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Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for DualSense Controllers on Linux

The new Steam Client update prevents a crash on Linux systems that occurred when DualSense controllers are connected and idle, improves the High Contrast view of the game list search and the app filter panel, and adds support for dual gyros when using Nintendo Switch Joycons in combined mode.

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R1 Neo Meshtastic Device Introduced with GPS and nRF52840 Processor

The R1 Neo from Muzi Works is a compact, water-resistant Meshtastic device designed for long-range communication and GPS-based location tracking. Developed and assembled in Atlanta, it is the company’s first model built on a custom PCB featuring a dedicated I/O controller and integrated power management.

Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle

Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor. The kit is aimed at embedded engineers, system developers, and educators looking for a practical way to explore RISC-V–based designs on the Agilex 3 FPGA platform.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge
    Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists
  2. Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
    Links for the day
  3. Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!)
    seeding doubt about election outcomes
  4. Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
    Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'
  5. Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam"
    "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"

    New

  6. Birthday Tomorrow
    Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now
  7. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium
    Links for the day
  8. How Voting Does Not Work
    You cannot vote from an "app"
  9. Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web
    Links for the day
  10. [Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly
    "OK, my critics are 'spam'"
  11. Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition
    Canonical is worth shunning
  12. [Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros'
    And prehistoric googling
  13. Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time
    This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
  14. [Meme] How NOT to Vote
    Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
  15. An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit
    The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information
  16. Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year
    These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024
  19. There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month
    I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager
  20. "Oppose the Fascist"
    what the founder of GNU/Linux said
  21. Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME
    Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives
  22. Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  23. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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    798 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    788 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    663 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    627 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    574 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    574 /n/2024/10/29/Linux_Fork_or_Community_Fork_of_Linux_in_Russia.shtml
    556 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml
    542 /n/2024/10/30/All_Systems_Operational.shtml
    539 /n/2024/10/30/More_Than_a_Week_Has_Passed_DeVault_Has_Declined_to_Deny_Seriou.shtml
    528 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    526 /n/2024/10/30/Volkswagen_Cheated_Us_and_Created_Cars_We_Didn_t_Ask_For.shtml
    521 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    511 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_Extreme_Surveillance_in_Schools_More_Openwashi.shtml
    509 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml

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