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  2. Programming Leftovers
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  3. Mozilla Leftovers
    Picture-in-Picture and SUMO updates
  4. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC Processor, and Alberto Ruiz Having Adventures
    hardware-centric stories
  5. BSD: Some BSD Stories About Deb Goodkin and Poul-Henning Kamp
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  6. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
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  7. today's howtos
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  8. Darktable 4.8.1 Released with Various Bug-Fixes [Ubuntu PPA]
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  9. Android Leftovers
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  10. Bring back distro-wide themes!
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  11. Funtoo Linux Project Being Discontinued?
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  12. Immich Hits Milestone with 40,000 Stars on GitHub
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  13. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  14. ArchEX Linux live system
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  15. This week in KDE: features and UI polish
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  16. How AlmaLinux Came to Be Fixing Bugs Ahead of a Content Creation-Focused Open-Source Event
    This is a story about a software project and a small Linux Foundation-sponsored conference for a niche audience that’s generally beneath the radar
  17. Windows TCO: Healthcare Besieged, ClownStrike Postmortem, Windows Ransomware
    the chaos persists
  18. Linux Weekly Roundup and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update
    Some GNU/Linux news updates
  19. Games: Scorchlands, Old School Rally, and More
    Latest half a dozen from GamingOnLinux
  20. Perl Programming Leftovers
    perl site updates
  21. today's howtos
    most of these days old though
  22. Security Leftovers
    mostly CISA stuff
  23. New Videos and Shows
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  24. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  25. Alpine 3.20.2, 3.17.9, 3.18.8 and 3.19.3
    4 new releases
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    1110 /n/2024/07/19/Apache_Software_Foundation_Becomes_Politics.shtml
    943 /n/2024/07/23/NVIDIA_560_Beta_Linux_Driver_Released_with_Open_GPU_Kernel_Modu.shtml
    897 /n/2024/07/23/The_final_Linux_Mint_22_ISOs_are_undergoing_final_checks_before.shtml
    804 /n/2024/07/24/today_s_howtos.shtml
    768 /n/2024/07/24/GNOME_bans_Manjaro_Core_Team_Member_for_uttering_Lunduke.shtml
    761 /n/2024/07/23/The_GNU_C_Library_version_2_40_is_now_available.shtml
    716 /n/2024/07/23/First_Pop_OS_24_04_Alpha_with_COSMIC_DE_Drops_on_August_8.shtml
    713 /n/2024/07/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
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