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Updated This Past Day

  1. BleachBit 5.0 System Cleaning Utility Released with Major Upgrades
    BleachBit 5.0 open-source system cleaning utility is out now with new cleaners

    New

  2. Mesa 25.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New
    Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as better support for numerous video games.
  3. today's leftovers
    FOSS in particular
  4. LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025 and FLISOL Brasilia 2025
    events about LO or with LO
  5. FSF Events and Kenya, UK, and IRC
    some Freedom-centric happenings
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. Databases: PostgreSQL's external_file v1.2, 30 years of MySQL
    DB news
  8. OpenBSD and OpenSSH Leftovers
    BSD picks
  9. My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware
    I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS
  10. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    hardware leftovers
  11. Fedora and CentOS Leftovers
    IBM universe
  12. LibreArts Weekly and Upscaler 1.5.0 Released
    Applications in focus
  13. Videos/Shows: Ask Noah, Ubuntu 25.04, Linux on FPGA
    4 new ones
  14. Kernel Space: AUTOSEL and Linux Kernel 6.6.89 in EasyOS
    Linux news (kernel)
  15. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical articles
  16. Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Leftovers
    plus some LF fluff
  17. This is what I’m doing with my old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in like Microsoft wants me to
    The solution here is easy; once Windows 10 falls out of support, I will put Linux on the computer and use that instead
  18. Codethink Trustable Reproducible Linux (CTRL OS)
    new announcement
  19. A Linux-backed project shows how to save unsupported backdoored Windows 10 PCs by installing Linux
    a pair of reports
  20. New Planet GNOME and GNOME Foundation’s New Executive Director
    after Executive Director quit
  21. Fwupd 2.0.9 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Intel Arc ‘Battlemage’ GPUs
    Fwupd 2.0.9 is out today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.
  22. Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Printers App, Linux 6.12 LTS, and Wayland Improvements
    The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers that introduces some new features, better touchscreen handling, and various Wayland improvements.
  23. Slimbook Launches Kymera Black Linux Desktop Computer for Gamers and Creators
    UE-based Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of Kymera Black as the next generation of their Linux desktop computer designed for creators, gamers, and hardware enthusiasts.
  24. Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download
    As of May 1st, 2025, Canonical has officially opened the development of Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka), and now they published the first daily build ISO images for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.
  25. today's leftovers
    SUSE, hardware, and FOSS
  26. Latest From Red Hat's Official Site (Some Buzzwords, Too)
    redhat.com picks
  27. Android Leftovers
    Android’s phone taskbar isn't quite ready yet, but it's already getting a multitasking boost
  28. PeerTube Mobile App v1 Is Out
    The PeerTube mobile app has reached version 1
  29. These 10 Linux Commands Showed Me How Much Better Life Is Off Windows
    When I first switched to Linux from Windows, I was intimidated by the terminal
  30. Interrupt: A Linux based Flipper Zero rival that just launched and is already funded
    Interrupt, a new pen-testing gadget, has just launched on Kickstarter
  31. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  32. Games: Proton 10, Monster Hunter Bundle, SteamVR 2.10, and More
    10 stories from GamingOnLinux
  33. Project management apps are my top productivity hack - and these are my favorites on Linux
    Need to manage a small to medium-sized personal or business project
  34. Empowering Engineers as Ambassadors: A Strategic Business Investment
    When organizations embrace open source
  35. I've used dozens of distros as a Linux power user, but this one feels truly different
    If you're ready for a new approach to Linux
  36. Ready to ditch Windows for good? This is the Linux distro I recommend for beginners
    SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface
  37. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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Using SLAPPs to Cover Up Sexual Abuse and Strangulation
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The Microsofters Will Have an Obligation to Compensate Us
This story isn't just about Microsoft. It's also about corruption, there are many women victims, there is abject "abuse of process", and many more scandals to be illuminated in years to come.
Reproducing at the EPO Instead of Producing Monopolies for Foreign Monopolies With Their Price-Fixing Cartels
Does the EPO recognise the need of well-educated Europeans to bear kids?
Valnet Inc. Dominates Real (Not LLM Slop) GNU/Linux Coverage in 2025
And likely in prior years, too
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Fund Raiser Goes on
Later this month we'll expose another OSI scandal
EPO Staff Representatives Issue a Warning About Staff's Health and Inadequate Care
Even the EPO's own stakeholders (money sources) are openly protesting against what the EPO became
Links 13/07/2025: Partly Assorted News From Deutsche Welle and CBC
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/07/2025: Board Games and Battle Styles
Gemini Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 12, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, July 12, 2025
Plunder at the Second-Largest Institution in Europe
cuts, neglect, health problems, even early deaths
Links 12/07/2025: Political Developments, Attack on Opposition, Climate Actions
Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/07/2025: Melodic Musings and Small Web July
Links for the day
Links 12/07/2025: Jail in China for Homoerotica, South Korea Discriminates Against Old Workers
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If Only Everything Was Rewritten in Rust, We'd Have No More Security Issues?
Nope.
Links 12/07/2025: Birdwatching and Fake/Misleading Wall Street 'Valuation' Figures
Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/07/2025: How to Avoid Writing, Apps for Android
Links for the day
EPO Staff Committee on Harassment in the Workplace
slides
Adding the Voice of Writers to UK SLAPP Reform
The journey to repair antiquated (monarchy era) laws will likely be long
EPO Takes More Money From Staff for Speculation (Pensions), Actuarial Study Explains the Impact
"The key change in this year’s Actuarial Study, due to cascading the new “risk appetite” from the financial study, is a significant increase of the total pension contribution rate of 5.7 percentage points, up to a total of 37.8%. This is driven by an unprecedented decrease in the discount rate of 105 bps down to 2.2%."
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 11, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, July 11, 2025
Microsoft - Like IBM - Does the "Relocation" Tricks (Start Over Elsewhere, Then Get Sacked by Microsoft)
It is a "low blow" or a "dick move"
After the Free Software Foundation's Campaign to Raise Money Let's See Campaigns to Finish Off Microsoft (Vista 11, GitHub etc.)
Microsoft is in effect collapsing
Your Publications Have No Major Impact Unless or Until You "Get Some Heat"
we're on the right track
Slopwatch: A Cause for Hope, the Hype is Dying
For about a month we showed that becoming a slopfarm - for several weeks - resulted in utter failure and ruin for BetaNews
Links 11/07/2025: Censorship Worsening, 3D Printing Success Stories, UK and France Unite Around Nukes
Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/07/2025: Zorin OS and Scriptonite Updates
Links for the day
Links 11/07/2025: Hardware, Russia, and China
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Links 11/07/2025: Intel Collapsing and Microsoft Resorts to Bribery to Push Slop Via Obligatory Education
Links for the day
The EFF Sided With the Team That Strangles Women and Tells Women to Kill Themselves
They say that apathy and inaction are a form of a "stance"
"Nat [Friedman] and [the Serial Strangler From Microsoft] Were Always Exceptionally Close," Says Former Housemate and Colleague
Now Alex (hiding behind another name when that suits him) not only attacks women but also people who merely report what he did to women
Exemplary List of Things That Are Not Artificial Intelligence or Even Intelligence
The "age of AI" or "era of AI" or "AI revolution" mostly boils down to rebranding, just like "the cloud"
New Letter From the European Patent Office Explains How the Office Plots to Grant Many Illegal Patents, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of 'Growth'
Open letter to Mr Rowan (VP1) and Mr Aledo Lopez (COO)
Abuse of Process
5RB is employing people who help violent men
What Microsoft's Nat Friedman and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
"Get in da car; No time to explain, loser"
Microsoft and IBM Don't Have Much of a Future (They Mostly Pretend at This Point)
IBM and Microsoft are in some ways alike but in many ways different
It's Not Just Twitter (or X.com) That's Dying, Microsoft's Equivalent is Dying Also
Unable to find a business model
GitHub Copilot Can Cause the Bankruptcy of GitHub to Come Sooner and GitHub to be Shut Down Just Like Skype
Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes
Wayland is Bad for the Planet
If you use Wayland, it'll take you longer to accomplish tasks and you will consume more energy (or battery life)
Legitimising Those Who Sabotage You
Microsoft is a very malicious company
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 10, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, July 10, 2025
On Microsoft Layoffs
we might be looking at about 60,000 Microsoft layoffs since 2023
EPO Management Already Breaks Its Own Promise (Lie) on "Bringing Teams Together"
This gut-punching move happened just 2 days ago
Gemini Links 11/07/2025: Occupation of 2025 and "Old Man Yells At Soundcloud"
Links for the day
Our Lawsuits Against the 'Cancel Mob' (Ringleaders) Helped Reduce Anti-Free Software Online Abuse
That's not to say that lawsuits are the best way to handle terrible people. But that can help.