Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 08, 2025

Yellow Spring Flowers

Updated This Past Day

  1. OpenWrt 24.10 Brings Kernel 6.6 and Initial WiFi 7 Support
    OpenWrt 24.10 open-source router firmware debuts with initial WiFi7 support

    New

  2. today's leftovers
    Games, KDE, and more
  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  4. Distributions and Operating Systems: BSD and More
    BSDs and GNU/Linux
  5. Applications: CLI Tools, Docker Desktop 4.38, GTK, pgexporter 0.6
    Application news
  6. WAL-G 3.0.5 and pgAdmin 4 v9.0 Released
    psql releases
  7. today's howtos
    3 howtos only
  8. Events: ShinyConf and FOSDEM Coverage
    3 stories
  9. Security Leftovers
    Security stories
  10. Microsoft Entryism/Microsoft-Dominated 'Linux' Foundation/Canonical Promoting Windows
    WSL club
  11. Microsoft-dominated 'Linux' Foundation Still Promoting Scams, OpenInfra Wants to Get a Vote/Input Going
    very sad
  12. Linux Kernel Space and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
    Linux leftovers
  13. Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Devices via MTP
    The weekly Calibre updates continue with Calibre 7.25, released today by developer Kovid Goyal as the latest stable version of this powerful, cross-platform, free, and open-source suite of e-book software.
  14. Free Software and GNU/Linux Leftovers
    Leftovers for today and last night
  15. Red Hat's Leftovers
    mostly Red Hat's puff pieces
  16. Android Leftovers
    The Asus Zenfone 12 Ultra is basically an ROG Phone 9 Pro
  17. Reproducible Builds and Security Gaps in Debian-Based Tails
    Debian picks
  18. Games: Steam Deck, Valve, and “Multi-User Dungeons”
    gaming news
  19. FOSSASIA 2025 – Operating systems, open hardware, and firmware sessions
    The FOSSASIA Summit is the closest we have to FOSDEM in Asia
  20. Events: Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025, FOSDEM 2025, and Univention Summit 2025
    3 events
  21. Canonical/Ubuntu on Security and Its Promotion of Microsoft Windows (WSL)
    sellouts
  22. Live virtual memorabilia auction on March 23, 2025
    The Free Software Foundation will auction off original GNU drawings, awards
  23. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  24. Web Browsers/Web: Release of Curl 8.12.0; Mozilla Once Again Picks a Senior Vice President From Facebook (Privacy Violator), Promotes LLM Slop, Spreads Rust (Microsoft GitHub)
    Firefox and more
  25. Programming Leftovers
    coding related picks
  26. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  27. today's howtos
    first for Friday
  28. Games: Monster Hunter Wilds, Combined Arms RTS, Duskers, and More
    latest from Liam et al
  29. The right to repair supports more than just sustainability and affordability
    The right to repair is one of four pillars supporting software freedom
  30. Papers Expects to replace Evince as GNOME Default PDF Viewer
    As you may know, GNOME is moving to GTK4 + LibAdwaita in recent years
  31. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  32. YunoHost – Linux distribution simplifying server administration
    YunoHost is a Debian-based Linux distribution which aims to simplify server administration and democratize self-hosting
  33. Axon Platform Featuring RockChip RK3588S and Support for LLM Frameworks
    The Axon platform supports operating systems such as Android 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy
  34. Keeping your system-wide configuration files intact after updating SteamOS
    SteamOS 3.6 introduced a new mechanism to decide what to to keep after an OS update
  35. EasyOS/OpenEmbedded: New Software and Updates
    distro news from BK
  36. Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed
    Throughout history, many hackers have stood firm and challenged corporate capitalism and government surveillance
  37. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

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

    Span from 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-07
    896 /n/2025/01/28/Facebook_Censors_GNU_Linux_Advocacy.shtml
    747 /n/2025/02/01/Freedesktop_looking_for_new_home_for_its_GitLab_instance_mesa_2.shtml
    693 /n/2025/02/03/Mozilla_Firefox_135_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml
    690 /n/2025/02/03/Linux_6_14_rc1.shtml
    637 /n/2025/01/31/Collabora_Outsources_to_Microsoft_Microsoft_LF_Linux_Foundation.shtml
    583 /n/2025/02/01/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml
    580 /n/2025/02/01/today_s_howtos.2.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

"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
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
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
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
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
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 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
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
Links 21/09/2025: "Hey Hi" (Hype) Under Fire, Fakes Identified; Tesla Burns Family
Links for the day
Google's Software is Malware and Malware in Mobile Devices
Originally posted by Rob Musial
Links 20/09/2025: Hegemony Coming to a Close, Luigi Mangione Ruled Not Terrorist
Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/09/2025: "Charlie Kirk Was a Hateful Piece of Shit" and Slop Code Attempted by Microsofter
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 20, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, September 20, 2025