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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 29, 2024

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  3. Programming Leftovers
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  4. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and mintCast
    a pair of new episodes
  5. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Devices and such
  6. Security Leftovers
    patches, breaches, and more
  7. Software: Stellarium, Istio, Document Freedom Day
    Some FOSS news
  8. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  9. KDE: Releases of KTextAddons and Haruna
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  10. KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline
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  11. RIP, Simon Riggs (PostgreSQL)
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  12. LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes
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  14. Free Software, WWW, and Opennwashing
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  15. Programming and Open Hardware Leftovers
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  16. Nix, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and More
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  17. Red Hat Leftovers
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  18. Canonical/Ubuntu Self-Promotion and Announcements
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  19. Android Leftovers
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  20. Games: 4D Golf, Lost For Swords, and More
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  21. BeagleY-AI: Powering Open Source Innovation with the Texas Instruments AM67A
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  22. "Powering On" Explained
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  23. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet
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  25. Kdenlive 24.02.1 released
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  26. today's howtos
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  27. Today in Techrights
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  28. today's leftovers
    very GNU/Linux focused
  29. Programming Leftovers
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  30. Istio, SQLite Viewer, and More Software
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  31. Security Leftovers
    Linux and more
  32. Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs
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