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Updated This Past Day

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    Looking after one's health is a hot topic

    New

  2. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux, FOSS, and standards
  3. Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show and Destination Linux
    2 new episodes
  4. mrxvt on openSUSE and OpenSUSE on Git Workflow Adoption
    OpenSUSE latest
  5. Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: Android Linux Commander, Not An Android Emulator, and Mousai App Now Available
    Mobile and Linux
  6. Latest From IBM's redhat.com: Lots of Promotion of Scams, Energy-Draining Cargo Cults, and Mindless Marketing
    redhat.com is full of cruft
  7. Mozilla is Trying to Replace Web Pages With Slop Plagiarism, Promotes "AI" Hype in the EU
    bad Mozilla
  8. WordPress Loading Sequence and Leveraging Eleventy's Custom Data File Formats
    Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) picks
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development-related picks
  10. Windows apps on Linux and Windows games on your GNU/Linux system
    Not just WINE
  11. Kernel Coverage: btrfs, OpenZFS, and Chaff in Commits
    Linux news
  12. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security-related picks
  14. Fwupd 2.0.15 Adds Support for NVIDIA ConnectX-6, ConnectX-7 and ConnectX-8 NICs
    Fwupd 2.0.15 has been released today as the fifteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.
  15. TUXEDO Computers Now Supports Fully Automated Installations of Debian 13
    Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today a new version of their TUXEDO WebFAI (Fully Automated Installation) tool that includes support for the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system.
  16. Hyprland 0.51 Wayland Compositor Adds Fully Configurable Trackpad Gestures
    Hyprland 0.51 was released today for this independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for GNU/Linux distributions that introduces unique features and enhancements.
  17. Build Your Own 10″ Raspberry Pi 5 Tablet Running KDE Mobile Linux
    What if your next tablet wasn’t just another off-the-shelf device, but a fully customizable
  18. Android Leftovers
    Android 16: Confirmed features, codename, leaks, release date, and everything else we know so far
  19. PeerTube 7.3 Brings Multilingual Emails, Custom Branding Options
    PeerTube 7.3 Brings Multilingual Emails, Custom Branding Options
  20. 7 most Windows-like Linux distros - if you're ready to ditch Microsoft
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  21. This Fedora spin is perfect for one particular kind of new Linux user
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  22. 5 operating systems I love testing in a VM, but would never install on my PC
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  23. Commodore OS 3.0 Retro Linux Gaming Distro : Brings Retro Computing to Life
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  24. Avoid these 6 common Linux mistakes that beginners often make
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  25. KDE Linux and FreeBSD hit alpha and – surprise – fan fave Pop_OS nearly at beta
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  26. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is a series of articles looking at the Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux
  27. I Discovered the Wonderful Compose Key After 15 Years of Using Linux
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  28. Games: Wheel World, Broken Relic, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Rogue Labyrinth, and More
    Latest 8 from GamingOnLinux
  29. Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 Is Out Based on Debian 12.12 “Bookworm”
    Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 has been released for fans of this Debian-based small, fast, customizable, and full-featured Linux distro optimized to support older and newer computers.
  30. GNOME Kiosk Updates
    GNOME Kiosk is a separate Wayland compositor built on the same core components as GNOME Shell
  31. SpecFive Strike Handheld Linux Workstation with LoRa Mesh
    The SpecFive Strike is a handheld Linux workstation with integrated LoRa mesh networking
  32. Hackabone Project Offers BeagleBone-Based Embedded Linux Training with Emulated Framework
    The stack of software used for exercises includes U-Boot, the Linux kernel from the BeagleBone repository
  33. Reminduck Is an Adorable Reminder App for Linux
    If you struggle to remember to do things
  34. Ubuntu 25.10 Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.17 Ahead of the Beta Release
    As of today, the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release is powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, which will be the default kernel offering for the Questing Quokka series.
  35. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

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The Right to Repair (Especially When Products Are So Poorly Made)
Many electrical appliances fail often/quick and are nearly impossible to repair
The Register MS: Don't Use Linux
That really says a lot about The Register MS
The Year of the Bubble
We hope that in 2026 the marketing liars will find some new buzzwords to latch onto and quit calling everything "AI"
Sounds Like Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Ran Out of Money to Borrow
Maybe in 2026 slop will be scarce enough that eventually, maybe by year's end, we'll manage to just ignore it.
 
Gemini Links 25/12/2025: Hibernation and TV Detox
Links for the day
Canonical is Making the Cost of PCs Very High, Due to Unnecessary Ubuntu Bloat
They say the reason for the price surge is LLM hype/frenzy
Canonical's Ubuntu is Bloatware
How did Ubuntu get so fat?
The EPO is a Very Vicious Organisation You Neither Wish to Join Nor Stay in for "Too Long"
Consider what the EPO thinks of its own workers, the staff that actually does real work
2026 Will Hopefully Turn Out to be Slopless
we seem to be starting the post-Christmas period on the right footing
Links 25/12/2025: Mail Carriers in "a Murky Future", Dihydroxyacetone Man’s "Chip Embargo Against China Backfiring Spectacularly"
Links for the day
The Register MS: All I Want For Xmas is Microsoft
they actually put effort into it
How to Win Nobel Prize for Peace
Do you get to Heaven (or peace platitudes) by sleeping with 72 virgins?
Links 25/12/2025: Ample Cover-up Found in Jeffrey Epstein Files; ChatGPT Causes Psychosis, Not a Good Use Case
Links for the day
Giving Money to Free Software
In life, people must make sacrifices to do what's right and just
EPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend
The next installment (number 16) will probably come out this weekend
Microsoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...
XBox as a console is pretty much dead
Mozilla Firefox is a GAFAM Browser With Slop, Move to a Free Software Web Browser
on mobile the options would be more limited
libera.chat Was Under Attack Last Night
Several months from now libera.chat turns 5
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises Over $300,000 Before Christmas
the FSF made it past $300,000
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 24, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, December 24, 2025
In India, Staff Works on Christmas Eve, Becomes Unemployed (Last Day)
The company fires based on how "expensive" workers are more often than based on their productivity
Links 24/12/2025: US TACOs on "China Chip Tariffs Until 2027", Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops
Links for the day
Links 24/12/2025: Cheeto President "Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files", Windows to be Replaced by Slop?
Links for the day
Gemini Links 24/12/2025: Tea, Love During Pain, and Gaming This Year
Links for the day
GAFAM is a Bubble, Nothing is Free in This World
Nothing is free in the world
My New CD Player/Stereo Didn't Even Last a Year, My CD Player/Stereo From the Early 1990s Still Works
That helped reaffirm what I said in recent years about production/manufacturing standards of "modern" things
GitHub Isn't Free, Microsoft Subsidises It (Losses) to Entrap You Inside Proprietary Software, Now Come the Fees
GitHub was never free
XBox Console is Dead, "Microsoft is Rethinking What XBox is"
So XBox is now "cloud"
IBM SkillsBuild: Teaching Slop to People
What skills does that give? Making more slopfarms?
Maybe 2026 Will be the Last Year of António Campinos
Europe's patent system is run by thugs and it serves thugs
2025: The Year LLM Slop Rose to Prominence and Then Fell
the slop hype is bound to end
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Links 24/12/2025: Spotify Surveillance and Shadow Over Rule of Law in Hong Kong
Links for the day
A Good End for a Fine Year
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Serial Sloppers Lost Momentum, Sites With "Linux" in Their Name Barely Bother Anymore
Will 2026 be the year slopfarms jump the shark?
Gemini Links 23/12/2025: Hydraulic Pressure Balance and mercury://
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Gemini Links 23/12/2025: "The sun is shinning" and "problem in the Butlerian Jihad setup"
Links for the day
Links 23/12/2025: "Over 8,700 News Articles Censored in Turkey in 2024" and "Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files"
Links for the day
Techrights as 'Regulator' Against Runaway Trains
"Runaway trains" never scared us because we know that they, unlike us, don't think rationally
Links 23/12/2025: That ‘Satisfying Click’ and Security Lapses, Car Bomb Kills Russian Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov
Links for the day
Links 23/12/2025: GNU Taler 1.3, US Regime Censors Television Again
Links for the day
Valve Can Bring More Users to GNU/Linux, But It Won't Bring Freedom
Steam is DRM
Social Control Media is Bots (Fake Traffic, Fake 'Engagement')
As per FORTUNE, 76% of Twitter is alleged to be bots now
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 22, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, December 22, 2025
How the Slop (So-called 'AI') Bubble Will Burst Next Year
There are already talks about mass layoffs in January
"Generative AI Bubble Has Begun to Pop", Nvidia Rides “Circular Financing... a Strategy That Hearkens Back to the Dot-com Crisis”
For companies like Microsoft this may mean another 30,000+ layoffs next year
Microsoft-Connected Media Talking About XBox Division "Profit Margins" is Distraction From XBox Sales Collapsing 70% in One Year
The simple fact is, Microsoft's console is dead in the water
The Reality is "Vibe Code" (Slop) is That It's Worthless
“Confidently Wrong”