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Distributions and Operating Systems
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New Releases
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Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.11 released
Another one! These are all minor version bumps since 7.0, mostly fixing bugs, also applying refinements and improvements. Heading toward version 7.1, coming soon. Here are the highlights since 7.0.9: [...]
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Debian Family
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Canonical announces it will support and distribute NVIDIA CUDA in Ubuntu
CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model that lets developers use NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing. It exposes the GPU’s Single-Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) architecture, enabling fine-grained control over threads, memory hierarchies, and kernels to accelerate large-scale numerical and tensor operations.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Engineer creates ‘blazingly fast’ web server powered by a disposable vape — 'VapeServer' powered by 24 MHz Arm chip with 24 kilobytes of flash, 3KB of SRAM
Disposable vapes can contain a surprising amount of computing power/components. Bogdan had been collecting discarded units for ‘future projects’ for a couple of years, with eyes on reusing the batteries. However, he recently became aware of “fancier” units that pack more advanced ICs and microcontrollers. They didn’t just contain PCBs with unknown ‘blob chips.’ He found some with more advanced microcontrollers.
Bogdan says one of the fancier units he disassembled contained an IC marked ‘PUYA C642F15.’ This sparked some research, and the engineer determined that this was actually a PY32F002B, which has the following specs: [...]
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Torrent Freak ☛ ReVanced Complies With Spotify Takedown But Explores Options to Fight Back
ReVanced, a popular open-source project that provides patches for various Android applications, has pulled its Spotify Premium workaround. The developers complied with a Spotify takedown notice to avoid escalation but do not necessarily agree with the position as stated. The team is currently seeking legal advice and will consult GitHub to see if they can fight back.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Enthusiast didn't like the Framework 13's mushy keyboard, so he built a custom version with a full mechanical keyboard — also added mechanical dials to control volume, brightness, and backlighting
The laptop dubbed the Campus is a custom 13-inch laptop made from Framework 13 laptop components. The chassis was designed and made entirely from scratch and designed to accommodate a fully custom low-profile mechanical keyboard that Flurples built himself using KL Chalk switches.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Nicolas Magand ☛ Reading my blog
This weekend I spent hours tweaking little cosmetic and technical aspects of this blog. I finally managed to change the HTML of the footnotes, which I am happy to say is now an <aside> element and not a <section> element anymore. Semantically, I think it makes more sense like this.1 I wonder why the footnotes module I use on Eleventy relies on a <section> element, especially one that lacks a heading component, which creates a little issue in the W3C validator.
This is what MDN says about the <aside> element: [...]
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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Jeremy Cherfas ☛ Bad Maps
The main lesson I learned was not to blithely trust navigation maps, even open source ones. I need to add following the route onscreen before departure to the workflow.
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