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today's leftovers

with focus on GNU/Linux
GNU and FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty

Free software leftovers
Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More

3 stories for today
Security Leftovers

Security news for today
This Week in GNOME and Goblint Notes

GNOME Desktop/GTK news
K Desktop Environment/KDE: Krita Monthly Report, Automatic Brightness in Plasma, and Qt No Contextless Connect

Qt/KDE stuff
Web Browsers: Incognito Mode Myths Debunked, Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine, Configuring Firefox

3 stories
Programming Leftovers

Development news
Kernel Space: Ceph, Slop Thrown Into Linux Without Audits, Useful Code Abandoned Based on Unverified Bot 'Audits'

Not a good trend
Fedora, Red Hat, and Flathub

IBM stuff mostly
Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: GrapheneOS, GNU/Linux Terminal in Android, and Apple Gimmicks

3 stories for now
Fedora 44 New Release Date, Red Hat Pushing Slop, and Back Doors, and Microsoft (IBM Works for Microsoft)

really bad trajectory
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical picks
Games: GNU/Linux on the Odin 2 Mini, MangoHud 0.8.3, and More

mostly from GamingOnLinux
Android Leftovers

Google Maps for Android Auto gets a subtle update that drivers will love
System76 Pangolin Pro is a 3.6 pound Linux laptop with a 16 inch screen and Ryzen AI 7 350

The new System76 Pangolin Pro is a Linux laptop with a 16 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel
CachyOS is great, but you should also try these 4 other gaming-focused Linux distros

If CachyOS is not your thing, there is no shortage of great alternatives
Ready to graduate from Linux Mint? These 3 distros are perfect for intermediate users

Linux Mint is a great place to start—but at some point, it stops being enough
Free and Open Source Software, and Review

This is free and open source software
Duff Linux – opinionated distro based on Void

Duff Linux is an opinionated desktop Linux distribution based on dani-77’s d77void project
This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency

This week includes an interesting blend of improvements. Lots of visual stuff, so get ready for a ton of screenshots and screen recordings
Blacklist ntfs3 and use ntfs-3g for slower but stable experience

Linux handles that. For all practical purposes, you can even create and format partitions as NTFS using any one of the Linux partitioning tools
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

SLAPP Censorship - Part 189 Out of 200: A Terrible Idea to Condemn Projects for Using Slop 'Code' When Your Own Employer Does This (and Profits From Every Company Doing So) or to Call Distros 'Not Secure' While You Advance Back Doors: "I don’t want a back door. I want a front door."
Links 19/09/2026: Many Patents Become Candidates for Annulment and Linux [sic] Foundation Takes More Slop Money to Promote Malicious Bots: Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/09/2026: The Fundamental Human Assets, The History of Gopher's "i" Type, and ROOPHLOCH 2026: Links for the day
Links 19/09/2026: "OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Starting a ‘Doom Loop’ [of Mass Plagiarism 'Normalised' by Brute Force] for the web", Calling It "Hey Hi": Links for the day
8 Series Going on at the Moment in Techrights: 4 series about SLAPPs and related matters
Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 4 - Outsourcing to Microsoft, Approaching 10 Gigabytes: Can we blame Microsoft for those DDoS attacks? Partly.
Software Freedom Day 2026 is Today, Week-long Celebration in Brazil: In Brazil, Clownflare reckons about 1 in 20 laptops/desktops might use GNU/Linux already
Red Hat Lost 2,000 Staff (Net Loss): Maybe by year's end it'll be a 20% reduction
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 18, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, September 18, 2026
Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Setting Goals, Tiredness, and Admissions From LLM Purveyors It Was All Along About Building Plagiarism Engines Sold as "Intelligence": Links for the day
Links 18/09/2026: Microsoft Boasted Slop is Just Copyright Infringement/Plagiarism, Floods in Europe: Links for the day
Slop Ruins Development and Reverse Engineering, It Rewards Retarded "Slop Kiddies" (to Quote Andy ‘TheFlow0’ Nguyen): Slop is just a fatal cancer that kills the body, then dies with the body it killed
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Mailing Lists Are Still Better Than Discord, Slack, and Discourse: Discourse is "open" "bossware"
Links 18/09/2026: Disgust Over LLMs and Why "Agents" (Bots) Are Nothing More Than "Spam": Links for the day
Software Freedom Day is Tomorrow: events coming
Illegal and Unconstitutional Tribunal That SLAPPs Critics Does the Illegal and Unconstitutional: It "Rubberstamps Software Patents": This is not a legal system. This is mafia.
Privilege in 'Linux' Foundation (Double Standards) and What the FSF Should Avoid Doing: If RMS can talk about politics, others too should be able to talk about politics
Seems Like Many Microsoft Layoffs Are Going On Right Now (Forever Layoffs): Like IBM, Microsoft hopes shareholders will not know of morale and financial problems
More Threats From the Person of Restricted Boot Infamy: Remember this is the man who is the principal purveyor of restricted boot and who landed restricted boot in Linux
Snooping EPO Management, Sniffing Up Every Staff Action: It this a problem for whistleblowers? Of course.
Don't Do That: Options do exist. People should exercise freedom.
Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data: Cloud of smoke?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 17, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, September 17, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 188 Out of 200: Used, Then Discarded, by Microsoft (as We Predicted All Along, It's Always Like That): The longer they carry on with it, the more scandalous this will get
Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 3 - Besieged by LLM Bots, Now Hiding Behind a Wall of JavaScript: The series began 3 days ago
Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Modern Linguistic, Boxing, Turning 40, and Solar MiniServer: Links for the day
Links 17/09/2026: Studio Closures and Negative Rumours About Microsoft XBox Again: Links for the day
What's Wrong with Microsoft's GitHub, New Article by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman: licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
EBay is Going to Die Soon: Users will flee
Red Hat PIPs. The Only Question is, How Many?: Insiders know what's coming soon
This Week The Register MS Published a Page With "AI" 34 Times in It and It Was, as Usual, Paid SPAM!: Does The Register MS understand that it is doing harm to its audience (for temporary gains)?
43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement: Coming soon
General Assembly (Meeting of All Staff) Starts in Hour Ago to Discuss Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO), Strikes to Last Until End of 2026 (If Not Further): The media absolutely does not cover this and that's intentional
SLAPP Censorship - Part 187 Out of 200: Reminding Ourselves of the Great Damage Garrett Did to Linux (for Microsoft): he rejects freedom
Cancel Culture is a Cancer That Harms Democracy, Justice, and Science. It's Designed to Help Corporations Vanish Their Critics.: "Codes of Conduct" sounds benign; in practice, however, it is not
Links 17/09/2026: Class Action Lawsuit Over GAFAM's "NameTag" and Automattic Hides What It Did to CEO Mullenweg (or Why): Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/09/2026: Google Signals the End, ROOPHLOCH Coverage, EBay Uses Offensive Bots to Falsely Accuse Users of Stuff: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 16, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, September 16, 2026