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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Slop is a Flop: Google's Own Slop Thinks Google's ChromeOS is "Mobile Operating System"! [original]

   Please do not rely on slop for anything

   New

2. Downtime Tomorrow [original]

   We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong

3. GNU/Linux Leftovers

   mostly GNU/Linux stories

4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

   FOSS and more

5. Canonical Pushing Slop for Circular Financing (Accounting Fraud) Giant NVIDIA, "Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode"

   slopfests

6. Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware Projects

   mostly the latter

7. Mozilla: New Release of Tor Browser 15.0.11 and MozPhab 2.13.1

   Mozilla/Firefox picks

8. Events/Education: Professionals, Hackaday Europe, TuxCon, and FOSDEM

   lots happening this year

9. Standards/Consortia: GPS, Email, SVGs

   on technical standards

10. Development Leftovers

    Programming picks

11. Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Social Engineering/Supply Chain of WordPress, Mythic Beasts, Jekyll

    Frameworks for running sites

12. Sailfish OS 5.1 translation round

    Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications news

13. Ubuntu 16.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) Comes to an End

    moving on yet?

14. Games: Payphone Tag, ZSNES, Zorker, and Helldivers 2

    4 gaming related news picks

15. Red Hat/IBM: Selling Microsoft, Slop, Outsourcing (to Surveillance Companies)

    mostly redhat.com stuff

16. Fedora and Red Hat: Microsoft 'Embrace', 'Community', Project Hummingbird, and LVFS

    mostly Fedora items

17. Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show, mintCast, and Linux Matters

    3 new episodes

18. today's howtos

    lots from idroot

19. Security Leftovers

    and Windows TCO etc.

20. A $6bn question hangs over SUSE's sovereignty pitch

    The Register asked SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen at SUSECON what sovereignty means given the potential acquisition

21. Still Prioritising the Birds [original]

    May 1 is near; please keep feeding the birds

22. Games: Proton Experimental, ZSNES, Wanderburg, and More

    GamingOnLinux's latest

23. Android Leftovers

    New Xiaomi entry-level phone only promises 2 OS updates from Android 15

24. Escaping the Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

    Microsoft GitHub abandoned, questioned

25. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    DRM and more

26. Hardware and Home-labbing: Proxmox, TrueNAS, and More NAS Modding

    All from Valnet

27. GNU/Linux Myths and Sceptics of GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop

    recently in Valnet

28. Games: DIY "Steam Machine", Bazzite, and SteamOS

    all from Valnet

29. Most Linux regret is actually distro regret, and you probably gave up too soon

    Let's say I'm introducing ice cream to an alien. I get a cone, put a dollop of vanilla ice cream onto it, and hand it over

30. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

31. Orion Os – Linux distro built on Debian

    Orion Os is a Linux distribution based on Debian Trixie

32. LWN: Remembering Seth Nickell and In Memoriam: Tomáš Kalibera

    LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on April 16, from his father, Eric Nickell

33. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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