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    Two years ago we quit Twitter and other such sites (like Mastodon, Diaspora etc.); it was a good decision and we probably ought to have done so even sooner.
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  7. These 6 lightweight Linux apps let older PCs run blazing fast
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  8. Wine 10.6
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  9. Graphics improvements in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit after the switch to Skia
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  10. The Fedora Project history and family tree
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    news about FOSS matters
  13. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  14. Programming Leftovers
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  15. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, FPGAs, and More
    devices and such
  16. Latest Development Updates From EasyOS
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  17. today's howtos
    many howtos for Monday
  18. Linux 6.15-rc3 Released
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  19. An Election Under a Shadow of Doubt
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  20. Review: Fedora 42
    The Fedora project announced the release of Fedora 42 last week
  21. Fastfetch 2.41 Introduces Physical Core Detection for Non-x86 Systems
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  22. Free and Open Source Software
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  23. Zentyal Server is a unified network server Linux distribution
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  25. One last Bookworm for the road — report from the Montreal 2025 BSP
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  26. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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