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How to run a Winlink RMS Gateway in VHF Packet mode as stand alone Radio-only

Google Stadia game streaming platform is shutting down – many just don’t want to try new Google products anymore

Open Book abridged version is an open source 4.2″ E-Ink screen ereader now built around a Raspberry Pi Pico

Amazon’s $340 10.2″ 300 ppi Kindle Scribe is its first e-reader with handwriting and pen support

Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey keyboard on iOS next week, but it will continue to work unless you uninstall it or get a new device

The Q1 was most likely the first commercially available desktop microcomputer dating back to December 1972

‘Transparent OLED for Subway Trains’ windows will likely happen whether we like it or not

Duplicati for Windows, Linux and macOS securely backs up directly to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or many other locations

Android 13 custom ROMs are now available for the ancient 10-year-old Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II

Beehaw is a Reddit alternative Lemmy site that pledges to be friendly, well moderated, and has disabled downvoting

WoAD brings Winlink e-mail functionality to Android devices using either a VHF/UHF packet or internet connection

Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams

Whisper is an open source automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web

Mastodon, the free, open-source decentralized social media platform, has a fresh on-boarding experience

6 Apps To Chat And Text With No Internet Connection Via Mesh Network – It’s too LATE to download apps after a disaster happens

Newt is a battery-powered, always-on, wall-mountable display that can display live data, with battery life of 1 to 2 months on a single charge

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 mounted on a $100 BliKVM PCIe card inside a PC grants, with Pi-KVM software, grants remote KVM access

Privacy based MeWe Social Network going Decentralised in 2023

Monitoring Battery ‘Time To Go’ on Solar Systems or Inverter Systems (How to Calculate and Display)

You Can Finally Control Your Apple Watch From Your iPhone with screen mirroring

Captura – free and open source screen video recording for Windows without ads or limited recording time

KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta Released With New “Plasma Bigscreen” Interface For TVs

Pi.Alert or WatchYourLAN can alert you to unknown devices appearing on your WiFi or LAN network

If you’ve ditched Facebook you may want to try interest-based Reddit, the ninth-most visited website in the world

Walmart now lets you virtually model over 270,000 items of apparel clothing on your own body

Stable Diffusion: Anyone can use this AI art generator — that’s the risk

Three industry bodies have launched a new ICT skills registry in South Africa

AST Spacemobile, Lynk Global, and the upcoming SpaceX V2 satellites will work directly with any standard 2G or 4G mobile device

Robotic Surgeons are showing hints of one day outperforming humans

Pushover makes it easy to get real-time notifications on your Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop with only a once-off US$5 per client platform for individuals

Use This Site to Get a Deeper Look at Your Favourite Video Game Maps, From Ocarina of Time to Half-Life 2, God Mode is yours, thanks to Noclip

HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown editor

HiFiScan is an open source Python application to help equalize an audio system to get the best possible audio quality from it

This Clever App (Android and iOS) Tells You What to Build With Your LEGO Pile

Apple watchOS 9 Brings Updated Compass App With Waypoints and Backtrack – Yes, pity about the battery life though

Lorenz ransomware now uses a critical vulnerability in Mitel MiVoice VoIP appliances to breach corporate networks

Exploding The ‘Electric Cars Will Destroy The Grid’ Myth – California’s 680k EVs only use 1% of the State’s electricity demand

Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter and it’s Blockchain based without any Cryptocurrency nor central servers

How to avoid the trap of cloud lock-in, because for many cloud providers that is their primary goal