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14 votes
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Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
"Smart" surgical gloves track medical students' hand movements
5 votes -
Macho cyberwarfare and the long game
2 votes -
Apple would be forced to allow sideloading and third-party app stores under new EU law
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What noise canceling headphones can block?
One of the greatest sources of stress in my life right now is noise. This is consistent with the (presently unconfirmed) hypothesis that I'm probably on the spectrum. I live in a very noisy...
One of the greatest sources of stress in my life right now is noise. This is consistent with the (presently unconfirmed) hypothesis that I'm probably on the spectrum.
I live in a very noisy neighborhood, with many sources of loud music several days a week. I use a regular headphone to try to isolate myself, but they're not always effective. I was thinking of purchasing a noise canceling headphone (NCH). I'd listen mostly to podcasts and white noise. Hence the title question: can these headphones cancel variable non-regular noises like loud music around me? And to what degree?
Product recommendations are welcomed, with a focus on great noise canceling. I have a preference for over the ear headphones, but that's not a hard requirement. Other than that I don't have any requirements.
Thanks!
11 votes -
The Ant Mill theory of discourse
7 votes -
The end of the nice gtk button
11 votes -
The fifteen-minute bug initiative
6 votes -
The future of lithium-ion batteries
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Good web dev communities?
Hey folks. May someone recommend a good web dev community out there for quality discussions? Right now I'm using Vue for a project and I'm wrestling with architectural decisions. I'd love for a...
Hey folks.
May someone recommend a good web dev community out there for quality discussions?
Right now I'm using Vue for a project and I'm wrestling with architectural decisions. I'd love for a place where I can discuss different approaches' trade-offs and merits.
Many thanks. :)
11 votes -
Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
11 votes -
Mozilla Rally - Data collection for research about data collection
9 votes -
YouTube Vanced is discontinued
@Vanced Official: Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it's something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.
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Youtube-dl’s hosting provider fights record labels’ lawsuit
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Mesa 22.0 released with Vulkan 1.3, many open source Intel & AMD driver improvements
5 votes -
Substack just released an RSS reader
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ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
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Apple Event (8th March) - Peek Performance
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Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
11 votes -
Retrieving your browsing history through a fake CAPTCHA
12 votes -
How TikTok's design helps turn ordinary people into villains
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Job search and placement services
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find...
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find jobs before? This is the first one I've come across and I'm considering it.
https://www.findmyprofession.com/career-finder/Any thoughts or feedback welcome. Thanks.
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Hackers who broke into NVIDIA's network leak DLSS source code online
19 votes -
New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
19 votes -
Introducing native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
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The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
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Little 12ft.io bookmarklet
Today I was doing some paywall hopping and wondered why there wasn't a 12ft.io bookmarklet to make it a little easier. So I whipped up this little 5 second bookmarklet for anyone who hasn't...
Today I was doing some paywall hopping and wondered why there wasn't a 12ft.io bookmarklet to make it a little easier.
So I whipped up this little 5 second bookmarklet for anyone who hasn't bothered to do it themselves yet.
Just make a bookmark with the code snippet below as the URL.
javascript: (() => { window.location.replace("https://12ft.io/" + window.location.href)})();
I tried to make a link here that could be dragged and dropped directly into a bookmark bar, but it's disallowed.
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Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations
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Namecheap ends service for Russian customers due to government’s ‘war crimes’
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Facebook, Google and other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
3 votes -
Chipmaker Nvidia investigating potential cyberattack
6 votes -
My 90's TV!
14 votes -
Who is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprints.
10 votes -
The metaverse is so stupid
17 votes -
Shades of DevOps: Related job titles
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Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
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Is Firefox okay?
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Can someone explain the systemd controversy to a nontechnical user?
A project I'm working on requires me to cover a bit of comedy targeting Lennart Poettering as it's tangentially related, and I'd like to have more context even though it's not strictly necessary....
A project I'm working on requires me to cover a bit of comedy targeting Lennart Poettering as it's tangentially related, and I'd like to have more context even though it's not strictly necessary. I'm a nontechnical Linux user who used the OS before systemd came around, but really the only impact on my life it's had is that I occasionally use systemctl to control services.
Though I wasn't paying as much attention to the community around the time major distributions switched, I've been casually exposed to criticism of it ever since I came back, and I'd like to make sense of it all and form an opinion beyond "I like Fedora and GNOME and it seems to go hand-in-hand with those". I've read The Biggest Myths, the Wikipedia article, some stuff on freedesktop.org, and of course absorbed the venom slung back and forth over systemd in every FOSS community, but it's hard to get a full picture. And a picture from 2022, for that matter, as a lot of this information comes from its early days. Help me out?
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
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New Chrome 0-day bug under active attack
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Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox
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Linus Tech Tips "pirating" OCCT - answer from the dev
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MoviePass is relaunching with eyeball tracking to earn credits
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An analysis of what crypto has now become by David S. H. Rosenthal, one of the original developers of PoW
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Product recommendation request: low latency wireless earbuds
Alright, so I fell down a rabbit hole of trying to understand a whole bunch of techy things that I don't fully understand and could use some help: What I'm looking for: a pair of Bluetooth...
Alright, so I fell down a rabbit hole of trying to understand a whole bunch of techy things that I don't fully understand and could use some help:
What I'm looking for: a pair of Bluetooth wireless earbuds that I can pair with my computer, with low enough latency that it won't impair my enjoyment in casual gaming/video watching
What I understand so far: Almost nothing. 😔 I get that Bluetooth will always have some level of latency, but, beyond that, I've got nothing. I'm so confused.
There are lots of different versions of Bluetooth, and then there are different Bluetooth protocols within that, and then different audio codecs, and each piece of hardware seems to support completely different combinations of those, and I'm not sure if the devices have to match configurations or even how to figure out what my computer supports? It seems Bluetooth will gracefully fall back to worse codecs/protocols if better ones are incompatible, but I don't really want to buy something that's just going to fall back to its worst usecase.
I also don't know what's an "acceptable" level of latency. What's reasonable versus what's intolerable?
It also seems like the information I read online is subject to rapid decay. I read a bunch of stuff only a few years old saying I should look for aptX Low Latency capability, but then I read very recent posts saying that's dead and to go with aptX Adaptive instead. Meanwhile there are a handful of gaming-focused headsets that say they're low latency but don't really say how (e.g. Razer's Hammerhead). And some, like Samsung's buds, having a "gaming mode" but it only works on special hardware.
Also, how do I know what my computer itself will support? Is there anything I can do from the computer side to reduce latency, or is that strictly a function of what my hardware supports and which earbuds I buy?
My usecase:
My computer is a System 76 Oryx Pro (5) running Pop!_OS 21.10. I think its Bluetooth adapter is version 5.1 (though I'm not confident on that). I do not know which protocols/codecs it supports, nor how to find that out.
Audio quality isn't too important. These will be for everyday video-watching and gaming, which is what's prompting the latency requirement. I'd rather them be responsive than rich.
Active noise cancelling would be nice to have (especially if it has a toggleable transparency mode), but I don't know if ANC adds latency and is therefore incompatible with what I'm wanting.
I don't have a specific budget for it, and that's honestly the least important requirement. If the solution exists I'm fine paying for it (within reason, of course). These will end up getting used for thousands of hours, so even a big price difference upfront will even out over time.
I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer in pointing me in the right direction on this!
12 votes -
Proton vs. Native: Is there really a difference?
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Reddit announces update to user blocking: Blocked users will no longer be able to see or interact with your content on the platform
16 votes -
Bored Ape Yacht Club is racist and started by Neo-Nazi trolls
27 votes