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  1. today's howtos
    first long batch
  2. Photographs From the Parties [original]
    2 weeks ago we started inflating balloons and arranging foods, alerting friends and colleagues etc.
  3. Windows Falls Below 25% in Uzbekistan [original]
    In a lot of Africa Windows is now below 10%
  4. Two Months After SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) [original]
    The SLAPP has been mostly been put to rest, so we can now focus on GNU/Linux news and Free software stuff
  5. Not Made in China [original]
    release of GNU/Linux distros in Taiwan is hardly unprecedented
  6. Tux Machines Parties (20 Years) [original]
    We've managed to keep the site going as usual despite preparations and other distractions and now we're back to normal

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  7. ]Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks for this afternoon
  8. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    mostly Fedora, some CentOS too
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related news and views
  10. Godot Event, Game of Trees Hub, and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients
    misc. stories
  11. UEFI is Opposite of Security (Again) and Proprietary Kaspersky 'Security' Products Treated Like a Back Door
    Fake security on display
  12. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Some hardware projects
  13. BSD: Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 and FreeBSD Day Interview with Beastie
    Some BSD news
  14. The X Window System is still hanging on at 40
    X uses a client-server model
  15. This Week in GNOME: #153 Proudly Colorful
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 14 to June 21
  16. How to simplify switching from macOS to Linux
    Belonging is essential to most people. Belonging somewhere gives you a haven and a feeling of coming home.
  17. Windows TCO: Deaths, Ransom, and More
    Microsoft and TCO
  18. This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups
    Plasma 6.1 has been released to good reviews! We’ve spent the week fixing issues reported so far, as always
  19. Games: VKD3D-Proton, Survivors Bundle, X4: Foundations
    8 latest in gamingonlinux
  20. Best Free and Open Source Software
    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives
  21. Trisquel – Linux distribution based on Ubuntu
    Trisquel Linux is a 100% free operating system without any proprietary software whatsoever
  22. A breath of SSD air for a 10-year-old (Linux) laptop
    I made it into a Linux-only system. The only downside? Ultra-long boot times
  23. FOSS, Openwashing, and IBM
    today's leftovers
  24. Today's HowTos and Programming Leftovers
    today's howtos
  25. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    mostly security stuff
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  27. GCC 12.4 Released
    The GNU Compiler Collection version 12.4 has been released

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The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
The fifth meeting report and sixth meeting report show some of the concerns leading up to the mass strikes
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Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
"A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a location strategy under which it has identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment."
The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
What was now known as The Register UK not only works against the interests of the UK; it works for charlatans and frauds
 
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While Thousands of EPO Workers Are on Strike the President of the EPO, Who Bribes His Voters, Gives Himself Millions of Euros and 5,000 Euros Per Month in Housing Allowance
Campinos is immune, inherently corrupt, and habitual briber of his 'voters'
IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)
What a crazy world we live in!
Slopfarms We Forget About Because They Silently Die
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Media Blackout Regarding Mass Layoffs at Red Hat
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
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Expect our focus on EPO corruption to grow again
More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
How long can the corporate media ignore IBM layoffs for?
Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
This has nothing to do with workers' performance
We'll Never Ever Do Social Control Media, Nate Silver's Article Helps Explain Why
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The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
Google does not have "AI"; it has slop, which means it scrapes other people's work, then imitates it poorly
"IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
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The company is a net negative to society
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
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