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  1. Is Ubuntu Compromised? Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers.
    Perhaps people should ask Canonical what the thinking behind it was...
  2. Phoronix Seems to be Trying to Kill Discussion About "Asahi Lina" and the Anti-Torvalds Brigade
    Our informed guess is that by reporting this news Phoronix got caught up in flamewars that divide and fracture the community
  3. Facts on the Case Already Disclosed by US Authorities
    NGOs in the UK (several keep abreast of this, judging every recent move) are truly unimpressed
  4. The Times Group (and The Times of India) Basically Died Again
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  5. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, gbhackers.com, and techmonitor.ai (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux")
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  6. Gemini Links 19/03/2025: go-gopherproxy and 'Small Web' as Self-expression
    Links for the day
  7. Links 19/03/2025: Attention's Cost and Media Still Besieged by Dictatorships
    Links for the day
  8. Claiming to Love What You Reject or Seek to Totally Own, Control
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  9. LinuxTechLab Became Just LLM Slop and SPAM
    Another dead (former "Linux") site
  10. The Rust Song
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  11. The Death of The Economic Times (India Times): LLM Slop Presented as 'Articles', Containing Errors and Revisionism
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  12. In Belgium, Android is Finally Measured as Bigger Than Windows
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  13. "Rust People" Are a Threat to BSD Too (the Licence Isn't the Main Issue, Nor is the Proprietary Microsoft Hosting)
    BSDs aren't written in Rust, so BSD developers should buckle up
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 18, 2025
  16. Sami Tikkanen Explains Rust Language and Its Goals
    "Sompi" (the nickname of Sami Tikkanen) has weighed in
  17. Links 19/03/2025: Gardening Season and the Web Without an Audience
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