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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Linux Tax is real—and it's holding desktop Linux back
    There's a famous quote that Jamie Zawinski that goes "...Linux is only free if your time has no value
  2. Half of Red Hat's Latest Official Pages Are Promotion of Slop Plagiarism (IBM's Agenda)
    latest in redhat.com
  3. Windows vs. Linux gaming: Test reveals clear winner, but community disagrees
    Linux has evolved into a serious alternative for PC gamers in recent years
  4. GNU/Linux on More Than 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Israel, Based on statCounter [original]
    Windows continues to fall
  5. Three Years, Three Americans Conniving Against Us [original]
    It didn't work. It never worked.
  6. Linux Associated With Ads, Fake Currencies, Some Graphics News
    kernel and more

    New

  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  8. WordPress 7.1 Beta is Out, But WordPress Has Become Slop-ware
    WordPress picks
  9. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers
    Mozilla, Abuse, and More
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  11. Proprietary Linux or Non-free (Proprietary) Things on GNU/Linux
    Linux leftovers
  12. Graphics and Games: Torvalds Versus NVIDIA, Weston 16.0, and More
    misc. links
  13. FreeBSD Makes a Point or Takes Stance Against Reciprocal Licensing
    FreeBSD showing its true colours
  14. Operating Systems: A Look Back at Plan 9, Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth Handling
    oddball OSes
  15. Linux Devices/Open Hardware/Modding: 3D Printer, Adafruit, and More
    hardware projects mostly
  16. KDE: Akademy 2026 Program and digiKam for Natural Language Search
    KDE picks
  17. GNOME: Report on Crosswords 0.3.18 and GNOME OS Tip
    GNOME picks
  18. today's howtos
    only a few more for now
  19. Debian: DebConf26, dpkg, Freexian, and "final release of Debian on x86-32"
    Debian leftovers
  20. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  21. "Linux" Brand Tarnished by Slop, "Linux" Foundation (LF) Gets Paid to Muddy the Water/Linux Mark
    Slopfarms and more slop-promoting junk for LF
  22. UEFI 'Secure Boot' is Not Security, Another Farce Demonstrated This Week
    2 picks
  23. Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) Promote Slop Plagiarism, Proprietary Microsoft GitHub, and CoC
    really sad
  24. FSF Fundraiser Extended, Free Software Directory Meetings Planned
    FSF news
  25. Sixty Days [original]
    In less than 60 days from now this laptop will reach 1,000 days of uptime
  26. statCounter Reckons Over a Quarter of Laptops/Desktops in Yemen Run GNU/Linux [original]
    It's hard to tell why so many people there move to GNU/Linux but understandable that not many people purchase a new PC with Windows preloaded
  27. Android Leftovers
    Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe
  28. This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine
    Part of what makes SteamOS feel polished is its controller-first Game Mode UI, first popularized on the Steam Deck
  29. From Days to Hours: IPFire's RISC-V Builds Get a Real Machine
    Despite these smaller issues, our Milk-V Jupiter 2 has now been added to our build system for IPFire 2 and it has started to compile the nightly builds
  30. Free and Open Source Software, Benchmark, and Review
    This is a new series looking at the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 mini PC running Linux
  31. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news and views
  32. Games: PSP, Gaming Diary, Medieval Tournaments, GOG, and GNU/Linux
    today's gaming picks
  33. Android Leftovers
    I found this Android Auto feature so useful it made me switch from CarPlay
  34. Pickford's Error [original]
    Maybe in 2030 England will bring home an international trophy
  35. I switched to COSMIC and discovered the dual-monitor workspace feature KDE should have shipped with
    So I've been caught up on the COSMIC hype train. I've been a loyal KDE user for about a year now
  36. I removed GNOME and my laptop battery lasted 40 minutes longer — this is what I replaced it with
    There’s a common misconception that battery life on Linux is far superior to that of Windows
  37. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  38. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Programming / Standards Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  39. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  40. Kubuntu 24.04 has finally become really neat
    Here's a somewhat sad philosophical question: how long does it take for Ubuntu-based LTS to truly become LTS stable
  41. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-07-10 to 2026-07-16
    989 /intro.shtml

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The Slop Debt (Trillions of Dollars, Money That Does Not Exist) is Causing the Collapse of GAFAM et al
This slop hype will end up like "metaverse", except "metaverse" never ended up justifying trillions of dollars in "investment"
Social Control Media is the Opposite of Information
That says a lot about social control media
Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector
Sociopaths are sociopaths. They cannot help themselves
Before the "Big Tech" (That Almost Everybody is Forced to Use) Was Controlled by Men Who Hate Women
Such rejection and even hatred of women qualifies/enshrines oneself as an "incel"- a dangerous and violent online cult
Enshittification More Than a Century Ago
Is enshittification more than a century old?
GNU in 1991 (35 Years Ago): Compiler and Lots More Ready, Linux Now Becoming 'Vibe Heap' (Slop Replaces Real Code)
Without curbs in place, many Linux developers will flee
SLAPP Censorship - Part 147 Out of 200: The SLAPP Series is 'Slow' Because Timing Matters
It is important to stress that after this series is finished there will be many more series, with some of them showing raw evidence of what we've been illuminating and telling
 
The Register MS Has Just Published Slop Spam for NVIDIA and HP, It Says "AI" 43 Times
As usual, The Register MS ought to be ashamed of itself for participating in it
Simpler Means More Reliable
The simple old way of local storage and local backups is still the best
Clownflare and statCounter See GNU/Linux at ~8% in Norway
Norway has long championed GNU/Linux compared to the rest of Europe
Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
statCounter Today: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux Measured at 10.98% Globally (Desktops and Laptops)
Clownflare does not quite refute this
The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article About Replacing Linux With Proprietary Google System, "Sponsored by ASUS."
All of those things are proprietary GAFAMware
Links 12/08/2026: "X’s Advertising Business Continues to Tank", "Stop Feeding the Billionaires"
Links for the day
In Defence of Hoarding CDs, More So When Digital Restrictions (DRM) Come to More 'Content' and Even Offline/Physical Media Won't Work When Some Remote Server Says "No" (or Goes Offline)
made to serve and entertain owners, not to allow companies like Sony and Microsoft subjugate owners
Clownflare: In Finland, Birthplace of Linux Kernel, GNU/Linux Now Bigger Than Apple's MacOS
It's not just in Finland where we see such trends
More Mass Layoffs Due to Monumental Debt Excused as "Investment" (in Slop)
They're maxing up the private debt and their country is already insolvent
METRO Interviews Daniel Pocock a Day Before Election
The article is behind a wall that blocks people who block ads
Company-Wide 'Reorg' ('Redundancies') at IBM, Mark October 1st 2026 in the Calendar
Is Oct 1 the new Apr 1?
Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops
GNU/Linux is definitely growing, and quite quickly in fact
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO
nothing demonstrates their anger better than what they did to the CEO
Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Sophomore Slump, Mandatory Phone Addiction, and Vintage Web Game Gallery
Links for the day
Summer Layoffs and 'Redundancies' (Cost-Cutting) at Microsoft and IBM
IBM is merely buying its revenue - an unsustainable strategy that aims to hide the company's rapid decline
Links 11/08/2026: Tensions South of China and Stingy "YouTube Doubles the Eligibility Requirements" (to Get Paid)
Links for the day
The Independent (UK) Today: "Independent candidate Daniel Pocock is concerned about media issues."
Let's see what results say around Friday
Gemini Links 11/08/2026: Stargate, Stargazer, Air-gapped Environments, and SystemVerilog Simulator
Links for the day
The Slop ('Linux') Foundation Celebrates 35 'Linux' Years a Week After GNU/Linux Turns 43
they'll keep on trying to change history
Keumars Afifi-Sabet Produces Useful, Informative Coverage Regarding Privacy
And it's good for Richard Stallman
Confirmed: Microsoft Layoffs in August 2026, Entire Operations Shut Down Too
Microsoft is just bleeding
Paying With Cash in 2026
Cash isn't going away. Not any time soon.
Blocking Tor Is Not a Solution, It's Paranoia
Tor is not a crime
Oligarchs and Their Footsoldiers Are Most Enthusiastically Loud About the Things They're Attacking
Like "Microsoft loves Linux"
FOSSY (SFC) Platforming GAFAM, Sells Endorsement
Houston, we have a problem here
Not Allowing Misogyny and Misogynists to Run the World
We stand with (and for) equality, justice, and freedom
"SPONSORED EXPLAINER" at The Register MS is Just More SPAM "Sponsored by HPE."
This is a great example of crap 'journalism'
IBM Won't Hire (or Hardly Hire) This Year
IBM is bluffing with buzzwords while shrinking out of existence and reducing salaries
SLAPP Censorship - Part 146 Out of 200: An Industry of Plagiarism, 'Normalised'
they pursue personal enrichment by stealing from Free software developers
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 10, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 10, 2026
5.1k Capsules Known to Lupa, Gemini Protocol Crawler
If no limits (e.g. 10k max per capsule) were imposed on crawling, there would likely be millions of pages in the database
Gemini Links 11/08/2026: Waking Up Earlier, Whining About LLMs as Destructive Plagiarism
Links for the day
Links 11/08/2026: "The Enemy Is the Platform" and 'Vibe' 'Coding' Shown to be Little But Plagiarism
Links for the day
IBM's Age Discrimination Leads Workers to Contemplate Suicide While the CEO Becomes Billionaire for Lying to the Press and Faking Performance (Fraudulent Accounting)
IBM avoids issuing WARM notices
If Your Software Project Welcomes Bots, Then All You'll Have Left at the End Is Bots (Same for Sites Which Permit LLM Slop; They End up as Slopfarms and No Human Wants to Contribute Anymore)
A "slippery slop."
Clownflare Affirms Disturbing Trend of Web Monoculture (Which Extents to Clownflare Itself)
Clownflare itself is another layer of the same problem
The Open Web Is Not Coming Back
the open Web going out of control
Tell Me Something I Don't Know
Those who have a stake in the secrecy would do anything to maintain secrecy
Gemini Links 10/08/2026: Recollections and Washing Machine That Only Last a Few Years
Links for the day
Claims of Mass Layoffs at IBM (in Finance)
IBM tries hard to maintain an illusion of normality - to the point of viciously censoring critics and whistleblowers.
The Slop Bubble (Pyramid Scheme) is Becoming Bigger and Everyone Should be Terrified (Its Implosion Will Cause More Damage)
there's no plan for a turnaround
Microsoft and Apple Lose Ground to GNU/Linux in the United States
This contributes a lot to the international curve
Escaping Ads
When users do not want ads, then no ads should show up, period
For Second Year in a Row Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Loses Money (Over $3,000,000 Lost in 2 Years), Bradley M Kuhn Steps Down as Treasurer
lost almost $600,000 last year
Microsoft/GAFAM Operating at a Loss
Microsoft has financial problems
Nigel Farage crisis: Taylor Swift & Jeffrey Epstein both shunned cryptocurrency bosses
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
statCounter Now Sees GNU/Linux "Market Share Worldwide" at 9.21%, Soon 10%
If this data is more or less accurate, it's time for panic at Microsoft
Rumours of Impending Mass Layoffs in IBM's Yorktown Office, Impacting the LLM (Slop) Staff
Bubbles never last forever, hence their name
Links 10/08/2026: "Long COVID Linked to Lasting Damage in The Brain's Dopamine System", Microsoft’s Weather App Uses Over 1,000 Megabytes of RAM
Links for the day
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Support Women, It Imitates Authentic Organisations, Embraces Misogynists, Then Projects
They try to monetise for personal gain at the expense of unpaid volunteers
When You're Evil and You're Publicly Attacking Something, That Something Will Become More Popular
when an oppressor becomes openly oppressive and does anything to squash/censor critics, the outcome will typically be detrimental to the oppressor
Links 10/08/2026: "Against Oligarch" and "The Invisible Women"
Links for the day
Social Control Media Deathwatch: After Nearly a Million Posts Sent EchoFeed Shuts Down
EchoFeed is hardly unique
When the LLM Chatbots Industry (Trillions in the Red) Quits Paying the Media for FOMO
fear of missing out, or FOMO for short
Microsoft Killing Morale
branding the process “inhumane” and “demoralizing”
Google's "AI Overview" as Proprietary Censorship Engine and Gatekeeper
People do not choose to use this, Google is just shoving that in people's faces, encouraging laziness and misinformation
SLAPP Censorship - Part 145 Out of 200: They Tried Hard to Hide the Fact Their Client Had Been Sued, Twice Even
A month ago Brett Wilson LLP tried to take my wife "to the side" (in effect isolated) to make her an offer
statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 8.95% Globally
So the estimates are being "corrected" upwards, not downwards
Explaining How Someone Attempted to Cancel RMS This Year (and Failed)
The process itself involved debunking some falsehoods
Microsoft's "XBOX Ranks Last", IBM is Headed for Extinction
If Microsoft cannot dominate its own "home turf", what prospects are there elsewhere?
DebConf6 fight denied by Google artificial intelligence
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 09, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, August 09, 2026
Gemini Links 10/08/2026: A Mild Monday, Sleepy Saturday, OUYA, and Moving to GNU/Linux
Links for the day