and taller growing grass. It’s been some time that somebody traveled on this track, so we had to search around a bit for the overgrown path where we could cross the mostly dried up creek. In the beginning I said that this will be a bad idea. Lo and behold, I discovered a tick on my inner upper leg the next morning. Luckily, I got it out with my tick hook on the first attempt.
The firefly season is ending. I only saw 200 of them or so. There was one female directly on the forest road. If only I brought my camera and tripod, that would have worked out I reckon. I had my torch with me and this looked really cool.
Dusk took forever today. It was really long light out there. Full moon is tomorrow.
On the way back, there was suddenly a load clatter and crashing sound 100 meters away from me. I didn’t see anything, but a tree fell over in the forest out of the blue. Fuck me dead, that was scary as hell. Luckily, I was already on the main road, only meadows around me. It’s the second time I witnessed a tree accidentally coming down. The first one was during the most expensive hail storm in our area so far in 2011 behind me when setting up a summer camp. The weather changed in less than 15 minutes.
Maybe not such a good idea to go out so late alone. :-? Any rustling in the forest immediately reminded me of the boar the other day. Luckily, always false alarm. Still a bit terrified from that event.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I noticed that loading="lazy" might not be so great after all.
This is without lazy loading:

The total page load time is around 400-500 ms. Okay.
Now this is with lazy loading:

It finished much quicker, after about 250 ms. Sounds good.
But notice this gap right here?

This wasn’t there before. With lazy loading, it now takes something like 80-100 ms until the browser even starts loading images. This is Chromium, but Firefox shows a similar gap.
The net result is that there is a very noticeable delay/flicker when you open a page, because it takes so long until the images have loaded. Yes, the layout doesn’t shift around, but that has nothing to do with lazy loading.
How odd. 🤔
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sounds lovely! (I think. Not sure about spider webs and such. 😅)
I woke up to 26°C this morning. 🥵
Using Sound Waves To Make Espresso Could Cut Coffee-Brewing Energy Use By 75%
Researchers developed an ultrasonic espresso process that uses high-frequency sound waves instead of hot water to produce espresso-strength coffee at room temperature. And, not only did coffee drinkers find it comparable to traditional espresso, but the brewing process cut energy use by up to 75%. An anonymous reade … ⌘ Read more
Doom Composer Bobby Prince Has Died
Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. “Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drive … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww, that sounds like a typical experience at school. 😅 They meant well but somehow it was still shitty …
I’ve never heard about that Wahlteil/Pflichtteil stuff (or forgot about it). Must be a BaWü thing. 🤔