Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2024

Duck Mallard and Greylag Goose

Updated This Past Day

  1. Lynis - Robust security audit tool, but is it for Linux home users?
    Linux security is an interesting beast
  2. Microsoft Must be Nervous About the United States This Year [original]
    about 7% of Americans were estimated to be Chromebook (or ChromeOS) users, based on statCounter, compared to 62% that were Windows users on desktops/laptops

    New

  3. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    news from Canonical/Ubuntu
  4. GNU Health and Free Software Foundation News
    Some Free software picks
  5. Mozilla Leftovers
    Mozilla news picks
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  7. FUD, Security and Windows TCO Stories/Leftovers
    Some Microsoft FUD too
  8. today's leftovers
    half a decade picks
  9. Open Hardware: Collabora, Orange Pi, Arduino, and RISC-V
    5 hardware stories
  10. Raspberry Pi 5 News and Projects
    Raspberry Pi 5 picks
  11. today's howtos
    many howtos
  12. Qubes, CentOS, Red Hat, and Sponsored 'Spam of Red Hat
    IBM-related things
  13. Creator 14 and PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 Release
    Two new betas
  14. Android Leftovers
    Android updates are about to get a lot easier | Digital Trends
  15. Marknote 1.3
    Marknote is a rich text editor and note management tool using Markdown
  16. Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 HAT+ Review: It Just Works!
    A review of the official M.2 HAT+ for the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer that lets you have a stable and faster internal storage drive.
  17. Celluloid GTK+ Frontend for mpv Video Player Got an Update
    Celluloid 0.27, a simple and powerful GTK+ frontend for the mpv video player
  18. Fatdog64 Linux – small, yet versatile multi-user Linux distribution
    Fatdog64 Linux is a small yet versatile 64-bit multi-user Linux distribution
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives
  20. Banana Pi BPI-M5 Pro Features Octa-core Rockchip RK3576 with 6 TOPS NPU
    The Banana Pi BPI-M5 Pro is powered by the Rockchip RK3576 SoC, which includes a 6 TOPS NPU and supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM
  21. (Updated) HiFive Unmatched SBC showcases new FU740 RISC-V SoC
    The SBC runs Linux on a penta-core, 64-bit SiFive FU740 SoC and offers 2x M.2 and PCIe x16 for graphics
  22. today's leftovers
    FOSS for the most part
  23. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks
  24. 2024 FreeBSD Developer Summit Picks and Talks
    10 picks for this event
  25. Red Hat Leftovers
    IBM stuff mostly
  26. Open Hardware: FPGA, Sipeed, Raspberry Pi, and More
    some hardware news with Linux angle
  27. today's howtos
    morning batch of howtos
  28. Windows TCO: The True Cost of Microsoft
    many Microsoft tales
  29. Microsoft Admits It Got Totally Cracked
    tells clients, too
  30. Games: Steam Summer Sale, Star Trek: Resurgence, GOG, and SteamOS (Arch Linux)
    latest 8 articles from gamingonlinux
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-22 to 2024-06-28
    990 /n/2024/06/24/Linux_and_BSD_news_Larry_Finger_has_died.shtml
    965 /n/2024/06/22/Two_Months_After_SLAPP_Strategic_Lawsuit_Against_Public_Partici.shtml
    852 /n/2024/06/23/The_Linux_Mint_22_Beta_is_almost_here_as_ISO_testing_gets_under.shtml
    850 /n/2024/06/25/Pocket_Z_project_aims_to_build_99_Linux_PCs_that_fit_in_your_po.shtml
    847 /n/2024/06/26/Microsoft_Antitrust_Problems_Again.shtml
    828 /n/2024/06/23/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    803 /n/2024/06/23/today_s_howtos.shtml
    803 /n/2024/06/22/A_breath_of_SSD_air_for_a_10_year_old_Linux_laptop.shtml
    782 /n/2024/06/22/today_s_howtoss.shtml
    776 /n/2024/06/26/Daniel_Bristot_de_Oliveira_Has_Passed_Away.shtml
    771 /n/2024/06/26/Archrebel_Tactics_Battle_Train_and_More.shtml
    770 /n/2024/06/23/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml
    764 /n/2024/06/26/Essential_Tips_for_Reliable_Linux_Backups.shtml
    764 /n/2024/06/23/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    760 /n/2024/06/24/Andrew_Tanenbaum_Honored_with_ACM_Software_System_Award.shtml
    749 /n/2024/06/24/Linux_6_10_rc5.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Battistelli's "Baltic Crusader"
Gilles Requena, Battistelli's erstwhile "Baltic Crusader" and the loyal servant of his successor Campinos
Microsoft's XBox "Bloodbath" Seems to Have Already Begun (Informally), Studios Allegedly to Face Shutdowns, Layoff Notices Handed Out, 100% Layoffs in Some Cases, 10% in Others or on Average
So is a complete closure/shutdown imminent? (Compulsion Games in this case)
SLAPP Censorship - Part 105 Out of 200: When Bad Legal Advice Results in Your Client, Dale Vince, Ordered to Pay £600k - or 801,930 United States Dollar (USD) - to the Person Frivolously Sued (Lord Bailey of Paddington)
"A judge has ruled that Dale Vince must pay punitive costs to Lord Bailey of Paddington, the Tory peer, over the 'unexplained abandonment' of his" SLAPP
 
SLAPP Censorship - Part 106 Out of 200: 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers
When one party's communications and filings weigh at about 3 KG of paper and another's... at about 100 KG of paper
Links 14/06/2026: More Google Layoffs, Wall Street Deems Companies That Lose Money "Worth" Trillions
Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/06/2026: "The Universe is a Hologram", "Matrix Brain Download", and "Happy 0th Year"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 13, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, June 13, 2026
Links 13/06/2026: University of Nottingham Confirms Data/System Breach, Courts Fuming at Fraudulent Lawyers Who Fling LLM Slop at Them
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: World Cups and 做人
Links for the day
Discussing Morale at IBM and Conversations Regarding IBM Layoffs (Disguised as Other Things)
Trolling can be a form of censorship
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: All the President's Men
Gilles Requena,Patrice Pellegrino, and Sandro Mendonça
SUEPO Elections Coming Up, Union Leaders at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) to be Determined Soon
The staff union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) is having an election soon
How Long for Can American Taxpayers Justify Bailing Out Microsoft?
How many times need the American taxpayers give Microsoft money for vapourware that's neither necessary nor delivered?
IBM is Importing/Exporting Corporations' Regime of Censorship (Hiding the Wrongdoing) to Free Software Communities
Is IBM protecting criminals in the name of "manners"?
Links 13/06/2026: Microsoft’s XBox Crisis and "Apple Deepfakes"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: Why Humans Are Mostly Right Handed and "Getting Things Done"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 12, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 12, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 104 Out of 200: Exactly Two Years Ago Brett Wilson LLP Humiliated or Weaponised Our Solicitor's Judaism in an Effort to Censor and Gag Us
dated 12/06/24
Half a Year Since Slopwatch Died
To Google's credit, it did manage to delist a lot of slopfarms in recent months
Links 12/06/2026: Science, Windows TCO, and More
Links for the day
"AI" 46 Times in One 'Article' Because The Register MS Got Paid to Push it
Today is just another opportunity to remind people that the slop bubble and GPU bubble are based on inauthentic fake 'journalism'
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: FTP and Gopher, Cluster Outage Postmortem After Cleaning by Wife
Links for the day
Sonny Piers Finally Spills the Beans on GNOME Cover-up, Points Finger at Robert McQueen, Misusing "Defamation" to Silence Critics of Wrongdoing
Robert McQueen, who is extremely connected to Garrett (they share digital nests)
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Transcending Partisan Rivalry in the National Interest
Up until now, Campinos has generally been regarded as a Portuguese "asset" on the international stage
Gratitude to Whistleblowers or Sources of Techrights
Whistleblowers are what makes journalism work
Techrights Was Months Ahead of "XBox" News (Mass Layoffs)
Next: end of XBox as a console
More Commentary on June 2026 IBM Layoffs and Why They Happen
It sounds a lot like what happened to the EPO
Links 12/06/2026: "NearlyFreeSpeech" No More, Openwashing by Google (DiffusionGemma)
Links for the day
Today There's a Massive EPO Strike (Like Every Friday), Workers Explain Further Cuts Despite the EPO Making More Income by Granting Illegal Patents (or Invalid Patents Illegally)
"Recent exchange with the Administration on the implications of the SAP on the Education and Childcare Allowance"
The Cyber Show: Remember That Code is Art
The article is very long, very profound, and speaks of "the next installation"
Communicating With Freedom - Part IV - Quibble Now in quibble.chat, Open for Contributions Via Codeberg
Today we continue the series about Quibble
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Importance of Having "Pals from the Palacete"
for his reappointment bid to succeed, Campinos will need to be able to rely on the support of both the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the President of the European Council, António Costa
Cyber Show on How Updates or Upgrades Break Workflows, Even in Free Software
"We did a big upgrade on the AV production pipeline"
Discussions About IBM Layoffs in June, Including by RTO and PIPs
mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: Decks and Work Essay
Links for the day
"Rolling Strikes" Continue at the European Patent Office, the Administrative Council Needs to Take Action Against Crooked Office Management
This coming weekend we'll talk about some of the other issues and concerns expressed by the union
Only Days After Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's Azure There Are Headlines About Much-Expected XBox Layoffs
XBox as a console is basically dead or "fast-dying"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 11, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 11, 2026