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Updated This Past Day

  1. Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter and Canonical Make It Easier to Install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu
    some Canonical/Ubuntu news
  2. Our Reach Grows [original]
    We seem to have attracted new readers and we assume that more and more people are adopting GNU/Linux
  3. Dr. Andy Farnell to Speak at Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning in Portsmouth, England [original]
    "This month we are joining a Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning in Portsmouth. For this event most of the audience will be older people. We're keen to get some new input."
  4. Half of September is Gone Already [original]
    COVID-19 started in late 2019. In 2022 we dumped Drupal. In 2023 we moved to UK hosting. In 2024 we fought back against Microsofters, who had attempted to censor us...

    New

  5. Budgie 10.9.3 Now Available
    The latest version of this elegant and configurable Linux desktop aligns with changes in Gnome 49
  6. Android Leftovers
    Samsung Reveals When Your Galaxy Will Get Android 16
  7. Transform Your Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Desktop Powerhouse with Alpine Linux
    Have you ever wondered how to turn your Raspberry Pi 5 into a sleek
  8. This 17MB Linux distro runs on just about any PC
    Tiny Core Linux is a distribution that doesn’t try to compete with the giants
  9. Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
    The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months
  10. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  11. today's leftovers
    3 more stories
  12. Graphics: Fixes for Xorg Wizard and radv takes over from AMDVLK
    Graphics-related news
  13. Games: Cattle Country, Godot 4.5, and GNOME’s Tetris Clone Quadrapassel
    gaming leftovers
  14. ESP32 Projects and GNU/Linux Terminal App in Android
    Linux and devices
  15. Mobile Progress Report From Thunderbird and Mozilla Tells Users to Trash 'Old' Computers
    Mozilla leftovers
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development leftovers
  17. Events: Linux Plumbers Conference, Open Source Summit Europe, and SIDO
    Events being covered
  18. GNOME/GTK Report From Christian Hergert and Gedit News
    GNOME news
  19. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and Late Night Linux
    2 new episodes
  20. Applications: Readest, ty, VirtualBox, and FreeIPMI
    software overviews, releases
  21. today's howtos
    some more howtos for today
  22. Security Patches and More
    Security leftovers
  23. Openwashing: Microsoft OSI Having a Crisis, Fake "Open Source" Slop (Not "AI") Criticised
    3 stories
  24. Installing Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta
    If you are thinking of switching to Linux, I don’t recommend starting with a test build
  25. Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager
    With Firefox 143 hitting the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 144, to the beta channel for public testing.
  26. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  27. Programming Leftovers
    Development and more
  28. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Varnish 8.0.0, Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape, and Firefox 143
    WWW leftovers
  29. today's howtos
    idroot and more
  30. Red Hat Hype ("AI") and RHEL
    mostly from redhat.com
  31. Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4
    The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.
  32. Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' over Oracle's MySQL job cuts
    Around 70 members of the team behind the open source database have been shown the door as part of Oracle's latest round of redundancies, according to one high-level source in the MySQL community
  33. Games: Super Mario Bros Remastered, Slay the Spire 2, and More
    10 new articles from GamingOnLinux
  34. Android Leftovers
    You can now turn your Android phone into a mini Nintendo Switch
  35. 4 reasons why I have started to look for NixOS alternatives
    I have been using NixOS for a few months now and have been enjoying it a lot
  36. I tried using Linux's AntiX OS on my super old laptop and it works like a charm
    I found solace in antiX
  37. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  38. PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released
    We have released alpha images for PureOS Crimson for all Librem devices and have closed the first milestone!
  39. This beautiful Linux distro deserves to be better known - here's why
    The Ubuntu-based Voyager Linux checks all the boxes
  40. Cantillon Lessons Guide Shift to Open-Source
    Switching to Linux distributions like openSUSE reverses this imbalance
  41. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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GAFAM is a giant mountain of debt
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IBM, Running Out of Things It Can Sell, is Selling Software Patents
IBM is not just pathetic; it's actively harmful because it lobbies for software patents and spreads software patents around
The 'Church' of Moglen/Stallman
'reunion' with Eben Moglen
 
GAFAM and IBM Dying in Massive Debt, Hence the Mass Layoffs (Increasingly Silent Layoffs That the Media Fails to Mention)
the integrity of this economy is only as good as its leaders or those who govern the market
TheLayoff.com Deletes Comment That Called IBM's Previous CEO, Ginni Rometty, "Gin 'n Tonic"
It is hard to believe the comment was deleted for being a duplicate (in another thread)
The Mainstream Media Continues to Overlook or Intentionally Ignore Hundreds of Billions in Hidden/Secret Microsoft Debt
the issue is that Microsoft's crisis is a lot greater and broader than this
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Star Trek, Retirement, and ODEs in GNU Octave
Links for the day
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Links for the day
GNOME Curated and Censored by IBM (Under the Guise of "Code of Conduct")
Felipe Borges (IBM) has just posted a follow-up
Digital Mass Surveillance as a Hallmark of Failed Societies
"small leap forward in tech ethics"
I Found a Typo, Don't Vote!
Social control media isn't good at adding any meaningful signal
Jeremy Sands Explained the Harms of Codes of Conduct
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Tonight's Earnings Report From Microsoft and Facebook ('Meta') Will be Faked Because They Hide Almost a Trillion Dollars in Debt
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The Vacuum Syndrome
Parables help
The Only Old People Who Can Survive IBM Are the CEO and His Circle of Enablers
very similar to what's happening at the EPO
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Troll-Feeding is Time-Wasting
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WordPress is Technical Debt
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Will Red Hat Still Exist in 2027 or Just Become a "Brand" at IBM?
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Call for IBM Whistleblowers
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 133 Out of 200: Lies by Omission
As usual, the other side wants people to ignore how much they lost
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Links for the day
Comments on Today's Judgment
It hopefully helps clarify what actually happened
Microsoft Has Fallen to #3 in Singapore
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Thank You, Andy
Burnham and "Tech Rights"
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SRA has become known (even notorious) for inaction
Inevitable Politics
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Not Only "Loonies Take on Farage"
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Brigading Against Women - Part I - Bypassing the Legal System by Threatening Companies in Another Continent
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IBM is Trying to Turn Debt (Borrowed Money) Into Fake Growth and It'll Worsen Matters
they put in their balance sheets a fake "growth" in something that does not even exist
Microsoft Relies on Misleading Narrative of Studios Going 'Independent'; in Reality There Are Mass Layoffs in Them
This is not a good narrative for Microsoft
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IRC logs for Tuesday, July 28, 2026
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Links for the day
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Zero "layoffs" to report
Gemini Links 28/07/2026: “Strategies Against Algorithms” and DIYers
Links for the day
"Social Dialogue" With the Man Who Never Faced Real Competition at the European Patent Office (EPO), He Buys the Voters and Eliminates Rivals
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Microsoft wrongly and very arrogantly assumed that users would tolerate everything it throws their way
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She was rewarded for conspiring against EPO staff, as usual
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Today I've communicated several times with police
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Microsoft E.E.E. (and "Bait and Switch") Going Exactly According to Plan
That is what they are trying to tell us and the companies that employ us
IBM: An Old Company That Hates Old People
Remember that's coming to Red Hat workers in 2 months
Strict Policy on Violence and Violent Language
This matter is now being escalated to law firms
Avoiding Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
work underway to improve the system which runs the sites
Links 28/07/2026: XBox DRM Doomed Everyone (Cannot Play Anything), Slop (Ponzi Scheme) Being Pinkwashed Now
Links for the day
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Improving the Static Site Generator
Our system has fixes triaged
Diversity in Debian
bringing up the topic is the real problem, diversity itself is a taboo subject
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