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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 15, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO
    Baker's annual salary could cover all of these people's wages, and unlike her, they actually did something
  2. Open Hardware/Modding: GNU/Linux on NES Hardware and Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue
    2 stories about devicess

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  3. Programming and Hacking Leftovers
    Open Hardware and more
  4. Internet and Web Browsers Leftovers
    Web-focused links
  5. Software and Gaming Leftovers
    Misc. stories
  6. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    Windows TCO showing again
  7. CentOS and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly official pages
  8. Android Leftovers
    New Android tool alerts users of potential web threats
  9. Haiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2024 (ft. USB audio)
    This report covers hrev57494 through hrev57560
  10. today's howtos
    half a dozen more howtos
  11. Kernel, Graphics, Ubuntuu, and More
    today's leftovers
  12. Programming Leftovers
    Programming links and Mozilla
  13. Audiocasts/Shows: MakuluLinux, mintCast, and Community
    3 new videos/episodes
  14. Events: Godot Conferences, FSF's Free Software Directory, and I Love Free Software Day
    4 more
  15. Microsoft Problems and Windows TCO
    Mostly Windows TCO tales
  16. Open Hardware: Arduino, Cruise, Raspberry Pi
    devices leftovers
  17. today's howtos
    many howtos in this batch
  18. Android Leftovers
    This new Android feature could help save you from phishing and malware – here's how
  19. Slimbook Titan report 2 - Shaping up nicely
    About a year back, I purchased a gaming laptop from a small Spanish Linux-friendly vendor called Slimbook
  20. Qubes OS: Fedora 39 templates available; Whonix 17 templates available for Qubes OS 4.1
    Fedora and Debian options
  21. IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS
    IPFire 2.29 Core Update 183 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.6 LTS, a fresh new look, and updated components.
  22. Games: SteamOS, Godot Engine, and More
    news about gaming, all from Liam Dawe
  23. Chromium Plans to Roll Out Web Monetization
    Chromium is experimenting with a Web Monetization API, allowing site owners to generate revenue without ads
  24. First Look at Ubuntu’s New ‘Desktop Security Center’
    Ubuntu is working on a new Desktop Security Center that aims to make it easier for users to access some of the distro’s underlying security features
  25. Vivid Unit is a low-profile Rockchip RK3399 SBC with an integrated touchscreen display
    They offer two OS images for the Vivid Unit: Debian 11 and Debian 11 with RetroPie preinstalled
  26. Cinnamon vs. Mate vs. XFCE: The Best Linux Mint Edition
    Linux Mint is one of the most accessible Linux distros that you can get today
  27. Purism Differentiator Series, Part 5: Privacy
    Privacy is about control and consent
  28. Linux is a CNA
    For more details about how this is all going to work for the kernel, please see this documentation addition
  29. Security Leftovers
    Security links for today
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  31. Valentine's Day Wishes to Our Readers [original]
    my Valentine's Day story
  32. Asian Countries Where Android is Measured at Over 70% of the Operating Systems Market (and Where Windows is Below 20%) [original]
    as per statCounter's figures for this month

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

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