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    7. Software Freedom Day 2026 Events at Melbourne PC User Group and Inspire9 at Melbourne, Events Planned in Canada and Europe as Well [original]
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    7. Security Leftovers
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    8. Mozilla Promotes Slop and Spying, Mozilla Firefox Nightly Report
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    9. This Week In Rust, Weird Security Advice, and Copycats of GNU Whose Purpose is to Remove Copyleft (Reciprocity) and Put Microsoft in Control
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    12. NVIDIA and SteamOS (valve) Target GNU/Linux Gamers
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    19. Android Leftovers
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    20. Free and Open Source Software
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