today's leftovers
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Open Hardware/Modding
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CNX Software ☛ Tangara is a portable, open-source music player based on an ESP32 MCU (Crowdfunding)
Tangara is a portable music player that is out to make MP3 players cool again. With an iPod-inspired design and an ESP32 module at its core, Tangara presents an open-source and nostalgic way to listen to your favorite music and podcasts. The ESP32-WROVER-E at the core of the music player is the main microcontroller but it also features a co-processor, a Microchip SAMD21, which is responsible for USB communication and power management.
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Debian Family
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal's Debian & Stuff - February 2024
New Year, Same Great People! Our Debian User Group met for the first of our 2024 bi-monthly meetings on February 4th and it was loads of fun. Around twelve different people made it this time to Koumbit, where the meeting happened.
As a reminder, our meetings are called "Debian & Stuff" because we want to be as open as possible and welcome people that want to work on "other stuff" than Debian.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ Save the Date: SUSECON 2024 is 17 – 19 June
It is beautiful in June, in Berlin! I am very excited about the upcoming SUSECON 2024, to be held at the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin, 17-19 June.
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SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE and IBM: Bringing the Mainframe to the Masses
Almost 60 years ago, I.B.M. unveiled a new era in computing by introducing the mainframe. Thirty years later, SUSE was the first company to deliver an Enterprise GNU/Linux for the platform. Many people have asked, “Is the mainframe dead?”
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Standards/Consortia
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Tedium ☛ Remaking Podcasts For Text
Podcasts are far and away the great example of how RSS can empower creators. Today’s thought experiment: How can we bring these benefits to written content?
The RSS format is very close to its 25th anniversary, which hits next month, and it is an important tool, if a somewhat neglected one. It makes the internet better, but it often does not get the attention it deserves from publishers. (Unless your name is Dave Winer.)
RSS is widespread and a lot of platforms use it. (Tedium has an RSS feed.) But when it comes down to the mainstream medium a lot of people expected it to become, it’s only really had its moment in the sun in the form of podcasts. As Anil Dash noted this week, there’s something truly radical about podcasts—a format that can make a lot of money for its creators, can be spread broadly, and appears to be difficult to bury inside a walled garden. Spotify tried to close off the podcast ecosystem, and largely failed. It’s a radical media format.
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Linux Matters: Magazines Reloaded
We discuss reading magazines, building Telegram for Asahi, and running GNU/Linux Machines
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