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PP-26: What’s at Stake for the Internet and Where We Stand

Every four years, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Member States meet at the Plenipotentiary Conference. It is the ITU’s highest decision-making body.

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5 Years of Threats (Including Death Threats)

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Tourism Does Not Help Us

It brings money, but the glamour is a distraction

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Highs again

Dark Green

Departed after more than half an hour of darkness

How to Save Lots of Money (Learn to Fix and Repair Things, Not Just Digital Things)

Skills are assets

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Microsoft down? Didn’t notice…

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Empty rooms and offices; large buildings that seem like they exist for historical purposes (like some museum)

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Fanless mini PC packs 24-core Intel CPU and dual NVMe slots

Desktop-class Intel Core Ultra processors with up to 24 cores are available in the Cirrus7 Incus B860, a fanless mini PC built around the ASRock DeskMini B860 platform. Its passive aluminum enclosure is available in three cooling configurations, with Thunderbolt 4, 2.5GbE networking, and room for up to four SSDs.

Librem 5 v2 Linux smartphone adopts eight-core RISC-V processor

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Modular GPS smartwatch with STM32 MCU and open-source SDK

Pimoroni now lists the UNA Watch, a modular GPS smartwatch built around an open-source software platform and replaceable hardware components. The wearable combines an STMicroelectronics STM32U595 microcontroller, multi-satellite GPS, fitness sensors, and a public C++ SDK for developing custom applications.

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Cincoze recently expanded its CV-200/P Series of industrial panel PCs with 28 new configurations spanning 10.1-inch to 18.5-inch displays. The additions complement the existing 21.5-inch models, combining Intel Core, N-series, and Atom processors with modular display technology for industrial HMI and automation applications.

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Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download

As expected, the first Ubuntu 27.04 daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), which arrived last month on October 15th. This means that the Ubuntu 27.04 daily builds are powered by Linux kernel 7.3 and use the GNOME 51 desktop environment.

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The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.32 is here to fix a major, 15-year-old data integrity bug affecting progress indicators when moving or copying files to an external disk. With this bug finally fixed, progress indicators are now fully accurate when copying files to USB sticks or network shares. Read here why it took so long.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Hiring People Who Attempt to Murder Colleagues
    magnet for sociopaths

    New

  2. On Julian Assange, Now 5 Years in Belmarsh Prison: The Good News, the Bad News, and Ugly Noise
    Some time this spring (or summer) we'll revisit the Appelbaum case
  3. Links 10/04/2024: Starvation as Weapon in Sudan, Sonos v. ITC Explained
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: JSON explore and geminiprotocol.net Downtime
    Links for the day
  5. Links 10/04/2024: Biden Reportedly Considers Dropping the Charges Against Julian Assange
    Links for the day
  6. Wikileaks, Dickileaks & Ubuntu Underage girl
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  7. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Tanana River, Picotron, and Citation on Gemini
    Links for the day
  8. Elio Qoshi & Redon Skikuli missing from OSCAL agenda
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  9. Links 10/04/2024: TikTok Trouble, East Asian Companies Receive Subsidies From American Taxpayers
    Links for the day
  10. This is What Techrights Would Look Like If We Participated in 'CSS Naked Day'
    All cascading style sheets (CSS) should be optional
  11. Francophone GNU/Linux
    Moving in a positive direction
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 09, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 09, 2024
  14. Over-Enforcement of a Code of Conduct (CoC) Would Ruin Events, Maybe Not for Corporate Posters, Sponsors, Posers, and Speakers
    a shrine for corporate supremacy
  15. The "F" in Free Software Doesn't Stand for "Censorship"; Attempts to Censor Mere Links to Articles About DebConf22 in Kosovo
    It's about an article we'll reproduce here later this week
  16. Daniele Scasciafratte & Mozilla, OSCAL, Albania dating
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  17. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Notifications, Motivation, Profectus Graphical Browser for the Smallnet
    Links for the day
  18. Abuse & Sex Crimes at FOSDEM and Open Source tech events
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-04-04 to 2024-04-10
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    1467 /n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
    1273 /n/2024/04/04/VMWare_GPL_case_Linux_Foundation_reneged_on_Conservancy_funding.shtml
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    982 /n/2024/04/05/Mozilla_Sells_Out_Will_Serve_Search_Results_From_Microsoft_via_.shtml
    902 /n/2024/04/05/Debian_Project_Leader_DPL_to_Step_Down.shtml
    895 /n/2024/04/09/Justin_Flory_UNICEF_Red_Hat_s_MIT_Epstein_moment.shtml
    895 /n/2024/04/07/Jonathan_Saul_Cohen_Debian_West_London_mansion_exposed.shtml
    883 /n/2024/04/05/Should_Fedora_banish_Russians_as_they_banished_Iranians.shtml
    847 /n/2024/03/27/Microsoft_s_Collapse_in_the_Web_Server_Space_Continued_This_Mon.shtml
    814 /n/2024/04/06/Charles_Fussell_Jonathan_Cohen_Debian_SLAPP_microsite_resignati.shtml
    809 /n/2024/04/04/A_Sign_That_Microsoft_is_in_Serious_Trouble_Now_Shamelessly_Try.shtml
    791 /n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
    790 /n/2024/04/06/Sentiment_at_Red_Hat_Amid_Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_12_Months_Aft.shtml
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    760 /n/2024/04/06/Assorted_Comments_on_Rumours_of_Red_Hat_Mass_Layoffs.shtml
    755 /n/2024/04/05/Microsoft_Used_a_Campaign_of_Bribes_and_Lies_to_Derail_GNU_Linu.shtml
    734 /n/2024/04/07/Android_Skyrockets_in_Yemen_Windows_Down_From_99_to_3_According.shtml
    723 /n/2024/04/09/Ubuntu_underage_girl_child_sex_or_child_prostitution.shtml
    720 /n/2024/04/08/OSCAL_Open_Labs_Mozilla_grooming_women_for_Outreachy.shtml
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    715 /n/2024/04/06/Lior_Kaplan_Mossad_Debian.shtml
    715 /n/2024/04/07/Jim_Whitehurst_Former_Red_Hat_CEO_Now_Works_for_Two_Not_Just_On.shtml
    706 /n/2024/04/03/FSFE_CCC_Erik_Albers_secret_punishments.shtml
    701 /n/2024/04/06/Jonathan_Cohen_Charles_Fussell_Debian_embezzlement.shtml
    687 /n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
    662 /n/2024/04/09/Mastodon_mastodon_social_Gives_the_Boot_to_the_Militants_Who_At.shtml
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