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System76 Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop

After Frosted Glass, System76 is now working on another cool feature that will probably boost the adoption of the COSMIC desktop environment amongst Linux users. The feature is called COSMIC Theme Constellations and consists of bundled themes with wallpaper, accent colors, icons, and fonts.

GStreamer 1.28.9 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for mpph264enc Encoder

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Calibre 9.18 Open-Source E-Book Manager Adds New Tool to Make Books Accessible

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.17, the Calibre 9.18 release adds a new tool to make e-books accessible and check for accessibility problems, and adds support for viewing color previews in the e-book editor as an underline and allows Ctrl-clicking on colors to change them using a color wheel.

Sigil 2.8.5 Open-Source EPUB Editor Released with Modern CSS Parsing

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“Sacrifices”

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After Two Consecutive Losses in the PL

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Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 5 – Private Businesses, Not Public Services

For profit, against citizens?

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 4 – Moving Towards “Network States” With Corporations, Not Public Servants

Like G4S in Manchester

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Soon

Transnational Swatting

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Reproduced in full for more exposure and to make censorship harder

Finding New Whistleblowers

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Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 3 – Unfriendly Staff

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Home Assistant-compatible board pairs ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4

Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs.

ESP32-P4 development boards combine RISC-V with Wi-Fi 6 or PoE

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Arduino is Now a Patent Bully (Qualcomm)
    Qualcomm has just bought Arduino
  2. Many Years of Microsoft Cancellations and Faked (Acquired) Revenue "Growth"
    XBox is basically the "next Skype"
  3. Microsoft's Non-Denying Denial About XBox's Death is Already Being Shattered to Pieces
    Like Microsoft's 'open' 'hey hi', heralding meaningless non-committing agreements with AMD is little more than vapourware
  4. The Register MS is Still Being Paid to Participate in the "AI" Ponzi Scheme Which Will Crash the Economy
    The Register MS is hoping to get lucky by tricking people into a scam

    New

  5. Participation in Cancel Culture Detrimental to One's Career
    A cautionary tale
  6. Passion Wins
    we've increased the number of birds we feed to 100+
  7. How Solderpunk and Sean Conner Started Gemini Protocol (and, Collectively, Geminispace) Back in 2019
    Based on the "official" history
  8. The Comment TheLayoff.com Has Just Censored for Criticising a Ridiculous Puff Piece of IBM Management
    If comments get censored for their "style" rather than their substance, then society will be worse off
  9. The Power of Writing Down Facts
    The more we write and publish, the more people will know what happened
  10. Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Joins the Slopfarms Club
    Slopfarms gonna slop
  11. Links 07/10/2025: Privacy at Risk, GAFAM Remains Off the Hook
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Modern Retro Console Idea and Batch vs Bash
    Links for the day
  13. Links 07/10/2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Convicts Ali Kushayb; Moroccan Imprisoned for 'Offensive' Shirt
    Links for the day
  14. Links 07/10/2025: EU' Chat Control is Back, US Cracks Down on Democracy
    Links for the day
  15. Techrights Pursues Justice and Truth Because, Without Those, Society Descends Into Chaos
    most people reject dogma and pseudoscience
  16. Upcoming Talks by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Göteborg, and Rome
    Join with him and share the software
  17. Something Bad is Happening in the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
    The latest OSI blog post is from a Microsoft operative and a few weeks ago the Executive Director left
  18. TLS 1.3 Dominates Geminispace (99% of Known Capsules)
    it's nowadays safe to assume almost every capsule can handle TLS 1.3
  19. Why soylentnews.org Has Been Having Technical Difficulties Lately
    The network has been going up and down quite a lot this past week
  20. A Statement Against Violence
    The facts are on our side
  21. They've Run Out of Things to Rebrand or Label as "AI"
    The next few years will be interesting because if Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers each year, there won't be much left except mountains of debt and dying brands
  22. Richard Stallman Confirms His Talk in Göteborg This Coming Friday
    "The hosts say that the list will not be given to the state"
  23. Most of the "Linux" Results This Morning in Google News Are LLM Slop From the Same Slopfarm, Plagiarising Phoronix
    The main question is, does Google even care at this point?
  24. Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Civil War and "Goodbye Web"
    Links for the day
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 06, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, October 06, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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