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First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor

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Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

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Antergos Linux was created by developers Alexandre Filgueira, Gustau Castells, and Dustin Falgout back in 2012 as an unofficial Cinnamon flavor of the popular and flexible Arch Linux distribution. It was initially called Cinnarch (Cinnamon on Arch), but the developers renamed it Antergos in 2013.

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KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

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M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2026

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low of ~60% in Switzerland, GNU/Linux Among Top Gainers
    What will it take for mainstream media (not just geeks' site) to cover it?

    New

  2. Culture of Harassment Inside Microsoft, Says Former Director at Microsoft
    listen to Microsoft insiders
  3. Drone Strikes on Amazon (GAFAM) Datacentres Highlight Azure's Miniscule Share
    Azure is failing
  4. SLAPP Censorship - Part 35 Out of 200: How to Make ~10,000 Pound Sterling (13,220.50 United States Dollars) by Copy-Pasting and Editing 10 Pages
    Today it's Easter Sunday, so we'll keep this part relatively short
  5. Gemini Links 05/04/2026: Artemis II Mission Tracker, Meditation on Copyright, Alhena 5.5.5, "Gemini as the Final Frontier of Human Cognition"
    Links for the day
  6. Mainstream Media on "Practical Survivalism"
    Suffice to say, panic buying begets more panic and price surges
  7. Cloud Computing as a Cloud of Smoke (Your Hosting Provider is a "Legitimate" Military Target)
    When a French datacentre went up in flames people joked that the "cloud" meant a cloud of smoke
  8. Andreas Tille Congratulates Sruthi Chandran Before the Election for Debian Project Leader (DPL) is Even Over
    Andreas Tille, the current Debian Project Leader (DPL) who has been in this role for nearly 24 months
  9. When You Try to Change the World for the Better and Somehow They Find a Way to Say You Are the Villain
    Don't be a fool. Don't fall for inversions of narratives.
  10. Slop Was a Flop and Energy Crisis Will be Slop's Final Blow
    Today we see no slopfarms in Google News
  11. Links 05/04/2026: "Taiwanese Airlines to Hike Fuel Surcharges 157%" and Openly Racist Voter Suppression Starts in the US
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 05/04/2026: Playing with Hyprland and Migrating Antenna Filters
    Links for the day
  13. Links 05/04/2026: "Confidential Computing" as Proprietary Bundle of False Promises and "The Web Is an Antitrust Wedge"
    Links for the day
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 04, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, April 04, 2026
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