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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 24, 2023

Advent Calendar December 23 Focus

Updated This Past Day

  1. Whonix 16 approaching EOL
    recommend that all Whonix users upgrade to Whonix 17 before then

    New

  2. Arch Linux vs. Fedora Linux: Which Should You Use
    They're both great. It all depends on what matters to you
  3. Graphics: Vulkan Extensions and Wayland
    Igalia and IBM
  4. GNOME and LibreOffice in Nepal
    Free software stories
  5. Don’t change your login shell, use a modern terminal emulator
    a small tool that lets you change the default shell for your current user
  6. today's howtos
    another last cluster of HowTos for today
  7. This Week in GNOME: #127 Welcome News
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 15 to December 22
  8. Digital Restrictions (DRM) Cautionary Tales, Led by Microsoft
    DRM warningss
  9. Devices With Linux or Arduino
    A few more stories of Open-ish Hardware
  10. Android Leftovers
    HyperOS vs Android: these are the new features of Xiaomi OS
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Perl, Python, and more
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Libre Space Foundation and BSD Now
    2 videos/episodes
  13. EDATEC ED-IPC3020 – A fanless Raspberry Pi 5 industrial computer with an M.2 NVMe SSD, RS485/RS232 interfaces
    EDATEC ED-IPC3020 is a fanless industrial computer based on the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC with support for an M.2 NVMe SSD up to 2260 in size, RS232 and RS485 serial ports, and stereo audio input and output jacks
  14. Net, Ceph, Gaming, and LF
    today's leftovers
  15. Windows TCO Stories
    Cracked due to Microsoft
  16. Latest Tails 5.21 Update Addresses Persistent Storage Issues
    Tails 5.21 release includes a fix for system partition resizing errors and updated Tor Browser 13.0.7
  17. 7 Reasons to Pick Nobara Linux Over Fedora
    This article will show you 7 reasons why you should pick Nobara Linux over Fedora
  18. 7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here
  19. Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility
    We only feature open source software in this series
  20. Deepin OS Features in a Quick Overview
    This article presents a compilation of ten distinctive features of deepin OS
  21. This week in KDE: Holiday bug fixes
    Like last week, the focus remained on getting the megarelrease ready for, well, a mega release
  22. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, PiCar, and More
    Various Pi projects/stories
  23. today's howtos
    a batch of technical posts
  24. BSD: FreeBSD/armv7 in Qemu, FreeBSD's 2023 in Review, and More
    3 BSD-related stories
  25. Tails 5.21
    update now
  26. Open-Source Linux Distribution for Blue Teaming
    Tsurugi, developed by Giovanni Rattaro
  27. Today in Techrights [Some of the latest articles]
    Some of the latest articles

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This Saturday It's Gonna be 3.5 Years* Since Russia Invaded Ukraine. No Microsoft Protests Against Microsoft Having Provided Russia With Services.
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IBM "Value" Down 14.16% in a Month, Red Hat Layoffs Allegedly Discussed 12 Days Ago
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We're Seeing More Countries Where Windows Isn't Even in Second Place Anymore (Third or Worse)
In a way, Microsoft can barely even hold onto second place anymore
The US Government is Now in the Business (Literally!) of Saving Microsoft and Intel
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Microsoft Workers on Canonical's Payroll
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The SLAPPS Run Out of Oxygen Because They're Abuse of Process
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The Register MS Gets Paid by the Employer of the Previous Editor in Chief to Promote the "AI" Ponzi Scheme, Which Does Considerable Damage to the Web and to Online Journalists
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Soon It'll be Autumn, Time to Repair Things
Where they don't charge an arm and a leg
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Gemini Links 23/08/2025: August Questions and Network Solutions
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Harassing People on Holiday
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The Great, Undeniable Value of Paper Trail, Not Purely Digital Systems
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Condé Nast busted
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The "End Software Patents" Initiative of the FSF Explains "WHY [to] ABOLISH SOFTWARE PATENTS"
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Freenode Sniffing
The grown-ups left the building
The Only Thing Worse Than Misinformation is Misinformation Sold to Everyone as "Intelligence"
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The Register MS Now Openly Admits LLM Hype Does Damage, But It's Also Being Paid to Participate in the LLM Hype (With Paid 'Articles' and 'Webcasts' for Paying Advertisers)
The Register MS gets paid to do this
End of the Smartphone Era? No.
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Latest Is Not Greatest: The Case of "Foldable" Tech
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Airlines and Their Tricks That Only Work in the 'Digital Age'
People sceptical of the direction technology has taken are not "Luddites"
Open Source Initiative (OSI), Which Became a Propaganda Front of Microsoft and "Hey Hi" (Hype, Misnomer), Wants You to Forget These Scandals
A lot of these issues won't be set aside until there's a resolution
The Culture of Overnight Coding
An industry-wise push-back is needed
Windows Down to New Lows in Guinea Bissau and Many Countries Around It
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Gemini Links 21/08/2025: Modern Dating, Debian 13, and Apache
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Microsoft Has Had About 10 Waves of Mass Layoffs So Far This Year (Not Two as Mainstream Media and Slopfarms Endlessly Claim)
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Search in 2025 (Age of DDoS Attacks Under the Guise of "AI" "Innovation")
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Using Slop for Images Does Not Make Your Site Look Advanced or Witty, It Just Makes Your Whole Work Look Like Presumed Plagiarism
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Richard Stallman Will Speak in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress
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