Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2025

Senior walking a pair of Pomeranian dogs pushing a baby carriage

Updated This Past Day

  1. Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10
    With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.
  2. GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More
    The GStreamer project released the first development version of the upcoming GStreamer 1.28 stable series of this widely used open-source multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams.
  3. NethServer 8.5
    Release notes - Distribution Release
  4. DebEX KDE Plasma based on Debian Trixie (upcoming Debian 13) with Refracta Snapshot and Calamares Installer :: Build 250707
    NEWS 250707 about DebEX KDE Plasma – a Refracta Build
  5. MocaccinoOS v1.8.3
    The team hopes you enjoy our effort
  6. Linux Kamarada 15.6: integrated to your smartphone and complete with utilities
    Linux Kamarada 15.6 is ready for everyone to use!
  7. today's leftovers
    some GNU/Linux and mostly FOSS
  8. Databases: PostgreSQL and European Autonomy
    PostgreSQL mostly
  9. BSD Leftovers
    BSD picks
  10. Standards and More
    XML and more on such matters
  11. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  12. Development and Programming Leftovers
    R and more
  13. GNU and Linux Leftovers
    including games
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: GNU/Linux, ESP32, and More
    Some hardware picks
  15. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    Fedora picks and more
  16. This Week in GNOME and Parental Controls in GNOME
    GNOME leftovers for today
  17. today's howtos
    many howtos
  18. Kernel: Lustre at Google, RDNA 3.5 by AMD
    linux news
  19. Operating Systems: Outline of Distros in Use, EasyOS Containers, and MINIX
    3 stories of note
  20. The price of software freedom is eternal politics
    The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.
  21. Release of Wine 10.12
    Wine 10.12
  22. Android Leftovers
    Leak reveals Samsung Auto DeX as an alternative to Android Auto for over 8,500 vehicle models
  23. The software we have to use at work must respect our freedom
    Many free software supporters worldwide are forced to give up their freedom when they log in or go to work
  24. Lenovo readies WMI driver for gaming handhelds with Linux 6.17
    New kernel patch brings native power controls to Legion Go S on Linux
  25. Want to Customise GNOME Shell Notifications? Try This Extension
    You may have noticed that Ubuntu (rather, GNOME Shell) doesn’t provide many notification customisation options out of the box
  26. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  27. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux
    Hardware picks
  28. today's howtos
    idroot mostly
  29. Videos About GNU/Linux and Free Software
    via Invidious
  30. Best Free and Open Source Software
    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives
  31. This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
    Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma
  32. Radxa Fanless Network Router Offers 4 GbE Ports and NVMe Storage Up to 4TB
    On the software side, the E24C supports both Debian Linux and Flippy OpenWrt
  33. Games: Fanatical, SuperWEIRD, Steam Deck, and More
    10 latest from GamingOnLinux
  34. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

European Patent Office Management Mocked for Trying to 'Bribe' Staff With a Little Food
The Office is having a crisis; a little breakfast treat won't solve it
The Corporate Media Intentionally Overlooks How Google's Debt Trebles in Just Over a Year
We'll soon see how much more money Microsoft has borrowed
(Trigger Warning) Jeremy Bicha & Debian-Edu, TecKids, Ubuntu incest scandal at DebConf25
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part X - Deliberately Violate European Patent Convention (EPC), Tolerate Cocaine Use in Management, Hide That From Staff and Stakeholders
The "Alicante Mafia" (as staff calls it) is a disgrace to Europe
Apparently Last Day for Nearly 1,000 Confluent Workers IBM Laid Off Last Month
IBM is a dying company pretending to be strong because of its age
 
Links 01/05/2026: Poems and Continuous Privacy Policy
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 30, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, April 30, 2026
Microsoft Debt Rose Almost $50 Billion Since We Moved to Debian
GAFAM has a new name for debt
Google News Sloppy Again
Today was disappointing
SLAPP Censorship - Part 62 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Issue Astounding Copy-Paste Masterpiece Asserting Publicly-Accessible Embarrassing Facts Must Remain Hidden
Are Garrett and Graveley twins separated at birth but joined by GNOME and Microsoft?
Links 30/04/2026: Barrage of Lawsuits Against Slop, Microsoft's Stock Crashes
Links for the day
Microsoft Says Mass Layoffs Are Coming and Puts a Price on Them
Microsoft will shrink
Upgrade Successful
we had a downtime of only 1-2 minutes overall (for two reboots)
Links 30/04/2026: Slop Industry Cannot Keep Up With Bills, "The World Is Getting Too Hot to Feed Itself"
Links for the day
Then Come the DDoS Attacks
Is someone trying to 'kill' Techrights?
The Register MS Running Spam Pieces for Huawei, a Banned Company
Money does not excuse bad behaviour
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Gemini Links 30/04/2026: Outdoor Time, Old Computers, and Joining Geminispace
Links for the day
In Past 6 Months IBM Lost About 100 Billion Dollars in 'Value' While Debt Ballooned to 70 Billion Dollars
Welcome to a universe of fake finances and phony accounting based on fictional assets with made-up 'worth'
Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop
It's longer than a "tweet", so social control media addicts are likely mentally unfit to read it
Six Months
Techrights will be around (and active) for a very long time to come
If We Move Everything to Devuan...
IRC, Git, Apache and so on
Why We Publish "The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt"
We intend to report the facts, fearlessly, until real and lasting solutions are reached
SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible
when you cover Microsoft corruption and have real effect
Weeks After Mass Layoffs of Red Hat Engineers We Learn of European "Buyouts" and Layoffs at IBM
At Microsoft, they tell us there are merely "buyouts", but they don't tell us what happens if you say "no!"
OS Upgrade Tentatively Scheduled for Tomorrow
We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
Campinos is a Lame Duck President This Year at the European Patent Office (EPO)
The strikes are not ending. If anything, they intensify further.
Links 29/04/2026: LLM Chatbot Usage Goes Down Sharply (as Do Stocks Associated With Them), Microsoft's Circular Financing Accounting Fraud at Risk
Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Returning to an Exodus and Farewell APU
Links for the day
Slop Has a Long Way to Go Before It Gets Basic Facts Right
Please do not rely on slop for anything
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part IX - European Patents That Are Illegal (But Serve Non-European Monopolists in Exchange for 'Quick Cash')
People who shamelessly violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) have the audacity to lecture workers on "ethics"
Canonical is Selling You, Ubuntu is a Data-Collecting Platform
Canonical is looking for money in the wrong places
Links 29/04/2026: "Snowden Affair 13 Years Later" and "Landmark Data Center Pause"
Links for the day
Seems Like Only Techrights Covered IBM Laying Off About 33% of Confluent Staff
How can such a large round of layoffs evade today's media?
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Bad Diet, New Middle Ages, and Temperature Model
Links for the day