Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2024

Giraffe silhouette at sunset in Africa

Updated This Past Day

  1. Void Linux’s March 2024 Update Brings Raspberry Pi 5 Support
    Void Linux's latest image set, 20240314, is out! Highlights include Raspberry Pi 5 support and improved boot options
  2. Proprietary Security Failures and Shams
    4 stories for now
  3. A Sudden Rush [original]
    Is there growing interest in GNU/Linux?

    New

  4. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  5. Sipeed MaixBox M4N AI Box with 43.2 TOPS AXera AX650N SoC can decode/encode up to 32 videos
    Sipeed provides a Debian image with Qt support
  6. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    or today's leftovers
  7. Android Leftovers
    Google Phone app loses the Nearby Places search feature on Android
  8. Programming Leftovers and Education Tidbits
    Zig, Swift, and more
  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Open Access
    Mostly FOSS news
  10. Linux Devices and Open Hardware
    some hardware news of relevance
  11. Games: Proton 9.0 Beta 15, Public Domain Game Jam, Playstation Plus From a BSD/Linux User's Perspective, How to Play Games on GNU/Linux
    4 stories about gaming
  12. TileOS 1.0 Unveiled for Tiling Window Managers Enthusiasts
    TileOS is a Linux distribution based on Debian’s stable branch
  13. 7-inch Raspberry Pi CM4-based industrial HMI offers gigabit Ethernet, RS485 Modbus, digital and analog inputs
    The NORVI RPI-HMI runs Raspberry Pi OS with all necessary drivers and can be programmed with Python
  14. 13 Useful Free and Open Source JavaScript Web Frameworks
    All of the software featured here is released under a freely distributable license
  15. Completing the KDE Frameworks 6 transition
    Getting the KDE Mega Relase 6 out was a key milestone in the transition to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6
  16. Firefox DevTools Newsletter and Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service
    Some Mozilla news
  17. Programming Leftovers and Gentoo
    C++ and more
  18. Linux Kernel, Linux Foundation Leftovers
    Some Linux news
  19. OpenPGP Paper Backup, Games on Steam, and CloudNativePG
    today's leftovers
  20. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
    Some hardware news for hackers
  21. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  22. KDE and openSUSE Tumbleweed News
    the latter uses KDE
  23. Security Leftovers
    many incidents this weekend
  24. today's howtos
    many for Sunday
  25. Microsoft's testing an idea to promote Bing in Windows 11 - and it's so awful, it makes me want to install Linux
    This should never have made it off the drawing board
  26. Ubuntu Pit's Lists: Hex Editors and Viewers, Notepad++ Alternatives, and CCleaner Alternatives
    3 updated lists for GNU/Linux users
  27. 9 of the Best Linux Distros for Windows Users
    If you’re new to Linux or are switching to Linux from Windows, you’ll want an operating system that is GUI-focused like Windows
  28. Today we launched Flox 1.0
    Flox is based on Nix
  29. GNUnet 0.21.1
    This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.21.0
  30. Godot 4.3 dev 5, Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & Godot 4.2.2 RC 2
    Godot releases
  31. Is Fedora Linux a Good Distro? 15 Reasons to Use Fedora Linux
    It goes without saying that Fedora GNU/Linux is one of the best GNU/Linux distributions and has significantly distinct properties
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-03-11 to 2024-03-17
    1654 /n/2024/03/04/Linux_Crosses_4_Market_Share_Worldwide.shtml
    1515 /n/2024/03/10/Linux_Kernel_6_8_Officially_Released_Here_s_What_s_New.shtml
    1297 /n/2024/03/13/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Shifting_Focus_to_Linux_1_2_Days_After_M.shtml
    1156 /n/2024/03/12/Web_Browsers_Speedometer_and_Firefox.shtml
    1151 /n/2024/03/13/OBS_Studio_30_1_Released_with_AV1_Support_for_VA_API_PipeWire_C.shtml
    1100 /n/2024/03/12/KDE_Plasma_6_0_2_Improves_Night_Color_Discover_Plasma_Wayland_a.shtml
    1086 /n/2024/03/12/Kdenlive_24_02_0_released.shtml
    1077 /n/2024/03/14/Istio_1_21_0.shtml
    1053 /n/2024/03/14/System76_Adder_Linux_Laptop_Gets_a_Hardware_Refresh.shtml
    1004 /n/2024/03/12/Banana_Pi_launches_a_30_WiFi_6_router_with_Triductor_TR6560_SoC.shtml
    1003 /n/2024/03/12/KaOS_Linux_2024_03_Is_Out_to_Deliver_a_Stable_KDE_Plasma_6_Expe.shtml
    996 /n/2024/03/07/Zorin_OS_17_1_Released_with_Enhanced_Windows_App_Support_Educat.shtml
    989 /n/2024/03/13/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    985 /n/2024/03/13/COSMIC_Store_Prototype_Replacement_for_Pop_Shop_Unveiled.shtml
    979 /n/2024/03/13/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Is_Now_Powered_by_Linux_6_6_LTS_Improves_Raspbe.shtml
    967 /n/2024/03/14/DBOS_Introduced.shtml
    962 /n/2024/03/15/Sparky_7_3.shtml
    944 /n/2024/03/14/today_s_howtos.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade
Censorship by targeting ISPs and webhosts isn't unprecedented
Symptom of Publishers Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop. Symptom of Software Companies Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop ('Vibe').
It'll always fail. It's hype. It's a bubble.
Under IBM, Red Hat Replaces Code With LLM Slop, Fedora is Slopware
Not even hiding it, those things are in plain sight
"systemd is essentially a corporate IBM/Redhat project and corporations of course will comply"
Microsoft and IBM care about users' freedom like Cheeto Lump cares about the US Constitution
 
Invitation to General Assembly After 1,200 EPO Workers Participated in the Demonstration 3 Days Ago
"the strike of 19 March was also very well followed."
A/Prof Susan G Kleinmann, Enkelena Haxhija & Debian-private risk to MIT
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 20, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, March 20, 2026
Plagiarism in "Linux" Clothing (LLM Slop in linuxiac.com, LinuxTeck.com, and linuxsecurity.com)
The net effect of those slopfarms is very negative
Links 20/03/2026: Facebook Weaponised Politically, Openwashing by LF and NVIDIA, Encyclopedia Britannica Sues Microsoft Proxy for Plagiarism
Links for the day
The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Explains to the Administrative Council (AC) How Bad Things Have Become at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Biggest Patent Office, and Corruption/Cocaine Hub (Jobs Sold to Friends)
We'll say a bit more tomorrow
IBM's Red Hat Diversity: Only 3 Women (Out of 11 Leaders)
For comparison's sake, the FSF is about 50% female
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Depictions of Culture and The Social Smolnet
Links for the day
SimilarWeb Was Never a Reliable Yardstick for Traffic
5RB may need some "house-cleaning"
Strangulation, suffocation, Jonathan Carter & Debian toxic culture confirmed
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Reports or Hearsay Suggest Ogilvy Broke Up With IBM and Insiders Report Mass Layoffs in "Infrastructure" (Might Impact Red Hat Entrants)
hearsay in Social Control Media
Scheduled Server Maintenance Tomorrow Night
Starting 9PM
None of the Above (NotA) & Debian snubbing Sruthi Chandran
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 20/03/2026: Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award and BMG Sues Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Links for the day
Even Uganda Understands That Journalists Never Belong in Prison
"Ugandan authorities must respect the spirit of this ruling and abandon any measures that seek to jail Ugandans for the free flow of ideas."
Inaction Helps Your Enemies
Without freedom, there's nothing else left
Windows Down From 99% to ~50% in Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles)
Windows fell by a lot
Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Over Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800
For the record, the layoffs at Confluent won't be over. After the bluewashing there will be "IBM RAs" impacting Confluent folks, aside from PIPs
The Layoffs at IBM Carry on (Shades of Enron)
Is IBM another Enron?
"IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
continues to ruin the company to enrich himself while pretending he has a strategy
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Digital Identity Bifurcation and a "Return to Gemini"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 19, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, March 19, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network
For those who have not followed our story
Microsoft "hiding behind bigger news of war, Epstein, other companies' layoffs"
They know what's coming, they just don't know when
Joerg Jaspert (Debian Account Manager/DAM) personally approved Raphael Hertzog's wife Sophie Brun
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Letter 'A' prohibited by Code of Conduct extremism
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Spoiler: Diversity & Debian means different things to different people
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Admits Failures and Criticism of Inaction on SLAPPs
many if not all solicitors and solicitor firms in the UK are in effect unregulated
Archiving or Preserving Pages About IBM Layoffs
Layoffs at IBM and the media does not talk about these
ABC, the American National Broadcaster, "Now Publishes Slop"
If the "big media" absorbs slop, it'll no longer be trusted and therefore not read/watched by the public
Links 19/03/2026: Culling Deepfakes of Artists’ Music and "Age Verification Isn’t the Answer"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/03/2026: "Aktion GPT-4" and "Kill All Descendants"
Links for the day
"AI" 15 Times in Short 'Article' From The Register MS. And The Register MS Got Paid to Publish It.
gets paid to do this
People Who Decided to Boycott Novell Over Its Microsoft Alliance Should Also Boycott Canonical
As an associate put it, "selling out further, due to Microsoft moles inside Canonical"
Links 19/03/2026: "AI Glasses" as Euphemism for Mass Surveillance and ABC (US) Has Begun Publishing Slop as 'News'
Links for the day
The European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, is on Strike Today
Lots more to come
What People Impacted by the Bluewashing Layoffs at IBM Confluent Say (While the Media Says Nothing at All, in Effect Burying the News)
Worse yet, the mainstream media spreads lies about it right now
IBM Has Turned Red Hat and Fedora Into Slop
This is IBM policy
IBM is Being Robbed, Companies and Jobs Are Destroyed
Companies taken over by IBM will be exploited and destroyed to keep a bubble inflated for a little while longer
In Confluent Layoffs, IBM Vapourises a Quarter of Its Workforce (IBM Buys Something That It Destroys Already)
In the past, such things were typically referred to as "media blackout"; now it's just "the norm".
IBM Effect at Confluent: Mass Layoffs and IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) Said to be Violated
For Confluent employees who survived the layoffs there will be "culture chock"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Links 19/03/2026: LLM Fatigue (It Doesn't Work as Advertised), "Small Web Feeds"
Links for the day