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Nepali Community celebrates LibreOffice 24.2 Release Party with CS50x Nepal students

We shared some positive words around the LibreOffice project

New
Pi 5 Desktop Case For NVMe Base or HatDrive! Bottom

This is an adaptation of my standard desktop case for the Raspberry Pi 5, with adjustments made for the bottom-mounted NVMe hat
Security, Encryption, and More

many news pertaining to security, with GNU/Linux focus
Juno Computers Launches Neptune 17 v6 Linux Laptop with Up to NVIDIA RTX 4090

Linux hardware vendor Juno Computers announced today the Neptune 17 v6 Linux-powered laptop with a 14th generation Intel Core processor and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics.
[Fedora] Communishift is now available

made mainly for hosting containerized projects related to Fedora, but not ready for infrastructure deployment yet
Web Browsers and Mozilla Losing Focus

Mozilla and curl latest
BSD: FreeBSD's Colin Percival, the new Release Engineering Team Lead, and Running NetBSD 10 Release Candidate 5!

Some BSD news for today
Programming Leftovers and Devices

Some technical stuff for coders and hackers
FSFE (FSF-EEE) Latest: Device Neutrality, FOSDEM, and More

Some FSFE news
today's howtos

moderate number, more to come later
Android Leftovers

Upcoming Google Pixel Watch 3 may be able to unlock your Android phone quicker
Postfix 3.9 Email Server Introduces MongoDB Support

Postfix 3.9 MTA embraces MongoDB, upgrades MySQL/pgSQL clients
Immich 1.98.0 Introduces New Logo and App Enhancements

New logo, new features: Immich v1.98.0, a Google Photos alternative
Malware in Proprietary Software - Latest Additions

Here are our latest additions
Games: DraStic, Steam Deck, Enlisted: Reinforced, and More

7 stories from gamingonlinux
Kodi 21 “Omega” Gets Its First RC Release

After 3 alpha and 3 beta releases, Kodi media center 21
The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn

If you want to start using Linux, these are the commands you should know
Blaming "Linux" for Things That Are Not Linux

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation in the media
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

GAFAM "doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in, humans just don't want to be free anymore," according to MinceR: As many readers are aware, our criticism of UEFI (restricted boot in particular) attracted a lot of online harassment against us, including stalking and libel
The Register MS Has Just Been Paid to Promote the Ponzi Scheme Some More ("AI" Keyword Stuffing): This won't end well for The Register MS
Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM"): Many Red Hat employees were pushed out and/or removed lately
EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public): Lying to the police in Germany is a criminal offense
Claims of More IBM Layoffs a Week Before 'Christmas Week': Of course, as usual, nobody in the media says anything
Wrapping Up and Ending "Slopwatch": An "end-of-life" improvement
Gemini Links 15/12/2025: How We Lost Communication to Entertainment, Dichotomy Between the Real and the Digital: Links for the day
The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Microsoft Coverage and Add Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage: Did Microsoft pay some more?
IBM Layoffs in India and IBM's CEO Spins His Lack of Market Share as a Strength: If this leadership carries on, the only red left at IBM won't be Red Hat but a red stain
Links 15/12/2025: "Life in Prison" for Criticising China, Tikhanovskaya Says 'Pressure Works': Links for the day
Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux: This is what Microsoft wanted
'Crypto' 'Currencies' Are a Ponzi Scheme. So Is "AI". Both Destroy the Planet, Not Just the Economy.: Believe it or not, millions of these GPUs just sit there boxed, unopened, unconnected, unused
Microsoft Colonialism in Africa is Not Sustainable: Microsoft's situation in Nigeria is not
Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto: Links for the day
Breaking Your Proprietary Router in the Name of "Security": Each time they "patch" the router something that previously worked OK is likely to just break
IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off: Observation to add regarding IBM layoffs
Demonisation Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) - Including Antisemitic Attacks - Have Not Worked: Name-calling doesn't work
Slop ("AI") Will Replace People and Take Away Jobs, Say the Slopfarms With Fake (LLM-Generated) Text and Slop Images: "AI" often means slave labour in a poor country
More Than a Million Bytes Should be Enough for Most Computer Programs: Who said computing would improve over time?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 14, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, December 14, 2025
Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud: Those who talk about this fraud get SLAPPed
They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on): Its biggest client is itself
In Russia, Microsoft is Already a Dying Breed Online: A lot of Europe also dumps Microsoft. Europe is a big revenue source of Microsoft.
The Future of News on the World Wide Web: No "greener pastures" on the Web
𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚: Proof That at IBM People Fall Upwards: IBM is collapsing
EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work: What's at stake here isn't just the EPO or the patent system
Links 14/12/2025: "Chile to ban smartphones in classroom" and "Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers": Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/12/2025: "GUI TUI CLI" and EmacsConf 2025 Video: Links for the day
Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus: Links for the day
A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud: the "industry" has become insane and a lot of "the media" is going along with it
Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, December 13, 2025
Google News is Google Noise: Google News is really hopeless, even on weekends
IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently: Good luck starting legal battles with a company that has almost as many lawyers (including aggressive patent lawyers) as it has geeks
Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth": Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes: Links for the day
Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions: Calling Torvalds anything "Soviet" or "Russian" would overlook the fact he comes from Finland and has Swedish roots
Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services: Canonical started with a rich and overambitious Debian Developer. He wanted to become richer.
Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems
EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills: We must all recognise that there's a problem here
Running With Technology: At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)
Dealing With "Tech Cults": If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away
It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team): Healthy companies would sack IBM's management (sacked by Board, bylaws etc.) but IBM is a sick company
Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published: Less than a day ago they released his talk
GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed: Europe has plenty of skilled computer engineers
LLM Slop Becoming Rarer: Today we've found no LLM slop in our RSS feeds regarding "Linux"
2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball: It would be shocking is XBox can stage any kind of comeback
Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?": Links for the day
Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions: they see tough times ahead
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, December 12, 2025