The Pixel Tag Is Googleâs 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 â Fog â that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to o ⊠â Read more
New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human
âIf 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,â 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 ⊠â Read more
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Sounds about spot on.
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I finally managed to get back out disc golfing today at Vietnam Veterans Park and had a good time despite losing a brand new disc on hole 3 (on its 3rd throw ever, my glow-in-the-dark Lynx disappeared into an overgrown creek-bed and was swallowed by the underbrush). After my buddy lost a disc on hole 4, we were kinda demoralized and both threw for crap the rest of the course, but it was still a nice day to be slingin' in the sun...
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Third time luck⊠oh wait. Maybe youâll 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.
âWhen a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbiaâs famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours,â reports SFGate.
âInstead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescueâŠâ
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Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: âFar Larger Than Wishedâ
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a ânew normalâ 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 âfar larger than wishedâ ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday⊠â Read more
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Bwahahaha, these security folks have a great sense of humor! :-D Got a phishing test e-mail disguised as an overdue anti-phishing training e-mail: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/overdue-anti-phishing-training-phishing-test-mail.png
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@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: 
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User Frustrations Over The âTragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Soundâ 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 âtragic stateâ of FreeBSD audio/sound support⊠â Read more
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Dunno if anyone will find this interesting... But some ~6 months or so ago I experimented briefly with creating a whole bootloader + kernel + userland -- Basically an entire OS in the Mu programming language (which as you know I also designed and created) -- 6 months later I've worked on it some more after spending the last week working on improvements to Mu itself, which is now able to compile itself with its own Mu implemented compiler and now have an os/arch backend called
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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. :-)
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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! đ€ That sounds disturbingly low-level to me, but I know that itâs no small feat.
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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. đ
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I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo tired of âfast-movingâ software. ruff changed a ton of stuff and now all my code bases âneed fixingâ. Blah.
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@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. đ€Ł
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you! Itâs so annoying. Ruff, the formatter?
Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D
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Advertise in ChatGPT | Hacker News Seriously?! đł wut da actual fuq?! đ±
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@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 âNew Normalâ Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this weekâs batch of sound fixes that he describes as âA collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still ânew normalâ, but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too.â The ânew normalâ has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased ⊠â Read more
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I don't get people strolling in nature with headphones on and constantly staring at their phones all the time. Why even go outside if you cover ears and eyes? Okay, you're on the move and smell the country air, but still. Yesterday, one girl was wearing earphones and reading a real book while walking on a field path. Better than a phone, sure, but what the hell!?
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, Iâm not an autist. If you walk next to a busy road or airport, I totally get the annoying noises. Iâd 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, letâs 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 theyâre working on, and it sounds like quite exciting news.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/beth ⊠â Read more
Bandwagon is a âsurvivors-lite adventureâ that sounds wonderful from the Dome Keeper devs
Bandwagon is a bullet heaven survivors-lite (thatâs a new one?) that takes the genre in a fun new direction with music and you restoring joy to the world.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/bandwagon-is-a-survivors-li ⊠â Read more
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@balloon-fu-sen@tw.fus.f5.si Not bad, quite a groovy sound.
Now, thatâs cool shit, I have to say! Discovering so many hidden sounds⊠With Fotric Acoustic Imager: https://youtu.be/CKJT_ECOsK4
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@bender@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me Good debugging session đ Sounds like the root cause is twtxt.app on mobile â +00:00 timestamps and quoted mentions. Iâll dig into Yarndâs side of that đ§
We slept in the forest. It was really great except of my mateâs 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 werenât 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. Itâs 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.
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I went to check on the fireflies this season. But I didn't see any. Instead lots of moths. At first, I thought it might have been still too light, but it was already dark enough for me to miss and destroy a snail shell. Bummer. Maybe it was too wet tonight. Although, it's probably just another or two weeks until my glowing friends will finally show up.
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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 didnât 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. Itâs 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.
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@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 wasnât 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 doesnât shift around, but that has nothing to do with lazy loading.
How odd. đ€
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I went to check on the fireflies this season. But I didn't see any. Instead lots of moths. At first, I thought it might have been still too light, but it was already dark enough for me to miss and destroy a snail shell. Bummer. Maybe it was too wet tonight. Although, it's probably just another or two weeks until my glowing friends will finally show up.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sounds lovely! (I think. Not sure about spider webs and such. đ )
I woke up to 26°C this morning. đ„”
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 ⊠â 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. âDespite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drive ⊠â Read more
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@lyse Ah, you mean the categorization. Yeah, that would never work in Windows, at least not without having a centralized package manager (so thereâs one authoritative source of which program belongs into which category).
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww, that sounds like a typical experience at school. đ They meant well but somehow it was still shitty âŠ
Iâve never heard about that Wahlteil/Pflichtteil stuff (or forgot about it). Must be a BaWĂŒ thing. đ€
Vanguard Sound (Punishing Gray Raven, Girls Frontline, Aether Gazer,etc) Music Collection
#2121197 | Vanguard Sound (Punishing Gray Raven, Girls Frontline, Aether Gazer,etc) Music Collection | 72.5 GiB | Audio - Lossless | 23BE6C41DBF232A11F31284DFE3477954BA6BA9D â Read more
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@marcorocco@roccodrom.de such a feast! I had lentils soup, and a couples of eggs with onions in a scramble. Not bad, but not great. Your sounds very appealing!
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@lyse I donât know what it is. Itâs this damn central heating here (distributed over the entire village), where, if something breaks at their end, hundreds of households are affected. đ
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmm, indeed, this sounds a bit weird. Is it FernwÀrme?
Anzeige: Soundbar mit Subwoofer und 460 W zum Tiefpreis bei Amazon
Amazon hat eine Soundbar mit Subwoofer im Angebot, die mit 5.1.2 KanÀlen, 460 W und Dolby Atmos Surround-Sound wie im Kino erzeugt. ( Soundbar, Dolby Atmos)
âEconomy held to ransomâ: Warning over fallout from looming BHP strike action at Port Hedland
The action would be the first strike in the Pilbara in decades, and the alarms were sounding for those in the mining industry around pending industrial action as far back as March. â Read more
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As I said, Iâm on vacation, and for about a week now, I did basically nothing but sleep. Day or night.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Be careful, sounds like the latter to me. Get a good rest, though! And maybe slow down a tad once youâre back. But now, enjoy your private hacking. :-)
Anzeige: Outdoor-Bluetooth-Lautsprecher von JBL zum Tiefstpreis bei Amazon
Ein Outdoor-Bluetooth-Lautsprecher von JBL mit kraftvollem Sound, Hintergrundbeleuchtung und starkem Akku ist bei Amazon gĂŒnstig wie nie. ( Technik/Hardware)
Families sound alarm over NDIS changes in inquiry
Concerned families and disability advocates fear their financial support will be axed under the proposed NDIS changes. â Read more
I want to see Ben Stokes in one more Ashes showdown. Thatâs why he should quit the captaincy
The last thing that cricket wants to see is Stokes retiring from the international game in circumstances where he looks and sounds fed up with the morass of responsibilities that come with leadership. â Read more
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We came across lots of animals in our woodland. There's a medieval market this weekend in the neighboring town and they use these targets for the bowmen.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Not a fan of MittelaltermĂ€rkte, but that sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder if they end up shooting each other on accident. đ
For this weekâs (slightly late) #caturday, Iâd like to introduce our 4th and final feline resident, the old boy we call Bugsy. Heâs been with us for 8 years, and we think heâs 13-14 years old (but heâs not saying).
He used to sound a bit like a cartoon gangster (hence the name), but as the years have passed, he started to sound more like late-stage William Hickey (Uncle Lewis from Christmas Vacation).
Heâs our sweet little old man, and he is loved.
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@bender@twtxt.net That certainly sounds much better in English, yeah. đ
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (php:8.2 and php:8.3), Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, symfony, and yelp), Fedora (dovecot, freeipa, hplip, libpng, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, postfix, samba, unbound, and vim), Mageia (assimp, libcaca, sdl2_sound, and tar), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (alloy, apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text,, apache2, bubblewrap, busybox, chromium, cups, docker-stable, ffmpeg-8, google-osconfig-agent, gsasl, ignition, java-26-openjdk, k ⊠â Read more
Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing
Keychronâs K2 HE Concrete Edition sounds like a cute gimmick, but as I discovered, thereâs a really solid keyboard beyond the absurd choice of materials. â Read more
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@bender Well no. Some of us don't. Let me point you at some research on the subject đ
Some people don't have an inner monologue
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@bender@twtxt.net So yeah, no, I do not have an inner monologue at all. Most of the time my inner mind is busy just replaying music or visuals (or at least it used to before I lost my sight, these days it just replays visuals and sounds), but there is never a time when I âtalk to myselfâ, ever, I donât ever think through something, a problem or an activity and have self-arguments. I just do.
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@arne@uplegger.eu This is interesting. Sorry I missed this, I just found this post of yours and wanted to contribute đ Hereâs something interesting about me⊠I donât ever talk to myself, like ever. I have no, what they call, âinner monologueâ. Maybe Iâm odd, but my wife asked me this very same question a while back and I said the same, there is never anything in my head except ideas, visuals or sounds, sometimes all at once, but never an inner monologue of âtalking to myselfâ.
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Itâs official now: People are vomiting AI code into a repo that Iâm supposed to maintain. At the same time, I donât have the authority to decline those PRs.
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@prologic@twtxt.net I donât know how to phrase the answer without sounding too bitter. đ€Ł Letâs just say, nope, it wonât work.
8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs
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Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs
Itâs not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing â including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues â leading to âcrazinessâ from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many âassisted-byâ patches coming about in recent weeks⊠â Read more
Flipper One Could Be the Ultimate Linux Cyberdeck
BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget and more like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up. Unlike Flipper Zero, which focuses on offline protocols like RFID and Sub-1 GHz radio, Flipper One is all about networking, modular hardware, SDR experimentation, local ⊠â Read more
OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, itâs because this isnât the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim. Seven months ago, the AI giantâs ⊠â Read more