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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 18, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux
    finally it's out
  2. Tsurugi Linux: Tailoring user experience for digital forensics and OSINT investigations
    Tsurugi Linux is a heavily customized open-source distribution focused on supporting DFIR investigations.
  3. Wine 9.0 Major Release: Best New Features
    A new release of Wine 9.0 is now available with key improvements.

    New

  4. Android Leftovers
    Samsung announces ‘world first’ Android button that makes Google searches easier than ever
  5. Raspberry Pi 5 industrial HMI displays gain M.2 NVMe SSD, RS232/RS485 interfaces, audio input/output jacks
    EDATEC ED-HMI3020 is a family of Raspberry Pi 5-based industrial HMI displays that build upon the earlier ED-HMI3010 panel PCs
  6. Android Leftovers
    Google will add new search and browser choice screens for Android phones in Europe
  7. Flathub’s Strategic Shift to Highlight High-Quality Apps
    Flathub's new guidelines elevate app quality, ensuring a seamless experience for users seeking top-notch applications
  8. today's leftovers
    kernel and more
  9. Development Leftovers
    IBM, GNOME, KDE, and more
  10. Free Software Leftovers
    Debian, SUSE, and more
  11. Security Leftovers
    only 4 for now
  12. today's howtos and troubleshooting
    only 4 more for now
  13. MenuLibre - Advanced tool to Edit App Shortcuts in Start Menu
    Need a tool to edit your apps in the start menu, main menu, or Gnome overview search results?
  14. Android Leftovers
    Assistant with Bard on Android may be simply called Bard
  15. GEEKOM Mini Air12 mini PC review – Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 Linux
    YouTube video streaming, and ran some benchmarks in Ubuntu 22.04, before checking out the cooling performance
  16. Accessibility and Really Simple Syndication
    Only indirectly related to Free software, 3 links
  17. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS links
  18. New programming language needed for KDE?
    I am not one of KDE's masterminds or spokespersons. I am a mere bystander with few unimportant commits
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Python, among others
  20. Open Hardware: Arduino, Retro, Raspberry Pi, and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi today
  21. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    security patches, incidents etc.
  22. today's howtos
    the first batch for the day today
  23. AV Linux MX Edition 23.1: OS for Audiophiles
    AV Linux 23.1 'Enlightened' is a significant update, including MX-23/Debian 12 base, Enlightenment 0.25.4, and PipeWire 1.0.0
  24. Defense Unicorns: Bridging the Gap Between National Security and Open Source
    All of their core technology is open source and is released under an Apache 2.0 license
  25. Games: Stream Deck, Ubisoft Outrage, winesapOS, Free Re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1
    7 stories, mostly by Liam Dawe
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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IBM is "Taking the PIP" (Piss), People 'Retire' 'Voluntarily' to "Focus on Family"
IBM has a billion bucks for 'the butcher', but not a million dollars for critical projects and initiatives in Free software
It Should be Uncontroversial to Say That Social Control Media is a Weapon
Democracy is not compatible with the likes of Kapo-Berg and MElon controlling public discourse of billions
Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It
The result isn't the worst, but it's not good either
Don't Let Them Kill Activism
Are the oligarchs shutting the lid on activism and whistleblowers?
 
Links 29/08/2026: Stop the Hate, Goldfish Myths, and xmpp.nz
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Links 29/08/2026: Wave of Social Control Media Bans, Suno Data Breach Class Actions
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Links 29/08/2026: Microsoft GitHub Outage (Again), "Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor", and "Election Deniers Could Soon Control Elections"
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Misuse of Bots (Now Sold as "Agents", "Hey Hi", "Automation", and "Efficiency")
They even try to rebrand robotics as "hey hi" and try to sell slop as "work"
SLAPP Censorship - Part 165 Out of 200: Two Years Since My Wife and I Sued
In early September 2024 we hit back
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 28, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, August 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/08/2026: Death Notice, Systems Biology, and Gopher
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Links 28/08/2026: Chatbot Pushers Admit They're Used Heavily for Social Engineering Scams, Strong Backlash Against "Smart Glasses" (CCTV on Legs)
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Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM
reading between the lines, IBM is "spitting out" Red Hat staff
If Linux Was Written in Rust, 80% or More of Linux Developers Would Not Understand It (Same If It's Composed by LLM Slop)
The licence (GPL) is not enough when there are ways to bypass it
Gemini Links 28/08/2026: Absurd Tomodachi Summer, Screen Piggery, and Jugulans 1.0.3 Released
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Links 28/08/2026: "UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem" and "Growth at All Costs is Cancer"
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America
You start to wonder if the core issue is insecurity
Rumours of More PIPs and Layoffs at Confluent Just Months After IBM Bought It
It is meanwhile apparent IBM will have mass layoffs next week (September)
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, August 27, 2026
After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September)
What we heard is turning out to be true
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline
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Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many
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The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times
1.5 hours ago
Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became
Many readers will have noticed what was a paid-for PR campaign of a global scale
RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them)
Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat)
Looking at recent activity in thelayoff.com, about 80% of the comments and posts are about PIPs
Links 27/08/2026: "Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge)
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Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland)
Maybe some people want to send him a detailed, polite explanation
GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed
When it comes to Social Control Media, Richard Stallman was right
Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices
We'll soon cover the EPO a lot more
SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals
There's No "Next XBox"
Nothing comes ahead except layoffs and price hikes
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games
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