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    some more stories
  7. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Late Night Linux, and More
    new episodes
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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  9. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers and Latest From Mozilla
    Web related leftovers
  10. Red Hat's Michael Catanzaro Supports Time-Wasting Slop, as Does Microsoft Canonical
    noteworthy
  11. EasyOS: Excalibur-series 7.3.9, ROX-Filer video thumbnails, and more
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  12. Applications: Melia, PDFi, and More
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  13. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  14. Security Leftovers
    Security bugs and more
  15. Linux Foundation Quit Promoting Linux (Only 2% of Its Budget), Now Promotes Slop (the Same Thing That Harms Linux Development)
    really awful
  16. Android Leftovers
    Android now flags calls that spoof your contacts' numbers and voices — here's how the new detection feature actually works
  17. These are my 3 favorite open-source operating systems that aren't Linux
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  18. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  19. digiKam 9.1.0 is released
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  20. Tired of File Size Limits? This Open Source Tool Sends Large Files Directly Browser to Browser
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  21. Stable kernels: Linux 7.0.12, Linux 6.18.35, and Linux 6.12.93
    I'm announcing the release of the 7.0.12 kernel
  22. RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros
    Immutable Linux is the future of OS security
  23. Games: "Thief: The Dark Project Remastered" and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  24. 80% of IBM Red Hat's Site (redhat.com) is Promotion of Slop
    meme company
  25. One More Day [original]
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  26. Android Leftovers
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  27. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  28. Open Hardware/Modding: M70 RK Royal Kludge, ESP32, Homelabs, and Raspberry Pi
    hardware centric news
  29. Richard Stallman Lecture in Europe Next Week, "Europe Is Ditching American Technology" for Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
    Freedom centric news
  30. Red Hat: Podman, Flathub, and RHEL Clone From CentOS's Founder Gregory Kurtzer
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  33. Gregory Gibson on How He Manages GNU/Linux Servers Remotely
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  35. Free and Open Source Software
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  38. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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Next: end of XBox as a console
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Links 12/06/2026: Science, Windows TCO, and More
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 12/06/2026: FTP and Gopher, Cluster Outage Postmortem After Cleaning by Wife
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Gratitude to Whistleblowers or Sources of Techrights
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Discussions About IBM Layoffs in June, Including by RTO and PIPs
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Gemini Links 12/06/2026: Decks and Work Essay
Links for the day
"Rolling Strikes" Continue at the European Patent Office, the Administrative Council Needs to Take Action Against Crooked Office Management
This coming weekend we'll talk about some of the other issues and concerns expressed by the union
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Thursday, June 11, 2026
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Links for the day
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IBM Genies in the Bottle
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Wednesday, June 10, 2026
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Links for the day
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre (in Portugal) Falls Apart…
Luís Montenegro became embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy
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Links 10/06/2026: More Microsoft Layoffs, Sweden to "Ban Mobile Phones in Schools"
Links for the day
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Gemini and Gopher Links 10/06/2026: Roasting, Changes, and Harms of Slop
Links for the day
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 09, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, June 09, 2026