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There is No I in "GAFAM" and Soon There Won't be I At All (Like Novell Vanished, Not Overnight, as It Took Over a Decade)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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Openwashing by 'Linux' Foundation, No Connection to Linux, Absent and Proprietary Components

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Openwashing as a service

Red Hat Leftovers

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From the official Red Hat site

Ubuntu 24.04.1 Point-Release Postponed to Late August

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Initially scheduled for August 19, Ubuntu 24.04.1's release was moved to August 29 after a few high-impact upgrade bugs were found

With eLxr, Wind River Brings Debian Linux to the Edge

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New Debian-based distro aims to match cloud native environments with heterogenous, computationally limited edge devices in remote locations

Today in Techrights

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Some of the latest articles

New

Mozilla Faces Financial Uncertainty After Google Loses Lawsuit

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The Google Search Engine Cash Cow may be about to dry up for Firefox.

Open Hardware Leftovers

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Some hardware projects and news

Programming Leftovers

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Programming with python, Rust and more

Ubuntu, Fedora, and More

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today's leftovers

Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and Bad Voltage

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3 new episodes

Windows TCO Leftovers

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Windows TCO stories

Security Leftovers

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Security stories for today

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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inc. Libreoffice and DBs

Web Browsers: Curl, Firefox, and Chrom*

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Some WWW tools

Software: wcurl, Magit, and FEX

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Some FOSS leftovers

today's howtos

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last batch for today

What’s Behind The Unusual DMCA Notices From “Crowdstrike”?

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disatrous backdoored Windows update of July, 2024

Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2350, and More

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some hardware picks

today's howtos

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many howtos, first batch

Standards: ActivityPub, QUIC, and Public Standard Document Formats

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Standards/Consortia leftovers

Android Leftovers

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LILYGO T-TWR REV2.1 is an ESP32 walkie-talkie board with display, GNSS, and SA868 module

Bad information drives out good or how much can we trust Wikipedia?

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This post is written on behalf of the LabPlot team. It’s different compared to what we usually publish on our homepage but we feel we need to share this story with our community

Efinix introduce the low-power Topaz RISC-V SoC FPGA family for “high-volume, mass-market applications”

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Some are pure FPGAs without a hardened processor, while others are Linux-capable thanks to a hardened quad-core RISC-V block

Windows TCO: Ransomware, Breaches, Botnets, and More

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a very Microsoft reality

PG Back Web 0.2 Brings Local Storage Support

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PG Back Web 0.2 PostgreSQL automatic backup solution features streamed backups, local storage options without needing S3, and one-click data restoration

Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)

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Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 16 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory

Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

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oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh)

KDE, Kubuntu, Debian Qt6 updates plus Kubuntu Noble .1 updates

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Another loss last week of a friend. I am staying strong and working through it

Games: Super reaKtor, Minetest, and More

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Latest half a dozen from GamingOnLinux

Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

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mostly CISA

Open Hardware and Servers

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Pi and more

today's leftovers

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howtos, perl, and moreThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-08-07 to 2024-08-131089 /n/2024/08/08/System76_Launches_Pop_OS_24_04_LTS_with_COSMIC_Alpha_Desktop_En.shtml 819 /n/2024/08/10/DebConf24_Coverage.shtml 723 /n/2024/08/07/Programming_Leftovers.shtml 696 /n/2024/08/10/1_in_10_Desktop_Laptop_Users_in_Sweden_Uses_a_Chromebook_Says_s.shtml 679 /n/2024/08/09/Canonical_Announces_Shift_in_Ubuntu_Kernel_Selection_Strategy.shtml 658 /n/2024/08/10/This_week_in_KDE_SVG_Breeze_cursors_and_more_thumbnails.shtml 650 /n/2024/08/10/This_Week_in_GNOME_160_Web_Happening.shtml 644 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml 627 /n/2024/08/09/KDE_Frameworks_6_5_Released_with_Plasma_Wayland_and_Dolphin_Imp.shtml 622/n/2024/08/08/today_s_howtos.shtml 619 /n/2024/08/10/A_zero_day_flaw_using_the_0_0_0_0_IP_address.shtml 614 /n/2024/08/06/KDE_Plasma_6_1_4_Desktop_Released_with_Various_Improvements_and.shtml 608 /n/2024/08/05/Mozilla_Firefox_129_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml 599/n/2024/08/08/Android_Leftovers.shtml 595/n/2024/08/09/today_s_howtos.shtml 587/n/2024/08/10/today_s_howtos.shtml 583 /n/2024/08/08/Join_us_in_saying_goodbye_to_our_beloved_office_on_August_16.shtml 582 /n/2024/08/11/Gemini_Links_11_08_2024_Anger_Solitude_and_Good_Things.shtml 578/n/2024/08/08/today_s_leftovers.shtml 574 /n/2024/08/10/Security_Leftovers.shtml

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