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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2023

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Graphics: XDC, NVK, and More
    4 stories, Linux focus

    New

  2. Open Hardware and Ubuntu, Openwashing and Linux Foundation
    some more leftovers, long weekend ahead
  3. today's leftovers
    3 stories
  4. KDE and GNOME Leftovers
    3 more stories
  5. IBM: Fedora on 'Macs' and PHP in RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...
    Some Red Hat stuff
  6. New Videos: Makulu Linux and Kdenlive (Akademy 2023 Keynote)
    2 new videos
  7. LinuxLinks on ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 and 5 Best Free and Open Source No-Code Database Tools
    2 new articles
  8. Security Leftovers
    4 news stories of blog posts
  9. SUSE/OpenSUSE: SLE BCI, Lockdown (Microsoft), and OBS Has New and Improved Ways to Report
    SUSE news
  10. Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 1
    first dev snapshot
  11. today's howtos
    many howtos for the day
  12. Weston 13.0 release: Backends consolidation
    Weston 13.0 brings multiple fixes and important changes, notably the ability to load multiple backends simultaneously
  13. Announcing Incus 0.4
    Just as we’re wrapping up 2023, one last Incus release!
  14. Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager Now Better Handles Display Rendering
    Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements.
  15. TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 Released with Exciting New Functions
    TUXEDO Computers announced today the availability of TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 open-source system tuning app for TUXEDO notebooks.
  16. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS like Tor and more
  17. Programming Leftovers
    Python, Perl, and more
  18. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and Linux in the Ham Shack
    2 new episodes
  19. Games: Steam Winter Sale and The Talos Principle 2
    only 2 from Liam Dawe yesterday
  20. Android Leftovers
    Android’s Nearby Share is getting rebranded ‘Quick Share’
  21. 8Devices Noni M.2 WiFi 7 module runs FirmUx embedded Linux distribution
    The source code for FirmUX is open-source and available for download, but only to customers
  22. Windows TCO Stories
    Cost of Windows
  23. PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4 and rpki-client 8.7
    two new releases
  24. Devices and Hardware: OPNsense, Purism, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, SparkFun, and More
    BSD and GNU/Linux mostly
  25. Mozilla: Buzzwords, Privacy Pass, Firefox DevTools Newsletter
    Mostly Firefox stuff
  26. BSD: FreeBSD, PlayStation 5, and the Desktop
    Some BSD news
  27. today's howtos
    10 howtos for the morning
  28. Openwashing and Lock-in in 'Open' Clothing
    SFC and LF
  29. Linux 6.7-rc8 release (rather than 6.7 final) on December 31
    Schedule for final
  30. Security and Windows TCO Stories
    also patches and FUD
  31. Openwashing, Games, and More
    today's leftovers
  32. Security Leftovers
    Many incidents and such
  33. Mozilla: Pontoon survey results and multiple memory safety bugs
    a pair of Mozilla updates
  34. Red Hat / IBM: Training and Outsourcing (to Microsoft)
    a couple of new stories
  35. Devices: Avalue, FriendlyELEC, Arduino, Youyeetoo
    Devices that are "open" or Linux leaning
  36. today's howtos
    only 3 for now
  37. Etnaviv NPU update 13: Don't cross the tensors
    serious refactoring of the data structures
  38. Qt 6.7 Beta 1 Released and More Qt News
    3 new items
  39. GRUB 2.12 released
    GRUB maintainers are proud to announce GRUB 2.12 that has been just released
  40. Today in Techrights [Some of the latest articles]
    Some of the latest articles

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In New Letter Sent to Chair and Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation the Staff Union Explains How to End European Patent Office Strikes
If Campinos continues to behave as he does right now, the Council can show him the door
Microsoft Debt Rose Almost $50 Billion Since We Moved to Debian
GAFAM has a new name for debt
European Patent Office Management Mocked for Trying to 'Bribe' Staff With a Little Food
The Office is having a crisis; a little breakfast treat won't solve it
The Corporate Media Intentionally Overlooks How Google's Debt Trebles in Just Over a Year
We'll soon see how much more money Microsoft has borrowed
(Trigger Warning) Jeremy Bicha & Debian-Edu, TecKids, Ubuntu incest scandal at DebConf25
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part X - Deliberately Violate European Patent Convention (EPC), Tolerate Cocaine Use in Management, Hide That From Staff and Stakeholders
The "Alicante Mafia" (as staff calls it) is a disgrace to Europe
 
SLAPP Censorship - Part 63 Out of 200: Graveley as a Stripped-Down Version of Garrett in the Particulars of Claim (5RB Barrister Could Do This in One Minute)
Lazily and sloppily, it looks like the barrister took Garrett's claims and tweaked them a little (shortened) for Graveley
Lots of People Leave IBM, Today IBM Has About 1,000 Workers Fewer Than Yesterday
Confluent "last day" for 800+ people
Been a Very Busy Week
Next week, as we have no upgrades to prepare for, we should be able to publish at the usual pace of 20+ pages per day
Links 01/05/2026: Poems and Continuous Privacy Policy
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 30, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, April 30, 2026
Google News Sloppy Again
Today was disappointing
SLAPP Censorship - Part 62 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Issue Astounding Copy-Paste Masterpiece Asserting Publicly-Accessible Embarrassing Facts Must Remain Hidden
Are Garrett and Graveley twins separated at birth but joined by GNOME and Microsoft?
Links 30/04/2026: Barrage of Lawsuits Against Slop, Microsoft's Stock Crashes
Links for the day
Microsoft Says Mass Layoffs Are Coming and Puts a Price on Them
Microsoft will shrink
Upgrade Successful
we had a downtime of only 1-2 minutes overall (for two reboots)
Links 30/04/2026: Slop Industry Cannot Keep Up With Bills, "The World Is Getting Too Hot to Feed Itself"
Links for the day
Then Come the DDoS Attacks
Is someone trying to 'kill' Techrights?
The Register MS Running Spam Pieces for Huawei, a Banned Company
Money does not excuse bad behaviour
Apparently Last Day for Nearly 1,000 Confluent Workers IBM Laid Off Last Month
IBM is a dying company pretending to be strong because of its age
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Gemini Links 30/04/2026: Outdoor Time, Old Computers, and Joining Geminispace
Links for the day
In Past 6 Months IBM Lost About 100 Billion Dollars in 'Value' While Debt Ballooned to 70 Billion Dollars
Welcome to a universe of fake finances and phony accounting based on fictional assets with made-up 'worth'
Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop
It's longer than a "tweet", so social control media addicts are likely mentally unfit to read it
Six Months
Techrights will be around (and active) for a very long time to come
If We Move Everything to Devuan...
IRC, Git, Apache and so on
Why We Publish "The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt"
We intend to report the facts, fearlessly, until real and lasting solutions are reached
SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible
when you cover Microsoft corruption and have real effect
Weeks After Mass Layoffs of Red Hat Engineers We Learn of European "Buyouts" and Layoffs at IBM
At Microsoft, they tell us there are merely "buyouts", but they don't tell us what happens if you say "no!"
OS Upgrade Tentatively Scheduled for Tomorrow
We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
Campinos is a Lame Duck President This Year at the European Patent Office (EPO)
The strikes are not ending. If anything, they intensify further.
Links 29/04/2026: LLM Chatbot Usage Goes Down Sharply (as Do Stocks Associated With Them), Microsoft's Circular Financing Accounting Fraud at Risk
Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Returning to an Exodus and Farewell APU
Links for the day
Slop Has a Long Way to Go Before It Gets Basic Facts Right
Please do not rely on slop for anything
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part IX - European Patents That Are Illegal (But Serve Non-European Monopolists in Exchange for 'Quick Cash')
People who shamelessly violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) have the audacity to lecture workers on "ethics"
Canonical is Selling You, Ubuntu is a Data-Collecting Platform
Canonical is looking for money in the wrong places
Links 29/04/2026: "Snowden Affair 13 Years Later" and "Landmark Data Center Pause"
Links for the day
Seems Like Only Techrights Covered IBM Laying Off About 33% of Confluent Staff
How can such a large round of layoffs evade today's media?
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Bad Diet, New Middle Ages, and Temperature Model
Links for the day