Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 01, 2024,
updated Apr 01, 2024

Penguin swimming underwater

Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU poke 4.0 released
    I am happy to announce a new major release of GNU poke, version 4.0
  2. xz Flaw Impacts Very Few People (Mostly Hobbyists With Test Distros). Avoid FUD, Look Instead at Microsoft's Poettering, Microsoft's GitHub, and Microsoft's Andres Freund. [original]
    headlines don't tell the full story, they just shape/set the tone

    New

  3. Linux 6.9-rc2
    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays kernel rc releases
  4. Latest Arch Linux ISO Release Brings Linux Kernel 6.8, Updated Installer
    For those of you who want to install Arch Linux, there’s a new official ISO snapshot available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.8 and featuring an improved installation experience.
  5. Open Hardware, Applications, and Perl
    today's leftovers
  6. Security Leftovers
    And mostly CISA
  7. GTA 5 on GNU/Linux
    modders do this
  8. The Case Against Rocky Linux
    The whole "AlmaLinux takes shortcuts" was FUD in its purest form
  9. I Made My Friends Think I Was a Linux Hacker Using These 5 Fun Commands
    No planets were hacked in the making of this article.
  10. Debian Decided to Postpone the 12.6 Release
    After Linux XZ Tarball's backdoor discovery, Debian's devs decided to pause the 12.6 release for an in-depth analysis of CVE effects
  11. Audiocasts/Shows: GNU World Order, This Week in Linux, and Linux in the Ham Shack
    3 new epsodes
  12. NetBSD 10.0 available!
    The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system NetBSD 10.0The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system NetBSD 10.0!
  13. today's leftovers
    Mozilla, Rust, and more
  14. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    mostly Microsoft breach
  15. Free Software: Viewing CT Scans in GNU/Linux, Flatpak, Thorium
    3 picks for today
  16. Fairphone, Raspberry Pi, and Free Drivers
    Some Open Hardware news
  17. today's howtos
    many afternoon picks
  18. Flowblade 2.14 Arrives with Slow motion, Title Editing, and More
    Discover the latest features in Flowblade 2.14, including remote control support, title editing, slow motion playback, and more.
  19. Mini Pini: A Wi-Fi 6 Radio Module with Dual-Band 2.4GHz/5GHz Connectivity and OpenWrt Support
    According to the 8Devices Wiki page, this product supports both Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and OpenWrt 23.05
  20. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  21. Security Scares Around "Linux" (Not Even Linux's Fault in Some Cases)
    Some panic and alarmism

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

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

    Span from 2024-03-25 to 2024-03-31
    1661 /n/2024/03/29/A_backdoor_in_xz.shtml
    1254 /n/2024/03/26/Canonical_Extends_LTS_Support_to_12_Years.shtml
    1131 /n/2024/03/23/Openwashing_GitLab_Censorship_Without_Challenge_Redis_and_More.shtml
    872 /n/2024/03/26/Fedora_40_Beta_will_be_Released_Soon.shtml
    853 /n/2024/03/25/today_s_howros.shtml
    838 /n/2024/03/26/FIREBAT_T8_Plus_Mini_PC_Running_Linux_Introduction.shtml
    818 /n/2024/03/26/Orange_Pi_Neo_Linux_handheld_gaming_PC_to_sell_for_499_and_up.shtml
    756 /n/2024/03/24/Linus_Torvalds_Announces_the_First_Linux_Kernel_6_9_Release_Can.shtml
    751 /n/2024/03/28/today_s_howtos.shtml
    743 /index.shtml
    736 /n/2024/03/23/Wine_9_5.shtml
    723 /n/2024/03/26/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    722 /n/2024/03/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
    717 /n/2024/03/25/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    713 /n/2024/03/28/Linux_capable_RISC_V_soft_cores_for_Achronix_FPGAs.shtml
    711 /n/2024/03/29/Ubuntu_Team_Kodi_PPA_Officially_Retired.shtml
    709 /n/2024/03/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Many Reports About Microsoft Layoffs Are LLM Slop Based on Other LLM Slop (From Microsoft-controlled LLMs That Downplay the Layoffs or Give Badly Outdated Data)
The LLM slopfarms also dilute/derank actual news about Linux by pushing Microsoft Azure instead; it's a spamfest!
 
Gemini Links 16/03/2025: Threats to Canada and How to Process News Online
Links for the day
Links 16/03/2025: Growing Tariff Hostilities and Social Media Surveillance
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 15, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, March 15, 2025
Gemini Links 15/03/2025: Sleeping in March, Headless Raspberry Pi 4
Links for the day
Links 15/03/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Hype Waning, Microsoft and Apple Ridiculed for Vapourware
Links for the day
When You Expose Corporate Crimes, Misconduct and Lies They Harasses and Troll You. Then You Write About the Harassment and Trolling and They Allege It's "All Personal".
protect women's safety
Gemini Links 15/03/2025: Bandcamp and DST
Links for the day
Links 15/03/2025: Albania TikTok Ban, No Skinnerboxes in Danish Schools
Links for the day
Sierra Leone: Android Up to Record Highs, Windows Falls to Record Lows of Almost 5% (15 Years Ago It Was 100%)
This is what happens when about 83% of Web requests come from mobile
Margarita Manterola (marga, Google) & Debian DebConf13 Swiss venue intrigue
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 14, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, March 14, 2025
'India Today' is a Slopfarm, Sometimes 'Covering' "Linux" With Slop Images
New example of pure BS
Gemini Links 14/03/2025: Grizzy Bear and Prime Beats
Links for the day
Links 14/03/2025: ProPublica Admitting That It Uses Slop (Foolish Move), RIP Mark Klein
Links for the day
Windows is Fast Becoming Insignificant to Zimbabweans
based on this survey, less than 1 in 6 Web requests may originate from Windows
Rumours of IBM Layoffs Again, This Time Marketing
It's "bad marketing" to talk about layoffs
The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Does Not Speak For You, OSI Staff Speaks for GAFAM/Microsoft (the Paymasters)
they speak for proprietary software companies, but they wear "open" on their sleeve
Microsoft Money Used for Abuse of Women and Against Journalism in Support of Women (the Victims)
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and hamradio.my (in Planet Ubuntu) Are at It Again With LLM Slop About "Linux"
LLM slop does not save time
Links 14/03/2025: Chinese Tensions With Australia, Putin Turns Down Ceasefire
Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/03/2025: Löjl and Docker Context Stuff
Links for the day
Links 14/03/2025: Scam Currencies in the US and Oligarchs (Including GAFAM) Controlling All the Major Policies
Links for the day
Antisemitic Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in Wikipedia This Week
Did the man strike a nerve or what?
Bluewashing Ends DEI at IBM and at Red Hat (HR or Hiring Become Gender- and Race-Neutral)
All that "whitelist is racist" stuff is likely a thing of the past
Links 13/03/2025: Intel Rotates Figurehead and South Korea Imports Karen People From Myanmar
Links for the day
Meanwhile at Microsoft Canonical...
Promoting proprietary surveillance by a company that actively attacks Linux in a lot of ways
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 13, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, March 13, 2025