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    mostly technical posts

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  3. Android Leftovers
    The SBC3399 primarily supports Android 11, as listed on its product page

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  4. Dev Gets Linux Screenshot App Shutter Working on Wayland
    Longing to use the legendary Linux screenshot tool Shutter on Wayland
  5. Free and Open in the Latest Draft of the EU Cyber Resilience Act
    New provisions related to free and open software in the December 20 draft of the CRA: [...]
  6. GNU/Linux Growing in 2024 [original]
    it's spreading

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  7. IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Kicks Off 2024 by Blocking Email Spammers by Default
    IPFire developer Michael Tremer announced today the release of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 182 as the first update in 2024 for this hardened, versatile, and state-of-the-art open-source firewall Linux distribution developed for routers and firewalls.
  8. today's leftovers
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  9. Modding and Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and FPGAs
    3 stories for today
  10. Red Hat/Fedora/IBM: GDB, RHEL, neovim, dap, and More
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  12. today's howtos
    not many tooday
  13. FSF: Raising Money, LibrePlanet in Wentworth Institute of Technology, Free Software Directory Meeting
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  14. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO Tales
    media barely named the culprit
  15. Emmabuntüs DE5 Starts the Year Strong with a Debian 12.4 Update
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  16. LibreOffice Help files have now a much better content editor
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  17. 7 of the Best Distros Based on Fedora Linux
    Fedora is a reliable GNU/Linux system that is great as a base for other larger distros. Learn the best distros today that use Fedora as its base
  18. Jeffrey Epstein list: Bill Gates Likely Named Soon
    relevant to Microsoft
  19. today's howtos
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  20. Gamers Are Switching to GNU/Linux (It's Faster and More Secure, Both Practical Benefits) [original]
    2% now
  21. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Microsoft's fault again
  22. Return to The Gopherverse
    away from the WWW?
  23. Programming and Technical Leftovers
    for coders mostly
  24. Consider Security First
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  25. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More
    Some devices and hackable things
  26. BSD: OpenBSD and FreeBSD News
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  28. Going Static is the Trend Now (Welcome, 2024!) [original]
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  29. Alacritty 0.13 Released with Enhanced Configurability
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  30. Mozilla CEO wants business to pick up the pace
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