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  1. Institutional Failure at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Reported to Politicians [original]
    Because of the SRA, malicious "hired guns" harassed my wife for several years
  2. Bookmarking the Web, Offpunk 3.0 for Gemini/Gopher, and Matrix in Governments
    Free, Libre, and Open Source Software on the Net
  3. Wine 11.2
    The Wine development release 11.2 is now available
  4. analytics.usa.gov Shows Rapid Erosion of Windows Market Share Since 'End of 10' (Vista 10) [original]
    "There were 2.23 billion sessions in the last 30 days.
  5. When the UK's Regulatory Authorities Are Systematically Failing Women [original]
    This isn't the last resort but one of several

    New

  6. tag2upload general availability
    tag2upload is now out of beta
  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  8. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Hardware picks
  9. Red Hat Leftovers and a Focus on Slop, as Usual From IBM
    Red Hat is slop pusher
  10. Security Leftovers
    Security patches and more
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  12. PostgreSQL: credcheck v4.5 pgAdmin 4 v9.12 Released
    Databases news
  13. FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers
    BSD news
  14. Games: Steam, Roblox, and GOG
    With Linux focus
  15. GNU/Linux Desktop/Laptop: NsCDE on Debian 13, Sound of 'Distrohop', and AppManager
    3 new picks
  16. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, "What’s in the SOSS?" and Social Control Media Ban
    some new episodes
  17. Distributions and Operating Systems: Distro Dilemma, "Mid-life Crisis", Servers, and Hadron
    distros in the news
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. EasyOS News and Release of 7.1.4
    EasyOS leftovers
  20. MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8
    MythTV 36.0 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source media center software capable of recording TV (similar to TiVo), playing videos, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, music, viewing photos, and more.
  21. Games: D7VK, Steam, and Retro Linux Gaming Computer
    4 GamingOnLinux stories
  22. Mesa 25.3.5 Released
    Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixe
  23. Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Pioreactor, Amiga With PAL, and More
    Hardware projects
  24. Audiocasts/Shows: Cybershow, TDE Podcast and Package Manager Podcast
    some new episodes
  25. Concerns about low-quality PRs being merged into main
    I think we need to change our approach
  26. Is Open Source in Trouble?
    "Every 20 developers in your company, 50% of one person’s time goes to them developing open source and that 50% is like, completely free of company influence.”
  27. Android Leftovers
    You can (and should) run a tiny LLM on your Android phone
  28. KDE Plasma vs. Xfce: Comparing Lean and Mean Desktop Environments for Linux Users
    KDE and XFCE are two impressive desktop environments known for their resource efficiency and performance
  29. 8 Reasons Why Linux Mint is Better Than Ubuntu for Linux Beginners
    Linux Mint is better for beginners, but why so
  30. Want to self-host for free? This server OS makes it easy - here's how to get started
    Ubuntu Server is my go-to for self-hosting
  31. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  32. Kapsule: it shipped and nobody died
    In my last post, I laid out the vision for Kapsule—a container-based extensibility layer for KDE Linux built on top of Incus
  33. Microsoft's Implosion Will be an Opportunity for Further GNU/Linux Gains [original]
    Microsoft's layoffs will focus on Windows and XBox (gaming has been a complete catastrophe for Microsoft), so there will be room for GNU/Linux gains
  34. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Says It Cannot Keep Up With Abusive Legal Cases in the UK [original]
    Rianne will soon contact her politicians (representatives) about this
  35. 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 2026-02-04 to 2026-02-10
    970 /n/2026/02/04/LibreOffice_26_2_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.shtml
    896 /index.shtml
    787 /summary.shtml
    754 /n/2026/02/04/Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Users_Get_Linux_6_17_and_Mesa_25_2_Ahead_of_Ub.shtml

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