Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2025

Leaning Tower And Cathedral In Pisa

Updated This Past Day

  1. Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.11
    After a week’s delay, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS was published today by Canonical for all official flavors as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.
  2. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and Arduino
    Hardware news
  3. The secret maze of Debian images
    It's difficult to find the right Debian image

    New

  4. OpenSSH Patched
    On Tuesday, the developers of OpenSSH, the popular open source implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, rolled out patches for two vulnerabilities
  5. Pi-hole 6 Is Here
    New release
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  7. Mozilla Without Mitchell Baker and With More Buzzwords/Hype/Bubbles/Schemes
    Mozilla news/noise
  8. 4 Ways to Search the Web From the Linux Terminal
    Whether you’re a confirmed command line-dweller, or just terminal-curious
  9. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Only the Raw edition is free and open source software
  10. SME Server – Linux Server distribution for small to medium sized enterprises
    SME Server is billed as a complete, secure, stable and versatile Open Source Linux Server distribution for small to medium sized enterprises
  11. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  12. LibreOffice 24.8.5 is available for downloadLibreOffice 24.8.5 is available for download
    LibreOffice 24.8.5, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8
  13. Wallpaper Competition for Ubuntu 25.04 is Open Now!
    Wallpaper competition for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04
  14. Graphics and Games: MemSed, Mesa 25.0, Proton Experimental, and More
    gaming picks
  15. Events/FOSDEM Leftovers
    geeks who attended
  16. Security Leftovers
    patches and Windows TCO
  17. Android Leftovers
    Android 16 now lets you customize keyboard shortcuts — Here's how it works
  18. Ubuntu 25.04 Features and Release Date: Here's What You Need to Know
    Here are the best Ubuntu 25.04 features
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. Wireshark on Ubuntu: Stay Ahead with the Latest Releases and Nightly Builds
    Wireshark is an essential tool for network analysis
  21. KDE Snaps are broken, sorry lights out for now
    All core22 KDE snaps are broken
  22. LWN on Linux and Rust
    4 articles outside the paywall today
  23. Whatever Happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux Smart TVs Are Now
    When Ubuntu Expanded Beyond Computers
  24. 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 2025-02-14 to 2025-02-20
    860 /n/2025/02/14/More_About_Asahi_Issue.shtml
    777 /n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml
    757 /n/2025/02/13/openSUSE_Tumbleweed_Moves_to_SELinux.shtml
    651 /n/2025/02/17/Linux_6_14_rc3.shtml
    639 /n/2025/02/16/No_More_Snakes_Serpent_OS_Rebrands_as_AerynOS.shtml
    576 /n/2025/02/16/GNOME_48_Beta_Is_Now_Available_for_Public_Testing_with_Adwaita_.shtml
    561 /n/2025/02/14/Oreon_Mesa_and_More.shtml
    536 /n/2025/02/15/PostgreSQL_17_3_Siren_Call_of_SQLite_on_the_Server_and_More_on_.shtml
    532 /n/2025/02/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    530 /n/2025/02/17/today_s_howtos.shtml
    526 /n/2025/02/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    525 /n/2025/02/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    517 /n/2025/02/15/Fedora_threatened_with_legal_action_from_OBS_Studio_due_to_thei.shtml
    515 /n/2025/02/17/Review_Rhino_Linux_2025_1_and_MX_Linux_23_5_with_Xfce_4_20.shtml
    504 /n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

"How Many Friends Do You Have?"
"Do bots count?" "Friends in Facebook?" "Does a girlfriend chatbot count as a friend?"
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
The SRA does not do its job. The new chief's job is face-saving PR in the media.
The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
The infrastructure is already fast
France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
French people lost interest in Social Control 'Media' (or Networks)
EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
The EPO's "Cocaine Communication Manager" would hate to see the next "productivity" metrics
The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
Don't hate technology, hate the corporations that abuse it to promote coercion, exploitation etc.
Resisting IBM and EPO Corruption
Rise up against EPO dictatorship next week
Where Slop Meets Ghostwriting: It's a False Analogy
It's a false analogy
 
Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
Links for the day
Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
About 15 years ago the regime in Egypt got toppled (and others had been too) partly because of social control media such as Twitter
Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
Mozilla has been a complete disaster
Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
Links for the day
Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
The same "chefs" that cooked up Kyndryl Holdings Inc are still in charge of the IBM kitchen
"Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica is having a serious credibility issue right now
Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
More of the same then
The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
If it's true that The Register MS is resorting to these marketing tactics, will they later delete the evidence (as they did months ago)?
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Microsoft Had Mass Layoffs Every Month Last Year, This Year It's Delaying a Lot to "Prove" Rumours That Crashed Its Stock... 'Wrong'
Building a bigger snowball for later
Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product"
systemd at this point is sort of like IBM/Microsoft thing
IBM suffers "worst weekly drop in six years", Microsoft's MSN calls it "buying opportunity"
Ask Cramer what to do
Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux"
That's a total of at least 4 in Google News today, coming from 3 sources
Gemini Links 17/02/2026: 3D-Printed Stainless Steel Smartwatch and Gopher Bay Offline
Links for the day
Links 17/02/2026: Machine Rage and Microsoft Kills XBox Social Clubs
Links for the day
Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
Links for the day
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
What Ars Technica and Conde Nast do here helps defraud the general public
Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
The culprits are repeat offenders, but the publisher will never admit this in public
Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
If statCounter is to be trusted
Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
portraying charlatans and frauds like they're some kind of visionaries and luminaries
Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
Expect many Bing layoffs some time soon (like in past years)
Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
Conde Nast might shut Ars Technica down to escape the bad publicity/association
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
Who will hold the SRA accountable for this?
Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say
EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
“future orientations on the salary adjustment procedure”
IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
Recent publication
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
Links for the day
The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft
It's not supporting the event, it is buying it.
Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share"
Looking at "I" countries
Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked
Calling everything cloud or reclassifying as "AI"
Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week
Campinos MIA while Office staff goes on strike at least 4 times
Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities
Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma"
Links for the day
Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews
"Happy Birthday SoylentNews"
Techrights' Architecture
Stability is the main goal
IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries)
Are chatbots good enough as IBM staff?
When It Comes to Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions)
It's not about security or politics
Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace
Gemini Protocol will turn 7 this summer
Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub)
Links for the day
The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill
We accomplish things by a track record of suppressed facts
"AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles
presenting direct evidence anybody can verify
Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon
Social control media is not social and not media
They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"
Is society "seeing the light"?
Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation"
This is basically an attack on Software Freedom, even if they toss around the brand "Linux"
More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux
Last year we began to see GNU/Linux rising there - a trend which continues this year
Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare"
Farnell says he "already soft-quit in [his] mind"
Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google
Expect many more cuts
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, February 15, 2026