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Growing up in a small village in Murang’a County, Kenya, Ruth Njeri had nearly no access to the digital world. Today, she is the lead engineer of the Tanda Community Network in Kibera—the largest slum in Africa—and is working to empower local women with technical knowledge, new skills, and increased opportunities.

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Understanding the User Interface of Gummi LaTeX Editor

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GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New

The alpha version of GNOME 48 is here with OSD notifications for headphone connections, support for screen time and health breaks, support for screen time limits, systemd-sysext support to toolbox tooling, convenience logging API for extensions, support for configuring monitors as for-lease, support for the system bell protocol, built-in renderdoc support, xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol support, wp_viewport support for cursor surfaces, and support for the commit-timing-v1 and fifo-v1 protocols.

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

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GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager

Those of you still using the GNOME 46 desktop environment series will be happy to learn that the GNOME 46.8 release speeds up thumbnail loading in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, improves support for the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution in the GNOME Boxes app, and adapts more components to the new GNOME Release Service.

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor

The biggest change in the Archinstall 3.0.2 release is support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor and stacked window manager. When installing Arch Linux, Wayfire can be selected as a standalone environment from the Profile > Desktop section, but you’ll also be able to use it in other desktop environments, such as Xfce 4.20.

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Super Watchdog Raspberry Pi HAT with Battery Backup Gains Multi-Chemistry Support

The Super Watchdog HAT with UPS Battery Backup provides power management and reliability for mission-critical Raspberry Pi applications. It supports all Raspberry Pi models, ensuring uninterrupted operation, data protection during outages, and system monitoring.

Tang Console: Compact FPGA Platform for Development and Retro Gaming

Sipeed has recently launched the Tang Console, described as a compact FPGA platform designed for developers and hardware enthusiasts. It offers a flexible and portable solution for applications such as hardware prototyping and retro gaming system emulation.

Toradex Adds SMARC iMX8M Plus and iMX95 to Its Embedded Portfolio

Toradex has introduced a new System on Module family to support projects requiring the SMARC standard. Featuring connectivity, advanced multimedia, and machine learning capabilities, the modules are compatible with Torizon Embedded Linux, offering long-term support and secure remote management.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 09, 2025

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Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!

It's a company in tailspin
Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)

Millions (yes, millions!) of fake "openings" exist in the US alone, based on a survey done last year

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Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"

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There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)

Volunteers with programming skills don't want to become slaves of Microsoft resellers
[Meme] Blindly Trust Rust

First, you need to get it from a proprietary platform
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software

What's a "memory safe programing [sic] language"? Rust has holes in itself, never mind programs made using Rust.
Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (2025) Executives Flock to Google

The managers and executives typically know ahead of time what's coming
Links 08/01/2025: HMPV Concerns and UK Deaths Soared in 2024

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IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions

Some people bring this up now
[Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money

"Looking for the next $400,000,000,000 in 'investment'"
Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'

LinkedIn is going downhill
Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.

The Web is deteriorating. Geminispace does not have LLM trash (yet).
Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures

Maybe it'll become an "open secret" if some rebellious whistleblower contacts us
[Meme] Microsoft's January 6th

Most Microsoft employees want to leave the company
Links 08/01/2025: Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol Still Due, Prime Minister of Canada Stepped Down

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