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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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Rude People Online [original]

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If you cannot behave, go offline

Techrights' 5 Years in Geminispace [original]

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One might say we escaped to Geminispace 2 years before the deluge of slop on the Web

Growing Interest in Gemini Protocol [original]

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We've been seeing growing interest in our capsule

Maintaining the Routine of Curation, Activism, and Journalism [original]

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I really wish more people ran blogs instead of wasting time with "apps" and social control media

Appealing a Judgement [original]

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What's at stake here is the reputation and credibility of the legal profession in the UK

GNU/Linux Rises in Thailand While Microsoft Windows Falls [original]

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When it comes to the war against GAFAM, Thailand seems to be winning

Site of GNU/Linux "Ultimate Edition" Still Seems Cracked (Weeks Already) [original]

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Is Glenn paying any attention?

Datacentre Maintenance Done [original]

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Network maintenance

New

This security-focused Linux distro is switching to KDE

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The team behind Parrot OS (often shortened to Parrot) has announced the beta release of Parrot 7.0

Canonical to distribute AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in Ubuntu

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Canonical is pleased to announce an expanded collaboration with AMD to package and maintain AMD ROCm™ software directly in Ubuntu

KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Bugfix Release for December

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Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 146 Brings OpenPGP Keyserver Settings

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Thunderbird 146 open-source email client introduces a new OpenPGP keyserver setting and delivers a range of fixes improving stability

AerynOS Delivers December Updates With New Alpha ISO

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AerynOS closes 2025 with major package upgrades

GNU/Linux Gaming: Abxylute's $70 Retro Gaming Handheld, Steam Deck, and Steam Machines

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5 stories

Linus Torvalds Indoctrinated by LF Sponsors ("AI" Scheme) and Microsoft Boosters

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Linus Torvalds and "follow the money"

Security Leftovers

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Security centric picks

GNU/Linux Leftovers

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GNU/Linux news leftovers

Greg K-H on Linux kernel version numbers and on Linux CVEs

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kernel thoughts and information

Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers

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hardware picks

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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FOSS leftovers

Licensing: "Open Source" and When Code 'Leaks'

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FOSS legal matters

Programming Leftovers

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Development picks

Web Browsers, Firefox, and Tor Browser

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WWW links

FreeBSD: Adriaan de Groot on Recovering a Botched FreeBSD 14 Upgrade and Dan Langille on zpool

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BSD news

Back to the Dawn, Godot, and CachyOS

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gaming picks

GNOME: Javad Rahmatzadeh on Mindless Slop and Michael Catanzaro on Security Problem

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a pair of GNOME posts

Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory Get Awards From the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

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latest winners

Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters, Ask Noah Show, and Destination Linux

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3 new episodes

GNU/Linux Leftovers

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a few more GNU/Linux stories

Recent Videos About GNU/Linux

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via Invidious

today's howtos

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a handful of howtos

Red Hat Official Site Advances Buzzwords and PR, Shallow Hype

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Latest from Red Hat

Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, Jolla, Arduino, and More

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Hardware leftovers

Mozilla on Firefox and Surveillance

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Firefox and more

Is Linux market share going stonks or not stonks?

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we do have a few data sources, all of which could be taken into consideration

Games: Overwatch 2, "Total War: MEDIEVAL III", and More

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new stories from GamingOnLinux

Android Leftovers

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Google could be adding controller button mapping in Android 17

First Steps With Wine 11 and Proton Experimental Updates

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WINE or Emulation

Pebble Index 01 Arrives as a Private Open Source Voice Capture Ring

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Pebble Index 01 is an open-source smart ring that captures quick voice notes instantly and privately

PeerTube 8.0 Brings a Modern Video Player and Team Channel Management

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PeerTube 8.0 decentralized video platform debuts a modern Lucide player

Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected

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Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained

Ubuntu 26.04 Will Look More Like Vanilla GNOME Shell

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Ubuntu’s default desktop is about to look more like upstream GNOME than it has in years — but before you panic unduly

Free and Open Source Software

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This is free and open source software

There Is No “Commercial” Open Source – Only Open Source

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All of them include a simple rule: open source cannot restrict how the software is used or to which purpose

30 Reasons I ❤ KDE Plasma

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KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year

5 Signs You Have Become a Linux Power User

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You probably do not even realize how much you have improved since your first day with Linux

VirtualBox, OVA import and E_INVALIDARG 0x80070057 error

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I wanted to export one of my Linux virtual machines

Less Microsoft and Windows in Caribbean Seas [original]

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Microsoft may have many layoffs soon

Today in Techrights

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Some of the latest articles

Apple and Microsoft Cannot Stop GNU/Linux [original]

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Windows sales have fallen off a cliffThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2025-12-04 to 2025-12-101140 /n/2025/12/02/Linus_Torvalds_and_Another_Linus_Sebastian_Build_GNU_Linux_PC.shtml 1108 /n/2025/12/04/Audacity_3_7_6_Audio_Editor_Adds_FFmpeg_8_Support_Spectrogram_W.shtml 1001 /n/2025/12/03/Alpine_Linux_3_23_distribution_is_now_available_for_download_wi.shtml 982 /n/2025/12/06/Jolla_Launches_Community_Funded_Linux_Phone.shtml

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