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The Organizations on the Front Lines of a Safer Internet Need Our Help

When telling the story of the Internet, people often place emphasis on notable entrepreneurs and tech companies and the economic value they create. But that’s just part of the story. An often-forgotten part is how much the Internet owes its design and success to the work of nonprofits, researchers, standards bodies, civil society groups, and public-interest institutions that believed the network should work for everyone.

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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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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:

Proton 11 Officially Released with Support for More Games Running on Linux

Based on Wine 11, Proton 11 release promises support for more Windows games that you can now play on your Linux box, including Universe Generator: The Golden Sword, DCS World Steam Edition, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, From Dust, Blaite, and Dino Crisis 2.

KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements

Coming two months after KDE Plasma 6.6.5, the KDE Plasma 6.6.6 release is a bugfix one that addresses numerous issues, including a clipboard-related issue that could make XWayland-using apps lag or freeze after locking the screen.

TUXEDO Computers Plans to Rebase TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today that they plan to rebase their TUXEDO OS distribution on Debian GNU/Linux, moving away from Ubuntu, but still shipping a custom KDE Plasma desktop environment.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2024

Blue skies of Montocello

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Meme] IBM's Brand of Diversity and Inclusion: You Can't Install GNU/Linux If You Are Blind
    Maybe Wayland is a lot more important to them than Diversity and Inclusion
  2. [Meme] Wayland at Every Cost
    Fedora DEI and Wayland
  3. Audio: Julian Assange Tells US Judge That Espionage Act and First Amendment Contradict One Another, But Pleads Guilty (to Save His Life)
    Have a listen to Julian Assange and the judge in Saipan
  4. How to Help Pay Assange Debt (£520,000 Plane Bill and Beyond)
    Budget travel was not permitted
  5. Wikipedia Co-Founder (Not Wales) Expresses Support for Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, Says Assange Will Probably Continue
    probably exactly the sort of thing that the US prosecutors did not want

    New

  6. Links 01/07/2024: Catchup With Science and War in Ukraine
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 01/07/2024: New ICQ and Demise of 'Agile' Cargo Cult
    Links for the day
  8. Wikileaks Actually Helped Save the Planet
    Without leaks, we'd not see the coordination of climate science deniers
  9. Anti-Assange Provocations in Our IRC Network
    We suspect it is the Microsofters, using a fresh batch of aliases
  10. ChromeOS+GNU/Linux in Europe in First Half of 2024 (Windows Gradually Drowning)
    We expect the latest measures to be even higher tomorrow, hopefully above 6%
  11. Elon Musk Killed Not Only the Twitter Bird, He Also Killed the Platform
    Today begins the second half of 2024 (2024 H2)
  12. RMS: "I am very glad for Assange for being out of prison, but I am alarmed that the danger of being treated similarly will face other journalists and publishers in the future"
    what RMS said about the release of Julian Assange
  13. What Richard Stallman (RMS) Thinks of Paying With Cash or 'Cashless Society'
    RMS: Don't be tracked
  14. No Discrimination Allowed Against People Who Pay With Cash
    City of Philadelphia on cash
  15. Anthony Albanes: Assange's "arrival home ends a long running legal process. [...] We'll have meetings about AUKUS and other arrangements over coming days as well."
    Official transcript
  16. 4.04 Linux Not Found, No Such Agency (NSA)
    The CoCs never failed Microsoft
  17. Julian Assange Turns 53 in a Couple of Days, Give Him the Gift of Freedom From Debt
    Julian Assange turns 53 on Wednesday
  18. IBM's Abandonment of Disabled People (Orca and Wayland Incompatibility) Has Basically Killed Their "DEI" Channel (Room)
    The "DEI" channel (Matrix room) as been silent for 4 days
  19. [Meme] Just Because You Throw Money at Lawyers Doesn't Mean You'll Win
    Welcome to the second half of 2024
  20. Paulo Henrique Santana (Collabora) on the Debian Brazil Community
    There was similar material in DebConf22
  21. Making the Wikileaks Site More Active Again (and Gradually Exiting "X" or Other Social Control Media)
    As soon as Assange got kidnapped the Wikileaks Web site reached a near-standstill
  22. Marco Calegaro on Hacking Art Into a Community
    talk by Marco Calegaro
  23. Links 01/07/2024: Chokecherry Leaf and Agile Manifesto
    Links for the day
  24. Johannes Åsgård on Making the Raspberry Pi More Free With librerpi
    Johannes (also known as dolphinana)
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 30, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, June 30, 2024

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

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

    Span from 2024-06-25 to 2024-07-01
    2417 /n/2024/06/24/Microsoft_By_Default_Destroy_Linux.shtml
    1891 /n/2024/06/27/John_Gilmore_Cofounder_of_the_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Jo.shtml
    1546 /n/2024/06/30/Getting_Rid_of_Microsoft_Does_Not_Go_Far_Enough.shtml
    1529 /n/2024/06/27/IBM_s_Board_is_a_Men_s_Club_Unlike_the_FSF_s_But_Red_Hat_IBM_Ar.shtml

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