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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

Weekly Catchup: HowTos, Advisories, and More

today's leftovers
Perl Updates and News

From the official site this past week
ExTiX Deepin 24.1 Live based on Deepin 23 BETA2 (latest) with Refracta Snapshot and kernel 6.6.10-amd64-extix :: Build 240110

I’ve released a new version of ExTiX Deepin today (240110)
Upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 from 21.2, 21.1 and 21

This guide gives you all the information you need to Upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” from Linux 21.2, 21.1.
today's leftovers

KDE, Programming, Devices, and More
Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: TLLTS, Invidious, and More

Many from YouTube this time
Security Leftovers

incidents, breaches, and risks
today's howtos

another Sunday batch
Android Leftovers

Secure your data on Android: Why clearing cookies matters
Windows on Arm exclusivity may be a thing of the past soon - Arm CEO confirms Qualcomm's agreement with Microsoft expires this year

Arm CEO Rene Haas confirmed rumors that Qualcomm's exclusivity agreement with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ends this year
KDE’s 6th Megarelease – RC1 on Fedora Rawhide!

For those who like bleeding edge, feel free to try it!
16 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools

There are some excellent open source software to solve common problems in text processing like sentiment analysis
Linux Distro Reviews: LMDE

review of interest
today's leftovers

assorted topics
Content Management Systems, Browsing, and Servers

Some FOSS links about the back end and sites
Programming Leftovers

R, Python, and more
RSS URLs and Cool URIs That Do Not Break

new takes on the Web/RSS
Security Leftovers

many reports and notes
OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed Report and OpenSUSE.Asia Summit 2023

2 SUSE bits of news
Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and Hackaday Podcast

2 new episodes
Games: Steam Deck and SNES Controlled With GNU/Linux

2 stories for now
Open Hardware: Arduino, SparkFun, Raspberry Pi, and More

a number of device stories
today's howtos

some Sunday howtos
This Week in GNOME: #130 Bubble Expanding

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 05 to January
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Hiring for Tech Roles Based on Perceived Loyalty is No Better Than Hiring to Meet Diversity Quotas: What we're seeing right now is a national security disaster and it is almost purely about technology
S.E.O. SPAM by Serial Sloppers With L.L.M. Garbage is Hurting Linux: We continue to run Slopwatch
IBM Says That Half of Its "Assets" is Basically Pure Fiction ("Goodwill"): It times get tough, IBM can sell "Goodwill" at the local pawn shop and pay back the lenders, right?
Links 01/02/2025: Chinese and American Censorship, Cloud-[sic]Native Targeted by Software Patents: Links for the day
Links 01/02/2025: Belated Happy New Year 2025 and Gabbro 0.1.2: Links for the day
Links 01/02/2025: Administrative Chaos and Aviation Disasters Persist: Links for the day
Arrested: Albanian Outreachy whistleblowers, Sonny Piers GNOME & Debian connections: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 1/2/2025: LLM Hype Revisited, Linuxwashing by Oumi: Links for the day
Growing Evidence That the Patent Industry Has Become a Major Scam: Seeing that the patent "industry" has turned to serious crimes (sometimes to cover up corruption) and seeing that the net negative is clearer for all to see, people who argue for abolition of all patents will have a field day
Planet Ubuntu Overrun by LLM Slop? Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU Seems to be Publishing Fake Articles About "Linux"...: Maybe it is "assisted" by LLM slop, but slop is slop and it introduces many problems
Gemini Links 01/02/2025: LLMs, Analog Computer, and BorgBackup: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 31, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, January 31, 2025
Links 31/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Microsoft, Sweden Again Fails to Protect Critics of Violence: Links for the day
Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc): LLM slop season
Microsoft Staff Explains How Microsoft Swindled Employees and Avoided Paying Out Severance Pay (Microsoft Hasn't Much Money Left in the Bank): This is a classic way to avoid paying workers
"Not one of us" by Dr. Andy Farnell: Elon Musk has brought embarrassment to nerds and technologists
Gemini Links 31/01/2025: "Bulletin Buble" and "Why Blog?": Links for the day
Static Site Generators (SSGs) Pay Off: Vastly Faster Sites, Much Smaller Hosting Bills: success story for SSGs
Of Note: Linux Foundation Has Already Let Linux.com Rot for About 4 Months (No Activity): there's no campaign aside from marketing spam there
Techrights Should be Even Faster Now: We're now better off
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 30, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, January 30, 2025
Richard Stallman (RMS) Gave 3 Talks in India in Less Than a Week: In India this month we've not seen a single negative comment about RMS
Indian Data Biases statCounter For or Against "Linux": In statCounter, the GNU/Linux increases and decreases are deeply tied to what it does with data collected in India
The Corporate Media Pretends That Facebook ("Meta") Has Performed Well, But Its Debt Doubles Every 2 Years Despite Mass Layoffs: That same media also helps parrot misleading financial claims
Microsoft's Debt Surged by More Than 6,000,000,000 Dollars in Just 3 Months: numbers released hours ago
The Sheer Irony of Microsoft Proxy Accusing Others of 'Stealing': Wherever DeepSick's data came from, Microsoft (or its proxy) is in no position to issue criticism.
The Difference a Decade (and GAFAM Money) Makes: Credibility cannot be purchased
[Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective: Applying to others the same standards one is willing to violate?
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised $422,000 (Another $22k in the Two Weeks After Campaign Ended), Proving That Truth and Justice Tend to Find a Way: 10,000+ dollars a week even without campaigning for more funds
Faking Revenue Increase by Buying Your Own Products and Services (Through Scams and Scammers Like Scam Altman): Is this what society deserves? Media that instead of exposing corruption has chosen to participate in it and profit from it?
Microsoft Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay Reported Hours After Microsoft Reported Weak Numbers and Microsoft Stock Fell: Microsoft has a bloodbath this month
Links 30/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Causes Deaths, FBI Seizes Domains: Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Action vs Inaction, Gopherholes, and More: Links for the day
Another Slew of Fake Articles About 'Linux' and 'Security' From Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com (Spamfarm/Slopfarm): linuxsecurity.com is basically a pariah and parasite. It lessens the incentive to write real articles about "Linux" by generating fake ones to outrank the originals.
Links 30/01/2025: Microsoft Wants Convicted Felon to Give Fentanylware (TikTok) to It (After Making a Phonecall Asking for That in 2019), "Moving Away From Google's Ecosystem": Links for the day
Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM: LinuxInsider is barely active anymore
Links 30/01/2025: Amazon Layoffs and DeepSeek Panic: Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Chaos Reigns, E-mail, Searching: Links for the day
IBM: Many Thousands of Layoffs in 2025: If 2025 is expected to be the same, then perhaps about 20,000 IBM workers will no longer be there
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 29, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, January 29, 2025