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DietPi June 2025 Update Adds Orange Pi 5 Ultra Support and Major Fixes

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Daniel Cantarín's Response to Alexandre Oliva's Talk on Achieving Software Freedom in the Age of Platform Decay
    Soylent News caught up with the series
  2. "Microsoft is a Sponsor of The New Stack."
    Many articles turn out to be just ads
  3. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day

    New

  4. To Understand Cisco's Mass Layoffs Look at the Company's Soaring Debt (Same at Microsoft)
    Look what's happening to Intel - down almost 60% since the start of the year, 57% to be precise
  5. Windows Flying Low at 25%
    It's another all-time low
  6. [Meme] Long Texts You Never Bother Reading (Because Life is Too Short, Unlike Those Texts)
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  7. Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid
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  8. Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Confession of a Convention Game Master and Some Release nostalgia
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  9. Congratulations to Romania, Where Windows is Now "Minority Market Share" Platform
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  10. Why It Matters That 4,000 Gemini Capsules Are Known to Lupa and Why Gemini Protocol Matters to Us
    I have no doubt Gemini Protocol will continue to expand because it solves a real problem
  11. Links 15/08/2024: Avast Surveillance Scandal Unsolved and Facebook Still Censors Terror Sympathisers
    Links for the day
  12. 4,000 Gemini Capsules
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  13. New Highs for Android in Russia, But It's Reportedly Working on Its Own Linux-Based Operating Systems (GAFAM-Free)
    statCounter isn't equipped to properly parse user agents or to keep up
  14. Upcoming Series: Terms of Service (TOS) Under the Microscope, FSF Party, GitHub Scandals, Clowns, and More
    Right now we have way more material than we have time to cover. But that's a good thing.
  15. Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Lies of Therapy and Web Applications
    Links for the day
  16. Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 5 - When Richard Stallman Came to Argentina
    It might seem a bit harsh, but a discussion at the end of this series will tie things together and explain why those things were said
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 14, 2024

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

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

    Span from 2024-08-09 to 2024-08-15
    1235 /n/2024/08/10/Reminder_A_Few_Days_Before_Julian_Assange_Was_Kidnapped_the_Sta.shtml
    1019 /n/2024/08/10/It_Has_Now_Been_3_Years_Since_Wikileaks_Last_Added_a_New_Leak_t.shtml
    909 /n/2024/08/11/Wikileaks_Editor_Kristinn_Hrafnsson_on_Donald_Trump_Attempting_.shtml
    756 /n/2024/08/09/Microsoft_s_Aeva_Black_Resigns_From_Board_of_the_OSI_But_OSI_Re.shtml

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