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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. 3 Years Without Social Control Media [original]
    nowadays social control media is leveraged as a weapon, not by users but by platform owners

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  2. KDE Frameworks 6.24 Improves Support for Plasma and Kirigami-Based Apps
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.24 as the monthly update to this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.
  3. Maintenance Tonight and Next Tuesday [original]
    This might even speed things up (afterwards) and reduce chances of downtime
  4. Marknote 1.5 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Is Here with Source Mode, KRunner Plugin
    KDE announced the release of Marknote 1.5, the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) note-taking application for the Linux desktop, which lets you create, edit, and organize rich text notes.
  5. The FSF doesn't usually sue for copyright infringement, but when we do, we settle for freedom
    if the FSF were to participate in a lawsuit such as Bartz v. Anthropic and find our copyright and license violated, we would certainly request user freedom as compensation
  6. Valve Releases New Steam Client Stable Update to Address Various Bugs
    Valve released a new stable update of the Steam Client today to address various bugs, a rare crash, and some other issues reported by users from previous versions.
  7. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    a handful of stories about GNU/Linux
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  9. Web Clients and Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
    Web-related news
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development with R, Qt, and Rust
  11. Gadgets/Devices: Raspberry Pi, Open Hardware, and Debian Lomiri Tablets
    Linux-centric
  12. Mozilla: Firefox Tooling, Privacy Drivel, Slop Plagiarism, and "How to block ads on Firefox"
    Mozilla leftovers
  13. Bringing Chrome to ARM64 GNU/Linux Devices, Google Chrome / Chromium146 Released with Vertical Tabs
    Some chrom* news
  14. OpenBSD 7.9-beta, delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops, and the A to Z of BSD
    BSD news
  15. CIQ of Rocky GNU/Linux Targets GPUs
    using buzz
  16. Linux/BSD Graphics: AMDGPU, Mesa, D7VK, and GPUs
    Graphics leftovers
  17. Games: Anbernic, Valve, and Steam/Unity (Mono)
    some gaming picks
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Security Leftovers
    Security patches and more
  20. I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
    I want to be clear about what this is and isn't
  21. IBM Red Hat's Site Becoming 100% Slop/Plagiarism/Scam
    nothing but buzzwords
  22. Games: RWR 2, Lutris Turns Into Slop, and More
    4 stories from GamingOnLinux
  23. Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, "Robot Partner", and Server Pantry
    Projects and gadgets
  24. Shows and Videos: BSD Now and Recent Clips About GNU/Linux
    via Invidious
  25. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks for today
  26. Android Leftovers
    10 Android Trends That Will Define Smartphones in 2026
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. John at linuxteck.com Has Turned His Site Into LLM Slop About 'Linux', It's No Longer a Genuine Site [original]
    you cannot build or maintain human readership if you feed the people slop
  29. Refocusing More on Software Freedom [original]
    2026 is an interesting year
  30. Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images
    Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.5 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

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SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals
No Allure in Omarchy, the Political Hyenas Only Give it More Free Publicity
To me, Omarchy seems like a weak project because of the slop (an HR problem)
Don't Let Bastards and Haters Grind You Down
They say "jealousy is the sincerest form of flattery"
Goodbye, Dolly
This week we say "goodbye, Dolly."
 
Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland)
Maybe some people want to send him a detailed, polite explanation
GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed
When it comes to Social Control Media, Richard Stallman was right
Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices
We'll soon cover the EPO a lot more
There's No "Next XBox"
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The Register MS Has New Fake Article ("SPONSORED FEATURE") With "AI" 21 Times In It
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IBM's Quantum Computing Lies Explained Again by Sabine Hossenfelder
To become a CEO at IBM one must lie
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Analogue So Much Better and Faster
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Linux Today Dumped All Social Control Media Last December
Linux Today seems to have concluded that all Social Control Media is just a waste of time
Don't Say X.com is OK Because People Can Access It by Alternative Means
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The Reach of techrights.org Is Increasing
We are on the side of women victims
SLAPP Censorship - Part 162 Out of 200: An Outline of Events
An outline of events
Pushed to Live
We still have some other work - stuff related to the editing of pages - which is work in progress and has been subjected to testing for many months
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Germany, Based on Cloudflare
It's peaking late at night
Richard Stallman's GNU Project Began 42 Years Ago With GNU Emacs and More
GNU Project announced almost 43 years ago (next month it's the anniversary)
Fake Articles "Sponsored by HPE" Published in The Register MS
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Not for the First Time This Week, Site Called "It's FOSS" is Promoting Software That is NOT FOSS (And It Knows It)
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Links 25/08/2026: Microsoft Salaries Leaked Again, "Oasis Photograph Sparks Copyright Lawsuit"
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Microsoft Trots Out Its Propaganda Agent Preston Gralla to Make It Sound Like Microsoft Breaks Up With China (Reality: Microsoft Got Dumped by China)
This discredits any publisher that plays along
GNU/Linux Did Not Start in 1991 and America Wasn't Discovered by Europeans
it'll be 43 next month
SLAPP Censorship - Part 161 Out of 200: Low Standards in Defamation Cases Just Muddy the Waters and Distract From Legitimate Cases
The judge at the trial said that Garrett's case was a waste of the court's money
Rolling Out Some Changes Soon
To the regular reader no change will be seen
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 24, 2026
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