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

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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU/Linux at 4% "Market Share" (Even According to Steam Survey)
    Another milestone
  2. Ahead of Mass Layoffs Microsoft Tries to Rebrand or Redefine XBox (Because the XBox is Tentatively Dead)
    2026 will be the last year of XBox in all likelihood
  3. Richard Stallman (RMS) Announces His Georgia Talk 2.5 Weeks in Advance
    A lot earlier than usual

    New

  4. Gemini Links 06/01/2026: Collective Responsibility, Pico2DVI, and TV Detox
    Links for the day
  5. Microsoft Loves Freedom, Democracy... and Linux? No, Microsoft Laying Off Because "Microsoft Loves Linux" Was Failed Posturing, Its Former Staff Moves to GNU/Linux
    "What are the running totals for IBM and Microsoft layoffs?"
  6. Mozilla's Assisted Suicide, Assisted by GNOME
    Firefox is meant to get better all the time, but instead it gets worse
  7. Links 06/01/2026: Neglect of the Elderly, Abandonment of International Laws
    Links for the day
  8. Links 06/01/2026: More Reports Point to Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Later This Month), Greenland/Denmark Cautions the Dictator Who Illegally Invaded Venezuela
    Links for the day
  9. Internet Policy/Net Reality: You Must Never Ever Rely on Google (no "S.E.O." Either)
    Stack Overflow is dying
  10. Dr. Andy Farnell on Technology That Harms People (and Lack of Regulation Which is Needed to Address This Problem)
    Dr. Farnell's article is long but well worth reading
  11. GNU/Linux Rising to 5% in Cameroon and It's Hardly the Exception
    "AI" is just a smokescreen as losses pile up
  12. Rumours: Microsoft to Lay Off 12,500-25,000 Workers Soon (Tentatively Wednesday, 15 Days From Now)
    "Layoffs are coming third full week of Jan. Likely 21st but these things can move around a bit based on last minute developments."
  13. EPO People Power - Part XXVI - European Media Has Become Part of the Problem
    it is as clear as daylight that Cocainegate is real
  14. IBM 2026 "Organizational Change/s" Means Layoffs Resume Soon, Some Claim "Forever Layoffs."
    It's about "narrative control"
  15. Microsoft Layoffs in January 2026
    Get ready
  16. Google Still Boosting Slopfarms
    Slopfarms will probably all perish as soon as Google News quits sending them visitors
  17. Links 06/01/2026: Cryptocurrency Scam Emails and Greenland's Fear of Getting 'Venezuelad'
    Links for the day
  18. Links 06/01/2026: DIY Projects and Inertial Music
    Links for the day
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 05, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, January 05, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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