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  4. Programming Leftovers
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  7. Istio 1.21.0
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  10. Windows TCO and Security Leftovers
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  11. Scalpel - Recover Deleted or Lost Files on Linux
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  12. today's howtos
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  13. Programming Leftovers
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  14. Open Hardware: Booting Linux Over HTTP and An Important Consideration About Pi 5 Overclocking
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  15. Internet and the Web, Free Software and Standards
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  16. The Blog of Open Source Initative (OSI) Run by Microsoft to Promote Microsoft
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  19. System76 Adder Linux Laptop Gets a Hardware Refresh
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  20. mesa 24.0.3
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  21. Games: New Star GP, CLeM, Trappist, and More
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  22. Goodbye GNOME ISO: CachyOS March Release Prioritizes Plasma 6
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  23. Arducam KingKong – A Raspberry Pi CM4-based Edge AI camera with global shutter sensor, Myriad X AI accelerator
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  24. Snap Backup – one-click backup utility
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  25. Best Free And Open Source Softwares
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  26. Purism Differentiator Series, Part 7: Freedoms
    Being in control allows you to have freedom, if you are under the control of another you are not free
  27. The story of distutils build directory in Gentoo
    Today, in the PEP517 era, two-stage builds aren’t really relevant anymore
  28. Slimbook Executive, long-term usage report 3
    A couple of weeks back, I wrote my second long-term usage report for the Slimbook Titan laptop
  29. PDP-10 Replica Powered by Raspberry Pi 5 SBC
    Powered by a Raspberry Pi 5, it not only emulates the PDP-10 but also functions as a practical Linux system
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  31. Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now and mintCast
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  32. Mozilla Moziversary, Lobbying, and Servo Outssourcing to Microsoft
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  34. Programming Leftovers
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  35. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and Steam Deck Modding
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  36. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  37. Linux Kernel Space and Graphics Stack
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  38. Today in Techrights
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  39. Security Leftovers
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  40. Software: Caprine, System G, ShellGPT, UPT, and Falco
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