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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 13, 2026

Differently Sized Components of the Human Body

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a few more links
GNOME Desktop/GTK: Agile Rates After Launch and Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp

Red Hat and others
Security Breaches, Patches, and Linux Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation

FUD and more
Education and Standards in the News

3 more stories
Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers

Firefox and more
Programming Leftovers

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cURL's Stenberg: "Mythos" is Marketing Hype by Sleazy Slop Peddler, Anthropic

indeed
Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Hosting, WordPress, "Out With the JS, In With the HTML"

mindset changes
GNU and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

freedom-focused picks
Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More

Hardware picks
Audiocasts/Shows: Social Control Media, Linux User Space, LINUX Unplugged, and Late Night Linux

4 new episodes
Linux Foundation Tries to Devote Resources to Kernel (Linux) After Criticism, Partners With Sonatype

2 news picks
News About BSD and ZFS in Particular

ZFS and more
'Tech' Media Keeps Hyping Up Local Privilege Escalation, Cites Microsoft as 'Linux Authority' (FUD Source)

poor coverage
Sasha Levin (GAFAM) Wants 'Killswitch' for Linux (the Kernel)

some articles on 'killswitch'
Debian: Freexian Collaborators, Colin Watson, and Tails Release

Debian news
Microsoft, Slop, and Paid-for Red Hat Pieces

Red Hat leftovers
Databases: PgBouncer 1.25.2, gAdmin 4 9.15, Ajqvue 3.6, pgFormatter v5.10, and More

mostly but not only postgres
Games: Moving to GNU/Linux, Godot 4.7 Beta 2, New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and More

gaming leftovers
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical posts
Android Leftovers

Android Owners: You Could Get Part of Google's $135 Million Data Settlement
Two years without a laptop taught me what Android can't do (and Linux can)

Two years ago, I replaced my laptop with an Android-based desktop
Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark

I’ll put this mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective
ALBA Linux Project – Japanese Linux distribution

ALBA Linux Project is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that’s developed by a Japanese student
Linux Mint vs. Elementary OS: I compared both distros, and here's my advice

If you're looking for a user-friendly Linux distribution
Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system

At Red Hat Summit 2026, we’re announcing Fedora Hummingbird — a new container-based rolling Fedora Linux distribution
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Is Out Now to Improve Performance for NVIDIA GPU Users

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8

Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8 modular smartphones, as well as various other improvements.
Android Leftovers

Android 17 could let you remove a major Pixel feature
Switching From Windows to Linux? These 15 Pro Tips Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home

I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Milk-V Jupiter2 brings SpacemiT K3 RISC-V platform to Pico-ITX form factor

Software support listed by Milk-V includes Bianbu 3.0, Ubuntu 26.04, OpenHarmony 6.0, OpenKylin, Deepin, and Fedora
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Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles
GStreamer 1.28.3 Adds NXP i.MX 8M Plus Hardware-Accelerated H.265 Encoding

GStreamer 1.28.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

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

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Google "Hey Hi" (Slop) Having a Stroke, Thinks I am Married to the Grandmother of My Grandfather: Seriously!
Beehiiv and Substack Are Platform Lock-in (Similar to Vendor Lock-in), Don't Use Beehiiv and Substack (and the Likes of These): Proprietary platforms are a problem. Some people "get it" sooner than others.
Jim Zemlin/Linux Foundation Selling Anthropic Slop After Getting Bribed for Slop Marketing ('Linux' Foundation is a Pay-to-Say For-Profit Marketing Company That Buys and Manipulates the Media Based on False Pretences): Look what they've done to Steven Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN)
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XX - EPO Management's Unified (One) Voice or Policy is, Doing Cocaine is OK When You're a Friend and/or Family of President Campinos: The management needs to resign to save the Office
IBM Downgraded as the Shares Sink to New Lows: The current strategy of IBM is financial engineering, wage reductions, and mass layoffs that the corporate media refuses to even write about
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 12, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Gemini Links 13/05/2026: TUIs and Internet Radio: Links for the day
How the European Patent Office Became a Crime and Corruption Hub, One of Europe's Biggest: incomplete outline
Techrights at 19.5 (We Started in 2006, Days After the Microsoft/Novell Deal): When Novell bought Ximian (run by the "best friend" of Graveley) it brought trouble to all of us, not just to Novell
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 75 Out of 200: All True, All Verifiable, Unlike Garrett and Graveley Lying to at Least Three High Court Judges About What They Did: A lot of what I said a year ago not only turned out to be correct; it was moreover affirmed by Garrett after he had sworn on the Bible and put himself at risk to his liberty
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXI - EPO President Campinos Bribing to Buy His Seat, But Cautions Staff Against Bribery: This isn't a democratic institution
Gemini Links 12/05/2026: Spring Cleaning and New GemText Software: Links for the day
Links 12/05/2026: Samsung Sued by Dua Lipa (Publicity Rights), ‘Savage Love’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: Links for the day
IBM Falls to One-year Low: At one point or threshold does the Board (controlled by the CEO) sack the CEO?
Gemini Links 12/05/2026: On Astronomy and Stargazing, Coyote Time, and Freenom: Links for the day
Links 12/05/2026: Data Centres Destroying Neighbourhoods, "Care Workers Are Saying No to 24-Hour Workdays": Links for the day
Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in Erlangen, Germany (Next European Tour): Seems like a large room
If IBM Suddenly Vanished in the 1980s, There Would be Chaos. Not Anymore.: IBM's management has rendered IBM more irrelevant than ever before
Gitlab is in Trouble and Its Shares Have Collapsed: Down almost 80% since it began [...] The real issue has nothing to do with slop, it is a lack/loss of customers and erosion of the company's theoretical "value"
Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Are "Offers" (Like "Job Offers"), Culling Experienced and Highly-Paid Staff is "Softer Workforce-reduction Strategy": Media sites that play along with those lies don't do journalism, they're in the PR industry
Under IBM, Mass Layoffs at Red Hat No Better Than Oracle Under Larry Ellison (Treating Workers Like Disposables - Even Enemies - Overnight): under IBM the respect for the worker (or peer) does not exist
The Slop-Amplified Fear of Privilege Escalation (Local, Not Remote) in Linux, the Kernel: we are meant to assume this is no better and no worse than Microsoft intentionally putting back doors in everything, even encryption
GitLab the Latest Company to Do Mass Layoffs and Use Slop as the Go-to Excuse (GitLab Users Should Worry Too): This round of layoffs (disguised as something else) has nothing to do with slop ("hey hi"). It's about commercial problems.
Technology Not Meant to Last: A society apathetic towards declining production (or manufacturing) standards will end up ripped off
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 74 Out of 200: The Basis of My Lawsuit Against Alex Graveley, Who Helps Garrett Stack the Docket in Another Continent: claim against the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
Update on Slop About "Linux": "Linux" is a term many people are interested it, so it's not shocking that slopfarms target it
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 11, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, May 11, 2026
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Gemini Links 12/05/2026: Android Nostalgia and Switching to Guix: Links for the day
Links 11/05/2026: Another Oracle Setback and Mass Layoffs in Iran: Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/05/2026: Older Can Be Faster and Textmode Workflow: Links for the day
Links 11/05/2026: The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Admits It Only Reacts When It's Too Late (Damage Already Done), Ombudsman’s Animal Cruelty HK Report: Links for the day
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It's Not About Speed, It is About Patience and Adherence to Truth, Principles, Scientific Integrity: attacks on us only ever made us stronger - a lesson that our adversaries have learned the hard way
Cyber Show Does it Like Techrights: Static and Gemini Protocol as 'First-Class Citizen': HTML and GemText (over Gemini Protocol) would be rendered in tandem
Libya's Share on the Web: 5.2% GNU/Linux: GNU/Linux has hit an all-time high there
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Discussions About When the Axe Falls at IBM/Kyndryl (11,000 Layoffs Estimated): "Kyndryl restructuring should reduce overhead functions and reduce the number of managers that lack technical knowledge"
A World After Microsoft (and GAFAM) and After GitHub Shuts Down: the only growth area is debt
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Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 10, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, May 10, 2026
Links 11/05/2026: Security Breaches, Politics, and Energy Crunch: Links for the day
Gemini Links 10/05/2026: "Accidental Cameras" and "Addictive" Interfaces in Social Control Media: Links for the day