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Valve and Collabora Announce Official Arch Linux ARM64 Port for Steam Frame

Steam Frame uses an ARM64 processor, so Collabora, in collaboration with Valve, has been developing Holo Core as a full AArch64 port of Arch Linux intended as the base for the operating system that will power the gaming VR headset. Since Arch Linux has no official ARM64 support, Collabora had to build new tooling and CI infrastructure from scratch.

DXVK 3.0.2 Brings Fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo CE, Overwatch, and More

Coming two weeks after DXVK 3.0.1, the DXVK 3.0.2 release is here to work around a performance regression in some video games that create a new DXGI factory every single frame, such as Dying Light: The Beast with FSR enabled, but other D3D12 games could be affected as well.

Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements

Highlights of Wayland 1.26 include a new wl_pointer.warp event to notify a new pointer position without an end-user-initiated motion event, a new wl_fixes.ack_global_remove request to address races related to global remove events, and a new wl_display_remove_socket_fd() function to remove sockets that were previously added via the wl_display_add_socket_fd() function.

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HackRF Pro SDR covers 100kHz to 6GHz with FPGA-based processing

The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing, and connectivity improvements. These include a flatter frequency response, removal of the characteristic center-frequency DC spike, an onboard temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, additional memory, RF shielding, and a USB Type-C connector.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2024,
updated Aug 13, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Cluecon 2024 Now Live
    Started streaming 43 minutes ago
  2. Former GitHub CEO and Mono Chief Nat Friendman Donated to Ron Paul, Manipulated the Media, Censored Embarrassing Information
    how the media reacts to women who were abused (sort of like Debian Project covering up for powerful men and tossing aside "comfort women")
  3. Founder of Gemini Protocol (Solderpunk) Has Noticed Deterioration in the Debian Project
    Our Gemini capsules always ran from Debian

    New

  4. How the Growth of GNU/Linux, a Growth of Worldwide Extent, is Rapidly Accelerating Microsoft Layoffs
    Microsoft layoffs are back in the headlines this week
  5. Links 12/08/2024: Bracing for More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Hey Hi ("AI") Bubble Continues Popping
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 12/08/2024: Rest, Internal Phishing Test, and More
    Links for the day
  7. Daniel Pocock Gives a Talk at ClueCon in Chicago at 3PM (Central Time Zone)
    "USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN"
  8. Promiscuous Behaviour (Even Nude Parties) by Microsofters Needs to be Illuminated
    The response of "Team Mono" was to litigate
  9. What's Left of the Mainstream Media After the Olympics
    Microsoft is wasting money on this type of advertising, but at the same time this waste of money kills what's left of media online
  10. [Meme] Always the Victim
    Troll face pill time meme
  11. Marion County Record: police raid anniversary, securing small business, journalists
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  12. "Protecting the Identity" as a Cover for Protecting the Pervert (Not the Abused)
    Do not let women's rights be hijacked by men looking to protect other men (their buddies)
  13. Busan Could Teach Debian Project a Lesson on Comfort Women
    Daniel Pocock has covered lots of examples of these "false promises of employment". He also named some of the repeat offenders/culprits.
  14. [Meme] After the Purges (of Debian Developers Who Spoke Out for Women Who Had Blown the Whistle About Abuse)
    Daniel Pocock is giving a public talk today
  15. Cross-national Load Time of Tenth of a Second
    That's how Pingdom sees it anyway
  16. [Meme] The Future of the World Wide Web, Protecting You From "Misinformation" and "Hate Speech"
    After revoking certificates of "bad" sites
  17. A Growing Movement of Web-savvy Geeks Who Say Go Static (Simple Web Pages) and Move to Gemini Protocol
    Gemini is still growing
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 11, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 11, 2024
  20. x86 is Beyond Redemption, We Need Lean Software and Hardware That We Can Understand
    x86 has a lot of issues, aside from the defects and severe security problems
  21. While GNU/Linux Adoption Has Soared in Egypt Vista 11 Stalled and Many Still Use Vista 7
    it looks like many people there move to GNU/Linux
  22. It Was an Oligarchs' Festival
    The organisers really don't care what these athletes think
  23. [Meme] Next Target of GNOME CoC
    Why would anyone wish to donate time to an autocracy like this?
  24. Links 12/08/2024: Microsoft Outages, Facebook Bans Biology
    Links for the day
  25. In Ireland, Where statCounter is Based, Windows Has Fallen to Just 18% Market Share (Based on statCounter)
    all-time lows
  26. Links 12/08/2024: Available Offline an Updates from Solderpunk
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-06 to 2024-08-12
    1217 /n/2024/08/10/Reminder_A_Few_Days_Before_Julian_Assange_Was_Kidnapped_the_Sta.shtml
    999 /n/2024/08/10/It_Has_Now_Been_3_Years_Since_Wikileaks_Last_Added_a_New_Leak_t.shtml
    958 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml

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