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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 15.0a4

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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Radxa Orion O6N Brings Cix P1 Performance to a Smaller Nano ITX Form Factor

Radxa has introduced the Orion O6N, a Nano ITX single board computer designed as a smaller and more power-efficient alternative to the earlier Orion O6. Both models share the same Cix P1 SoC and overall platform architecture, but the O6N adopts a more compact 120 x 120 mm form factor compared to the 170 x 170 mm Mini ITX layout of the original board.

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PeaZip 10.7 Open-Source Archive Manager Introduces an Image Viewer

Highlights of PeaZip 10.7 include a new image viewer component (File manager > View images) that lets users view images and preview images inside archives, supporting features like zoom, immersive mode, rename, delete, and basic navigation, along with support for displaying image thumbnails in the file manager on all platforms.

Calibre 8.13 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Library Export on Linux

Calibre 8.13 is a small update that only improves library export on Linux distros that mount /tmp in RAM by no longer using the /tmp directory when dealing with a large Full-Text Search (FTS) database, and improves virtual libraries by allowing users to define their search expressions more comfortably in a multi-line edit box.

GNOME 49.1 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

GNOME 49.1 improves the accessibility of the screenshot UI, improves Hindi Bolnagri input for the on-screen keyboard, improves accessibility icons on the login screen, unifies warning styling in dialogs, updates the keyboard indicator on modifier-only layout switches, and improves multi-touch handling on X11.

PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support

Highlights of PipeWire 1.6 include Bluetooth ASHA (Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid) support, MIDI 2.0 clip support to the tools, better support for explicit sync, a new timer-queue helper to schedule timeouts, a Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic II example filter config, and support for Razer BlackShark v3.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 17, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Coercion From the "Consent" and "CoC" Crowd is a Self-Defeating Tactic
    Freedom of the press; Nothing less
  2. According to statCounter, GNU/Linux Increased From 3.77% to 3.89% This Month (Worldwide), Windows Now Below 20% in 78 Nations, Below 10% in 27 Nations
    Highest since March (for GNU/Linux)
  3. Patriotism is OK, But We Need Facts and Reason, Not Blind Obedience to Authority
    Very seldom in the history of human civilisation has groupthink proven to be of real merit

    New

  4. Africa is Android and Green (Chrome, Not Just Android Logo)
    In Africa Firefox is almost below 1% now
  5. Covering Abuses and Corruption
    We'll never surrender to blackmail
  6. Ubuntu Running Out of Energy
    Its planet too is deteriorating
  7. Links 16/06/2024: In Defence of Email and Why Recycling Symbol Lost All Meaning
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 16/06/2024: Computer Science Course Union and Potentiometer
    Links for the day
  9. Cross border crime: sale of Swiss insurance in France and European Union without authorisation
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. Letting Microsoft systemd Manage /home Was a Terrible Idea All Along
    systemd-tmpfiles, deleting /home
  11. When You Touch One of Us You Touch All of Us
    We have a principled, uncompromising stance on this matter
  12. Links 16/06/2024: New Sanctions Against Russia, Fentanylware (TikTok) Causing More Problems
    Links for the day
  13. Social Control Media in Japan: Twitter (X) Has Collapsed, YouTube Rising (Apparently)
    What a genius Mr. Musk is!
  14. Windows Cleansed in South Africa (Already Hovering Around 10% Market Share)
    Plus Microsoft's mass layoffs in Africa
  15. [Meme] Satya Nadella's Windows PC RECALLS Not What He Did
    Satya got lucky
  16. Usage of Let's Encrypt in Geminispace Has Collapsed (That's a Good Thing!)
    Ideally, or eventually, all capsules will sign their own certificates or have their own CA
  17. North Macedonia: Windows Down From 99.2% to 28.5%
    Last year it was even measured at 26%
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 15, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, June 15, 2024
  20. Gemini Links 16/06/2024: Hand Held Maneuvering Unit and Hugo Static Files
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-10 to 2024-06-16
    1660 /n/2024/06/10/Gemini_Protocol_Turns_5_Exactly_10_Days_From_Now_Let_s_Encrypt_.shtml
    1413 /n/2024/06/10/NotABug_org_as_Another_Cautionary_Tale_About_Outsourcing_One_e_.shtml
    1047 /n/2024/06/15/A_Smokescreen_for_Brad_Smith.shtml
    928 /n/2024/06/10/Mozilla_Firefox_Web_Browser_Fell_below_2_in_Brasil_This_Month.shtml

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