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Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Adds Graphics Adapter for Linux, Shake Video Filter

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 26, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 25/07/2025: NOAA Cuts Endanger Lives, "Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis"
    Links for the day
  2. YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake)
    Those who don't fake look unpopular and unimportant

    New

  3. New US Editor in The Register is 84% Microsoft/Windows Booster
    It'll be worrying if it carries on like this
  4. Links 25/07/2025: Slop Blunders and China Has Code of Conduct for Lawmakers in HK
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 25/07/2025: Some Books and Babies and Capital
    Links for the day
  6. They Try to Lecture Us on Ethics
    They even removed "master" from Microsoft GitHub
  7. The Future of the Web is One Rendering Engine or 'Flavours' of Chrome
    The future of the Web does not look bright at all
  8. Best Sites Are Not Optimised for Any Browser, They Work Equally Well With All of Them
    Red Hat (IBM) is making rubbish sites
  9. We Don't Do JavaScript and Pages Are Small
    Thankfully Gemini Protocol has nothing like JavaScript
  10. 'Tech' is Not Technology
    Some people use terms like 'Old Tech'
  11. IBM's Debt Rose by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in the Past 6 Months Alone
    The "hey hi" circus is coming to an end
  12. Yes, Master
    Gaslighting by actual racists
  13. Microsoft Bribes and Buys Politicians to Tell Europe What to Do About Free Software (Which It's Attacking)
    Microsoft: we speak for the thing that we are attacking! Follow the money...
  14. Making Backups Quickly and Reliably
    Backups are imperative, more so in an age of uncertainty, unpredictable weather, and worsening standards (quality of products going down while prices go up)
  15. Techrights Investigation: Estimating the Point in Time LinuxIac Turned Into LLM Slop (Part of the Time)
    Bobby Borisov got lazy
  16. 10th Month, Ten Weeks From Now, at Ten AM
    In Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 24, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, July 24, 2025
  19. A Nadella Memo Distracts From Microsoft's Cheapening Of the Workforce
    Right now the "MSM" (mainstream media) is flooded/overwhelmed by garbage pieces that relay lies for Nadella
  20. Vanishing Faces of GNU/Linux
    Free software projects do not depend on any one person or company to still exist
  21. Microsoft Says It Lost 400 Million Windows Users, Now It's Waiting for GNU/Linux to Stop Booting on 'Old' PCs
    When it comes to Windows, Microsoft is fully aware of the issue and statements it made earlier this summer suggest it lost 400 million Windows users
  22. Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, LinuxIac, and More
    Also: The Register's Microsoft agenda (new editor)
  23. Gemini Links 25/07/2025: Gemtext Aware Titan Editor and Gemini Protocol Comeback
    Links for the day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-07-19 to 2025-07-25
    3154 /about.shtml
    2075 /n/2025/07/23/Our_Three_Lawsuits_Against_Microsofters_Are_About_to_Become_a_L.shtml
    1621 /irc.shtml
    1163 /index.shtml

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