Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2025

Car Fiat 850 Siata Spring spider 1967-1970

Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    OS focus
  2. Fedora and GNOME Leftovers
    mostly Fedora
  3. today's howtos
    some of them a tad older
  4. Videos: Some New Videos About GNU/Linux and Free Software
    via inv.nadeko.net
  5. I Tried the Ghostty Terminal on Linux. Does It Live Up to Its Hype?
    The Ghostty terminal has created some noise in the Linux community
  6. Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux
    Ardour 8.11 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
  7. Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support
    PorteuX 1.9 is out as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.
  8. today's leftovers
    3 leftovers for now
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  10. Weekly Wrap-Up and Debian Developmeent Reports
    mostly Debian
  11. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    hardware leftovers
  12. Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer!
    So a we are a little bit into the new year I hope everybody had a great break and a good start of 2025
  13. Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
    Mozilla published today the final release of the Firefox 135 web browser for all supported platforms, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.
  14. Coding on my eInk Tablet
    For many years I wished I had a setup that would allow me to work (that is, code) productively outside in the bright sun
  15. Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers
    Fwupd 2.0.5 has been released today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.
  16. Tech Heroes #8: Richard Stallman
    Who is Richard Stallman?
  17. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  18. today's howtos
    many howtos
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  20. Android Leftovers
    6 features that Android 16 needs to rejuvenate the OS
  21. Linux Icon Pack Papirus Gets First Update in 8 Months
    Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download
  22. Free and Open Source Software
    Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or once in a blue moon
  23. Linux 6.14-rc1
    Two weeks have passed, and the merge window is over.
  24. Uruk Linux – full free, simple and lightweight distribution
    Uruk Linux is billed as a fully free, simple, and lightweight Linux operating system for home users
  25. Review: siduction 2024.1.0
    siduction is a Debian-based, rolling release distribution

    New

  26. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 2nd, 2025
    The 225th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 2nd, 2025.
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  28. Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.14 Release Candidate
    Today, Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series for public testing.

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-01-28 to 2025-02-03
    1086 /n/2025/01/28/Facebook_Censors_GNU_Linux_Advocacy.shtml
    804 /n/2025/01/28/System76_Meerkat_goes_Meteor_Lake_Linux_mini_PC_spec_bump.shtml
    780 /n/2025/01/30/Thunderbird_Moves_to_Monthly_Updates_from_March_2025.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit
Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
Cloudflare Gives Us All Another Reason to Boycott Cloudflare
If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company
Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting)
"social justice warriors"
More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director
some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite
 
Buying From Oneself is Not Business Success
This isn't at all a joking matter even if you already laugh at the whole thing because your pension, savings etc. are tied to this scam at some level
This is How Microsoft's XBox and Entire Consoles (If Not Gaming) Ventures Will Ultimately Die
Ensure you can blame "Tariffs" (politics)? If not "hey hi", the fashionable go-to excuse when businesses fail?
What They Really Hate David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) for
Nothing to do with code
Smart People Won't Buy 'Smart' Cars
Imagine trying to sell someone a house (proper home) while insisting that it'll need to be demolished 5 or 10 years later, then rebuilt again from scratch on the same vacant lot
The Relationship Between IBM Red Hat and Microsoft, Visualised
This metaphor goes a long way (projects, collaborations, and outsourcing
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part III - Spying on Reporters' Families, Chaining Cases for Microsoft Employees Who Demand Censorship of Facts (Even Politely Expressed)
the time seems right to wrap up this introductory series
Links 24/09/2025: "NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It's Gutted" and Purge of Online Critics (Opposing Fascism Becomes Unlawful)
Links for the day
Science is Under Attack
Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice
At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder
The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB)
Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners
Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years
some of the junk Google News is promoting
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Links 24/09/2025: Qt Creator 18 Beta, Microsoft Cannot Bail Out "ChatGPT" Anymore, China and US Intensify Censorship
Links for the day
Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics
Links for the day
Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"
Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)
Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week
Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again
Links for the day
Code of Censorship
Extortion is peace
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0
Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber
Because proprietary software makes you worse off
"What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)
The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
Making More Work Space
I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
Reject demagogues
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary)
miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.
Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon
Will the axe fall again by month's end?
Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition
Links for the day
Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"
Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)
Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025
Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble"
In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary
The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already
Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did
New Techrights Turns 2
Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights
What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
Wikileaks was a good example of this
If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You
be (or become) independent
Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.
Passing fads are like this
Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd
Betas for now
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women
Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation
This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android
Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
Links for the day
The Blob Slop
Give me more words, give me some text
The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"
Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon
Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix
That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests
Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone
Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025