Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2024

Waves on the Irish Sea

Updated This Past Day

  1. Fedora “blue screen of death” (Microsoft's Work), Red Hat Official Site
    some Red Hat leftovers
  2. OpenELA Launches Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Linux Build Sources
    Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) launched a swift automation process for delivering Linux sources

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    3 more picks
  4. Programming and Technical Posts
    Free software focus
  5. Development of Kernel: Redox and Linux
    a pair of technical updates
  6. Canonical/Ubuntu Targets Clown Storage, Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Has New Issue
    Some Ubuntu news
  7. GNOME 47 Finally Adding Accent Color Support
    GNOME 47, the next release of the popular GNU/Linux Desktop environment, is in alpha stage now!
  8. Release of Istio 1.22.3 and 1.21.5
    two new bugfixes
  9. GNU Taler Videos With Özgur Kesim, Isidor Walliman, Christian Blättler, and Nic Eigel
    4 new interviews
  10. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS links
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related links
  12. Proprietary Software and Misc. Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  13. today's leftovers
    daily batch, long
  14. Windows TCO: MuddyWater, Ransomware, Windows Zero-Day
    Microsoft blunders
  15. Android Leftovers
    Google app beta hints at three new weather widgets for Android
  16. RK3568-based MYC-LR3568 system-on-module comes with up to 8GB RAM, 32GB storage for cost-sensitive Edge AI applications
    The MYC-LR3568 SoM works with Debian and Linux operating systems
  17. Games: Pest Apocalypse, Infest, Marathon, and More
    Half a dozen articles from GamingOnLinux
  18. So you want to compete with or replace open source
    We are living through an interesting moment in source-available software
  19. Tails 6.5 Debuts Faster Cloning and Updated Debian 12.6
    Tails 6.5 speeds up installation with a faster Tails Cloner, brings Debian 12.6, and updates Tor Browser to 13.5.1 for better privacy
  20. Ultramarine Linux: A Pretty Fedora-Based Distribution For Easy User Experience
    A Fedora-based distribution that features useful tools and tweaks by default
  21. Linux Is Free, But I Pay for Linux PCs: Here's Why
    One of the perks of Linux is that both the operating system and the vast majority of apps are free
  22. Make a pledge to share free software with a friend
    We're asking you to pledge to start a conversation with a friend about software freedom
  23. LibreOffice 24.8 RC1 is available for testing
    LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024
  24. howtos, Installations and Free and Open Source Software
    It’s free and open source software
  25. Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) reached End of Life on July 11, 2024
    This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent earlier to confirm that as of July 11, 2024
  26. LabPlot 2.11 released
    Say hello to LabPlot 2.11
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  28. SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
    an unexpected conflict has arisen in the openSUSE community with its long-time supporter and namesake, the SUSE company
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-07-11 to 2024-07-17
    1096 /n/2024/07/13/Poof_Shaman_Holly_Million_Gnome_s_Executive_Director_Disappears.shtml
    1075 /n/2024/07/11/Zed_a_GPU_accelerated_IDE_Written_in_Rust_is_now_available_for_.shtml
    1055 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    997 /n/2024/07/14/Linux_Kernel_6_10_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml
    912 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml
    841 /n/2024/07/13/TrueNAS_24_04_1_1.shtml
    788 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_howtos.shtml
    784 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    782 /n/2024/07/13/GNOME_47_Alpha_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Support_for_Ac.shtml
    763 /n/2024/07/12/Mozilla_Thunderbird_128_ESR_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_.shtml
    758 /n/2024/07/12/today_s_howtos.shtml
    751 /n/2024/07/12/OBS_Studio_30_2_Released_with_NVENC_AV1_Support_on_Linux_Unifie.shtml
    750 /n/2024/07/15/Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Can_Now_Do_What_It_Should_Have_Always_Done.shtml
    749 /n/2024/07/13/Reaching_Higher.shtml
    735 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    732 /n/2024/07/14/RISC_V_Based_Lichee_Pi_3A_with_16GB_RAM_and_PCIe_Support.shtml
    727 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    718 /n/2024/07/10/Linux_6_6_38.shtml
    717 /n/2024/07/11/today_s_howtos.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

EPO Strike a Week From Now, After That Strikes Can Become Permanent
A week from tomorrow there will be another strike
 
Links 23/03/2026: "Shocking Peter Thiel Antichrist Lectures", Robert Mueller Remembered
Links for the day
The Scandal Bigger Than IBM/Red Hat Layoffs is the de Facto "Media Blackout" About Those Layoffs
So we have a media crisis, aside from the economic crises
Gemini Links 23/03/2026: Geminispace/Elpher Enhancement and the Cerberus Cinco
Links for the day
Fear is Not a Legitimate Factor
Smart people know that trying to prevent moral people from doing the "Right Thing" will backfire
Fuel Autonomy and What It Teaches Us About Software Autonomy (or Software Freedom)
Need we wait until a "software Pearl Harbor" or protect ourselves proactively by weaning ourselves off of GAFAMware?
Scheduled Maintenance This Coming Wednesday
Other than that, all is the same and we carry on as usual
Most Press Articles About IBM Are LLM Slop, Sometimes With Slop Images
IBM basically laid off almost 1,000 people last week [...] At the moment about 75% of the 'articles' we see about IBM (in recent days) are some kind of slop
Links 23/03/2026: Security Breaches, Energy Shortages, Another SRA Scandal, and Patents on Nature
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 22, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, March 22, 2026
Streisand Effect and Justice
This weekend this site has served over 8 million Web requests
Gemini Links 22/03/2026: "Woman of Tomorrow" and "First Steps in Geminispace"
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 19 Out of 200: They Were Ill-prepared for Tough Questions in Cross-Examination
Very ill-prepared for the deteriorating situation caused by their clients' past behaviour towards many people, including high-profile figures who offered to testify
The Media Sold Out to Slop Bros
If you wish for the hype to stop, then stop participating in it
The Only Non-IBM Staff in Fedora Council/Leadership Attacks Booting Freedom (Just Like the Master Wants)
Last week IBM laid off almost 1,000 people in Confluent and the media didn't write anything about it, so don't expect anyone in what's left of the media to comment on Fedora's demise and silent layoffs at Red Hat
Just Like a Founder of XBox Said, Microsoft XBox is Collapsing, Management Continue to Jump Ship
Nowadays Microsoft tries to promote this idea that Windows is XBox and XBox is Windows
Links 22/03/2026: Slop Triggers Emergency at Meta, Energy Prices Rise Sharply
Links for the day
Links 22/03/2026: Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' in Legal Trouble (Plagiarism, Distortion, Misrepresentation); Facebook/Meta Kills Off "Horizon Worlds"
Links for the day
Racism Dressed Up as "Choice"
Racism is rampant at IBM
Probably an All-Time Record
Our investment in our own SSG is paying off
Your Site Should Implement Its Own Search (Before It's Too Late)
GAFAM was never trustworthy
Gemini Links 22/03/2026: LLM Slop Attacks USENET, Announcing Pig (New Game in Gemini Protocol)
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 21, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, March 21, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 18 Out of 200: Third Parties Funding Attacks on the Messengers, Lawsuits Against GAFAM-Critical Voices That Uphold Real National Security
Women are like kryptonite to them
Never Trust People Who Write Their Own Wikipedia Pages (Vanity Pages About Themselves) or Ask Friends to Do So. Also: Jono Bacon is Married to Microsoft.
We'd hardly be the first to point out Wikipedia isn't what it seems
No Tolerance for Attacks on Family Members
Being a Free software activist ought not lead to "collateral damage" like attacks on family members, including doxing
Sirius Open Source is Just a Zombie Firm With Shell Entities
Many companies fake their health and their size
Communities Can Only Survive When Trust Prevails
PCLinuxOS is still a vibrant and authentic community
Techrights Was Always a Community Site
The harder we're attacked, the more people participate in the site
Maintenance Reminder
We'll carry on publishing
Behind the PR Smokescreen and Microsoft-Sponsored Chaff, Microsoft Layoffs in "AI" Alleged This Month
In an age when ~1,000 simultaneous layoffs aren't enough to receive any media coverage, what can we expect remaining publishers to tell us about Microsoft layoffs in 2026?
EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VIII - Mobbing and Silencing of Dissenting Staff
that's the very cornerstone of functional democracies with real opposition parties
Bluewashing at Confluent: Some Workers to Leave Within 3 Months (IBM Mass Layoffs)
Is the "era of AI" an era when none of the media will mention over 800 layoffs? [...] There's a lesson here about the state of the contemporary media, not just IBM and bluewashing
Microsoft OpenAI, Drowning in Debt and Forced to Make Significant Cuts (as Reports Reveal This Month), Does Hiring Disguised as "Takeovers" to Fake Value or Alleged Potential
Remember what happened to Skype last year
Reader Shares Recent Memes on Slop and 'Coding' by LLMs
"just some funny memes I thought were relevant to current coverage."
Slop Does Not Replace Art, It Contaminates Everything With Reckless Nonsense
many Computer Scientists do not want programs to get contaminated by slop
Coders Don't Just Reject 'Vibe Coding' Because They're "Luddites", They Just Know the True Cost of Slop
if some programmer says slop sucks, don't rush to assume selfishness or defence of one's occupation
When Nobody Else Covers the News
There's an obvious "media blackout" regarding the mass layoffs
Links 21/03/2026: David Botstein Dies, Slop as Censorship Apparatus
Links for the day
Links 21/03/2026: Metastablecoin Fragmentation and Crescent Moon
Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/03/2026: Historic Ada Docs; The Lurking LLM on the SmolNet
Links for the day
HSBC the Latest Failed Bank Using Slop as Excuse for Its Financial Failure
"HSBC is planning on cutting as many as 20,000 jobs in the near future as the company allies with AI revolution."
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