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The ESP32-P4 Function EV Board, powered by the ESP32-P4 chip, is designed for developing cost-effective, networked audio and video applications that demand low power and high performance, including smart displays, network cameras, and digital signage.

Infineon XENSIV Game Controller with PSoC 6 BLE Microcontroller Compatibility

The Infineon XENSIV Game Controller combines XENSIV magnetic position sensors and the PSoC 6 BLE microcontroller to create a precise, low-power, plug-and-play device ideal for gaming and control applications.

RUBIK Pi: A New Linux-Compatible Development Board Featuring the Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2024

Jet aircraft on final approach to Tullamarine Melbourne Australia

Updated This Past Day

  1. Slow But Ongoing Mass Layoffs at EPO, Estimates That Nearly Half of the FOs Will be Made Redundant Soon
    When you cease to care about validity and quality of patents you're granting why bother with humans at all?
  2. The Peril of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Illuminates the Dangers of Founders Leaving or Being Forced Out
    Whatever you may think they stand for, you risk being fixated on what they originally were and perhaps what their Web sites still say
  3. Difficult Times at Soylent News
    We hope that Soylent News will recover from this
  4. Crimes of the EPO Are Costing Everybody in Europe
    Since virtually everyone in Europe is a user of software (almost nobody is a forest dweller like in countries near the equator), this impacts everybody
  5. OSI's Blog is Still 100% Microsoft-Sponsored Attacks on Free/Open Source Software
    OSI is a compromised, defunct body. It exists to serve the enemies of its original mission.
  6. Red Hat is Suing to Protect From Patent Trolls
    Why doesn't Red Hat (IBM) also lobby to eliminate all software patents once and for all?

    New

  7. Julian Assange's Father Turns 80 and They Show Themselves in Melbourne
    Will he be active in Wikileaks soon?
  8. [Teaser] EPO Tightening Its Belt
    who didn't see this coming?
  9. Are Lawsuits Over EPO Corruption Next?
    Why does the mainstream media not cover it?
  10. Europe's Second Largest Institution, the EPO, Exploits Lack of Oversight to Commit Crimes Every Day
    Immunity begets impunity, which in turn begets crime
  11. Transcript of Latest Public Talk by Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS), Delivered Last Month at Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin
    quick-and-dirty transcription
  12. Links 10/09/2024: Big Brother Awards Germany 2024 and Telling the Unemployed to 'Drive Uber'
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 10/09/2024: DUIs and Useless Analytics
    Links for the day
  14. New Article in redhat.com: How to Install Microsoft Windows
    That's just about as bad as that sounds...
  15. A Decade Ago Things Became So Bad at the European Patent Office (EPO) That Staff Jumped Out the Window During Working Hours
    Colleagues saw the suicide; the EPO's response wasn't to tackle the causes but to bolt down the windows (like factories in China installing controversial 'suicide nets')
  16. COVID-19 Ushered in Attacks on Human Rights and Things They Said They Had Introduced Temporarily Are Still in Effect/Operation Today
    COVID-19 changed a lot of things
  17. Quitting Academia When Its IT Systems Are Dominated by Clowns Who Outsource
    It seems like a common trajectory
  18. Why the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Owning or Renting Office Space Mattered
    "In the long term, the FSF needs to own its future office space, but then the deadly risk is that the property ownership becomes the end goal rather than software freedom."
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 09, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, September 09, 2024
  21. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Probably Has No Choice But to Shut Down Its Office
    Net Income -$686,366
  22. Nearly Two Years After Quitting My Job
    My colleagues and I were bullied by managers (grievance complaint got filed) who didn't even know what "Linux" was
  23. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XVIII - In Conclusion
    Many activities can be done offline without having to sign anything

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

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

    Span from 2024-09-04 to 2024-09-10
    1606 /n/2024/09/09/Video_Richard_Stallman_s_New_Talk_in_Germany_Covers_What_Free_S.shtml
    1419 /n/2024/09/07/No_Mastodon_is_Not_Growing_Social_Control_Media_is_Generally_Wa.shtml
    1108 /n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml
    1029 /n/2024/09/06/Linux_Foundation_Technical_Advisory_Board_Has_Election_But_Goog.shtml
    978 /n/2024/09/08/Software_Patents_Against_GNU_Linux_Again.shtml
    942 /n/2024/09/08/IBM_is_Cutting_Almost_in_Half_Its_Office_Space_in_Austin_So_Exp.shtml
    898 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_Lost_the_Search.shtml
    847 /n/2024/09/02/Terms_of_Service_TOS_Under_Scrutiny_Part_X_Biometric_Data_Colle.shtml
    793 /n/2024/09/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Board_Still_a_Happy_Family.shtml
    777 /n/2024/09/07/They_Used_to_Say_Avoid_Nginx_or_NGINX_Because_It_s_Russian_Now_.shtml
    697 /n/2024/09/06/Asking_Ourselves_What_Topics_to_Strategically_Focus_on.shtml

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