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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

Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL: Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset
This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money: The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago
There Was Always Too Much 'Crazy Stuff' Going on Around Freenode: What many IRC users lost sight of
Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was): In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"
Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised: Links for the day
Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment: perpetrators of harassment
For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions: "Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums"
GNU/Linux Distros Abandoning Microsoft GitHub: Will curl be next to leave Microsoft GitHub?
Expect More XBox Mass Layoffs Soon If the Rumours Are True: From a Microsoft media operative
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 07, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, June 07, 2025
Europe Needs to Move Away From GAFAM; The Sooner, the Better: Europe - not just the EU - must abandon GAFAM as soon as possible
The Issue Isn't GNOME's Promotion of Diversity But GNOME Corruption, Abuse, Censorship, and Worse: So-called "Conservative" (republican, pro-Trump, bigoted) people want you to think the problem with GNOME is politics
When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images): Integrity matters
"Linux" Sites That Spew Out LLM Slop: We're lacking enough material for another "Slopwatch"
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part V: Breaking the Law, Just Like EPO: We'll hopefully cover some of the pertinent details later this year
Links 08/06/2025: Security Lapses, CISA Cuts, and More: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/06/2025: Mime Types and Geminisphere Introduction: Links for the day
Links 07/06/2025: Slop Companies Retain All Private Data, More Books Banned in the US: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/06/2025: "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" and "Wireless Earbuds": Links for the day
Links 07/06/2025: More Rumours of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's XBox Division, New COVID Variant: Links for the day
Drug Addiction is a Real Problem, It Destroys Families: a rather sensitive matter
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IV: Political Scrutiny and Errors/Inconsistencies in Official Documents: When such organisations receive scrutiny they start focusing on cover-up and muzzling of facts (or crushing people who say the truth)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 06, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, June 06, 2025
Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, Planet Ubuntu, Anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft SPAM: It's not easy to altogether avoid take articles these days
Gemini Links 06/06/2025: "MBA Tear" and Slop ('AI') as Plagiarism: Links for the day
Links 06/06/2025: "Convicted Felon and MElon Trade Insults" and Europe Snubbed by US Again: Links for the day
Links 06/06/2025: Microsoft XBox Bracing For More Mass Layoffs, Climate Disaster, Fake 'Money' Tokens From US President: Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/06/2025: Vanishing Cultures and MElon Implosion: Links for the day
Extortion is a Crime, Even If You're Based in Another Continent and Work for Microsoft: reported to British authorities
We're in 6/6 Now, Almost Halfway in 2025: 2025 was probably the best year for us
South Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Microsoft: We're hardly even "Cherry-Picking" or conveniently singling out one South American nation
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part III: Data Protection Failures, Just Like at the European Patent Office (EPO): Just less than a decade ago we showed that the EPO had illegally shared staff data with third parties
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 05, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, June 05, 2025