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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2024

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  1. Openwashing by 'Linux' Foundation, No Connection to Linux, Absent and Proprietary Components
    Openwashing as a service
  2. Red Hat Leftovers
    From the official Red Hat site
  3. Ubuntu 24.04.1 Point-Release Postponed to Late August
    Initially scheduled for August 19, Ubuntu 24.04.1's release was moved to August 29 after a few high-impact upgrade bugs were found
  4. With eLxr, Wind River Brings Debian Linux to the Edge
    New Debian-based distro aims to match cloud native environments with heterogenous, computationally limited edge devices in remote locations
  5. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    New

  6. Mozilla Faces Financial Uncertainty After Google Loses Lawsuit
    The Google Search Engine Cash Cow may be about to dry up for Firefox.
  7. Open Hardware Leftovers
    Some hardware projects and news
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Programming with python, Rust and more
  9. Ubuntu, Fedora, and More
    today's leftovers
  10. Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and Bad Voltage
    3 new episodes
  11. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows TCO stories
  12. Security Leftovers
    Security stories for today
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    inc. Libreoffice and DBs
  14. Web Browsers: Curl, Firefox, and Chrom*
    Some WWW tools
  15. Software: wcurl, Magit, and FEX
    Some FOSS leftovers
  16. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  17. What’s Behind The Unusual DMCA Notices From “Crowdstrike”?
    disatrous backdoored Windows update of July, 2024
  18. Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2350, and More
    some hardware picks
  19. today's howtos
    many howtos, first batch
  20. Standards: ActivityPub, QUIC, and Public Standard Document Formats
    Standards/Consortia leftovers
  21. Android Leftovers
    LILYGO T-TWR REV2.1 is an ESP32 walkie-talkie board with display, GNSS, and SA868 module
  22. Bad information drives out good or how much can we trust Wikipedia?
    This post is written on behalf of the LabPlot team. It’s different compared to what we usually publish on our homepage but we feel we need to share this story with our community
  23. Efinix introduce the low-power Topaz RISC-V SoC FPGA family for “high-volume, mass-market applications”
    Some are pure FPGAs without a hardened processor, while others are Linux-capable thanks to a hardened quad-core RISC-V block
  24. Windows TCO: Ransomware, Breaches, Botnets, and More
    a very Microsoft reality
  25. PG Back Web 0.2 Brings Local Storage Support
    PG Back Web 0.2 PostgreSQL automatic backup solution features streamed backups, local storage options without needing S3, and one-click data restoration
  26. Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
    Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 16 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory
  27. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh)
  28. KDE, Kubuntu, Debian Qt6 updates plus Kubuntu Noble .1 updates
    Another loss last week of a friend. I am staying strong and working through it
  29. Games: Super reaKtor, Minetest, and More
    Latest half a dozen from GamingOnLinux
  30. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    mostly CISA
  31. Open Hardware and Servers
    Pi and more
  32. today's leftovers
    howtos, perl, and more
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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    819 /n/2024/08/10/DebConf24_Coverage.shtml
    723 /n/2024/08/07/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    696 /n/2024/08/10/1_in_10_Desktop_Laptop_Users_in_Sweden_Uses_a_Chromebook_Says_s.shtml
    679 /n/2024/08/09/Canonical_Announces_Shift_in_Ubuntu_Kernel_Selection_Strategy.shtml
    658 /n/2024/08/10/This_week_in_KDE_SVG_Breeze_cursors_and_more_thumbnails.shtml
    650 /n/2024/08/10/This_Week_in_GNOME_160_Web_Happening.shtml
    644 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml
    627 /n/2024/08/09/KDE_Frameworks_6_5_Released_with_Plasma_Wayland_and_Dolphin_Imp.shtml
    622 /n/2024/08/08/today_s_howtos.shtml
    619 /n/2024/08/10/A_zero_day_flaw_using_the_0_0_0_0_IP_address.shtml
    614 /n/2024/08/06/KDE_Plasma_6_1_4_Desktop_Released_with_Various_Improvements_and.shtml
    608 /n/2024/08/05/Mozilla_Firefox_129_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml
    599 /n/2024/08/08/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    595 /n/2024/08/09/today_s_howtos.shtml
    587 /n/2024/08/10/today_s_howtos.shtml
    583 /n/2024/08/08/Join_us_in_saying_goodbye_to_our_beloved_office_on_August_16.shtml
    582 /n/2024/08/11/Gemini_Links_11_08_2024_Anger_Solitude_and_Good_Things.shtml
    578 /n/2024/08/08/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    574 /n/2024/08/10/Security_Leftovers.shtml

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