Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2024

The Royal Courts of Justice in London

Updated This Past Day

  1. Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap
    The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward
  2. StarFive VisionFive 2: Finally a RISC-V SBC for the Masses?
    predicting (or planning) that RISC-V will take a major part of the server space within 5 years from now
  3. Android Leftovers
    GL.iNet Flint 2 router review – Part 2: WiFi 6, 2.5GbE, WireGuard performance
  4. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, Security, and Windows TCO
    Some security news

    New

  5. Android Leftovers
    4 Of The Best Nintendo DS Emulators For Android
  6. openSUSE Leap 16 Confirmed, Will Be Based on SUSE’s New Adaptable Linux Platform
    The openSUSE Project confirmed today the successor to its openSUSE Leap 15 operating system series as openSUSE Leap 16, which will be based on SUSE’s new Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).
  7. Eccryption in Fedora and Red Hat's Broken System for Promoting Microsoft
    Some IBM/Red Hat stuff
  8. Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux (TWIL), GNU World Order, LINUX Unplugged, and Free Software Security Podcast
    4 new episodes
  9. Software: Memtest86+, Content Management Systems, Text-based Web Browsers, Surya, and More
    Some Free software lists and articles
  10. GNOME 45.3 Released to Allow Sharing of WPA3 (SAE) Networks with QR Code
    The GNOME Project released today GNOME 45.3 as the third update to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series to fix more bugs and also add a few enhancements.
  11. Releases of Ergo (IRC) 2.13.0 and GNU cpio 2.15
    Two new releases
  12. today's howto
    a lump of howtos for MLK Day
  13. Programming Leftovers
    4 more picks for today
  14. Slow News (US Holiday) Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  15. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, ESP32, and More
    Devices with Linux selling well
  16. today's howtos
    not so many yet (holiday)
  17. BSD: FreeBSD, Lazy Reading, and httpd on OpenBSD
    Some BSD updates/views
  18. Software: Hugo, Kubernetes, and KDE
    3 software-related updates
  19. Emacs for writers
    Then the discovery: GNU Emacs – dnf install emacs
  20. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 14th, 2024
    The 170th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 14th, 2024.
  21. 5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software
    Here’s our open source recommendations
  22. KDE Frameworks 5.114 Adds New Quality Settings for AVIF Images, Fixes More Bugs
    KDE Frameworks 5.114 open-source software suite is now available for download with various small changes and minor bug fixes for users of the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series.
  23. Review: Linux AI voice assistants and talking to myself
    Anyway, around the holidays I was invited to try out a new Alexa speaker and the experience, well, it didn't go smoothly
  24. today's howtos
    only 3 for now (holiday in US)
  25. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

The Week to Come
Planning ahead
LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online
The very same companies that were supposed to maintain quality (again, not limited to Google with PageRank) are now actively participating in generating and spreading slop
When They Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)?
there's "no free lunch"
 
Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance"
Links for the day
Richard Stallman is Usually Right Because He Thinks "Outside the Box"
he is able to observe society (mores and norms) as somewhat of an outsider
LWN Has Been Down for a Long Time, Another Casualty of LLM Bots?
Time will tell. How much time though?
Slopfarms Versus 'Linux' (and Against People Who Write Real Articles About GNU/Linux)
LLM slop in slopfarms by Brian Fagioli and Redazione RHC
Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and Running pkgsrc in a FreeBSD Jail
Links for the day
Microsoft Turns News Sites Into Spamfarms
Is the site The Register MS the next IDG?
The Register MS/The Register US
On Saturday I contacted them for a comment (before issuing criticism)
Hacking revelations at Vatican Jubilee of Digital Missionaries
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 27, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, July 27, 2025
We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents
We can get back to focusing on what we wanted to focus on all along
Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity)
the latest articles in LinuxIac are real
Links 27/07/2025: Political Affairs, Data Breaches, Attacks on Freedom of the Press
Links for the day
Gemini Links 27/07/2025: Hot in Japan and Terminal Escape Codes
Links for the day
Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News
Links for the day
Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software
Links for the day
The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes
But the problem is holes, i.e. Microsoft making bad products; the problem is Microsoft
Most Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft)
It's not easy to tell where the site is based (we tried) because it's hiding behind ClownFlare and CrimeFlare hasn't been well lately
Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean")
Unlike systemd
"New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40)
We have a lot more to say about LLM bots
When Silence Says So Much
Garrett, a 'secure' boot pusher, will need to defend himself in the UK High Court
The Register in Trouble
There is not much that can be done at this point
Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Microsoft Salespeople
Something isn't right at The Register
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 26, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Misinformation in Social Control Media
Social control media passes around all sorts of tropes
Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains
throwing bots at "Linux" to make some fake articles
Links 26/07/2025: Amazon Shutdown in China, Russian Economy Slows
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/07/2025: History of Time (1988) and Gemini Games
Links for the day
Links 26/07/2025: 50 Percent Tariffs in Amazon, Dying Intel Offloads Network and Edge Group (NEX)
Links for the day
Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM
Trying my best to 'fix' the Web
Blaming Programming Languages for Users' and Developers' Bad Practices
That's like blaming cars for drivers who crash into things
Slopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore
The Web as we once know it is collapsing. Some opportunists try to replace it with low-quality slop.
The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief)
The Register 'UK' is now controlled by the Directions on Microsoft guy
Many People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor
Unlike so many other sites
The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register
I decided to check how they're doing as a business
Microsoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop?
Create low-quality chaff to shift the media's attention?
Microsoft Windows Lost 400 Million Users in a Few Years, Why Does The Register Double Down on Windows With New US Editor?
days ago they hired a new US editor
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 25, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, July 25, 2025
For Libel Reform One Must First Bring (or Raise) Awareness to the Issues and Their Magnitude
I myself know, from personal experience
Links 26/07/2025: Rationed Meals in the US and TikTok Repels Investments (Too Toxic)
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/07/2025: "Bloody Google" and New People in Geminispace
Links for the day
Response to Solderpunk (Father of Gemini Protocol) About the Gemini Community
Solderpunk responds to non-sequitur
HTML and the Web Used to be Something a Child Could Learn, "Modern" Web is a Puzzle of Frameworks, Bloat, and Worse
When the Web was more like Gemini Protocol