Techrights
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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2025
Updated This Past Day
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Are They Bluffing? [original]
I am not a lawyer (IANAL), but something doesn't seem right
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What Freedom Means to Me [original]
Freedom is a 7-letter word which in English can mean all sorts of things
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If You Value Software Freedom, Consider Downloading a Gemini Client (Browser) and Using Geminispace [original]
The Web has become really bad for many different reasons
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Keep an Eye on GNU/Linux in Turkey [original]
Turkey has a population larger than any nation in Europe. If GNU/Linux gains even "just 1%" there, that can be a lot of people.
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Which Gemini? [original]
In the context of technology or even FOSS alone, there are now many "Geminis"
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Another Week Comes to an End, But It Has Been an Exceptionally Productive One [original]
Today we worked on improving the site by adding a few new tools for it
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GNU/Linux in Spain as 2025 Ends [original]
Our guess is that Spain wishes and is capable of becoming self-sufficient for "tech"
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
This year, System76 turned twenty
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Feeding 'John' [original]
squirrels are adorable
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Not Everything and Everyone is for Sale [original]
The notion that I must chase money didn't appeal to me
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Social Control Media Props Up Narcissists and Liars (Who Fake Their Alleged Popularity or Supposed Importance) [original]
It's the same in YouTube
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Record Traffic in Gemini Protocol [original]
Maybe owing to a large volume of pages, our capsule grew a lot and we serve about 30,000 requests per day (this week)
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Gamers Are Flocking Away From Microsoft and From Windows [original]
Give it another year (2026) and let's see is Steam Survey shows GNU/Linux at over 5%
New
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Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
patches, incidents, and more
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
FOSS and standards remnants
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today's leftovers
BSD and more
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Programming Leftovers
Development related picks
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Hardware: Home Assistant, SBC, Purism, and More
some gadgets and such
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Haiku R1/beta5 as a "Daily Driver" and Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems
Some New regarding "Distributions and Operating Systems"
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BSD and Linux Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
ZFS and more
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Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi
3 stories
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today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks
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Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself
Red Hat leftovers
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Articles on the Duel Between GNU/Linux and Windows, Which Microsoft is Ditching (or Whose Users Get Abandoned)
Wallen and more
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today's howtos
5 howtos
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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pebble Index 01, and More
Hardware picks
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
There’s an odd tendency in modern software development; we’ve collectively decided that naming things after random nouns
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Games: Kitten Space Agency, Project Zomboid, and More
8 stories from GamingOnLinux
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Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly
Changes are afoot for Ubuntu’s opt-in telemetry service
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Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is
I’ve tried pretty much every major Linux distro out there
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ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding)
The keyboard is a QMK-compatible USB keyboard that can be used to interact with a Raspberry Pi
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Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin
In the winter 2025 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Bulletin
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Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
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Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone
Purism has a solution available today
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Setting up distributed compilations with sccache
There's a relatively new kid on the block, sccache
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KDE Ni! OS
At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE)
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Another Magnificent Milestone [original]
There are already many SSGs out there
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GNU/Linux Reaches About 5% in Austria [original]
Germany is dumping Microsoft
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Upcoming "black building test" [original]
(or Blackout Test)
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
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When a Bird Dies [original]
No, it wasn't a cat's fault
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Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
mostly the former
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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
FOSS stories
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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, KiCad, and More
Hardware leftovers
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Outreachy in GNOME and Rewriting Cartridges (GNOME)
GNOME picksThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2025-12-06 to 2025-12-121192 /n/2025/12/06/Jolla_Launches_Community_Funded_Linux_Phone.shtml 1014 /n/2025/12/08/Firefox_146_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s_New.shtml 928 /n/2025/12/02/Linus_Torvalds_and_Another_Linus_Sebastian_Build_GNU_Linux_PC.shtml