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Explaining AlternativeApproaches.com

HE other day I was contacted by Christine from FOSS Force. I thought the matter was worth documenting in public and I carefully checked that no personal information would be divulged in the process, not something embarrassing anyway (if told otherwise, I’d modify accordingly). Regarding FOSS Force ownership, she told me, “I notice that you identify articles on FOSS Force as being on Unicorn Media, which is an identity that hasn’t existed in about 10 years down.”

Playing CDs With VLC and KDE’s Dragon Player

hese days I use two media players to play my CDs (mostly 1990s albums and collections). One is KDE’s Dragon Player (because it’s based on Qt), the other is VLC. The latter has a lot more functionality but higher RAM footprint. In the past I used even leaner applications to achieve the same functionality. Those are no longer compatible with this setup (a lot changes in 20+ years in this sector).

Quality Lost and It’s Intentional

he music of the past is better and more complex. A year before I was born Lisa Jane Stansfield (from Manchester) won Search for a Star and I still listen to her music in 2026.

Social Control Media is Good for Forgeries, Not Information

ake a look at the tweets below, as recent as hours. I added green highlights.

Pushing to Live Soon

oday we are one week away from September and I will soon ‘push to live’ the new version of “Today in Techrights” and “Over at Tux Machines…”

Reaping What They Sow

he insensitive behaviour of Brett Wilson LLP last year [1, 2, 3] was a self-inflicted wound, as it was not the first time, far from it, but this time it was more blatant and likely intentional (they like to attack people during holidays, they effectively weaponise religion). In this particular case it was a mistake as they know that in this sector being seen as antisemitic is career suicide and, to make matters worse, their biggest client is alleged to be profoundly antisemitic. Freedom fighters don’t massacre dogs and civilians.

22-Year Record

oday I published 13 posts here, which probably is an all-time high for this blog or “Weblog” that began in 2004. That’s despite the fact we were out for Rianne’s birthday, so at least the day of this record will be a memorable one (the date).

More Activity Than Originally Expected

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Very Good Day Out

oday we travelled to 3 places (quite distant from one another). One of them had a beach-like feel to it, but Manchester has no beaches, the closest one can get to that are the reservoirs, the boat canal, or the port-like structures in Salford Quays. They’re not too far from central stations, the weather was perfect (blue sky, but not too hot), so we made the most out of it and everything went smoothly for Rianne’s birthday.

Evri Customer Services Seems to be a Bot and It’s Not Functioning

wrote to Evri today, early in the morning to be more specific, opening a second ticket after they had made an error by automation. Finally, after a week, I received a reply. Only after opening two tickets and further chasing the first (unhandled) one.

LinuxGizmos.com

Fanless Edge box runs Linux on Rockchip RV1126B with 3-TOPS NPU

The Forlinx FCU3101 is a fanless edge AI computing system based on Rockchip’s RV1126B/RV1126BJ processor, providing local AI inference, Ethernet, serial, and digital I/O connectivity for industrial vision, security monitoring, and data acquisition applications.

IAR webinar to examine static and runtime analysis for AI-assisted embedded development

IAR will host a September 15 webinar focused on the use of AI-generated code in regulated embedded development, with discussion covering static analysis, runtime checking, and CI/CD workflows used to support software verification and compliance activities.

9to5Linux

Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images

Coming almost three months after Armbian 26.5, the Armbian 26.8 release adds support for new ARM boards and chips, including Anbernic RG DS and RG Vita Pro, Radxa Cubie A7Z and Dragon Q6A/Q8B, Seeed reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 DevKits, as well as TI BeagleBadge and TMDS64EVM.

COSMIC 1.7 Desktop Environment Improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, and More

Coming only a week after COSMIC 1.6, the COSMIC 1.7 release is a small update that updates the COSMIC Compositor with improved support for scalable cursors so that they won’t be blurry when their size is increased, the ability to increase the zoom with each keypress, and support for magnifying the cursor when it’s shaken.

Ardour 9.8 Open-Source DAW Is Now Available with Initial Scales Support

Coming two and a half months after Ardour 9.7, the Ardour 9.8 release introduces initial scales support to let you visualize out-of-scale notes and choose if you want to avoid creating them entirely when composing and improvising in a specific musical key, as well as support for the Novation Launchkey 88 Mk4 and Arturia Drumbrute controllers.

OpenSSL 4.0.2 Released with Important Security and Bug Fixes

Coming two and a half months after OpenSSL 4.0.1, the OpenSSL 4.0.2 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072), excessive memory use buffering DTLS records (CVE-2026-54874), and a client-side memory leak in OCSP response checking (CVE-2026-54876).

Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!

It was on August 25th, 1991, that the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on a free operating system for 386 (486) AT clones, just as a “hobby”.

Shelly 3.1 Package Manager Is Out with Support for Building Arch Linux Packages

Shelly 3.1 is here to introduce support for building Arch Linux packages through a new shelly build command that’s part of the native package-management library, not a wrapper around makepkg. It writes makepkg-compatible entries and produces archives that pacman and other Arch Linux tools understand.

Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support

Powered by Linux kernel 7.1, Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” features a pure, Wayland-only GNOME 50 desktop environment with a refreshed set of default apps, including Ptyxis as the default terminal emulator, Papers as the default document viewer, and Resources as the default system monitor.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 23rd, 2026

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Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.8 Released with Linux 7.2, COSMIC 1.6, and More

Coming two months after PorteuX 2.7, the PorteuX 2.8 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series and features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7.4, GNOME 50.4, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, Cinnamon 6.6.9, COSMIC 1.6, MATE 1.28.2, and LXDE 0.11.1 desktop environments as standalone flavors.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding
    That's the power of the channel/distribution, marketing, and brand recognition (accomplished through endless marketing)
  2. Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in the Red (at a Loss) Quite Soon
    If your first-quarter net income is $409 million and you borrow billions from banks, plus interest to pay on those loans, then you're not far from returning to losses

    New

  3. Openwashing Slop... Using Slop!
    So get ready for "open" "hey hi" with its proprietary models to engage in openwashing, helped by serial sloppers who use the LLMs to produce fake 'articles'.
  4. On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts"
    There's a better way to do things. None of that should involve GAFAM.
  5. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5
    Links for the day
  6. The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants
    CPC's ByteDance says it's cool
  7. Microsoft v Planet Earth
    Is Microsoft profitable?
  8. IRC Turns 37
    Internet Relay Chat (short: IRC), which started in 1988, turns 37 this month
  9. Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft
    Notice his focus
  10. Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed
    Who's keeping track anyway?
  11. Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance!
    One thing to "like" (or dislike) about LLMs is how they're falsely marketed using various buzzwords
  12. Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself"
    claims of stagnation in Geminispace started because of a person who spent a long time agitating against GNU/Linux as well
  13. Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft
    This cannot be good news for GAFAM
  14. Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US
    Washington is just more strict with WARN notices
  15. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop)
    Links for the day
  16. The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble
    A lot of the online media is a scam
  17. Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR)
    efforts that accompany the foundations put there by the Free Software Foundation in 1985
  18. Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories
    Google News still has a slopfarm issue
  19. Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"
    Links for the day
  20. Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs
    Links for the day
  21. Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025)
    The eleventh means next Monday
  22. IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise)
    IBM is basically being liquidated
  23. The Debian Language Police Department (PD)
    "there has never been complaints about anyone that was offended by this -off package"
  24. When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware
    The leading story in The Register US/MS this morning is Microsoft
  25. Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro
    Microsoft must be well aware of this trend
  26. Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links
    There are still many people who use Gopher to relay their messages (like blog posts). They're mostly technical people.
  27. Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument
    Beware what they are attempting to distract from
  28. Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low
    in 2009 when Windows was at 99.45% in Mongolia the company was "worth" less than 200 billion dollars
  29. About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm
    Not kidding!
  30. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS
    Links for the day
  31. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  32. IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, August 04, 2025
  33. ChatGPT in Trouble
    Watch out for the newer buzzwords
  34. The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page
    They link to older data
  35. Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look
    Google was always a lousy librarian
  36. Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
    If Microsoft is doing so well, how come about 10 rounds of layoffs in about 7 months in 2025?
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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Omarchy Quattro and Raising Money for Desktop/Laptop Efforts
Omarchy leftovers
Fedora Report, Fedora-Based Bazzite and Qubes OS
3 picks regarding Fedora
Debian Leftovers
3 Debian picks
GNU/Linux Has Been Measured at 14% in Italy, 13% Last Week [original]
With some policy changes in the EU we expect GNU/Linux to rise much further in the coming years
Wine 11.16
The Wine development release 11.16 is now available.
Android Leftovers
Android Photo Picker is getting an upgrade that gives users more control over their data
Debian GNU/Linux is 33 [original]
Ian left this planet a decade ago
Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it
I've used Linux seriously for over 20 years
3 signs you've outgrown Linux Mint
Like many Linux users, I came to appreciate Linux through beginner-friendly distros like Linux Mint and Zorin OS
Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors
Nice to see an expansion of Linux on devices, with the Framework Laptop 12 getting support for pre-builts to ship with Fedora KDE 44 and Intel Core Series 3
Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
Proton OS – Debian-based Linux distribution
Proton OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for small businesses and everyday users seeking a familiar desktop without telemetry
17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks
Change how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions
Windows is a Minority Platform in Singapore [original]
Android+GNU/Linux+ChromeOS are near 20%
Not a Mistake, Not "Bots": GNU/Linux Really is Growing Very Fast [original]
We plan to devote more coverage to the growth of GNU/Linux
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Clownflare Numbers: GNU/Linux Reaching 13% in China This Weekend [original]
There was significant increase lately