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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Kernel FUD and Revisionism
    poor jourrnalism

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  2. Vim 9.1 Text Editor Adds Smooth Scroll Support, New :defer Command, and More
    Vim, the open-source and highly configurable text editor, has been updated to version 9.1, a release that mainly fixes numerous bugs but also introduces a few new features and improvements.
  3. today's leftovers
    lawsuits, SUSE, and more
  4. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    IBM/Red Hat fluff and bluff
  5. Events and Organisations: CCC, FSF, and LF
    some chatter and updates
  6. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and ESP32
    3 stories for now
  7. New Video: Krita 5.2 Features!
    Ramon Miranda has published a new video on the Krita channel: Krita 5.2 Features
  8. Programming Leftovers
    various languages, raves, and reports
  9. PyCharm for GNU/Linux Users and How to Generate Random Numbers in Python
    Some Python stories
  10. Security Leftovers
    Many stories, inc. some breaches in the news
  11. WordPress Weaknesses and Last Month in WordPress
    2 bits of news about the widely-used Content Management Systems (CMS)
  12. This Week in GNOME #129 Hello 2024
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 29 to January 05
  13. Software Releases: pg_dbms_metadata v1.0.0, Istio 1.19.6, and Crosswords 0.3.12
    3 new releases of free software
  14. Applications/Software: News and Reviews, Misc. Articles
    browsers, FTP clients, and more
  15. today's howtos
    the remainder for today
  16. Wine 9.0-rc4
    The Wine development release 9.0-rc4 is now available.
  17. elementary OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News
    We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access icons
  18. Android Leftovers
    5 Android apps you shouldn't miss this week and all the latest app news
  19. UNIX/GNU/Linux: FreeBSD, ZFS, and Bash
    technical leftovers
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  21. Programming Leftovers
    coding-related news
  22. Mobile, Open Hardware, Raspberry Pi, and More
    leftovers about devices
  23. Debian and Canonical Leftovers
    only 3 stories for now
  24. Games: Proton 8.0-5, Steam Deck Milestone, and More
    7 stories by Liam Dawe
  25. MRD5165 Eagle Kit Targets Autonomous Aerial Robotics with Qualcomm Technology
    The company also mentions that the Eagle kit is pre-equipped with a comprehensive software suite, including Ubuntu Core and the ROS framework
  26. today's leftovers
    KDE, Mozilla and more
  27. Programming Leftovers
    R and more
  28. A glimpse at Fish and Wireshark updates
    a couple of new posts
  29. Security Leftovers
    FUD also (very long)
  30. Distributions and Operating Systems: Immutable GNU/Linux and Windows Alternatives
    two stories for now
  31. 14 of the best plugins and DAWs you can use on Linux
    We continue our adventure into the world of Linux-based music-making with a round-up of the best Linux-friendly software tools
  32. today's howtos
    mostly from yesterday
  33. Latest Issue of Linux Magazine
    partial paywall though
  34. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

IBM is "Taking the PIP" (Piss), People 'Retire' 'Voluntarily' to "Focus on Family"
IBM has a billion bucks for 'the butcher', but not a million dollars for critical projects and initiatives in Free software
It Should be Uncontroversial to Say That Social Control Media is a Weapon
Democracy is not compatible with the likes of Kapo-Berg and MElon controlling public discourse of billions
Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It
The result isn't the worst, but it's not good either
Don't Let Them Kill Activism
Are the oligarchs shutting the lid on activism and whistleblowers?
 
Links 29/08/2026: Stop the Hate, Goldfish Myths, and xmpp.nz
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Links 29/08/2026: Wave of Social Control Media Bans, Suno Data Breach Class Actions
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Links 29/08/2026: Microsoft GitHub Outage (Again), "Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor", and "Election Deniers Could Soon Control Elections"
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Misuse of Bots (Now Sold as "Agents", "Hey Hi", "Automation", and "Efficiency")
They even try to rebrand robotics as "hey hi" and try to sell slop as "work"
SLAPP Censorship - Part 165 Out of 200: Two Years Since My Wife and I Sued
In early September 2024 we hit back
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 28, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, August 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/08/2026: Death Notice, Systems Biology, and Gopher
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Links 28/08/2026: Chatbot Pushers Admit They're Used Heavily for Social Engineering Scams, Strong Backlash Against "Smart Glasses" (CCTV on Legs)
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Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM
reading between the lines, IBM is "spitting out" Red Hat staff
If Linux Was Written in Rust, 80% or More of Linux Developers Would Not Understand It (Same If It's Composed by LLM Slop)
The licence (GPL) is not enough when there are ways to bypass it
Gemini Links 28/08/2026: Absurd Tomodachi Summer, Screen Piggery, and Jugulans 1.0.3 Released
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Links 28/08/2026: "UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem" and "Growth at All Costs is Cancer"
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America
You start to wonder if the core issue is insecurity
Rumours of More PIPs and Layoffs at Confluent Just Months After IBM Bought It
It is meanwhile apparent IBM will have mass layoffs next week (September)
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, August 27, 2026
After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September)
What we heard is turning out to be true
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline
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Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many
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The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times
1.5 hours ago
Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became
Many readers will have noticed what was a paid-for PR campaign of a global scale
RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them)
Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat)
Looking at recent activity in thelayoff.com, about 80% of the comments and posts are about PIPs
Links 27/08/2026: "Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge)
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Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland)
Maybe some people want to send him a detailed, polite explanation
GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed
When it comes to Social Control Media, Richard Stallman was right
Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices
We'll soon cover the EPO a lot more
SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals
There's No "Next XBox"
Nothing comes ahead except layoffs and price hikes
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games
Links for the day