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Updated This Past Day

  1. Mission Center 1.2.0 Released
    a pair of articles
  2. IBM Fedora: We Forced 'Secure Boot' on Linux, Now It Discourages Dual-Booting [original]
    That is what they are trying to tell us and the companies that employ us
  3. Abusive Cults a Phenomenon Recognised by Formal Authorities [original]
    This matter is now being escalated to law firms

    New

  4. Getting More Political [original]
    Tomorrow we'll get some attention again
  5. Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Adds Better Fractional Scaling, HDR Rendering
    Wayfire 0.11 modular and extensible Wayland compositor is now available with better fractional scaling, HDR rendering, support for per-output ICC profiles, and more.
  6. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks
  7. Web and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
    FOSS and more
  8. Mozilla: Firefox Nightly and MozPhab 2.15.4 Released
    Firefox news
  9. Debian: Freexian, DebConf26, and Slopware Based on Debian
    Freexian and more
  10. GUADEC, GNOME Shell Extensions, and Slop
    GNOME leftovers
  11. KDE: KIO Too Slow for Many Files, New Developer Hacking on KDE's Network Manager
    KDE news
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Michael Geist, Late Night Linux, and This Week in Linux
    3 new episodes
  13. Linux Kernel: Networking, Slop, and Holes
    4 picks
  14. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  15. Games: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Skate 3 Recomp 2.0, EmuDeck, Denuvo DRM, and More
    mostly from Liam Dawe
  16. Open Hardware/Modding: Orange Pi, ESP32, and More
    hardware news
  17. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  18. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  19. Migrating a NAS from TrueNAS Core to vanilla FreeBSD, NTSYNC driver
    FreeBSD bits
  20. Pyramid Scheme Piggybacking Misnomer "Hey Hi" (Like "Crypto"), Now "Linux" Foundation (for "Linux" "Brand") and Openwashing
    Red Hat is fully subverted now
  21. Linux isn't your only escape route from Windows and macOS—here are 4 alternatives
    Most people who step outside of Windows and macOS assume Linux is the only alternative worth taking seriously
  22. Windows 11 ruined my old laptop, but this lightweight Linux distro brought it back to life
    Once I decided to try Zorin OS Lite, which promised to make the laptop feel snappy and light again
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations
    They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance
  25. Improving Accessibility [original]
    work underway to improve the system which runs the sites
  26. AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
    Rants follow
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-07-22 to 2026-07-28
    1791 /n/2026/07/25/Free_Software_Makes_Complex_Setups_Affordable_and_Feasible.shtml
    1060 /n/2026/07/23/Mourning_Dan_Williams.shtml
    925 /summary.shtml

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AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
History goes in circles
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
Shame in SRA
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
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Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
Links for the day
 
Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox
Links for the day
Slop Promotion, Including Paid-for Slop Promotion for So-called 'Linux' Foundation (Its Clients Are Slop Companies)
We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
Links for the day
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet
Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
"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"
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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
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Linus caught the 'brain virus'
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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
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Links for the day
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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
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A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
The Cyber Show on Slop and the Ministry Of Truth in "Nineteen Eighty Four"
"cultural erasure" by slop
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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