Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2024

Mother Polar Bear and Her Cub

Updated This Past Day

  1. When We Turn 21... [original]
    "21" kit for this site's next anniversary, which will be next summer

    New

  2. Audiocasts and Security Leftovers
    mostly the security side
  3. Programming and Education
    coding and more
  4. Content Management Systems and Servers
    Free software at the back end
  5. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More
    4 new stories/projects
  6. today's howtos
    half a dozen more howtos
  7. GNU Hurd vs. Linux Kernel: Two Paths in Free Software – Plus Linux Distributions for Ham Radio Enthusiasts
    The idea was to create a fully free operating system where the Hurd would serve as the kernel
  8. MPV 0.39.0 Added Multi-touch, NVIDIA & Intel VSR Scaling Support
    MPV, the popular free open-source GNU/Linux media player, released version 0.39.0 last week
  9. Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme
    In the latest monthly newsletter published today, Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre shares a sneak peek at the new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year.
  10. Gentoo: The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
    by Michał Górny
  11. Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
    Mozilla published today the final release of the Firefox 131 web browser, which is now available for download from the project’s download server ahead of the official release on October 1st, 2024.
  12. Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New Features and Improvements
    The Audacious open-source audio player, a descendant of the XMMS media player, has been updated to version 4.4.1, a release that introduces several new features and improvements.
  13. RTorrent 0.10 Released After Five Years of Hiatus
    After a five-year hiatus, the RTorrent command-line BitTorrent client is back with v0.10, bringing performance upgrades and bug fixes
  14. today's howtos
    string of howtos for Monday
  15. GE-Proton 9-15 released with an important fix for NVIDIA GPUs | GamingOnLinux
    This is a "hotfix" build to clear up some problems from the previous recent release
  16. FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released with Full Native VVC Decoder, MV-HEVC Decoder, and More
    FFmpeg 7.1 open-source multimedia framework was released today as a major update that introduces numerous features, including new decoders, as well as various improvements.
  17. Android Leftovers
    I hoard Android wallpapers. These 8 apps have the best
  18. qBittorrent 5.0 BitTorrent Client Adds Support for Systemd Power Management
    qBittorrent 5.0 has been released today as a major update to this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Qt that introduces numerous new features and enhancements.
  19. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 29th, 2024
    The 207th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 29th, 2024.
  20. GParted Live 1.6.0-10: Enhanced Stability and Updated Features
    GParted Live's latest release removes cpufrequtils, adds pm-utils, and updates the Linux kernel to v6.10.11
  21. Best Free and Open Source Software
    All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license. Here’s our verdict
  22. Review: Rhino Linux 2024.2
    Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release approach to updates. Rhino features a custom meta package manager which unifies Deb, Pacstall, and Flatpak software management
  23. This Week in KDE Apps
    New KCron Settings UI, Krita 2.2.5 released, and more
  24. Security: CISA and more
    a little more than that
  25. Perl Leftovers
    Perl official site
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-09-24 to 2024-09-30
    966 /n/2024/09/22/There_s_No_Lower_Spec_Linux_Machine_Than_This_One.shtml
    943 /n/2024/09/25/Openwashing_Winamp_Collaborative_License_WCL_and_Open_Source_Jo.shtml
    855 /n/2024/09/27/CVE_2024_47076_CVE_2024_47175_CVE_2024_47176_and_CVE_2024_47177.shtml
    777 /n/2024/09/26/Latest_in_the_WP_Engine_Dispute_and_Lawsuit.shtml
    757 /n/2024/09/26/Mozilla_the_Privacy_Abuser.shtml
    608 /n/2024/09/27/Uniting_for_Internet_Freedom_Tor_Project_Tails_Join_Forces.shtml
    571 /n/2024/09/25/_200_Why_Hyprland_a_Beautiful_Tiling_Desktop_For_Linux_Is_Worth.shtml
    560 /n/2024/09/17/Fedora_Linux_41_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_with_Linux_Kernel_6_.shtml
    557 /n/2024/09/26/Our_refresh_release_Endeavour_Neo_is_available.shtml
    553 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_howtos.shtml
    543 /n/2024/09/29/Arch_Linux_Announces_Collaboration_With_Valve.shtml
    539 /n/2024/09/26/today_s_howtos.shtml
    536 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    533 /n/2024/09/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    532 /n/2024/09/22/Shipping_Tumblr_and_WordPress_WP_Engine_is_not_WordPress_and_Wo.shtml
    531 /n/2024/09/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
    528 /n/2024/09/26/Vanilla_OS_2_an_immutable_distribution_to_run_all_software.shtml
    526 /n/2024/09/26/RTOS_vs_Linux_The_IoT_battle_extends_from_software_to_hardware.shtml
    521 /n/2024/09/24/SK_Hynix_applies_CXL_optimization_solution_to_Linux.shtml
    521 /n/2024/09/16/Germany_s_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_Injects_688K_into_Samba.shtml
    519 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    512 /n/2024/09/27/Security_Leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Julian Assange Talk: Watch Live
2 hours from now
Blind Worship of Technology is a Misguided Fool's Errand
Andy Farnell of the Cybershow used the metaphor of "golden calf" last week
 
Gemini Links 01/10/2024: ROOPHLOCH and Photos
Links for the day
"IBM executives did not decide to buy Red Hat on their own, nor will they decide to sell Red Hat on their own should that time ever arise"
Since IBM bought Red Hat it merely made its products more proprietary
GNU/Linux and Android Rose to New Highs in September
StatCounter isn't the ground truth, but there's not much else in the public domain.
Links 01/10/2024: Climate Stories, Climate Change, and War in Lebanon
Links for the day
Gemini Links 01/10/2024: Separation, Validation, and Flatfile Databases
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 30, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, September 30, 2024
Microsoft Running Totally False and Very Outdated (3 Months) Pieces Only Hours Before Julian Assange's First Speech in More Than Half a Decade
This was false at the time. It's still false.
Gemini Links 30/09/2024: Stargazing, PeerTube, and More
Links for the day
Links 30/09/2024: More Layoffs at Microsoft ("Mobile"), War in Middle-East Escalating Further (Ground Invasion May be Imminent)
Links for the day
[Video] Julian Assange Arrives Safely at France to Speak to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
Just out
You Know Julian Assange is About to Give an Important Talk Because of the Media Smears, Preceding the Talk by Less Than a Day
Do not be easily incited by relics disguised as "journalists"
IBM is Still Spending a Lot of Money Just to Hide the Massive Scale of This Month's Layoffs
"If One Madison Avenue has leaking toilets, it doesn't make the news. But if the place is hemorrhaging jobs thanks to Alvind, the company has to pay more money to keep that out of the news. Not all the media like the IBM company. IBM needs to bleed for all the layoffs the senior executives have done in the US. Couldn't happen to nicer people."
Welcome Back, Julian Assange
The "big day" is tomorrow
Links 30/09/2024: Snapshot Blogging, Right to Remain Silent, and More
Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/09/2024: "Tower Defender" and Fake Swish
Links for the day
From 9 to 5 to 996 and 24/7
In terms of labour rights, the West has moonwalked back to Medieval standards
Short Explanation of the History of the Free Software Movement
also gives credit to Richard Stallman
Chatting to People Without Possessing a 'Smart' Phone
Meeting in person is "limitless minutes"
[Meme] The EPO's Vision of 'Artificial Intelligence'
First they attack the integrity of the task or destroy the complexity of it by throwing away the law (it gets in the way of profits anyway)
This Spammy Nonsense Helps Microsoft Paint Itself as "15-20 Hours a Week" Job (in Reality It's More Like 60 Hours a Week)
what MSN (Microsoft) published 2 hours ago is misleading marketing junk
[Meme] A Techno-Yuppies's View of Society
If only I could take a selfie now to share in Facebook/GAFAM, sponsors of the EFF
In a Multi-Polar World GAFAM Will Matter (and Control) a Lot Less
A lot of things long taken for granted are going to be challenged in years to come, including the status of Microsoft
Planning Our 18th Anniversary
When I left my job, as I had planned since 2019, I was able to devote all my time to the site
Links 30/09/2024: Monopsonies and Political Catchup
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 29, 2024
IRC logs for Sunday, September 29, 2024
Torvalds (the Son) Isn't a Freedom Fighter, But He Deals With Politics
Depending on how Torvalds (the son) defines "politics", he actually deals with politics all the time
[Meme] GNU at 41
Happy birthday, GNU
The GNU/Linux Operating System Started 41 Years Ago
The media has its darling "Linux", but a lot of the time when it says "Linux" it actually means something else
This Should be a Reminder for Wikileaks to Quit Twitter (X) and Use Its Own Site
What if Wikileaks got some "Musk leaks"? What would happen then?
In September Microsoft Had Several Waves of Mass Layoffs, Even More Than in Prior Months
It meanwhile looks like "open"AI is not only running out of money (to borrow) but also talent and leadership; the bubble is imploding as there's no profit in the 'sacred cow', which is vapourware
IBM (and Probably Red Hat) Layoffs Until the End of November
many people will be let go without being allowed to talk about it
Gemini Links 30/09/2024: London Docklands Museum, MNT Pocket Reform, LLM Misnomers
Links for the day
Flaws Like CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177
When modularity is abandoned and topology is absent (your server can present a printing interface to the whole world)
Julian Assange on How to Assess the Impact of Publications
Julian Assange will give a public talk in a couple of days
Terrible System Design Wherein Servers Are Expected to Have Printers
Wait, what???
The Web is Large, But It Stopped Growing, It's Just Consolidating (Few Giant Companies Control the Chessboard)
it doesn't look like the Web is "booming" anymore
Links 29/09/2024: Newsom Wants More Spying Inside Cars, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Goes Into Hiding
Links for the day
Links 29/09/2024: Locked Out, 'Smart' Cars, and ROOPHLOCH
Links for the day
Links 29/09/2024: Volkswagen Crisis, IBM Failing at "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype According to Leaks
Links for the day
This Week Julian Assange to Publicly Speak for First Time in Over Half a Decade
some media coverage and official pages
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 28, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, September 28, 2024