Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 27, 2025

Old Red Car - Macro

Updated This Past Day

  1. Anger Does Not Get Positive Results [original]
    Patience is a virtue
  2. Windows TCO: Microsoft Cracked by China Again
    here we go again
  3. Microsoft OSI's Promotion of Microsoft LLMs (GPL Violations) as "Hey Hi" (AI) and Shunning of Candidates for Lame Reasons
    openwashing

    New

  4. Programming Leftovers
    Development related links
  5. Open Hardware/Modding: Framework, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware picks
  6. today's howtos
    last batch for now
  7. Security Leftovers
    Security and FUD
  8. Games: Minigalaxy 1.3.2, SteamDB, Tempopo, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  9. 6 productivity apps you must install on Linux
    Linux is a powerful operating system and while there's still the pesky myth around the OS having no apps
  10. 4 reasons why Hyprland is the best windows manager for Linux
    Hyprland is a Wayland-based Windows Manager (WM) that promises a new way to interact with content displayed on your monitor
  11. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  12. Dr.Parted Live – bootable Linux distribution
    Dr.Parted Live is a bootable GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian testing
  13. ameriDroid Opens Preorders for VPN Server with WireGuard and DietPi
    Built on the ODROID-C4, it runs a lightweight Linux-based system with WireGuard for encrypted VPN connections and minimal setup
  14. 6 features I wish Linux would borrow from MacOS
    If Linux borrowed these features from MacOS, it would be unstoppable
  15. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development links
  17. Security Leftovers
    Security links
  18. Games: Steam, Nvidia, and Layoffs
    gaming related news
  19. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  20. Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12
    Framework announced today during its “Second Gen” event two new, upcoming products, the Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, along with an updated Framework Laptop 13.

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

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

    Span from 2025-02-20 to 2025-02-26
    681 /n/2025/02/22/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml
    664 /n/2025/02/20/Ubuntu_24_04_2_LTS_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Powered_by_Lin.shtml
    651 /index.shtml
    628 /n/2025/02/20/Pi_hole_6_Is_Here.shtml
    628 /n/2025/02/06/Mixing_Rust_and_C_in_Linux_likened_to_cancer_by_kernel_maintain.shtml
    581 /n/2025/02/21/today_s_howtos.shtml
    554 /n/2025/02/21/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    541 /n/2025/02/22/today_s_howtos.shtml
    513 /n/2025/02/23/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml
    508 /n/2025/02/22/PeaZip_10_3_Archive_Manager_Improves_Integration_with_GNOME_and.shtml
    502 /n/2025/02/23/today_s_leftoverss.shtml
    501 /n/2025/02/22/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    501 /n/2025/02/23/today_s_howtos.shtml
    500 /n/2025/02/22/today_s_leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Real Security Elusive, Microsoft Layoffs to Coincide With Certificate Apocalypse
July 1
2026 is a Year of Strikes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
As it stands at the moment, to many people the EPO represents crime, not law
Only 1.5% Oppose the European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Until 2027
Among those polled/surveyed (in a ballot)
 
5 Years After Release of Vista 11 Not Even One in 5 People Use It (in the US)
It doesn't look like Vista 11 will ever be adopted like prior versions and announcing a Vista 12 will mostly upset companies/organisations that only recently "upgraded" to 11
Gemini Links 21/06/2026: Boca Raton, Perfect Summer Day, and LLM Doing Things Poorly
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 20, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, June 20, 2026
Microsoft Insiders - Not Limited to XBox - Expect a 'Bloodbath' (Their Own Word)
This isn't limited to XBox
Reports of "PIP" as Means of Mass Layoffs at IBM This Year
some insights into the PIPs
SLAPP Censorship - Part 112 Out of 200: Strangles Women, Then Refuses to Even Attend Any of His Own Hearings About It
It is meanwhile very apparent that Brett Wilson LLP is becoming a "mench sphere"
Gemini Links 20/06/2026: "There Was Never Supposed to Be a Camera" and "What Is A Programming Language"?
Links for the day
Geminispace Reaches Its 8th Year, Today It Has Turned 7
Gemini Protocol 'went live' 7 years ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic
Links 20/06/2026: "Full Page Paralysis" and "Hopes For Xbox’s Future Might Be Over Before It Even Begins"
Links for the day
European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes "at a Scale not Seen Since Battistelli", European Patent Grants Down by Over 25% in Past 3 Months
The actions are effective
Links 20/06/2026: Microsoft's "Year of Shame" and "Feed the Writers"
Links for the day
Web Browsers Are Technically Bloatware (No Matter What Runs in Them)
Don't make it a society that shames people into using a Web browser where none should be needed
Fedora Has Changed a Lot Since I Last Used It (IBM Dominates Almost Everything, IBM Agenda Displaces Community Goals)
"It is effectively 100% run by Red Hat/IBM employed people... even when they are community-elected representatives."
Andy (Cyber Show) on His Teacher Who "Squeezed Every Last Drop Out of Life, With Gratitude, Humility, Generosity and Mettle"
Some call them "eccentric" and are dismissive about what they have to offer
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 19, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 19, 2026
Gopher/Gemini Links 20/06/2026: Slop With Tcl/Tk and Nokia 770 Perishes
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent
it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...
reappointment campaign lobbying has not been restricted to the "home front" in Portugal
Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong
Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms
Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk
Links for the day
Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists
We will be writing several series about this in the future
Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing
Contrariwise, social control media is waning
The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.
The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule
The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"
Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time
Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
"2026 Best Companies for the Future"?
To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away
The leap between versions means that there is fertile ground for incompatibilities
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026
Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher
Links for the day