Today in Techrights

• COVID-19 Has Actually Helped Software Freedom Due to Financial and 'Spare Time' Factors
• Future Plans and Using Videos to Complement Text
• InteLeaks – Part XVIII: Intel Does Not Know How to Properly Do Research and It Seems Apparent Unscientific Methods Are Used to Justify Poor Documentation
• Suppressed Facts of the Free Software Movement and Its Community of Volunteers – Part III: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Seems More Like a Victim of Destabilisation Campaigns
• Links 17/1/2021: EasyOS on Raspberry Pi and GNU libsigsegv 2.13
• InteLeaks – Part XVII: The High Cost of Microsoft Windows Users in GNU/Linux Development Teams
• IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 16, 2021
• Suppressed Facts of the Free Software Movement and Its Community of Volunteers – Part II: Why Bradley Kuhn Left the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• Links 16/1/2021: LibreOffice 7.1 Release Candidate, Zeroshell 3.9.5, FreeBSD Report, and GhostBSD 21.01.15
• Free Speech on the Web Not Respected by Companies That Used to Support Software Freedom
• Suppressed Facts of the Free Software Movement and Its Community of Volunteers – Part I: We Are Under Attack by Corporations and Their Salaried Facilitators

Shows/Videos: GNU/Linux News, ONLYOFFICE, LibreWolf, and AwesomeWM

• KDE Roadmap for 2021, Nvidia now loves Wayland, and Epic Games Store on Linux - Linux News

  This time we have the KDE roadmap for the year, Nvidia preparing to better support Wayland and ray tracing on Linux, the death of Flash Player, and an open source epic games store client for Linux.

• How to install ONLYOFFICE on Linux Mint 20.1

  In this video, we are looking at how to install ONLYOFFICE on Linux Mint 20.1.

• LibreWolf Is A Web Browser For Privacy and Freedom

  LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Librewolf strips out all of the telemetry from Firefox and enables a bunch extra security settings out of the box. It has uBlock installed by default and it supports privacy conscious search engines.

• AwesomeWM: So Long BSPWM, It's Been Fun

  I've been running BSPWM for the past year and it's a great window manager but I wanted a change so I've been convinced to try out AwesomeWM and I'm genuinely impressed, it's very different to what I've become used to but this is a really solid window manager experience.

Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression

Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression. As noted back on Christmas, Linux 5.10 was seeing significant slowdowns on Btrfs. For simply unpacking a Linux kernel source .tar.zst file it could easily take multiple times longer on this stable kernel version. While patches for addressing this poor Btrfs behavior on Linux 5.10 were floating around since before the end of the year, it's taken until now to get them tested and queued up for mainline integration. Linux 5.11 meanwhile has a plethora of Btrfs improvements. Also: Better Microsoft Surface Support Is On The Way With Linux 5.12

Youtubedl-gui: New Graphical YouTube Downloader based on Youtube-DL

Youtubedl-gui is a simple new graphical interface for the popular command-line YouTube downloader youtube-dl. The tool is quite simple to use, just paste the video URL, select audio quality and format, video resolution and format, and click download! And of course, there’s an option to change the destination folder of your downloads. Once you click download, a small dialog will pop up with the process bar.