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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2024

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  1. Not the Traffic We Wanted [original]
    The Web is becoming such a sordid mess - a vortex full of malicious bots

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  2. today's leftovers
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  3. Torvalds to Speak in Open Source Summit Europe 2024, Linux 6.12 Kernel Details
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  4. Programming Leftovers
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  5. Fvwm and GNOME: keyboard control and internship project
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  7. Mozilla: AudD® Music Recognition and Firefox Developer Experience
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  8. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, Linux Matters, "Linux" Foundation Podcast Boosting Microsoft
    3 new episodes
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for the evening
  10. Orange Pi Now has an Open Source RISC-V SBC [With M.2 Slot]
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  11. 'The Linux of processors' - New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
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  12. Security Leftovers
    Security updates and incidents
  13. Blaming "Linux" for Holes in Proprietary Software Made for Windows
    new FUD trend
  14. Open Hardware and Retro: Pentium, C64, 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, and More
    4 stories for now
  15. Linux Gaining Ground in Automotive
    EE Times Europe spoke to sources at Automotive Grade Linux and automotive software developer Elektrobit to learn how Linux is rapidly gaining adoption in the automotive industry.
  16. A Clean Linux Installation For An Android TV Box
    Although Android technically runs on top of Linux
  17. Android Leftovers
    Google: "Today we're releasing Android 15"
  18. Tellico 4.0 Released
    I’m excited to make Tellico 4.0 available as the first version to leverage the new Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 libraries
  19. Stable kernels: Linux 6.10.8, Linux 6.6.49, Linux 6.1.108, Linux 5.15.166, Linux 5.10.225, Linux 5.4.283, and Linux 4.19.321
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.10.8 kernel
  20. The future of first-party open source events
    In this post, I’m discussing only first-party open source events — events run by a project for its contributor and/or user communities
  21. KDE Dolphin cannot compress compressed files
    If you think about it, Dolphin is pretty amazing
  22. today's howtos
    many howtos for this afternoon
  23. Bebras Challenge 2024 and Raspberry Pi
    Some Raspberry Pi news
  24. Tor Browser 13.5.3 Hiring for Web Standard
    Some Web news
  25. Android Leftovers
    Android taskbar pinning makes surprise return with Pixel 9 Pro Fold
  26. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework
  27. Core, Extra, Multilib? Unraveling the Arch Linux Repositories
    New to Arch Linux? You should know about the various repositories Arch provides
  28. Games: Humble Choice, Steam Space Exploration Fest, and More
    Some of the latest from GamingOnLinux
  29. Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now
    Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes
  30. GNU/Linux is Definitely Growing, Microsoft is Still Trying to Sabotage It [original]
    we ought to get ready for or expect many more people (and businesses, governments etc.) to move to GNU/Linux
  31. today's howtos
    only a few for now
  32. Today in Techrights
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  33. Don't Be Held Back by Your Default Linux Text Editor, Try These Instead
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