today's leftovers
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Aesthetic PCB Design Tips For Improved Functionality
Those of us hardware types that spend a lot of time designing PCBs will often look at other peoples’ designs with interest, and in some cases, considerable admiration. Some of their boards just look so good. But are aesthetics important? After all, for most products, the delicate electronic components on that PCB are tucked safely inside a protective enclosure. But, as [Phil’s Lab] explains, aesthetic PCB designs can lead to functional improvements, such that better-looking designs are also better performing, in terms of manufacturability (and therefore yield), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and several other factors that can be important.
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Using relevant contexts to engage girls in the Computing classroom: Study results
Today we are sharing an evaluation report on another study that’s part of our Gender Balance in Computing research programme. In this study, we investigated the impact of using relevant contexts in classroom programming activities for 12- to 13-year-olds on girls’ and boys’ attitudes towards Computing.
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C# 11: Raw strings, required members, and auto-default structs [Ed: Tom Deseyn at Red Hat works for Microsoft, not Red Hat]
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Red Hat expands expansion of its open solutions on AWS
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2022 hardcore list of linux distributions without elogind and other systemd parts
Welcome antiX and Noir linux to the strict list, with edition 22 antiX is fully functional and lighter than ever without a trace of elogind!
This means this list has grown more than it has shrunk, over the past 2+ years it has been dynamically published.
Edited: November 30th 2022 (replacing older strict list)
This list is going to be short and there may be a sublist of distros with a medium strict standard. We shall explain what the object is, below the short list (which we hope the community will assist in making longer as we have not been able to currently review the work of every distro and fork).
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USB driver package version 12.14 now available
Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of release 12.14 of our USB stack.
This is a maintenance release that contains some minor fixes.
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302: Twitter’s Fiasco and Mass Migration to Mastodon - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to discuss the Twitter saga. What alternatives can you look at? Then we will be taking a look at Firefox and some sweet deals on services. Plus, we have our tips/tricks and software picks. All this and more coming up right now on Destination Linux to keep those penguins marching!
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E64: Open Source Data Observability with Elementary Data by Open Source Startup Podcast
Maayan Salom is Co-Founder of Elementary Data, the open source data observability platform which allows users to monitor their data warehouse directly from dbt.
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Telstra claims it blocks 332 million email scams every month [iophk: Windows TCO]
Telecommunications company Telstra claims to have blocked around 332 million incoming scam and potentially unwanted emails to Bigpond customers—over a third (38%) of all inbound email to Bigpond accounts. To put into context: Telstra blocks 7,600 emails every minute, based on January – October 2022 figure.