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  2. PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience to Password Guessing Attacks
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  6. Programming Leftovers
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  7. Raspberry Pi With Proprietary Spyware, Steam Deck (DRM), and Handheld Replica Sound Voltex Game
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  8. Free Software and Web Leftovers
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  9. Ubuntu and BSD Leftovers
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  10. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux User Space, Late Night Linux, and LINUX Unplugged
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  11. Software Leftovers
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  13. today's leftovers
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  14. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
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  16. Devices/Embedded and Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. GNOME 48 Release Schedule & Potential New Features
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  20. Android Leftovers
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  26. Free and Open Source Software
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  28. RIP Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar)
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  30. Ubuntu Unity still has one of my favorite PC interfaces of all time
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    748 /n/2024/11/06/The_Bitcoin_Mailing_List_and_its_history_is_erased_from_Linux.shtml
    703 /n/2024/11/06/What_s_new_for_Fedora_Atomic_Desktops_in_Fedora_41.shtml
    603 /n/2024/11/08/todaay_s_howtos.shtml
    550 /n/2024/11/09/Fedora_KDE_Plasma_Spin_Gains_Equal_Footing_With_Gnome_Edition.shtml
    542 /n/2024/11/08/After_Cyberwar.shtml
    511 /n/2024/11/10/Sparky_2024_11.shtml
    500 /n/2024/11/09/today_s_howtos.shtml
    494 /n/2024/11/08/Calibre_7_21_Adds_Read_Aloud_with_Sentence_Tracking_for_EPUBs.shtml
    481 /n/2024/11/09/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    478 /n/2024/11/07/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    469 /n/2024/11/07/Canonical_Ubuntu_Leftoverss.shtml
    468 /n/2024/11/09/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    467 /n/2024/11/09/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    467 /n/2024/11/07/Linuxfx_11_24_04.shtml
    465 /n/2024/11/07/today_s_howtos.shtml
    459 /n/2024/11/07/GIMP_3_0_Release_Candidate_Is_Now_Available_for_Public_Testing.shtml
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