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  1. Ubuntu: Newsletter, Repositories, and Microsoft Spyware
    Some Ubuntu picks
  2. IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics
    Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    LF, FSF-EEE, and OpenSUSE
  4. Android Leftovers
    Ayaneo reveals details of new Android gaming handheld set to rival the Ayn Odin2
  5. OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
    I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Raku and more
  7. Best Linux Distro for Gaming – Top Distros for Enhanced Linux Gaming Experience
    Thanks to the big push made by Valve
  8. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino Uno, ESP32-S2, and 3D Printing
    4 projects or stories
  9. Security Leftovers
    flaws, patches, and more
  10. A Complete Guide to Xubuntu Default Apps and Their Purposes
    This is a full list of all Xubuntu default applications
  11. Review: wattOS R13
    wattOS wattOS is a fast and lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian
  12. OKdo ROCK 5 AIO Edge Media Board with 3 TOPs NPU and Pre-integrated AI Stack
    The board runs on the Debian 10 LTS operating system, providing a mature and actively developed software environment
  13. European Events: Hackaday Europe 2024 and FOSDEM 2024
    4 reports/invitationss
  14. Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    corporate and technical articles from Red Hat
  15. GNU/Linux Applications: FSearch, Note Taking, and Lux
    5 new articles about software
  16. Audiocasts/Shows: WordPress Briefing, Late Night Linux, Linux User Space, Destination Linux, and LINUX Unplugged
    5 new episodes
  17. today's howtos
    many howtos for Tuesday
  18. Why the future of manufacturing will rely on open source
    Let’s look at a few examples of how Red Hat is working with our ecosystem to put this effort into action
  19. Open Hardware/Modding: How I Also Hacked my Car and Raspberry Pi Project
    Some devices and hacking
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the World Wide Web
    Web-centric news picks
  21. Programming Leftovers
    many picks for this week
  22. Windows TCO Leftovers
    3 Windows TCO examples
  23. today's howtos
    morning batch of howtos
  24. Android Leftovers
    Google Maps is now bringing 3D buildings during navigation to more Android Auto users
  25. Beyond 2038: Debian Strengthens 32-Bit Builds with Critical Patches
    No worries. Your 32-bit packages won't break after 2038 since the Debian team already started working on it.
  26. IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 182 released
    The first update of the year 2024 is out: IPFire 2.27
  27. Stable kernels: Linux 6.7.4, Linux 6.6.16, and Linux 6.1.77
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.7.4 kernel
  28. These two old-school music players for Linux let me fine-tune my listening experience
    Both Clementine and Qmmp include 10-band EQs
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

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"AGI" is Decades Old and It Never Found a Viable Business Model or Real, Actually Useful Use Cases
I keep reminding people of local firms (right here in Manchester) doing the same thing the media now calls "AGI"...
SLAPP Censorship - Part 158 Out of 200: Making Alliances With Men Arrested for Strangling Women Was Always a Terrible Strategy
They work for American slop companies
 
Links 23/08/2026: Slop "Children's Stories Contain Bizarre Patterns" and "Butterflies at the One Garden"
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults
When lawyers trick courts into repeating something false
Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore
Android+GNU/Linux+ChromeOS are near 20%
The Slop Industry Bribed the Media to Pretend It Has Something New and Revolutionary. Now It Bribes Politicians Too. Anything to Avoid Scrutiny and Regulation.
borrowed money has long been used to bribe the media
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 22, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, August 22, 2026
Microsoft to Its Workers in April-May: You're Too Old, Go Away. Microsoft in August: Young People, Go Away.
What does this company even sell anymore?
Clownflare Data US-Centric
We are assuming that for national security reasons not many sites in Chinese (or based in China) outsource their traffic to Clownflare
Gemini Links 22/08/2026: Broken Car, Devuan, and Thundermail
Links for the day
Links 22/08/2026: Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Pay High Price for Frivolous Litigation in the UK
Links for the day
'Voluntary' Mass Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
IBM does not want people to notice what truly goes on there
Another Round of GAFAM Layoffs, This Time Apple
Now Apple "is shutting down an entire Vision Pro team focused on developing gaming features for the mixed-reality headset."
Gemini Links 22/08/2026: The Bodyguard (1992), Minimalism, Backups, and IPFS
Links for the day
Links 22/08/2026: TikTok Settles With Feds, Harms Caused by Social Control Media Gaining Attention
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New Data Shows Microsoft's XBox is Really Dying
XBox is a "burning platform"
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 21, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, August 21, 2026
Sources-First Publication
Thank you for keeping us on track
Ubuntu is Not Linux
I was one of the first users of Ubuntu
Links 21/08/2026: Outrage Over Politicians Who Support Slop-Feeding Data Centres, "America Is About to Get More Expensive"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/08/2026: Rain Coming Back and "Small Internet"
Links for the day
Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies)
Gerstner laid off a record number of people; Krishna tries to find 'innovative' new ways to cause workers to leave
Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried)
So nobody is in charge
The Slop Pyramid Scheme (Not Boon!) Isn't Good for GNU/Linux, Even If the Plagiarism Engines (Framed as "Training" or "Intelligence") Almost Always Run GNU/Linux
We need the slop pop - we need the bubble to pop
North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 13%-15% Every Night
many (north) Americans use GNU/Linux at home and are using it to access the Web in the small hours of the morning
Links 21/08/2026: "Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy" and "Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?"
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 157 Out of 200: What is a 'Defamation Troll'?
"Defamation Mill" also
Northern Europe Leads the Pack in Abandoning Windows After Threats Made to Greenland (Says Clownflare Data)
Clownflare has a vast trove of data, so it cannot be easily dismissed as pure nonsense
Clownflare: In Past 12 Months Microsoft Windows Fell From ~80% to ~75% on Desktops/Laptops in Asia
Microsoft is deep in debt
Secret Layoffs at Microsoft, Apparently More Sites Will Shut Down Entirely
vindicates us and serves to affirm what we've said for over a month
The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026
The Web needs serious cleanup, which curation can help deliver
IBM Offers Workers Some Money to Fire Themselves, It's Called "Next Step" and It's Allegedly 'Extended' (Not Enough Fools Have Fired Themselves)
Will IBM executives - including the CEO - ever be held accountable?
£5 Million Unsolicited/Undisclosed Bribes and What That Means to British Politics
It still remains unknown (disclosure denied) who helps fund the £1 million lawfare against us
[Satire] Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The IBM Censorship Team, PIPs (Silent Layoffs) in IBM Europe
There seem to be many de facto layoffs going on at IBM right there
SLAPP Censorship - Part 156 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Becoming Wilson FC
Now acting almost like one-person shop (lots of staff has fled this past year)
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 20, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, August 20, 2026
Gemini Links 21/08/2026: "Ensmallening the BigWeb", "Rust Dependencies"
Links for the day