IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 09, 2025

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Before I posted that… this is what @X

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told me. And gave me a chance to delete the post instead of publishing it"

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"The Elementary OS Linux distro wants you to know that their latest release was made by “real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too”.

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How… queer."

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""System76, Pop!_OS, and the Cosmic DE is another one of those mixed cases when it comes to being “Woke”.

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The lead developer — and Principal Engineer at System76 — is extremely woke. Regularly (and sometimes quite vulgarly) attacking anyone who has even slightly Conservative politics. Blocking people who refuse to agree with his angry, hateful form of Leftist Extremism.

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The owner of System76 has tried to stay somewhat neutral. He has defended the lead of Pop!_OS and Cosmic acting in wild, discriminatory, vulgar, woke ways — which has resulted the project itself becoming a place where most normal people are simply not welcome.

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But the owner has not made any such statements himself.

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Likewise, I don’t believe System76, as a company, has made any woke statements.

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Overall, I’d say that System76 is responsible for the behavior of its employees. And, as such, I consider System76 to be “woke”… but it’s important to note the details."

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"Linux Mint is a curious case when it comes to “Woke Linux Distros”. They keep doing strange, woke things… then retracting them.

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Some years back the lead of Linux Mint went hard anti-Jew — going so far as making a statement that anyone who supports a Jewish state was forbidden from using Linux Mint.

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After a bit of blowback, he deleted his statement and stopped talking about “Jews” and “Israel” quite so much.

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Then there was the time when they added an automated censorship to the Linux Mint forum — any time someone typed the word “Lunduke”, it was replaced with “<violates forum rules>”.

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Again, after people objected… Linux Mint removed that censorship.

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So does Linux Mint regularly discriminate against people (including based on religion, political affiliation, and nationality)? Yes. Absolutely.

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But they also retract such statements *very* quickly. Which most “Woke Open Source” projects never do.

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That makes Linux Mint a bit of an outlier."

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'back to' ?

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he can be rebutted, of course

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There was a brief time that Lunduke seemed to have fooled many, including

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me, into thinking that he had reformed. However, he has not and has only

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deteriorated after that brief period of a few months.

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/mariadb-12-0-lands-with-innodb-fixes-and-expanded-platform-support/">MariaDB 12.0 Lands with InnoDB Fixes and Expanded Platform Support</a></h5>

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<p>MariaDB 12.0, the latest stable release of the popular open-source database, is now available—packed with critical bug fixes, optimizations, and expanded platform support. Keep in mind that 12.0 is a rolling release version—anyone wanting to stay on the cutting edge should plan to jump to MariaDB 12.1.2 once it arrives. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | MariaDB 12.0 Lands with InnoDB Fixes and Expanded Platform Support

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/calibre-8-8-update-adds-kobo-tolino-support-refines-google-lookup/">Calibre 8.8 Update Adds Kobo Tolino Support, Refines Google Lookup</a></h5>

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<p>Three weeks after its previous 8.7 update, Calibre, the beloved open-source e-book management software, has rolled out version 8.8, which brings some useful tweaks, much-needed fixes, and expanded news source options. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Calibre 8.8 Update Adds Kobo Tolino Support, Refines Google Lookup

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<h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/ubuntu_24043_quietly_slips_out/">Ubuntu 24.04.3 quietly slips out</a></h5>

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<p>According to the company's own statement, about 95 per cent of Ubuntu users stick to the LTS releases. That means that the roughly semi-annual point releases to LTS versions serve two separate purposes: they're both update roll-ups, and they're also newer install media for the latest hardware. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Ubuntu 24.04.3 quietly slips out • The Register

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<h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-mint-xia-cinnamon.html">Linux Mint 22.1 Xia Cinnamon review - Reasonable, rounded</a></h5>

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<p>It's been quite a while since I tested any version of Mint. Overall, it's still a nice distro, and the flagship Cinnamon desktop does its work reasonably well. But it's not as shiny and awesome as it used to be. Well, you can read all about those impressions if you check the review of Uma, and then go back. Now, I wanna do a fresh test of the latest available version, Cinnamon edition. Let

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's see what gives. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | Linux Mint 22.1 Xia Cinnamon review - Reasonable, rounded

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-linux-20-years-strong/">openSUSE Linux: 20 Years Strong</a></h5>

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<p>Back on August 3, 2005, while SUSE was still under Novell’s wing (Novell had acquired the company in 2003), a post appeared announcing something new: Novell’s plan to launch a community-driven Linux distribution based on SUSE, and it would be called OpenSuSE. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | openSUSE Linux: 20 Years Strong

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-17-is-out-heres-whats-new/">KDE Frameworks 6.17 Is Out, Here’s What’s New</a></h5>

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<p>Almost a month after its previous 6.16 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.17, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE Frameworks 6.17 Is Out, Here’s What’s New

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/non-change-epos-guidance-to-examiners.html?showComment=1754649347083#c2536128686643822428

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Aug 09 15:40

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"Dear Max Drei,<br /><br />To me a standardised product is as I have defined it: claims and description are aligned with each other.<br /><br />I do agree with you that your problem is the same as an awful lot of patent monopoly people outside the EPO.<br /><br />I fear that the situation will not be as you and an awful lot of patent monopoly people outside the EPO would like to see it evolving. <br /"\

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | No change: The EPO's guidance to Examiners on how to apply G1/24 - The IPKat

Aug 09 15:40

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"I agree with the creator of AppImage on this.

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It appears that KDE has decided that their X11 support is “feature frozen” — meaning they may fix bugs, but will not be adding new features to KDE when running on X11.

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Even when contributors submit code patches implementing new feature support, it is rejected as “not going to happen”… as with this request:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507357

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The roadmap for KDE appears to be firmly set on “slowly let X11 support languish, focus on Wayland”.

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Personally, I don’t have anything against Wayland. It has some merit. Truly, it does. But…

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Considering the large number of remaining blocker-level issues with Wayland — issues which Wayland advocates and developers (including those at Red Hat) have made clear they will not fix (because “Wayland is perfect, and any bugs are someone else’s fault”) — I would suggest that moving KDE from the battle tested X11 (which KDE has used since the start) to Wayland is both premature and risky for the Kool Desktop Environmen

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-bugs.kde.org | 507357 – Per-Desktop/Output tiling manager not available on X11 (patch attached)