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Digital Networks Act: The European Parliament Must Correct Course

Europe is updating its telecommunications rules through the Digital Networks Act (DNA). The European Commission published its proposal in January, and it is now the European Parliament’s turn to develop its position.

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Arti 2.8.0 released

This release continues our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority, with much of the work focusing on computing the consensus from votes, bootstrapping router descriptors and microdescriptors, as well as relay bandwidth rate-limiting, descriptor encoding, and the relay DNS cache implementation. Additionally, we have made a number of cleanups and clarifications to the Tor specification.

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Another generation of addicts

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Coming less than a week after Shelly 3.1.10, the Shelly 3.2 release enhances AppImage support with improved desktop integration to use the application’s shipped desktop-file identity, embedded update-information discovery, support for .zsync control files, and better GitHub asset matching.

MPV 0.42 Video Player Released with AMD Frame Rate Conversion Filter

Coming ten months after MPV 0.41, the MPV 0.42 release introduces Wayland session management and Wayland color management through the protocol instead of the Vulkan API, improved HDR colorspace signalling on DRM for Linux, and an AMD Frame Rate Conversion filter.

Systemd-Free Artix Linux 2026.11 Is Out with Wayland-Only KDE Plasma Desktop

Coming six months after Artix Linux 2026.04, the Artix Linux 2026.11 official ISO release is powered by the Linux 7.2 kernel series, namely Linux kernel 7.2.14, and ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment for the Plasma edition, along with KDE Frameworks 6.31 and KDE Gear 26.08.2.

LXQt 2.5 Desktop Environment Released, Drops Its Last LXDE Dependency

Coming more than six months after LXQt 2.4, the LXQt 2.5 release drops its last LXDE dependency, on menu-cache, as the desktop environment now has its own built-in desktop-menu implementation in the LibFM-Qt component to do the same job menu-cache did, which is better and faster.

Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Released with Hibernation Support

Highlights of Cinnamon 6.8 include hibernation support via a Suspend action in the main menu, modern one-to-one trackpad gestures for both Wayland and Xorg sessions, support for the oo7 Secret Service provider, support for multiple instances in the Sound applet, and a more unified Network applet that merges the WireGuard and VPN sections.

NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements

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Based on the recently released Fedora Linux 45 release, Fedora Asahi Remix 45 ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment by default and introduces out-of-the-box initial support for Apple M3, Apple M3 Pro, and Apple M3 Max machines.

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Coming two months after LibreOffice 26.2.6, the LibreOffice 26.2.7 release is packed with more fixes to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2026

Elephant in zoo

Updated This Past Day

  1. Karen Melchior Fought the Good Fight
    stay tuned for Part 29
  2. We Need Less Gadgets, More Humanity
    If people are being honest with themselves, many of the gadgets they claim they "cannot live without" are just excesses and distractions they could definitely leave behind

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  3. Canonical Staff Acting Like They Aim to Receive Job Offers From Microsoft
    There are moreover allegations that Debian will do the same, in the same way Mono boosters infected both distros in tandem or in turn.
  4. Worsening Staff Affairs at Microsoft
    Microsoft is managing to piss off many of its own workers
  5. Czech Mate for GNU/Linux on the Way
    Czechoslovakia is having none of that "peace for our time" with Microsoft
  6. Nobody Will be Left Who Trusts IBM Anymore
    The common theme is, the management must be completely replaced as soon as possible and truth needs to come out
  7. Wall Street is a Bubble and No Company is Worth 5 Trillion Dollars
    It's not hard to see which stocks will crash the hardest (or fastest)
  8. The Corrupt Have Historically Tried to Paint Their Exposers as the Real Problem
    As usual, there are efforts to shoot or muzzle the messenger
  9. Search Engine Market Share in Italy: Microsoft Falls to Third in Many Countries Including Italy
    Expect more layoffs in Bing
  10. Links 20/07/2026: Spotify Drowning in Slop, Expiry of Software Patents in MPEG-4
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 20/07/2026: Another Step Towards Owning Personal Data and Gemtext2 Envisioned
    Links for the day
  12. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Public Missions and Private Ambitions
    Despite the French government's strong formal pushback, the lobbying momentum generated by Campinos and Negrão proved unstoppable
  13. "DOOM" and "Bloodbath": the State of Microsoft and XBox
    Way to piss off fans
  14. Links 20/07/2026: Notes on E-mail Encryption, Torvalds and His Employer Paid a Lot to Promote Slop (Pyramid Scheme)
    Links for the day
  15. What a Difference Six Years Make...
    We are also beta-testing a new feature for the site; we plan to announce it some time soon
  16. When It Comes to Slop, Richard Stallman is Opposite of Linus Torvalds
    When it comes to computing, Dr. Stallman has long been a voice of reason
  17. Daniel Pocock is in Mainstream Media This Week
    Pocock's haters will absolutely hate this
  18. In His Departure Post, Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) Explains Why Linus Torvalds is Full of "Hot Air" and Slop Bubbles
    Having lived through previous bubbles as a UNIX geek, phk cannot be ignored
  19. Whistleblowers Keep Flowing
    Later today a police investigator should phone us regarding death threats we've received
  20. Technology and Gadgets Got Obese, Just Like Their Users
    They now sell us so-called 'phones' for slop
  21. Daniel Pocock in The Guardian This Morning
    There is an opportunity here to spread a message, even if Pocock won't win a seat
  22. "Samsung Recently Projected a 19-fold Surge in Second-Quarter Operating Profit", Now There Are Mass Layoffs
    In a 9-month period Samsung's debt rose by about 80%
  23. Gemini Links 20/07/2026: Dungeon Meshi/Undertale Crossover, "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dark Web and Beyond"
    Links for the day
  24. IBM's Control of the Media "Just Showed What Taking Accountability Does Not Look Like"
    It is no secret that IBM pays the media
  25. Microsoft Loses XBox Lawsuit, But There Are More
    The collapse of studios continues
  26. GNU/Linux Approaching International Average in Djibouti
    One can envisage further gains for GNU/Linux, seeing Microsoft is in such a bad shape
  27. Daniel Pocock "[t]he Australian Taking on Nigel Farage — from Down Under"
    This can help raise awareness of some issues
  28. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  29. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 19, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, July 19, 2026
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Linux Mint devs unveil new system monitor, archive manager, and terminal emulator apps for Linux Mint, along with a preview pane for Nemo and hibernation support.
I Came for This New Linux Distro’s Aesthetic Looks and Stayed for its Window Tiling
Yet another new Linux distribution has landed on Arch Linux as its foundation of choice
Security Leftovers
security with focus on FOSS
The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo
I'm extremely not interested in helping Canonical's project of replacing perfectly good C programs of long standing, many of them GPL'd, with non-GPL'd Rust reimplementations
United States: GNU/Linux Up Again [original]
It is definitely going up, also in Steam Survey
Cuba: GNU/Linux Back Above 10% [original]
This month it's back above 10%
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