Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2024

Oslo harbour view

Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux, Linux Matters, KDE and more
  2. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS related picks
  3. FreeDOS: Retro and Status Report
    some FreeDOS picks
  4. GNOME Intentions and Kolibri
    Some GNOME news
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  6. Openwashing and proprietary advocacy disguised as "open"
    It's NOT FOSS
  7. today's howtos
    3 howtos for now
  8. NXP Debian Linux and Debian Day 2024 in Santa Maria
    Some Debian news
  9. Linux and Hardware: Banana Pi, NanoPi, and More
    8 stories with open or "Linux" slant
  10. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows TCO picks
  11. Security Leftovers
    Security centric news and incidents
  12. Linux Security Focus
    Some FUD as well
  13. YouTube Front-end Applications/Clients
    3 of them
  14. GSoC 2024 Reports for HaikuOS
    3 new reports
  15. Android Leftovers
    Android phone turning off with a full battery? Here's how to fix it
  16. Artix Linux 20240819 drops LXQt and LXDE from the community editions
    Born in 2017, Artix is a rolling-release distro partially based on Arch Linux
  17. New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 14.0a2
    Tor Browser 14.0a2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory
  18. Raspberry Pi and Other Hardware
    hardware projects
  19. Red Hat Leftovers
    Red Hat stories from Red Hat's site
  20. Funding for Free Software Projects
    on funding of FOSS
  21. today's howtos
    many howtos for the morning
  22. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Security blunders and censorship
  23. Games: Path of Exile 2, Borderlands 4, and Lots More
    Latest 11 stories from GamingOnLinux
  24. Plasma Crash Course - KCrash
    A while ago a colleague of mine asked about our crash infrastructure in Plasma and whether I could give some overview on it
  25. MiniOS 3.3.4 Released, Here’s What’s New and Improved
    MiniOS 3.3.4 updates: Now build on 3.3.x, enhanced installer, supports MMC, exFAT, and Linux kernel 6.1.90
  26. Puppy Linux successor EasyOS gets updated to version 6.2
    Often hailed as one of the best lightweight Linux distros that can run from a USB stick while also supporting persistency
  27. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart
  28. Linux Market Share Reaches New Peak: July 2024 Report
    Linux Desktop Market Share Climbs to 4.45%
  29. Kakip: An Upcoming Credit-Card Sized Single Board Computer with Renesas RZ/V2H Chip & Multi-Camera Support
    The manufacturer ensures the Single Board Computer operates on Yocto Linux
  30. This lightweight Linux distro is the best way to revive your old computer. Here's how
    If you want to breathe life back into a slow or aging computer, Linux Lite 7.0 is a lightweight
  31. Why RefreshOS 2.0 is the Linux distro even a Windows user could love
    Focusing on stability, customization, and seamless Qt integration
  32. Good Reason to Delete Windows, Not Dual-Boot, and Call Out the Microsofters Who Worked to Impose 'Secure' Boot, Undermining Antitrust Complaints
    Windows TCO
  33. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-15 to 2024-08-21
    1036 /n/2024/08/14/Kubernetes_v1_31_and_More.shtml
    968 /n/2024/08/08/Join_us_in_saying_goodbye_to_our_beloved_office_on_August_16.shtml
    853 /n/2024/08/18/CachyOS_August_2024_Release_Adds_Support_for_the_COSMIC_Desktop.shtml
    823 /n/2024/08/15/mesa_24_2_0.shtml
    798 /n/2024/08/17/Goodbye_Windows_11_hello_Linux_Discover_how_ExTiX_Deepin_24_8_c.shtml
    779 /n/2024/08/16/Forget_Microsoft_Windows_11_the_Chinese_made_deepin_Linux_23_is.shtml
    749 /n/2024/08/15/Gentoo_Linux_drops_IA_64_Itanium_support.shtml
    733 /n/2024/08/13/Openwashing_by_Linux_Foundation_No_Connection_to_Linux_Absent_a.shtml
    666 /n/2024/08/16/Robbins_Changed_His_Mind_Funtoo_Shifts_to_Hobby_Mode.shtml
    654 /n/2024/08/17/Microsoft_Has_Complicated_Booting_Linux.shtml
    643 /n/2024/08/15/10_Linux_keyboard_shortcuts_I_use_every_day.shtml
    637 /n/2024/08/15/Debian_11_Bullseye_Enters_Long_Term_Support_Phase.shtml
    635 /n/2024/08/15/Oreon_A_Fresh_AlmaLinux_Based_Distro_Designed_for_Desktop_Users.shtml
    626 /n/2024/08/17/This_Week_in_GNOME_161_End_to_End_Tests.shtml
    622 /n/2024/08/16/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    617 /n/2024/08/17/This_week_in_KDE_System_Settings_modernization_and_Wayland_colo.shtml
    606 /n/2024/08/17/CockroachDB_Becomes_Proprietary_ParadeDB_on_Why_We_Picked_AGPL.shtml
    585 /n/2024/08/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    585 /n/2024/08/17/today_s_howtos.shtml
    579 /n/2024/08/14/Sparky_2024_08.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Workers Fly Away From IBM's Red Hat (This Year a Lot of Red Hat Staff is "IBM")
The stock (share price) of IBM says nothing about what actually goes on
Links 02/01/2026: Science, Patent Maximalism, and Public Domain Day
Links for the day
Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Books, Scams, and mkscript (a Script to Make Scripts)
Links for the day
Strong Start for GNU/Linux This Year
based on statCounter
More Tools, Factorising Code
If some things in the site of Gemini capsules don't behave as expected, then that's likely due to a bug
State of Tech Journalism in 2026: Follow the Money
in order to understand what motivates an opinion piece one must follow the money
 
The More Buzzwords a Corporation Resorts To...
buzzwords are a fool's way to compensate for or disguise a lack of knowledge
So You Should Definitely Call it "Slop" and Stop Saying "AI"
with more XBox/gaming layoffs being imminent the blowback will be fun to watch
Why Are We Still Using Voting Machines?
Voting machines still seem to me like an infantile cargo cult and an act of salesmanship (like various security theatre rituals at airports)
"Works for Me!"
Who knows best?
Why IBM Workers Like Techrights (Same Reason EPO Workers Do)
IBM will likely be a daily theme (high rate of recurrence)
In 2025 We Contributed to the Headlessness of the OSI, But It's Not Over Yet
By airing some 'dirty laundry' about the OSI last year we contributed to its current state
Africa's Largest Population Sees Diminishing Impact of Windows
less than 1 in 10 Web requests in Nigeria comes from Windows
Russia Cuts Finnish Cables ("Hybrid War"), Finland Cuts Off Microsoft
the birthplace of Linux
Free Software is More Naturally Inclusive
large, intolerant, violent companies get painted as a glorious example of United Colours of Benetton
Europe in 2026: Over 5% GNU/Linux, Not Counting Chromebooks
2026 has started strongly
Slopfarm Says Microsoft's "Biggest Business" is the 'Business' Where It Loses Tens of Billions of Dollars
TOI still pretends to have a lot of output
At the Start of January 2025 Microsoft President Said Microsoft Would Spend 80 Billion Dollars on "AI" Data Centres. That Didn't Happen. Microsoft Laid Off 30,000 Workers, Debt Surged.
Maybe this coming Monday Microsoft will come up with more false promises and vapourware
Links 02/01/2026: Insurrectionist Attacks Musicians Critical of Him With Lawfare, Project Gutenberg Now Has Over 75,000 Books
Links for the day
Decline in LLM Slop About "Linux" is a Good Start for 2026
When the only remaining proponents of slop are slop, which is pretty much what's happening right now, the bubble is popping
EPO People Power - Part XXII - Contact Officials and Inform Your National Representatives (Delegates) of the EPO's Cocainegate
Europe's largest media intentionally covers up serious scandals in Europe's second-largest institution
Slopwatch Still Dead, Not Enough LLM Slop About "Linux"
this is the desirable thing
LibXML2 Will Carry on (Without or With the Name "LibXML2")
The proprietary software boosters are projecting
Gemini Links 02/01/2026: ThinkPad, SHARP Zaurus, Lagrange Handheld Support
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 01, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, January 01, 2026
Links 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370
Links for the day
Gemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025
Links for the day
IBM’s and Red Hat’s "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs
Gerstner is still alive, but he's shorter and more arrogant
Designing a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG
Static Site Generators (SSGs) - unlike all modern Content Management Systems (CMSs) - are so simple that extending them is easy
Links 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery'
Links for the day
Firefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla
Firefox cannot keep above 2% and hasn't been able to for quite some time
Ignore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral
So what does Microsoft have left to sell?
Red Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes
With some Red Hat staff "transitioning" we wonder if it's an HR hack, wherein they "reset the clock" on employment duration so as to lessen severance obligations
In 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau
Palau now has GNU/Linux at steadily high levels
Microsoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026!
Only a truly moronic company would design it that way
Another New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits
In addition to our first one
Combatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare)
we won't use or reuse slop images
The End of Red Hat
expect many more layoffs soon
A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency
We'll do our very best to be transparent about everything that's going on, even legal matters
Gemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager
Links for the day
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months!
the FSF's Board now has 10 people in it
2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat
Red Hat won't fare any better than most IBM acquisitions
Microsoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus
They're cutting budget. Soon they'll cut the staff.
Only Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM
2026 will be another tough year for Red Hat and IBM
EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts
it'll be the demise of the Rule of Law in Europe and maybe a death blow to the EU (eventually), not just the EPO
Another Very Productive Year Commences
"a total of over 17,000 pages in a year"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Fiji: GNU/Linux Has Risen From Almost Nothing to Almost 5% in Recent Years
It's not as small as people are led to believe
Gemini Links 31/12/2025: Blogosphere is Growing and New Year Begins
Links for the day
Recruiters Don't Use Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use LinkedIn
One of my best friends, a university professor, lost all of his life's savings due to Microsoft LinkedIn
You've Only Wasted Your Life in Social Control Networks
In a sense, social control media is a giant delusion
2025 Was a Very Bad Year for Social Control Media
statCounter sees a gradual demise in Social Control Media access
Don't "Go Paperless", Go Paperful [sic] (for What Really Matters)
Why should we favour paper use sometimes? Well, many reasons.
Complexity Considered Harmful: We Used to Run an Operating System on 64KB of RAM, Not 64GB of RAM (a Million Times More)
"Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory"
The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry
we reckon that Google will eventually delist all slopfarms, recognising they're just a form of SPAM
Links 31/12/2025: Cheeto Pushing for More Wars, ‘Security is a Shared Responsibility’
Links for the day
Enshittification of Postal Services Isn't Technological Advancement
Societies that say the aim is to "go digital" and eliminate paper trail aren't advanced; they're moving backwards
IBM Starts 2026 a Much Smaller Company (Not Homage to Gerstner)
People who get bluewashed out of their job (or bluewashed into unemployment) are gagged by NDAs
XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over
"the Xbox was never about gaming and merely served as a test bed for DRM in commodity systems."
Ahead of 2026 Mass Layoffs at Microsoft the Tree Gets Shaken to See Who 'Falls' (Resigns/Retires)
"We had a quiet meeting last week about budget realignment. No one said layoffs, but it’s clear where the focus is shifting."
Almost 6,5000 Pages in 2025, Aiming Higher in 2026
if we can keep focused, then quantity will increase
Microsoft XBox Having a "Dog Ate My Homework" Moment: No New Console Until 3 Years From Now... Because "RAM Prices"
Who will ever remember this in 2028? Nobody.
Gemini End of Year Capsules Tally (Based on Lupa) Shows About 10% Growth
What a difference a year makes
Gemini Links 31/12/2025: New Resolution, Reverse Hexdump, and Programming Languages
Links for the day
Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Chatbots Became Dishonesty on Top of Dishonesty (Hiding Usage of Dishonest Salads of Words)
new article from CyberShow
Links 31/12/2025: Nvidia Faces Bubble-Bursting Moment, Saudi Oil Money Pumped Into Chatbots to Keep the Energy Waste Going (Circular Financing Again)
Links for the day
Richard Stallman's First Talk in a U.S. College Since 2018
Greetings from Georgia Tech!
EPO People Power - Part XX - Why António Campinos Chose to Put His Cokehead Friend on 'Sick Leave'
EPO Cocainegate will be covered for months to come
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, December 30, 2025