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Institutional Failure at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Reported to Politicians [original]
Because of the SRA, malicious "hired guns" harassed my wife for several years
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Bookmarking the Web, Offpunk 3.0 for Gemini/Gopher, and Matrix in Governments
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software on the Net
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Wine 11.2
The Wine development release 11.2 is now available
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analytics.usa.gov Shows Rapid Erosion of Windows Market Share Since 'End of 10' (Vista 10) [original]
"There were 2.23 billion sessions in the last 30 days.
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When the UK's Regulatory Authorities Are Systematically Failing Women [original]
This isn't the last resort but one of several
New
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tag2upload general availability
tag2upload is now out of beta
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
FOSS picks
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Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
Hardware picks
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Red Hat Leftovers and a Focus on Slop, as Usual From IBM
Red Hat is slop pusher
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Security Leftovers
Security patches and more
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Programming Leftovers
Development news
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PostgreSQL: credcheck v4.5 pgAdmin 4 v9.12 Released
Databases news
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FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers
BSD news
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Games: Steam, Roblox, and GOG
With Linux focus
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GNU/Linux Desktop/Laptop: NsCDE on Debian 13, Sound of 'Distrohop', and AppManager
3 new picks
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Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, "What’s in the SOSS?" and Social Control Media Ban
some new episodes
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Distributions and Operating Systems: Distro Dilemma, "Mid-life Crisis", Servers, and Hadron
distros in the news
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today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical posts
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EasyOS News and Release of 7.1.4
EasyOS leftovers
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MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8
MythTV 36.0 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source media center software capable of recording TV (similar to TiVo), playing videos, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, music, viewing photos, and more.
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Games: D7VK, Steam, and Retro Linux Gaming Computer
4 GamingOnLinux stories
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Mesa 25.3.5 Released
Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixe
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Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Pioreactor, Amiga With PAL, and More
Hardware projects
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Audiocasts/Shows: Cybershow, TDE Podcast and Package Manager Podcast
some new episodes
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Concerns about low-quality PRs being merged into main
I think we need to change our approach
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Is Open Source in Trouble?
"Every 20 developers in your company, 50% of one person’s time goes to them developing open source and that 50% is like, completely free of company influence.”
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Android Leftovers
You can (and should) run a tiny LLM on your Android phone
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KDE Plasma vs. Xfce: Comparing Lean and Mean Desktop Environments for Linux Users
KDE and XFCE are two impressive desktop environments known for their resource efficiency and performance
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8 Reasons Why Linux Mint is Better Than Ubuntu for Linux Beginners
Linux Mint is better for beginners, but why so
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Want to self-host for free? This server OS makes it easy - here's how to get started
Ubuntu Server is my go-to for self-hosting
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Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
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Kapsule: it shipped and nobody died
In my last post, I laid out the vision for Kapsule—a container-based extensibility layer for KDE Linux built on top of Incus
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Microsoft's Implosion Will be an Opportunity for Further GNU/Linux Gains [original]
Microsoft's layoffs will focus on Windows and XBox (gaming has been a complete catastrophe for Microsoft), so there will be room for GNU/Linux gains
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Says It Cannot Keep Up With Abusive Legal Cases in the UK [original]
Rianne will soon contact her politicians (representatives) about this
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):
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