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LILYGO showcases new IoT devices with ESP32-C5 and Nordic nRF52840 MCUs

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 18, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Daniel Pocock: "I've Gone to Some Lengths to Demonstrate How Corporate Bad Actors Have Used Amateur-hour Codes of Conduct to Push Volunteers Into Modern Slavery"
    "As David explains, the Codes of Conduct should work the other way around to regulate the poor behavior of corporations who have been far too close to the Debian Suicide Cluster."

    New

  2. Microsoft-Connected Sites Trying to Shift Attention Away From Microsoft's Megebreach Only Days Before Important If Not Unprecedented Grilling by the US Government?
    Why does the mainstream media not entertain the possibility a lot of these talking points are directed out of Redmond?
  3. [Meme] UEFI 'Secure' Boot Boiling Frog
    UEFI 'Secure' Boot: You can just ignore it. You can just turn it off. You can hack on it as a workaround. Just use Windows dammit!
  4. The Market Wants to Delete Windows and Install GNU/Linux, UEFI 'Secure' Boot Must Go!
    To be very clear, this has nothing to do with security and those who insist that it is have absolutely no credentials
  5. In the United States Of America the Estimated Share of Google Search Grew After Microsoft's Chatbot Hype (Which Coincided With Mass Layoffs at Bing)
    Microsoft's chatbot hype started in late 2022
  6. Techrights Will Categorically Object to Any Attempts to Deny Its Right to Publish Informative, Factual Material
    we'll continue to publish about 20 pages per day while challenging censorship attempts
  7. Links 17/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, More YouTube Censorship
    Links for the day
  8. YouTube Progresses to the Next Level
    YouTube is a ticking time bomb
  9. Journalists and Human Rights Groups Back Julian Assange Ahead of Monday's Likely Very Final Decision
    From the past 24 hours...
  10. [Meme] George Washington and the Bill of Rights
    Centuries have passed since the days of George Washington, but the principles are still the same
  11. Video of Richard Stallman's Talk From Four Weeks Ago
    2-hour video of Richard Stallman speaking less than a month ago
  12. statCounter Says Twitter/X Share in Russia Fell From 23% to 2.3% in 3 Years
    it seems like YouTube gained a lot
  13. Journalist Who Won Awards for His Coverage of the Julian Assange Ordeals Excluded and Denied Access to Final Hearing
    One can speculate about the true reason/s
  14. Richard Stallman's Talk, Scheduled for Two Days Ago, Was Not Canceled But Really Delayed
    American in Paris
  15. 3 More Weeks for Daniel Pocock's Campaign to Win a Seat in European Parliament Elections
    Friday 3 weeks from now is polling day
  16. Microsoft Should Have Been Fined and Sanctioned Over UEFI 'Lockout' (Locking GNU/Linux Out of New PCs)
    Why did that not happen?
  17. Gemini Links 16/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, Cash Issues
    Links for the day
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 16, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, May 16, 2024
  20. Ex-Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Did Not Retire, He Just Left IBM/Red Hat a Month Ago (Ahead of Layoff Speculations)
    Rather than retire he took a similar position at another company
  21. Linux.com Made Its First 'Article' in Over and Month, It Was 10 Words in Total, and It's Not About Linux
    play some 'webapp' and maybe get some digital 'certificate' for a meme like 'clown computing'

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-11 to 2024-05-17
    2271 /n/2024/05/11/GNU_Linux_Reaches_11_Market_Share_in_the_United_States_Of_Ameri.shtml
    1759 /n/2024/05/14/Video_LinuxFest_Northwest_is_Letting_GAFAM_Take_Over_and_Why_It.shtml
    1639 /n/2024/05/16/People_Who_Defend_Richard_Stallman_s_Right_to_Deliver_Talks_Abo.shtml
    1228 /n/2024/05/15/Ebury_is_Not_Linux_That_s_Just_the_Media_Shifting_Attention_Mic.shtml
    1028 /n/2024/05/11/Microsoft_Windows_Used_to_Have_99_of_the_OS_Market_in_Jordan_No.shtml
    993 /n/2024/05/13/EPO_Language_of_Conflicy.shtml

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