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Updated This Past Day

  1. Sipeed’s Longan Pi 3H is a compact Linux development kit with Allwinner H618 processor
    In terms of software, Sipeed states that they are actively contributing to the Linux open-source ecosystem
  2. How We Make Daily Summaries [original]
    In case it's not obvious, we've been running this site from the command line over SSH

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  3. today's leftovers
    only 4 more
  4. Programming Leftovers
    Perl and Python
  5. Security Leftovers
    4 stories for today
  6. Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update and GNU/Linux Weekly Roundup
    A pair of updates
  7. Audiocasts/Shows: The Linux Link Tech Show, SFP, and Invidious
    Many to watch or listen to
  8. today's howtos
    some from the past week
  9. LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.4
    The final stable version of LibreELEC 11.0.4 has been released, bringing Kodi (Nexus) v20.2 with additional fixes.
  10. Android Leftovers
    I review phones for a living — and this is the best Android phone of 2023
  11. GNOME and KDE Work
    Some outlines of developments
  12. ScummVM 2.8.0: Mysteries, Mammoths, and Muppets
    We are proud to announce the last release of the year 2023. Please welcome ScummVM 2.8.0
  13. Alacritty Terminal Emulator Released New Major 0.13.0
    Alacritty, the popular free open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
  14. 9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  15. Adguard DNS, or how to reduce ads without apps/extensions
    What is less known, is that you can you DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS for ad blocking
  16. Slimbook Executive
    It's been some six months since I purchased my new laptop, one Slimbook Executive
  17. ScummVM: End of year Director roundup
    The end of the year is almost upon us, along with a new release of ScummVM
  18. Mageia 8 End of Life
    Mageia made it to a byte’s worth of releases when Mageia 8 was released in 2021
  19. Breeze Icons Update!
    Plasma has been encouraged many times to adopt this size. However, manpower is always something not readily available
  20. Licensing and Attacks on Software Freedom
    Perens and more
  21. Slimbook Executive, long-term usage report 2
    A rather turbulent series of events, all of which turned out well in the end. You can read about those in the first article on the Executive, but that's not why we're here.
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Only 3 for now
  23. rpki-client 8.8 released
    OpenBSD related
  24. Raspberry Pi and More Open Hardware/Modding
    Three stories
  25. WIP port of the Linux ath11k driver
    thanks to support from the OpenBSD Foundation
  26. Kernel Panics in ZFS on Linux and Some Blurb About Linux
    2 stories about Linux, the latter strange
  27. today's howtos
    a nightly batch
  28. Mozilla Giving Up on Firefox
    Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  30. 2024 Will be an Amazing Year for Tux Machines (TM) Owing to New Tools [original]
    No more MariaDB or MySQL

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Only 1.5% Oppose the European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Until 2027
Among those polled/surveyed (in a ballot)
 
2026 is a Year of Strikes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
As it stands at the moment, to many people the EPO represents crime, not law
Web Browsers Are Technically Bloatware (No Matter What Runs in Them)
Don't make it a society that shames people into using a Web browser where none should be needed
Fedora Has Changed a Lot Since I Last Used It (IBM Dominates Almost Everything, IBM Agenda Displaces Community Goals)
"It is effectively 100% run by Red Hat/IBM employed people... even when they are community-elected representatives."
Andy (Cyber Show) on His Teacher Who "Squeezed Every Last Drop Out of Life, With Gratitude, Humility, Generosity and Mettle"
Some call them "eccentric" and are dismissive about what they have to offer
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 19, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 19, 2026
Gopher/Gemini Links 20/06/2026: Slop With Tcl/Tk and Nokia 770 Perishes
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent
it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...
reappointment campaign lobbying has not been restricted to the "home front" in Portugal
Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong
Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms
Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk
Links for the day
Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists
We will be writing several series about this in the future
Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing
Contrariwise, social control media is waning
The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.
The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule
The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"
Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time
Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
"2026 Best Companies for the Future"?
To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away
The leap between versions means that there is fertile ground for incompatibilities
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026
Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher
Links for the day
Links 18/06/2026: Clown Computing Has Harmful Sound, Facebook "Must Face the Music (Infringement Litigation)"
Links for the day
Digital Sovereignty Discussed in the United Kingdom (UK)
Digital Sovereignty would be nice, but let's remember what contributes to it
IBM Adds Only More IBM Staff to the Fedora Council, They Like LLM Slop for Posting 'Articles'
It's like Canonical with Ubuntu, only worse
IBM Common Stock Down to About $250, It Was at $330 Just 17 Days Ago
Happy birthday IBM!
Microsoft's CEO Openly Admits XBox is Not Sustainable and Microsoft is Beginning to Admit Slop Isn't Working and Is Not Not Sustainable Either
Expect Microsoft cancellations next month (or later this month) to impact far more than XBox and some studios
EPO and Disabilities: Payments Allegedly Disabled
But people who do cocaine can claim paid "sick leave" (over 100,000 euros for no work at all) if the President sleeps with them
SLAPP Censorship - Part 110 Out of 200: Anti-SLAPP Reform Formally Advanced in the United Kingdom (UK) the Same Week the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (US) Does Forum-Shopping in the UK
The only language they understand is money. They don't understand privacy.
Links 18/06/2026: UK Social Media Ban for Minors, Finland Lifts a Nuclear Weapons Ban
Links for the day
'Article' With "AI" 27 Times in the Page, It's "Partner Content" (Paid Spam) as Usual at The Register MS
We deem this a timely reminder that a lot of the hype around slop is paid-for lies
Microsoft Layoffs Have Reportedly Already Started at ZeniMax
The overall scale is unknown
Cyber Show: "Our independence remains intact and we're set to continue relentlessly probing the world of digital technology with hard questions"
As one should
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Leveraging the Lusitanian Connection
Mendonça no longer functions as an independent agent but rather as a fig-leaf for a mafia-like entity that prizes obedience over integrity and self-preservation over truth
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 17, 2026