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  2. Kdenlive 25.12.1 released
    The first maintenance release of the 25.12 series is with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements
  3. Open Hardware/Modding: ThinkNode M3, ForgeFPGA, Raspberry Pi Latches Onto the Slop Cargo Cult
    Hardware and devices
  4. Latest Article in Linuxiac Deemed 100% LLM Slop (or Most Certainly Slop) [original]
    Linuxiac is causing its own downfall
  5. statCounter Reckons 1 in 5 Desktops or Laptops in Finland Runs GNU and Linux (Not Counting Android) [original]
    That's just what statCounter is seeing
  6. Using a modern fork of this 90s Linux desktop was a nostalgic nightmare
    Ever since I went full-time with Linux about nine months ago
  7. GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release
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  10. Programming and Standards
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  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Open Access Leftovers
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  12. Mozilla Firefox: WebRTC and GFX
    a pair of development updates
  13. Open Hardware/Modding: PureOS, RISC-V, Raspberry Pi-Like ARM Devices
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  14. BSD Leftovers: Applications, Discussion, and More
    mostly OpenBSD
  15. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  16. Security Leftovers
    patches, breaches, and more
  17. Fedora Games Lab Spin to Switch from Xfce to KDE Plasma with Fedora Linux 44
    The Fedora Project announced plans to migrate the Fedora Games Lab spin to the KDE Plasma desktop environment with the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 release, due out in April 2026.
  18. PipeWire 1.4.10 Backports Filter-Graph Channel Support and Fixes More Bugs
    The PipeWire project has released PipeWire 1.4.10 today as yet another maintenance update of this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.
  19. Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4 Improves Handling for Files Larger Than 4GB
    Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4 SD card flashing utility is now available for download with improved handling of files larger than 4GB and other changes.
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  21. Canonical Ubuntu Pretends That US (Outsourcing) is OK With "European Sovereignty", Chris Siebenmann Looks at Netplan
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  22. Android Leftovers
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  26. FSF Scheduled Activities
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  28. EDATEC CM0 NANO Combines Raspberry Pi CM0 with Full I/O in a Small SBC
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  29. Taking the Slop Train to Nowhere, Linuxiac Reverts Back to Slopfarm Mode [original]
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    2330 /n/2026/01/11/5_Windows_like_Linux_distros_you_should_try_out.shtml
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    2313 /n/2026/01/11/Manjaro_Is_Arch_Linux_for_Newbies.shtml
    2287 /n/2026/01/11/Linux_made_my_old_PC_fast_again_and_it_hasn_t_slowed_down_since.shtml

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When Everybody Has a Right/Access to An Attorney/Lawyer (But Some Get Funding From Malicious American Corporations to Spend a Million Dollars on Many Lawyers and Several Barristers)
And send about 75 KG of legal papers to the residence of the "opponent"
European Qualifying Examination (EQE) Being Reduced to Pieces of Papers One Can Buy, Patent System Rapidly Losing Its Legitimacy
Welcome to the "new Europe"
 
Founder of IBM Ventures Has Just Quit IBM
Some people leave IBM and many people 'leave' IBM
Signs of Impeding Mass Layoffs - Not Just Quiet Layoffs - at Microsoft
Beneath the surface there are waves of layoffs and even entire teams are let go
Career Science and Academia as Corporate Propaganda 'on Tap'
article about surveillance
Veteran GNU/Linux Journalist Jack Wallen Tries Geminispace and Likes It
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Scheduled Maintenance Tonight
There will be similar work early next week
IBM Has No Clue How to Integrate Companies Like Red Hat
IBM is failing to respect this company's culture
Fake Articles From Sites With "Linux" in Their Name/Domain Name
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Links 13/03/2026: New US Weapons for Taiwan, Pakistan Air Strikes Hit Kabul
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Friday the 13th & Debian Developers afraid to nominate in DPL elections
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 13/03/2026: Chatbot "Pentagon Contract" (Bailout) and Secret Service Ditches Slop Pusher
Links for the day
Priorities in 2026
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The Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) has this new paper about Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and its annual EPO-sponsored propaganda, pretending all is well when things are clearly dire
Head of Microsoft Office and Microsoft 360 is Leaving Microsoft Amid Problems and Mass Layoffs
Microsoft is like a "legacy" company
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Gemini Links 13/03/2026: "Someone to Take Over Antenna" and Random Seed/RNG
Links for the day
By Expanding to Advocacy of Ponzi Schemes and Bill Epsteingate (Sex Trafficking), Linux Foundation Revenue Grew to $220,730,594, But Salary of Linus Torvalds Not Even in Top 10 Anymore!
true!
In the Name of Transparency, Today We Show Our Defence and Counterclaim
already uploaded by the other side
IBM Cannot Even Do Payroll, Now a "Legitimate Target" of Iran
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Links 12/03/2026: Heating Bills to Soar, "Banks in Gulf Evacuate Their Offices"
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Gemini Links 12/03/2026: On Phone Anxiety and Bjorn "Looking for Someone to Take Over Antenna"
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Cultification: best candidates avoiding Debian leader elections
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Richard Stallman (RMS) et al Cited in 'Nature' (Journal/Site) Today, "CODE beyond FAIR"
Under Open Access
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Publishers that participate in this simply don't care about their readers
Overview of False Narratives and Lies Used to Lower Salaries at the European Patent Office (EPO), Abandoning Patent Quality and the EPC
Many of the latter slides are the same as Munich's
Links 12/03/2026: Atlassian Layoffs, GAFAN Covering up Slop-Induced Outages, "Age-verification in Operating Systems and the Internet"
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The EPO's President, Who Covers Up Cocaine Use, is Trying to Suppress Communication Between EPO Staff Under the Guise of 'Privacy' (and in Defiance of a Court Ruling)
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Exactly One Week Before Next EPO Strike, Media Intentionally Not Mentioning EPO Strikes
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Suicide of disgruntled employee? Bus fire at Kerzers / Chiètres, Switzerland, at least six dead
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Slop About "linux" in Google News
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The cost of maintaining illusions
IBM's Payroll: Cannot Even Pay the People What They're Legally Entitled to
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Slides From the European Patent Office (EPO) Explain Why They're Striking, How They're Striking, and What Comes Next
A week from now the strike will go ahead
GAFAM Datacentres Are Facilities of War, So Risk of Downtime by Missiles or State-Sponsored Cracking Has Vastly Increased
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Companies That Take Away Blood and Sweat From the Community to Sell a Ponzi Scheme to Everybody
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1,234 People Gather Online to Plan Next EPO Strikes and Other Industrial Actions
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Gemini Links 11/03/2026: Lagrange for iOS and Android and "Turning a Folder of Git Repos Into Project Launcher"
Links for the day
Kafkaesque: Unlawful Activities in the UK to Cover Up Unlawful Activities in the United States of America
Why is bribery and even extortion seen is OK? Because rich people do those things?
Former IBM Executive, Ron Hovsepian, Doomed S.u.S.E. (SUSE)
SUSE is like a child nobody wants to raise
Quiet Layoffs or Silent Layoffs Alleged at Microsoft
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After a Long Lull LinuxTeck (linuxteck.com) Came Back Only as a Slopfarm
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Links 11/03/2026: EPO and USPTO Software Patents Thrown Out Again, Copyright Concerns Over Slop (Plagiarism Using Buzzwords)
Links for the day
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IBM's Fedora is Now Led by GAFAM Slop
The official word of Fedora is partly slop
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Links for the day
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A Week Ahead of Next EPO Strike the Staff Representatives Show the Administrative Council That the Office Lost the Best Staff, It's No Longer Attractive
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