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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2024

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Nepali Community celebrates LibreOffice 24.2 Release Party with CS50x Nepal students

We shared some positive words around the LibreOffice project

New
Pi 5 Desktop Case For NVMe Base or HatDrive! Bottom

This is an adaptation of my standard desktop case for the Raspberry Pi 5, with adjustments made for the bottom-mounted NVMe hat
Security, Encryption, and More

many news pertaining to security, with GNU/Linux focus
Juno Computers Launches Neptune 17 v6 Linux Laptop with Up to NVIDIA RTX 4090

Linux hardware vendor Juno Computers announced today the Neptune 17 v6 Linux-powered laptop with a 14th generation Intel Core processor and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics.
[Fedora] Communishift is now available

made mainly for hosting containerized projects related to Fedora, but not ready for infrastructure deployment yet
Web Browsers and Mozilla Losing Focus

Mozilla and curl latest
BSD: FreeBSD's Colin Percival, the new Release Engineering Team Lead, and Running NetBSD 10 Release Candidate 5!

Some BSD news for today
Programming Leftovers and Devices

Some technical stuff for coders and hackers
FSFE (FSF-EEE) Latest: Device Neutrality, FOSDEM, and More

Some FSFE news
today's howtos

moderate number, more to come later
Android Leftovers

Upcoming Google Pixel Watch 3 may be able to unlock your Android phone quicker
Postfix 3.9 Email Server Introduces MongoDB Support

Postfix 3.9 MTA embraces MongoDB, upgrades MySQL/pgSQL clients
Immich 1.98.0 Introduces New Logo and App Enhancements

New logo, new features: Immich v1.98.0, a Google Photos alternative
Malware in Proprietary Software - Latest Additions

Here are our latest additions
Games: DraStic, Steam Deck, Enlisted: Reinforced, and More

7 stories from gamingonlinux
Kodi 21 “Omega” Gets Its First RC Release

After 3 alpha and 3 beta releases, Kodi media center 21
The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn

If you want to start using Linux, these are the commands you should know
Blaming "Linux" for Things That Are Not Linux

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation in the media
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Fourth Estate or Missing Fourth Pillar: "The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in explicit capacity of reporting the News" -Wikipedia on Fourth Estate
LLMs Are Not a Form of Intelligence (They Never Will Be): Butterflies are smarter than "chatGPT"
Business Software Alliance (BSA), Microsoft, and AstroTurfing Online (Also in the Trump Administration Groomed by BSA and Microsoft): Has Washington become openWashington? Where the emphasis is openwashing rather than Open(Source)Washington?
Windows at 1%: Quit throwing taxpayers' money at Microsoft, especially when it fails to fulfil basic needs and instead facilitates espionage by foreign and very hostile nations
Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VII: By Dr. Andy Farnell
BetaNews is Still 'Shitposting' About Trump and Porn (Two Analysers Say This 'Shitposting' Comes From LLMs): Probably some SEO garbage, prompted with words like "porn" and "trump" to stitch together other people's words
Market Share of Vista 11 Said to be Going Down in Europe: one plausible explanation is that gs.statcounter.com is actually misreporting the share of Vista 11, claiming that it's higher than it really is
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 17, 2024: IRC logs for Sunday, November 17, 2024
Links 17/11/2024: Pakistan Broke, Tyson 'Crashes' or Knocks Over Netflix: Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Nachtigall Planned, Exodus at Twitter: Links for the day
Links 17/11/2024: China's Diplomacy and Gazprom Setback: Links for the day
Sudan Has Reached a State of Android Domination (93% Market Share, All-Time High According to statCounter): countries at war buy fewer laptops?
[Meme] Just Do It?: 'FSF' Europe (Microsoft) and FSF
Microsoft Front Groups Against the FSF, Home of GPL, GNU, and Free Software: Much of the money (not all of it) comes from the criminals at Redmond
Centralisation is Dooming the Web, RSS is One Workaround (But Not "Planets"): At least Gemini Protocol rejects centralisation
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 16, 2024: IRC logs for Saturday, November 16, 2024
Links 17/11/2024: Wars, Bailouts, and Censorship: Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Changing Interests and HamsterCMS: Links for the day
Links 16/11/2024: Twitter (X) Exodus Continues, Social Control Media Sanctions Spread Further: Links for the day
If You Donate to the FSFE, You Are Funding a Microsoft Front Group Inside Europe: FSFE has a new "Sugar Daddy"
Wikileaks is Now Stuck Under the Clutches of Donald Trump (via Elon Musk): The same Trump administration that was blackmailing Assange and also schemed to torture/assassinate him
IPKat's Annsley Merelle Ward Spreading the Same Old Lies and Shameless Propaganda to Promote Software Patents in Europe (i.e. the Usual... and She's Not Even a Coder): People are quick to point out that the cited survey is very inherently biased
Windows in Azerbaijan: Down From Around 99% to Around 20%: In the past two years Microsoft could barely keep above 20%
Microsoft's Vanity Vapourware ('Lame Duck' Product for Trump and Biden Bailouts) Again "Discontinued": Microsoft cannot keep a dying unit that makes almost no sales alive just for mere prospects of a bailout (which falls through because even the military turns it down)
Links 16/11/2024: FTC Investigates Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for "Clown Computing" Market Abuses, General Motors Mass Layoffs: Links for the day
When Articles About Linux Foundation Are LLM SPAM (Slop) From Publishers Paid by the Linux Foundation: This is a corruption of the Web
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 15, 2024: IRC logs for Friday, November 15, 2024
Claim That IBM Canada Had Mass Layoffs Just Hours Ago: Nothing in the media, as usual
Gemini Links 16/11/2024: Starting Afresh, Community-to-community Networks: Links for the day