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Debian ☛ Bits From Argentina - August 2025
DebConf26 is already in the air in Argentina. Organizing DebConf26 give us the opportunity to talk about Debian in our country again. This is not the first time that Debian has come here, previously Argentina has hosted DebConf 8 in Mar del Plata.
In August, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings and Stefano Rivera from DebConf Committee visited the venue where the next DebConf will take place. They came to Argentina in order to see what it is like to travel from Buenos Aires to Santa Fe (the venue of the next DebConf). In addition, they were able to observe the layout and size of the classrooms and halls, as well as the infrastructure available at the venue, which will be useful for the Video Team.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Linux Gizmos ☛ EchoEar Development Kit Targets Voice Interaction and Edge AI Applications
The development kit integrates the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N16R16V module from Espressif, which includes dual-core Xtensa LX7 processors, 16MB of Flash, and 16MB of PSRAM. Connectivity is provided through 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 (LE), supporting both local and cloud-based operation.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Standards/Consortia
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Alex Russell ☛ Web Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus
Commentary about browsers and the features they support is sometimes pejorative towards pre-standardisation features. Given Apple's constriction of Mozilla's revenue stream and its own strategic under-funding of WebKit, this usually takes the form "Chromium just ships whatever it wants."
This is true, of course, but not in the way commenters intend; and not only because Blink's rigorous launch process frequently prevents unvalidated designs from shipping.
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