Just published on FOSS Force: FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending November 7, 2025 fossforce.com/2025/11/foss...

You can read Larry Cafiero's review of CachyOS on FOSS Force here - buff.ly/SplVOxH :CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43 - Phoronix

"Not literal Matrix-style unreality. Something more precise and insidious: the manufactured consensus that authoritarianism was inevitable, that resistance was futile, that most people had become—or would become—what the sociopaths are": The Simulation Is Collapsing

"Last year, Meta projected that 10% of its overall annual revenue — $16 billion — would come from fraudulent advertisements on its apps [that] purport to offer a product or service that isn’t real": Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says

Putting Tesla on the road to bankruptcy: Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package | TechCrunch

Cybercab is an autonomous electric vehicle with no pedals or steering wheel: Tesla to begin Cybercab production in April, Musk claims | TechCrunch

This is what I listened to last night: Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids

"Within minutes the specialist asked me to “take out your phone and install the Freestyle Libre app from Abbott”. This is the first time a medical practitioner asked me to install proprietary software as the first step of treatment": Managing Diabetes in Software Freedom

An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! FOSDEM ’26 fossforce.com/event/fosdem...

Has anybody tried Penpot? It's open source and it runs on Linux: I regret paying for Canva after finding this fantastic open-source alternative

All but possibly a couple of these should be familiar to most all Linux users: I found an open-source alternative to every Adobe app

"The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work. The decision marks the end of one of Mozilla’s oldest and most dedicated localization groups": AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community

"This is that it cuts out the tax-prep industry that absolutely adores preying on these very same people to milk them for tax-prep services they don’t actually need": IRS Notifies States There Will Be No Direct File Program For 2026

"The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is the standard around file/directory placement on Linux and Unix-like systems. Matthias Klumpp announced today that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard has been adopted by FreeDesktop .org: FreeDesktop .org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard buff.ly/4C46JZP

"The greatest enshittifiers of all are economists who advocate that monopolies are good, because the only way for a company to secure a monopoly is to be so amazing that we all buy its products: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world

The RISC-V folks don't sit on their laurels: EDN: The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI

Larry Cafiera has something to say about the move away from X11 in his review of Fedora 43 which was published on Thursday: GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

Some truth, but to be taken with a grain of salt: The Complete Guide to Best Linux Distros for Beginners in 2025

I didn't know this either, but given my background, I should've known... or at least suspected: I never realized Ethernet cables had a color code until now

"As we’ve seen repeatedly this sort of media consolidation is mindlessly corrosive": Larry Ellison’s CBS Acquisition Leads To Mass Layoffs As Bari Weiss Enjoys $10k A Day Security Detail

"Linux Mint users can now move the search bar and reposition system buttons in Cinnamon’s menu, and the project also introduces a revamped System Information tool": Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu Gets New Layout Customization Options

"Atlas stopped just 5.8 percent of the malicious web pages it encountered. So, more than 90 percent of the time, it would interact with phishing pages instead of closing the tab and moving on": AI browsers are clicking the same scams you’d never fall for

"It occurred to me recently that one of the attractions of vinyl, or more generally physical media, could be that it's inert, safe: the music is a groove cut into some plastic. That's it:" jmtd → log → inert media, or the explotation of attention

Just published on FOSS Force: Our Look at Fedora 43 — With Screenshots, Elton John, and More! fossforce.com/2025/11/our-...

"Another 'fuck you' has been delivered to federal courts by the Trump administration. This time, the extended middle finger is embodied by (now-former) US Attorney Bill Essayli ": DOJ Prosecutor Says He’ll Just Keep Prosecuting Despite Court Ruling He Was Illegally Appointed

I listened to this last night. As per norms, it was a good one: Techdirt Podcast Episode 437: Social Media Is Always Changing

"Google ... uses the same bot to crawl websites for its Google search engine and its AI features. Publishers can’t block the bot, as Google search still accounts for a large percentage of their traffic": People Inc. forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops

"After warning Perplexity that Comet, its AI-powered shopping assistant, was violating its terms of service by not identifying itself as an agent, it sent the AI search engine a sternly worded cease-and-desist letter": Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing

What the frack is a smart plug. I'm pretty certain it's something I don't need: You're wasting energy if you haven't changed this setting on your smart plugs

For years, everything in space was powered by ancient versions of Unix: 12 everyday technologies powered by Linux | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

"With the election yesterday of Millennial Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor, generational change in Democratic Party politics has shifted more firmly away from Boomers." -- Open Thread: The Morning After Election Day 2025 - emptywheel

"The plans for systemd-appd are for being able to authenticate Flatpak instances and working towards a goal of supporting nested sandboxing": systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers - Phoronix

"Back in the early 2000s, there was a loose effort to establish an open-source, GTK-based office suite from the sum of existing parts. The 1.0 release (Sept., 2003) consisted of AbiWord 2.0, Gnumeric 1.2.0, and GNOME-DB 1.0": It's Time to Bring Back GNOME Office (Hope You Remember It)

"Also improves the blur implementation in KDE Plasma 6.5 to be more like it was in KDE Plasma 6.4 by disabling the “background contrast” effect by default": KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Improves KRunner’s Search Result Ordering and Fixes Regressions - 9to5Linux

All but possibly a couple of these should be familiar to most all Linux users: I found an open-source alternative to every Adobe app

"Debian-based Linux distribution for home servers, The distro features a large range of applications - anything from web hosting, productivity and finance to media streaming, networking, automation, and Bitcoin mining": Distribution Release: umbrelOS 1.5.0 (buff.ly/wd1Ijrx News) buff.ly/HL2NnHu

"In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute," Google execs wrote in a blog post, in which they explain that solar panels can be eight times more efficient in space, and can produce power continuously: Google launches AI hype to the moon with Project Suncatcher

I should look at this one day: LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support - Phoronix

Coming soon to a repository near you: Flatpak 1.17.0 Released with Direct OCI Image Installation Support - OSTechNix

Just published on FOSS Force: ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important fossforce.com/2025/11/odf-...

"After the X11 path was disabled by default in the GNOME 49 release, the code is being outright removed for the GNOME 50 cycle": GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" - Phoronix

"Rich right wingers want to own the entirety of U.S. new and old media, then convert it into a giant propaganda and lazy infotainment mill that blows smoke up their asses": Comcast, Netflix, And CBS Will All Now Kiss Trump’s Ass To Try And Acquire Warner Brothers And CNN

Just published on FOSS Force: How to Organize Your Streamers With Ticket Booth fossforce.com/2025/11/how-...

"It’s not news that Apple and Google use app stores to shape what apps can be on devices. What is new is more governments—including the US—using tools to lean on these gatekeepers to assert that same control": Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

"Cops performed hundreds of searches for license plates using terms such as "roma" and "g*psy,." Other uses include "g*psy vehicle," "g*psy group," "possible g*psy," "roma traveler" and "g*psy ruse": License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People

"The man who made millions by denigrating anyone who wasn’t as white, straight, and “Christian” as he was is apparently above reproach now that he’s been murdered ": Man Arrested By Charlie Kirk Fan/Sheriff For Directly Quoting Donald Trump

"Experienced geospatial executive with a strong background in national mapping policies will lead Overture's next phase of expansion and adoption": Overture Maps Foundation Names William Mortenson as New Executive Director

Steven Rosenberg gets a shout-out: With thanks to Steven Rosenberg

"Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?": Cosmic version 1 to hit desktops on December 11

"Lawmakers have called on the FTC to investigate Flock Safety, a company that operates license plate-scanning cameras, for allegedly failing to implement cybersecurity protections": Lawmakers say stolen police logins are exposing Flock surveillance cameras to hackers