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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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Congrats to Linux.org for Adopting or Getting Back to IRC
This is the way the Net ought to work and was originally designed to work [...] IRC as a protocol turns 38 this month
Links 24/08/2026: "Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change"; Further Suppression and Censorship in China/HK
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Gemini Links 24/08/2026: Soul Mentality, Words to Live by, Mozz.us Gemlog Resumes, Smol Conversations
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Today The Register MS Published Greenwashing Spam for the Slop Pyramid Scheme, It Mentions "AI" 29 Times
More people need to talk about the role of the media in this pyramid scheme
Slop Plagiarism and Chatbots Are Killing Evri (They Infuriate and Insult Clients)
Slop destroys companies and leads to misery (miserable clients, time-wasting)
Links 24/08/2026: Re-defining the IndieWeb and "Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms"
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The Issue With Omarchy is the Slop, the Politics Are a Side Issue
Those corporations do not oppose slop, they participate in it
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authorities said they would migrate to GNU/Linux or consider moving in that direction
SLAPP Censorship - Part 160 Out of 200: In Astounding Repetition of Last Year, Brett Wilson LLP Deliberately Ignores Holidays of People It is Attacking and Crushes Principles of Access to Justice
Disconnected from the law
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 23, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, August 23, 2026
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Are people now expected to change a car as often as they replace a mobile phone and, if so, how fast would costs add up?
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Be sceptical of "CoCs"
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Winning or losing isn't something for a scoreboard
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the average was almost 10%
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Life is too short to pay attention to social control media
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by Clownflare
PIPs and Lawsuits: On the Future of IBM Trying to Spit Out Its Own Staff at Minimal Cost
"I'd rather be laid off than be put on a PIP"
France: GNU/Linux Averaging at 7%, Peaked at 14% Today
When will 14% be the average?
Links 23/08/2026: Water Crises, Illegal Tariffs, and Carney Confronts US Over Patent Imperialism
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults
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Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore
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The Slop Industry Bribed the Media to Pretend It Has Something New and Revolutionary. Now It Bribes Politicians Too. Anything to Avoid Scrutiny and Regulation.
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"AGI" is Decades Old and It Never Found a Viable Business Model or Real, Actually Useful Use Cases
I keep reminding people of local firms (right here in Manchester) doing the same thing the media now calls "AGI"...
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Microsoft to Its Workers in April-May: You're Too Old, Go Away. Microsoft in August: Young People, Go Away.
What does this company even sell anymore?
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Gemini Links 22/08/2026: Broken Car, Devuan, and Thundermail
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Links 22/08/2026: Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Pay High Price for Frivolous Litigation in the UK
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'Voluntary' Mass Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
IBM does not want people to notice what truly goes on there
Another Round of GAFAM Layoffs, This Time Apple
Now Apple "is shutting down an entire Vision Pro team focused on developing gaming features for the mixed-reality headset."
Gemini Links 22/08/2026: The Bodyguard (1992), Minimalism, Backups, and IPFS
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 158 Out of 200: Making Alliances With Men Arrested for Strangling Women Was Always a Terrible Strategy
They work for American slop companies
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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