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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2025

Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025
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Are They Bluffing? [original]

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I am not a lawyer (IANAL), but something doesn't seem right

What Freedom Means to Me [original]

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Freedom is a 7-letter word which in English can mean all sorts of things

If You Value Software Freedom, Consider Downloading a Gemini Client (Browser) and Using Geminispace [original]

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The Web has become really bad for many different reasons

Keep an Eye on GNU/Linux in Turkey [original]

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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.

Which Gemini? [original]

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In the context of technology or even FOSS alone, there are now many "Geminis"

Another Week Comes to an End, But It Has Been an Exceptionally Productive One [original]

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Today we worked on improving the site by adding a few new tools for it

GNU/Linux in Spain as 2025 Ends [original]

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Our guess is that Spain wishes and is capable of becoming self-sufficient for "tech"

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder

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This year, System76 turned twenty

Feeding 'John' [original]

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squirrels are adorable

Not Everything and Everyone is for Sale [original]

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The notion that I must chase money didn't appeal to me

Social Control Media Props Up Narcissists and Liars (Who Fake Their Alleged Popularity or Supposed Importance) [original]

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It's the same in YouTube

Record Traffic in Gemini Protocol [original]

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Maybe owing to a large volume of pages, our capsule grew a lot and we serve about 30,000 requests per day (this week)

Gamers Are Flocking Away From Microsoft and From Windows [original]

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Give it another year (2026) and let's see is Steam Survey shows GNU/Linux at over 5%

New

Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

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patches, incidents, and more

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

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FOSS and standards remnants

today's leftovers

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BSD and more

Programming Leftovers

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Development related picks

Hardware: Home Assistant, SBC, Purism, and More

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some gadgets and such

Haiku R1/beta5 as a "Daily Driver" and Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems

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Some New regarding "Distributions and Operating Systems"

BSD and Linux Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

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ZFS and more

Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

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3 stories

today's howtos

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Instructionals/Technical picks

Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself

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Red Hat leftovers

Articles on the Duel Between GNU/Linux and Windows, Which Microsoft is Ditching (or Whose Users Get Abandoned)

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Wallen and more

today's howtos

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5 howtos

Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pebble Index 01, and More

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Hardware picks

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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There’s an odd tendency in modern software development; we’ve collectively decided that naming things after random nouns

Games: Kitten Space Agency, Project Zomboid, and More

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8 stories from GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly

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Changes are afoot for Ubuntu’s opt-in telemetry service

Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is

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I’ve tried pretty much every major Linux distro out there

ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding)

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The keyboard is a QMK-compatible USB keyboard that can be used to interact with a Raspberry Pi

Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin

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In the winter 2025 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Bulletin

Free and Open Source Software

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This is free and open source software

Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone

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Purism has a solution available today

Setting up distributed compilations with sccache

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There's a relatively new kid on the block, sccache

KDE Ni! OS

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At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE)

Another Magnificent Milestone [original]

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There are already many SSGs out there

GNU/Linux Reaches About 5% in Austria [original]

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Germany is dumping Microsoft

Upcoming "black building test" [original]

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(or Blackout Test)

Today in Techrights

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Some of the latest articles

When a Bird Dies [original]

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No, it wasn't a cat's fault

Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

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mostly the former

GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

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mostly GNU/Linux

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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FOSS stories

Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, KiCad, and More

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Hardware leftovers

Outreachy in GNOME and Rewriting Cartridges (GNOME)

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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

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