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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2026

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KDE’s New CSS-Based Style Engine Union Is Coming to KDE Plasma 6.7

The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment will finally introduce KDE’s new CSS-based style engine called Union as a technical preview.
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Free software advocates want quantity in freedom quotient
XDA and HowTo Geek (Valnet) Stories About BSD, GNU/Linux, and More

some recent leftovers
Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were

Games-centric distro
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Raspberry Pi Imager Now Supports Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations

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Programming Coverage by Valnet

Shells, Python, and more
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recently in XDA
GNOME Extensions and Making It More Like Hyprland

3 recent Valnet articles
Hardware Projects and Self-Hosting: Raspberry Pi, Jellyfin, Framework, and NAS at Home

Hardware leftovers
HowTo Geek: Articles about Vim's statusline

a couple of recent articles
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS picks
Events: Lomiri/Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon, WordCamp, and LSFMMBPF

some upcoming events
GNU/Linux Leftovers

mostly GNU/Linux
Hardware: PhobosLab, ESP32, and Reducing Phone-Induced Anxiety

open hardware and more
Web: End of ‘Ask Jeeves’, Feather Wiki, Reverting Back to RSS, and Blocking Ads (Spyware)

WWW related picks
Programming Leftovers

Development leftovers
Security Leftovers

Security related news
OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Monthly Update and OpenSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Call for Speakers

a pair of news updates
Red Hat's Slop Promotion, GAFAM Advocacy, and Fedora on RISC-V by Marcin Juszkiewicz

IBM stuff and corporate things
Applications: InstaMAT and InstaLOD Come to Linux, NetHack 5.0.0 Released

Software releases and ports
Games: PlayStation 5 GNU/Linux Tested, Steam’s April Hardware Survey Shows Trends

gaming leftovers
KDE: Kdenlive Goals for GSoC 2026 and Union's Spring 2026 Update

KDE picks
Distributions and Operating Systems: EasyOS, DistroWatch, Alpine, and Portable (USB) GNU/Linux

distros and commentary
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical picks
Linux Kernel: Virtualisation, Inter-Process Communication (IPC), and More

kernel picks
Games: Steam Controller, Wireworks, and More

GamingOnLinux's latest articles
Android Leftovers

Android 17 Beta Code Points to Rear Lights on the Next Pixel
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Today It's 5/5 and We're 5 Weeks Away From Our 22nd Anniversary [original]

Next month one contributor plans to host a little party for the site, seeing that there are budgetary constraints this year
GNU/Linux Measured at Record High in Chile [original]

South America is adopting more of GNU/Linux
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

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Links 07/06/2026: Java Needs Seawall, Egypt Blasted for Arbitrary Detention of Activists: Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 100 Out of 200: Interlude and Outline of the First Half, 3+ Months That Got Us Death Threats Connected to Brett Wilson LLP (and Cyber Attacks That Are Difficult to Attribute): This week we plan to have a good time
Links 07/06/2026: NASA's Mars Maven Declared Dead, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Bemoans Russia's Crackdown: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 06, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, June 06, 2026
Gemini Links 07/06/2026: How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and "Six Days of Play": Links for the day
Links 06/06/2026: 'Epstein Problem' in Board of Directors of Microsoft, Surveillance Giant Google Under Legal Threats for Online Misuses: Links for the day
Software Freedom Takes a Lot More Than Coding: some of the roles in the Free software community that don't receive (m)any grateful words
Ubuntu is Losing to Other GNU/Linux Distros: "Linux Mint"
Old Articles Explaining That Patents - Especially Software Patents - Are Bad for Innovation: We've omitted more than 50% of the articles we had gathered as candidates for inclusion
European Patent Office (EPO) Crisis: Huge EPO Strikes, Profound Corruption, and Cocaine Use by Managers Tolerated: These strikes won't be ending any time soon
Why GNU and FSF Will Choose AV1 Over AV2 (It's More Widely Supported): for the foreseeable future they'll stick with AV1
Mass Layoffs (RAs) and PIPs (Excuses to Sack) at IBM: Insiders Tell No Relation to Actual Performance: If many thousands are impacted by this, then certainly it is newsworthy
Links 06/06/2026: LinkedIn Infested With Spies, Ethernet WiFi Router On Pi Pico 2W: Links for the day
25 Years With PalmOS: That my Palm PDA still works in 2026 (not in mint condition but close to that) says a lot about the "build quality" of gadgets 20+ years ago
Why We Dumped Online Shopping (Groceries): subsidies kept the "online" stuff artificially cheap
Microsoft Fell to All-Time Low in Monaco Last Month: So says statCounter anyway
Lawsuits That Don't Work: Not as expected anyway
SLAPP Censorship - Part 99 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Seem to Have Crashed Brett Wilson LLP (Worse Than Taking Russian Oligarchs as SLAPP Clients): a state of disarray
Microsoft Has Spent Months Preparing Lists of People to Cull in Massive Wave of Layoffs (Allegedly Start of July): There is some consensus that we're weeks away from mega-layoffs at Microsoft
Gemini Links 06/06/2026: "Competing" With LLMs and "Automation of Any Kind": Links for the day
Links 06/06/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing Slop on Microsoft's Payroll, Ukraine Wants Permanent Ceasefire With Russia: Links for the day
50% of the 'Gains' Made by "Quantum" Hype Already Evaporated: "It was all hype about quantum nonsense. Heading back to reality now. Expect sub-$220 after earnings release next month."
Heap of Trash Online, Not Just the Fault of LLM Slop But Enabled by Slop: Google News has just promoted a pair of prolific slopfarms
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Links 05/06/2026: Lawyers in Trouble for Citing Cases That Don't Exist (Slop Too Bad to Justify Costs; Even It It Did Work, It Would Still be Far Too Expensive): Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/06/2026: Bears in the Streets, WWII Revisionism, and Westworld: Links for the day
IBM is "Making an Exit". Only the Executives Will Get Rich.: failure disguised as success
Microsoft's LinkedIn Called "Dying Platform" by One Who Worked There: The co-founder of LinkedIn has just stepped down too
GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) Layoffs Are Due to Surging Debt, or About 120 Billion Dollars Borrowed in One Year Alone: It's well above 150 billion dollars if one adds Oracle
2026 is the Year of Blockchains, Says IBM's CEO a Decade Ago?: "falling upwards"
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IBM Exploits Overambitious, Hungry Young Men to Help the "Great Quantum Hype Campaign" (Pumping the Stock Based on Deliberate Misinformation or Outright Disinformation): The boot-licking campaign is live...
What Will Likely Happen When the Slop Bubble Pops (and When It'll be Widely Accepted That It Popped): all the "most successful" slop companies are so deep in debt
The Register MS is Part of the Problem, It's Publishing "AI" SPAM Because it's Paid by Chinese Military-Connected Firms: Given that The Register MS is run by a Microsofter (since last summer), destruction seems inevitable
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IBM's CEO Does Not Use GNU/Linux, So Why Did He Suggest Buying Red Hat Only to Lay Off Its Workers, Market Slop Instead of Linux, and Sack UNIX Professionals?: Shortly after IBM had bought Red Hat and there were mass layoffs we pointed out that Red Hat's CEO was not using GNU/Linux
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Gemini Links 05/06/2026: Enshittification of Institutes for Project Management, Codebases Contaminated With Slop, Personal Stories: Links for the day
Communicating With Freedom - Part II - Quibble Breathing New Life Into LibreJS: Notice how work on one thing led to thousands of lines of code added to a mostly dormant (but nevertheless important) project
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Links 05/06/2026: More GAFAM Layoffs, Google Faces Regulatory Crackdown in UK Over Plagiarism in "AI" Clothing: Links for the day
Rumour That Layoffs at Microsoft Will Kick Off on July 1st, 2026 (Impacting 10,000 or More Workers): this is what the rumour mill or the word through the grapevine is
Mission:Libre, Which Teaches Young People Free Software Ideals, Needs Financial Backing: plea for assistance with Mission:Libre
The Slop Ponzi Scheme is a Problem and Threat to All of Us (Even Those Who Don't Invest in or Use Slop at All): This problem is systemic, not contained
"Blind Justice" Examines the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Turning a Blind Eye to Abuse by British Solicitors: We have some jaw-dropping examples of how the SRA does not do actual regulation - to the point where its staff does not actual work and does not look into any evidence at all!
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European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Down But Not Out – Costa's Comeback: he managed to secure a top-level EU position in June 2024
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