Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2026

A view of the controversial centrepiece of the ceiling fresco at Tampere

A view of the controversial centrepiece of the ceiling fresco at Tampere

Updated This Past Day

  1. Years Ago Tux Machines Quit Social Control Media. Now Entire Nations - Liberal States Too - Recognise It as a Threat and Accordingly Ban Social Control Media (First for Children/Adolescents) [original]
    Social Control Media made society so much worse off

    New

  2. GNU/Linux, BSD, and KDE
    today's leftovers
  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Open Data, and Standards
    FOSS and more
  4. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Hardware news
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  6. Rust Makes Ubuntu Less Secure, Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4 is Out, and Installing Ubuntu on the HP Z2 Mini
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  7. Applications: FOSS Weekly, GNU/Linux Monitoring Tools, gzpeek, and 4 GNU/Linux Terminal Apps
    software leftovers
  8. OpenZFS and OpenBSD Leftovers
    BSD picks
  9. Slop and 'Clown Computing' Extravaganza From Red Hat
    latest from Red Hat
  10. Security Leftovers
    patches, breaching systems, and more
  11. Games: Snake Session Handler Daemon or sshd, "Valve's Loot Boxes" and "Running Doom on a 20-Year-Old Snom 360 Office Phone"
    gamine leftovers
  12. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  13. PostgreSQL 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, and 14.22 Released; PostgresCompare 1.1.104 and pgvector 0.8.2 Released
    Releases related to PostgreSQL
  14. Android Leftovers
    Your Android phone already has a minimal phone built-in
  15. Why Kubuntu's next big update is a massive win for multi-monitor Linux users
    Kubuntu Linux is set to release a major update later this spring
  16. Arch-based Bluestar Linux 6.18.9 drops with a new kernel, Firefox 148, LibreOffice 26.2.1, and more
    Advertised as an operating system "that provides a breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics
  17. Shotcut 26.2 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various Improvements
    Shotcut 26.2 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software written in Qt using the MLT framework.
  18. Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026
    2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption
  19. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. In Memory of Hans de Graaff
    We share the tragic news that Hans de Graaff (graaff), a longtime Gentoo developer, has passed away
  21. Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.4 and Linux 6.18.14
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.19.4 kernel
  22. Games: SpaghettiKart, Legends of Rock, MARVEL MaXimum Collection, and More
    half a dozen
  23. Android Leftovers
    5 Android phones you should buy instead of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
  24. Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
    Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop
  25. I replaced Android with a full Linux desktop on my old phone, and it's shockingly usable
    Fedora is one of the many Linux distros you can install on your computer
  26. 9 open source operating systems that aren't Linux
    If you hear the term "open-source," you might think of Linux
  27. In 2026 Tux Machines is Improving [original]
    We have a common mission and every week we make measurable advancements
  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels
    The biggest thing in February for postmarketOS was of course FOSDEM and our hackathon
  30. Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low in Antigua And Barbuda (57.48%) [original]
    The world's preferences are fast changing
  31. Calibre 9.4 Adds “Reading Stats” to the E-Book Viewer to Show Reading Progress
    Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.4 as the latest stable version of this popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software.
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Your Site Should Implement Its Own Search (Before It's Too Late)
GAFAM was never trustworthy
Maintenance Reminder
We'll carry on publishing
EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VIII - Mobbing and Silencing of Dissenting Staff
that's the very cornerstone of functional democracies with real opposition parties
Reader Shares Recent Memes on Slop and 'Coding' by LLMs
"just some funny memes I thought were relevant to current coverage."
 
Links 22/03/2026: Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' in Legal Trouble (Plagiarism, Distortion, Misrepresentation); Facebook/Meta Kills Off "Horizon Worlds"
Links for the day
Racism Dressed Up as "Choice"
Racism is rampant at IBM
Probably an All-Time Record
Our investment in our own SSG is paying off
Gemini Links 22/03/2026: LLM Slop Attacks USENET, Announcing Pig (New Game in Gemini Protocol)
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 21, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, March 21, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 18 Out of 200: Third Parties Funding Attacks on the Messengers, Lawsuits Against GAFAM-Critical Voices That Uphold Real National Security
Women are like kryptonite to them
Never Trust People Who Write Their Own Wikipedia Pages (Vanity Pages About Themselves) or Ask Friends to Do So. Also: Jono Bacon is Married to Microsoft.
We'd hardly be the first to point out Wikipedia isn't what it seems
No Tolerance for Attacks on Family Members
Being a Free software activist ought not lead to "collateral damage" like attacks on family members, including doxing
Sirius Open Source is Just a Zombie Firm With Shell Entities
Many companies fake their health and their size
Communities Can Only Survive When Trust Prevails
PCLinuxOS is still a vibrant and authentic community
Techrights Was Always a Community Site
The harder we're attacked, the more people participate in the site
Behind the PR Smokescreen and Microsoft-Sponsored Chaff, Microsoft Layoffs in "AI" Alleged This Month
In an age when ~1,000 simultaneous layoffs aren't enough to receive any media coverage, what can we expect remaining publishers to tell us about Microsoft layoffs in 2026?
Bluewashing at Confluent: Some Workers to Leave Within 3 Months (IBM Mass Layoffs)
Is the "era of AI" an era when none of the media will mention over 800 layoffs? [...] There's a lesson here about the state of the contemporary media, not just IBM and bluewashing
Microsoft OpenAI, Drowning in Debt and Forced to Make Significant Cuts (as Reports Reveal This Month), Does Hiring Disguised as "Takeovers" to Fake Value or Alleged Potential
Remember what happened to Skype last year
Slop Does Not Replace Art, It Contaminates Everything With Reckless Nonsense
many Computer Scientists do not want programs to get contaminated by slop
Coders Don't Just Reject 'Vibe Coding' Because They're "Luddites", They Just Know the True Cost of Slop
if some programmer says slop sucks, don't rush to assume selfishness or defence of one's occupation
When Nobody Else Covers the News
There's an obvious "media blackout" regarding the mass layoffs
Links 21/03/2026: David Botstein Dies, Slop as Censorship Apparatus
Links for the day
Links 21/03/2026: Metastablecoin Fragmentation and Crescent Moon
Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/03/2026: Historic Ada Docs; The Lurking LLM on the SmolNet
Links for the day
HSBC the Latest Failed Bank Using Slop as Excuse for Its Financial Failure
"HSBC is planning on cutting as many as 20,000 jobs in the near future as the company allies with AI revolution."
Invitation to General Assembly After 1,200 EPO Workers Participated in the Demonstration 3 Days Ago
"the strike of 19 March was also very well followed."
A/Prof Susan G Kleinmann, Enkelena Haxhija & Debian-private risk to MIT
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 20, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, March 20, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade
Censorship by targeting ISPs and webhosts isn't unprecedented
Plagiarism in "Linux" Clothing (LLM Slop in linuxiac.com, LinuxTeck.com, and linuxsecurity.com)
The net effect of those slopfarms is very negative
Links 20/03/2026: Facebook Weaponised Politically, Openwashing by LF and NVIDIA, Encyclopedia Britannica Sues Microsoft Proxy for Plagiarism
Links for the day
The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Explains to the Administrative Council (AC) How Bad Things Have Become at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Biggest Patent Office, and Corruption/Cocaine Hub (Jobs Sold to Friends)
We'll say a bit more tomorrow
IBM's Red Hat Diversity: Only 3 Women (Out of 11 Leaders)
For comparison's sake, the FSF is about 50% female
Symptom of Publishers Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop. Symptom of Software Companies Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop ('Vibe').
It'll always fail. It's hype. It's a bubble.
Under IBM, Red Hat Replaces Code With LLM Slop, Fedora is Slopware
Not even hiding it, those things are in plain sight
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Depictions of Culture and The Social Smolnet
Links for the day
SimilarWeb Was Never a Reliable Yardstick for Traffic
5RB may need some "house-cleaning"
Strangulation, suffocation, Jonathan Carter & Debian toxic culture confirmed
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Reports or Hearsay Suggest Ogilvy Broke Up With IBM and Insiders Report Mass Layoffs in "Infrastructure" (Might Impact Red Hat Entrants)
hearsay in Social Control Media
Scheduled Server Maintenance Tomorrow Night
Starting 9PM
None of the Above (NotA) & Debian snubbing Sruthi Chandran
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 20/03/2026: Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award and BMG Sues Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Links for the day
Even Uganda Understands That Journalists Never Belong in Prison
"Ugandan authorities must respect the spirit of this ruling and abandon any measures that seek to jail Ugandans for the free flow of ideas."
Inaction Helps Your Enemies
Without freedom, there's nothing else left
Windows Down From 99% to ~50% in Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles)
Windows fell by a lot
"systemd is essentially a corporate IBM/Redhat project and corporations of course will comply"
Microsoft and IBM care about users' freedom like Cheeto Lump cares about the US Constitution
Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Over Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800
For the record, the layoffs at Confluent won't be over. After the bluewashing there will be "IBM RAs" impacting Confluent folks, aside from PIPs
The Layoffs at IBM Carry on (Shades of Enron)
Is IBM another Enron?
"IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
continues to ruin the company to enrich himself while pretending he has a strategy
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Digital Identity Bifurcation and a "Return to Gemini"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 19, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, March 19, 2026