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  1. Miami's Heat [original]
    Today it was 30C or higher in Manchester
  2. Open Hardware, Linux Devices, and LineageOS
    hardware centric picks
  3. In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository
    A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users

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  4. Xsnow "protestware" in Debian
    The xsnow application, which generates an animated snowfall effect (and other pleasant diversions) for X11 desktops, does not seem like an obvious channel for political statements
  5. Keep on Looking, There Are Better Choices Out There [original]
    Staying in London is expensive
  6. Software Freedom, a Japanese Perspective - Part V: How GNU/Linux Leaped Above 5% in Japan [original]
    The message matters a great deal
  7. A Network Incident [original]
    We are gradually returning to a normal publication pace
  8. GNU/Linux at Over 10% in the United States of America [original]
    What can explain a sharp increase?
  9. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    misc. links from last week
  10. Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox Leftovers
    Mozilla picks
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: Old Devices and Linux Gadgets
    hardware leftovers
  13. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  14. Hot Match in Northern Europe [original]
    he site has taken no meaningful break for a very long time
  15. Debian 13.6 “Trixie” Released with 124 Bug Fixes and 120 Security Updates
    Debian 13.6 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 13 “Trixie” with 124 bug fixes and 120 security updates.
  16. Do I prefer Linux now?
    I needed to do something using macOS yesterday and the whole time I just wanted to get back to my Linux desktop
  17. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  18. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks
  19. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Hackaday Podcast, BSD Now, and More
    4 episodes
  20. BSD Leftovers, Mostly OpenBSD
    Some BSD picks
  21. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news
  23. Games: Chess, Tempest Rising, and Lots More
    recently in GamingOnLinux
  24. today's howtos
    many howtos for the week
  25. Red Hat Leftovers
    Red Hat's official site mostly
  26. Android Leftovers
    I miss Windows Phone, but this incredible Android launcher resurrected my dream setup
  27. I moved my PC to an immutable distro, and the thing I was most afraid of turned out to be the best part
    When I was getting to grips with Linux after using Windows for decades
  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. This Week in Plasma: Audio Recording in Spectacle
    This week was busy! We’ve got some great new features to share, improved theming compatibility, UI improvements, bug fixes… and lots more
  30. Interview with Nara Oliveira, Free Software Artist
    GIMP is Free and Libre Open Source Software, but none of it is possible without the people who create with and contribute to it
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-07-05 to 2026-07-11
    1124 /n/2026/07/06/Linux_7_2_rc2.shtml
    1117 /n/2026/07/06/A_brand_new_release_of_Hannah_Montana_Linux_features_a_KDE_Plas.shtml
    1059 /n/2025/11/20/Immich_2_3_Adds_Multilingual_OCR_Models.shtml
    1050 /n/2026/01/18/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_Windows_With_Adobe_Proprietary_Software.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low)
From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
Is Microsoft the Next Fake-Valued Corporation to Lose 35% in "Market Value"? Is Slop Bringing Microsoft Down?
Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026
IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
Links for the day
 
"Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later
Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year
That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
"NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count
Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money
The FSF is raising money (goal is $400,000) and the FSF has just mentioned the upcoming talks by the FSF's founder
United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week
cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix
Learn to take control of the technology that you rely on
Links 13/11/2026: "Copyright-Strike-for-Hire" and "Stevie Wonder Photo Lawsuit"
Links for the day
The Slop Bubble (or Pyramid Scheme) Relied on Trust and Patience (Being Patient as Losses Grow and Debt Explodes, Trusting the Roadmap of Cheaters and Frauds)
Remember that it all began with trust
Anthropic's IPO Depends on $895.4 Billion in Debt (Money It Doesn't Have, It Loses Over 100 Billion Dollars Per Reporting Period), NVIDIA Has Just Lost Almost 2 Trillion Dollars In Value and Its Debt Trebled in Three Months
This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write)
Linus caught the 'brain virus'
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 12, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: A Firing of a Boss and Geminispace Growing Fast
Links for the day
Bill Epsteingate-Funded BBC "Totally Ignoring the $1.7 Trillion Wiped off NVIDIA Stocks"
Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
A Few Hours Before NVIDIA CEO Canned (and NVIDIA Shares Plunged) the NVIDIA-Funded The Register MS Published Paid Spam With "AI" 18 Times in It
Anything to inflate the bubble
Links 11/11/2026: NVIDIA Decapitated, "The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically"
Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIX - We Didn't Start the Fire
It started in 2012
Photo Ops Are Liabilities
NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
NVIDIA’s Total Debt Trebled in Three Months!
Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
NVIDIA Turns Out to be Serial Cheater, Stock Plunges 33% in 5 Weeks
The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith
Adopting LLM Slop is Still Suicide
Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
On Laundering Licences and Code
A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
The Cyber Show on Slop and the Ministry Of Truth in "Nineteen Eighty Four"
"cultural erasure" by slop
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball
One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: Encryption is Easy, Human Emacs, and Legislation in Italy
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Links 11/11/2026: End of Novaya Gazeta (Assassinated by Putin) and North Koreans Too Poor to Buy Rice
Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/11/2026: The Tyrant’s Moat and Rants About Slop Causing Problems
Links for the day
Links 11/11/2026: Skydance Games and Boeing Hit By Layoffs, "Time Out for Timeouts"
Links for the day
IRC is for Communities, Social Control Networks Are for Broligarchs (by Broligarchs)
Unlike Reddit, it's not a company
JavaScript is the Problem, Not the Answer
Making the Web better is about making things better, not slapping more JavaScript 'walls' at it
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVII - "Making a False Complaint to Police is a Crime." (British Cops Aren't American Mercenaries)
"In the United Kingdom, the Foreign Enlistment Act 1819 and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 make it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain."
The Label 'Anti-AI'
They make it sound like opposing plagiarism or cheating is an act of intolerance or hatred
Intolerance and Violence
Intolerance in the software world is not a new problem
António Campinos Hiding From Staff Amid Strikes, Won't Participate in Dialogue
They voted to continue striking until Christmas
Silent Layoffs at IBM (Rolling Layoffs), Now Curbs on H1B (Mostly Indian Applicants)
Little will change at IBM except the gravity (global distribution) of its workforce will go east
Links 11/11/2026: Moving from Proton to Posteo and "Floating in Space"
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