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LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications

LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications. These boards combine wireless connectivity with specialized hardware such as e-paper displays, CAN interfaces, motion sensors, and GPS modules, and are designed for rapid prototyping and deployment using familiar platforms like Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, and ESP-IDF.

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Released with Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, MQTT 5.0, and Nearly 100 New Boards

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A UK Government Order Threatens the Privacy and Security of All Internet Users

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system for users in the country, removing the option to store data using end-to-end encryption, and setting a dangerous precedent of privacy violation. 

Encryption Makes Us Powerful: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for European Civil Society

In early February of this year, the Internet Society hosted an Encryption Advocacy Workshop in Brussels for European civil society organizations. We created this workshop alongside steering members of the Global Encryption Coalition to equip potential encryption advocates with:

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New Release: Tails 6.18

WebTunnel is a bridge technology that is particularly good at circumventing censorship and might work from places where obfs4 bridges are blocked. WebTunnel disguises your connection as ordinary web traffic.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2024

Lonely highway in a California backroad

Updated This Past Day

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    Bing has been a total disaster in Kyrgyzstan
  2. Lots of Talk About NIST in Relation to Encryption and Standards, But NIST Fronts for Imperialism, Not Privacy, and There Are Software Patent Elephants in the Room
    there are also software patents to worry about
  3. Links 25/08/2024: 'Microsoft India' Talks Layoffs. "Apple Vision Pro Falls Flat".
    Links for the day
  4. GNU/Linux Sites Turning to SPAM Sites
    we hoped that it would stop
  5. Torvalds Still Calls the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bluff, Some People Are Upset
    and photos
  6. 33 Years Ago Linux Would Not "be Big and Professional Like GNU"
    August 25, 1991 (by Torvalds in comp.os.minix)

    New

  7. [Meme] When Your Project Has Zero Volunteers...
    Anything divided by zero is...
  8. A Week Ago Fedora Canceled Its "DEI" Meeting Due to Lack of Interest/Attendance and Nobody Has Said Anything Since
    Meeting by Christmas? Maybe not even then?
  9. Gemini Protocol (or Geminispace) Uses More Advanced Transport Encryption Than About a Third of the Web
    Most of the Web isn't secure and isn't meant to be (it is accessed using browsers that are effectively, functionally indistinguishable from malware)
  10. Mail (MX) Server Survey for August 2024: Microsoft Has Fallen Below 700 Servers (Globally, Worldwide!)
    That's less than 0.1% of the servers queried (754,375)
  11. Remember Which "Linux" Companies Enabled Microsoft's Sabotage (Remotely, Without User Intervention) of Millions of GNU/Linux PCs
    Some blowback is very much necessary
  12. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part III - Terms-of-service Labeling, Design, and Readability Act
    We're going to give some more examples of this much later in the series
  13. Microsoft Losing the Balkans
    Balkan nations are moving away not just from Windows but also from Microsoft in general
  14. Before and After Microsoft Destroyed Dual-Boot Setups With Help From "Secure Boot" Liars Who Had Defamed and Harassed "Secure Boot" Sceptics
    Microsoft bullies
  15. Microsoft Lost a Lot of Share in Servers After Clownstrike-Gate, Shows Survey
    it looks like Microsoft took a big tumble in every category for Web servers
  16. Links 24/08/2024: Journalists Culled Through Social Control Media, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France
    Links for the day
  17. Links 25/08/2024: Metric and Gemini Capsule With Docker
    Links for the day
  18. Windows Falling Across the Gulf
    They're not moving away from Windows because they cannot afford it
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 24, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, August 24, 2024

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

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

    Span from 2024-08-19 to 2024-08-25
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    633 /n/2024/08/10/Mozilla_Firefox_is_Boiling_the_Frog_Just_Like_All_the_Chrome_Cl.shtml

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