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DietPi 10.5 Enables KMS/DRM Graphics System by Default for Raspberry Pi SBCs

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I just remembered that I’ve been using Audacity on and off for about 20 years now. It’s always been the go-to program whenever I needed to trim an audio file or glue two tracks into one, or just extract a sample from an audio track. For me, Audacity was highly effective and reliable for this specific use case.

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

Shelly is a modern reimagination and alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR and Flathub, as well as AppImages. Shelly comes with both a graphical UI and a CLI version. CachyOS recently adopted Shelly as the default GUI package manager.

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LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit pairs nRF52840 with LoRa and 1.22-inch e-paper display

LILYGO has added the T-Echo Lite Kit to its product lineup, a compact LoRa development device based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 microcontroller and an SX1262 LoRa transceiver. The kit includes a 1.22-inch e-paper display, a 5 × 4 keyboard shield, audio hardware, a vibration motor, and optional GNSS and IMU features.

GPD BOX mini PC features Intel Panther Lake and Arc B390 graphics

GPD has launched an Indiegogo campaign for the GPD BOX, a compact mini PC based on Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors. The system is available with either a Core Ultra X7 358H or Core Ultra 7 356H processor, up to 64GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, dual M.2 storage, dual 2.5GbE, USB4 v2.0, and a built-in 160W GaN power supply.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2025

Sightseeing tour bus in London

Updated This Past Day

  1. Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?)
    Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?
  2. The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism
    Active Twitter account
  3. How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law
    insights into the pressure examiners are under
  4. LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse
    If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?
  5. Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India"
    62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it
  6. More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office
    breaking the law for profit
  7. Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")
    GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close

    New

  8. Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)
    So bury-brigading and click-farming control what people see
  9. Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace
    Geminispace does not need to outsource trust
  10. Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)
    Links for the day
  11. Announcements and Administrivia
    This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable
  12. Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More
    Links for the day
  13. Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.
    If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action
  14. Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe
    Links for the day
  15. Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians
    the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"
  16. This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History)
    Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn
  17. Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics
    As always, follow the money (advertisers)
  18. Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)
    Links for the day
  19. Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro'
    Links for the day
  20. Network Improvements Tomorrow
    "Network maintenance" down in London
  21. Articles About Free Speech at Facebook
    'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage
  22. We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.
    From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")
  23. "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site)
    Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025
  26. The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity
    Do not negotiate with evil
  27. The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team
    Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates
  28. Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise
    The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show
  29. Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less
    Links for the day

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

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

    Span from 2025-01-23 to 2025-01-29
    1484 /n/2025/01/23/BetaNews_Plagiarising_Work_in_the_Linux_Space.shtml
    1279 /n/2025/01/27/GAFAM_Hates_Except_in_a_Worryingly_Parasitic_Way_GNU_Linux_and_.shtml
    668 /browse/latest.shtml
    589 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml
    567 /n/2025/01/24/Links_24_01_2025_Earthquake_Landslide_and_Official_Implicated_i.shtml
    535 /n/2025/01/25/Bringing_Down_or_Taking_Down_an_Innocent_Man_is_Difficult.shtml
    532 /n/2025/01/25/How_Open_Source_Became_Microsoft_But_It_s_Actually_Proprietary_.shtml
    528 /browse/index.shtml

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