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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Web Browsers: XSLT, Curl, and Firefox's Ongoing Promotion of Slop/Chaff
    WWW links
  2. Red Hat growth slows, IBM lays off lots of workers
    2 reports
  3. Tux Machines Site Search Can Use Same Code as Techrights' Search [original]
    It's not meant to be used heavily but rather upon necessity
  4. Back to a More Normal Life [original]
    We've regained speed and focus
  5. Techrights Turns 19 in Half a Day [original]
    All Set for Tomorrow

    New

  6. Jack Wallen on password managers for Linux and command-line tools
    new in ZDNet
  7. Blaming "Linux" for Microsoft and Hyper-V Breaches
    Windows TCO
  8. Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Administration & System Information Tools
    Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today in the monthly newsletter for October 2025 two new tools for Linux Mint users, System Information and System Administration.
  9. GNU/Linux, BSD, and Devices
    today's leftovers
  10. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
    Free software and more
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Development with R and more
  12. Games: Steam, GCompris, FEX, and More
    gaming picks
  13. EasyContainers GUI fix and SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled in woofQ2 in EasyOS
    some EasyOS updates
  14. Latest From Red Hat and Why "Badly Crippled IBM Can’t Be Fixed"
    redhat.com mostly
  15. Openwashing of Slop/Plagiarism by OSI and Hypocrisy on "Cyber Resilience" After OSI Data Breach
    Some OSI fluff
  16. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO Tales
    security news
  17. today's howtos
    long batch for the afternoon
  18. antiX-25-full-beta1 available for public testing
    Here is the first beta iso of antiX-25 (64bit)
  19. KDE Gear 25.08.3 Is Out with More Bug Fixes, KDE Gear 25.12 Coming December 11th
    The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.08.3 as the third and last planned update for the KDE Gear 25.08 open-source software suite, with more bug fixes for your favorite KDE applications.
  20. Android Leftovers
    4 awesome (and practical) things you can do with a terminal on Android
  21. Changing these 5 KDE settings made my Linux desktop feel faster
    One of the most common uses for Linux is to breathe life back into old hardware
  22. Who Monitors The Monitor?
    The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here
  23. I once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped commanI once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped command
    Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:
  24. My new favorite diagnostic tool is a free, open-source Clonezilla GUI that's easier to use
    After moving from Windows to Linux, I learned the hard way that breaking my operating system is just part of the learning process
  25. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  26. Xray_OS – Arch-based Linux distribution
    Xray_OS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux
  27. Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… likes what he sees
    Development news/Programming with C
  28. Slimbook Titan report 7 - Nope, I'm not happy (again)
    We must talk about my for-Linux-only laptop, one Slimbook Titan
  29. Grinn GenioBoard Offers MediaTek Genio 700 SoM, Dual M.2 Expansion, and CRA-Ready Security
    According to the company, the GenioBoard supports Yocto-based and Debian Linux distributions
  30. Games: The Crew Motorfest, Sonic Rumble, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  31. Latest From LWN, Microsoft Azure Falls Offline Again
    Outside the paywall
  32. Debian splits ftpmaster team
    For now, the same folks are doing the work but spread across two teams
  33. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
"A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a location strategy under which it has identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment."
The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
What was now known as The Register UK not only works against the interests of the UK; it works for charlatans and frauds
IBM 'Value' Fell 20%, The Executives Took Bonuses and Bonus Hikes
IBM is paying more and more money to the executives
More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
How long can the corporate media ignore IBM layoffs for?
SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
No wonder his own colleagues thought poorly of him (the junior barrister)
 
Links 11/04/2026: Twitter Presence Considered Harmful to News Sites, "The Future of Everything is Lies"
Links for the day
thenextweb.com (TNW) Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, Fake Articles About France and GNU/Linux Flood the Web
If you're not against slop, you're part of the problem
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 10, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, April 10, 2026
Three Years Ago We Disconnected From the United States, Now France Does the Same
Maybe in the coming months France will recruit loads of UNIX/Linux specialists
While Thousands of EPO Workers Are on Strike the President of the EPO, Who Bribes His Voters, Gives Himself Millions of Euros and 5,000 Euros Per Month in Housing Allowance
Campinos is immune, inherently corrupt, and habitual briber of his 'voters'
IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)
What a crazy world we live in!
Slopfarms We Forget About Because They Silently Die
The hard reality (for slobs and sloppers) is, slopfarms have no future
Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Flexiveganism, What Happened to Twitter, and Algorithm Fetishes
Links for the day
Links 10/04/2026: Indonesia's Social Control Media Bans Extend to Google YouTube, "I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower"
Links for the day
Media Blackout Regarding Mass Layoffs at Red Hat
To be very clear, what happened is certainly real
SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
It's difficult to argue with people over things that they do not even understand
This Coming Weekend and Next Week We'll Cover EPO Scandals a Lot, There Are Still Perpetual Strikes That the Media Intentionally Avoids Covering
Expect our focus on EPO corruption to grow again
Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
This has nothing to do with workers' performance
We'll Never Ever Do Social Control Media, Nate Silver's Article Helps Explain Why
If you want to research and publish, stay away from it
Links 10/04/2026: Pseudoscience and "Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles" and More Attacks on American Journalism
Links for the day
Dr. Andy Farnell Blasts Misuse of the Term "AI" to Describe Plagiarism, Plunder, and Misinformation
Dr. Stallman wrote about it back in the early 1980s
A Sign of Progress?
We'll solve war hunger and colonise Mars soon, according to men who never graduated from College
The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
Google does not have "AI"; it has slop, which means it scrapes other people's work, then imitates it poorly
"IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
IBM as a company is collapsing
Many Layoffs at IBM Red Hat, as the Rumours Said
Red Hat mass layoffs [...] "this was a difficult decision to make."
Microsoft, Drowning in Net Debt, Will Make Many More Cuts
The company is a net negative to society
April 15: Richard Stallman to Speak at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas
Next Wednesday in the afternoon Dr. Stallman will speak in a US college for the second time this year and for the second time in nearly 8 years
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 09, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, April 09, 2026
Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Cycling, Slop, and Software to Keep Photos Organised
Links for the day
Henry Abbott (TrueHoop) Says Microsoft Taken Public by Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (in New Interview About Jeffrey Epstein)
He has claimed that the man who took Microsoft public was a banker and also connected to the CIA (former Executive Director)
Quick Roundup of "Linux" Slop
Today we saw a slopfarm again in Google News
Links 09/04/2026: Microsoft Attacking VeraCrypt and "Canada’s New Surveillance Law"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/04/2026: Shopping, LLMs That Ruin the Net, and Moving to GNU/Linux
Links for the day
Links 09/04/2026: TikTok Sets Up Another Outpost in Finland (EU), "Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked by Judge"
Links for the day
Microsoft's DevDiv Executive Has Quit (Is GitHub on the Chopping Block?)
CodePlex all over again?
Chatbots (or LLMs) Are Killing Us, and We Ought to Talk About It
We need to talk (to each other, not to bots)
Microsoft Also Fires Senior Executives
Microsoft is a very feeble company pretending to be a giant
Microsoft Windows in Ireland: From 90% to Just 16%
When it comes to Ireland's Web usage, not much of it is from Windows anymore
SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
my response to a frivolous claim from Graveley
IBM Layoffs by Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and More Evidence of Layoffs at HashiCorp After IBM Took Over
Notice how the media does not cover IBM layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 08, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 08, 2026
Gemini Links 09/04/2026: On the Radio, Boogie Notes, Slop in Search Engines and USENET
Links for the day