Tootfinder

from my link log —
Improving Bluetooth audio quality on Linux.
https://kn100.me/improving-bluetooth-audio-linux/
saved 2020-10-14 https://

Improving Bluetooth Audio Quality on Ubuntu Linux
Bluetooth Audio on Linux is a bit of a mess. There's a fair bit you can do to significantly improve the quality though.

The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-data-center-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bloodwitch:
🎵 Fly
#Bloodwitch
https://ramonaandthephantoms.bandcamp.com/track/fly-bloodwitch-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jJM0JhsVa40piIHRDBe82

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Got tired of having to disassemble my entire-ass computer to get to the second SSD (it's a Streacom DB4 passive cube; everything is an ordeal), so I implemented an external PCIe disk attachment point around the open rear of the case. Now any SSD on a standard PCIe carrier can be swapped out easily!
Many years ago, I discovered that one of my ASUS 2nd-gen Core i motherboards would let me hotswap PCIe devices, under Linux anyway. I don't think I'm brave/dumb enough to try tha…

#silentsunday (bei Leitersweiler, Sankt Wendel aufgenommen)

The AI buildout could require so much borrowing that Wall Street’s bond market may not be able to finance it,
creating a roughly $1 trillion gap that could be filled by private credit, Apollo’s chief economist said Friday.
Torsten Slok, Apollo’s chief economist, wrote Friday that AI-related borrowing accounts for more than 40% of new long-term, investment-grade corporate debt,
and that Apollo estimates the
“AI ecosystem” could support more than $2 trillion in debt.

AI Buildout Faces $1 Trillion Financing Gap, Analyst Says
The world’s largest companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to match growing demand for AI.

Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11 with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2 pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978713/google-pixel-tag-uwb-bluetooth…

The Pixel Tag is Google’s answer to the AirTag
The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding.

US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised $130M at a near-$1B valuation (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A US official says TSMC plans to spend an additional $100B to build four new US chip fabs, bringing total pledge to $265B as part of a broader US-Taiwan deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/tsmc-to-s…