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Firefox 142 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox 142 introduces support for a flexible exception list in the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode, which should fix broken site features caused by tracker blocking. Exceptions are split into baseline (core functionality) and convenience (extra features), so you can opt for improved site compatibility without compromising key privacy protections.

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Cubie A7A with Allwinner A733 & LPDDR5 RAM Launches, Starting at $28.70

First seen last month, Radxa has officially launched the Cubie A7A, a credit card–sized SBC built on the Allwinner A733 SoC. Designed for high-performance computing, AI inference, and multimedia, it combines an octa-core CPU, Imagination GPU, and NPU with flexible storage and connectivity for edge and embedded applications.

ESP32-P4-EYE Vision Development Board with Camera, LCD, and Wireless Connectivity

Espressif Systems ESP32-P4-EYE is a compact development kit in a mini digital camera form factor designed for real-time image processing and edge AI applications. Built on the ESP32-P4 SoC, the board targets smart cameras, IoT vision systems, and embedded HMI projects.

ELM11 Microcontroller Board Runs Lua with Hardware Acceleration and Multi-Core Support

The ELM11 is a scriptable microcontroller board from BrisbaneSilicon that runs Lua applications with hardware acceleration. It provides a REPL on each CPU core and combines rapid development in a high-level language with low-level control of timers, interrupts, and digital I/O.

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How to Achieve Universal Connectivity

Claudio is responsible for bringing tourists to his community. Up until early 2025, that meant riding a boat across the River Chagres to the nearest place with Internet or a phone line, where he would arrange the day’s visits with tour guides living in the city. He is an Emberá, an Indigenous group living in Panama.  

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 23, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. They Don't Tell Us that 'Digitalisation' (Now Sold as "Hey Hi") Just Means Customers Become Unpaid Staff and Are Made Accountable
    People are being conditioned to associate technology with something undesirable, at times even unbearable
  2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Has Layoffs and Microsoft Gaming/Entertainment Division Has an Uncertain Future
    it's good to see all those horrible things crashing and burning

    New

  3. Gemini Links 22/07/2025: Thinkpad and Pinephone
    Links for the day
  4. Links 22/07/2025: "Blog Restart" and Microsoft Clobbered by “ToolShell"
    Links for the day
  5. Global Warming and Global GAFAM Energy-Wasting
    Burn more money (borrowed, loans), then hope the waste will somehow translate into profit?
  6. No Compliance With the European Patent Convention (EPC) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
    It's about preventing competition against this autocracy
  7. Blue-Collar Trolls vs White-Collar Trolls
    Examples of white-collar trolls
  8. Apple Vision Pro Failed So Badly That Its Sales Are About 2,000 Times Smaller Than iPhone Sales
    What's left for Apple to offer other than hype?
  9. To Millions of People "Year of the Linux Desktop" Was Some Time in the 1990s (Bootable GNU/Linux as a Complete Operating System is Over 33 in Age)
    In some sense, "year of the Linux desktop" was 33 years ago
  10. Make No Assumptions (or Demands) About the Screen Resolution Used by Other People
    There are usability aspects, aside from accessibility aspects
  11. Why Wayland (and XWayland) Won't Solve the Key Problem It Proclaims to be Tackling (the Same Is True for Rust)
    The problem isn't Wayland per se but the false promises and efforts to force everybody to move to it whilst insulting or demonising everyone who won't play along
  12. Diplomatic Immunity Should Not Exist for Anybody
    The EPO in its current form gradually 'normalises' the end of European democracy
  13. Brett Wilson LLP Stopped Sending Me Papers When I Showed It had Sent Me Over 5 Kilograms of Legal Papers
    A week ago we lodged our third lawsuit
  14. Microsoft Mass Layoffs and Shutdowns Became the New Normal at Microsoft
    Microsoft mass layoffs became a topic of everyday media coverage since May
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 21, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, July 21, 2025
  17. FSF "Raised Almost $139,000 During This Summer Campaign"
    "Thank you for making a stand against dystopia!"
  18. Gemini Links 22/07/2025: VPS Exploited and Fear of View
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-07-16 to 2025-07-22
    3329 /about.shtml
    1819 /n/2025/07/16/Why_I_am_Suing_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Alex_Balabha.shtml
    1639 /irc.shtml
    1085 /index.shtml

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