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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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Campinos is a Lame Duck President This Year at the European Patent Office (EPO): The strikes are not ending. If anything, they intensify further.
Links 29/04/2026: "Snowden Affair 13 Years Later" and "Landmark Data Center Pause": Links for the day
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 29, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop: It's longer than a "tweet", so social control media addicts are likely mentally unfit to read it
Six Months: Techrights will be around (and active) for a very long time to come
Why We Publish "The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt": We intend to report the facts, fearlessly, until real and lasting solutions are reached
SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible: when you cover Microsoft corruption and have real effect
Weeks After Mass Layoffs of Red Hat Engineers We Learn of European "Buyouts" and Layoffs at IBM: At Microsoft, they tell us there are merely "buyouts", but they don't tell us what happens if you say "no!"
OS Upgrade Tentatively Scheduled for Tomorrow: We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
Links 29/04/2026: LLM Chatbot Usage Goes Down Sharply (as Do Stocks Associated With Them), Microsoft's Circular Financing Accounting Fraud at Risk: Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Returning to an Exodus and Farewell APU: Links for the day
Slop Has a Long Way to Go Before It Gets Basic Facts Right: Please do not rely on slop for anything
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part IX - European Patents That Are Illegal (But Serve Non-European Monopolists in Exchange for 'Quick Cash'): People who shamelessly violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) have the audacity to lecture workers on "ethics"
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Seems Like Only Techrights Covered IBM Laying Off About 33% of Confluent Staff: How can such a large round of layoffs evade today's media?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Tracing Back the Misuse of the Word "Buyout" to Describe Merciless Mass Layoffs: So we can assume very large Microsoft layoffs are on the way, this time not spun as "buyouts"
Growing the List of Sites That Are Rogue: It's very important to raise and spread awareness of which ones are fake
Links 28/04/2026: Uganda Criminalising ‘Foreign Agents’ and China’s Economy "Starts to Show Cracks": Links for the day
Anthropic and Claude Are National Security Risks Not Because of Politics But False Marketing and Vandalism, Plagiarism Sold as Innovation: The slop hype is causing severe damage
Like GAFAM, US Telecom Industry Has Severe Debt Problem: Maybe their real problem is true profitability
Gemini Links 28/04/2026: Misfin, ELPiS, and Developing Another Gemini Client: Links for the day
US Government Sites See More Traffic From Apple Devices Than Microsoft Windows PCs: Keep this in mind when Microsoft talks about mass layoffs while calling these "buyouts"
Layoffs Versus Buyouts: Microsoft has mass layoffs and those target the most experienced people in one of the best-paid locations
Latest Example of False Marketing by Anthropic: Like Scam Altman, they're better at buying publicity (paying for hype) than they are at delivering something of genuine value [...] That has the full make-up of fake news and a publicity stunt
IBM: From RAs to "Workforce Re-balancing" (New Names for Mass Layoffs): Well, "workforce re-balancing" means "RAs", which is a misleading acronym IBM has devised to soften if not hide mass layoffs.
Aaron Hillel Swartz Would Have Turned 40 This Year: Aaron Swartz killed himself in 2013
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Microsoft's Grip Has Slipped, Market Share Steadily Declining: This is why Microsoft is having financial issue
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 60 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption at Microsoft and Arrest for Strangulation is "Malice": At the moment Brett Wilson LLP has no new clients
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IBM Laying Off Thousands of Workers Again, Based on Q1 Earnings Call: under the guise of "workforce rebalancing" we are again seeing that IBM plans to pay people (severance) to leave
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