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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Rude People Online [original]

   If you cannot behave, go offline

2. Techrights' 5 Years in Geminispace [original]

   One might say we escaped to Geminispace 2 years before the deluge of slop on the Web

3. Growing Interest in Gemini Protocol [original]

   We've been seeing growing interest in our capsule

4. Maintaining the Routine of Curation, Activism, and Journalism [original]

   I really wish more people ran blogs instead of wasting time with "apps" and social control media

5. Appealing a Judgement [original]

   What's at stake here is the reputation and credibility of the legal profession in the UK

6. GNU/Linux Rises in Thailand While Microsoft Windows Falls [original]

   When it comes to the war against GAFAM, Thailand seems to be winning

7. Site of GNU/Linux "Ultimate Edition" Still Seems Cracked (Weeks Already) [original]

   Is Glenn paying any attention?

8. Datacentre Maintenance Done [original]

   Network maintenance

   New

9. This security-focused Linux distro is switching to KDE

   The team behind Parrot OS (often shortened to Parrot) has announced the beta release of Parrot 7.0

10. Canonical to distribute AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in Ubuntu

    Canonical is pleased to announce an expanded collaboration with AMD to package and maintain AMD ROCm™ software directly in Ubuntu

11. KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Bugfix Release for December

    Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.4

12. Mozilla Thunderbird 146 Brings OpenPGP Keyserver Settings

    Thunderbird 146 open-source email client introduces a new OpenPGP keyserver setting and delivers a range of fixes improving stability

13. AerynOS Delivers December Updates With New Alpha ISO

    AerynOS closes 2025 with major package upgrades

14. GNU/Linux Gaming: Abxylute's $70 Retro Gaming Handheld, Steam Deck, and Steam Machines

    5 stories

15. Linus Torvalds Indoctrinated by LF Sponsors ("AI" Scheme) and Microsoft Boosters

    Linus Torvalds and "follow the money"

16. Security Leftovers

    Security centric picks

17. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    GNU/Linux news leftovers

18. Greg K-H on Linux kernel version numbers and on Linux CVEs

    kernel thoughts and information

19. Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers

    hardware picks

20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS leftovers

21. Licensing: "Open Source" and When Code 'Leaks'

    FOSS legal matters

22. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks

23. Web Browsers, Firefox, and Tor Browser

    WWW links

24. FreeBSD: Adriaan de Groot on Recovering a Botched FreeBSD 14 Upgrade and Dan Langille on zpool

    BSD news

25. Back to the Dawn, Godot, and CachyOS

    gaming picks

26. GNOME: Javad Rahmatzadeh on Mindless Slop and Michael Catanzaro on Security Problem

    a pair of GNOME posts

27. Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory Get Awards From the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

    latest winners

28. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters, Ask Noah Show, and Destination Linux

    3 new episodes

29. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    a few more GNU/Linux stories

30. Recent Videos About GNU/Linux

    via Invidious

31. today's howtos

    a handful of howtos

32. Red Hat Official Site Advances Buzzwords and PR, Shallow Hype

    Latest from Red Hat

33. Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, Jolla, Arduino, and More

    Hardware leftovers

34. Mozilla on Firefox and Surveillance

    Firefox and more

35. Is Linux market share going stonks or not stonks?

    we do have a few data sources, all of which could be taken into consideration

36. Games: Overwatch 2, "Total War: MEDIEVAL III", and More

    new stories from GamingOnLinux

37. Android Leftovers

    Google could be adding controller button mapping in Android 17

38. First Steps With Wine 11 and Proton Experimental Updates

    WINE or Emulation

39. Pebble Index 01 Arrives as a Private Open Source Voice Capture Ring

    Pebble Index 01 is an open-source smart ring that captures quick voice notes instantly and privately

40. PeerTube 8.0 Brings a Modern Video Player and Team Channel Management

    PeerTube 8.0 decentralized video platform debuts a modern Lucide player

41. Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected

    Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained

42. Ubuntu 26.04 Will Look More Like Vanilla GNOME Shell

    Ubuntu’s default desktop is about to look more like upstream GNOME than it has in years — but before you panic unduly

43. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

44. There Is No “Commercial” Open Source – Only Open Source

    All of them include a simple rule: open source cannot restrict how the software is used or to which purpose

45. 30 Reasons I ❤ KDE Plasma

    KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year

46. 5 Signs You Have Become a Linux Power User

    You probably do not even realize how much you have improved since your first day with Linux

47. VirtualBox, OVA import and E_INVALIDARG 0x80070057 error

    I wanted to export one of my Linux virtual machines

48. Less Microsoft and Windows in Caribbean Seas [original]

    Microsoft may have many layoffs soon

49. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

50. Apple and Microsoft Cannot Stop GNU/Linux [original]

    Windows sales have fallen off a cliff

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