Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2024

San Francisco California

Updated This Past Day

  1. KDE Frameworks 6.3 Released with Various UI Improvements and Bug Fixes
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.3 as another update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
  2. 2 Years Ago [original]
    social control media or even the mainstream media ought not be blindly trusted

    New

  3. Security Leftovers
    Security news
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  5. OMG Ubuntu on Proprietary Software, TecMint on Spyware (Google Drive)
    Software news but hardly FOSS-centric
  6. Hardware: Arduino, RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Devices and gadgets
  7. GNU Scientific Library 2.8 and GNU Taler 0.11
    Some GNU news
  8. today's leftovers
    some evening howtos
  9. Canonical in Watford stadium and Linux-powered Matter devices
    Some case studies or PR
  10. Android Leftovers
    Android on the Rabbit R1 runs perfectly, almost like it was meant to
  11. Fibocom FG370 dual-band WiFi 7 and 5G cellular module targets 5G FWA routers
    Drivers are available for Linux 5.4 and the module is supposed to run OpenWrt 21.02
  12. CentOS Stream 10 Shapes Up for RHEL 10
    CentOS Stream 10's repository with 100% signed RPMs is now available
  13. Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), Rocky Linux, and Red Hat's Official Site
    Some RHEL and redhat.com official communications
  14. Programming Leftovers
    Programming stories
  15. Windows TCO Tales
    More Windows breaches
  16. Android Leftovers
    17 best Android app and games on sale you should install this week
  17. Games: Humble Bundle, GOG, BloodDome99, Megacopter: Blades, and More
    half a dozen from gamingonlinux
  18. Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there
    Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. Open Source Android Email Clients to Replace Gmail
    You may wish to be notified about every email message that your inbox receives across various email servers/services that you may be using
  21. PCLinuxOS Magazine's Latest: Mostly HowTos
    PCLOS mag is out
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  23. 3 Years Ago [original]
    One can hope that 3 years from now GNU/Linux will already be used by about 1 in 10 (maybe 1 in 5) PC users
  24. Software: Ruqola, WordPress, Betterfox, Mesa
    new releases and more
  25. Security Leftovers
    Security related news picks
  26. today's howtos (but mostly terrible advice)
    spyware promoted
  27. Hardware News and Linux
    Linux on devices and more
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-01 to 2024-06-07
    958 /n/2024/06/01/Linux_Lite_7_0_Galena_Officially_Released_with_Xfce_4_18_Based_.shtml
    937 /n/2024/06/03/Linux_6_10_rc2.shtml
    870 /n/2024/06/01/NixOS_24_05_released.shtml
    860 /n/2024/06/04/Say_goodbye_to_Microsoft_Windows_11_Nitrux_Linux_3_5_0_is_the_o.shtml
    826 /n/2024/06/03/Linux_user_share_on_Steam_breaks_2_thanks_to_Steam_Deck.shtml
    763 /n/2024/06/03/Linux_Mint_s_Software_Manager_Is_Now_Faster_Safer.shtml
    758 /n/2024/06/02/today_s_howtos.shtml
    731 /n/2024/06/01/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    725 /n/2024/06/03/NixOS_24_05_Arrives_with_Linux_6_6_LTS_GNOME_46_KDE_Plasma_6_an.shtml
    715 /n/2024/06/03/Former_Debian_Developer_Daniel_Pocock_Independent_Running_in_Eu.shtml
    712 /n/2024/06/01/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    698 /n/2024/06/01/Wine_9_10_Launches_with_Enhanced_DPI_Awareness.shtml
    692 /n/2024/06/01/today_s_howtos.shtml
    692 /n/2024/06/05/Software_Morphosis_Incus_6_2_DNF_5_2.shtml
    683 /n/2024/06/03/Final_Preparations.shtml
    675 /n/2024/06/01/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    672 /n/2024/06/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    665 /n/2024/06/02/Android_Leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

This is What the Slop Bubble Popping Can Look Like
Maybe not an overnight collapse, but getting there gradually
More Confirmatory Rumours Regarding "Massive" Red Hat Layoffs
Ecosystem and sales said to be targeted
Office Meetings Are Most Useful to the Least Productive Workers
In my "office life" days I really didn't like meetings
Claim That the Board of Directors at IBM Isn't Happy With How the Company is Run
IBM tries to project an image of strength to the whole world, especially to its clients
 
If You Don't Want "Linux" to Become "Windows", Then Follow GNU
GAFAM isn't a friend of Linux; it's only a user in the same sense clients are "users" of a brothel
Links 19/01/2026: National Broadcasters on World or Local Affairs Up to a Week Ago
Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/01/2026: Game Boy and "The Lounge" (IRC) for the Elderly
Links for the day
Slopfarms in Google News (at Least Three Today) With Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
Google itself is trying to promote its own slop ("Overview") at the expense of original and credible sources
Links 19/01/2026: ChatGPT’s Defects and The Guardian on Why So-called "AI Companies Will Fail"
Links for the day
IBM Quiet About Its Plan for Red Hat Amid Accelerated Bluewashing
Something is going on at Red Hat
The "Alicante Mafia" - Part V - It Seems Like Some People Are Already Leaving "The Mafia"
they have a rough idea of what's coming
Microsoft Means War, Microsoft is on the Side of ICE
Microsoft, people-ready
Proprietary UNIX is What We'll Have If IBM Red Hat Gets Its Way
IBM Red Hat wants to control everything, even if that means killing everybody
Free Software in Times of Peace (and Times of War, Too)
GAFAM and IBM are war companies
Founder of GNU/Linux (RMS) Speaks in US University (College) This Week
The auditorium has very high capacity and this is his "college comeback" talk in the United States
LinuxSecurity and Linuxiac Are Still Slopfarms, Even Anthony Pell Does It
We suppose waiting another month or another year won't change a thing
Links 18/01/2026: Legal Trouble for xAI, Climate Concerns, Data Breaches and More
Links for the day
'Vibe Coding', Chatbots, and Other Bots (e.g. "Agents" Disguised as "Superintelligence") Aren't Saving You Time
False marketing, FOMO marketing tactics
Gemini Links 19/01/2026: Analog Cameras and Plucker in 2026, US Losing Acceptability in Europe
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 18, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, January 18, 2026
Links 18/01/2026: The "Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter" and Turkey to Block Kids' Access to Social Control Media
Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/01/2026: Against English as Language of the Net, "Symposium of Destruction"
Links for the day
You Would Expect This Kind of Misleading Narrative Shortly Before Microsoft (or GAFAM) Mass Layoffs
misleading PR
FOSDEM 2026: democracy panel, GNOME & Sonny Piers modern slavery experiment
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Pump-and-Dump With IBM Shares, Courtesy of People Who Stand to Gain From the 'Pump'
"3 Reasons to Buy IBM Stock Right Now"
IBM: Spying on Staff Like Never Before and Implementing Silent Layoffs This Month, Say Insiders
what we heard from whistleblowers seems to corroborate
'Cancel Culture' Doesn't Work (in the Long Run)
Despite all the attacks, I'm enjoying life, I'm keeping productive, and our audience continues to grow
IBM is Not a Free Software Company (It Never Was)
Red Hat's main product, RHEL, is full of secret sauce and has 'secret recipes' (it is basically proprietary)
IBM Turning Up the 'RTO' (Stress) and 'PIP' (Fear) Heat on Workers, Rebellion May be Brewing
Sometimes it feels like today's executives at IBM view IBM workers as a liability
Links 18/01/2026: Indonesia Against Comedy, Media-Hostile (Censors Comedians) Convicted Felon in White House Defecting to Opponents of NATO
Links for the day
GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina
Let's see where it is at year's end
Making Layout Changes
Feedback can be sent to us
Behind an Economy of Fake 'Worths' and Fictional 'Valuations' or 'Market Caps'
They normalise white-collar crime and say "everyone is doing it!"
Links 18/01/2026: "South Africa is Running Out of Software Developers", Companies Spooked to Find Slop is a Major Liability
Links for the day
Eventually the Joke (and Financial Fraud) is on Microsoft, Stigmatised for Slop
Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
GNU/Linux Leaps to All-time Highs in Virgin Islands
it seems to have started around the "end of 10"
Place Your Bets: Who Will Die First? Microsoft or IBM?
Not even joking; make a guess
Making and Keeping the Sites Accessible
Sometimes less does mean "more" (or "MOAR")
The "Alicante Mafia" - Part IV - How Europe's Largest Patent Office Recruited Drug Addicts, Antisemites, and People Who Absolutely Cannot Do the Job (But Know the 'Right' People)
To better overlap industrial actions we might delay/postpone/pause this series for a bit
Restoring Professional Pride in the Tech Sector
Rejecting slop isn't being a Luddite
Benefiting by Adding Presence in Geminispace
As the Web gets worse, not limited to bloat as a factor, people seek alternatives
Google News Recently Started Syndicating Another Slopfarm, Linuxiac
Even if Google is aware that there is slop there, it's hard to believe that Google will mind
Slop Bubble "Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble"
Edward Zitron Says It like it is
Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA)
We recently pondered going back to issuing 2-3 articles per day about patents and common issues with them
IBM Sued Over PIPs
PIPs are "performance improvement plans"
Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles
We try to name some of the prolific culprits
Gemini Links 18/01/2026: Raising Notifications From Terminal and Environmental Sanity
Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 17, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, January 17, 2026
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
Links 17/01/2026: Internet Blackout Normalised, Russian Attacks Civilians by Causing Massive Blackouts
Links for the day
Microsoft Lunduke Keeps Distracting From the Real Problems With Rust
Microsoft Lunduke is stigmatising critics
Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm, Calling Them Out Isn't Fixing That
What a shame. A once-decent site about "Linux" bites the dust.
Luzern Lion Monument, Albanian Female Whistleblowers: Swiss jurists were cowards
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The Splinternet is Already Here, Owing to the Militarisation of Technology (Slop, Social Control Media, Back Doors, and More)
you know what's gonna happen next...
Stack Ranking Against IBM/Red Hat Staff and a Signal of Mass Layoffs (RAs) Justified by Red Hat and IBM as Poor Performance/Misconduct/Other
Working in an atmosphere like this sounds like a nightmare
Gemini Links 17/01/2026: Slow computing and Environment Leak
Links for the day
Links 17/01/2026: US Censorship and Violence Crisis, Growing Anger Levels Against Slop Sold as "Intelligence"
Links for the day
Microsoft's "valuation depends on infrastructure that does not exist."
Indeed
The Typical Trajectory: Datamation Began Experimenting With LLM Slop for Fake Articles. Then Datamation Died. (Last Month)
It's always ending up this way
Accounts or Devices (e.g. Phones) That Get 'Burnt' Have Many Pitfalls
Embassies and consulates habitually fail at this
Avoiding the Spooks (Nobody Watches the Watchers, They're Practically Unaccountable)
If more people adopt encryption, it'll be easier for us to deal with whistleblowers
Protecting Whistleblowers Requires Technical Knowledge/Skills
even the highest media judges aren't aware of how to protect sources
At Least 5 Women Quit Brett Wilson LLP in Recent Months. It's the Firm That Attacked My Wife and I on Behalf of Americans (One of Them Strangled Women).
It seems like good news that the women escape this workplace
Slop About Slop and Slop About "Linux"
In short, avoid slopfarms
Report/Benchmark Says 'Vibe Coding' Results in Security Holes
There are risks they don't like talking about
EPO Abuses Covered in Spanish
Knowing what we know (and heard/saw), the sinister silence of the media is perceived by some to be complicity of the lower order.
Richard Stallman Encourages "ICE Out For Good" Protests, His Opponents Do Not (Passive and Uncaring About Human Rights)
He has done a lot philosophically, politically, and so on
Record Traffic in Geminispace or Over Gemini Protocol
it's never too late to join
The "Alicante Mafia" - Part III - Europe's Second-Largest Organisation on Strike, Protests, Other Industrial Actions to Come Impacting Over 95% of the Workforce
The EPO's management is highly evasive, weak, and vulnerable
Claim That IBM Marked 15% of its Workforce for Potential Layoffs
No wonder we keep hearing from Red Hat people who say they hate IBM
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 16, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, January 16, 2026