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2.16-inch AMOLED SF32LB52X-based dev board offers LoRa, GNSS, and Bluetooth 5.3

LILYGO’s T-Display SF32 is a compact development platform built around the SiFli SF32LB52X ultra-low-power AIoT microcontroller. The device combines a 2.16-inch 480 × 480 AMOLED touchscreen with dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores, an ePicasso 2.5D graphics engine, LoRa connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3, and onboard battery power.

1.35-liter mini PC runs Core Ultra 200 with triple displays and 96GB DDR5

Shuttle’s XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU. The system is intended for digital signage, POS/POI, healthcare, industrial, and edge AI applications.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 19, 2025

Microplastics On The Beach

Updated This Past Day

  1. A Gift That Keeps on Giving: Microsofters Reveal a Campaign of SLAPP, Seeking to Censor Critical Information About Lawsuits Against Microsoft
    All they can get here or mockery and ridicule
  2. LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles)
    It's 2025. Everything on the Web is getting worse, except SPARTAN.
  3. Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year
    Do not wait for some announcement from redhat.com - it's already covered by IBM
  4. LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux
    The timing of this lie/fiction is curious because Torvalds is being brigaded for defending C
  5. FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction)
    Failing news sites, instead of calling it quits with some remaining dignity, are handing control over to LLM slop (pretending to still be active)
  6. By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
    "the top level politicians make the egregious mistake of trying to treat Xitter as if it were a communications medium"
  7. How to 'Sell' Software Freedom to People
    In my experience, it helps when one speaks about control, not freedom, including confidentiality

    New

  8. Two Years After Issuing Ridiculous Threats and Choosing a Law Firm in Debt (Probably Desperate for Clients) Matthew J. Garrett Gets Help ('Bailout') From Microsofters
    The karma won't be good
  9. How Americans View 'Free Speech' in Practice
    "No good deed goes unpunished"
  10. Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain
    Over the coming days we shall write about an example of our own and we'll show how Americans have the audacity to bully people using a foreign (to them) court
  11. Links 18/02/2025: More DeepSeek Bans and Supreme Court Patent Challenges
    Links for the day
  12. Links 18/02/2025: FAA Layoffs and EU Betrayed
    Links for the day
  13. On Technical Contracts of Employment and Why People Must Read Before Signing
    The wave of layoffs under MElon will worsen prospects of finding alternate/better employment
  14. Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Reading Books and Oneiric Monk
    Links for the day
  15. Swiss corruption, Greens, Liip & Debian human rights violations
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Swiss police TIGRIS unit, World Cat Day, Swiss-corruption.com & Debian
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  17. Links 18/02/2025: “Hey Hi Video Surveillance” and YouTube at 20
    Links for the day
  18. The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness
    spread it on
  19. Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Downloading Gemini Files with Emacs and Elpher, Gopher on Devuan
    Links for the day
  20. Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
    He could already advertise this more than a week ago
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 17, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, February 17, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-02-12 to 2025-02-18
    1842 /n/2025/02/15/Python_and_Microsoft_Pandas_Should_Have_Known_OpenDocument_Form.shtml
    1317 /n/2025/02/17/The_Attacks_on_LinuxQuestions_org.shtml
    1128 /n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slop_is_Now_Filling_the_Web_With_Pure_Fiction_Fabrication_M.shtml
    674 /browse/latest.shtml
    661 /n/2025/02/15/Alex_Oliva_the_Potential_Successor_of_RMS_Has_a_New_Web_Site.shtml
    643 /n/2025/02/06/New_Rumours_of_IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_IBM_Consulting_Still_Struggl.shtml
    529 /n/2025/02/12/This_is_Why_Codeberg_Issues_an_Apology_Today.shtml
    525 /n/2025/02/12/EPO_Staff_Representatives_Confront_the_President_Who_Says_F_kin.shtml
    505 /n/2025/02/12/Destruction_and_Distortion_of_Information_Including_Facts_About.shtml
    501 /n/2025/02/12/The_Register_Studies_to_Affirm_Reports_of_IBM_Layoffs_at_the_Fi.shtml

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