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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1, 9.7 Released
    two stable releases of RHEL
  2. Sparky 8.1
    There is the 1st update available for Sparky 8 – 8.1
  3. Layoffs Apparently Impact Microsoft Black Duck, a Firm That Attacks GNU/Linux and Free Software [original]
    Microsoft had plenty of layoffs this year, well over 30,000 in total, including at least two waves of layoffs last month
  4. Tux Machines Has Been Updated Every Day for Over a Decade [original]
    Tux Machines turns 21.5 on the tenth of December, one week before my birthday
  5. Ubuntu is Going in a Bad Direction [original]
    Ubuntu now goes out of its way to break what it inherited from Debian
  6. No Reboots Since 2023 [original]
    This laptop was last rebooted in 2023

    New

  7. openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Defaults to GRUB2-BLS Bootloader for New UEFI Installs
    The openSUSE project announced today that the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has recently switched from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader when installed via YaST in UEFI mode.
  8. Jack Wallen on converting Windows-saddled Mini PC "into a Linux powerhouse" and manual pages
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  9. Security Patches and Kaspersky Wants Its Proprietary Blob Inside GNU/Linux
    Security leftovers
  10. Mission Center 1.1.0 added CPU Power Draw & Revamped Services Page
    For most Linux Distributions, the app is also available to install as Flatpak packages on either amd64 or arm64 platforms
  11. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  12. today's howtos
    4 howtos for now
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Open Data
    FOSS leftovers and more
  14. Programming Leftovers
    Development related posts
  15. Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
    Mozilla related leftovers
  16. Leah Budzicka and Robert Clausecker Publish 2025 EuroBSDCon Trip Reports
    Educational stuff
  17. Red Hat Leftovers From redhat.com (Lots of Buzzwords Like "AI")
    redhat.com picks
  18. BSD Leftovers
    kernel, desktops, and more
  19. Debian-Based Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15 Anonymous Web Browser
    Tails 7.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.
  20. LibreOffice 25.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.
  21. Thunderbird 145 Enables Support for DNS over HTTPS, Drops 32-Bit Linux Binaries
    The Mozilla Thunderbird 145 open-source email, news, chat, and calendar client has been released today as part of the Mozilla Firefox 145 web browser release, bringing various new features and bug fixes.
  22. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pimoroni, and NetBSD
    some hardware picks
  23. New Release: Tails 7.2
    Debian based
  24. Games: SteamOS Hardware, Cropdeck, Satisfactory, and More
    10 new stories from GamingOnLinux
  25. Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds Accessibility Features and Smoother Animations
    Miracle-WM 0.8 tiling Wayland window manager expands usability with new accessibility options and refined workspace animations
  26. Android Leftovers
    11 years ago today, a massive update changed Android forever
  27. openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Ships with GRUB2-BLS by Default for New Installs
    openSUSE Tumbleweed switches to GRUB2-BLS as the default
  28. Homebrew 5.0.0 released
    new relase, Homebrew 5.0.0
  29. Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
    Linux users love to talk about how much faster their systems are compared to Windows
  30. I finally understand Linux multitasking — and these tools changed everything for me
    I always assumed Linux multitasking meant opening terminals and multiple apps side by side
  31. These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated
    I am mainly a Linux user, but sometimes I have to return to Windows for work or gaming
  32. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  33. iDeal OS – MX Linux distribution respin
    iDeal OS is a computer operating system, a custom and enhanced “respin” of the powerful MX Linux distribution
  34. DESERT OS Linux – Russian desktop Linux distribution
    DESERT OS Linux is a Russian desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and offering the Xfce desktop
  35. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  36. Latest From LWN: Kernel, Programming, and More
    now outside the payall
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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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)
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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)
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Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
Links for the day
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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
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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
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
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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
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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"
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More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux
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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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