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Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2025

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  1. Even Microsoft (MSN) Covers Richard Stallman's Public Talk in Milan 2 Days Ago
    He spoke in Spanish earlier this month (Alicante)
  2. Very High Attendance Level at Richard Stallman's Talk Shows People Can Relate to His Message
    Smear campaigns have their limits

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  3. Links 28/05/2025: 'Emulation Layers' (Measurements and Linguistics), Libraries, and Discomfort
    Links for the day
  4. Links 28/05/2025: More Arrests for Bitcoin-Connected Torture and Prosecutions for Dieselgate-Linked Executives
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 28/05/2025: Techo-authoritarianism With Slop Plagiarism and "No Online June" (Going Offline)
    Links for the day
  6. Links 28/05/2025: GitHub MCP Exploited and MathWorks Discovers Huge Windows TCO
    Links for the day
  7. Microsofters Were Scheming to Take Over This Entire Web Site (in Their Own Words!)
    Money gets spent censoring/deplatforming people who speak about real issues; no money gets spent actually tackling those underlying issues
  8. Gemini Links 28/05/2025: Celsius-Fahrenheit, Endless Scrolling/Infinite Scrolling, and Trapping LLM Slop Bots
    Links for the day
  9. Bicycles for the Minds and the Story Harrison Bergeron
    "The goal of having people in charge of the tools they use and that the tools should amplify ability" has long been abandoned
  10. Prison gate backdrop to baptism by Fr Sean O'Connell, St Paul's, Coburg
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. More Photos From This Week's Milan Talk by Richard Stallman
    The posts are in Italian, not English
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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