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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Mozilla to Make Firefox Better at Mass Censorship via Certificate Authorities, Firefox WebDriver Newsletter, Release of Tor Browser 14.5.6
    Firefox news
  2. Social Control Networks and Drupal Were a Waste of Time, a 'Bubble' [original]
    Leaving social control media didn't have any noticeable impact on us

    New

  3. Linux Kernel 6.15 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.16
    This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.15 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.16 as soon as possible.
  4. Windows TCO: Microsoft Breaks Hardware Through Windows Updates
    Vista 11 glory
  5. Unpatched (for Years) Systems and "Linux" Gets the Blame
    Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
  6. GNU/Linux, GNOME and More
    some leftovers for today
  7. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and Radxa Cubie A7A
    Hardware picks
  8. GNU Project: GNU Radio, gprofng-gui 2.2, and Free Software Directory Meeting on IRC
    FSF and GNU catch-up
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  10. Security Leftovers
    Security and more
  11. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Web Sites Leftovers
    WWW-centric news
  12. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    bad and good
  13. today's howtos
    lots from idroot
  14. EasyOS Development Updates and Milestones
    3 posts from EasyOS developer
  15. Red Hat Leftovers
    latest from redhat.com
  16. today's leftovers
    Windows TCO and more
  17. LibreOffice 25.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
    The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 25.8 as the latest stable version of this popular, powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows systems.
  18. Games: HELLDIVERS, Deadlock, LookPilot, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  19. Android Leftovers
    Ayaneo’s dual-screen Android handheld is its next modernized Nintendo DS
  20. FreshRSS 1.27 Feed Agregator Now Supports PHP 8.5+
    FreshRSS 1.27 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator adds stronger security
  21. Fooyin 0.9 Music Player Arrives with Artwork Downloads, Synced Lyrics
    Fooyin 0.9 open-source music player is out with support for artwork downloads
  22. I Tested 9 Arch-Based Linux Distros, Here's How I Rank Them
    Want to try an Arch-based distro but don’t know where to start
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. Forlinx FET-MX9596-C SoM Arrives with NXP i.MX 95, Dual 10GbE, and Onboard NPU
    The company will provide Linux BSP support, design documentation, and customization services for integration into long-lifecycle products
  25. Valnet/How-To Geek on Trying GNU/Linux, Kubuntu Focus, Fractal, and Syncthing 2.0
    4 recent articles
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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Firefox in Trouble in the US, Down to Lowest Level in 20+ Years
more sites will stop or intentionally neglect Firefox support
Clownflare: More Than 1 in 5 Laptops or Desktops in El Salvador Run GNU/Linux or ChromeOS
Clownflare Radar reckons it's more like 20%+ now
Omarchy is Already Dying
Same as the life cycle of slopfarms
 
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Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux at 16% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops in Tajikistan
in Tajikistan it seems like adoption of GNU/Linux is exceptionally high, based on a very large data set associated with Web access
The Demise of Social Control Media Continues
Entering (anew) social control media in 2026 seems foolish
SLAPP Censorship - Part 155 Out of 200: Throwing Stones in Houses Made of Glass
character-assassination-as-a-service
Gemini Links 20/08/2026: Planners, Pantsing, Vinylyssee
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Gemini Links 19/08/2026: "Big Boost in Autonomy" and "Answer of E-Mail"
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 154 Out of 200: Computer-Generated Legal Filings From Men Who Are Salaried by Mass Plagiarism Companies in Another Continent (America)
This isn't the behaviour of a moral person but of some sort of "crypto bro" or "slop bro"
Fired by IBM for Medical Leave, Rampant Censorship of IBM Critics Explained
We've already caught and showed many cases where thelayoff.com deleted comments that were not even remotely racist
Links 19/08/2026: First Amendment Under Fire by White House of Cards, "Universities Were Forced to Pay Up" for Not Censoring
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Gemini Links 19/08/2026: What Friendship Means, Sm0lNet/SmolNet, and New Feeds
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No, WSL (Windows With Fake 'Linux') Isn't Growing Faster Than Ubuntu, This Was Disinformation Spread by a Microsoft Propaganda Site, Then Spread by Slopfarms
Be sceptical; Microsoft is truly desperate for anti-Linux spin right now, seeing that Windows is in a freefall
Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft
Can Microsoft still run Microsoft?
Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats
Even the US government concluded Microsoft could not be trusted for security; it issued a formal report about it in April 2024
Instant Impact: GNU/Linux Skyrockets to 10% in China Days After Policy Changes
Let's see what the 'aftermath' looks like by year's end
Links 19/08/2026: Timothy James King (AmigaDOS) Dies, GitHub Goes Offline, Finland Wants to Shun Social Control Media
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Slop's Achilles Heel: It Increases the Workload, Not Just Costs
Set aside its inability to scale well
Improving techrights.org
Technical debt (like 17 years with WordPress) is something that's better to address early, not later
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The debt of Dropbox Inc., which isn't an imaginary (estimated) thing, is over 4 billion dollars
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From what we are hearing and reading, there are 'voluntary' layoffs again
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Laos Leaving GAFAM Behind, Gradually
Yesterday evening it was measured at 10% for GNU/Linux at one point
They Were Wrong All Along
Two women combined won't deliver a healthy baby in just 4.5 months
A "Tech Journalist" Would Not Cover Vote on LLMs as a Sex Issue
For a moment there you have to pause and wonder, is this a "Tech Journalist" or the Daily Stormer?
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Last Night GNU/Linux Measured at 9% in Africa
Nighttimes in Africa are times when GNU/Linux usage on desktop/laptop devices typically surges, based on Clownflare [...] It changes in favour of GNU/Linux
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Bluesky is in Trouble
Bluesky is a private company (unlike Bluesky Digital Assets Corp. in Toronto, that one runs a pyramid scheme!), so it's hard to know for sure just how much money it is losing
China Says Goodbye to Microsoft
It is hardly surprising that Windows is shedding off userbase all around the world
Links 18/08/2026: US Abandons South Korea, New Legal Disputes Over Slop Plagiarism in the Music Scene
Links for the day
Linux Losing Interest in Users' Freedom, Pursues DRM Instead
"Linux" is (or was, as GNU/Linux) meant to empower - not artificially restrict - the users
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locals turn away from Windows and try GNU/Linux instead
IBM is Dead or Dying. Now It Asks Workers to 'Resign' Voluntarily.
To save face, to pretend no layoffs are happening (as it might alarm shareholders) [...] We keep hearing more and more stories like that
Links 18/08/2026: Sergey Brin Controlling State Policies, "Dario Amodei's (Anthropic) Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein"
Links for the day
SBS News Interviews Daniel Pocock
The locals say this PR stunt (by the bigot, Farage) was a waste of money
Clownflare Sees One in 7 Web Requests in Libya Originating From GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux has taken a (foot)hold there
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It's long, so make a cuppa first
SLAPP Censorship - Part 153 Out of 200: Decades of Debt, Weaponising Borrowed Money to Try to Put Their Critics in Debt
they've always had a financial report by now
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 17, 2026
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