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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2024

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  18. Videos: GNU/Linux Videos From the Past Week
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  19. Mozilla: Pretending That Firefox Values Privacy and Tweaks for Handling Message Threads in Thunderbird
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  20. today's howtos
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  32. Devices and Open Hardware: RISC-V and Linux
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