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  1. Maintenance and Upgrade Soon [original]
    Maybe in May we'll be running the latest Debian
  2. Valnet: Xfce, Watchdog, Android, and Recovery
    4 recent articles
  3. XDA (Valnet) on GNU/Linux Doing What Windows Cannot, a Look at a Weak Windows Clone
    2 articles
  4. Applications: Outsourcing Dotfiles to Microsoft (Proprietary GitHub), Self-hosting, and Rust Hype (Also Proprietary GitHub)
    software picks
  5. Games: Bazzite, Dumping Windows, and a Glimpse at SteamOS 3.9
    gaming picks
  6. Fedora / IBM: Fedora Considered Hard, Flatpak Has Serious Bug
    Flatpak and more
  7. Using Vi/Vim and ShellCheck for Code and Scripts
    2 recent Valnet articles
  8. NAS, Proxmox, and Homelabs With Raspberry Pi
    Open Hardware/Modding/Self-hosting links
  9. HowTo Geek (Valnet) on GNOME Defaults and Extensions
    2 recent articles
  10. Android Leftovers
    Android 16 is full of small changes I don't want to lose — they've grown on me
  11. GNOME 50 is the Linux desktop update I've waited years for
    I recently switched back to the Linux desktop, and just in time
  12. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  13. Kader⁴² – Arch-based Linux distribution
    This is free and open source software
  14. Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Is Slated for Release on October 15th, 2026
    Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” operating system has been slated for release on October 15th, 2026, and it’s expected to come with the GNOME 51 desktop environment and Linux kernel 7.2.
  15. Debian Project Leader Election 2026 Results
    The winner of the election is Sruthi Chandran
  16. Firefox 150 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
    Firefox 150 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for the GTK emoji picker on Linux, extended local network access restrictions, and other changes.
  17. BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
    today's leftovers
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Open Data, and Standards
    FOSS leftovers and more
  19. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Small Web, Wander, and SSGs
    Web centric news
  20. Mozilla Keeps Pushing Slop and Surveillance, Right-Wingers Change the Topic of Controversy to Pronouns
    Mozilla leftovers
  21. Games: The Run and New Titles for Steam Deck
    gaming news
  22. Databases: PostgreSQL Events and Releases, Grafana Table Joins With SQL Expressions
    Database related picks
  23. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  24. BeagleConnect, Banana Pi, DongshanPI, and More
    Boards and Linux devices
  25. Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged and mintCast
    two new episodes
  26. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  27. BSD and Linux Kernel Picks
    Kernel leftovers
  28. LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements
    LXQt 2.4 desktop environment is now available with better Wayland support and many other changes across its core components. Here’s what’s new!
  29. Android Leftovers
    OnePlus just turned its next phone into an Android gaming handheld
  30. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  31. Butterbian – Debian-based Linux distribution with XFCE
    Butterbian is a Debian 13 (Trixie) live ISO built around reliable rollback and recovery from the start
  32. Review: Lakka 6.1
    Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a computer into a game console
  33. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  34. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 19th, 2026
    9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 19th, 2026, brings news about KDE Gear 26.04, Archinstall 4.2, GNOME 50.1, Scribus 1.6.6, Zorin OS 18.1, GIMP 3.2.4, Solus 4.9, OpenSSL 4.0, Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13, Mir 2.26, COSMIC 1.0.10, new XOrg Server and Xwayland security releases, Proton 11 beta, Shelly 2.1, and more.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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Dr. Andy Farnell on Why Calling Slop or Chaff "Hey Hi" (AI) Harm Us All, Except for "Ten or Twenty Rich Industrialists"
"words to avoid"
Internet Trolls Likely Trying to Distract From the Demise of IBM, Problems With Red Hat
there seems to be trolling online aimed at suppressing discussion
Debian Upgrade Coming Up (Soon)
Yesterday we contacted the datacentre staff about it
Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part III - Threats From Burner Accounts Formally Treated as a Crime
Countries that cannot preserve freedom from self-censorship are countries where free press ultimately cannot prevail
24/7 Wall St. Editor-In-Chief and CEO Calls IBM Is "America’s Worst Big Tech Company", Talent is Leaving, Supposedly Strategic Units Culled
21 hours ago by Douglas A. McIntyre
IBM's Debt Increased Over $5 Billion in 3 Months While IBM Laid Off Many in Europe, US, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Red Hat
An increase of $5,000,000,000+ in debt in just 3 months!
 
Corporate Media Did Not Specify What Microsoft Means by "Buyouts" (Layoffs), It May Be Hardly Different From Severance
Time will tell, but investigative journalism hardly exists anymore, so we won't hold our breath
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part V - "Diversity" and "Inclusion" at EPO Means Sleeping With Sister of "Cocaine Communication Manager" and Making Them Millionaires
Remember that top applicants or key stakeholders of the EPO are already complaining about a lack of quality
Links 25/04/2026: Fake GAFAM Valuations (Gripping the Market Based on False Accounting), "Evidence Isn't Just for Research", and "Putin Defends Mobile Internet Outages"
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 24, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, April 24, 2026
Gemini Links 25/04/2026: 3.4k+ Capsules, Microsoft Layoffs, Call for Nuclear Disarmament, "Internet is Sad and Lonely"
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Links 24/04/2026: Zelenskyy Says Ukraine's War Position "Most Stable", Samsung Workers on Strike Due to Pay
Links for the day
Recent Happenings at IBM Reaffirm Rumours About the CEO; He Might be Resigning (or Pushed Out) Soon
If the rumours are true (no, we did not check those tax records for ourselves), it's not unthinkable that IBM is already doing what Apple did months ago
Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Public Reticulum Gateway Node, Smol Computers, and Old E-mail
Links for the day
Links 24/04/2026: Intel Abandoning Computer Freedom (Even Further), Iran Reports That American Software and Hardware Remotely Sabotaged/Hijacked During War
Links for the day
The Great Wonders of Slop "Efficiency"
Thankfully nothing was lost in the transmission and lots of work (datacentre emissions) got "done"
IBMers Expect Another Giant Wave of Layoffs, Talk (and Sing) About the PIPs
The media won't be covering the key facts
Drama at the European Patent Office (EPO) This Week
We'll be covering the EPO quite a lot this weekend and next week
As We Predicted, Francophonie Countries in the EU and Outside the EU Dumping Microsoft for National Security Reasons
We expected Belgium or some other Francophonie place to do so next
Even to Microsoft Insiders It Seems Like XBox Has Already Died or Surrendered to the Japanese Companies
Now the Microsoft layoffs are evident for people to see
EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part VI - The Strikes Go On and On (Major Strike Today)
We'll be covering this later today in relation to what the Office dubs "ethics"
Absolutely Terrible Journalism About Microsoft Layoffs This Week
7 hours ago by Leila Sheridan
SLAPP Censorship - Part 56 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP's Copy-Paste Machination for Garrett and Graveley
Here is another straightforward example of their junior barrister overusing copy-paste on his Mac
Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part II - Lawyers Are Not "Hired Guns" (and Should Never Act Like Ones)
The matter is being investigated
Nadella is Killing Microsoft. Slop Kills It Even Faster.
A decade from now we'll look back at slop like we look back at skateboards
Huge Microsoft Layoffs Coming Shortly (With Financial Report)
There will be lots of slop layoffs. Be ready. It's a bubble.
Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Data Breaches and Unofficial Gemini Protocol Specification Archive
Links for the day
Microsoft Offers About 10,000 of Its Senior American (Read: Expensive) Workers to be Laid Off
How many slopfarms and media parrots play along?
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 23, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, April 23, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 55 Out of 200: Strangled Women, Charged for Strangulation, Cannot Find a Job Now (After Microsoft)
merits public awareness and wider scrutiny
Gemini Links 23/04/2026: Spirituality and Detachment, Shoplifting in the UK, and "Introducing Scout, an iOS Native Gemini Client"
Links for the day
Links 23/04/2026: YouTube Age Limits Expanded and 'Secret' Model With Bug-Finding Hype Campaign 'Leaks'
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Media Operatives of Microsoft Paint Microsoft Layoffs as Buyouts (Intentionally False Narrative)
Those are mass layoffs disguised as something else
IBM's Stock Has Collapsed Over 10% in One Day, Insiders Explain What's Happening
Today, due to a lack of time, we mostly present an outline of what people say (not IBM-sponsored media hacks with LLM slop)
Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part I - Threats Sent From Burner Accounts Since February, Belatedly Reported to British Police
Threats connected to Graveley or Garrett or 5RB or Brett Wilson LLP [...] We're not dealing with a law firm here; we're dealing with the underworld
EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part V - Where Does the António Campinos 'Family Affair' Go From Here?
Do cocaine in public, get caught, take paid "sick leave", come back to lead Europe's second-largest organisation
Links 23/04/2026: Legal Trouble for Microsoft, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and DMCA Whac-a-Mole
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Gemini Links 23/04/2026: Sunrise Chasing Season, Going Back to Older Software, New Gemini Client for Mobile Devices
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