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Raspberry Pi Adds 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2 To Pico 2 Board

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Mono Was Always Just a Front of Microsoft
    threats sent from Microsofters
  2. NSA is NOT "Obama", NSA is Harry S. Truman
    It's important to fact-check Lunduke
  3. Financial Engineering at IBM (Faking Growth Where None Exists)
    Buybacks aside, it seems like IBM's alleged "growth" (that is illusion) comes at the expense of others

    New

  4. Links 25/10/2024: Erosion of Trust Online and Disability Rights
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 25/10/2024: "Staff Engineer", Executing Commands via NNCP, and More
    Links for the day
  6. No, Microsoft, You Cannot Silence Techrights
    No legal basis
  7. China Has Bypassed Sanctions by Making Its Own Operating System
    "Huawei Consumer Business Group Chairman, Richard Yu, stated that there are currently 15,000 apps and services in the HarmonyOS Next ecosystem with more on the way"
  8. What's Left of the Talks by Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project, the Man Who Started GNU/Linux 41+ Years Ago
    Coming up in Peru
  9. Endorsing Facts, Not Political Parties
    Sure, some parties can deceive as they care about facts less than others
  10. The News Drought Problem
    We always adapt. We've always adapted. That's life.
  11. What It Means When All Russians Get Banned From All Free Software
    It's very easy to ban those whom you dislike or distrust; but banning over 100 million people (from the largest country on the planet) would damage the concept of Software Freedom
  12. Almost 18
    This coming year we expect to (again) smash the record for number of articles per year
  13. [Meme] IBM's Leadership Has Sacrificed IBM (Abolished Its Long-Term Future for Wall Street Rallies)
    Financial obligations cannot just be thrown away
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 24, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 24, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-10-19 to 2024-10-25
    1727 /n/2024/10/23/A_Severe_Linux_Foundation_Conflict_of_Interest_Microsoft_Staff_.shtml
    1556 /n/2024/10/21/Richard_Stallman_is_Going_to_Peru_to_Deliver_Many_Talks.shtml
    1181 /n/2024/10/24/How_Microsoft_Attacks_Critics_and_Competition.shtml
    798 /n/2024/10/19/Links_19_10_2024_OpenAI_Microsoft_Going_Deeper_Into_Debt_FTC_Ru.shtml
    697 /n/2024/10/19/The_Drew_DeVault_Report_Taking_Out_His_Frustration_on_Other_Peo.shtml
    660 /n/2024/10/22/Linus_Torvalds_Articles_That_Turn_Out_to_be_Slop.shtml
    596 /n/2024/10/19/2021_Deja_Vu_The_Counter_Petition_Defending_Richard_Stallman_RM.shtml
    589 /n/2024/10/20/Links_20_10_2024_Social_Control_Media_Data_Harvested_for_Harm.shtml
    581 /n/2024/10/20/A_Classic_Example_of_Concern_Trolling.shtml
    535 /n/2024/10/20/Swiss_harassment_judgment_paw_behavior_against_black_cats_and_D.shtml
    504 /n/2024/10/21/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_IV.shtml

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