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All good so far

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Good cause

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ESP32-S3 E Ink board with 800×480 display, mic array and IMU

Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera. The board is intended for applications including information displays, voice-controlled interfaces and low-power dashboards.

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a13

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 2.7.0 released

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The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 19, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. "GNU/Linux" No Longer a Pandora's Box
    Cannot even make or crack a joke... when you have a target painted on your back
  2. TV Programmes in Geminispace
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  3. Techrights' Assessment of Red Hat Layoffs in 2025 (Yes, They Happened!)
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  4. The GPU Bubble (GPUs Marketed by Useless Slop)
    "they're selling GPUs for the sake of selling GPUs"

    New

  5. We Don't Keep Logs
    Not for any considerable length of time
  6. Wall Street Journal is Publishing Puff Pieces About Quantum
    For IBM [...] a lot of articles about "AI" are basically a form of spam
  7. Is the Lid Being Shut on Top of LLM Slop?
    It sort of "feels" like slop is becoming passé
  8. Celebrating Digital Sovereignty
    Digital Sovereignty is connected very closely to the concept of Software Freedom
  9. Your Web Site is Connected to the Net and the Server is Powered On, But Cloudflare Takes It All Down
    Anything outsourced means that yet another party can get things wrong, resulting in problems for everyone else "in the chain"
  10. The Register's Latest Slop Spam, Another Paid-for Article to Inflate the Bubble
    Remember when celebrities advertised FTX?
  11. Quite a Few Red Hat Layoffs These Days (or Departures)
    Remember that if there are Red Hat Layoffs, they won't be called "Red Hat Layoffs" but instead be "IBM RAs" or some thing to that effect
  12. Today is an Excellent Day To Remind People to Dump Clownflare (Cloudflare)
    If people think that Clownflare (Cloudflare) will improve uptime and make access better (it sure makes accessibility far worse), remind them of all the times this clown show goes wrong, taking down with it a lot of the Web
  13. Links 18/11/2025: Asbestos Fears, Delays for GAFAM Undersea Cable
    Links for the day
  14. Links 18/11/2025: "Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse" and CEOs of GAFAM Finally Speak About a Slop Bubble
    Links for the day
  15. Apparent Red Hat Layoffs in "AI" (Supposedly a Strategic Area for IBM)
    What is going on there?
  16. Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People)
    Clients for Gemini Protocol are available for almost every platform imaginable
  17. EPO Change May be Afoot, Keep Pushing and Hold Those Feet to the Fire
    Backlash is brewing and societal trends reinforce backlash right now
  18. Links 18/11/2025: CISA Advisories, Climate, "U.S. Layoffs Surge and Blaming AI is Part of the Smokescreen"
    Links for the day
  19. Gemini Links 18/11/2025: "Block Them All", Annex, Signed Commits, and "Cryptography of the Internet"
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 17, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, November 17, 2025
  22. Right Under the Nose of Mainstream Media
    That the media fails to cover the matter mostly speaks volumes about the media
  23. Formalities Officers at the EPO Face Uncertain Future, Administration Gets Asked About That
    They're being too polite (perhaps) to people whose agenda is detrimental not just to the EPO but also the EPC

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