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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 18, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux
    finally it's out
  2. Tsurugi Linux: Tailoring user experience for digital forensics and OSINT investigations
    Tsurugi Linux is a heavily customized open-source distribution focused on supporting DFIR investigations.
  3. Wine 9.0 Major Release: Best New Features
    A new release of Wine 9.0 is now available with key improvements.

    New

  4. Android Leftovers
    Samsung announces ‘world first’ Android button that makes Google searches easier than ever
  5. Raspberry Pi 5 industrial HMI displays gain M.2 NVMe SSD, RS232/RS485 interfaces, audio input/output jacks
    EDATEC ED-HMI3020 is a family of Raspberry Pi 5-based industrial HMI displays that build upon the earlier ED-HMI3010 panel PCs
  6. Android Leftovers
    Google will add new search and browser choice screens for Android phones in Europe
  7. Flathub’s Strategic Shift to Highlight High-Quality Apps
    Flathub's new guidelines elevate app quality, ensuring a seamless experience for users seeking top-notch applications
  8. today's leftovers
    kernel and more
  9. Development Leftovers
    IBM, GNOME, KDE, and more
  10. Free Software Leftovers
    Debian, SUSE, and more
  11. Security Leftovers
    only 4 for now
  12. today's howtos and troubleshooting
    only 4 more for now
  13. MenuLibre - Advanced tool to Edit App Shortcuts in Start Menu
    Need a tool to edit your apps in the start menu, main menu, or Gnome overview search results?
  14. Android Leftovers
    Assistant with Bard on Android may be simply called Bard
  15. GEEKOM Mini Air12 mini PC review – Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 Linux
    YouTube video streaming, and ran some benchmarks in Ubuntu 22.04, before checking out the cooling performance
  16. Accessibility and Really Simple Syndication
    Only indirectly related to Free software, 3 links
  17. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS links
  18. New programming language needed for KDE?
    I am not one of KDE's masterminds or spokespersons. I am a mere bystander with few unimportant commits
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Python, among others
  20. Open Hardware: Arduino, Retro, Raspberry Pi, and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi today
  21. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    security patches, incidents etc.
  22. today's howtos
    the first batch for the day today
  23. AV Linux MX Edition 23.1: OS for Audiophiles
    AV Linux 23.1 'Enlightened' is a significant update, including MX-23/Debian 12 base, Enlightenment 0.25.4, and PipeWire 1.0.0
  24. Defense Unicorns: Bridging the Gap Between National Security and Open Source
    All of their core technology is open source and is released under an Apache 2.0 license
  25. Games: Stream Deck, Ubisoft Outrage, winesapOS, Free Re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1
    7 stories, mostly by Liam Dawe
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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Copyleft is the Way to Go (Unless You're an Unpaid Volunteer of GAFAM)
The GPL 'family' of licences is very old and those licences were last revised in 2007
statCounter's Numbers Make Sense Given Microsoft's Falling Windows/Client Revenue
There are already articles (some last week) saying that XBox should just be ended
statCounter: New Record Highs for GNU/Linux in Its Birthplace
So Microsoft is in a tough place
Links 02/02/2025: Website Revamps, Blogging About Blogging, and Self-Harming Tariff Wars (Higher Prices)
Links for the day
 
It Seems Like BetaNews is Finally Deleting Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" by LLM Slop (aka Brian Fagioli)
Is BetaNews finally taking these problems more seriously?
Gemini Links 03/02/2025: Art is Process, Smartphones, Internet, and More
Links for the day
Links 03/02/2025: USAID Under Attack, Vista 11 Breaking Itself Again
Links for the day
About 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Venezuela and Cuba Uses GNU/Linux
statCounter says GNU/Linux now exceeds 10% in Cuba
At Microsoft, Promoting Back Doors, Proprietary Lock-in and Mass Surveillance Under the Guise of Diversity ("Microsoft Philanthropy Team")
Microsoft staff enters NGOs to lobby for Microsoft and sell for Microsoft
statCounter: Android Share in Operating Systems, Per Country
Towards the bottom there are poorer countries
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 02, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, February 02, 2025
statCounter: In Canada, New Lows for Windows and Bing is Perishing
Windows has fallen to about 60% in desktops/laptops
Yandex Has Nearly Caught Up With Microsoft Internationally, Bing Falls to Pre-LLM Hype Levels
Of course we've been saying all along that this would happen
Germany's 'Share' of GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time High Based on This Surveyor
Many public services have made the move to GNU/Linux
Microsoft Uses the Mindset of Drug Dealers and Pays 'News' Sites to Sell 'Drugs'
Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively
Windows Going South in the "Global South" (Africa and More)
Microsoft has long been shameless about using the tactics of drug dealers
Sharp Drop for Microsoft Windows This Month, Based on statCounter
Facebook meanwhile censors GNU/Linux advocacy
3 Months Ago Lupa Saw 4,200+ Unique Gemini Capsules; Now It Sees Nearly 4,400
many bots target our capsule (129,152 Gemini requests yesterday alone)
Gemini Links 02/02/2025: Geminispace Targeted by Chatbots, Gabbro 0.1.1 Released
Links for the day
Oracle's Debt Soars to 100 Billion Dollars (12 Billion Added in Just 9 Months!) While Larry Ellison Backs Fascism for Bailouts, Graft, and "Contracts"
Including attempts to gain control of TikTok, owing to the corrupt dictator long promoted by Larry Ellison (also via Twitter takeover)
Links 02/02/2025: Union-Busting and Censorship by Executions
Links for the day
Gemini Links 02/02/2025: Limits Pushing, Free Software Absolutism, and Why Gemini Matters
Links for the day
Slopwatch: BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com Have Just Published More Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
There's probably more "Linux" slop out there, but we do our best to identify it on a daily basis
Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talks in Recent Days
In the past month he has given at least half a dozen talks
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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
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
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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
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?
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
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 31, 2025
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