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  16. today's howtos
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  17. IBM Red Hat Selling Slop, Microsoft and GAFAM Surveillance; Fedora Update (IBM-Run Faux Community)
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  18. Games: Godot 4.6.2 RC 2, Terra Nil, OpenTTD, and More
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  19. Programming Leftovers
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  20. Standards: Open Document Format (ODF) Mandatory in Germany, Messing With Apple’s Webloc Format
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  21. Security Leftovers
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  22. Linux Kernel Security: Slop, "an already-flawed CVE system", and more
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  23. Wine 11.5
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  24. The Value of a Human Does Not Exceed an Elephant's [original]
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  25. Android Leftovers
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  26. Programming Leftovers
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  27. These 5 settings are making your Linux PC less secure
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  29. This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop
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