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We’re highlighting an article from the latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal.

Christos Margiolis walks through how audio is handled on FreeBSD, covering drivers, device management, troubleshooting, and the architectural decisions that shape the system’s sound stack.

It’s an informative read for anyone interested in how FreeBSD manages audio at a low level or looking to better understand the tools available for tuning and debugging sound.

Read the full article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/vox-freebsd-how-sound-works/

Quick question...

I've been trying to fix a knackered old Dell laptop for my neighbour's 13 year old daughter. It was obviously important that it looks good.

But I've just spoken to a friend who gave me a Mac laptop for work (that's finished) which will obviously be way cooler (and I don't use it apart from for rolling joints).

So he's happy for me to give her the Mac, but it's a UK QWERTY keyboard. Is there any way to change to a French AZERTY keyboard expediently? She'll be really chuffed if we can do this.

Paging @iFixit

Boosts much appreciated!

冬の草 #misskey写真部

こんな時期なのに桜は咲くんだ​​​​
#Misskey写真部 #Photography

#Journalism job: Kaiser Health News (an excellent, stable place to work) is hiring a reporter for rural Hawaii. That's everything outside Honolulu, so island-hoping is part of the gig.

https://kff.bamboohr.com/careers/111

would you let her have a piece of your stroopwafel

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

3D movie where there's two different screens & you have to focus one eye on each of them

Implementing Co, a Small Language With Coroutines #5: Adding Sleep by @abnvAbhinav 🌏 https://lobste.rs/s/taxbgk #haskell #plt
https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/implementing-co-5/

We’re highlighting an article from the latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal.

Christos Margiolis walks through how audio is handled on FreeBSD, covering drivers, device management, troubleshooting, and the architectural decisions that shape the system’s sound stack.

It’s an informative read for anyone interested in how FreeBSD manages audio at a low level or looking to better understand the tools available for tuning and debugging sound.

Read the full article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/vox-freebsd-how-sound-works/

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

Link: https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648144

Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See

Link: https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651443

my friend Caiti Margo drew this cute poster I want to share with y'all #fuckice

v0 でも Vercel Marketplace の AWS Database サービスがワンストップで導入・統合ができるようになりました
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/aws-databases-available-vercel-v0/

#dev_classmethod

おはようございます #fedibird

They canceled the Minneapolis LEGO Robotics tournament over general safety concerns. Not that the tournament was even targeted; it’s just so ICEy here.

The kids had made custom T-shirts for their teams and everything.

I know this is just one little thing, a footnote to what’s happening, but…fuck all the Nazis.

おはよーございます

微妙に二日酔いぽいけど起きる。実家ミッションだ

にゃんぷっぷーは青汁のんでね

雪に遊ぶ、仙台市
Nikon D3300 + Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED VR II #Misskey写真部

On Monday, we'll dive back into vehicle #privacy with Merry Marwig and Andrea Amico from Privacy4Cars, including a massive study they recently released on honoring data rights.

Subscribe here:
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/podcast/

Wow, this is wild. Good concept. https://theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/losningen-2025/

Holy shit folks! A big breakthrough tonight! I got my iPhone 5 to sync with my #iMacG4!!

This was never allowed by Apple as Mac OS X 10.6.8 is the official minimum OS required by iPhone 5. But I knew this limitation was artificial as my iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 are both running iOS 6.1.3... so what could the actual difference be???

This is my first reverse engineering project and it ended up being only a 1 character change, but it took many many many hours in GDB to figure out which character. I promise I will write a blog post.

But in the mean time, please enjoy the screenshots while I buy myself a 64GB iPhone 5 so I can get some content synced!

Jam like It’s the 1980s With A Mini-IBM PC

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/jam-like-its-the-1980s-with-a-mini-ibm-pc/

「夢もキャリアも全部まとめてスープにぶち込め！」（ラーメン屋求人広告）、学生バイトがふざけて炎上するやつ？（？）

Bluetooth Exploit Leaves Hundreds of Millions of Accessories Vulnerable to Full Takeover

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/01/16/bluetooth-exploit-leaves-hundreds-of-millions-of-accessories-vulnerable-to-full-takeover/

#Privacy #News #PrivacyGuides #SecurityVulnerability

Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/0m2min #vibecoding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742

さむいさむい
寒気がする

うむ。

I think fedi provides enough of an answer to the question “what does the fox say?” that we can finally let it rest

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Not too different.

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“It is a good step for people to take,” EFF’s Hayley Tsukayama told @APNews of California’s new DROP tool for requesting removal of personal information held by more than 500 data brokers. Stronger laws restricting data collection would be even better. https://apnews.com/article/california-data-privacy-tech-tip-cb6a69cb238abc62e136f02b4996e570

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At long last, I have finished the TCP Header cross stitch!!
#CrossStitch #FiberArts
https://wandering.shop/@yomimono/111489182519717342

We're back in an hour for This Week in Privacy #36, tune in and ask us questions in the live chat, which will stream on many favorite streaming platforms:

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Happy Birthday to Sade Adu, who practically invented neo-soul, created 6 still-brilliant albums, once took a 10-year hiatus to raise her daughter, and doesn't use social media or do interviews.

it's a joy to write about well-designed systems

We're back in an hour for This Week in Privacy #36, tune in and ask us questions in the live chat, which will stream on many favorite streaming platforms:

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LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

Link: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B2JlhcxNTfI8oDVoyO
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651887

Issue 4 of Break Space magazine includes my article on the history of the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Compo, which I started (cough) 30 years ago! My first published article in forever, so please be gentle with me. :-) https://breakspace.itch.io/break-space-issue-4

Happy Birthday to Sade Adu, who practically invented neo-soul, created 6 still-brilliant albums, once took a 10-year hiatus to raise her daughter, and doesn't use social media or do interviews.

youtu.be/aDuZa6lxCNo?... 과거에 어찌저찌해서 털린것 같은데 인스타그램측에선 강하게 부정중인듯 제가 볼땐 이메일 전화번호는 정기적으로 바꾸는것이 좋을것 같습니다 사실 이런 서비스 가입하면 그냥 개인정보를 올리지 마세요;;

인스타그램 개인정보 1,750만건 유출의 미스테리

Not too different.

For my weekly #music thoughts, I thought about a band that I've almost no connection with, and yet has always been there. And I surprised myself at how detailed I got, but I wanted to account for this wider moment we're in too. Perhaps the first and last time I'll ever write about the #GratefulDead https://www.patreon.com/posts/148298211

RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/115906100290495365

🎤 And we are on for a while.

"I don’t know how many people have been killed in the recent protests and what is happening in my county." "The goddamn Unity engine does not work without internet properly, Figma wont open, Google Doc, Google Sheets, OneDrive, Google Drive, Atlassian could, Git, SVN, TeamCity, Microsoft365, all AI services, and all goddamn online systems are down."
https://insertcredit.com/feature/a-game-developer-without-internet/