The Fairbuds XL just became the first headphones to earn a 10/10 repairability score on our new headphone scorecard! Replaceable battery. Replaceable ear pads. Modular design. Actual repair manuals. This is what headphones look like when they’re built to last instead of built for the landfill.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/117206/were-now-scoring-wireless-headphones-for-repairability
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Making a call for JOSS reviewers for this neat package "Datashuttle" for organizing, validating, and transferring neuroscience data. Some folks from around these parts are in the contributors list! We have one review already completed, but the second reviewer dropped out.
https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/9642
If you've never done one, it's a good day to try! you can sign up on the JOSS reviewer site, or just reply here - JOSS reviews can be as short as a few hours (or longer if you get invested!), are based around a checklist, and are oriented towards programmers helping other programmers improve their work rather than being adversarial or asking you to be a gatekeeper. @joss is our beloved free to publish, free to read code journal, by and for open source ppl to facilitate external review and provide academic credit that many of us need to pay the bills, and it's a wonderful org to contribute to (plus you can get a fancy badge showing off how many reviews you've done)
reply here or dm me if you're interested! if there are any folks with prior subject matter experience i'll probably prefer them, but the call is open to anyone who can review software!
Submitting author: @JoeZiminski (Joseph Ziminski) Repository: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/datashuttle Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joss-paper Version: v0.7.1 Editor:...
That was a tough day. Delays. Rain. Two borders. Hilly and wet cycling. And a meeting at the European Court of Auditors sandwiched in between.
Here’s today‘s video summing it all up. Filmed in a train but I was alone in the carriage!
@woe2you @marco @kamstrup Keystrokes were a bit expensive when Unix was created. Those teletypes tended to use a lot of paper (thermal paper, which came in long roles). And they were slow (I've used them).
Warning - the video shows these things, but there is a lot of typical you-tube babbling.
Utah’s stupid new law “prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks.”
It’s probably illegal for minors to access this site from Utah because I say some things that Utah’s leaders probably find offensive. Let me know if I don’t; I’ll work on fixing it. To access it over a VPN, follow these instructions to turn on iCloud Private Relay. Then I can’t see where you’re connecting ... https://honeypot.net/2026/05/03/utahs-stupid-new-law-prohibits.html
Fires in Berlin Destroyed Hundreds of Paintings During World War II. Now, a Museum Will Publish Photo Archives of the Lost Artworks Online
by Christian Thorsberg
About Gemäldegalerie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59097
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60502
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55740
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59275
Surprise release of Nethack 5.0.0!
There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
🔸Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements
🔸Reduce our reliance on imports
🔸Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.
FWIW I turned my list of alternatives into an article. It's here:
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/
Both Cupertino and Mountain View are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you *do* have alternatives
<- by me on @theregister
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