Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 05, 2024

Natural landscape with lake

Updated This Past Day

  1. StarBook 7: Linux-based laptop now available with Core Ultra 7 165H and 4K Matte display
    The Linux-based StarBook 7 can now be configured with Intel's new Meteor Lake chips

    New

  2. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024
    The 199th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 4th, 2024.
  3. Android Leftovers
    Users Of Android 13 Or Newer Warned As Treacherous New Threat Emerges
  4. Amarok 3.1 Released with Updated Last.fm Plugin, Last.fm Similar Artists Applet
    Amarok 3.1 has been released for this open-source and free music player advancing the work on the Qt 6 / KDE Frameworks 6 port and introducing several improvements.
  5. KDE, Kubuntu, Debian: Weekly progress report Qt6 updates
    Thankfully no tragedies to report this week
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Programming and focus on R, python etc.
  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software or Openwashing (in TechRepublic)
    Some FOSS-related news
  8. Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers
    Pico, Arduino, and more
  9. today's leftovers
    KDE, Debian, and more
  10. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  11. Top 10 Linux Distributions to Replace Windows 11
    This article highlights 10 excellent GNU/Linux distributions that offer a great alternative to Microsoft's OS
  12. Hardware: Single Board Computer, SeeedStudio, and More
    focus on Open Hardware
  13. PG Back Web Brings User-Friendly PostgreSQL Backups to All
    Meet PG Back Web, a fresh open-source project that offers a hassle-free PostgreSQL automatic backup solution via a sleek web interface
  14. Manjaro Linux Unveils Immutable Variant
    Manjaro Linux expands its offerings with a new immutable edition that is now open for community feedback and testing
  15. Want to Go Next-Level in Linux? Advanced Terms Explained
    Modern-day Linux is super user-friendly, but to unlock its full potential, you need to familiarize yourself with some advanced concepts
  16. Linux Handheld Packs Dual Batteries So It’s Never Out Of Juice
    Now, all it takes is a Raspberry Pi and an off-the-shelf TFT display, as [ZitaoTech] shows us
  17. Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sed
    This article spotlights alternative tools to sed
  18. KStars 3.7.2 Released
    KStars v3.7.2 is released on 2024.08.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux
  19. Stable kernels: Linux 6.10.3, Linux 6.6.44, and Linux 6.1.103
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.10.3 kernel
  20. Geniatech Unveils a Raspberry Pi-like SBC with StarFive JH7110 RISC-V Processor at edgetech+west2024
    It runs on Debian Linux, offering a versatile and familiar operating system environment for developers
  21. Security Leftovers
    Security stories
  22. GNU/Linux and More
    some more leftovers
  23. OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and Openwashing
    today's leftovers
  24. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks
  25. GNOME Desktop/GTK Picks
    3 stories
  26. I ran an operating system from the RAM - here's how it went
    Installing the OS comes last in PC-building. Flash ISO to USB for Linux. Can run Linux on live USB before storage drive install.
  27. today's howtos
    only 5 for now
  28. Shows and Videos: BSD Now and More
    mostly Invidious
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-07-29 to 2024-08-04
    1103 /n/2024/07/28/Vanilla_OS_2_Orchid_is_a_Smashing_Linux_Distro_Release.shtml
    861 /n/2024/07/30/Debian_Based_eLxr_Distribution_Announced_for_Edge_Deployments.shtml
    727 /n/2024/07/29/Linux_Mint_22_subtle_but_desirable_improvements_to_an_already_p.shtml
    721 /n/2024/08/02/today_s_leftobers.shtml
    665 /n/2024/07/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    644 /n/2024/07/29/GNU_Linux_Now_at_16_2_in_India_Desktops_and_Laptops.shtml
    636 /n/2024/07/28/Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_6_11_Release_Candid.shtml
    632 /n/2024/07/29/today_s_howtos.shtml
    626 /n/2024/07/29/Wine_9_14_Released.shtml
    619 /n/2024/08/01/First_Look_at_Serpent_OS_Minimal_GNOME_Desktop_and_Rust_Based_P.shtml
    601 /n/2024/08/01/Supercharge_Your_AppImage_Management_with_Gear_Lever_App.shtml
    588 /n/2024/07/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    587 /n/2024/07/30/today_s_howtos.shtml
    582 /n/2024/07/30/Programming_Leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

This is Not a Sustainable Way to Run Microsoft
This is a downward spiral
Wine Took the Bait (Mono), Soon Starts the Microsoft Circus With the Banhammer
large companies are exercising more control over the thing/s they claim to "donate" to
[Meme] From Checked by Three Examiners to Gone (Granted) in 3 Seconds!
twice as many monopolies with 10% less staff
EPO Staff Representatives Explain the Latest Corruption at the EPO in a New Paper
Owing to corrupt management the EPO has resorted to corporate crime or organised crime designed to benefit large corporations. Who will pay the price? Everybody else in Europe.
 
Transcript (and Correction) of Dirk Hohndel's Interview With Linus Torvalds in 2014
A lot of things have deteriorated since then
Microsoft Asia President Ahmed Mazhari Leaves the Company
Even everything they say about Mazhari is just "prepared" quotes from Microsoft itself
Contrary to What Microsoft Claims, Teams Were Cut Yesterday, XBox Sales Have Collapsed, Layoffs Announced at 3AM (in the Morning)
There is actually a lot of media coverage about this, unlike prior waves of layoffs at Microsoft
Last Month Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explained Why You Should Delete GitHub
RMS explained why
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 13, 2024
IRC logs for Friday, September 13, 2024
Gemini Links 14/09/2024: LoRa, ROOPHLOCH, and Crafting a Programming Language
Links for the day
[Video] Why Hurd and MINIX (or BSD) Didn't Get Ahead of Linux?
We've converted the video into WebM to make it more accessible
Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explains That a Free/Libre Program Running on Somebody Else's Server (e.g. Clown Computing) Leads to Freedom Deficit
"when you are doing your computing you must not entrust that to somebody else's server because users including you should have control over their own computing but you can never have control over what somebody else's server does because somebody else installs software in that computer and configures it and thus decides what computing it is going to do."
ircII Has Turned 35
Don't listen to people who say IRC is "dead"
[Meme] Code of Conduct in WINE
irritate productive developers...
Number of Gemini Capsules Rising Closer to 4,100, Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" Down to 1.1%
Some time soon the Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" will probably fall below 1%
Richard M. Stallman Explains Why the Web Becoming a Pile of Proprietary JavaScript Programs (Not Pages to Render) Does Harm to Web Users
"The web was designed to let users control how that data would be rendered but businesses didn't like that."
Links 13/09/2024: Crackdowns on Bloggers, Deepfakes, Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine Now in Google Search
Links for the day
RedMonk: September the Month of the Mouth of Redmond (Still)
the usual storyline, i.e. what's not controlled by Microsoft's proprietary GitHub simply does not exist
Links 13/09/2024: Disinformation in Focus, End of Presidential Debates (Trump Accepts It Hurts Him)
Links for the day
Mono as a Double-Purpose Trojan Horse Inside Wine
And now they can oust founders and top contributor with a CoC
This is How Bad Things Have Become at Microsoft
We're seeing nearly 80 reports in English about those layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 12, 2024
IRC logs for Thursday, September 12, 2024
Links 13/09/2024: Recorded Future Bought by MasterCard, Bits of Freedom Turns 25
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/09/2024: Towards Aristocratic Personal Computing, Technology and Privac
Links for the day
Once Again, Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Just Like Every Month This Year)
Reporting and articles trickling in (in recent hours)
Rumour: Layoffs in IBM Consulting Today
IBM has had many layoffs lately
Microsoft Has Infiltrated the OSI and Its Moles (Whom It Pays to Speak 'for' OSI) Control the Narrative
This is utterly grotesque
Saudi Arabia and Its Footprint in X/Twitter
a massive proportion of pro-ISIS accounts in Twitter were operated from Saudi Arabia or by Saudi Arabians
Links 12/09/2024: Apple Owes a Lot of Money, Repressions and Censorship of Activists Noted
Links for the day
Anniversaries Coming Up
Probably the funnest year of our lives, and definitely the most productive
In Europe, Vista 11 Grew Only 3% (Relative to Other Windows Versions) This Year
That's a huge problem for Microsoft
Google's YouTube Censorship Has Gotten a Lot Worse and Anti-scientific (for Commercial Reasons)
By today's standards, YouTube is not something RMS can (or would) use
Google Appears to Have Broken Every Single Instance of Invidious. It's a Wake-up Call, Please Stop Uploading Videos to YouTube.
Including videos of Free software events
[Meme] Video Uploads Improved
The tools are all in our self-hosted Git repository and the licence is, as usual, AGPLv3
Apple Event as Fine Example of the "IT" Circus
It's not clear if the enemy of Free software is a company like Apple is simply public ignorance that Apple keeps fostering
Imposters Inheriting Institutions
Dealing with the "imposter syndrome"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 11, 2024
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Gemini Links 12/09/2024: Clean Island and VCFMW19
Links for the day