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Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Ask Noah Show, and Going Linux

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Benchmarking 3D graphic cards and their drivers, mesa 25.2.1 released

graphics news
Applications: Self-hosting With Proxmox, PKGget, Neovim vs Vim Comparison, and Newelle

software updates
Debian and Ubuntu Leftovers

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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Web Frameworks

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KDE: Giving It a Try and Krita Monthly Update

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Retro and Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and SPARCs

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Programming Leftovers

Development picks
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Red Hat Leftovers

Red Hat publications, mostly in its site
today's howtos

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Tails 6.19 Brings Tor, Thunderbird, and Browser Updates

Tails 6.19, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out with updated Tor Browser 14.5.6
Perl-Critic – static analyzer

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code
Security Leftovers

Security related leftovers
LWN Articles About Python

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ArchWiki Talk and Bluestar 6.16.1 is Out Based on Arch

Arch news
Games: Proton Experimental, iRacing Arcade, and More

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Android Leftovers

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What to Expect From ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus

ClamAV 1.5 antivirus RC is out, bringing FIPS-compliant signature verification
Forty years, forty links

The Free Software Foundation (FSF)'s fortieth anniversary is approaching
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Stable kernels: Linux 6.16.2, Linux 6.15.11, and Linux 6.12.43

I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.2 kernel
Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

Does the thought of learning Linux seem daunting
LWN on Kernel, Python, and Arch

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StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

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Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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End of the Smartphone Era? No.: Maybe the media should focus on producing accurate, factual news
Slopwatch: Sites Gone Rogue, Google Promoting Lies, and DDoS Attacks by Plagiarism Giants: Charlatans and frauds engage in a war against artistic industries, mislabeling plagiarism as "AI"
Latest Is Not Greatest: The Case of "Foldable" Tech: don't be shamed into abandoning old things just because the "fashion industry" of Apple and Samsung tells you to
Gemini Links 21/08/2025: The Attraction of Back Alleys, Initramfs, and BSD ISPs: Links for the day
Freenode Sniffing: The grown-ups left the building
The Only Thing Worse Than Misinformation is Misinformation Sold to Everyone as "Intelligence": Misplaced trust is worse than none at all
The Register MS Now Openly Admits LLM Hype Does Damage, But It's Also Being Paid to Participate in the LLM Hype (With Paid 'Articles' and 'Webcasts' for Paying Advertisers): The Register MS gets paid to do this
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 21, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, August 21, 2025
Enshittification of Airports, Airlines, and Airplanes: If people are willing to tolerate standard declines and enshittification (nowadays sold as "pivot to AI" or "replaced by AI" or "AI layoffs") they will pay for it some other way
Airlines and Their Tricks That Only Work in the 'Digital Age': People sceptical of the direction technology has taken are not "Luddites"
Open Source Initiative (OSI), Which Became a Propaganda Front of Microsoft and "Hey Hi" (Hype, Misnomer), Wants You to Forget These Scandals: A lot of these issues won't be set aside until there's a resolution
The Culture of Overnight Coding: An industry-wise push-back is needed
Windows Down to New Lows in Guinea Bissau and Many Countries Around It: If Android is accounted for, Windows is down to about 10%
Gemini Links 21/08/2025: Modern Dating, Debian 13, and Apache: Links for the day
Microsoft Has Had About 10 Waves of Mass Layoffs So Far This Year (Not Two as Mainstream Media and Slopfarms Endlessly Claim): Notice how the MSM (Mainstream Media) never mentions the debt of Microsoft. It is a conscious, deliberate decision.
Links 21/08/2025: Covid Cases on the Rise, "Social Media Trolls", Russia's Attacks Intensify: Links for the day
Links 21/08/2025: Stephanie Shirley Dies and "Groklaw Domain Hijacked?": Links for the day
Search in 2025 (Age of DDoS Attacks Under the Guise of "AI" "Innovation"): One common concern when things go "live" is that any random bot out there can execute queries, pumping up RAM and CPU usage, as happened when we used MediaWiki and WordPress
Using Slop for Images Does Not Make Your Site Look Advanced or Witty, It Just Makes Your Whole Work Look Like Presumed Plagiarism: Lazy slobs and Serial Sloppers use the guise/excuse of "AI" to plagiarise and spam the Web
Financing of the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble by Those Who Profit From Planetary Destruction (Global Warming): It's about personal gain, too
Richard Stallman Will Speak in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress: it's good to see that the FSF pays considerable respect to it founder, who is moreover invited to speak at events
(At Least) Second Wave of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft This Month: This is not the first time this month that Microsoft has mass layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 20, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
IBM Operatives Inside The Register MS and More Shady Money to Follow: The Register MS bites every banknote it can sink its teeth into
On the Internet, Nobody Knows Microsoft and Windows Are Becoming Niche Players Until Data is Shown Correctly, Not Microsoft-Sponsored Articles in Microsoft Publishers: Microsoft controls a lot of publishers and thus it controls information
Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms in Google News (e.g. Linux Journal and WebProNews): Google plays an active role (if not deliberately then through utter neglect and carelessness) in plagiarism
Links 20/08/2025: Mass Surveillance Framed as "Artificial Intelligence" (All Old Things Reworded to Misframe Old Computer Issues), Europe Resists Capitulation to US(SR): Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/08/2025: Trips and Permacomputing: Links for the day
Links 20/08/2025: Oracle Layoffs in India, "AI" Scammers/Profiteers Admit It's a "Bubble", Softbank-Saudi (Oil) Control Tech Companies: Links for the day
Social Control Networks Give You False Metrics to 'Addict' You To Them: Leaving social control media may seem hard, but the same is true for any other addiction
A Lot of What Happened in Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing.: Last month we said the same was happening in YouTube
Microsoft May Have Become - at Least Partially - Like a Boiler Room Scam: Giving imaginary salaries using imaginary tokens based on imaginary value (with restrictions on conversion to cash)
In Vietnam, Microsoft's Search Engine "Market Share" Fell to Almost 0%, CocCoc More Than 5 Times Bigger: Why are people still investing in this company?
All That's Left of MSNBC (Microsoft-NBC) is Microsoft NOW: When plutocrats and large corporations (even deep in debt) buy all the communication channels
The Register MS, Paid to Promote "AI" Hype, Does "Sez" (Says) Pieces: every bubble-funded "news" site tries to make it a story about "AI"
Many Companies Are Run by Liars Who Ride Other People's Money: Or steal it
Before CoreAI There Was Builder.ai: GitHub isn't about "AI" (just a bunch of lies and storytelling for shareholders' patience)
Microsoft Windows in Croatia at New Lows: We've been keeping track of this trend for a while
Using the Best Tool/s for the Job: RSS Feeds and RSS Readers: Use RSS feeds. Reject those "modern" Web things
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 19, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Gemini Links 20/08/2025: Neovim, XML, and Alhena 5.2.9: Links for the day