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HackerBox has released Issue 0119, titled “Geopositioning.” This edition marks ten years of the subscription series and focuses on satellite positioning and mapping through the ESP-WROOM-32 system-on-chip and the Thrifty Yeti Locator (TYL) platform. The kit combines hardware assembly with firmware development in the Arduino IDE to demonstrate GNSS and geolocation principles.

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digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland

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PeaZip 10.7 Open-Source Archive Manager Introduces an Image Viewer

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Today in Techrights

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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    976 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    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
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