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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2025

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Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI

A new beta release of open source graphics editing app Pinta is available for testing

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Games, GNOME Maps, BSD, and Software Freedom

today's leftovers
Security Leftovers

Security links, only 3 for now
Programming Leftovers

Development picks, not many
Red Hat Official Fluff

lots of Red Hat buzzwords
today's howtos

a batch for the morning
Raspberry Pi Projects and News

3 stories for today
Krita 5.2.9 Released!

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.9
Games: Antimatter, Chernobylite, and More

8 of the latest stories from GamingOnLinux
Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

If you want a desktop that's secure and reliable, forget about Microsoft
Development: Debiab, EasyOS, and More

Programming and more
Document Freedom Day: Empowering the Digital World with Open Standards

the Document Freedom Day will happen on March 26, and will be driven by the LibreOffice community
Android Leftovers

‘Google Play Store keeps stopping’ on Android
Best Free and Open Source Software

Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here
Great-OS – Linux distribution

Great-OS (Grat-OS) is an independent Linux distribution made in France
today's howtos

only a few more for now
Proprietary Coding, LLMs, and Violations

Using slop to pretend to be building applications without possessing skills or obeying licences
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.
Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

Span from 2025-01-23 to 2025-01-29
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IBM: Many Thousands of Layoffs in 2025: If 2025 is expected to be the same, then perhaps about 20,000 IBM workers will no longer be there
Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?): Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?
The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism: Active Twitter account
How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law: insights into the pressure examiners are under
LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse: If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?
Another Slew of Fake Articles About 'Linux' and 'Security' From Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com (Spamfarm/Slopfarm): linuxsecurity.com is basically a pariah and parasite. It lessens the incentive to write real articles about "Linux" by generating fake ones to outrank the originals.
Links 30/01/2025: Microsoft Wants Convicted Felon to Give Fentanylware (TikTok) to It (After Making a Phonecall Asking for That in 2019), "Moving Away From Google's Ecosystem": Links for the day
Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM: LinuxInsider is barely active anymore
Links 30/01/2025: Amazon Layoffs and DeepSeek Panic: Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Chaos Reigns, E-mail, Searching: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 29, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace: Geminispace does not need to outsource trust
Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak): Links for the day
Announcements and Administrivia: This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable
Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More: Links for the day
Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.: If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action
Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe: Links for the day
Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians: the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"
This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History): Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn
Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India": 62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it
Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics: As always, follow the money (advertisers)
Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose): Links for the day
Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro': Links for the day
More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office: breaking the law for profit
Network Improvements Tomorrow: "Network maintenance" down in London
Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target"): GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close
Articles About Free Speech at Facebook: 'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage
We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.: From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")
"Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site): Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity: Do not negotiate with evil
The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team: Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates
Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise: The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show
Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less: Links for the day
Links 28/01/2025: Chaffbot as Commodity Fad, New Import Restrictions in Thailand: Links for the day
Links 28/01/2025: "Against Social [Control] Media", "Smart" Buses' Ticketing System Cracked: Links for the day
[Video] Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in India, Talking About Proprietary Software's Dangers Only Yesterday: WebM file
Gemini Links 28/01/2025: Thinking About Not Much, Computing Fatigue, the Curse of JavaScript: Links for the day
"SuccessFactors" (SAP) Stunts at the EPO Used to Break Laws and Constitutions, Staff Tricked Into Harming Themselves: Ongoing corruption and lawlessness became the norm; Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) along with the largest institution (EU) has its very own Minsk
The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 in a Few Weeks: The FSF turns 40 later this year, too
Continued Support and Momentum at the Free Software Foundation (FSF): "This helps protect our community."
Another Talk by Richard Stallman Tomorrow, This Time in Bengaluru: This means that in January 2025 he is giving at least 5 public talks
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 27, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 27, 2025