Tux Machines Bulletin for Wednesday, February 04, 2026 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 5 Feb 02:49:53 GMT 2026 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at http://news.tuxmachines.org ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Tux Machines - 5 Powerful Things Linux Lets You Do That Windows Still Won’t ⦿ Tux Machines - 65% more people are gaming on Linux compared to a year ago, and it's not just Steam Deck users ⦿ Tux Machines - After 30 years with Linux, I switched it for Windows 11 - and found 9 serious problems ⦿ Tux Machines - Android Leftovers ⦿ Tux Machines - A Year of Change in Tux Machines ⦿ Tux Machines - Debian: lawsuit and transparency (many years after transparency was decided upon) ⦿ Tux Machines - Distributions and Operating Systems: postmarketOS, HaikuOS, FLOPPINUX, and More ⦿ Tux Machines - 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gHacks Tech News — Linux offers a level of control, flexibility, and system transparency that Windows still does not provide. From deep desktop customization and portable live environments to extended hardware support and privacy-first design, Linux gives users true ownership of their computing experience. The following 5 examples highlight the most powerful things Linux lets you do that Windows still won’t. 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That's not a random number: that's according to Steam's monthly hardware survey. Valve goes deep into the data every month, providing us with stats and graphs about everything from the GPUs players are using, to the most popular VR headset plugged in at any one time. By comparing the results to those of previous years, we can spot growing trends, and it seems like Linux is gaining popularity at a rapid rate. Linux, the operating system created by Linus Torvalds, is gaining popularity as more people seek alternatives to Microsoft Windows. Whether they're annoyed by constant Windows updates necessary to play the latest fantasy game, the fact that they're forced to engage with Copilot AI, or any of the other myriad reasons people are migrating, Linux is picking up steam for gamers (pun very much intended). 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Less than one hour into my experiment, this question came to mind, and over the next seven days, I was unable to arrive at an answer. Hello, my name is Jack Wallen, and I'm a glutton for punishment. For whatever reason, a week ago today, I decided to switch my default operating system from Linux to Windows. I did not come at it with any preconceived conclusions. In fact, I wanted the experience to be positive. I wanted to start using Windows and experience all the reasons people use the OS for both business and personal use. Surely, Windows 11 was an efficient, zippy, user-friendly, and reliable operating system, right? Turns out, it was none of those things. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 288 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Android_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Android_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Android Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Android_Auto_screen⦈_ * ⚓ Dude,_where's_my_car?_Android_Auto_users_report_icon_bug_-_Android Authority⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_has_a_built-in_storage_trick_most_people_never_use⠀⇛ * ⚓ This_Android_tablet_is_an_absolute_beast,_and_now_even_better_thanks_to a_steep_discount⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_Auto_bug_makes_navigation_more_annoying⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_for_PC_Leak:_Google’s_Aluminium_OS_Revealed⠀⇛ * ⚓ Google_Rolls_Out_February_2026_Play_System_Update_for_Android⠀⇛ * ⚓ I’ve_been_a_Motorola_fan_for_years,_but_the_Moto_G17_is_my_breaking point⠀⇛ * ⚓ 5_Android_developer_settings_you_should_change_for_buttery_smooth performance⠀⇛ * ⚓ What’s_a_bootloader?_And_10_other_Android_terms_you_should_know⠀⇛ * ⚓ Check_out_Android's_expected_2026_update_and_release_cycle⠀⇛ * ⚓ I_stopped_accidentally_taking_screenshots_with_Quick_Tap_on_Android 16⠀⇛ * ⚓ Pixel_phones_get_more_optimized_battery_life_with_Android_16_QPR3⠀⇛ * ⚓ Pixel’s_Adaptive_Connectivity_gets_an_upgrade_in_Android_16_beta_- Android_Authority⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_16_February_2026_security_update_goes_live,_and_you_might_find it_surprising⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_16_QPR3_simplifies_Adaptive_Connectivity,_clearly_showing_how it_can_boost_battery_life_and_connection_stability⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_16_February_Security_Update_Rolling_Out:_What’s_New⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_16_February_2026_update_rolling_out:_No_Pixel_bug_fixes⠀⇛ * ⚓ The_Big_ChromeOS_and_Android_Merger_May_Be_Google’s_Last_Walled Garden⠀⇛ * ⚓ Ulefone_Brings_Android_15_to_Over_20_Rugged_Phones_and_Tablets⠀⇛ * ⚓ ChromeOS_'phased_out'_in_2034_after_Android_PCs,_court_reveals⠀⇛ * ⚓ Aluminium:_Why_Google’s_Android_for_PC_launch_may_be_messy_and controversial_|_The_Verge⠀⇛ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣆⠀⢀⣶⣰⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢠⢟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣯⡙⠛⢛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣉⣉⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢻⠙⠟⠿⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢨⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠸⠿⠶⢶⠆⠻⠿⠛⠻⠟⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠰⠻⠶⠇⠛⠛⠘⢙⣟⣛⣛⣛⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⣥⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣴⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣹⣿⡯⠀⠀⠀⠓⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⡋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣄⠐⠂⠐⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣶⣶⡀⢰⡿⢿⡆⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠁⠀⠃⠊⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣴⠀⠀⠀⣾⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠿⠁⠘⠻⠛⠃⠀⠙⠛⠋⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 404 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/A_Year_of_Change_in_Tux_Machines.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/A_Year_of_Change_in_Tux_Machines.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ A Year of Change in Tux Machines⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Explanation_of_Why_Saturn_Ring_Changes_as_It_Orbits_the_Sun⦈ Don't just read the news, be the news Last year, in the last quarter of the year in particular, we began writing a lot more original_articles here and elsewhere. It was a rewarding exercise and we promised ourselves to do the same thing this year, more so knowing and seeing that many news sites perished and some became slopfarms (or experimented with LLM slop, then vanished altogether). It's wrong to assume there will suddenly be a rebirth of journalism. If you want change, then you need to be (part of) that change. If you want to see more news, then participate in producing some. Here in Tux Machines we've thus far kept the promise and we regularly cover topics of interest to the wider community. Over the past week Tux Machines alone served well over 7 million Web requests, not counting the sister site residing on the same server. This means our approach is bearing fruit. We'll keep at it. █ =============================================================================== Image source: Explanation_of_Why_Saturn_Ring_Changes_as_It_Orbits_the_Sun ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠹⠛⡛⢛⠛⡟⢻⠛⢹⠛⢫⡋⢙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠙⡟⠛⡛⡛⠛⠟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠭⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣷⣾⣶⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣦⣾⣤⣶⣶⣶⣷⣴⣦⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣐⡸⣾⣽⣎⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣏⣻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣯⣿⡿⣾⣿⣯⢯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣽⣯⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣉⣙⢛⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣏⣻⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⡏⣿⡿⢿⣋⠭⡉⣉⣀⠀⠶⠤⢤⡤⠬⠼⠏⠫⢯⣭⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⡿⣷⢿⢿⣿⣿⠭⡍⠰⢦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡏⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣫⣯⠿⠯⣯⡛⢋⣋⣉⡇⠘⢈⡀⠀⠘⢢⠈⡁⢂⣅⠀⡄⢀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡁⢀⡘⣁⣼⣿⣿⣿⠅⠙⠢⣰⣱⣽⣾⣷⣿⣿⣖⣶⣸⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡛⠁ ⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⢡⣤⠉⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢷⣶⣶⣔⣐⣘⠓⠒⠘⢹⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⣐⢀⢀⢄⠉⣠⠄⠈⡀⣹⣿⢤⣀⢠⣷⡷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⠉⣠⡌⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⡴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠟⢿⢿⠿⢷⣼⣿⢸⡿⢻⣯⢷⠉⠡⠏⢿⢟⡟⠛⠘⢾⡿⣉⠉⢁⠙⢛⠋⠙⠏⠛⠻⠿⡻⠒⢤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⠠⠮⠂⢀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⠻⠿⠟⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠘⠀⡀⢀⣙⣚⣛⣛⣚⣛⣛⡛⠁⣠⢀⢐⣛⣛⣛⣒⣛⡚⠛⠂⠁⠈⠤⠴⠐⠂⠰⠦⠷⠁⠀⡛⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⣀⡐⠛⢂⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⡧ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠿⡟⠁⠿⠷⠻⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⡠⣰⣦⣰⣶⣾⣧⣤⣤⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣺⣻⣤⣖⣒⣜⣯⣿⣿⢾⣿⡥⠋⣠⣤⣬⣰⣦⣦⣤⡦⢤⣄⠄⠀⠐⠀⠐⠻⠿⢯⠈⢹⠿⢿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⢀⠜⠃⠀⠀⣤⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠛⡏⠉⢈⡉⠉⠉⣈⠁⡉⠀⠀⠀⡀⠉⠙⣉⣓⣛⣛⢃⣺⣿⣿⣾⣄⣊⣤⣠⣶⣮⡵⠂⠐⠀⢀⣮⣽⣿⣽⣿⣿⠿⠯⠃ ⠀⠉⣤⠈⠛⣿⣇⠤⠁⠀⢀⣤⣶⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣉⣿⣡⠉⢄⣠⡶⠂⠒⠒⢄⣀⣄⢤⡁⠈⠀⡀⠀⠉⠀⠈⠁⠈⠉⠉⠏⠿⠛⢿⠋⠛⣻⣿⣶⣶⣶⠶⠡⠀⠀⢜⡝⠋⢉⡈⠁⠀ ⠐⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣧⡈⠉⠉⢉⣿⡿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠷⣶⡬⢬⡤⡥⢩⠍⡭⠈⠀⠖⠆⢜⡳⠿⣶⢻⡀⠀⠠⠉⢠⠸⢼⣉⢩⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡏⡁⠀⢀⣥⠤⢼⣷⣶⡤⣤⡒⠂ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡀⠀⣤⣬⣉⣓⠛⠨⠉⠈⣹⣿⠿⣿⣿⢿⡝⠻⢿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡯⣱⠟⢸⢯⠼⠄⠹⠴⠅⡢⠲⡦⡤⠤⡶⠄⠂⠀⠄⠧⡴⢮⠾⠶⢉⡉⠉⠙⢛⣉⣀⠀⢀⣻⢿⠀⠸⣿⣿⣶⣾⣦⠀ ⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠙⠹⡿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⡁⠈⡅⣶⣤⢤⣬⣭⣭⠍⠁⠾⠂⠒⣚⣛⣃⠃⠀⠉⠃⠀⠠⠈⠀⣀⢃⣐⠂⢐⢂⠀⡚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣁⠀⠈⢀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢦⣤⣤⠤⡄⢮⠻⠙⡒⠊⠭⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣀⠠⠖⢀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣧⡤⢩⠿⠛⣿⠻⠙⠙⠑⠀⢀⠂⠉⠅⠀⠁⠑⠊⠀⢡⠔⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⡀⠀⢠⣴⣶⣧⣭⣭⣇⣀⠈⠛⣀⣠⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄ ⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣾⣿⣯⣗⠤⠜⠀⠙⠓⠾⡆⠤⠺⠖⠚⠀⠦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠉⠀⠈⠁⠀⠉⠈⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠊⠩⡤⠗⠛⢉⢅⠙⠋⢿⣟⣭⠮⣾⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⠅⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⣿⣯⣤⠂⠁⠠⠄⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠑⠢⠄⠄⣀⣴⣴⣾⣾⣾⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀ ⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣠⣤⣀⣤⣢⣤⣤⣆⣰⣶⣠⣐⣀⣂⣔⣤⣠⡁⢁⣄⣐⣤⣠⣤⣤⣀⣔⢦⡤⠤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠜⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡢ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣿⣯⣽⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣎⣸⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣧⣼⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⢑⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 475 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Debian_lawsuit_and_transparency_many_years_after_transparency_w.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Debian_lawsuit_and_transparency_many_years_after_transparency_w.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Debian: lawsuit and transparency (many years after transparency was decided upon)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ $15_billion_lawsuit:_Ubuntu,_Google_&_Debian crowdfunding_campaign_launch⠀⇛ Chris Lamb finished his term as Debian Project Leader in April 2019 but his attacks on my family and I continue to this day. After numerous legal disputes and resignations, including the fall of the Swiss financial regulator's deputy CEO, ten thousand Swiss francs for our black cats ( harassment judgment in Zurich, Switzerland) and an abuse verdict against IBM Red Hat, the latest lawsuit has something for everybody. * ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Behaviour_evidence:_debian-private_cult_keyword analysis⠀⇛ Since the launch of the crowdfunding campaign, various people asked about the real value of debian-private. As it is crowdfunding, I can't release the archive until the milestone is reached. People simply have to decide for themselves whether it is worthwhile contributing twenty dollars or fifty euros for a good cause. Out of 70,000 debian-private messages, I'm sure most people will see at least one message that makes their contribution worthwhile. Nonetheless, to warm up the discussions, I did some frequency analysis on various keywords that appear in the messages. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 528 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_postmarketOS_HaikuOS_FLOPPI.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_postmarketOS_HaikuOS_FLOPPI.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Distributions and Operating Systems: postmarketOS, HaikuOS, FLOPPINUX, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ DistroWatch.com:_Put_the_fun_back_into_computing._Use Linux,_BSD.⠀⇛ [...] In our News section this week we talk about progress being made in postmarketOS while Xfce begins work on its own Wayland window manager. [...] * ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Why_enterprise_businesses_should_adopt_immutable_Linux for_the_desktop⠀⇛ If you’ve been a part of the Linux community for even a brief period, over the past few years, chances are pretty good that you’ve stumbled across mention of “immutable Linux.” * ⚓ [Repeat] HaikuOS ☛ The_Gerrit_code_review_iceberg,_episode_5⠀⇛ We continue our exploration of old change requests on the Gerrit code review tool that have been waiting for several years for someone to pick them up and get them merged. There are currently 316 commits awaiting review in the code review tool. This is quite a bit down from the 350 at the end of last year. It looks like these blog posts are having some positive effect, and also some of the developers could spend a bit more time on Haiku during their winter break? * ⚓ [Old] Krzysztof Krystian Jankowski ☛ FLOPPINUX_-_An_Embedded_🐧Linux_on a_Single_💾Floppy_-_2025_Edition_(v0.3.1)⠀⇛ The final distribution is very simple and consists only of minimum of tools and hardware support. As a user you will be able to boot any PC with a floppy drive to a Linux terminal, edit files, and create simple scripts. There is 264KB of space left for your newly created files. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 587 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Equilibrium.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Equilibrium.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Equilibrium⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇The_Comic_Natural_History_of_the_Human_Race_(1851)⦈_ Why can't we think like fish? It has now been nearly a whole year since the last complete water change in the fish tank. It's a new all-time record for us. The water is still visibly clean and not acidic. Why? It's not just the treating (potions) of water but the presence of several shells, both large and small, that clean the glass, the rocks beneath, and everything else. The loaches do the same, but not to the glass. The funny story is, we never intentionally introduced shells into the tank; one of them managed to sneak in, by accident, when we purchased the baby loaches last year. It has since then reproduced, spawning about 10 more shells. This creates a healthy equilibrium and we rarely see dead fish; there are half a dozen of them. They seem happy and they eat twice a day. Similarly, our sites found a healthy equilibrium. We nowadays get millions of requests per day and we have a good rhythm going (publication pace and volume). We can sustain this for a long time to come. Life isn't about doing "one-time" daring things; it's about taking one day at a time, making the most of it while preparing for the next day... and the next day. Not week, not month, not year, not decade (we hardly know and cannot guess what will happen to the world or the world's economy several decades from now). Many people I know are overwhelmed by worries because they think of hypothetical scenarios and overthink negative things (such as war, outbreak of disease, even death). They basically inflict pain upon themselves, via their imaginative minds. An old girlfriend of mine kept obsessing over cancer, recklessly assuming that every irregularity in her body might be a sign of cancer. This is self-torture; don't think or behave this way. Think like fish or like birds. To them, each day is a journey to find food and survive. 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This is free and open source software. * ⚓ stax_-_CLI_and_TUI_for_stacked_Git_branches_and_PRs_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ stax is a modern CLI for stacked Git branches and PRs. Stacked branches let you split work into small, reviewable pieces that build on each other (and visualize it as a tree). Smaller reviews – Each PR is focused, so reviewers move faster and catch more issues Parallel progress – Keep building on top while lower PRs are still in review Safer shipping – Merge foundations first; reduce the risk of “one giant PR” landing at once Cleaner history – Each logical change lands independently (easier to understand, revert, and git blame) This is free and open source software. * ⚓ ziglint_-_linting_suite_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ ziglint is a linting suite for Zig. ziglint searches the current directory for .zig files and lint them against the various tests in the suite. This is free and open source. * ⚓ tredis_-_terminal_UI_for_Redis_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ tredis provides a terminal UI to interact with your Redis servers. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe, and manage your Redis data in the wild. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ FAT_-_modern_TUI-based_file_and_archive_viewer_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ FAT is a modern, TUI-based file and archive viewer for your terminal. It’s designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives like .zip and .tar without having to extract them first. It is lightweight, fast, and highly extensible. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Pipeline_-_watch_YouTube_and_PeerTube_videos_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ I’ve covered quite a few GUI tools that let you access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content. Pipeline is free and open source software. PeerTube aims to be a decentralized and free/libre alternative to video broadcasting services. It’s powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent. There’s no vendor lock-in. PeerTube allows you to upload your videos to a platform that you choose by yourself. And each community can help each other by caching one another’s videos. Each platform has its own terms of service, moderation and federation policies. * ⚓ Vortix_-_terminal_UI_for_WireGuard_and_OpenVPN_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Vortix is a terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN with real- time telemetry and leak guarding. The software runs under macOS, but Linux supported is planned. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ HortusFox_-_self-hosted_collaborative_plant_management_system_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ You can add your plants with various details and photos and assign them to a location of your environment. There is a dashboard available that shows all important overview information. The system does also feature a warning system in order to indicate which plants need special care, user authentication, tasks, inventory management, calendar, search, collaborative chat and a history log of what actions users have taken. The system features collaborative management, so you can manage your plants with multiple users. It uses MariaDB/MySQL as its database backend. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ pad.ws_-_whiteboard_as_an_IDE_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ pad.ws is a whiteboard app that acts as a dev environment in your browser. It uses Excalidraw for the whiteboard interface while Coder powers the cloud development environments. This is free and open source software. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 823 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ SequoiaPGP ☛ Sequoia's_Input_to_the_Upcoming_European_Open_Digital Ecosystem_Strategy⠀⇛ The European Commission has requested input to inform the upcoming European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy. The initiative “will set out: a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness” and “a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission.” The following text is our submission. In our response, we highlight issues with the status quo. In particular, we criticize the dominance of American mega-corporations and suggest an alternative approach where no company is too large to fail, we discuss how proprietary software inhibits sovereignty and security and FOSS enables it, and we call for a significant investment in FOSS in the form of something like the proposed EU Sovereign Tech Fund, and the creation of an IT support ecosystem for consumers of FOSS. Note: The response was limited to 4000 characters including URLs. To be consistent with the commission’s terminology, we use OSS instead of FOSS. * ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Completion_(in_Emacs_hledger)⠀⇛ The Emacs distribution I mostly recommend to my students is Doom Emacs. It is easy to get going, well documented and it has an active community. One thing to really know about this setup, though, is the completion mechanism. This is the init section of Doom Emacs. * ⚓ FSF ☛ January_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali_featuring_twelve_new_GNU releases:_GRUB,_Units,_and_more!⠀⇛ Twelve new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 31, 2026): [...] * § Events⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSSF (Linux Foundation) ☛ Join_Us_at_Open_Source_SecurityCon Europe_2026_in_Amsterdam⠀⇛ Open Source SecurityCon Europe is approaching, which means we’ll be gathering again in Amsterdam this spring for one of the most focused, practitioner-driven events in open source security. Save your spot, register now, and add your favorite sessions to your calendar from the agenda. * § Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)⠀➾ o ⚓ WordPress ☛ WordPress_6.9.1_Maintenance_Release⠀⇛ WordPress 6.9.1 is now available! This minor release includes fixes for 49 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor, addressing issues affecting multiple areas of WordPress including the block editor, mail, and classic themes. For a full list of bug fixes, please refer to the release candidate announcement. WordPress 6.9.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ Coalition for Networked Information ☛ CNI_Spring_Meeting_CFP Reminder⠀⇛ The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) invites project briefing proposals for our Spring 2026 Membership Meeting, taking place April 13–14 at the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City in Salt Lake City, UT. o ⚓ Perl ☛ Cast-Iron_Community:_Your_Chance_to_Sponsor_TPRC_2026⠀⇛ The Perl and Raku Conference 2026 is a community- organized gathering of developers, enthusiasts, and industry professionals. It takes place from June 26-28, 2026, in Greenville, South Carolina. The conference will feature an intimate, single-track format that promises high sponsor visibility. We look forward to approximately 80 participants with some of those staying in town for the shoulder days (June 25-29) and a Monday workshop. * § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ o § Open Data⠀➾ # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Some_good_English_word_datasets⠀⇛ I'm working on a silly word game right now, which means I need a list of words for it. I can't rely on the system word list, since this is for a web project. I'd also like, ideally, multiple lists of words with different criteria: most common words, all words, some subsets. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 963 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Games_Bodycam_C_S_S_C_G_C_2025_and_OpenTTD_15_0.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Games_Bodycam_C_S_S_C_G_C_2025_and_OpenTTD_15_0.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: Bodycam, C.S.S.C.G.C. 2025, and OpenTTD 15.0⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Bodycam:_Review⠀⇛ Remember back in 2023, the game Unrecord that made the rounds with a trailer that was extremely realistic for a first person shooter? Well, it got fully funded in december 2025 and now the devs behind the game are working full steam ahead for a release in the near future. But looks like they are pretty late, since in the meantime I guess some other developers from France (Reissad Studio) were either inspired or already working with something similar, which is what we will review today: Bodycam. I’m not the only person who actually at first confused both titles. The face blurring effect (with mosaic over the face) is also pretty much the same in both games, which added to the confusion. * ⚓ Jari Komppa ☛ C.S.S.C.G.C._2025⠀⇛ The C.S.S.C.G.C. (or comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition) for 2025 wrapped and my fishing game is one of the finalists. To quote the aforelinked page, Any one of them could take the crown for "least crap". Unfortunately, some candidates are too humble to accept the glory, fame and wealth that come with hosting next year's event. Anyway. The winner wasted no time setting up the contest for 2026. * ⚓ OpenTTD ☛ OpenTTD_15.0⠀⇛ New Year, New You, New OpenTTD! OpenTTD 15 is now out and ready for you to play! ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1021 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Games_HELLDIVERS_2_Civilization_VII_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Games_HELLDIVERS_2_Civilization_VII_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: HELLDIVERS 2, Civilization VII, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ I_really_have_no_idea_what's_going_on_in_STICKER/BALL_but_I_love_the chaos_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ STICKER/BALL takes the very basic idea of playing cue sports and thoroughly warps it into chaos. You really have to try this one. * ⚓ Dune:_Awakening_Chapter_3_is_live_bringing_massive_changes_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Dune: Awakening has been struggling for a while, but I do hope this latest major update brings some more people back to it as there's some great stuff in it. * ⚓ HELLDIVERS_2_has_a_big_new_event_to_take_down_the_Automatons_and_you get_tanks_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Arrowhead Game Studios just released a big new free update for HELLDIVERS 2 which brings a new major mission chain, and we get tanks now too. The tank alone would have been enough to pull me back in but the event sounds pretty fun as well. * ⚓ Civilization_VII_major_update_"Test_of_Time"_will_stop_the_forced_civ swapping_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Celebrating the first anniversary of Civilization VII, the developers at Firaxis put up a new video and developer blog post going over some big changes coming. * ⚓ Factory_95_is_a_retro_Windows_inspired_automation_sim_about_making_a slide-show_factory_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Anyone have fond memories of retro Windows? Well, now you can make a slide show factory in this automation sim that has a demo available. The demo will be updated for Steam Next Fest too. * ⚓ Get_some_quality_action_in_the_Sci-Fi_Shooters_2.0_Humble_Bundle_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ The Sci-Fi Shooters 2.0 Humble Bundle has launched with 7 quality action games to fill up on, here's all the details you need from it. We will give you the usual run over each title with various ratings including ProtonDB, along with Steam links below on each one if you need to click through for more info to save you a bit of time. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1097 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/GNU_Linux_Usage_Growing_in_Moldova_This_Year.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/GNU_Linux_Usage_Growing_in_Moldova_This_Year.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNU/Linux Usage Growing in Moldova This Year⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Shaded_map_of_the_2020_Moldovan_presidential_election⦈_ Not waiting till cyberattacks go "full throttle"? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_Republic_Of_Moldova⦈_ Moldova was covered here two years ago on a couple of occasions [1, 2] in the context of GNU/Linux adoption. Moldova was recently in the news cycle (again) due to outages caused by Russian missile strikes against Ukraine's energy infrastructure. This means that Moldovans already sense the direct effect of war, even if a war inside Moldova is anything but official (maybe "hybrid" or covert). Regardless, after "End_of_(Vista)_10" we see GNU/Linux_resurgence_there. 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Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 Quoting: How I speed up my Linux system for free while RAM prices are out of control | ZDNET — ZRAM is a compressed swap space that is used entirely in RAM. When your system is low on memory, it typically uses a traditional swap space, which is slower than a RAM-based space. Because ZRAM keeps swapped data in memory, it's much faster than a standard swap-system. What you'll need: The only things you'll need for this are a running instance of Linux and a user with sudo preferences. Keep in mind that ZRAM is typically enabled by default on Fedora and Fedora-based distributions. I've also found that some Debian-based distributions (such as Pop!_OS) ship with ZRAM preinstalled as well. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1244 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_made_me_rethink_what_an_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_made_me_rethink_what_an_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 Quoting: I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be | ZDNET — Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to figure out how to do something that should "just work out of the box," then NixOS is probably not for you. However, that's not to say someone with minimal familiarity with the command line would fail with this distribution. For example, if you only need open-source software, NixOS could be a viable option. If, however, you need apps like Chrome, Slack, and Spotify, you might run into some frustration that will send you packing back to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or Windows. With that said, let's get to what makes this distribution great. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1287 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/In_Senegal_GNU_Linux_Flies_to_3_an_All_Time_High.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/In_Senegal_GNU_Linux_Flies_to_3_an_All_Time_High.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ In Senegal, GNU/Linux Flies to 3%, an All- Time High⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Bird,_Hummingbird_stealing⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Senegal_GNU/Linux⦈_ The latest figures_from_Senegal suggest an all-time high of nearly 3% for GNU/ Linux. Windows struggled there in 2024 and in 2025. This is 2026: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_Senegal⦈_ Will it reach 4% later this year? 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⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢋⣭⡍⠋⡙⣋⣡⡙⣡⣾⠶⠷⠟⣛⢋⣡⣿⣤⣶⣮⡛⢡⣾⣧⣬⣭⣭⣉⣛⣉⣋⣭⣍⣙⡛⣩⣛⣛⣛⠛⠛⣛⡻⠟⡛⡀⡀⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣉⣌⣉⣉⣁⣉⣈⣉⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⣁⣀⣈⣉⣁⣀⣈⣀⣀⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣀⣀⣈⣀⣉⠉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣭⣭⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣀⣀⣉⣉⣉⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣬⣤⣭⣭⣽⣯⣮⣭⣬⣭⣽⣯⣮⣤⣥⣿⣬⣤⣭⣽⣧⣥⣬⣭⣭⣤⣿⣵⣭⣭⣬⣼⣯⣥⣤⣭⣠⣭⣥⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1388 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/I_tried_the_oldest_Linux_distro_still_standing_and_it_was_a_tot.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/I_tried_the_oldest_Linux_distro_still_standing_and_it_was_a_tot.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ I tried the oldest Linux distro still standing, and it was a total reality check⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇penguin_jumping_to_different_distro_logos⦈_ Quoting: I tried the oldest Linux distro still standing, and it was a total reality check — There are tons of Linux distros. Most of them are new, some of them are old, some of them so old they don't exist anymore. But there's one distro that has stood the test of time, surprisingly. And that's none other than Slackware. But how come the ancestor to your own Linux distro is apparently still standing? 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The birds recognise her when she walks past them in the street and they know how to forage and find food when she does not feed them. Nature is not something humans need to "care for" by putting "samples" of it in cages. Humans just need to stay out of nature's way and end deforestation (better yet, engage in reforestation). 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Officially Released, This Is What’s New⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇LibreOffice_26.2⦈_ Highlights of LibreOffice 26.2 include a new option to use horizontal tabs instead of vertical in dialogs, the ability to insert hyperlinks from the context menu when text is selected, the ability to copy dialog screenshots to the clipboard, and expanded support for open standards to reinforce long-term access to documents. LibreOffice 26.2 also promises to improve performance and responsiveness across the entire office suite, helping large documents open, edit, and save more smoothly, as well as to enhance compatibility with documents created in proprietary and open source office software, reducing formatting issues and surprises. 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Both variants share the same chassis, I/O layout, memory support, and cooling design, with differences primarily limited to the processor and GPU. o ⚓ [Old] Roberto Viola ☛ How_I_Built_QZ—and_How_Echelon_Is_Now Breaking_It_-_Roberto_Viola⠀⇛ On September 10, 2020, I began building QZ (qdomyos- zwift), an app born from a simple idea: open up closed fitness hardware and make it work with the platforms people actually love—Zwift, Peloton, Kinomap, and more. Back then, Echelon devices—bikes, treadmills, rowers—were locked to their own proprietary app. You bought the hardware, but the experience was fully controlled by the company. That didn’t sit right with me. * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ RP2350_Hacking_Challenge_2:_Less_randomisation, more_correlation⠀⇛ At the end of July 2025 — so almost 6 months ago — we launched the second RP2350 Hacking Challenge, searching for practical side-channel attacks on the power-hardened AES implementation underpinning RP2350‘s secure boot. So far, we don’t have a winner, so we decided to evolve the challenge by removing one of the core defense-in-depth features: the randomisation of memory accesses. Our AES implementation was designed to withstand side- channel attacks by using multi-way secret sharing (where sensitive values are split into random components that must be XORed together) and by randomly permuting the order of operations and data. We hope that even just the multi-way shares are enough to protect us against side- channel attacks; hence, we have decided to update our challenge: [...] o ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China-made_Loongson_12-core_chip_is approximately_three_times_slower_than_six-core_Ryzen_5_9600X_— 3B6000_hampered_by_low_clock_speeds_in_Linux_benchmarks⠀⇛ It's rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer's 12-core chips for testing. Phoronix reviewed Loongson's 12-core 3B6000 processor in a plethora of Linux-based benchmarks. Despite its high core count, Phoronix's benchmark numbers revealed that the chip can't even approach the performance of modern Western six-core chips like the Ryzen 5 9600X. o ⚓ PC World ☛ This_Arduino_board_is_bigger_than_your_head,_and_it works⠀⇛ Arduino doesn’t have the cultural cachet of its fellow single-board player Raspberry Pi, but it’s arguably more popular for those who like to break out the soldering iron. Arduino boards are simple, efficient, and small, making them great controllers or enhancements for a variety of electronics projects. But what if the Arduino itself is the project? And what if that project is big? Like, really, stupidly big? o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Graph_Theory_Of_Circuit_Sculptures⠀⇛ The problem isn’t as straightforward as it might first appear: all the segments need to be illuminated, there should be as few powered junctions as possible, and to allow a single power supply voltage, all paths between powered junctions should have the same length. Ideally, all filaments would carry the same amount of current, but even if they don’t, the difference in brightness isn’t always noticeable. [Tim] found three ways to power these structures: direct current between fixed points, current supplied between alternating points so as to take different paths through the structure, and alternating current supplied between two fixed points (essentially, a glowing full-bridge rectifier). o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Rewinding_A_Car_Alternator_For_240_Volt⠀⇛ As part of his quest to find the best affordable generator for his DIY hydroelectric power system, [FarmCraft101] is trying out a range of off-the-shelf and DIY solutions, with in his most recent video trying his hands at the very relaxing activity of rewiring the stator of an alternator. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Lego_Typewriter_Writes_Plastic_Letters⠀⇛ Right away, we’ll state that this is not a traditional typewriter. There are no off-the-shelf Lego components with embossed letters on them, so it wasn’t possible to make Lego type bars that could leave an impression on paper with the use of an inked ribbon. Instead, [Koenkun Bricks] decided to build a design that was Lego all the way down, right to the letters themselves. The complicated keyboard-actuated mechanism picks out flat letter tiles and punches them on to a flat Lego plate, creating a plastic document instead of a paper one. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Surprising_Hackability_Of_A_Knock-Off_Chinese_Toy Camera⠀⇛ My G6 Thumb Camera arrived a few days later, as straightforward a copy of a branded product as I have seen, and while it’s by any measure not a high quality camera, I am pleasantly surprised how bad it isn’t. I’ve received a three megapixel camera with image and movie quality that’s far better than that of the kids toy cameras I’ve played with before at a similar price, and that’s something I find amazing. This isn’t a review of a cheap camera, instead it’s an investigation of what goes into a camera like this one. How can they make a camera that’s almost useful, for under a tenner? o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Teardown_Of_An_Apple_AirTag_2_With_Die_Shots⠀⇛ There are a few possible ways to do a teardown of new electronics like the Apple AirTag 2 tracker, with [electronupdate] opting to go down to the silicon level, with die shots of the major ICs in a recent teardown video. Some high-resolution photos are also found on the separate blog page. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Print-in-Place_Gripper_Does_It_With_A_Single_Motor⠀⇛ The four-armed gripper you see here prints as a single piece, and is cable-driven with a single metal-geared servo powering the assembly. Each arm has a nylon string threaded through it so when the servo turns, it pulls each string which in turn makes each arm curl inward, closing the grip. Because of the way the gripper is made, releasing only requires relaxing the cables; an arm’s natural state is to fall open. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Galaxy_S26_Ultra_Linux_Terminal_Support_Could Be_a_Big_Win_for_Developers⠀⇛ A recent leak has seemingly confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S26 series will be officially announced towards the end of this month. So far, based on the leaked specs and rumors, we already know what to expect from the phone. We’re talking about the use of the 2nm Exynos 2600 chipset or the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, upgraded cameras, and more. But what about the software front? If you’re a developer or tinkerer, you might be interested to learn that the Galaxy S26 Ultra could run a full version of Linux Terminal. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1818 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Microsoft_s_Problem_in_Israel_is_GNU_Linux.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Microsoft_s_Problem_in_Israel_is_GNU_Linux.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Microsoft's Problem in Israel is GNU/ Linux⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026, updated Feb 04, 2026 Last month: GNU/Linux_Rose_to_7%_in_Israel,_Says_statCounter This month: (source) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_Israel⦈_ Many small companies (such as startups) choose GNU/Linux because it scales well economically, not just technically. The politics_aside (because it_dominates_press_coverage in that region), Microsoft had many layoffs in Israel in recent years* (the sister site wrote about this) and it's hardly shocking that IT workers there flock to GNU/Linux. Since the pandemic statCounter has seen steady increases for GNU/Linux, which is considered vastly more secure and robust to cyberattacks from hostile nations like Iran. Will we see 10% by year's end? GNU/Linux is trending up. █ ____ * It's a lot worse than the media_put_it. 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I'll take a moment to list other things that didn't go down well on this Mozilla website: [...] * ⚓ Mozilla ☛ AI_controls_are_coming_to_Firefox [Ed: Firefox suicided]⠀⇛ AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox. You can also review and manage individual AI features if you choose to use them. This lets you use Firefox without AI while we continue to build AI features for those who want them. 3 more updates/articles: * ⚓ Finally!_Firefox_just_gave_you_an_AI_kill_switch⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox has always seemed like the “cool kid” browser option, for the power users who don’t want to deal with Google or Microsoft. So perhaps filling it up with “AI” features — you know, the things people are kind of tired of seeing from Google and Apple — might not be winning people over. Mozilla seems to have read the room: Upcoming builds will let you disable “AI” completely. * ⚓ Firefox_is_adding_a_switch_to_turn_AI_features_off⠀⇛ Over the past year, Firefox joined Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome in doubling down on AI, with the company rolling out a new “shake to summarize” feature that iPhone users can use to get an AI-powered summary of what they’re reading online. Firefox is working on an “AI Window” as well, an opt-in browsing experience that uses an AI assistant and chatbot to help users search the web. Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo told The Verge last year that he believes there’s space for another AI browser from a “technology company that people can trust.” * ⚓ Firefox_will_get_AI_controls_to_turn_it_all_off_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Something that might help calm the masses against generative AI, Mozilla announced that AI controls are coming to Firefox. For the people who don't want any AI extras in their browser, they'll get easy access to turn off all existing and future additions to Firefox. On point: * ⚓ Firefox_makes_AI_optional,_like_it_probably_should_have_been_all along⠀⇛ Mozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying. The browser maker this week announced a new set of AI controls for Firefox, headlined by a global kill switch that lets users disable every current and future AI feature in one go. The change, rolling out with Firefox 148 later this month, is Mozilla's most direct admission that not everyone is thrilled about having generative AI stapled onto their everyday tools. In a blog post announcing the move, Mozilla acknowledged the widening gap between AI boosters and everyone else. "AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it," wrote Ajit Varma, head of Firefox, adding that its goal is to give users "clear, simple choices" about how much AI they want in their browser – including none at all. OMG Joey: * ⚓ You_can_turn_off_every_Firefox_AI_feature_this_month [Ed: Those should never have been added in the first place. Mozilla is paid to spread this horrible thing.]⠀⇛ The next major update of the web browser, which is scheduled for release on 24th of February, includes a AI Controls panel which does what many have been ask for: provide choice over whether AI features are surfaced in the UI or not. You can turn off Firefox’s AI features wholesale or at a granular level. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2047 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/PostgreSQL_Databases_Pigsty_v4_0_Release_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/PostgreSQL_Databases_Pigsty_v4_0_Release_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ PostgreSQL Databases: Pigsty v4.0 Release and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Justin Duke ☛ Brief_notes_on_migrating_to_Postgres-backed_jobs⠀⇛ It seems premature to talk about a migration that is only halfway done, even if it's the hard half that's done — but I think there's something useful in documenting the why and how of a transition while you're still in the thick of it, before the revisionist history of completion sets in. * ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Pigsty_v4.0_Released:_Ready_for_the_Agent_Era⠀⇛ Pigsty v4.0, a batteries-included PostgreSQL distribution, is now available with a major infrastructure overhaul, PostgreSQL 18 readiness, and a return to the permissive_Apache_2.0 license. This release brings 320 commits with significant improvements to observability, security, high availability, and Docker container support. See the v4.0_release_blog for details. * ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ In_Person_Community-Led_PostgreSQL_Training_March_5th,_at SCaLE_23x_in_Pasadena,_California⠀⇛ PostgreSQL community members Elizabeth Christensen, Devrim Gunduz, and Ryan Booz are proud to announce that they will be leading a full day in person training on March 5th, 2026, as part of the PostgreSQL track at the Southern California GNU/ Linux Expo (SCaLE 23x). This training is aimed at users new to Postgres, those building skills in performance tuning and administration, or those transitioning from other database technologies. The program runs a full day with a 90 minute lunch and attendees can drop in/out as needed or depending on desired schedule. Registration for the SCaLE event includes the training event and many other great Postgres talks on the Postgres track running March 5th and 6th. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2104 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Programming_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ [Repeat] Daniel Stenberg ☛ Open_Source_security_in_spite_of_AI⠀⇛ The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026. As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably a lot of the remaining people were quite tired and ready to call it a day. Still, the 1500 seats in Janson got occupied and there was even a group of more people outside wanting to get in that had to be refused entry. * ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Saying_“No”_In_an_Age_of_Abundance⠀⇛ It’s never been a good idea to ship everything you think of. Every addition accretes complexity and comes with a cognitive cost. Maybe we need to reframe the concept of scarcity from us, the makers of software, to them, the users of software. Their resources are what matter most: [...] * ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ You_probably_shouldn’t_be_annotating_focus_order⠀⇛ Yes, many accessibility annotation kits do come with the ability to specify focus order. And yes, being able to place focus on the interactive parts of your website or web app is an important thing. However, interactive elements allow you to place focus on them without needing to do anything else. This includes buttons, links, form fields, checkboxes and radio buttons, expand/ collapse toggles, tab panels, etc. * ⚓ Derek Kędziora ☛ Unintended_values⠀⇛ If I go into a bookshop or library, there’s no urgency. I can leisurely look around, read what I want, and go on. Apps with notifications and counters operate on a completely different principle. And this is where design comes in. I’d happily pay for better software that has had more thoughtful design, but it’s hard to find. Everything is nagging me, shouting about some minor updates, prodding me to use it not how I want to use it. * ⚓ Open Collective ☛ Game_of_Trees_Hub's_web_interface_is_live._And_we need_more_subscribers!⠀⇛ Thank you all for the continued support since we started out in June 2024. Support for gotwebd is now live in production. With this, repositories can be served from our hosting service to the web. Serving static web sites directly from repositories is also possible. See https://gameoftrees.org/ gotsys.conf.5.html#WEB_SERVER_CONFIGURATION for how this can be configured. * § R-Script⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Announcing_New_Statistical_Software_Peer_Review_Editors: Natalia_da_Silva_and_Andrew_Heiss⠀⇛ At rOpenSci we’re continually grateful for the support and engagement of our community who help make our open- source ecosystem stronger, more inclusive, and more collaborative. The software peer review program is one of the best examples of this: bringing together people from diverse expertise and backgrounds to improve the quality, reproducibility, and usability of scientific software across the R ecosystem. Today we’re excited to welcome Natalia da Silva and Andrew Heiss as new editors for our Statistical Software Peer Review team. Their expertise and dedication will help grow and sustain this important program, ensuring that statistical software reviews maintain high standards and continue to improve in quality and impact. Meet our new editors! * § Python⠀➾ o ⚓ Rui Carmo ☛ Python⠀⇛ Python is one of my favorite programming languages due to its terseness and amazing flexibility, and after decades using it I find it quite amusing that it is now the language of choice for data science and machine learning. o ⚓ Philip Zucker ☛ Calling_Lean_Functions_As_Python_Functions⠀⇛ Maybe especially as a programming language. Got lots of fun doodads, cool compiler to fast code, metaprogramming, and then some day maybe you can prove something if you feel like it as a treat. * § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ o ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ I_prefer_to_pass_secrets_between_programs through_standard_input⠀⇛ There are a variety of ways to pass secrets from one program to another on Unix, and many of them may expose your secrets under some circumstances. A secret passed on the command line is visible in process listings; a secret passed in the environment can be found in the process's environment (which can usually be inspected by outside parties). When I've had to deal with this in administrative programs in our environment, I have reached for an old Unix standby: pass the secret between programs through file descriptors, specifically standard input and standard output. This can even be used and done in shell scripts. However, there are obviously some cautions, both in general and in shell scripts. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2267 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Red Hat Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Red Hat ☛ What’s_new_for_developers_in_OpenShift_4.21⠀⇛ Red_Hat_OpenShift_4.21, based on CRI-O 1.34 and Kubernetes 1.34, is now generally_available. Red Bait OpenShift 4.21 introduces AI-driven insights, automated security signing, and local development tools to help you build and deploy faster. * ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_FOSDEM_2026_talk_recording available⠀⇛ FOSDEM 2026 was great! I hope to blog a proper postmortem in due course. But for now, The_video_of_my_talk_is_up,_as_are_my slides_with_speaker_notes_and_links. * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Evolution_to_a_sovereign_TechCo:_Embracing Polycloud,_agentic_AI,_and_digital_trust⠀⇛ In this blog, we’ll discuss the massive technological transformation that StarHub, and the telco industry as a whole, is currently undergoing. You’ll also learn why It's clear that the days of the traditional CSP are behind us, and why the future belongs to TechCo and beyond. * ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Upgrade_volume_performance_without_downtime: VolumeAttributesClass_on_OpenShift⠀⇛ In the Kubernetes and OpenShift ecosystem, you can think of a StorageClass as a blueprint for a house. It defines exactly how a volume is built and its initial characteristics. Historically, once a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) was live, tweaking performance metrics like input/output operations per second (IOPS) or throughput was a manual and often disruptive process. Upgrading storage usually required tearing down the volume, recreating it, or performing complex snapshot migrations. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2328 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/RSS_Web_Browsers_Curl_RSS_and_RSS_Aggregators.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/RSS_Web_Browsers_Curl_RSS_and_RSS_Aggregators.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ RSS/Web Browsers: Curl, RSS, and RSS Aggregators⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ A_third_medal⠀⇛ I was however not prepared for it, but as a direct consequence I was handed a medal this year, in recognition for the award a got last year, because now there is a medal. A retroactive medal if you wish. It felt almost like getting the award again. An honor. * ⚓ Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ Why_do_RSS_readers_look_like_email_clients?⠀⇛ “Why do RSS readers look like email clients?” The question was asked by Terry Godier, first on Mastodon, then in a more detailed post. * ⚓ Raymond Camden ☛ Building_an_RSS_Aggregator_with_Astro⠀⇛ This weekend I had some fun building a little Astro site for RSS aggregation. It works by the individual user defining a set of feeds they care about and works with a server-side Astro route to handle getting and parsing the feeds. Here's a quick example. On hitting the site, it notices you haven't defined any feeds and prompts you to do so: [...] ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2374 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Servers_and_GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Servers_and_GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Servers and GNU/Linux Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * § Server⠀➾ o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_cost_of_running_OpenBenches.org⠀⇛ After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches? It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while also being useful. Here's the breakdown: [...] o ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Introducing_Node_Readiness_Controller_| Kubernetes⠀⇛ Today, on behalf of the Kubernetes project, I am announcing the Node Readiness Controller. This project introduces a declarative system for managing node taints, extending the readiness guardrails during node bootstrapping beyond standard conditions. By dynamically managing taints based on custom health signals, the controller ensures that workloads are only placed on nodes that met all infrastructure-specific requirements. * § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux_Matters_74:_Audio_Trainers_and_Wallet_Drainers⠀⇛ Martin makes a software audio engineer, Mark creates a Roku remote and Alan accidentally becomes a security blogger. * § Graphics Stack⠀➾ o ⚓ Lalit Maganti ☛ Rendering_100k_trace_events_faster_with exponential_search⠀⇛ We’ve recently been looking into optimizing rendering performance of the Perfetto UI on large traces. We discovered that there was some inefficiency in our data fetching logic, especially when you’re very zoomed out. In this case, there can be a lot of slices (spans) which are so small that they take less than one pixel of width. So for each pixel, we need to figure out “what is the event which we should draw for this pixel”. Over time we’ve come to the conclusion that the best thing to draw is the slice with the largest duration in that pixel. We can break this into two sub-problems: [...] * § Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)⠀➾ o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ KDE_Binds_Itself_Tightly_To_Systemd,_Drops Support_For_Non-Systemd_Systems⠀⇛ In the eyes of KDE it seems that OSes that do not use systemd are ‘niche’ and not worth supporting, with said niche Linux distros that would be cut out including everything from Gentoo to Alpine Linux and Slackware. Regardless of your stance on systemd’s merits or lack thereof, it would seem to be quite drastic for one of the major desktop environments across Linux and BSD to suddenly make this decision. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2479 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Standards_Consortia_HTTP_1_1_From_Scratch_RAW_JPEG_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/Standards_Consortia_HTTP_1_1_From_Scratch_RAW_JPEG_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Standards/Consortia: HTTP/1.1 From Scratch, RAW+JPEG, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 * ⚓ Kevin McDonald ☛ HTTP/1.1_From_Scratch⠀⇛ HTTP/1.1 has become synonymous with “HTTP/1” because it made several steps towards enabling the scale that the web was starting to experience in the late 1990s. It took the foundational concepts we explored in HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 and made several advancements and adjustments that enable the web to scale for almost two decades. While newer protocols like HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 have since arrived with their own improvements, HTTP/1.1 remains a non-negotiable requirement… well, almost. There are a few who believe that it is time to kill HTTP/1.1 and some believe it would immediately reduce bot traffic. It has historically been the default transport for the web and the protocol that servers and clients fall back on. Its simplicity and power are why, even now, a massive portion of internet traffic flows over HTTP/1.1. Let’s start looking at the new features in HTTP/1.1 that made it a such a sturdy pillar of the web for so long and then build a server in Go that implements them from scratch. * ⚓ Six Colors ☛ Remove_the_RAW_photo_from_a_RAW+JPEG_pair⠀⇛ The short answer: you can’t. Not directly, anyway. And it’s not just an iOS or iPadOS limitation—macOS won’t let you do it either. I can understand why Mihir asks. An image in RAW format can occupy several times the amount of storage as a JPEG equivalent. This has to do with the nature of the image being stored, as I explain below. There are good reasons to capture as RAW and good reasons to discard those formats later. I’ll go through the background of RAW, and then provide a workaround to Apple’s missing piece. * ⚓ Lars Ingrebrigtsen ☛ What’s_up_with_all_those_equals_signs_anyway?⠀⇛ The artefact we see here is from something called “quoted printable”, or as we used to call it when it was introduced: “Quoted unreadable”. To take the first line. Whoever wrote this, typed in the following in their mail reader: [...] ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2553 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/They_Could_Never_Grind_Us_Down.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/They_Could_Never_Grind_Us_Down.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ They Could Never Grind Us Down⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Old_woman_with_raised_grinding_stone.⦈_ Crossposted_from_Techrights "Don't let the bastards grind you down" Our site grew a lot in the past couple of years and it's because we cover important topics that most other sites - maybe almost no other site - would dare touch. There's the SLAPP_issue, aside from an information vacuum (must rely on courageous whistleblowers who can trust the publisher to protect them). We give a lot of credit to David Allen Green (Preiskel_&_Co.), who did help us a lot in navigating the legal space and ensuring we continue talking about suppressed issues. He never charged us a single penny! The same is true for NGOs and some pro bono law firms that work with those NGOs. In the courtroom we managed to extract some much-needed confessions, which now pose_a_likely existential_challenge_to_the_"hired_gun". They've_not_attempted_to_intimidate us_for_almost_a_month_already; they understand it can only ever backfire. The UK still (in principle) has free speech and the Judge in the cases can recognise this; she said it out loud several times and put that in her_written decision. Techrights will never shy away from 'difficult' topics. It'll dive deep into them and ensure transparency - that's just how accountability is attained. Traffic doesn't mean money to us; we never made any money, and moreover fame isn't the goal. The goal is to raise awareness and use this awareness to accomplish things (outcomes). 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In addition to the desktop, which includes several PDFs with information on activating the Diamond edition and the Emerald edition, an MX User Manual, and quick system information, there's one app in particular that adds another layer of security to the OS and can be used by anyone. That addition is the iDeal DNS Switcher. This application makes it easy to switch between 16 DNS providers with a single click. Each of these providers was chosen based on their security and privacy practices. Even better, every DNS provider included is free to use. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2677 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/This_is_Not_What_Fair_Competition_Looks_Like.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/This_is_Not_What_Fair_Competition_Looks_Like.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ This is Not What Fair Competition Looks Like⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026, updated Feb 04, 2026 This_month's_data: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Browser_Market_Share_Worldwide⦈_ The Web began over 30 years ago in a research lab in Switzerland. It was meant to be portable, based on standards and existing protocols (such as TCP/IP or UDP), also work alright with simple browsers that fit on a floppy disk. Nowadays many sites not only refuse to work without JavaScript; even with JavaScript "on", they demand one of "Select" Web browsers, typically Chrome or something built upon the same codebase. So the Web itself is bloatware; without bloatware, a lot of the Web is simply not accessible anymore. It's only getting worse over time; everyone simply assumes that everyone else uses Chrome or something like Chromium (or a Chromium 'clone' with another brand and some pile of bloat tossed on top). Had we demanded adherence to Web standards, there would be real competition. With competition there would be vastly greater diversity. 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3. ⚓ Canonical:_Ubuntu_is_GAFAM_(US),_We're_Resellers_of_American Proprietary_Software⠀⇛ They want people to pay for a licence 4. ⚓ Links_03/02/2026:_"Distraction_is_a_Sin"_and_Fake_"Encryption"_ (Surveillance_With_Good_Marketing)⠀⇛ Links for the day ⚓ New⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ IBM_Falls_by_Over_10%⠀⇛ a recipe for disasters like accounting fraud 6. ⚓ Links_03/02/2026:_Windows_Copies_GNU/Linux,_Windows_TCO_Shown_Again⠀⇛ Links for the day 7. ⚓ Gemini_Links_03/02/2026:_Alhena_Turns_One,_Slop_Rejected,_and_Max_Roy Carrouges_Recalled⠀⇛ Links for the day 8. ⚓ Dr._Andy_Farnell_on_Why_and_How_European_Authorities_Can_Adopt_Free Software,_Parenting_in_the_Age_of_Digital_Abundance⠀⇛ Will Europe use technology that Europe controls (not the hegemon), for a change? 9. ⚓ Seems_Like_IBM_Trolls_Use_Chatbots_to_Vandalise_Platform_That_Discusses IBM's_Secret_Layoffs,_Forever_Layoffs⠀⇛ Not for the first time either 10. ⚓ You_Know_Your_Company_is_Dead_or_Basically_a_Pyramid_Scheme_When_Jim Cramer_Keeps_Promoting_Its_Stock⠀⇛ How much does IBM pay for "puff pieces" or "fluff" about QC? 11. ⚓ Red_Hat_(Under_IBM)_Works_for_Microsoft_(Proprietary_Software)_and Slop⠀⇛ Yesterday Red Hat's official site, redhat.com, published exactly 5 new blog posts 12. ⚓ IBM_is_Dying_(More_Layoffs),_Red_Hat_Will_Continue_to_Suffer_From_the Acquisition⠀⇛ Financial engineering 13. ⚓ Colombia_Adopting_GNU/Linux_Even_Faster_(at_Microsoft's_and_Apple's Expense)⠀⇛ Do politics play any role in this? 14. ⚓ An_Effort_to_Tackle_Slavery_in_'Open_Source'_Clothing⠀⇛ "a civil rights lawsuit to examine the concerns of censored developers in the free, open source software ecosystem" 15. ⚓ $15_billion_lawsuit:_Ubuntu,_Google_&_Debian_crowdfunding_campaign launch⠀⇛ Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock 16. ⚓ The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_(SRA)_Delusion_-_Part_II_-_Why_We Need_to_Expose_the_SRA_to_More_Daylight,_Public_Scrutiny⠀⇛ SRA is neither effective nor regulated 17. ⚓ 400-Page_US_Federal_Court_Against_Abuses_by_Google,_Microsoft_and_Front Groups_That_Abuse_Volunteers_for_American_Corporations⠀⇛ There are 386 pages in total (in the US claim) 18. ⚓ Corporate_Influence_Never_Impacted_Us⠀⇛ There's no reason to assume we'll ever "sell out" 19. ⚓ Growth_of_GNU/Linux_in_Cuba⠀⇛ Right now a lot of the world drafts or already implements a GAFAM exit plan 20. ⚓ A_Day_After_EPO_Strikes_an_Escalation_to_Heads_of_Delegations_to_the Administrative_Council⠀⇛ They rely on the European media playing along, helping them to hide major blunders, even crimes 21. ⚓ Over_at_Tux_Machines...⠀⇛ GNU/Linux news for the past day 22. ⚓ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_February_02,_2026⠀⇛ IRC logs for Monday, February 02, 2026 23. ⚓ Gemini_Links_03/02/2026:_Stargazing,_Development_Boards,_and_Tcl/Tk Slop⠀⇛ Links for the day ========================================================================= The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text. 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