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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2024

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  4. today's leftovers
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  5. Programming Leftovers
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  8. Software Leftovers
    Mastodon, Hyprland, and more
  9. today's howtos
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  10. This Week in GNOME: #168 Testing Portals
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  11. Wine 9.19
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  12. today's leftovers
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  16. Security Leftovers
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  17. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
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  18. Videos: GNU/Linux Videos From the Past Week
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  19. Mozilla: Pretending That Firefox Values Privacy and Tweaks for Handling Message Threads in Thunderbird
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  20. today's howtos
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  32. Devices and Open Hardware: RISC-V and Linux
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  33. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  36. Security Leftovers
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