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⚓ Post #0: [Meme] Fraud Seems Standard to Standard Life

Sirius ‘Open Source’ has embezzled and defrauded staff; now it is being protected (delaying and stonewalling tactics) by those who helped facilitate the robbery

⚓ Post #1: 3 Months to Progress Pension Fraud Investigations in the United Kingdom

Based on our experiences and findings, one simply cannot rely on pension providers to take fraud seriously (we’ve been working as a group on this); all they want is the money and risk does not seem to bother them, even when there’s an actual crime associated with pension-related activities

⚓ Post #2: 36,000 Soon

Techrights is still growing; in WordPress alone (not the entire site) we’re fast approaching 36,000 posts; in Gemini it’s almost 45,500 pages and our IRC community turns 15 soon

⚓ Post #3: Contrary to What Bribed (by Microsoft) Media Keeps Saying, Bing is in a Freefall and Bing Staff is Being Laid Off (No, Chatbots Are Not Search and Do Not Substitute Web Pages!)

Chatbots/chaffbot media noise (chaff) needs to be disregarded; Microsoft has no solid search strategy, just lots and lots of layoffs that never end this year (Microsoft distracts shareholders with chaffbot hype/vapourware each time a wave of layoffs starts, giving financial incentives for publishers to not even mention these; right now it’s GitHub again, with NDAs signed to hide that it is happening)

⚓ Post #4: Full RMS Talk (‘A Tour of Malicious Software’) Uploaded 10 Hours Ago

The talk is entitled "A tour of malicious software, with a typical cell phone as example." Richard Stallman is speaking about the free software movement and your freedom. His speech is nontechnical. The talk was given on March 17, 2023 in Somerville, MA.

⚓ Post #5: Links 28/03/2023: KPhotoAlbum 5.10.0 and QSoas 3.2

Links for the day

⚓ Post #6: The Rumours Were Right: Many More Microsoft Layoffs This Week, Another Round of GitHub Layoffs

Another round of GitHub layoffs (not the first [1, 2]; won’t be the last) and many more Microsoft layoffs; this isn’t related to the numbers disclosed by Microsoft back in January, but Microsoft uses or misuses NDAs to hide what’s truly going on

⚓ Post #7: All of Microsoft’s Strategic Areas Have Layoffs This Year

Microsoft’s supposedly strategic/future areas — gaming (trying to debt-load or offload debt to other companies), so-called ‘security’, “clown computing” (Azure), and “Hey Hi” (chaffbots etc.) — have all had layoffs this year; it’s clear that the company is having a serious existential crisis in spite of Trump’s and Biden’s bailouts (a wave of layoffs every month this year) and is just bluffing/stuffing the media with chaffbots cruft (puff pieces/misinformation) to keep shareholders distracted, asking them for patience and faking demand for the chaffbots (whilst laying off Bing staff, too)

⚓ Post #8: Links 28/03/2023: Pitivi 2023.03 is Out, Yet More Microsoft Layoffs (Now in Israel)

Links for the day

⚓ Post #9: IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 27, 2023

IRC logs for Monday, March 27, 2023

⚓ Post #10: Links 27/03/2023: GnuCash 5.0 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Phones

Links for the day

⚓ Post #11: Links 27/03/2023: Twitter Source Code Published (But Not Intentionally)

Links for the day

⚓ Post #12: IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 26, 2023

IRC logs for Sunday, March 26, 2023

⚓ Post #13: Links 26/03/2023: OpenMandriva ROME 23.03, Texinfo 7.0.3, and KBibTeX 0.10.0

Links for the day

⚓ Post #14: The World Wide Web is a Cesspit of Misinformation. Let’s Do Something About It.

It would be nice to make the Web a safer space for information and accuracy (actual facts) rather than a “Safe Space” for oversensitive companies and powerful people who cannot tolerate criticism; The Web needs to become more like today's Gemini, free of corporate influence and all other forms of covert nuisance

⚓ Post #15: Ryan Farmer: I’m Back After WordPress.com Deleted My Blog Over the Weekend

Reprinted with permission from Ryan

⚓ Post #16: Civil Liberties Threatened Online and Offline

A “society of sheeple” (a term used by Richard Stallman last week in his speech) is being “herded” online and offline; the video covers examples both online and offline, the latter being absence of ATMs or lack of properly-functioning ATMs (a growing problem lately, at least where I live)

⚓ Post #17: Techrights Develops Free Software to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff

In order to separate the wheat from the chaff we’ve been working on simple, modular tools that process news and help curate the Web, basically removing the noise to squeeze out the signal

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⚓ Post #0: First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Out Now

The UBports Foundation announced today the general availability of the first Ubuntu Touch OTA release based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series.

⚓ Post #1: Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Becomes Official Ubuntu Flavor

The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix distribution has officially become an official Ubuntu flavor and will join the rest of the flavors starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release.

⚓ Post #2: Finnix 125 Linux Distro Arrives for Sysadmins with Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS

Ryan Finnie announced today the release and general availability of Finnix 125 as the latest stable version of this Debian-based live GNU/Linux distribution for sysadmins.

⚓ Post #3: Today in Techrights

Some articles for today

⚓ Post #4: today's leftovers

Ubuntu, SUSE, and more

⚓ Post #6: Programming Leftovers

Coding links

⚓ Post #7: carbonOS: This Upcoming Independent Distro is All About UX and Robust Experience

carbonOS is a new upcoming distro on the radar. Explore more about it here

⚓ Post #8: Games: Steam, Native GNU/Linux Ports, Netherguild, and More

5 new stories

⚓ Post #9: today's howtos

morning's howtos

⚓ Post #10: New Firefox Update Improves Performance for Linux Wayland Users

Here's why the latest Mozilla Firefox update will improve performance on Linux

⚓ Post #11: 5 Best Free and Open Source Backend Electronic Circuit Simulators

Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart

⚓ Post #12: 5 of the Best Steganography Tools in Linux

This guide shows five of the best steganography tools currently available in Linux

⚓ Post #13: EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.2 released

there has been a complete recompile of the packages

⚓ Post #14: Microsoft-Owned GitHub Lays Off Entire Engineering Team In India, Impacting 142 Roles

Get out of there now...

⚓ Post #15: Security Leftovers

Linux and beyond

⚓ Post #16: Software: QSoas's 3.2 Release, Ventoy Latest, and Alacritty 0.12.0 Released

3 releases

⚓ Post #17: Graphics: Mike Blumenkrantz Dota2 and on Russell Coker Strange X11 Grabbing

Linux display stuff

⚓ Post #18: OBS Studio 29.1 Promises AV1/HEVC Streaming over RTMP, Lossless Audio Recording

OBS Studio 29.1, the first major release since OBS Studio 29.0, is now available for public beta testing with multiple new features and improvements.

⚓ Post #19: today's howtos

many more for the day's end

⚓ Post #20: Flatpak and Red Hat

3 news items/howtos

⚓ Post #21: Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico, FreeCAD, 3D Printing, and More

Device 'hacking'

⚓ Post #22: Programming Leftovers

Coding, with focus on Python today

⚓ Post #23: Security Leftovers

Many for today, Linux focus

⚓ Post #24: Android Leftovers

Android Keyboard Shortcuts That Will Increase Your Productivity

⚓ Post #25: Slow Ubuntu Shutdowns Because of Snap Daemon? Here’s a Fix

Sometimes I shutdown Ubuntu and …it takes ages to actually power off

⚓ Post #26: KPhotoAlbum 5.10.0 released

We're happy to announce the new release 5.10.0 of KPhotoAlbum

⚓ Post #27: Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon

Could have something to do with Ubuntu kicking Flatpak. Meanwhile, SUSE may be pulling up closer to rival Red Hat

⚓ Post #28: FreeBSD 13.2-RC5 Now Available

Almost there now

⚓ Post #29: Hands-on, Ad-free browsing at your home with Leap Micro 5.4 Beta

The Beta version of our Immutable HostOS Leap Micro 5.4 is now available

⚓ Post #30: Today in Techrights

Some articles for today

⚓ Post #31: 12 Best Linux Server Distributions of 2023

Linux is free and open-source, this has emanated from the low total cost of ownership of a Linux system, compared to other operating systems

⚓ Post #32: Plasma, Dolphin, Downloads folder, grouping by date

There we go, we fixed the little annoyance

⚓ Post #33: HackerBox and Hardware Printing With Raspberry Pi

Educational slant

⚓ Post #34: How to Fix an Error Unable to Correct Problems You Have Held Broken Packages

One of the quite common errors while installing packages on Ubuntu is the “Held broken packages” error, which can be solved very easily with this guide.

⚓ Post #35: Pitivi 2023.03 Video Editor Brings Back Autoaligner, Adds More Precise Audio Waveforms

Pitivi, the open-source and free GStreamer-based video editor designed with a strong focus on efficiency, quality, and usability, has been updated to version 2023.03.

⚓ Post #36: Android Leftovers

The 5 Best Android Apps For Note-Taking In 2023

⚓ Post #37: conga-STDA4 SMARC 2.1 module features TI TDA4VM/DRA829J Jacinto 7 processor

congatec will provide a Linux BSP for the Arm Cortex-A72 cores, as well as support for Wind River VxWorks

⚓ Post #38: Vanilla OS Ditches Ubuntu in Favor of Debian Sid

Vanilla OS is shaking things up with a move from Ubuntu to Debian Sid. Learn what led the developers to make this decision

⚓ Post #39: What is System Hardening? Definition and Best practices

System hardening means locking down a system and reducing its attack surface...

⚓ Post #40: Security Leftovers

Many failures

⚓ Post #41: Documentation, Alternative to ChaffGPT (Chaff/Distraction From Microsoft Layoffs), WordPress Briefing, and Lunduke Big Tech Show

4 new shows/videos

⚓ Post #42: Converseen Flatpak now with Heif/Heic, PDF, LibRAW Support

Although Converseen has been available as a Flatpak package for a few months now, it finally now has a series of updates that bring it up to par with the corresponding AppImage and Snap packages in terms of features.

⚓ Post #43: Ham Radio, 'Linux' Foundation, and Yet More Microsoft Layoffs

3 items of relevance

⚓ Post #44: FSFE: OpenPGP/Nitrokey, Interoperable Europe Act, and YH4F (Child Labour)

3 items from/about FSFE

⚓ Post #45: Arduino, OpenEmbedded, and VxWorks/Wind River Linux

Some hardware news

⚓ Post #46: Red Hat Leftovers

Mostly corporate stuff

⚓ Post #47: Programming Leftovers

half a dozen items

⚓ Post #48: GnuCash 5.0 Accounting Software Released with New Stock Transaction Assistant

The GnuCash 5.0 free, open-source, and cross-platform accounting software has been released today as a major update that brings several exciting new features and many improvements.

⚓ Post #49: GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop

3 new stories

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⚓ Post #5: Twitter Source Code Released (UPDATED)

Not by intention