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Updated This Past Day

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    KDE Plasma 6.4.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with more fixes.
  2. Linux 6.16-rc4
    new RC is out
  3. Fedora Linux Won't Kill 32-Bit Software, for Now
    A proposal to drop all support for 32-bit software in the distant Fedora 44 release has been withdrawn after backlash from the community

    New

  4. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux-centric news picks
  5. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and openwash
  6. Latest on Debian and Ubuntu
    some small updates from both
  7. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi
  8. Cache vs. Database, PostgreSQL Latest, and Time Series Databases
    DB-related picks
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  10. Red Hat Official Site: Latest Blog Posts
    5 new ones
  11. Windows Loses Its Grip, BSD and GNU/Linux Gain
    some desktop updates
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and Late Night Linux
    2 new episodes
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    some software recommendations
  14. Android Leftovers
    Why a OnePlus ban could ruin Android phones in the US as we know them
  15. Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements
    Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 lands with API schema fixes
  16. Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre
    Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks
  17. Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel
    Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format
  18. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 196 is available for testing
    Hot on the heels of our recent WireGuard release
  19. MODICIA O.S. – Linux multimedia distribution
    MODICIA O.S. is a multimedia distribution designed primarily for musicians, graphic designers and video makers
  20. Jekyll Publishing on FreeBSD
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  21. Plasma 6.4 Wayland vs X11 desktop performance numbers
    Last Thursday, I published my review of the latest version of the fantastic Plasma desktop environment
  22. 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro
    I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux
  23. 4 Linux distros that can't be upgraded on autopilot - and why they're still worth trying
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  24. today's howtos
    another batch for today
  25. TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 Linux Laptop Now Ships with AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs
    Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced that their TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop can now be purchased with an AMD processor too, namely the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and 9955HX3D.
  26. Hardware With GNU/Linux and ARM, non-x86
    some hardware picks
  27. 5 underrated Linux apps I can't live without
    I recently made the switch to using Linux full time, leaving Windows behind
  28. Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'
    Maintaining 32-bit support will allow Steam to keep functioning on popular Linux distribution
  29. 9 Great Linux Apps to Try on Your Chromebook
    Are you looking for some Linux apps to install on your Chromebook
  30. Choose the GPL instead of a "no attribution" license for your next program
    Just because a license is free does not mean it serves the goals of the free software movement well
  31. Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
    Canonical is bullish in promoting Ubuntu for RISC-V devices
  32. Free software can strengthen the US healthcare system
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  33. Defending Savannah from DDoS attacks
    Savannah is under heavy attack, likely from one or more organizations using a massive botnet to build a dataset for training large language models (LLMs)
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  35. I didn't get free software until I became a reverse engineer
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  36. There is no collective freedom without you
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  37. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  38. Games: SteamOS 3.7.13, Half-Life, Bubbits, and More
    10 stories from GamingOnLinux
  39. Where is it possible to purchase the new Fairphone 6 in the USA?
    This is a frequent question we’re getting at Murena
  40. PI(M)P Your Clock
    You may have read about my new-found fondness for Plasma’s Clock app
  41. This Week in KDE Apps: Improvements in Photos, KRetro and better keyboard navigation
    Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps
  42. GE-Proton 10-7 and Wine 10.11
    Windows compat layer
  43. YY3588 Development Board with up to 32GB RAM, 2.5GbE Port and Onboard NFC
    The YY3588 supports Android 14, Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Buildroot
  44. This Debian-based Linux distro is an overlooked and user-friendly gem
    This operating system can serve users of all types
  45. New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know
    I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux
  46. Corporate best practices for upstream open source contributions
    When I started getting into Linux and open source over 25 years ago
  47. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-06-25 to 2025-07-01
    1399 /n/2025/06/24/Google_Outsources_Agent2Agent_to_Microsoft_Proprietary_Jail_Git.shtml

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"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
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, February 15, 2026