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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 11, 2025

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    The impact he had in (and on) Manchester was huge and his death devastated many, even Manchester United fans
  2. Nature Called [original]
    Microsoft is having layoffs again this week
  3. Tux Machines Will Pursue Compensation From Brett Wilson LLP, Just Like Others Do [original]
    One way or another, justice will be served

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  4. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    Graphics, Alpine, Debian, and more
  5. OpenBSD -current is now "7.8-current", BSD Now Podcast's Latest Episode
    2 BSD news picks
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks for today
  8. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    Red Hat mostly
  9. PostgreSQL: PGroonga 4.0.4 and Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2026
    PostgreSQL news for today
  10. Web Browsers: Plasma Browser Integration in 6.x, Firefox’s New Profile Manager, and Mozilla Promoting Slop/Plagiarism
    Web Browsers roundup, mostly Firefox
  11. Applications and Games for GNU/Linux: FOSS Weekly, WinBoat, and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients
    3 stories combined
  12. Kernel: Intel's Betrayal, Bootlin on Forging BTF for eBPF, and Resizeable BAR Support on the Raspberry Pi
    Linux kernel stories
  13. today's howtos
    many howtos
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SparkFun, and More
    hardware related picks
  15. Security Leftovers
    Patches and incidents
  16. FSF Comments on End of Vista 10
    and more TCO stories
  17. Meta Unveils OpenZL: A New Open Source Data Compression Framework
    OpenZL is Meta’s new open-source compression framework that delivers faster
  18. Android Leftovers
    I tweaked these Developer options and Android Auto became far less annoying
  19. 4 things Microsoft needs to prioritize on Windows if they want to stop bleeding users to Linux
    f Microsoft wants to stop users from jumping ship to Linux, it’s not about reinventing Windows, it’s about fixing what people already hate about it
  20. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  21. Virtium Embedded Artists Expands SoM Lineup with Renesas RZ/G3E Platform
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  22. Games: Outlive, Truckful, Fanatical Bundle and More
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  23. Beyond Free: Developers, It's Time to Reclaim Open Source from the Exploitation Trap
    Yet, beneath this gleaming façade of collaborative triumph, a troubling reality persists, casting a long shadow over the very ethos of open source
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  25. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  26. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux mostly
  27. Games: Godot Engine and Status of CachyOS
    gaming leftovers
  28. Fedora/Copr and Red Hat Hype Articles
    3 new ones
  29. today's howtos
    idroot mostly
  30. Today in Techrights
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