●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 ●● ● Mar 11 [00:53] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:57] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@aksg6tcpv6ixw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 11 [03:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [03:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Mar 11 [04:18] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [04:21] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Mar 11 [05:55] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar> caught the article about ibm, mentioning they could be baught... my money is on bezos, aws uses redhat, and it would be a thorn in the side m$. price for it would be cheap for him to acquire. ● Mar 11 [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] "Dear Colleagues, [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] The EPO is in an excellent financial situation thanks to the extraordinary efforts of EPO staff. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] In the context of the review of the salary adjustment procedure for the period 2026-2031, EPO staff was expecting the Organisation to fulfil the principle of reversibility to the former underlying methodology and that the President would fulfil his promise that [t]here is no desire to cut staff purchasing power or impose unnecessary savings. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] Instead, the proposed orientations on the new salary adjustment procedure plan a further erosion of EPO salaries and benefits, estimated at 1% per year below the evolution of costs of living according to the simulations over the period 20142025 provided by the Office. The proposed orientations again bear significant legal risks. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] First, the financial implications show additional savings of 1.4B on top of the originally planned 2B for a total of 3.4B savings without any financial justification. Second, the proposal abolishes the historical principle of parallelism with civil servants (i.e. specific indicator) reflecting wage inflation. Third, in the proposed adjustment formula the reference salary scales in Belgium are not linked to anything reflect [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] ing the evolution of the prices of goods and services at the reference country such as national inflation (HICP BE). Therefore, the proposal cannot maintain purchasing power in any place of employment. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] On 6 March 2026, the Central Staff Committee (CSC) sent an open letter to the Administrative Council to address i.a. these legal risks and the impact on recruitment and attractivity. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] Read more in the open letter." ● Mar 11 [12:33] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [12:46] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-j1v.9lt.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 11 [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] Re: Swiss Postbus fire, Sruthi Chandran [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > The Crans-Montana fire was easy for people to find evidence about [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > because they registered the business in their names, they posted a lot [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > of things on social control media and they did a lot of media interviews [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > for publicity before the fire. In some ways, all of that is quite [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > unusual for Switzerland. [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > The Swiss Postbus fire (it is on the JuristGate site now) may be a lot [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > harder to get any evidence about because it is, for now, just an [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > anonymous passenger on a bus. [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > If you see anything that pops up on chat or elsewhere and if it is [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > worthwhile for me to cross-check with other sources or publish then [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > please let me know. I don't really monitor all the things on social [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > control media and IRC because of the poor signal/noise ratio but from [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > time to time genuine facts appear. [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > I started preparing some notes in case Sruthi Chandran runs again. Do [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > you have any links to public pages, photos or videos where they confirm [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > or suggest relationships? Do you have any links to discussions where [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] > Sruthi should have declared a conflict of interest but failed to do so? [13:45] schestowitz[TR2] I am not familiar with this person or the latter incident (yet). ● Mar 11 [15:37] schestowitz[TR2]
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    Arduino expands lineup with Ventuno Q board pairing Dragonwing IQ8 and STM32H5
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    The board integrates a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor, which provides CPU, GPU, and NPU resources for neural network inference and data processing. The platform delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI compute, allowing the system to run vision models, speech processing pipelines, and multimodal workloads directly on the device.

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    BeagleBadge wearable platform boasts TI AM62L SoC, ePaper display, and Linux support
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    The platform is built around the Texas Instruments AM62L Sitara SoC. The AM62L32 integrates a dual-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running up to 1.25 GHz and includes a 256 KB shared L2 cache along with per-core 32 KB instruction and 32 KB data caches.

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