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Updated This Past Day

  1. Open Hardware: RAM-flation Impacts Raspberry Pi and "Meet the Garbage PC"
    Hardware news
  2. 2026 Started Well for GNU/Linux in Albania [original]
    Albania is a poor country (by European standards), but can it show the way out of GAFAM?
  3. Daniel Pocock Filed a Lawsuit Against Debian, EFF, Gandi and Others [original]
    It's almost 400 pages long
  4. The UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is in Trouble, It Doesn't Know How to Tackle SLAPPs, It Only Wastes a Lot of Money [original]
    It's a lapdog, not a watchdog
  5. Skywave Linux v5.10 Released
    Skywave Linux has been upgraded to version 5.10
  6. Zoo is Never the Right Place [original]
    I am saddened, as reading the news is something which I always do and is part of my daily routine

    New

  7. Security Leftovers
    Security related stuff
  8. GNU/Linux, Games, and Hardware Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  9. Distributions and Operating Systems: Haiku and GNU/Linux
    a few OS related picks
  10. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    only 3 for now
  11. today's howtos
    idroot and more
  12. Kernel Space: Issues in Public Transport, Grooming of Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Plan for Post-Torvalds Scenario
    3 kernel related picks
  13. This tiny Linux USB tool can save almost any broken PC
    Not every written-off PC is broken due to hardware failure
  14. Linux Gaming Is Finally Legit: Why Steam Players Are Switching From Windows
    hanks to Valve’s Proton compatibility layer, a huge part of the Windows game library on Steam runs on Linux with barely any extra effort
  15. System76 Releases COSMIC 1.0.5 with New Option to Show Battery Percentage
    Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.5 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.
  16. Raising Awareness of SLAPPs in the UK (Filed by Americans Connected to Microsoft) [original]
    In the coming years we'll go what we can to raise awareness of this problem and tackle it
  17. Games: GOG, TerraTech Legion, and More
    GamingOnLinux's latest 10
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Development, and Standards
    FOSS and more
  19. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  20. PCLinuxOS Magazine: Screenshots, Making Quality Music Easily, and Another Great Loss For PCLinuxOS
    some new updates/community news
  21. Android Leftovers
    What’s new in Android’s February 2026 Google System Updates
  22. Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
    Winter 2026 is proving to be a cold one around these parts
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. GNU/Linux Reaches 12% in Bulgaria, Says statCounter; Windows Down From 99% to 22% [original]
    Bulgaria used to be almost 100% Windows
  25. Static Site Generators (SSGs) Made Life Easier and the Site Vastly Faster [original]
    You'd hardly know or feel the site serving a lot of pages despite it being very modestly provisioned
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-01-28 to 2026-02-03
    918 /n/2026/01/29/What_Happens_to_Linux_After_Linus_Torvalds_We_Finally_Have_the_.shtml
    915 /n/2026/01/05/New_GeForce_NOW_native_Linux_support_could_lure_Windows_10_refu.shtml

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We Should Learn From Bulgaria
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Canonical: Ubuntu is GAFAM (US), We're Resellers of American Proprietary Software
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Links for the day
 
BillBC (BBC) Covered Up Pedophilia, Now It's Covering Up for Its Sponsor Bill Gates by Reprinting His Lies, Which His Own Wife Disputes
Is Bill Gates having orgies (group sex)?
Phoronix Swims With the Real Trolls, People Who Fancy Proprietary Software and Back Doors
If Larabel begins to actively participate in provocation with the "Microsoft GitHub fans club", what does this tell us about Phoronix?
They Know Microsoft Layoffs Are About to Hit Them Hard
The gaming division at Microsoft is a complete catastrophe, lots of money (debt) down the drain [...] Buying Activision was all about misleading shareholders or hiding the deep trouble/problems XBox was having
Red Hat is Not a Linux Company, It's IBM's Ponzi Scheme Enabler
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"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
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A few decades from now IBM will only be remembered in the same sense many so-called 'AI' companies will be remembered
EPO Staff Union: "Very High Strike Participation on Friday 30 January", Another Strike Starts 19 Days From Now
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Censorship/Free Speech and Social Control Media
It's important to have a grasp of how contemporary censorship works and how to tackle it
Google News as Slop Booster
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 03, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, February 03, 2026
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Links for the day
IBM Falls by Over 10%
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Links 03/02/2026: Windows Copies GNU/Linux, Windows TCO Shown Again
Links for the day
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Not for the first time either
You Know Your Company is Dead or Basically a Pyramid Scheme When Jim Cramer Keeps Promoting Its Stock
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Financial engineering
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Do politics play any role in this?
An Effort to Tackle Slavery in 'Open Source' Clothing
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SRA is neither effective nor regulated
400-Page US Federal Court Against Abuses by Google, Microsoft and Front Groups That Abuse Volunteers for American Corporations
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Corporate Influence Never Impacted Us
There's no reason to assume we'll ever "sell out"
Growth of GNU/Linux in Cuba
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Microsoft is hiding what's really happening while mocking critics
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"goodwill" will be inflated despite IBM staff getting sick of IBM
Americans Move to GNU/Linux
some of the biggest American populations
I Still Like Drawing and Various Other Arts (They Help My Activism and Journalism), Slop is an Enemy of Creative People
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Carmen-Lisandrette Maris (Mission:Libre) Explains to Adolescents and Young Adults How Free Software Improves Privacy
Based on what we've seen and read, Mission:Libre has a solid grasp of Software Freedom
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Beware projection tactics
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