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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
    These Linux distributions will let you revive your PC after Windows 10 ends
  21. This Fedora spin is perfect for one particular kind of new Linux user
    If you like the idea of Fedora, but are afraid it isn't user-friendly enough
  22. 5 operating systems I love testing in a VM, but would never install on my PC
    You’ve got the Linux ecosystem
  23. Commodore OS 3.0 Retro Linux Gaming Distro : Brings Retro Computing to Life
    What if you could relive the golden age of computing while harnessing the power of modern technology
  24. Avoid these 6 common Linux mistakes that beginners often make
    Linux offers freedom and control that few other operating systems can match
  25. KDE Linux and FreeBSD hit alpha and – surprise – fan fave Pop_OS nearly at beta
    It's the season of FOSS fruitfulness as juicy goodness falls from the branch
  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
    Discovering the ever so wonderful compose key after so many years
  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.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

"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