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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Sweden: A High at 15% [original]
    huge increases
  2. Greek GNU/Linux: Grok the Freedom, Over 10% This Month [original]
    Desktop Operating System Market Share Greece - Jan 2009 - Feb 2024
  3. Google targets Windows refugees with ChromeOS Flex
    Google has announced a solution for businesses facing the end of support for Windows 10 next year
  4. System76: Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha
    We’re on approach towards an alpha version of the new COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other distros
  5. Slimbook Launches Manjaro Gaming Edition Laptop
    Powered by Intel Core i7-13620H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, Slimbook Manjaro is a great gaming laptop for Linux enthusiasts
  6. Twitter (X) Rotting [original]
    Twitter (X) is a waste of time
  7. Freedom-Centric GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States: 4% [original]
    Whether or not it is accurate, which is a reasonable concern, the trends are quite telling

    New

  8. Microsoft and Apple: More Layoffs and Problems
    some misc. links
  9. Events and Free Software
    today's FOSS picks
  10. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux focused
  11. Security Leftovers
    banks at peril and latest from CISA
  12. today's howtos
    mostly from the past week
  13. Latest From Perl Programming Hub
    perl.org's latest
  14. Linux hardware maker Juno Computers releases 17-inch Saturn 17 v5 laptop with Intel i7-13620H, Geforce RTX 4000 GPUs and Ubuntu
    Juno Computer's new Saturn 17 v5 notebook is now available to order with a 17.3-inch 2K display
  15. Shows and Videos: The Linux Link Tech Show and Lots From Invidious (Past Week)
    many new videos
  16. Programming Leftovers
    regressions, R, and more
  17. Security Leftovers
    mostly incidents and holes in this batch
  18. Kernel, Security, and Mesa
    kernel level stuff and SELinux
  19. today's howtos
    a handful more
  20. UNOFFICIAL antiX-23 “init-diversity” spin.
    not systemd
  21. Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Installer Changes [First Look]
    As part of work on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release
  22. Digi IX40 5G edge computing industrial IoT cellular gateway is designed for Industry 4.0 use cases
    The IIoT gateway is based on an NXP i.MX 8M Plus Arm processor running a custom Linux distribution
  23. today's leftovers
    Ubuntu, programming, and more
  24. Applications: XDM, HandBrake, and Power Profiles Daemon
    Three DOSS stories, GNU/Linux focus
  25. Security Leftovers
    Security links for now, more to come later
  26. today's howtos
    many howtos for the afternoon
  27. New krita.org website launched
    After a lot of work, we moved our website to a new Hugo based platform
  28. Red Hat Leftovers
    a few bits from the "official" sites/sources
  29. Driving into the Absurd: Imagining a Smartphone-esque Auto Industry
    Imagine stepping into a world where the automotive industry has taken a wild turn, mirroring the smartphone market’s quirks and monopolies
  30. Games: Helldivers 2, Capcom, and More
    4 articles by Liam Dawe
  31. 4MLinux 44.1 STABLE released.
    This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 6.1.69.
  32. ExTiX Deepin 24.2 Live based on Deepin 23 BETA 3 (latest) with Refracta Snapshot and kernel 6.7.4-amd64-extix :: Build 240209
    I’ve released a new version of ExTiX Deepin today (240209)
  33. GhostBSD 24.01.1 Now Available
    bugfixes
  34. Android Leftovers
    10 Of The Best Android Smartphones Ever Released
  35. Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition
    This is free and open source software
  36. Microchip Launches Affordable PolarFire SoC Kit, Expanding Access to RISC-V and FPGA for Embedded Engineers
    The PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit is centered around a quad-core, 64-bit RISC-V processor, optimized for Linux and real-time applications
  37. More About Thunderbird And Mozilla Firefox
    A new year, a new progress report
  38. Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha
    We’re on approach towards an alpha version of the new COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other distros
  39. today's leftovers
    applications, servers, and more
  40. Red Hat Leftovers
    and RHEL too
  41. Microsoft, Proprietary Stuff, and Chatbots
    Mostly Microsoft though
  42. Programming Leftovers
    Python, Java, R, and more
  43. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  44. Security Leftovers
    another handful of links
  45. today's howtos
    only a handful for now
  46. GNU/Linux in Denmark: Market Share Has Doubled in a Year, Now Tops 8% on Desktops and Laptops [original]
    this isn't a matter of being "too poor" to pay Apple and/or Microsoft
  47. Mixxx 2.4 Open-Source DJ Software Released with Major Changes
    Mixxx 2.4 open-source, free, and cross-platform DJ software designed to give you all the tools you need to perform live mixes arrived today as a major update that adds major new features and improvements.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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Nobody in the Council or the EU/EC/EP gives a damn as long as laws are broken to fabricate 'growth'
Jeff Bezos Isn't Just Killing the Washington Post, He's Killing Thousands of News Sites/Newsrooms (in Dozens of Languages) That Rely on It for Many Decades Already
Not just slopfarms; even the Ukraine-based reporters are culled by Bezos, who's looking to please the dictators of the world
Central Staff Committee Confronted António Campinos for Giving His Cocaine-Addicted Friend Over 100,000 Euros to Do Nothing, Just Pretend to be Ill, While Cutting the Salaries of Everybody Else
"On the agenda: Amicale framework & Financial assistance for courses"
How to Win Lawsuits in 5 Simple Steps
Keep issuing threats every week and send 60 kilograms of legal papers to the target
Living in Freedom When 'False Flag Operations' Like EFF Get Captured by Billionaires to Take Freedom Away
There are many ways to think of Software Freedom
Changes at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
SRA is basically a waste of money
 
Gemini Links 06/02/2026: Git and Email Patches; MNT Pocket Reform
Links for the day
Geminispace Net Growth in 2026 About a Capsule a Day
A pace like this means net gain of ~300 per year, i.e. about the same as last year
Benjamin Henrion Warned About the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC) in FOSDEM 2026
Listen to Benjamin Henrion
Economies Crashing Not Because of Slop Improving 'Efficiency' (That's a False Excuse) and 'Expensive' (Read: Qualified) Workers Discarded in Race to the Bottom
Actual cocaine addicts are pushing out moral people
IBM's CEO Speaks of Layoffs, Resorts to Mythical (False) Excuses
This has nothing to do with slop
Links 06/02/2026: Voter Intimidation and Press Shutdowns in US, Web Traffic Warped by LLM Sludge
Links for the day
Does Linux Torvalds Regret Having Dinners With Bill 'Russian Girls' Gates?
See, the rules that govern the Linux Foundation and its big sponsors aren't the same rules that apply to all of us
IBM: Cheapening Code, Cheapening Staff, Cheapening Everything
IBM's management runs IBM like it's a local branch of McDonald's. IBM is a junk company with morbid innards.
GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in One of the World's Largest Nations
Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer
The only true solution is to entirely get rid of all software patents
More Than 99% of "AI" Companies Aren't AI, They're Pure BS
We need to discard those stupid debates about "AI" and reject media that gets paid to participate in such overt narrative control (manipulation like The Register MS)
AI Used to Save Lives, Now "AI" is a Grifting Scheme That Burns the Planet and Will Crash the Economy
What the media calls "AI" (it gets paid to call it that) is the same stuff that could instead be dubbed "algorithms"
Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft
Do whatever is possible to avoid Amutable and its "products"
Growing Focus on Publication
Over the past ~10 days we always served more than a million Web hits per day
"Going to be a large number of Microsoft layoffs announced soon"
Everybody knows a giant wave of layoffs is coming Microsoft's way
End of the 'GPU Bubble' and NVIDIA Finally Admits It Won't Bail Out Microsoft OpenAI Anymore
circular financing (financial/accounting fraud)
Corrupt Media Won't Hold Accountable Rich People for Role in Pedophilia
Journalistic misconduct or malpractice is a real thing
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 05, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, February 05, 2026
EPO Management ("Alicante Mafia") Not Properly Sharing Information on Scale of Strikes by EPO Staff
disproportionate (double) deductions in salaries against people who participate in strikes, which are protected by law
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Links for the day
Blackmail evidence: Debian social engineering exposed in ClueCon 2024 talk on politics
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Bitcoin crash: opportunity or the end game?
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Claims That IBM Will Lay Off 20% (or 15%) of Its Workforce This Year Unless It Finds a Way to Push Them All Out by Threats, Shame, Guilt
Where are the articles about IBM layoffs?
IBM Isn't a Serious Company Anymore, It's a Ponzi Scheme Operated by a Clique and It Misuses Companies It Acquires to Prop Up or Legitimise the Scheme
IBM seems like it's nothing but a "Scheme"
Google News Drowning in Slop About "Linux" (Slopfarms Galore)
Google should know better than to link to any of these slopfarms, but today's Google is itself a pusher of slop
Links 05/02/2026: EU Commission Gutting Net Neutrality
Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/02/2026: NixOS Books and Monochrome Emojis
Links for the day
Links 05/02/2026: Canadian Government Uses US LLMs to Override Expert Opinions, NVIDIA Troubles Due to Enablement of Mass Plagiarism ('Piracy') Misleadingly Obscured as "Hey Hi"
Links for the day
Explaining the Letter From JUDGE SYKES FRIXOU, Threatening Me Around the Time GNOME's Nat Friedman Lost His CEO Job at Microsoft GitHub and His Best Friend Got Arrested for Strangulation
this letter (with annotation) is critical
Linuxiac Not Rehabilitated, It's Still Full of LLM Slop (Part of a Trend)
The Web as a resource/source of information is perishing
"Sponsored by Azul" to Write Fake 'Article' About Azul, Quoting Azul Itself
The "journalism" industry [sic] became so utterly corrupt
JuristGate is for sale: three billion Swiss francs for a domain name
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Like Microsoft and IBM, the 'Alicante Mafia'-Governed EPO Does PIPs Nowadays (at the EPO, It's "Professional Incompetence Procedure")
So "PIPs" are definitely in the EPO and we saw letters sent to staff
Time for Change, More New Articles, Less Curation
The oligarchy wants to gut the real press and replace media with slop and social control media (or social control media with slop in it, i.e. their own voices, mechanised)
Gemini Links 05/02/2026: Coercion, Antibiotics, and LVDT Project
Links for the day
Almost 1,600 EPO Employees Went on Strike Last Week
There is another strike coming 2.5 weeks from now
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 04, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Links 04/02/2026: Extreme Malice in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code on GNU/Linux, More Hey Hi (AI) Chaos
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Better Outcomes When Facing the Discomfort of Conflict
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Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Used to be Widely Used in Geminispace, Now It's Down to Just 0.2% of the Whole
Let's Encrypt is not your friend
What IBM Does Is Clearly Illegal in the US: Tying Severance Packages to NDAs (Non-Disparagement Agreement/Clause)
The NDAs make things worse; they keep people isolated and silent
Microsoft's Giant Snowball of Layoffs and PIPs (in 2026)
They would delay until March or April if they wanted to, but then we can expect numbers exceeding 10,000 layoffs (Microsoft always low-balls the real figure/s)
Mozilla Turned Firefox Into Shovelware, Adding 'Kill Switch' for Slop Still Means Mozilla is Participating in a Pyramid Scheme, Plagiarism, Grifting
Mozilla is still a slop pusher
Leaving the United States 3 Years Ago Was the Best Decision We Made
A lot of stuff is being consolidated
Links 04/02/2026: "Laws of Succession" and Microsoft's VS Code as Code-Stealing Malware
Links for the day
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They Know Microsoft Layoffs Are About to Hit Them Hard
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Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part III - Who's Going to Pay for the EPO's Corruption? (Aside From European Citizens)
Some people inside the EPO reached out to us
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EPO Staff Union: "Very High Strike Participation on Friday 30 January", Another Strike Starts 19 Days From Now
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