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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 21, 2024

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Kernel: Don't Break Userspace and Don't Help Murderers Publish Articles

2 provocative pieces
today's howtos

another medium-sized batch
easyVoid version 6.0 released

This is the very first release of easyVoid
SourceHut network outage post-mortem

back online, with explanation
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS news and more
Programming Leftovers

perl, emacs, and more
Mozilla, Servo, Thunderbird, and Chromium

Web browser news/views
This Week in GNOME #131 STF Happenings

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 12 to January 19
Devices and Open Hardware/Modding (Raspberry Pi and Similar)

hardware-centric news and coverage in blogs
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update and Linux Weekly Roundup

A pair of roundups
today's howtos and technical posts

many howtos for now
Android Leftovers

Android Circuit: Galaxy 24 Revealed, ROG Phone 8 Reviewed, Pixel 8 Pro Special Offers
This week in KDE: auto-save in Dolphin and better fractional scaling

Quite a few new features and UI improvements are starting to accumulate there
today's howtos

mostly older ones
Security Leftovers

Lots of CISA bulletins
Shows and Videos: The Linux Link Tech Show and Invidious (Past Week)

Mostly videos
Archcraft January 2024 Release Available

Just a regular ISO update
openmediavault: OMV7 (Sandworm) RC1 available

Today the first release candidate (7.0-24) of OMV7 (Sandworm) has been released
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Hundreds of Microsoft Layoffs (Net Headcount Decrease) in the United Kingdom: headcount decreased
What Really Matters to Companies is Net Income or Profit (Bankruptcy is Possible Even With High Revenue): We ought to stop talking about revenue without focusing on actual profit
Carole Cadwalladr Talks About How Big Business Tried to Silence Her (and Why You Might be Next): Our story is very different from Cadwalladr's for many reasons
LLM Slop and SEO SPAM Take Us Further Away From Facts (the Case of IBM Layoffs): Some of these can impact Red Hat as well
Gemini Links 14/04/2025: Silver Pigs and more Foundation, Disliking Computers: Links for the day
Links 14/04/2025: Russian Attack on Sumy Shows No Intention of Peace, Virgin Australia Admits Overcharging People: Links for the day
The Dilemma of Web Browsers Lying About What They Are (in Order to Bypass Discriminatory Gateways Like Clownflare) Worsens Due to LLM Slop: LLM crawlers/scrapers have made sites more restrictive and hostile towards browsers that are potent but not "famous"
Companies Conspiring to Keep Salaries Down and Undermine Competition: People who do all the practical work are being paid less and made to work for much longer
Links 14/04/2025: Disinformation, Public Disdain for LLMs, and "Lessons on Tyranny": Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/04/2025: Ween and Historic Ada Project Management: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 13, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, April 13, 2025
Influencers: Red Hat, Inc's IPO, 1999, post-mortem on the directed share offer to open source developer community: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 13/04/2025: Microsoft Cuts to "AI" and Azure (It's Failing), ‘Ghiblification’ Shows Slop Doing Much Harm: Links for the day
Microsoft SLAPPs Against Techrights Losing Momentum: It always backfires
Links 13/04/2025: Tariff Remorse and Chatbots Leak Again: Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/04/2025: No CSS, Spring Scripting: Links for the day
Richard Stallman Turns 72 and Will Be Giving Talks in Europe Soon: We have many local copies of his talks as WebM, having converted files uploaded to YouTube
Revisionism and Lies by LLM Slop and Lazy "Media": What happened to investigation of issues?
Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative: When evil and greedy people are so desperate to silence you it typically gives you more motivation - not less - to do more of the same
EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits): Nobody authorised this
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 12, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, April 12, 2025
Links 12/04/2025: Tariffs Standoffs and Spam 'Articles' About Patents: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Isle Release 0.0.4 (Alpha) and Pokemon: Links for the day
Links 12/04/2025: Science and "DEI" Dismantled Further in the US: Links for the day
Links 12/04/2025: "Part of the Problem" and "Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now": Links for the day
New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission): Any consultation about it? Any media coverage? No.
The Consensus is Changing and Web Sites View LLMs as Evil, a Malicious Force of Plagiarism and a Source of DDoS: It's not about "AI" but about plagiarism of sorts
Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles About "Linux" Infect the Web, Google News Still Promotes These as 'News': people who go to a site like google.com or Google News or even social control media (where users get links from Google) will be directed to read slop, i.e. pure garbage.
Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Sigrblot and Conway Calamity: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 11, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, April 11, 2025