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  1. 3 Years Without Social Control Media [original]
    nowadays social control media is leveraged as a weapon, not by users but by platform owners

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  2. KDE Frameworks 6.24 Improves Support for Plasma and Kirigami-Based Apps
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.24 as the monthly update to this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.
  3. Maintenance Tonight and Next Tuesday [original]
    This might even speed things up (afterwards) and reduce chances of downtime
  4. Marknote 1.5 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Is Here with Source Mode, KRunner Plugin
    KDE announced the release of Marknote 1.5, the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) note-taking application for the Linux desktop, which lets you create, edit, and organize rich text notes.
  5. The FSF doesn't usually sue for copyright infringement, but when we do, we settle for freedom
    if the FSF were to participate in a lawsuit such as Bartz v. Anthropic and find our copyright and license violated, we would certainly request user freedom as compensation
  6. Valve Releases New Steam Client Stable Update to Address Various Bugs
    Valve released a new stable update of the Steam Client today to address various bugs, a rare crash, and some other issues reported by users from previous versions.
  7. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    a handful of stories about GNU/Linux
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  9. Web Clients and Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
    Web-related news
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development with R, Qt, and Rust
  11. Gadgets/Devices: Raspberry Pi, Open Hardware, and Debian Lomiri Tablets
    Linux-centric
  12. Mozilla: Firefox Tooling, Privacy Drivel, Slop Plagiarism, and "How to block ads on Firefox"
    Mozilla leftovers
  13. Bringing Chrome to ARM64 GNU/Linux Devices, Google Chrome / Chromium146 Released with Vertical Tabs
    Some chrom* news
  14. OpenBSD 7.9-beta, delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops, and the A to Z of BSD
    BSD news
  15. CIQ of Rocky GNU/Linux Targets GPUs
    using buzz
  16. Linux/BSD Graphics: AMDGPU, Mesa, D7VK, and GPUs
    Graphics leftovers
  17. Games: Anbernic, Valve, and Steam/Unity (Mono)
    some gaming picks
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Security Leftovers
    Security patches and more
  20. I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
    I want to be clear about what this is and isn't
  21. IBM Red Hat's Site Becoming 100% Slop/Plagiarism/Scam
    nothing but buzzwords
  22. Games: RWR 2, Lutris Turns Into Slop, and More
    4 stories from GamingOnLinux
  23. Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, "Robot Partner", and Server Pantry
    Projects and gadgets
  24. Shows and Videos: BSD Now and Recent Clips About GNU/Linux
    via Invidious
  25. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks for today
  26. Android Leftovers
    10 Android Trends That Will Define Smartphones in 2026
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. John at linuxteck.com Has Turned His Site Into LLM Slop About 'Linux', It's No Longer a Genuine Site [original]
    you cannot build or maintain human readership if you feed the people slop
  29. Refocusing More on Software Freedom [original]
    2026 is an interesting year
  30. Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images
    Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.5 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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