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Updated This Past Day

  1. Kdenlive 24.12 Added Multiple Subtitle Tracks & Removed Qt5 Support
    Kdenlive, the popular Qt-based free open-source video editor
  2. GNU/Linux Growing in Chile [original]
    chart

    New

  3. Software: Cockpit 331, as-tree, Zen Browser, Duolingo Application on Linux, qBittorrent 5.0.3 Released
    Software news for today
  4. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts - last for today
  5. Audiocasts/Shows/Videos About GNU/Linux and Free Software
    mostly from yewtu.be
  6. Linux-Centric "Security" (and FUD) Leftovers
    many FUD pieces
  7. These Are The Most Useful Linux Apps I Discovered in 2024
    Here are the best Linux apps we encountered in 2024. Try them out if you haven't yet!
  8. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks and more
  9. Mozilla: Rust Roundup, "Hey Hi" Fluff, Loss of Revenue, and Input About the Main Sponsor (Google)
    Some Firefox and Mozilla updates
  10. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks for today
  11. IPFire Linux Firewall Preps for Wi-Fi 7, Adopts Post-Quantum Cryptography
    Today, the IPFire Project released IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190 as a new update to its hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution, which primarily performs as a router or firewall.
  12. BSD: Release of OpenBGPD 8.7, UK Keyboard layout on X applications on FreeBSD, BSD Now
    some more BSD picks for today
  13. Canonical/Ubuntu patching automation and Charmed Kubeflow
    a pair of new blog posts from Canonical/Ubuntu
  14. Security Leftovers
    mostly patches
  15. Programming Leftovers
    Development related links
  16. Open Hardware/Modding: Pimoroni, Arduino, and More
    Modding and gadgets related
  17. Red Hat Leftovers
    and some IBM
  18. FOSS Weekly, Kubernetes, Ruqola 2.4.0, and 'Free' Proprietary Bait From Broadcom
    software picks
  19. BSD News: Updates on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation, and Release of NetBSD 10.1
    NetBSD 10.1 released days ago
  20. LibreOffice 24.8.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 55 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series to address more than 50 bugs.
  21. Leap 15.5 Nears End of Life
    The release of Leap 15.6 on June 12 set in motion the End of Life for maintenance and security for Leap 15.5
  22. Introducing Project Aardvark
    and p2panda
  23. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts, about a dozen
  24. Android Leftovers
    Android prepares new options for customizing your lock screen clock
  25. 6 Linux Distros to Watch Out for in 2025
    Some great Linux distributions are expected to be released in 2025
  26. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 190 released
    The last update of the year is ready to be released: IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 190
  27. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Here’s our pick of the finest open source micro-frameworks
  28. Bluefin – Fedora based Linux distribution
    Bluefin is an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux distribution that’s based on Fedora
  29. Announcing Incus 6.8
    The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.8
  30. 6 Linux myths, busted
    Linux is more popular than ever, but certain myths still surround the open-source OS
  31. The 4 easiest ways to test Linux on your old PC before Windows 10 support runs out
    If you're considering a migration from the soon sunsetting Windows 10 to Linux and you're looking for a way to test the open-source operating system
  32. Windows TCO Stories
    3 new examples
  33. Games: Steam Replay, Proton Experimental, Tactical Breach Wizards, COPA CITY, Comet Force
    handful from GamingOnLinux
  34. GNU/Linux, Free Software, Coding Etc.
    today's leftovers
  35. Canonical/Ubuntu: Emojis, Microsoft Spyware, and WINE et al
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  36. Security Leftovers
    Security picks for today
  37. Gadgets and Hardware: Zephyr, Jetson, and More
    on the hardware side
  38. Linux (Kernel) Development and 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing
    Some Linux picks
  39. Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat
    Some more picks
  40. Applications: Cron Job Managers, End of Life for Istio 1.22, Slink Introduced
    Free software news/reviews
  41. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  42. Debian opens a can of username worms
    It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science
  43. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-12-13 to 2024-12-19
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Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers)
Mozilla is not leftist
Further Media Cut-downs
media reporting about the media being cut
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Links for the day
 
Links 10/09/2025: Microsoft Layoffs in "RTO" Clothing and Windows TCO, GitHub TCO
Links for the day
Blaming Everything on China
TikTok works for China. GAFAM works for fascists.
People Get Tired of "Hey Hi" (AI), Unlike the Subservient Money-Obsessed Media That Gets Paid to Pretend This Bubble Still Matters
"crash will be way bigger than dot.com burst in 90s. and that was Internet, actually transformative technology, not this expensive AI toy with direct dependency on the energy input which is not scalable"
Brett Wilson LLP Accepts That the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Filed a Case That Also Implicates My Wife (Everything is Connected)
They used to pretend that there were two separate cases
10 Reasons to Disable (or Enable) UEFI Secure Boot
Tomorrow the "trusted corporation" Microsoft will see a certificate expire
Gemini Links 10/09/2025: Hospital and Large Feeds
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 09, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 09, 2025
The Bluewashing of Red Hat is Being Completed, Many Staff Understand They'll be Made Redundant
Jim AllowHurst (Whitehurst) is meanwhile promoting Microsoft's agenda from within other companies
statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Exceeding 10% in Bulgaria This Month
What can Microsoft still do to stop GNU/Linux?
Dark Patterns
Microsoft saying "security" is like a Convicted Felon in the White House saying "law and order".
It's Almost Fall (Autumn)
To "Facebook prison" you are bound
Bruce Schneier About "Secure Boot"
Bruce Schneier isn't a fan of "Secure Boot"
Links 09/09/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again and "RTO" (Timed Like It Serves as a Distraction From the Mass Layoffs)
Links for the day
RMS Told Microsoft to Stop 'Secure Boot' (He Even Went There to Say That), But They Didn't Listen
Dr. Stallman (RMS) assumed that speaking to sociopaths would work
What Richard Stallman Told Me About 'Secure' Boot in 2012
"if the user doesn't control the keys, then it's a kind of shackle"
Those Who Helped Microsoft Weaponise "Secure Boot" Against GNU/Linux and BSDs Are Fleeing
Microsofters doing what they do best: they evade accountability
Simple is Better, Simplicity is Power
That is "the advantage of having commodity GNU/Linux systems," an associate notes
Much Ado About Nonsense
Microsoft Lunduke is still all dramatisation and sensationalism
Current Events in France
It needs to dump Microsoft and other GAFAM (US) giants, move to Free software
Links 09/09/2025: US-Korea Tensions and Meta Whistleblowers
Links for the day
Links 09/09/2025: “Torrents of Hate” and Political Crisis in France
Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/09/2025: "Dedigitizing" and Forgejo on FreeBSD
Links for the day
Google News (Not Just Google Search) Lets Itself by Gamed by One Slopfarm - to the Point Almost Half of "Linux" News is Bot-Produced Plagiarism (LLM Slop With Slop Images)
That says a lot about what Google thinks of quality, even in Google News
Bill Gates-Funded Media Inadvertently Refutes the Microsoft Lie That in 2025 Microsoft Had Just Two Waves of Layoffs
There were about 12 rounds of layoffs so far in 2025
Official SUSE Blog Still Uses LLM Slop (Bots) to Make Fake Articles (Marketing)
The company is all about sound bites
Companies Realise That Slop Doesn't Work as Advertised, Accordingly Dump It
"Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees."
Microsoft-Funded Lawsuits Against Critics of UEFI 'Secure Boot'
Remember that no company (or law firm) ever survives collaborations with Microsoft
From theregister.co.uk to theregister.com (US) to The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives) and theregister.ai
The best way to break this racket (or cycle of hype and harm) is to break the chains of funding
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Culture of Censorship Necessitates More Speech
The OSI bans dissent or people who merely point out that the OSI is abusive
How to Reach Us Discreetly (Other Than Encrypted E-mail)
We're still managing to maintain a 100% source protection record. We soon turn 19.
LLMs Are Vastly Worse Than a Waste of Energy and the Externalities Are Huge
Worse than just higher power bills for everybody
LLMs Versus Search (Not Replacing Search But Engaging in DDoS Attacks Against Web Sites That Permit Searching)
The state of the Web isn't just bad; it's utterly terrible
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 08, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, September 08, 2025
It's Only the Second Week of September and Already Two Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft, Slopfarms and Microsoft-Funded Sites Spin It as "AI Investments" Rather Than Commercial Failure
A very large third one expected next week
The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)
the "upgrade treadmill"
Rumour: Second Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in September to Commence Third Week of September
That basically answers questions like, "Any specific date or time of the month?"
If Your Machine Still Has "Secure Boot" Enabled, Then Microsoft Has a de Facto Kill Switch (Even If Your Machine Doesn't Have Windows and Never Had Windows)
It is not incorrect to call UEFI 'secure boot' a "kill switch"
Gemini Links 08/09/2025: Reality, ROOPHLOCH 2025, and Writing Another Gemini Client
Links for the day
Updating Firmware is Not the Solution But Only Additional Risk, Disable "Secure Boot" Today
firmware blobs are buggy, secret, impossible to audit, and barely tested
Microsoft Tim's DevClass (Part of The Register MS/Situation Publishing) is Full of Slop
Looking at many sites that are full of slop images is becoming an eye sore and hallmark of text too likely generated by LLMs or 'assisted' (tainted) by them
Microsoft Trying to Fake Demand for Slop. At What Cost?
That's a giant demotion and broken promises
Reddit is Corporate Propaganda
To make matters worse, Reddit ousted many original moderators
Jeff Geerling Shocked to Discover Many Metrics in YouTube Are Fake (His Audience Turns Out to be Much Smaller)
Maybe self-host all videos, don't rely on Google's "FOMO" cheating (addiction based on false assumptions)
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant and Kryptonite/Garlic to Vampires
Transparency (sometimes described by words like "Sunlight" or "Truth") is paramount
The Register MS Uses Slop in Articles About Slop
we are fairly certain it's slop or CG based on other people's work
Visiting a Web Page or a Public URL Should be Safe, Predictable, and Benign
It's probably too late to "fix" the Web
The Register MS (Situation Publishing) is Paid to Spread Mindless Hype for the "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme and That's a Serious Problem
"Sponsored by Zoom."
Links 08/09/2025: Burger King Cracked, Cox v. Sony Analysed
Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/09/2025: Socialist Computer Museum and GAFAM/ByteDance/TikTok-Dominated Net
Links for the day
Links 08/09/2025: Tim Crook Disappoints Apple Faithfuls and Zuckerberg Lies (Financial Fraud) for Cheeto King
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EPO Workers Point Out that the EPO is Destroying the Planet Under the Guise of "Hey Hi" (It Also Grants Many Invalid Patents Illegally
On 12 March and 16 June 2025, staff representation met with the administration in the Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in Munich
Turn Off Microsoft's Restricted Boot ("Secure Boot")
We're still running a series on this issue
Social Control Media Sites Have Become Bot Farms (Not Limited to LLMs and Automation)
linkedin.com was nothing but trouble and losses for Microsoft
Deep in Debt With the Magnitude of Losses Quickly Growing, Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Now Uses Broadcom for Vapourware, Pretending It'll Do OK Next Year
At some stage it'll collapse
You Can Tell Microsoft is in Trouble When Its Own Fans and Staff Blast it
"Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price."
Multiple Undersea Cable Cuts and We're Still OK
Microsoft customers experience problems
Lawyers Who Think They Are Online Assassins Don't Deserve a Licence to Operate
they've become a laughing stock in their "sector"
Microsoft Windows Fell to 3.9% "Market Share" in Bahamas
Based on statCounter
How the European Union (EU) Fell Out of Love With Free/Libre Software
Lots of bribery
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 07, 2025
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