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  2. Audiocasts/Shows: GNU World Order and Linux Out Loud
    two new episodes
  3. Security Leftovers
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  4. Applications and Free Software
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  5. today's howtos
    last howtos cluster
  6. Monthly News – June 2024
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  7. What’s Come of openSUSE As of Its Leap 15.6 Release?
    The openSUSE Project announced the release of their Leap 15.6 distribution on June 12th, 2024
  8. Ubuntu 23.10 Support Ends July 11 – Upgrade Soon!
    Those still making use of Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ should be aware that official support for this version of Ubuntu ends on July 11, 2024
  9. Improving packaging file detection in Debian
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  10. Security Leftovers
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  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  12. Programming Leftovers
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  13. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  14. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  15. Gtk 4 has decided to blow up some people's world on HiDPI displays
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  16. Games: Zenless Zone Zero, DuckStation, Steam Games, and More
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  17. Latest Invidious Videos and SFP#25
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. Android Leftovers
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  20. Grafana Loki 3.1 Enhances Query Performance with Bloom Filters
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  21. 7 Things You Didn't Know Run on Linux
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  22. Modded Nintendo Switch with Ubuntu runs PC games at up to 60 FPS
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  26. Today in Techrights
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    749 /n/2024/07/02/Nitrux_3_5_1_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6_9_and_NVIDIA_555_Grap.shtml
    746 /n/2024/07/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    744 /n/2024/07/03/today_s_howtos.shtml

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With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better
 
Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM
Another new low and low blow
Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
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Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not)
Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics
Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop
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In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them)
Google is circling down the drain and Google News too is hopeless
Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'
Is Slashdot next?
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The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop
BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.
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When the Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers)
From serving customers at some restaurant he has moved on to bullying people with demand letters
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Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy
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X (not the site) is Free software
X Server Still Works for Many People
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I am not unfamiliar with these tactics
The Modus Operandi of Wayland Pushers: Make It Political
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Links 23/06/2025: RFE/RL Contributor Vladyslav Yesypenko Released, Recording Industry Cutbacks
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Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman
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At What Point Does Outsourcing Constitute Malpractice?
Brett Wilson LLP's new staff page is misleading
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sailing to GNU/Linux, According to statCounter
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From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search
The Web is full of garbage; search engines amplify this garbage
More People Moving to Geminispace?
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Permutation in LLMs Does, Inevitably, Change Meanings and Therefore LLMs Cannot Properly Rephrase or Summarise Texts
LLMs lack actual grasp or comprehension of what they spew out
Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines
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Pure Dove
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