Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2025

Lakeshore and Beach in Spring

Updated This Past Day

  1. Red Hat Puff Pieces and More
    Red Hat's own

    New

  2. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  3. Empty IBM Buildings and More
    today's leftovers
  4. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security picks for today
  6. Web Browsers: Tor Browser 14.0.5, Retaking The Web Browser and Buzzwords
    some WWW leftovers
  7. Android Leftovers
    Gboard for Android rolls out tweaked Dynamic Color theme
  8. Hugo Mendoza Hospital launches GNU Health to transform pediatric health
    In a decisive step towards the modernization of healthcare in the country
  9. Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia
    Fedora had a booth at BalCCon for the 8th time in a row
  10. Serpent OS Needs Your Support
    Financial troubles force Ikey Doherty to delay Serpent OS development
  11. Simplifying Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group
    I specifically like the default Ubuntu approach to managing sudo behavior
  12. Chipsee introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch industrial panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5
    Chipsee has introduced three new panel PCs powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5)
  13. Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings, awards, and historic tech
    In its program for their fortieth anniversary, the organization hinted that it would organize an unprecedented virtual memorabilia auction
  14. Best Free and Open Source Software
    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux
  15. EasyOS – experimental Linux distribution
    EasyOS is an experimental Linux distribution made in Australia
  16. Ivy Carrier Board for Toradex Verdin SoM Family in Industrial Applications
    Toradex also provides software support for its Verdin SoM family
  17. LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK!
    Following a bug in ubuntu-release-upgrader which was causing Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS to fail to upgrade to 24.04 LTS
  18. Lubuntu Plucky Puffin Alpha Notes
    Lubuntu Plucky Puffin is the current development branch of Lubuntu
  19. AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want
    Users who take advantage of the new DISA STIG can give their AlmaLinux servers military-grade hardening
  20. Games: Steam Deck, Killing Floor 3, and More
    10 picks from GamingOnLinux
  21. 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 2025-01-30 to 2025-02-05
    935 /n/2025/01/28/Facebook_Censors_GNU_Linux_Advocacy.shtml
    802 /n/2025/01/30/Thunderbird_Moves_to_Monthly_Updates_from_March_2025.shtml
    617 /n/2025/02/01/Freedesktop_looking_for_new_home_for_its_GitLab_instance_mesa_2.shtml
    599 /n/2025/01/31/GParted_Live_1_7_Launches_with_Experimental_Bcachefs_Support_Li.shtml
    596 /n/2025/01/31/Collabora_Outsources_to_Microsoft_Microsoft_LF_Linux_Foundation.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Fresh IBM Layoffs Reported in Europe and North America, Jobs Allegedly Moved to South Asia (Low Salaries)
As usual, IBM does not talk about this
Microsoft Has Not Much Left to Show Investors, Shares Fall Almost 20%
It's not even clear how Microsoft makes money anymore
 
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Crossbow murders: prevention, missed opportunities
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
This yt-dlp Bug Report Shows Us That the Future of YouTube is DRM and It's Time to Leave (yt-dlp Should Also Leave Microsoft GitHub, Which Censors YouTube Downloaders)
GAFAM traps aren't "free hosting"; they herd us all into a world of tollbooths and locks, surveillance and planned obsolescence (you own nothing, you only rent)
Ukraine Didn't Take Twitter/X Down, Microsoft or Windows Likely Did
There are many debunkings (to likely false accusations), but won't that just be another example of Windows TCO, exacerbated externally in the form of Windows botnets?
The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Worse Than What the Media Has Focused on, Losing Sight of Who Owns and Runs the OSI
Members' dues are less than 3% of the income; where does the 97+ percent come from other than Microsoft?
Apple Seems to Have Run Out of Things to Boast About After Apple Vision Pro Failed Spectacularly
With "Apple Intelligence", Apple has finally named a product after what target customers lack
Slopwatch: Reckless FUD and Machine-Generated Spam from LinuxSecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, and gbhackers.com (Google Boosts LLM Slop About "Linux")
Google and so-called 'Google News' continue to yield anti-Linux misinformation
Gemini Links 11/03/2025: 'Chainsaw Politicians' and Proprietary Software Hell
Links for the day
Links 11/03/2025: Covid-19 5 Years On and Violence in Syria
Links for the day
Links 11/03/2025: NASA Besieged and "DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy"
Links for the day
Illuminating Injustice is Critical When Reckless Microsofters and Law Firms Try to Silence Reporters of Violence Against Women
I want to clarify that I'm well within my right (and not running afoul of any rules) by explaining what goes on here
EPO Central Staff Committee: "The Strategy of the Office Lacks Transparency and Cannot be Understood"
Microsoft and the EPO violate data protection laws
Links 11/03/2025: Spring and Misfin Server
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 10, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, March 10, 2025
Latvia (and Lithuania) Stepping Away From GAFAM, Microsoft
Windows becomes unessential as Android and GNU/Linux rise
Microsoft Layoffs Are Infectious (Don't Get Acquired or Become a Partner)
It seems like companies choosing to become "buddies" with Microsoft are dooming themselves and their products
The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Election is Rigged, Biased Against People Who Oppose the Openwashing of GPL-Violating Bots Operated by Microsoft for Profit (OSI Gets Paid to Promote This)
they reckon that pretence of calm would serve them best, helped by puff pieces
A Closer Look Inside the EPO, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli's Submissive Lapdogs Roberta Romano-Götsch and Elodie Bergot
new report comes from the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN)
In Vietnam, statCounter Sees Microsoft Windows Falling Below 7% "Market Share"
Can Microsoft still demand $500 or more per Windows licence?
Links 10/03/2025: Staff Strikes, Mass Layoffs in Gaming Industry
Links for the day
Gemini Links 10/03/2025: "Eat The Rich" and Two-Year Anniversary of the 'Space Elevator' Orbit (Like 'Webring')
Links for the day
Links 10/03/2025: Small Web Praised, LLM Chatbots Exposed as Worse Than Useless Again
Links for the day
A Call for GNU/Linux and BSD Developers to Unite Against GAFAM and the Regime They Empower
We have long encouraged and continue to encourage people who value Software Freedom to altogether boycott GAFAM
The Ludicrous Mythology of Commonality as Signal of Value, Merit, Popularity
Devalue what's true, promote marketing?
[Video] Richard Stallman on the Four Essential Freedoms (Manuel Cuda News, 2025)
Added to a channel several days ago by Manuel Cuda News
Gemini Links 10/03/2025: Realisation About Young People, Punks, and Discord IPO
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 09, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, March 09, 2025