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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.

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Estimates of Microsoft Layoffs: 3,000 Staff to be Culled Just in Gaming, How Many in Other Divisions?: Now the XBox division has its own "fall guy", but it is a woman
Straw Man Arguments Against Rust: If anything, it teaches the importance of auditing packages
Tesla Debt Rose Sharply, Sales Declined, Wall Street's Claim of Tesla "Value" is Merely a Fairytale (and Not Just Tesla): We would gladly sell land on Mars to anyone who honestly believes a company that loses money is somehow "worth" trillions in Wall Street
Stop Calling Losses "Investment": XBox is losing money, it is a sinkhole
For Justice We Need More Speech, Not Less Speech: When you attack something you are just giving that something a bigger platform
SLAPP Censorship - Part 107 Out of 200: Keeping Law Accessible to Everybody: We'll have stories related to this in the future
Links 15/06/2026: Slop "Beg Bounties", Wall Street Fakes 'Worth', and Arkansans Saved PBS: Links for the day
Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Simulation, and Theremin: Links for the day
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Links 14/06/2026: Energy Cost and Reality Strikes at Heart of Slop Bubble, 75 Data Center Build-outs "Successfully Blocked": Links for the day
Microsoft CEO Says XBox is Not a Sustainable Business: "Now, we have to turn this into a sustainable business," he said about XBox
MElon (MUSK, Elon) is a Trillionaire Like Penguins Are Mammals: Have media outlets told the truth?
Unlikely Heroes: One personal hero who is not alive (anymore) is Navalny
Bruce Schneier Was Probably Wrong About Slop: Right now politicians who openly speak in favour of slop are committing "political suicide"
SLAPP Censorship - Part 106 Out of 200: 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers: When one party's communications and filings weigh at about 3 KG of paper and another's... at about 100 KG of paper
Links 14/06/2026: More Google Layoffs, Wall Street Deems Companies That Lose Money "Worth" Trillions: Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/06/2026: "The Universe is a Hologram", "Matrix Brain Download", and "Happy 0th Year": Links for the day
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Battistelli's "Baltic Crusader": Gilles Requena, Battistelli's erstwhile "Baltic Crusader" and the loyal servant of his successor Campinos
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Links 13/06/2026: University of Nottingham Confirms Data/System Breach, Courts Fuming at Fraudulent Lawyers Who Fling LLM Slop at Them: Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: World Cups and 做人: Links for the day
Microsoft's XBox "Bloodbath" Seems to Have Already Begun (Informally), Studios Allegedly to Face Shutdowns, Layoff Notices Handed Out, 100% Layoffs in Some Cases, 10% in Others or on Average: So is a complete closure/shutdown imminent? (Compulsion Games in this case)
Discussing Morale at IBM and Conversations Regarding IBM Layoffs (Disguised as Other Things): Trolling can be a form of censorship
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: All the President's Men: Gilles Requena,Patrice Pellegrino, and Sandro Mendonça
SUEPO Elections Coming Up, Union Leaders at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) to be Determined Soon: The staff union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) is having an election soon
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How Long for Can American Taxpayers Justify Bailing Out Microsoft?: How many times need the American taxpayers give Microsoft money for vapourware that's neither necessary nor delivered?
IBM is Importing/Exporting Corporations' Regime of Censorship (Hiding the Wrongdoing) to Free Software Communities: Is IBM protecting criminals in the name of "manners"?
Links 13/06/2026: Microsoft’s XBox Crisis and "Apple Deepfakes": Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: Why Humans Are Mostly Right Handed and "Getting Things Done": Links for the day
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