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RTL-SDR ☛ SDR–: A Software-Defined Radio Application with Visual Signal Path
A separate Rust server, which can sit on the same PC or a remote computer (like a Raspberry Pi), handles the DSP. Julian notes that SDR-- has native RTL-SDR support, and decoders for ADS-B, AIS, POCSAG, FT8, SSTV, and RDS are already implemented, with more in progress. The app also has a built-in signal generator and a repository of IQ recordings that can be used for experimentation and testing the various decoders.
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University of Toronto ☛ Serious editors are a commitment (at least for me)
I have an enduring peculiar interest in new editors, or at least the nifty sounding ones (cf). I also distantly admire the people who jump in with both feet to such new editors and help improve them. We certainly haven't reached the pinnacle of editors, so it's good that people are still working away. But at the same time this isn't something I do myself or suggest other people do, largely because developing true fluency in any serious editor is something that takes a significant investment of time and effort. Is even a mainstream editor worth that effort on someone's part (or my part)? I don't know for other people, and for me it's probably not.
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Education
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Ned Batchelder ☛ Silence is golden lightning talk
I was really pleased to be able to extend the time-tested and well-known Pac-Man Rule from space to time. It made for an interesting hook, making the talk more interesting than just a scold.
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GNU Projects
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GNU ☛ unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 18.0.01 Released
16 September 2026 Unifont 18.0.01 is now available. This release is aligned with Unicode 18.0.0, adding almost 400 new glyphs.
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Licensing / Legal
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The Hindu ☛ Falsely quoting judges in barred online court clips is criminal conduct, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court clarified on Wednesday (September 16, 2026) that while unauthorised distribution of live-streamed proceedings constitutes contempt, circulating clips featuring false insertions or misattributed judicial remarks graduates the violation into criminal conduct.
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Programming/Development
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You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
It sure seems that a bunch of companies are trying to ship a git product of some kind as of late. Wonder why that is.
Either way, I’m building a Git server backed by object storage as an open-source project. It sounded simple enough to start: Git looks like a filesystem, so let’s use a filesystem as a translation layer on top of object storage to make Git speak object storage. This model worked… ok, I guess? But it didn’t work for real-world size repositories, so I needed a different approach. Git stores everything in Objects, so why not store those as objects in Tigris?
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Rlang ☛ coinclp: the COIN-OR Clp linear programming solver is back on CRAN
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