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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.28 adds support for converting between watt-hours, kilowatt-hours, and other similar energy units in KRunner-powered search fields, and improves the alignment of thumbnail previews in open/save dialogs across KDE apps.

Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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Finland. This vintage Finnish travel poster shows scenes from summer and winter. Circa 1948.

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype
    Can we just abandon that false notion that modernity (or novelty) implies greater good? It does not.
  2. [Meme] Some Uber-Propaganda Right There in Media That Takes Bribes From the Companies It 'Covers'
    Losing over 45 billion dollars and being deep in debt
  3. [Video] Openwashing of GAFAM and Large Language Models (LLMs) With OSI as a Key Culprit (Enabler, Collaborator, Facilitator)
    deeply corrupt OSI
  4. This August It Seems Like Vista 11's Share is Going Down While GNU/Linux is Up Sharply (at Its Expense)
    Are people deleting Vista 11 and replacing that with GNU/Linux?
  5. [Meme] The Infantilisation of IBM, Once a Computing Giant With Computer Science Veterans
    Gimmicks are not meant to work better
  6. Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest
    This isn't just happening in the UK

    New

  7. This Month All South American Nations Except Two Estimated to Have More Android Than Windows
    Operating System Market Share South America
  8. Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware
    Links for the day
  9. Links 08/08/2024: Businesses and Man Pages
    Links for the day
  10. Attacking "Linux" Using Microsoft Chatbots (Guardian Digital, Inc as SEO Spamfarm of FUD)
    That explains a lot
  11. Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)
    Calling out the slop again
  12. Links 08/08/2024: Stocks Still Falling, "Paranoia on Parade"
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Slack and Grace, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
    Links for the day
  14. Looks Like GNU/Linux is Growing a Lot in Somalia This Year
    there is nobody "too stupid" (racist insult, too) to adopt GNU/Linux, unlike Windows
  15. Let's Encrypt (Outsourced Encryption) in Geminispace Has Collapsed to Just 2.5% of the Whole (It Used to be About 12%), Capsules Choose to Self-Sign Instead
    Encryption in Gemini does not mandate outsourcing; more capsules "get" it and quit outsourcing the certificate management to the monopolists' and GPL violators' front group, Linux Foundation
  16. [Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech
    With "X", an Anglophobic Musk and the "Royal" family in Saudi Arabia exercise control over most British politicians (e.g. what they can and cannot say, whether they can go "viral" etc.)
  17. Microsoft's Ponzi Enabler OpenAI Perishes, Traffic Takes Another Significant Tumble (Again), Down About 78% in Just 3 Months!
    The bubble is bursting
  18. Months After Africa Became 100% Android Majority Asia is Almost the Same
    The main exceptions are Japan and Russia (more Windows than Android)
  19. Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%
    In 2024 alone GNU/Linux has already gained more than 2%
  20. [Meme] No Program Source or Source Data... But Other Than That, It's "Open"
    Open... for business
  21. [Meme] The Goals Changed Somewhere Along the Way
    Twitter as a weapon
  22. Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them
    They're doing an "Arab spring" on a country they don't care for and try to undermine
  23. Links 08/08/2024: Spotify Shrinking and Nvidia Cheating
    Links for the day
  24. [Video] Microsofters at IBM and Cultural Changes That Doom IBM's Future
    Red Hat even hired many managers from Microsoft, sometimes despite them having no background in technology!
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 07, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 07, 2024
  27. [Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest
    Video coming soon...
  28. statCounter Sees Over 4 Out of 5 Web Requests Coming From Android, About 1 in 30 Comes from Windows
    Are Microsoft shareholders aware of trends like these?
  29. [Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into
    We decided to revisit the subject later this week, based on further input on the matter
  30. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Comparisons on Intel CPUs and Comprehensive NNCP Guide
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-02 to 2024-08-08
    2642 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml
    2372 /about.shtml
    1296 /txt/index.shtml?q=user/register
    946 /n/2024/08/05/Contrary_to_What_Shallow_News_Sites_Said_Canonical_s_Profits_an.shtml
    869 /n/2024/08/04/The_Negative_Impact_of_DEI_on_Salaries_at_IBM_and_Fedora.shtml

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