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    ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, has announced the EBC77 Series single board computer (SBC) with support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and designed for education
  2. What LLMs do to software freedom [original]
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  3. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  4. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  5. Red Hat Leftovers (Official Site)
    redhat.com latest
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. Applications: Camera, Slop, and ProtonUp
    Software news
  8. today's howtos
    lots from idroot
  9. Audacious 4.5 Released with Playback History & LRCLIB Support
    The new release of this lightweight free open-source player features new plugin, new lyrics provider, and various other improvements
  10. Stable kernels: Linux 6.15.7, Linux 6.12.39, Linux 6.6.99, Linux 6.1.146, Linux 5.15.189, Linux 5.10.240, and Linux 5.4.296
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  11. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Rolls Out with Over 60 Bug Fixes
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  12. Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC
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  13. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with more bug fixes.
  14. Free and Open Source Software
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  15. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and Windows stuff
  16. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
    some hardware picks
  17. Android Leftovers
    5 reasons I'm finally uninstalling Gmail on Android – and what I'm replacing it with
  18. Hyprland 0.50 Lands with New Render Scheduler and Tons of Fixes
    Hyprland 0.50 tiling Wayland compositor drops legacy rendering
  19. Fastfetch 2.48 System Information Tool Brings Fedora Variant Support
    Fastfetch 2.48 system information tool adds Fedora variant detection
  20. Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware
    Truly open source hardware – open down to the firmware level of individual components
  21. Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes Something You Didn’t Know Needed Fixing
    When Ubuntu Dock is in dock mode (not full width), corner radii are out of whack with the corner radius used elsewhere
  22. Org Mode, GNU Guix, Mattermost, and more projects to participate in the FSF's hackathon
    Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that will participate in the virtual FSF40 hackathon on November 21-23 and opened general registration
  23. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. Purism: That one task
    In our last post, we mentioned that there was a key task remaining for gnome-control-center, the GNOME Settings application
  25. Android Advanced Protection - Solid but overcomplicated
    I want to take a look at Android's Advanced Protection mode
  26. Games: Silence of the Siren, Rootkits ("Anticheat"), and More
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  27. today's leftovers
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  28. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
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  29. Latest Kernel- and Python-Centric LWN Articles
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  30. Today in Techrights
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0
Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber
Because proprietary software makes you worse off
"What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)
The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
Making More Work Space
I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
Reject demagogues
 
Science is Under Attack
Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population
Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting)
"social justice warriors"
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice
At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder
The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB)
Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners
Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years
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Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)
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Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Extortion is peace
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Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon
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Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
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In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
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The Blob Slop
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