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Updated This Past Day

  1. PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More
    The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4 as a major update to this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams, and hardware on Linux systems.

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  2. Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Brings AMD Zen 5 Support
    Xen 4.20 open-source type-1 hypervisor brings Arm LLC coloring

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  3. KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More
    The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.12.3 as the third and last maintenance update for the KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite to fix more bugs in your favorite KDE apps.
  4. today's howtos
    4 more howtos
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security links and Linux
  6. Security Leftovers
    Security related links
  7. today's leftovers
    FOSS and more
  8. ScummVM and Steam
    Gaming related picks
  9. PostgreSQL News
    a pair of updates on PostgreSQL
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development related stories
  11. FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers
    BSD news
  12. Red Hat, AlmaLinux, and More
    IBM's universe
  13. Bits from Debian Project Leader and Dima Kogan
    Debian picks
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Linux and Hardware
  15. Applications: Memos, syslog-ng, FFmpeg 7.1.1, and More
    Software news
  16. today's howtos
    only 4 for now
  17. Immich 1.129 Photo and Video Backup Solution Released
    Immich 1.129 fixes memory issues, adds video playback in memories and introduces shortcuts and QR codes for easier sharing
  18. Tails 6.13 Released with Improved Wi-Fi Detection
    Tails 6.13, a privacy-focused Linux distro, improves Wi-Fi hardware detection
  19. KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features [Ubuntu PPA]
    KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago
  20. I Tried CachyOS, and Now It Might Be My New Main Distro
    Distro hopping isn’t exactly uncommon in the Linux world
  21. Linux From Scratch 12.3 Version 12.3
    LFS and more
  22. Android Leftovers
    Google on what makes a high-quality Android widget
  23. Why You Should Switch To Linux And Quit Windows In 2025
    Microsoft wants to claim 2025 as the year of the “Windows 11 Refresh.”
  24. 5 reasons you should swap from Windows to Linux
    While Linux may not have as many users as Windows, it has a lot of features that just make it astronomically better than Windows in almost every way.
  25. today's leftovers
    Openwashing, Mozilla, and more
  26. XpPen Deco 01V3 - review on GNU/Linux
    Modern versions of GNOME and KDE, running under Wayland
  27. Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Alma and EPEL
    Some IBM bits
  28. Audiocasts/Shows: PewDiePie on GNU/Linux, Destination Linux, Linux Matters
    some new videos/episodes
  29. today's howtos
    13 howtos for now
  30. Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out
    Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers
  31. Windows TCO Leftovers
    7 stories of Windows TCO
  32. Programming Leftovers
    Development links
  33. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  34. Blender App Makes it to the Big Screen
    The animated film "Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards held on March 2, 2025 and Blender was a part of it
  35. Another laptop, another SSD revival, plus a dash of Linux
    decided to go with Kubuntu 24.04. Why Kubuntu, you ask? As I outlined in my Linux & hardware article
  36. Seeking the latest in Linux? There's a right way and a wrong way to use Distrowatch
    Here's why Distrowatch is often misunderstood
  37. Meet the Fedora Project Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025
    The Fedora Project is excited to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025
  38. Amazon tightens the digital handcuffs
    One of the most noteworthy events in the history of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) was Amazon's Orwellian deletion of George Orwell's 1984 from its customer's e-readers.
  39. Games: Marketing Junk, Frostpunk 2, Steam, and More
    gaming related picks
  40. Hardware Leftovers
    hardware picks
  41. LWN on Linux Kernel
    new articles outside the paywall
  42. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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The way we see it, support groups like LUGs sort of outlived their usefulness when it became easier to install GNU/Linux
For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted
Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library
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A rough summary
 
The Free Software Foundation's Livestream Has Ended, Video/s Might be Online Next
I've asked whether they'll upload video of some of the event; I still wait for an answer
The Register MS Does Not Know the Difference Between Microsoft GitHub and GitLab
At the time of writing (October 5) the article from "Thu 2 Oct 2025" remains uncorrected
"Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF
Why does Google News promote fake articles about the FSF while omitting all the real ones?
Software Patents as a Bubble
Don't invest resources in hype; if you detect a bubble, run away from it
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 04, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, October 04, 2025
When Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless
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Most Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason)
The 'Gemini sites' (capsules) are a growing force
The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems
Maybe we'll get back to statCounter when its data becomes more "stable" again
10 Ways to Combat Software Patents
software patents are loathed also by proprietary software developers
"Just a Little Bit of Meat..."
Free software "absolutism" is not a radical stance, more so if the only "radical" belief the user possesses is that he or she must be in control of his or her software, and by extension his or her computer
Red Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor
Red Hat's blog also participates a lot in promoting of Wall Street's latest pump-and-dump "AI" scheme
Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun
We shall be focusing a lot on software patents today
Former Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die
Just like Skype (as recently as months ago) [...] When Microsoft grabs things, or when it buys things, it almost never ends well
Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16
very short
Links 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones
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Links 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US
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Garmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents
Software patents should never have been granted in the first place
Richard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days
Dr. Stallman, despite his battle with cancer is still alive and mentally sharp
FSF Turns 40
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IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, October 03, 2025
Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time"
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We Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)
For our anniversary next month we still have no concrete plans
Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad
Had they gone ahead with an SSG, they'd become a lot more future-proof
USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good
we can deduce that financial pressures (lack of "demand" for monopolies) play a role
TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)
Social control media isn't "fun and games"; it's a digital weapon that lets hostile groups or nations infiltrate others, then turn them against themselves
Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People
Imposing terrible tech "religion" on people is not helping them
Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots
For an advocacy group, uptime is important (for its message to remain accessible)
Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"
Google News is really bad
Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm
I'd prefer to not associate with that site anymore
Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk
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Gemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration
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Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released
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FSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days
It's a good move for the FSF and - by extension - for software freedom
Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, October 02, 2025
Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity
They carry on polluting the Web with fake articles
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt
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