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Fab 21 under construction in Phoenix, Arizona in November 2023

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers
    slop and more
  2. The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From Age‑Verification Laws
    As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age‑gating
  3. Anderon - Like Kyndryl - Could be Far Deeper in Debt Than Its Alleged Worth (Vapourware)
    Time will tell, but it seems like a Federal-enabled (by the Federal Government) accounting scam, nothing more, nothing less

    New

  4. GNU/Linux: Kubernetes, KDE, and GNOME
    some leftovers
  5. Audio: Linux Matters, Red Hat on Ask Noah Show, "Wonders of Web Weaving"
    3 new ones
  6. BSDs, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
    mostly Linux
  7. Firefox Tooling Announcements and Mozilla Lobbying
    Firefox and more
  8. Content Management Systems (CMS): Awkiawki, Ghost CMS, and WordPress
    good and bad
  9. Kernel: Hardware Support, Bluetooth Regression, Vivado, and More
    Linux leftovers
  10. Security Leftovers
    Security bugs and more
  11. Linux Devices and Future Hardware (e.g. Raspberry Pi 6)
    hardware picks
  12. Freedom-respecting Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
    Android and more
  13. qBittorrent 5.2.1 and Burning GNU/Linux ISOs
    Applications for ISOs
  14. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  15. Games: Steam Deck/Android, Godot, and More
    gaming related picks
  16. Microsoft booster reviews GNU/Linux from Windows users' (and Microsoft marketer's) perspective
    a couple of new posts
  17. Canonical Launches Ubuntu Workshop for Sandboxed Development Environments
    Ubuntu maker Canonical launched today a new tool for developers called Workshop, which lets you launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command.
  18. Red Hat Leftovers
    from redhat.com
  19. Slop Considered Harmful and Undesirable to Web Browsers and Web Clients Like Dillo and cURL
    they talk about it
  20. Programming Leftovers
    Development with Python, Perl, and more
  21. Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4 Released with Partition Table Creation Support
    Exfatprogs 1.4 exFAT utils for Linux has been released today with improvements and new features for the mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, and exfatprogs programs.
  22. Our Anniversary/Birthday a Fortnight Away [original]
    our community is bigger than ever before
  23. Android Leftovers
    Android's habit-learning feature is now spreading to more non-Pixel phones
  24. Fedora quietly became the best "everything" Linux distro—and no one noticed
    Most Linux distros are designed with a specific type of user in mind
  25. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  26. Linux On Android Provides Inexpensive, Powerful Computing
    Rather than trying to install a mobile-oriented Linux distribution (such as postmarketOS)
  27. CaramOS – Linux distribution based on Linux Mint
    CaramOS is a Linux distribution based on Linux Mint Cinnamon, itself built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  28. Equestria OS – Arch Linux-based distribution
    Equestria OS is an Arch Linux-based distribution themed around My Little Pony and Equestria Girls
  29. Planet GNOME: Fuzzy Time Everywhere
    The current versions are Fuzzy Time GB, a Wear OS watch face, and Fuzzy Clock GB, a GNOME Shell extension
  30. You can easily make Zorin OS look and feel like Windows, MacOS, or Linux - here's how
    Zorin OS is one of the most popular Linux distributions
  31. Shows/Videos: Recent Clips About GNU/Linux and Linux
    via invidious
  32. I've tried so many Linux email clients - why Aerion just replaced Geary as my top pick
    Also, when I launch Geary on Pop!_OS, the app sometimes doesn't appear until I run the geary command
  33. Recently in Slashdot About Slop Causing Problems for Linux, AMD (Xilinx) Betraying Linux, and More
    recent discussions
  34. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

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More Shutdowns at Microsoft, Hundreds of Workers Impacted Shortly
It's not the entire wave, just part of it
The World Needs Activists With Social Skills and Perseverance
An everyday activist makes life better for everybody, everywhere (not for personal gain or even credit)
 
As Usual, Late on a Friday XBox (Microsoft) Releases Evidence of Its Demise
We covered several such Friday announcements earlier this year
Gemini Links 24/10/2026: Break/Fix and OpenStreetMap
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Links 23/10/2026: Slop "is Scaling Transnational Repression" and Infringement and DMCA Suits Against Suno/Anthropic (Plagiarism Blenders)
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The Register MS: About 60 Mentions of "AI" in One Day Are Paid-for Spam (Sponsored Hype, Composed by the Companies Covered)
The Register MS is a dying site
Links 22/10/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) Election Interference and Perl/Raku Foundation by the Numbers
Links for the day
Techrights Audience Grew as a Function of the Intensity of Attacks on Its Existence
We try to publish fewer stories but better (not necessarily long but at least important) stories
TechRepublic is Becoming a Slopfarm
It seems like TechRepublic became LLM slop (maybe all of it, maybe only some of it for now)
Techrights is Not About GNU/Linux, Tux Machines Is
When we say "GNU/Linux" we emphasise the GNU
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
When lawsuits become a political weapon
Without Microsoft's Monopoly (and Monopoly Rents) the Inevitable Microsoft Mass Layoffs Carry on Endlessly
Microsoft Windows is not retaining the dominance it once had
IBM's Debt Grew About $2 Billion in 3 Months
The silent layoffs still seem to impact Red Hat
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 22, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, October 22, 2026
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig
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Links 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again
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Links 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence"
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Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates"
Garrett is also very jealous of Daniel Pocock
Links 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News
Links for the day
Red Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs)
IBM is bluffing/cheating the shareholders again
IBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks
This is what a dying company looks like
Linux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop
Linux (and Linus) are kicking a can down the road
Microsoft Shrinks Every Year
Microsoft will try to spin or twist this as "efficiency"
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft)
We have begun to amass some media reports and blog posts from technical sites
Windows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania)
This is why Microsoft layoffs are happening all the time
Some Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work)
We don't use PHP in the site anymore
Mass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week
Cannot pull a bunny out of some hat
With Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions
It's clear that with a yearlong campaign of industrial actions - including strikes - Campinos cannot save face anymore
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Links 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day"
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Reuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically)
In their own words
Disclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money)
So now they sell several schemes/scams at the same time, not limited to the slop
Links 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War"
Links for the day
Internet Relay Chat Still Growing
The numbers go up, not down [...] Don't believe the doomers
Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
"If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits."
Gemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem
Links for the day
More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now
Microsoft's crisis is not limited to XBox
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, October 20, 2026