Tootfinder

Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/

Google Pixel Buds 2a review: Affordable earbuds that are better with ANC
Google’s most affordable Pixel Buds are an even more compelling option with the addition of active noise cancellation (ANC).

AMC Networks says it is reducing its 1,800 person workforce by "less than 5%" through voluntary buyouts (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amc-networks-workforce-voluntary-buyouts-1236610587/

AMC Networks Sheds 5% Of Global Workforce Via Voluntary Buyouts
AMC Networks, which is navigating the transition from linear TV to streaming, is shedding about 5% of its global workforce through voluntary buyouts.

As inflation bites, Russia cracks down on food producers amid public concern: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/as-inflation-bites-russia-cracks.html

Antennagate: 20 Bytes Code lösten iPhone-4-Skandal aus
Ein Software-Ingenieur hat entschlüsselt, wie Apple 2010 das iPhone-4-Antennenproblem löste: Eine winzige Änderung in einer Tabelle machte den Unterschied.
https…

If you're interested in #selfhosting, here's a reminder that there is a new bots that replaced the old a.gup.pe bots. The bots improve message propagation.
@…
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the postgs that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
So yes, hashtags are great, but they don’t help message propagation nearly as much as bots can.

I have successfully implemented relocations within the Intel ME partition for both Gen 2 and Gen 3 images:
x230_clean.rom vs fixtures/x230_cleaned_simple.rom:
0 / 12582912 bytes differ (0%)
x230_clean_reloc.rom vs fixtures/x230_cleaned_reloc.rom:
0 / 12582912 bytes differ (0%)
x270_clean.rom vs fixtures/x270_cleaned_simple.rom:
0 / 16777216 bytes differ (0%)
x270_clean_reloc.rom vs fixtures/x270_cleaned_reloc.rom:
0 / 16777216 bytes differ (0%…

According to Home Office data, 1097 migrants arrived on Saturday on 17 "small boats".
That's an average of 64 *passengers* per small boat - these boats must be larger than the zodiacs I've been imagining.

Small boat arrivals: last 7 days

Any computer touchers familiar with the origin story of UUIDs/GUIDs?
In particular I'm curious how we ended up with the weird format of 32 bits, 2x 16 bits, 8 bytes rather than the two obvious formats (uint32[4] or uint8[16]). And the C struct format doesn't align with the typical hex printing (8-4-4-4-12 hex digits)
My best guess is that it's somehow related to the version 1 GUID format where you'd have { MAC address, version nibble, timestamp} but neither the st…

NFL Week 6 best bets: Bears to cover at Commanders and big scores for Lions-Chiefs, Bills-Falcons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6697492/2025/10/07/nfl-best-bets-week-6-bears-commanders/

Flamingo against Tomahawk: Ukraine bets on its own weapons: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/flamingo-against-tomahawk-ukraine-bets.html