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Updated This Past Day

  1. Firefox Redesigned
    3 picks regarding changes in Firefox

    New

  2. BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems in OS Museum
    today's leftovers
  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  4. Blogging Workflow, WordPress.com, and WordPress Losing Its Way as a Content Management System (CMS) Due to Slop
    CMS picks
  5. *AGPL Licensing Disputes
    ONLYOFFICE and Bambu Lab
  6. Standards and Sovereignty: ODF, Interoperability, and Open Access to Standards Documents
    lots about open standards
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news
  8. PostgreSQL Releases and Events
    PostgreSQL news
  9. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Vivaldi 8.0, Web History, and Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox
    WWW related news
  10. OpenSUSE: Managing System Extensions with sysextmgrcli and New Agama
    some SUSE updates
  11. EasyOS: ROX-Filer patch-set overhaul and pBurn optical burner version 4.4
    some updates on the light OS
  12. Red Hat Leftovers (Lots of Slop Promotions)
    many from redhat.com
  13. Ubuntu: FunOS in View, Canonical Promoting Microsoft and Slop, Security Flaws
    Canonical and more
  14. Embedded Week, Banana Pi R4, and More Hardware News
    with Linux focus
  15. Linux Kernel and More
    mostly kernel picks
  16. Games: Godot 4.7 Beta 3 and PS5 GNU/Linux
    a pair of gaming picks
  17. Applications: 11 Open-Source WYSIWYG Editors Worth Using in 2026 and Audio Improvement in GNU/Linux
    2 pair of news articles
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Audiocasts/Shows: Reacting to Linus Tech Tips, BSD Now, and Raspberry Pi Podcast
    3 new shows
  20. Security Leftovers
    Security breaches, Linux focus and more
  21. Ongoing Microsoft Sabotage of GNU/Linux
    2 new picks
  22. Deutsche Bahn: No information under Linux
    Deutsche Bahn locks out Linux users from its website, an error message warns of suspected bot activity. Changing the User-Agent helps.
  23. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Development and more
  24. Games: Godot 4.6.3, Rootkits (So-called 'Anticheat'), and Proton Experimental
    lots from GoL
  25. Linux Devices, Open Hardware, and Gadgets
    hardware leftovers
  26. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. You can't install Deepin Desktop from the official Fedora repo anymore - here's why
    Once called the most beautiful Linux
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-05-16 to 2026-05-22
    1464 /n/2026/05/18/Linus_Torvalds_says_AI_powered_bug_hunters_have_made_Linux_secu.shtml
    1318 /n/2026/03/28/This_non_Chromium_Linux_browser_can_run_Chrome_Firefox_and_Safa.shtml
    1268 /n/2023/08/20/The_6_Best_Spelling_and_Grammar_Checkers_for_Linux.shtml
    1202 /n/2026/05/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_0_9_Linux_6_18_32_Linux_6_12_90_and_Linu.shtml
    1196 /n/2026/05/16/Anbernic_RG_DS_gets_a_brand_new_Linux_OS_and_you_don_t_need_to_.shtml

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No Allure in Omarchy, the Political Hyenas Only Give it More Free Publicity
To me, Omarchy seems like a weak project because of the slop (an HR problem)
Don't Let Bastards and Haters Grind You Down
They say "jealousy is the sincerest form of flattery"
Goodbye, Dolly
This week we say "goodbye, Dolly."
 
SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals
There's No "Next XBox"
Nothing comes ahead except layoffs and price hikes
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games
Links for the day
Links 26/08/2026: Patent Troll InterDigital Utilises Software Patents in Unconstitutional Court, "WikiHow Launches Copyright Infringement Suit Against" LLM Plagiarism
Links for the day
The Register MS Has New Fake Article ("SPONSORED FEATURE") With "AI" 21 Times In It
The Register MS is one among many culprits
Gemini Links 26/08/2026: “Doomsday Clock”, Rwanda Genocide, and Boasting About Using LLMs Instead of Writing Code (Due to Employer's Pressure)
Links for the day
Twitter is Not an API or a Communication Site, It's a Really Bad Site That Forces You to be Enslaved by Its Algorithm (Amplifying Its Owner's Worldviews)
the crackdown on Nitter means we should all avoid accessing or linking to x.com (Twitter)
GNU/Linux Rose in Caribbean Islands
combined population is measured at 44,182,048
IBM's Quantum Computing Lies Explained Again by Sabine Hossenfelder
To become a CEO at IBM one must lie
Controlling Culture and Social Behaviour by Digital Locks
if you don't fully control the technology in your possession, then you're not using that technology, this technology covertly uses you
Links 26/08/2026: Election Bribery (aka Vote-Buying) Deemed "OK" in the US, "Nitter is Shutting Down After a Cease and Desist Letter" by MElon
Links for the day
Analogue So Much Better and Faster
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
Linux Today Dumped All Social Control Media Last December
Linux Today seems to have concluded that all Social Control Media is just a waste of time
Don't Say X.com is OK Because People Can Access It by Alternative Means
Can Mozilla please clarify who inside Mozilla greenlit a return to X.com?
The Reach of techrights.org Is Increasing
We are on the side of women victims
SLAPP Censorship - Part 162 Out of 200: An Outline of Events
An outline of events
Pushed to Live
We still have some other work - stuff related to the editing of pages - which is work in progress and has been subjected to testing for many months
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Germany, Based on Cloudflare
It's peaking late at night
Richard Stallman's GNU Project Began 42 Years Ago With GNU Emacs and More
GNU Project announced almost 43 years ago (next month it's the anniversary)
Fake Articles "Sponsored by HPE" Published in The Register MS
Selling proprietary products as 'alternatives' to other proprietary products
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 25, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Gemini Links 26/08/2026: Journal Plans and Extending Finger Protocol
Links for the day
How Many Web Requests From "Linux"...
If one was to assert that "Linux == Android" or "Android == Linux" (it's not that simple), then "Linux" already accounts for about 30% of Web requests
An Explainer About Injunctions Done Wrong - Part I - Saving Money Where Money Cannot be Saved
Of course Garrett not being able to afford his own case is a key factor here
Links 25/08/2026: "U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea", "UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine"
Links for the day
Not for the First Time This Week, Site Called "It's FOSS" is Promoting Software That is NOT FOSS (And It Knows It)
Is this an editorial choice? Advertising? What is it?
Gemini Links 25/08/2026: Geometry and FidoNet History, "Goodbye I2P and Yggdrasil, Welcome Telnet!"
Links for the day
Links 25/08/2026: Microsoft Salaries Leaked Again, "Oasis Photograph Sparks Copyright Lawsuit"
Links for the day
Microsoft Trots Out Its Propaganda Agent Preston Gralla to Make It Sound Like Microsoft Breaks Up With China (Reality: Microsoft Got Dumped by China)
This discredits any publisher that plays along
GNU/Linux Did Not Start in 1991 and America Wasn't Discovered by Europeans
it'll be 43 next month
SLAPP Censorship - Part 161 Out of 200: Low Standards in Defamation Cases Just Muddy the Waters and Distract From Legitimate Cases
The judge at the trial said that Garrett's case was a waste of the court's money
Rolling Out Some Changes Soon
To the regular reader no change will be seen
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 24, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 24, 2026
Gemini Links 25/08/2026: Separated by Plexiglass, Low-Tech Information Networks, Jörg Rippel Comes to Geminispace
Links for the day