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  19. KDE and Qt: Latest on Wayland Support
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  21. Programming Leftovers, Education, and Standards
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  23. Raspberry Pi Projects and News
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  24. today's howtos
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  28. Meta Open Sources DotSlash: Executable Deployment Tool
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  29. What's going on with Activities in Plasma 6?
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  31. Security Leftovers
    Security half a dozen
  32. Purism Crowdfunding and Amazon Abandons Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Another 'Linux'
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  33. today's howtos
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