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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Are They Bluffing? [original]

   I am not a lawyer (IANAL), but something doesn't seem right

2. What Freedom Means to Me [original]

   Freedom is a 7-letter word which in English can mean all sorts of things

3. If You Value Software Freedom, Consider Downloading a Gemini Client (Browser) and Using Geminispace [original]

   The Web has become really bad for many different reasons

4. Keep an Eye on GNU/Linux in Turkey [original]

   Turkey has a population larger than any nation in Europe. If GNU/Linux gains even "just 1%" there, that can be a lot of people.

5. Which Gemini? [original]

   In the context of technology or even FOSS alone, there are now many "Geminis"

6. Another Week Comes to an End, But It Has Been an Exceptionally Productive One [original]

   Today we worked on improving the site by adding a few new tools for it

7. GNU/Linux in Spain as 2025 Ends [original]

   Our guess is that Spain wishes and is capable of becoming self-sufficient for "tech"

8. Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder

   This year, System76 turned twenty

9. Feeding 'John' [original]

   squirrels are adorable

10. Not Everything and Everyone is for Sale [original]

    The notion that I must chase money didn't appeal to me

11. Social Control Media Props Up Narcissists and Liars (Who Fake Their Alleged Popularity or Supposed Importance) [original]

    It's the same in YouTube

12. Record Traffic in Gemini Protocol [original]

    Maybe owing to a large volume of pages, our capsule grew a lot and we serve about 30,000 requests per day (this week)

13. Gamers Are Flocking Away From Microsoft and From Windows [original]

    Give it another year (2026) and let's see is Steam Survey shows GNU/Linux at over 5%

    New

14. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

    patches, incidents, and more

15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

    FOSS and standards remnants

16. today's leftovers

    BSD and more

17. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

18. Hardware: Home Assistant, SBC, Purism, and More

    some gadgets and such

19. Haiku R1/beta5 as a "Daily Driver" and Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems

    Some New regarding "Distributions and Operating Systems"

20. BSD and Linux Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

    ZFS and more

21. Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

    3 stories

22. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical picks

23. Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself

    Red Hat leftovers

24. Articles on the Duel Between GNU/Linux and Windows, Which Microsoft is Ditching (or Whose Users Get Abandoned)

    Wallen and more

25. today's howtos

    5 howtos

26. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pebble Index 01, and More

    Hardware picks

27. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

    There’s an odd tendency in modern software development; we’ve collectively decided that naming things after random nouns

28. Games: Kitten Space Agency, Project Zomboid, and More

    8 stories from GamingOnLinux

29. Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly

    Changes are afoot for Ubuntu’s opt-in telemetry service

30. Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is

    I’ve tried pretty much every major Linux distro out there

31. ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding)

    The keyboard is a QMK-compatible USB keyboard that can be used to interact with a Raspberry Pi

32. Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin

    In the winter 2025 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Bulletin

33. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

34. Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone

    Purism has a solution available today

35. Setting up distributed compilations with sccache

    There's a relatively new kid on the block, sccache

36. KDE Ni! OS

    At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE)

37. Another Magnificent Milestone [original]

    There are already many SSGs out there

38. GNU/Linux Reaches About 5% in Austria [original]

    Germany is dumping Microsoft

39. Upcoming "black building test" [original]

    (or Blackout Test)

40. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

41. When a Bird Dies [original]

    No, it wasn't a cat's fault

42. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    mostly the former

43. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux

44. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS stories

45. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, KiCad, and More

    Hardware leftovers

46. Outreachy in GNOME and Rewriting Cartridges (GNOME)

    GNOME picks

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