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  1. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  2. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  3. Standards Leftovers
    Consortia related
  4. FSF / Software Freedom / GNU Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  5. BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
    OS news
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  7. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Nginx, Holes, Tor Browser
    WWW leftovers
  8. Android Leftovers
    This Android feature has saved me from countless headaches, but it's not enabled by default
  9. Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More Hardware
    Hardware picks
  10. KDE: Ocean, Qt Contributors Summit, and Amarok 3.3.3
    KDE leftovers
  11. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    Fedora elections too
  12. Barry Kauler on CUPS, Chromium, and More in EasyOS
    EasyOS updates
  13. Applications: Audacity 4.0, FairScan 2.0, and More
    Application news
  14. ScummVM Milestone and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds
    some gaming news
  15. today's howtos
    dominated by two domains
  16. 5 things that are surprisingly easier on Linux than Windows
    Windows is the de facto desktop OS for most people
  17. These 4 alien Linux concepts confused me when I switched from Windows
    Switching from Windows to Linux isn’t like switching from one app to another
  18. NetBSD 11.0 RC5 available!
    please help testing
  19. Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship
    Ubuntu has announced an ‘important policy update’, making beta releases mandatory for all Ubuntu flavours, no exceptions
  20. Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark
    In this series, I’ll explore the machine in detail from a Linux perspective
  21. Web-Based Remote Installation for Fedora Linux: Here’s What We’re Building
    If you’ve ever needed to install Fedora Linux on a headless server, a Raspberry Pi, or any machine without a monitor attached
  22. Games: Unreal Engine 6, Apidya' Special, and More
    half a dozen picks from GamingOnLinux
  23. PipeWire 1.6.7 Is Out with Better ALSA Support and Small Fixes
    PipeWire 1.6.7 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with fixes for various issues and regressions for the ALSA sound stack, scheduler, the RT portal, and more.
  24. Android Leftovers
    I skipped buying an expensive smart camera by repurposing an old Android device
  25. The 5 Linux distros you should never run on an old PC
    "Just install Linux" is popular advice when someone needs to squeeze a little bit more life out of an old PC
  26. Every time I crawl back to Windows, EndeavourOS pulls me home to Linux
    I dual-boot Windows and Linux (via EndeavourOS) on my gaming laptop
  27. 6 distros that prove Linux is the future of desktop PCs
    An age-old rhetorical question has plagued everyone’s favorite open-source operating system from the very beginning
  28. Android Leftovers
    Google issues quick fix for broken Android Auto phone calls
  29. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  30. System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years
    Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
  31. CookieOS – Linux distribution based on Debian
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  32. Almost Seven Pandemic Years [original]
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  33. Windows 11 25H2 - I'm so happy to not be using this
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  35. LWN on Kernel, File Systems, and Trusted Publishing
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  36. AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
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    1245 /n/2026/06/14/Linux_Kernel_7_1_Officially_Released_Here_s_What_s_New.shtml
    1059 /n/2026/06/14/Wine_11_11.shtml
    985 /n/2026/05/25/MX_Linux_25_2_Infinity_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_7_0_Based_on_.shtml

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Techrights Was Right About Slop Destroying Development Communities and Projects
Slop does not improve your project. It kills the community. Without community, what is left? A 'botfarm'?
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXXI - Harassment Law and "Things Are Unfairly Asymmetric" (Exploring the Boundaries of Death Threats and Various Threats From America)
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top clients of Jeffrey Epstein are one happy family
 
In the UK, GNU/Linux Usage Soared During Microsoft Downtime
since the massive outage GNU/Linux usage soared to over 10%
Google Slop About Richard Stallman Shows Stallman Was Right, LLMs are BS Generators
Google slop is the "new Google"
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Vista 11 is Small
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Six Richard Stallman and FSF Talks This Month (FSF Staff at Ohio State University)
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 14, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, November 14, 2026
Gemini Links 15/11/2026: "The Bastards Can Never Win" and "The Last Low-Tech Generation"
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Links 14/11/2026: Wuhan Corruption and "Aid Isn’t Reaching Ebola’s Epicenter"
Links for the day
Rahul Kumar Has Turned tecadmin.net Into a Slopfarm That Promotes Slop and Microsoft (as Usual)
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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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The Register MS Made Millions of Pounds by Participating in the Slop Hype Campaign (It's Still Doing It), Now It Admits That It's Just a Bubble
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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
Links 14/11/2026: "OpenAI Is Sustaining Enormous Losses" and Slop "Loses the Popular Vote"
Links for the day
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IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox
Links for the day
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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
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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
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
No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet
Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
Shame in SRA
"Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later
Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year
That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
"NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count
Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money
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United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week
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Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix
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Links for the day
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This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low)
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)
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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
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Links for the day
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