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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2026

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a few bulls on a early morning

Updated This Past Day

  1. KDE Gear 26.04.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
    KDE Gear 26.04.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.04 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications.

    New

  2. today's leftovers
    FOSS and BSD, GNU/Linux etc.
  3. Firefox Nightly and Tor Browser 15.0.15 Released
    Mozilla and more
  4. Debian Hacking and Canonical Promoting Slop
    Debian and derivatives
  5. Red Hat/Fedora: Majority is Still Marketing of Slop Plagiarism, Updates on AlmaLinux and Qubes
    Red Hat sells slop
  6. Board with GNU/Linux, DIY, Modding
    Open Hardware and more
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  8. Standards: Against OOXML, GNOME Internationalization Progress
    OOXML is bad
  9. Application Releases: GNU Octave 11.2.0, Transmission 4.1.2, and Shotcut 26.6 Beta
    Applications etc.
  10. Growing Interest in Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
    FSF and more
  11. Panic Over Privilege Escalation in Linux, Dr. Andrew Tridgell Starts Messing About With LLM Slop
    Security news, not a good trend
  12. Games: CachyOS, Godot, Fatekeeper, Everything is Gun!
    gaming news
  13. today's howtos
    many more for today
  14. EasyOS: EasyOS Excalibur 7.3.8 and More EasyOS News
    EasyOS leftovers/latest news
  15. Blender 5.2 LTS Promises New Fill Tool and Thin Wall Mode, Beta Out Now
    Blender 5.2 LTS open-source 3D graphics software is now available for public beta testing with new Fill tool, new Thin Wall mode, new Sample Sound node, a new Bevel node, and many other changes.
  16. Android Leftovers
    Google Meet for Android Auto now rolling out widely
  17. Free Software Awards: Nominate a person or project by July 12
    There's no better way to show a member of the free software community that you appreciate their efforts than by nominating them for a Free Software Award
  18. I upgraded to Fedora 44 and one change made it immediately worth it
    Every version gets more stable and capable, and Fedora 44
  19. I finally learned Linux after 5 years of distro-hopping, and all it took was building a NAS
    If you've been meaning to learn Linux but never quite made it stick
  20. Faster, More Reliable [original]
    About 24 hours ago work was done on the network
  21. Leadership is Underrated [original]
    When ManCity replaced Manuel Pellegrini with a more famous manager it didn't envision winning 20 titles in 10 years (it could only hope) [...] Team-building is something that "Pep" seemed to be good at, as was Jürgen Klopp
  22. Tails 7.8.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Serious Security Vulnerabilities
    Tails 7.8.1 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with an updated kernel patched against recent security vulnerabilities, Tor 0.4.9.9, and other changes.
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. GNU/Linux in Israel Nearing 10% "Market Share" Based on statCounter [original]
    It's hard to guess what to attribute this to
  25. Android Leftovers
    The closest thing to Pixel's Now Playing is already built into your Android phone
  26. Minimal distro MocaccinoOS 26.06 comes with KDE 6.6.5, the 6.18.33 kernel, more
    With new releases now moved to the MocaccinoOS SourceForge page
  27. 8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance - from a decades-long Linux user
    Like most Linux distributions, Zorin OS offers a lot
  28. Linux might never replace Windows, so Valve is putting it in your living room instead
    For as long as I've been using PCs and building them, the notion that the next year will finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop stubbornly refuses to die
  29. Exciting Week Next Week [original]
    Free software is becoming more mainstream
  30. This is how I'd learn Linux if I had to start all over again
    I've been using Linux exclusively on my workstation for almost four years now
  31. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  32. CalamaroOS – desktop Linux distribution
    CalamaroOS is a desktop Linux distribution that builds on Gentoo Stage 3 with systemd and aims to make Gentoo easier to install and use
  33. How to try out over 85 Linux distros, no installation required - with DistroSea
    This web-based Linux platform makes it easy to explore dozens of distributions
  34. Using Rhino Linux's new Lomiri snapshot took me back to the glory days of Unity
    Rhino Linux has always been a beautiful Linux distribution
  35. LWN coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit
    many new articles
  36. LWN on Slop in Linux and Openwashing
    2 new articles
  37. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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    2110 /n/2026/05/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    2053 /n/2026/05/29/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    2031 /n/2026/05/29/Happy_Birthday_to_Dad.shtml
    2011 /n/2026/05/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    1990 /n/2026/05/28/BSD_and_GNU_Leftovers.shtml
    1981 /n/2026/05/29/12_Days_of_Shell.shtml
    1979 /n/2026/05/28/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    1977 /n/2026/05/29/today_s_howtos.shtml
    1956 /n/2026/05/28/today_s_howtos.shtml
    1943 /n/2026/05/29/today_s_leftovers.shtml
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    1886 /n/2026/05/28/5_Months_Pass_So_Fast.shtml
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the slop frenzy played a role in the Microsoft meltdown
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXX - Pyramid Schemes (Planned Plunder) and Canceled/Botched Surgeries Aren't "Funny", They Cause Serious Harm and Distress
We were right about Microsoft
The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum)
AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
History goes in circles
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
Shame in SRA
 
Links 14/11/2026: "The Claude Delusion" and "The Microsoft Outage is a Warning for the World"
Links for the day
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Long live the message and mission of RMS
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Links 14/11/2026: "OpenAI Is Sustaining Enormous Losses" and Slop "Loses the Popular Vote"
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 13, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox
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Slop Promotion, Including Paid-for Slop Promotion for So-called 'Linux' Foundation (Its Clients Are Slop Companies)
We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
Links for the day
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
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Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
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Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
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Remember that it all began with trust
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From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
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Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write)
Linus caught the 'brain virus'
Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026
IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
Links for the day
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IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Links for the day
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Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
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Links for the day
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Photo Ops Are Liabilities
NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
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Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
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The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith
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