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  1. Microsoft Has Put a Microsoft 'Kill Switch' Inside Linux, and Linux Can Save Windows Users
    Microsoft vs Linux
  2. Red Hat's Latest Blog Posts, Including Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and False Marketing With Made-up Numbers
    redhat.com mostly

    New

  3. pgAdmin 4 v9.16 and pgfmt 2.1 Released
    postgres releases
  4. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux related picks
  5. Hardware/Modding: Qualcomm Linux 2.0, Arduino, Pimoroni, and More
    mostly hacker-friendly
  6. GNOME: Michael Calabrese on Pitivi and Sam Thursfield's Report
    GNOME picks
  7. Games: Epic's Lore, Godot 4.7, and DRM
    gaming picks
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  9. Faking Openness, Openwashing Initiative, Linux Foundation Misuses Linux Brand to Promote Slop Again
    Openwashing leftovers
  10. Security Leftovers
    Security centric news
  11. Linux Kernel: eBPF at LSFMMBPF 2026, Linux 7.2, and More
    kernel related picks
  12. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  13. New Debian-based Release: Tails 7.9
    Update Tor Browser to 15.0.16
  14. Enthusiasts' Open Hardware Projects and Robotics
    hardware leftovers
  15. Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.10 Plans, FunOS 24.04.4 LTS, and Golioth PouchPouch
    releases and more
  16. BSD: New Episodes of BSD Now and FreeBSD Stuff
    BSD leftovers
  17. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  18. EasyOS Development on JWM wallpaper and BaCon compiler in devx
    Latest from BK
  19. Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 Improves Wi-Fi SSID Handling and Accessibility
    Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 flashing tool for Raspberry Pi devices is now available for download with improved Wi-Fi SSID handling, reliability and accessibility improvements, and bug fixes.
  20. The Software Freedom Conservancy (GAFAM front) jumps the shark, entertains slop hype
    as usual
  21. Games: Steam Controller, EMPULSE, Sludgineers, and More
    9 stories from GamingOnLinux
  22. Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Is Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS
    Raspberry Pi OS 2026-06-18 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, new default touchscreen associations, new icons, updated Labwc Wayland compositor, and more.
  23. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  24. Android Leftovers
    Android's sideloading changes are getting closer as Google shares new timeline
  25. I left tiling window managers for KDE, and my Linux desktop finally feels complete
    There’s just something about a complete desktop experience. Tiling window managers can be great and really light on system resources
  26. This Linux distro wants to keep running software 1,000 years from now
    Well, one Linux distro aims to make the process a lot easier for people in the third millennium by giving them one instruction
  27. Help… My browser cannot connect to Mageia’s website
    A user reported getting a message saying that the part of mageia.org he wanted to visit was unreachable
  28. Sparky 2026.06
    There are new SparkyLinux 2026.06
  29. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  30. Microsoft Storm Ahead (Mass Layoffs July 2026) [original]
    statCounter says Windows is at an all-time low ahead of next month massive Microsoft layoffs
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  32. Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.06 Rolling Brings Linux Kernel 7.1 Support
    SparkyLinux 2026.06 distribution is now available for download based on Debian 14 “Forky” and powered by Linux kernel 7.0, but also offering support for installing the latest Linux 7.1 kernel series.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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Only 1.5% Oppose the European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Until 2027
Among those polled/surveyed (in a ballot)
 
2026 is a Year of Strikes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
As it stands at the moment, to many people the EPO represents crime, not law
Web Browsers Are Technically Bloatware (No Matter What Runs in Them)
Don't make it a society that shames people into using a Web browser where none should be needed
Fedora Has Changed a Lot Since I Last Used It (IBM Dominates Almost Everything, IBM Agenda Displaces Community Goals)
"It is effectively 100% run by Red Hat/IBM employed people... even when they are community-elected representatives."
Andy (Cyber Show) on His Teacher Who "Squeezed Every Last Drop Out of Life, With Gratitude, Humility, Generosity and Mettle"
Some call them "eccentric" and are dismissive about what they have to offer
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 19, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 19, 2026
Gopher/Gemini Links 20/06/2026: Slop With Tcl/Tk and Nokia 770 Perishes
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent
it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...
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Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong
Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms
Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot
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Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk
Links for the day
Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists
We will be writing several series about this in the future
Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing
Contrariwise, social control media is waning
The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.
The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule
The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"
Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time
Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
"2026 Best Companies for the Future"?
To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026
Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher
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Links 18/06/2026: Clown Computing Has Harmful Sound, Facebook "Must Face the Music (Infringement Litigation)"
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Digital Sovereignty Discussed in the United Kingdom (UK)
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IBM Adds Only More IBM Staff to the Fedora Council, They Like LLM Slop for Posting 'Articles'
It's like Canonical with Ubuntu, only worse
IBM Common Stock Down to About $250, It Was at $330 Just 17 Days Ago
Happy birthday IBM!
Microsoft's CEO Openly Admits XBox is Not Sustainable and Microsoft is Beginning to Admit Slop Isn't Working and Is Not Not Sustainable Either
Expect Microsoft cancellations next month (or later this month) to impact far more than XBox and some studios
EPO and Disabilities: Payments Allegedly Disabled
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 110 Out of 200: Anti-SLAPP Reform Formally Advanced in the United Kingdom (UK) the Same Week the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (US) Does Forum-Shopping in the UK
The only language they understand is money. They don't understand privacy.
Links 18/06/2026: UK Social Media Ban for Minors, Finland Lifts a Nuclear Weapons Ban
Links for the day
'Article' With "AI" 27 Times in the Page, It's "Partner Content" (Paid Spam) as Usual at The Register MS
We deem this a timely reminder that a lot of the hype around slop is paid-for lies
Microsoft Layoffs Have Reportedly Already Started at ZeniMax
The overall scale is unknown
Cyber Show: "Our independence remains intact and we're set to continue relentlessly probing the world of digital technology with hard questions"
As one should
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Leveraging the Lusitanian Connection
Mendonça no longer functions as an independent agent but rather as a fig-leaf for a mafia-like entity that prizes obedience over integrity and self-preservation over truth
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 17, 2026