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EndeavourOS Mercury landed on February 10th, 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.13 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is here to bump the kernel to Linux 6.13.7 and the live session to KDE Plasma 6.3.3.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 22, 2024,
updated Apr 22, 2024

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  1. Why We Republish Articles From Debian Disguised.Work (Formerly Debian.Community)
    articles at disguised.work aren't easy to find
  2. Google: We Run and Fund Diversity Programs, Please Ignore How Our Own Staff Behaves
    censorship is done by the recipients of the grants
  3. European Patent Office (EPO) Has Serious Safety Issues, This New Report Highlights Some of Them
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  4. Microsoft-Run FUD Machine Wants Nobody to Pay Attention to Microsoft Getting Cracked All the Time
    Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) is the business model of "modern" media

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  5. Links 21/04/2024: Earth Day Coming, Day of Rest, Excess Deaths Hidden by Manipulation
    Links for the day
  6. Bad faith: no communication before opening WIPO UDRP case
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  7. Bad faith: real origins of harassment and evidence
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  8. Links 21/04/2024: Censorship Abundant, More Decisions to Quit Social Control Media
    Links for the day
  9. Bad faith: Debian Community domain used for harassment after WIPO seizure
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. If Red Hat/IBM Was a Restaurant...
    Two hours ago in thelayoff.com
  11. Paul Tagliamonte & Debian Outreachy OPW dating
    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
  12. Disguised.Work unmasked, Debian-private fresh leaks
    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
  13. [Meme] Fake European Patents Helped Fund the War on Ukraine
    The European Patent Office (EPO) does not serve the interests of Europe
  14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 20, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, April 20, 2024
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. Torvalds Fed Up With "AI" Passing Fad, Calls It "Autocorrect on Steroids."
    and Microsoft pretends that it is speaking for Linux
  17. Gemini Links 21/04/2024: Minecraft Ruined
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1293 /n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
    1121 /n/2024/04/19/Sven_Luther_Thomas_Bushnell_Debian_s_September_11_discussion.shtml
    1067 /n/2024/04/18/Sven_Luther_Lucy_Wayland_Debian_s_toxic_culture.shtml
    982 /n/2024/04/16/Halasz_David_IBM_Red_Hat_OSCAL_Albania_dating.shtml
    982 /n/2024/04/06/Jonathan_Cohen_Charles_Fussell_Debian_embezzlement.shtml
    943 /n/2024/04/17/Microsofters_in_Linux_Foundation_Clothing_Continue_to_Shift_Sec.shtml
    934 /n/2024/04/18/Coroner_s_Report_Lucy_Wayland_Debian_Abuse_Culture.shtml
    897 /n/2024/04/10/Daniele_Scasciafratte_Mozilla_OSCAL_Albania_dating.shtml
    778 /n/2024/04/19/Chris_Rutter_ARM_Ltd_IPO_Winchester_College_Debian.shtml
    761 /n/2024/04/19/Russell_Coker_Debian_September_11_Islamist_sympathy.shtml
    751 /n/2024/04/16/The_Free_Software_Community_is_Under_Attack_Waged_Mostly_by_Law.shtml
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