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Geany 2.1 Open-Source IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type Support

Geany 2.1 is here more than one year and eight months after Geany 2.0 with new features like support for searching the Messages and Compiler output, support for modern platform-native file selection dialogs, the ability to regroup file types by letter, and new filters for opening the documents sidebar and keybindings preferences.

DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV

Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.

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PANZER-LITE93 with Ubuntu 24.04 Ready for Compact AIoT Edge Computing

MayQueen has introduced the PANZER-LITE93, a compact fanless edge computing device built on the NXP i.MX93 processor, featuring integrated neural network acceleration and flexible connectivity in a lightweight 3D-printed enclosure for AIoT, IIoT gateways, robotics, and other low-power edge applications.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2024

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  1. [Meme] Community of People to be Exploited, Then Thrown Away, Left Behind or Even Slandered
    Debian.org front page
  2. Alexandre Oliva's FSF disposition
    During my recent trip for LibrePlanet, I was fortunate to have, or at least start, long conversations with nearly everyone in FSF staff
  3. One More (Failed) Attempt to Deplatform the Sites by Harassing and Threatening Webhosts
    What we're seeing here is a person who abuses the system in Canada at Canadian taxpayers' expense trying to do the same in the UK, at British taxpayers' expense
  4. 12 Days Have Passed Since the Edward Brocklesby Revelations and Debian Project Has Said Absolutely Nothing About That
    One must therefore assume they have nothing to say in their defence (covering up severe security failings)

    New

  5. Jean-Pierre Giraud, Possible Forgeries & Debian: elections, judgments, trademark already canceled, archaeologist
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. Six on the Beach: After Losing Six Continents Microsoft is Losing Oceania Too
    Based on the 6- or 7-continent view of the world
  7. Links 17/06/2024: Mass Layoffs Accelerating in Tech, Concerns About Impact of the Net
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 17/06/2024: Hyprland Analysed and No Use for Betrusted
    Links for the day
  9. Microsoft Can Never Make a Comeback Anymore, the Community is Shutting It Out
    We're relying on the real community, not fake ones or coopted ones
  10. The World is Becoming (or Has Already Become) Linux
    An intercontinental success story
  11. Georgia: Bing Share Fell by Half Since 'Bing Chat' (LLM Hype), Fell Behind Yandex As Well
    Georgia's situation is interesting
  12. [Meme] SPI and 'FSFE': Sponsored by Microsoft to...
    women's instincts do not matter to these strongmen
  13. [Meme] Shitburger of an LLM
    IBM and the Hololens
  14. Links 17/06/2024: Chatbot Nonsense Thrown Under the Bus (Severe Failure, Pure Hype), How to Finance Free Software 'Hackers'
    Links for the day
  15. Debian's Personal Attacks Are Upsetting Women, Too
    Female Debian Developer: "I Believe Daniel [Pocock] is On the Right Track."
  16. Microsoft's Bing is So Irrelevant in Moldova (1%) That Russia's Yandex is About 5 Times Bigger
    How much longer before Microsoft throws in the towel?
  17. Yes, You Can
    Unless you live somewhere like Russia...
  18. [Meme] Listen to the Experts
    Bill Gates didn't even finish university]
  19. Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) and the Front-End Interfaces
    As the Web deteriorates the availability, quality and prevalence of RSS feeds is not improving, to put it mildly
  20. Algeria Shows High GNU/Linux and Android Adoption, All-Time High and Almost Three-Quarters of Web Requests
    GNU/Linux was below 3%, now it is above 3%
  21. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft-owned GitHub (About 80 Percent of the Staff in India Laid Off)
    It's not just in India
  22. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  23. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 16, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, June 16, 2024
  24. Gemini Links 16/06/2024: Scarecrows, Moles, Ham Radio, and No IPs
    Links for the day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-11 to 2024-06-17
    1712 /n/2024/06/15/A_Smokescreen_for_Brad_Smith.shtml
    1422 /n/2024/06/10/NotABug_org_as_Another_Cautionary_Tale_About_Outsourcing_One_e_.shtml
    887 /n/2024/06/11/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_VII_Groupthink_Censorsh.shtml
    848 /n/2024/06/14/LibrePlanet_2024_and_the_Lost_Video_Audio_of_Talks.shtml

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