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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. PulseAudio 17.0
    big new release
  2. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, ESP, and More
    Raspberry Pi for the most part
  3. Recent Red Hat / IBM News, 'Ads', and Leaks (Right Wing Perspective)
    Some puff pieces and some crude leaks

    New

  4. Android Leftovers
    Latest Galaxy S24 leaks reveal Google-powered ‘Circle to Search,’ 7 years of Android updates
  5. Firebird 5.0 Database Release: Key Features and Changes
    Firebird 5.0 open-source RDBMS features improved parallel operations, enriched SQL syntax, and more robust security
  6. Wine 9.0-rc5
    almosy there now
  7. 8 of the Best GNU/Linux Debuggers for Software Engineers
    Whether you're coding in C or PHP, everything on GNU/Linux is slower without a debugger
  8. today's howtos
    a second batch for today
  9. Tux Machines a Little Faster [original]
    Speeding up the sites some more
  10. 70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators.
    Microsoft, Meta, Sony, Oracle, Samsung... lots of big names in here
  11. Programming Leftovers
    4 code-related links
  12. today's leftovers
    some weekend links
  13. BSD: FreeBSD Journal, Sync, Audio Improvements
    3 BSD stories
  14. today's howtos
    only 4 more howtos for now
  15. Games: AYANEO Next Lite and More
    5 stories from Liam Dawe
  16. Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia": Best New Features
    Learn about the exciting new features of the Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia" release.
  17. Android Leftovers
    Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid hands-on review: Android tablet meets Windows laptop
  18. The Best Linux Distros for Gaming
    Believe it or not, the open-source universe is fit for some serious gaming these days
  19. KDE Frameworks 5.114.0
    KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.114.0
  20. Leaked Microsoft documents reveal effort to "Gender Transition" young children
    This report was not released freely to the public, but was made available to Microsoft employees and management
  21. Parch Linux: A Simple & Easy-to-Use Arch-based Distro
    A straightforward Arch-based distribution that doesn't come with overwhelming customizations out of the box
  22. The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming
    Wow, it feels like it’s been a while! And while many of KDE’s contributors have been enjoying some holiday and vacation time
  23. Chatreey AM08 Pro review – Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 and ESXi 7.0 on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS mini PC
    Now it’s time for the third part where I’ll test Ubuntu 22.04.03 Desktop OS and ESXi 7.0 update 3C hypervisor on the AM8 Pro mini PC
  24. Open Hardware and Mobile Phones
    running Linux
  25. today's leftovers
    distros and software
  26. Servers, Containers, and Clown Computing (Buzzwords, Cargo Cults)
    the backend news
  27. The return of EasyVoid
    NetworkManager show-stopper
  28. Web Clients/Browsers: Mail About Curl, WordPress, Hotdog, and Mozilla
    4 stories
  29. Audio/Shows/Videos: BSD Now and Hacker Tools Origin Stories
    technical and Free software-centric material
  30. Graphics: Mesa 23.3.3 and Broadcom VideoCore GPU (in Raspberry Pis)
    graphics stack in Linux
  31. PostgreSQL Databases: pg_dumpbinary, PGConf.dev, and Greenmask 0.1.0
    new postgres announcements
  32. Blending Free Software With Unrelated Causes
    SFC, LF etc.
  33. Security and Windows TCO
    patches, incidents, and more
  34. Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage
    DDoS
  35. Programming Leftovers
    Mostly R
  36. Qt and KDE: Proprietary Releases, KTextAddons 1.5.3, Qt 6 WASM, KDE Gear 24.02
    Some KDE-centric news
  37. today's howtos
    many howtos for Friday and today
  38. Games: AYA Neo Next Lite, Godot 4.3 dev 2, and More
    Some gaming news
  39. Linux and OpenSSH FUD (Still)
    Same old spin
  40. Stable Kernel Linux 5.10.207
    I'm announcing the release of the 5.10.207 kernel
  41. Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy
    What are the best free and open source alternatives to InCopy
  42. KDSoap 2.2.0 Released
    We’re pleased to announce the release of KDSoap version 2.2.0
  43. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VII
By Dr. Andy Farnell
Fourth Estate or Missing Fourth Pillar
"The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in explicit capacity of reporting the News" -Wikipedia on Fourth Estate
LLMs Are Not a Form of Intelligence (They Never Will Be)
Butterflies are smarter than "chatGPT"
Business Software Alliance (BSA), Microsoft, and AstroTurfing Online (Also in the Trump Administration Groomed by BSA and Microsoft)
Has Washington become openWashington? Where the emphasis is openwashing rather than Open(Source)Washington?
Windows at 1%
Quit throwing taxpayers' money at Microsoft, especially when it fails to fulfil basic needs and instead facilitates espionage by foreign and very hostile nations
 
Links 18/11/2024: Science News and War Escalations in Ukraine
Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/11/2024: Degrowth and OpenBSD Fatigue
Links for the day
BetaNews is Still 'Shitposting' About Trump and Porn (Two Analysers Say This 'Shitposting' Comes From LLMs)
Probably some SEO garbage, prompted with words like "porn" and "trump" to stitch together other people's words
Market Share of Vista 11 Said to be Going Down in Europe
one plausible explanation is that gs.statcounter.com is actually misreporting the share of Vista 11, claiming that it's higher than it really is
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 17, 2024
IRC logs for Sunday, November 17, 2024
Links 17/11/2024: Pakistan Broke, Tyson 'Crashes' or Knocks Over Netflix
Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Nachtigall Planned, Exodus at Twitter
Links for the day
Links 17/11/2024: China's Diplomacy and Gazprom Setback
Links for the day
Sudan Has Reached a State of Android Domination (93% Market Share, All-Time High According to statCounter)
countries at war buy fewer laptops?
[Meme] Just Do It?
'FSF' Europe (Microsoft) and FSF
Microsoft Front Groups Against the FSF, Home of GPL, GNU, and Free Software
Much of the money (not all of it) comes from the criminals at Redmond
Centralisation is Dooming the Web, RSS is One Workaround (But Not "Planets")
At least Gemini Protocol rejects centralisation
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 16, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, November 16, 2024
Links 17/11/2024: Wars, Bailouts, and Censorship
Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Changing Interests and HamsterCMS
Links for the day
Links 16/11/2024: Twitter (X) Exodus Continues, Social Control Media Sanctions Spread Further
Links for the day
If You Donate to the FSFE, You Are Funding a Microsoft Front Group Inside Europe
FSFE has a new "Sugar Daddy"
Wikileaks is Now Stuck Under the Clutches of Donald Trump (via Elon Musk)
The same Trump administration that was blackmailing Assange and also schemed to torture/assassinate him
IPKat's Annsley Merelle Ward Spreading the Same Old Lies and Shameless Propaganda to Promote Software Patents in Europe (i.e. the Usual... and She's Not Even a Coder)
People are quick to point out that the cited survey is very inherently biased
Windows in Azerbaijan: Down From Around 99% to Around 20%
In the past two years Microsoft could barely keep above 20%
Microsoft's Vanity Vapourware ('Lame Duck' Product for Trump and Biden Bailouts) Again "Discontinued"
Microsoft cannot keep a dying unit that makes almost no sales alive just for mere prospects of a bailout (which falls through because even the military turns it down)
Links 16/11/2024: FTC Investigates Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for "Clown Computing" Market Abuses, General Motors Mass Layoffs
Links for the day
When Articles About Linux Foundation Are LLM SPAM (Slop) From Publishers Paid by the Linux Foundation
This is a corruption of the Web
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 15, 2024
IRC logs for Friday, November 15, 2024
Claim That IBM Canada Had Mass Layoffs Just Hours Ago
Nothing in the media, as usual
Gemini Links 16/11/2024: Starting Afresh, Community-to-community Networks
Links for the day