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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2025

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GNU/Linux, BSD, and Mozilla

today's leftovers
Programming Leftovers

Development news and views
PostgreSQL Coverage and pgCompare Community v1.0.0 Released

Some PSQL news
Linus Torvalds Ranting and Intel Layoffs Impact Maintainers

Linux news
Open Hardware/Modding: Compulab, Amiga, and More

Hardware picks
today's howtos

half a dozen howtos for today
Dark mode improvements in Plasma

Dark mode has been available in Plasma for quite a while now but the next release explores new areas where it can be taken one step further
Android Leftovers

Your Sony TV is finally getting its Android TV 14 upgrade — here’s who qualifies
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
Paper 7 Is an Open-Source E-Paper Frame with a Spectra 6 Display

Paper 7 is a 7-inch open-source e-paper frame with a Spectra 6 color display
Windows vs. Linux: Which Is Best for Your Homelab?

It seems like the fight between Windows and Linux will never end
I tried out these 5 Linux desktop environments that aren't GNOME or KDE, and they're surprisingly decent

When I first stepped into the Linux rabbit hole ages ago
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: Rhino Linux 2025.3

I have talked about the Rhino Linux project a few times in the past year
XpressReal T3 Compact SBC with Realtek RTD1619B Runs Chromium OS Variant

The XpressReal T3 is designed to run openFyde, a fully open-source Chromium OS variant
GNU/Linux Applications and Hardware Leftovers

5 sorted story picks
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 10th, 2025

The 252nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 10th, 2025.

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

GitHub the Company Has, in Effect, Just Died (Time to Look for Alternatives): To Microsoft, what's left of GitHub after dismantling/folding it is some "training set" (people's code, without permission to "train" i.e. misuse under the guise of "GenAI" plagiarism)
Linux Foundation Says "Housekeeping", "Hung", "Normal", "Native Feature/Support" and "Girl/Girls" Are Offensive Words: Bombing people is OK, just use the right "terms"
It Looks More Like Microsoft GitHub Layoffs: GitHub is just losing loads of money
Slopfarms Slopping Away at "Linux" and Spreading Microsoft Misinformation: Slopfarms don't comprehend this as they lack actual comprehension, they're just parrots
Links 12/08/2025: Science, Hardware, and Ukraine Excluded From Negotiations About Its Future: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/08/2025: Meditation, OpenStreetMap, Smolweb, and More: Links for the day
Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content'): Google News has been drowning in this sort of stuff for quite some time
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 11, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, August 11, 2025
Our Predictions Were Right: GitHub Dying as Losses Pile Up (as a Company It Cannot Continue to Exist, It's Not 'Free Hosting'): GitHub always lost money
Links 11/08/2025: Meritless Twitter Suspensions and Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson: Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Upgrading Debian Bookworm and Better Quality PDFs From Gemini Pages: Links for the day
Currys PCWorld Lied a Decade Ago, 10 Years Later It Still Effectively Voids Your Warranty for Installing GNU/Linux Despite It Being Increasingly Mainstream: Microsoft gatekeepers
Team GNOME Has Libeled Me for Nearly 20 Years: we are not dealing with sane people
Experience With Airlines in 'Web Sites' and in 'Apps': In a lot of ways, Stallman Was Right about what JavaScript would turn out to be
Open Does Not Mean Free: wiser to ask if some program is freedom-respecting
The Register MS Takes Money From Companies Banned by the Biden and Trump Administrations (National Security Risk): today's sponsor
Sabotaging GNU/Linux PCs (and Users) is Not a 'Joke': maybe cruelty is the very objective
How We Process Screenshots of Slop to Suitably Tag Them as Slop: everything is a single command
Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 10, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, August 10, 2025
Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Tea Caffeine Hot and Super ZZ Zero: Links for the day
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and Other Serial Sloppers: Maybe Microsoft wants to dub this "Web5"
Gemini Links 10/08/2025: Residents Management Company, Automation, and Politics: Links for the day
Links 10/08/2025: AOL Ending Dial-up: Links for the day
Seductive Mirage or Allure of Complex, Proprietary Coffee Machines (or Similar White Elephants): Software is a lot like those things
Links 10/08/2025: Webrings, “AI Sunglasses” and “AI Eyeglasses”, US Administration Intensifies Attacks on Science and Research: Links for the day
Sometimes Newer is Worse: We generally need to reject this dumb notion that "old" means bad
The Code Used to Make Techrights Fits on a Seventh of a Floppy Disk (or 100KB When Compressed): For the sake of comparison I've just downloaded the latest version of WordPress. The ZIP file is 27.2MB in size, or ~27,200KB.
What They Tell Young Programmers: Coding in 2025
Simpler is Better When Simple is Enough: Over-complicating things to "sell" new versions is so 1990s
Links 10/08/2025: From Social Control Media to Prison, New Examples of Windows TCO: Links for the day
Sloppy Reporting About Slop, or How The Register MS Lowers Its Standards: Maybe the management isn't even aware of this
IBM's Strategy: Cull 'Expensive' Workers, Replace Them With Cheaper Ones: So far we saw not even one rebuttal or challenge to the claim of Red Hat layoffs scheduled for tomorrow
If You Attack Somebody Too Much You Legitimise and Strengthen That Somebody: at the end those attacks add up to a "martyr" status
The Man Who Helped Microsoft Kill Linux is Trying to Delay Our Lawsuits Against Him: By conservative estimates, and based on court documents submitted by them, they're prepared to spend over a million dollars on lawyers, fighting against me and my wife
Gemini Links 10/08/2025: Gen Con 2025 and Framework Laptop: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 09, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, August 09, 2025