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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2026

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Slop is a Flop: Google's Own Slop Thinks Google's ChromeOS is "Mobile Operating System"! [original]

Please do not rely on slop for anything

New
Downtime Tomorrow [original]

We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
GNU/Linux Leftovers

mostly GNU/Linux stories
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

FOSS and more
Canonical Pushing Slop for Circular Financing (Accounting Fraud) Giant NVIDIA, "Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode"

slopfests
Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware Projects

mostly the latter
Mozilla: New Release of Tor Browser 15.0.11 and MozPhab 2.13.1

Mozilla/Firefox picks
Events/Education: Professionals, Hackaday Europe, TuxCon, and FOSDEM

lots happening this year
Standards/Consortia: GPS, Email, SVGs

on technical standards
Development Leftovers

Programming picks
Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Social Engineering/Supply Chain of WordPress, Mythic Beasts, Jekyll

Frameworks for running sites
Sailfish OS 5.1 translation round

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications news
Ubuntu 16.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) Comes to an End

moving on yet?
Games: Payphone Tag, ZSNES, Zorker, and Helldivers 2

4 gaming related news picks
Red Hat/IBM: Selling Microsoft, Slop, Outsourcing (to Surveillance Companies)

mostly redhat.com stuff
Fedora and Red Hat: Microsoft 'Embrace', 'Community', Project Hummingbird, and LVFS

mostly Fedora items
Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show, mintCast, and Linux Matters

3 new episodes
today's howtos

lots from idroot
Security Leftovers

and Windows TCO etc.
A $6bn question hangs over SUSE's sovereignty pitch

The Register asked SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen at SUSECON what sovereignty means given the potential acquisition
Still Prioritising the Birds [original]

May 1 is near; please keep feeding the birds
Games: Proton Experimental, ZSNES, Wanderburg, and More

GamingOnLinux's latest
Android Leftovers

New Xiaomi entry-level phone only promises 2 OS updates from Android 15
Escaping the Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

Microsoft GitHub abandoned, questioned
GNU/Linux Leftovers

DRM and more
Hardware and Home-labbing: Proxmox, TrueNAS, and More NAS Modding

All from Valnet
GNU/Linux Myths and Sceptics of GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop

recently in Valnet
Games: DIY "Steam Machine", Bazzite, and SteamOS

all from Valnet
Most Linux regret is actually distro regret, and you probably gave up too soon

Let's say I'm introducing ice cream to an alien. I get a cone, put a dollop of vanilla ice cream onto it, and hand it over
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
Orion Os – Linux distro built on Debian

Orion Os is a Linux distribution based on Debian Trixie
LWN: Remembering Seth Nickell and In Memoriam: Tomáš Kalibera

LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on April 16, from his father, Eric Nickell
Today in Techrights

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Legal Self-Sufficiency: The more impact our work has, the more legal bullying will come our way
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Links 12/10/2026: Strike on Riyadh and GOP Pays Voters ("Surprise $90 Social Security Payments"): Links for the day
Microsoft's XBox CEO Spoke of a "Return to Growth" Last Week, But XBox Sales Lowest in XBox History (Quarter of a Century): Microsoft's XBox is dying. It's a countdown to nothingness.
Links 12/10/2026: Shopify (Slop Booster) Has Security Issues, "Russia’s Yandex Says Data Center in Vladimir Shut Down After Drone Attack": Links for the day
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Voice for the Impoverished: the country's leaders attack the country's own press
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