Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2024

Bridge of sighs Cambridge

Updated This Past Day

  1. Not the Traffic We Wanted [original]
    The Web is becoming such a sordid mess - a vortex full of malicious bots

    New

  2. today's leftovers
    4 more picks
  3. Torvalds to Speak in Open Source Summit Europe 2024, Linux 6.12 Kernel Details
    some Linux news
  4. Programming Leftovers
    Coding related picks
  5. Fvwm and GNOME: keyboard control and internship project
    Some desktop updates
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  7. Mozilla: AudD® Music Recognition and Firefox Developer Experience
    Mozilla news and picks
  8. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, Linux Matters, "Linux" Foundation Podcast Boosting Microsoft
    3 new episodes
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for the evening
  10. Orange Pi Now has an Open Source RISC-V SBC [With M.2 Slot]
    they never had a RISC-V product.
  11. 'The Linux of processors' - New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
    XiangShan has also received support from various companies, leading to the formation of a group focused on further developing the processor and promoting the RISC-V ecosystem
  12. Security Leftovers
    Security updates and incidents
  13. Blaming "Linux" for Holes in Proprietary Software Made for Windows
    new FUD trend
  14. Open Hardware and Retro: Pentium, C64, 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, and More
    4 stories for now
  15. Linux Gaining Ground in Automotive
    EE Times Europe spoke to sources at Automotive Grade Linux and automotive software developer Elektrobit to learn how Linux is rapidly gaining adoption in the automotive industry.
  16. A Clean Linux Installation For An Android TV Box
    Although Android technically runs on top of Linux
  17. Android Leftovers
    Google: "Today we're releasing Android 15"
  18. Tellico 4.0 Released
    I’m excited to make Tellico 4.0 available as the first version to leverage the new Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 libraries
  19. Stable kernels: Linux 6.10.8, Linux 6.6.49, Linux 6.1.108, Linux 5.15.166, Linux 5.10.225, Linux 5.4.283, and Linux 4.19.321
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.10.8 kernel
  20. The future of first-party open source events
    In this post, I’m discussing only first-party open source events — events run by a project for its contributor and/or user communities
  21. KDE Dolphin cannot compress compressed files
    If you think about it, Dolphin is pretty amazing
  22. today's howtos
    many howtos for this afternoon
  23. Bebras Challenge 2024 and Raspberry Pi
    Some Raspberry Pi news
  24. Tor Browser 13.5.3 Hiring for Web Standard
    Some Web news
  25. Android Leftovers
    Android taskbar pinning makes surprise return with Pixel 9 Pro Fold
  26. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework
  27. Core, Extra, Multilib? Unraveling the Arch Linux Repositories
    New to Arch Linux? You should know about the various repositories Arch provides
  28. Games: Humble Choice, Steam Space Exploration Fest, and More
    Some of the latest from GamingOnLinux
  29. Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now
    Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes
  30. GNU/Linux is Definitely Growing, Microsoft is Still Trying to Sabotage It [original]
    we ought to get ready for or expect many more people (and businesses, governments etc.) to move to GNU/Linux
  31. today's howtos
    only a few for now
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  33. Don't Be Held Back by Your Default Linux Text Editor, Try These Instead
    check out a few of these alternative text editors
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-29 to 2024-09-04
    1711 /n/2024/08/29/Retiring_from_the_Rust_for_Linux_project.shtml
    975 /n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml
    941 /n/2024/08/29/Wireshark_4_4_Released_with_Automatic_Profile_Switching_Many_Im.shtml
    912 /n/2024/08/30/Debian_Upgrades_Steve_McIntyre_Turns_50_and_Rust_Becoming_an_un.shtml
    830 /n/2024/08/29/You_Can_Now_Upgrade_Ubuntu_22_04_LTS_to_Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Here_s.shtml
    775 /n/2024/08/31/Debian_12_7_Bookworm_Released_with_55_Security_Updates_and_51_B.shtml
    770 /n/2024/08/30/Games_Elder_Scrolls_Online_EmuDeck_Halls_of_Torment_Steam_Deck_.shtml
    713 /n/2024/08/29/Asking_for_donations_in_Plasma.shtml
    705 /n/2024/08/30/Raspberry_Pi_Zero_2_W_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_2_2GB_Pi_5_and_More.shtml
    698 /n/2024/08/31/today_s_howtos.shtml
    669 /n/2024/08/29/DietPi_August_2024_News_Version_9_7.shtml
    666 /n/2024/08/31/Hip_Hip_Hooray_Elastic_Almost_Comes_Back_Home_to_Open_Source.shtml
    660 /n/2024/09/02/Linux_6_11_rc6.shtml
    653 /n/2024/08/29/GNU_Screen_v_5_0_0_is_released.shtml
    647 /n/2024/08/31/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    637 /n/2024/08/31/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    625 /n/2024/08/29/today_s_howtos.shtml
    620 /n/2024/08/30/today_s_howtos.shtml
    614 /n/2024/09/02/Rhino_Linux_2024_2_horns_in_on_Microsoft_Windows_11.shtml
    609 /n/2024/08/30/Audiocasts_Shows_BSD_Now_and_Destination_Linux.shtml
    607 /n/2024/08/31/Slackware_current_has_absorbed_my_multilib_gcc_and_glibc_packag.shtml
    598 /n/2024/08/31/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    596 /index.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Canonical Will Give You Money Only If You Work for Microsoft!
Only if you are servicing (being a slave to) proprietary forges that Microsoft and the NSA control while violating the GPL will Canonical give you money
There Are Also Loads of Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs Today (Keep Track of the Subsidiaries They Keep Out of Headlines)
Perhaps lost in the smokescreen
There Are Bigger Rounds of Microsoft Layoffs Coming, a Cull of 10% Implemented in Waves (the "3%" Figure is Misleading, Face-Saving)
Last night we said they might do the layoffs in three or at least two waves
Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers)
Maybe when Microsoft said 3% it meant ~6,000 or more in the US alone
As Expected, Microsoft Uses Media Operative (Jordan Novet) to Downplay the Scale of Mass Layoffs
here we go
 
No, Microsoft Didn't Lay Off So Many People Because of "AI" "Innovation" or "Efficiency" or "Era" or "Revolution" Etc.
Debunking one very common lie
What We Do When We Say "GNU/Linux" to People
It talks about "Linux", "GNU", and what it means to say "GNU/Linux"
Links 14/05/2025: Facebook And Instagram Risk Nationwide Bans, Microsoft Subsidiaries Have Mass Layoffs Too
Links for the day
If Microsoft Staff That Strangles Woman Pays You to Write Lies, It Will Not End Well
The past couple of years were our most productive ever
Gemini Links 14/05/2025: "Writing My Story with Inspiration from Notable Lives" and People Start Shovelling Up LLM Slop Onto Geminispace,
Links for the day
Microsoft is Very Highly Stressed About Adoption of GNU/Linux at Windows' Expense (on Former "Vista 10" PCs)
What does this tell us?
Slopwatch: BetaNoise (BetaNews), LinuxSecurity, and Slopfarms Still Promoted by Google News
The primary goal is to demonstrate the problem persists
Links 14/05/2025: Google Agrees to $1.3 Billion Settlement After Spying, China Tariffs Don't Work
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Apocalyptic Future and More
Links for the day
McKinsey (McK) is Killing IBM, It's All About Killing This Goose, "National Sales Team 80% on PIP Now" (Preceding Layoffs Without Severance)
PIPs are not based on performance
Links 13/05/2025: Microsoft Breaks Windows Very Badly Again, Mass Layoffs Reported (But False Figures, It's a Lot Higher)
Links for the day
2025 Will be a Big Year For GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops
with an economy like this, people who don't live in rich countries won't turn to Apple
Signs of Trouble: Microsoft Job Openings for Jobs That Do Not Exist!
Keeping up appearances?
"Special Place in Hell" for Women Who Help Violent Microsofters From Another Continent Attack Local Women Who Did Nothing Wrong, They Just Got Bullied and Deserve Sympathy or Compensation
Nothing says "Brat" like men who attack women, right?
The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella.
under Nadella Microsoft's debt trebled
The Slow Death of Windows Will Mean the Inevitable Demise of Microsoft
Once people stop using Windows, it'll be hard for Microsoft to sell anything to them
Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites
and we're looking at about 60,000 Microsoft layoffs in 3 years
Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Shopping is an Exasperating Nightmare and Making Phones Minimal
Links for the day
23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year)
There's no questions about many layoffs happening this month. It got leaked already. The only question is when (and also how many).
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 12, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, May 12, 2025
Major Microsoft Layoffs This Week (Discussed Online)
later we can expect a lot of spin, even misinformation
What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: Missed Deadline
they helped expose a number of other scandals
Links 12/05/2025: Measles Rising and Taliban Outlaws Chess in Afghanistan
Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/05/2025: Advice, Iorist Ethics, and Touchscreens
Links for the day
The Finances of GAFAM Aren't as They Seem
MICROSOFT FINANCIAL PYRAMID revisited
Links 12/05/2025: US Brain Drain and Reminder That "Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipsed Enron" (Fraud Coverup)
Links for the day
The Enshittification of Royal Mail (Post Office/Postal Services) Continues
Enshittification is a thing, not only in the digital realm
Red Hat's Owner is Called "America's Worst Tech Company" (IBM) and Microsoft's Liabilities Grow
Microsoft has about a quarter of a trillion (yes, trillion with a "T") in liabilities
If the Gossip is True, Today Microsoft Has "Large M1 Meetings" to Discuss Almost 30,000 More Microsoft Layoffs in 2025
the claim is that Microsoft is preparing to lay off 10% of its staff
Microsoft Has a Long and Proven History of Funding Meritless Lawsuits Against Rivals and Critics (It Always Backfires)
It also looks like the solicitor used by two Microsofters to SLAPP us is being urgently replaced
Links 12/05/2025: Gardens and Kitchens
Links for the day
Links 12/05/2025: Media Being Attacked (New Forms of Attack on the Press), Many Data Breaches
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 11, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, May 11, 2025