today's leftovers
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Libraries Offer Music Streaming Services That Really Support Local Musicians
Music streaming services are great – for listeners, who gain access to huge quantities of music, even if they don’t end up owning any of it. But it’s hardly a secret that streaming services produce very little income for the musicians involved – even the big names earn a pittance – with most of the money ending up with the recording companies. That doesn’t mean that streaming services are beyond redemption. It just requires a little imagination to think of ways in which they can be great for artists and audiences alike. Take this idea, for example, reported on Vice:
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Microsoft Hit With Antitrust Suit From Gamers Seeking to Block Activision Deal
The suit filed on Tuesday in federal court in California alleges that the deal will suppress competition in the gaming industry. It comes less than two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission sued to stop Microsoft from finishing the largest deal ever in the video game market.
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Support us and enter the ’Ada & Zangemann’ book raffle [Ed: FSFE being misused for book promotion of staff]
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Silicon Labs dev board integrates Wireless SoC
The xG24 Explorer Kit is a low-cost embedded platform based on the EFR32MG24 Wireless System-on-Chip. This compact board integrates a 2.4GHz radio in addition to one mikroBUS socket, one Qwicc connector and a SEGGER J-Link onboard debugger.
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Radical experiment to cool the laptop
Just let it run, compiling the entire 1,620 packages... it took 4 days and 3 hours!
As mentioned in that post, OE was set to use only 3 threads, also compiling of each package was with "make -j2", that is, only using 2 threads.
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