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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2025

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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

various picks
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

mostly FOSS picks
Hardware and GNU/Linux Migrations

some more stories
Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice

Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein
Games: Godot, FEX, and Lossless Scaling Frame Generation

Games-related picks
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support

as Microsoft takes a fall
Web Browsers: Curl, Chrom*, and Mozilla/Firefox

mostly Firefox
Open Hardware: Radxa, Pi, RISC-V, and More

Linux centric hardware
Ubuntu Pro, Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, and More

Some Ubuntu news
Debian Leftovers

Some Debian stories
Software: OCR, PhotoPrism, Blender, and syslog-ng

some software news
today's howtos

mostly idroot
Programming Leftovers

Development picks for today
Security Leftovers

patches and breaches
Windows TCO Tales

Windows very expensive to use
Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

mostly Windows TCO
PCLinuxOS and Open Hardware Leftovers

GNU/Linux and more
today's howtos

half a dozen howtos
Android Leftovers

Google Pixel Phones Receiving Android 16-Based Monthly Software Update for July 2025: What’s New
I run these 4 commands first on every fresh Linux install

When installing Linux for the first time
I Left Windows 11 for Linux—Here’s the Best Distro to Start With

Switching from Windows to Linux can feel daunting
Games: Rhythm of Resistance, Bazzite, and More

Only 4 stories from GamingOnLinux for now
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Extension Adds Auto Mode

The Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell Extension I wrote about recently now includes an option to automatically activate the compact
Celebrating 20 Years of openSUSE

To celebrate the project’s vibrant history
GIMP Tutorial: GIMP 3.0 Review

GIMP 3.0.4 is out!
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles
GNU/Linux Leftovers

3 more stories
Raspberry Pi Leftovers

some Raspberry Pi projecta and news

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Microsoft said “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organisation.” But it's just an empty shell created earlier this year.: In short, it's not too clear what Microsoft has just done except dumping GitHub - i.e. mostly a Web site that loses a ton of money (it always lost money) - into some mysterious new bucket
IBM Layoffs in MCC, or Marketing, Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): IBM and Microsoft inflate their share price by circular financing
The Register MS gets Lazy, Uses Slop: Unlike 3-D renderings or "Classic" CG, slop images aren't quite original and definitely not fair use
Overly Maximalist, Expensive, Localised Patent Law is Dooming Western Companies, Argue 3-D Printing Champions: We've long warned (over 7 years already!) that China's approach to patents will impress WIPO by gaming the totals but will doom the West
Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down: What is this Unknown? Who knows...
Links 19/08/2025: "NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science" and "Earth's Continents Are Drying Out at an Unprecedented Rate": Links for the day
Phil Wyett evidence & Debian Zizian plagiarism, modern slavery tendencies: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
In Many Countries People Move Away From Vista 11: Vista 11 has been available for download for 4 years already, but adoption has been poor
Desktops/Laptops Fall to All-Time Lows in the UK, So Why Does British Media Quote a Famous Criminal on "End of the Smartphone Era"?: mobile usage (for Web access) has never been higher, based on an Irish surveyor, statCounter
The Groklaw Web Site Has Been Hijacked by Scammers: Groklaw.net isn't a safe site to access at this time
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 18, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, August 18, 2025
Online Safety Act Does Not Tackle the Worst (and Biggest) Culprits: if our governments are serious about tackling online harms, then they need to look closely at GAFAM and social control media giants
Chat Control (1 and 2) in the European Union Sends the Wrong Message: This is an EU law
Slopwatch: Google News and Serial Sloppers (Fake Articles About "Linux"): Calling out the culprits
Gemini Links 19/08/2025: Digital Legacy and Chat Control: Links for the day
English Law Misused by Americans and Irishmen Against Brits is Unfair: There's always a way to improve existing laws
Links 18/08/2025: "Microsoft Store" Gets Increasingly Hostile, "Cracking Abandonware DRM": Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/08/2025: Summer "Gone" and Web Reposts in Gemini: Links for the day
Links 18/08/2025: LLM Reputation Damaged, Australia Catches Google Foul Play: Links for the day
Geeks Like GNU/Linux: The technical community seems to be consolidating and rallying around GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is 486 in Ireland: 4.86% that is
End of Reliable Media: it makes the world a worse place, it renders the Web a misinformation machine
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 17, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, August 17, 2025
GitHub Won't Last Much Longer: Many things at Microsoft are going to go the way of the Skype (or "dodo"). GitHub will be among those.
We've Never Used Large Language Model (LLM): we just never used an LLM
"Secure Boot" is a Security Problem, Not a Solution: These people don't try to improve security but to undermine security
Gemini Links 18/08/2025: Retro and Endless Escape from the WWW: Links for the day
Working Whilst Away From Home: Decades ago being away meant all sorts of problems associated with workflows and connectivity
The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft): It's worse and slower over time
"End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler: They call it "sour grapes"
Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube: Links for the day
Don't Talk to Bullies: This serious matter is still being examined by British authorities
Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends": Links for the day
Growing Our Reach: Our goal was never "hits"
The Russian Vision of Technology: Russia's surveillance is very extensive
Sooner or Later Almost Everyone Will Know "AI" is Just a Go-To, Misused, Misapplied, and Grossly Overused Term of Liars and Con Jobs Who Ride a Ponzi Scheme: At the expense of people gullible enough to "invest" in this or take salaries/bonuses in the form of "stock" (tied to a Ponzi scheme)
The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images: It's not clear when it started; but it's definitely getting worse [...] Worst of all are 'articles' about slop that are themselves slop
Reddit Funded by Microsoft: Reddit is merely a filter and we knows who controls that filter (using money)
When It Comes to Technology, Mozilla and Firefox Are Illiberal: Last month in Planet Debian we saw one more person explaining to everyone how to "turn off" DRM in Firefox and hide the pop-up/s
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 16, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, August 16, 2025
The Open Source Initiative Has Many Scandals, We'll Try to Summarise Them All: Open Source Initiative (OSI) hates facts
Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering: OSI is like SPLC. The old name remains, the mission changed
Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams: Links for the day