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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2026

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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
Downtime Tomorrow [original]

We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
GNU/Linux Leftovers

mostly GNU/Linux stories
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

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

slopfests
Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware Projects

mostly the latter
Mozilla: New Release of Tor Browser 15.0.11 and MozPhab 2.13.1

Mozilla/Firefox picks
Events/Education: Professionals, Hackaday Europe, TuxCon, and FOSDEM

lots happening this year
Standards/Consortia: GPS, Email, SVGs

on technical standards
Development Leftovers

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

Frameworks for running sites
Sailfish OS 5.1 translation round

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications news
Ubuntu 16.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) Comes to an End

moving on yet?
Games: Payphone Tag, ZSNES, Zorker, and Helldivers 2

4 gaming related news picks
Red Hat/IBM: Selling Microsoft, Slop, Outsourcing (to Surveillance Companies)

mostly redhat.com stuff
Fedora and Red Hat: Microsoft 'Embrace', 'Community', Project Hummingbird, and LVFS

mostly Fedora items
Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show, mintCast, and Linux Matters

3 new episodes
today's howtos

lots from idroot
Security Leftovers

and Windows TCO etc.
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
Still Prioritising the Birds [original]

May 1 is near; please keep feeding the birds
Games: Proton Experimental, ZSNES, Wanderburg, and More

GamingOnLinux's latest
Android Leftovers

New Xiaomi entry-level phone only promises 2 OS updates from Android 15
Escaping the Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

Microsoft GitHub abandoned, questioned
GNU/Linux Leftovers

DRM and more
Hardware and Home-labbing: Proxmox, TrueNAS, and More NAS Modding

All from Valnet
GNU/Linux Myths and Sceptics of GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop

recently in Valnet
Games: DIY "Steam Machine", Bazzite, and SteamOS

all from Valnet
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
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
Orion Os – Linux distro built on Debian

Orion Os is a Linux distribution based on Debian Trixie
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
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

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Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became: Many readers will have noticed what was a paid-for PR campaign of a global scale
GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed: When it comes to Social Control Media, Richard Stallman was right
SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security"): Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, August 27, 2026
After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September): What we heard is turning out to be true
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline: Links for the day
Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many: Links for the day
The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times: 1.5 hours ago
RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them): Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat): Looking at recent activity in thelayoff.com, about 80% of the comments and posts are about PIPs
Links 27/08/2026: "Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge): Links for the day
Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas: Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland): Maybe some people want to send him a detailed, polite explanation
Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices: We'll soon cover the EPO a lot more
There's No "Next XBox": Nothing comes ahead except layoffs and price hikes
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games: Links for the day
Links 26/08/2026: Patent Troll InterDigital Utilises Software Patents in Unconstitutional Court, "WikiHow Launches Copyright Infringement Suit Against" LLM Plagiarism: Links for the day
The Register MS Has New Fake Article ("SPONSORED FEATURE") With "AI" 21 Times In It: The Register MS is one among many culprits
Gemini Links 26/08/2026: “Doomsday Clock”, Rwanda Genocide, and Boasting About Using LLMs Instead of Writing Code (Due to Employer's Pressure): Links for the day
No Allure in Omarchy, the Political Hyenas Only Give it More Free Publicity: To me, Omarchy seems like a weak project because of the slop (an HR problem)
Twitter is Not an API or a Communication Site, It's a Really Bad Site That Forces You to be Enslaved by Its Algorithm (Amplifying Its Owner's Worldviews): the crackdown on Nitter means we should all avoid accessing or linking to x.com (Twitter)
Don't Let Bastards and Haters Grind You Down: They say "jealousy is the sincerest form of flattery"
GNU/Linux Rose in Caribbean Islands: combined population is measured at 44,182,048
IBM's Quantum Computing Lies Explained Again by Sabine Hossenfelder: To become a CEO at IBM one must lie
Controlling Culture and Social Behaviour by Digital Locks: if you don't fully control the technology in your possession, then you're not using that technology, this technology covertly uses you
Goodbye, Dolly: This week we say "goodbye, Dolly."
Links 26/08/2026: Election Bribery (aka Vote-Buying) Deemed "OK" in the US, "Nitter is Shutting Down After a Cease and Desist Letter" by MElon: Links for the day
Analogue So Much Better and Faster: From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
Linux Today Dumped All Social Control Media Last December: Linux Today seems to have concluded that all Social Control Media is just a waste of time
Don't Say X.com is OK Because People Can Access It by Alternative Means: Can Mozilla please clarify who inside Mozilla greenlit a return to X.com?
The Reach of techrights.org Is Increasing: We are on the side of women victims
SLAPP Censorship - Part 162 Out of 200: An Outline of Events: An outline of events
Pushed to Live: We still have some other work - stuff related to the editing of pages - which is work in progress and has been subjected to testing for many months
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Germany, Based on Cloudflare: It's peaking late at night
Richard Stallman's GNU Project Began 42 Years Ago With GNU Emacs and More: GNU Project announced almost 43 years ago (next month it's the anniversary)
Fake Articles "Sponsored by HPE" Published in The Register MS: Selling proprietary products as 'alternatives' to other proprietary products
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 25, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Gemini Links 26/08/2026: Journal Plans and Extending Finger Protocol: Links for the day