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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 23, 2024

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  1. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS stories
  2. In Africa, in Some Countries, Windows Measured at as Low as 2% (in Some Countries Android Exceeds 90%) [original]
    A Microsoft nightmare

    New

  3. iXsystems Confirms Ongoing Support for Both TrueNAS CORE and SCALE
    Following the recent buzz about iXsystems shifting its attention to the Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE
  4. Windows TCO and Integrity Risks
    Mostly Windows TCO stories
  5. today's howtos
    Friday picks
  6. Quirky has returned!
    Quirky was a full installation, occupying an entire partition
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Rust, Python, and more
  8. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, FPGAs, and Binary Enigma
    4 new posts
  9. Linux Kernel and Graphics News
    3 assorted stories
  10. Former CEO Leaves, Kubernetes, and Clown Computing Hype
    The latest from Red Hat itself
  11. Games: GitLab Takes Down Free Software, Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition, and More
    9 stories about gaming for GNU/Linux users
  12. Android Leftovers
    Android 15 could fix a major annoyance with Pixel’s webcam mode
  13. Plasma Arrives in openSUSE’s Releases
    A lot of excitement was brewing at the announcement of KDE’s Plasma 6 release
  14. Best Free and Open Source Application
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  15. Happy Third Birthday, to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation!
    Time to put on your birthday hat and sing Happy Birthday. Today the AlmaLinux OS Foundation turns three
  16. FOSS and IBM Leftovers
    mostly FOSS links
  17. Steam Family Sharing and New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients
    Some news for gamers
  18. Programming Leftovers
    R, Java,, and more
  19. System76: Delivering Immersive Experiences with Streaming Global
    Chief Revenue Officer and head of strategy
  20. Kernel: btrfs, BPF, pidfds
    Some Linux news
  21. today's howtos
    mostly from Thursday
  22. Security Leftovers
    many stories about incidents and patches
  23. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  24. Software: Debian, Top 10 Lists, and Plattenalbum
    Some FOSS articles
  25. Open Hardware: Hackintosh, RISC-V, Purple Pi, and Raspberry Pi
    4 new stories
  26. GNOME: Tracker, GNOME OS, and GVfs for GNOME 46
    Some GNOME updates
  27. Microsoft seems to be Poking its Users Again for Windows 11 Upgrade: It's Time to Use Linux!
    Just another Microsoft annoyance
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-03-16 to 2024-03-22
    1572 /n/2024/03/07/Zorin_OS_17_1_Released_with_Enhanced_Windows_App_Support_Educat.shtml
    1227 /n/2024/03/16/Proton_Mail_on_GNU_Linux_Beta.shtml
    1000 /n/2024/03/14/DBOS_Introduced.shtml
    950 /n/2024/03/18/today_s_howtos.shtml
    923 /n/2024/03/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    899 /n/2024/03/16/KDE_Plasma_6_on_openSUSE_Tumbleweed.shtml
    895 /n/2024/03/19/Here_are_8_Winner_Wallpaper_Images_for_Ubuntu_24_04.shtml
    875 /n/2024/03/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    865 /n/2024/03/16/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    838 /n/2024/03/17/today_s_howtos.shtml
    834 /n/2024/03/16/Dolphin_24_02.shtml
    833 /n/2024/03/19/GNOME_46_The_Best_New_Features.shtml
    809 /n/2024/03/16/Libadwaita_1_5.shtml
    807 /n/2024/03/16/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    802 /n/2024/03/17/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    800 /n/2024/03/17/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    792 /n/2024/03/17/Void_Linux_s_March_2024_Update_Brings_Raspberry_Pi_5_Support.shtml

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Unverified Claim: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft to Start Around Week 3 (or 4) of This Month
Let's wait and see if the claim above is from an insider who has inside knowledge
Workers Fly Away From IBM's Red Hat (This Year a Lot of Red Hat Staff is "IBM")
The stock (share price) of IBM says nothing about what actually goes on
 
Links 03/01/2026: Twitter Turns From Disinformation Powerhouse to Production and Dissemination of Child Pr0n, "New China Cybersecurity Law Becomes A Reality In 2026"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/01/2026: Formatting Text for Gopher and Text-only Websites
Links for the day
Firefox Fell Below 1% in Asia
less than 1 in 100 Web users is detected/assumed to be using Firefox
Links 03/01/2026: Ryanair Fines and Facebook Misleads Regulators
Links for the day
New Record High for GNU/Linux in Benelux in 2026
If the above trends stand (throughout the year), then we can begin talking more seriously about a post-GAFAM Europe
In the Search Engine Market, Microsoft is Falling Behind Russia's Yandex
The so-called 'AI industry' is a boy that cries wolf
A Year of Relaxation, But Also of Hardcore Whistleblowing
Expect industrial action some time soon
The More Influential Richard Stallman (RMS) Becomes, the More Aggressive Attacks on Him (and the FSF) Will Get
We've meanwhile noticed disinformation being spread in social control media
GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High of 5% in Indonesia (Not Counting Chromebooks and Android)
There are also related events in Indonesia and SUSE in particular seems to have been popularised there
EPO People Power - Part XXIII - António Campinos Knows He's Extremely Vulnerable at This Time
Campinos should never have been put in charge
Gemini Links 03/01/2026: New Organisation System (Notebooks) and "2026 Already Off to an Amazing Start"
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 02, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, January 02, 2026
The More Buzzwords a Corporation Resorts To...
buzzwords are a fool's way to compensate for or disguise a lack of knowledge
So You Should Definitely Call it "Slop" and Stop Saying "AI"
with more XBox/gaming layoffs being imminent the blowback will be fun to watch
Why Are We Still Using Voting Machines?
Voting machines still seem to me like an infantile cargo cult and an act of salesmanship (like various security theatre rituals at airports)
"Works for Me!"
Who knows best?
Why IBM Workers Like Techrights (Same Reason EPO Workers Do)
IBM will likely be a daily theme (high rate of recurrence)
In 2025 We Contributed to the Headlessness of the OSI, But It's Not Over Yet
By airing some 'dirty laundry' about the OSI last year we contributed to its current state
Africa's Largest Population Sees Diminishing Impact of Windows
less than 1 in 10 Web requests in Nigeria comes from Windows
Russia Cuts Finnish Cables ("Hybrid War"), Finland Cuts Off Microsoft
the birthplace of Linux
Links 02/01/2026: Science, Patent Maximalism, and Public Domain Day
Links for the day
Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Books, Scams, and mkscript (a Script to Make Scripts)
Links for the day
Free Software is More Naturally Inclusive
large, intolerant, violent companies get painted as a glorious example of United Colours of Benetton
Strong Start for GNU/Linux This Year
based on statCounter
More Tools, Factorising Code
If some things in the site of Gemini capsules don't behave as expected, then that's likely due to a bug
Europe in 2026: Over 5% GNU/Linux, Not Counting Chromebooks
2026 has started strongly
State of Tech Journalism in 2026: Follow the Money
in order to understand what motivates an opinion piece one must follow the money
Slopfarm Says Microsoft's "Biggest Business" is the 'Business' Where It Loses Tens of Billions of Dollars
TOI still pretends to have a lot of output
At the Start of January 2025 Microsoft President Said Microsoft Would Spend 80 Billion Dollars on "AI" Data Centres. That Didn't Happen. Microsoft Laid Off 30,000 Workers, Debt Surged.
Maybe this coming Monday Microsoft will come up with more false promises and vapourware
Links 02/01/2026: Insurrectionist Attacks Musicians Critical of Him With Lawfare, Project Gutenberg Now Has Over 75,000 Books
Links for the day
Decline in LLM Slop About "Linux" is a Good Start for 2026
When the only remaining proponents of slop are slop, which is pretty much what's happening right now, the bubble is popping
EPO People Power - Part XXII - Contact Officials and Inform Your National Representatives (Delegates) of the EPO's Cocainegate
Europe's largest media intentionally covers up serious scandals in Europe's second-largest institution
Slopwatch Still Dead, Not Enough LLM Slop About "Linux"
this is the desirable thing
LibXML2 Will Carry on (Without or With the Name "LibXML2")
The proprietary software boosters are projecting
Gemini Links 02/01/2026: ThinkPad, SHARP Zaurus, Lagrange Handheld Support
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 01, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, January 01, 2026
Links 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370
Links for the day
Gemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025
Links for the day
IBM’s and Red Hat’s "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs
Gerstner is still alive, but he's shorter and more arrogant
Designing a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG
Static Site Generators (SSGs) - unlike all modern Content Management Systems (CMSs) - are so simple that extending them is easy
Links 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery'
Links for the day
Firefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla
Firefox cannot keep above 2% and hasn't been able to for quite some time
Ignore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral
So what does Microsoft have left to sell?
Red Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes
With some Red Hat staff "transitioning" we wonder if it's an HR hack, wherein they "reset the clock" on employment duration so as to lessen severance obligations
In 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau
Palau now has GNU/Linux at steadily high levels
Microsoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026!
Only a truly moronic company would design it that way
Another New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits
In addition to our first one
Combatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare)
we won't use or reuse slop images
The End of Red Hat
expect many more layoffs soon
A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency
We'll do our very best to be transparent about everything that's going on, even legal matters
Gemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager
Links for the day
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months!
the FSF's Board now has 10 people in it
2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat
Red Hat won't fare any better than most IBM acquisitions
Microsoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus
They're cutting budget. Soon they'll cut the staff.
Only Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM
2026 will be another tough year for Red Hat and IBM
EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts
it'll be the demise of the Rule of Law in Europe and maybe a death blow to the EU (eventually), not just the EPO
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"a total of over 17,000 pages in a year"
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, December 31, 2025