Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 21, 2023

1. The Net (Internet), Including the World Wide Web, is Full or 'Fake' or 'Trash' (Bot) Traffic and We're All Paying the Price, Including in Hosting Bills

   There is no simple solution to this problem

2. Nonsense in 'the News' That Makes You Want to Spit Out the Coffee in Laughter

   Imagine the media calling Photoshop holes a Windows issue

3. Over at Tux Machines...

   2 days' GNU/Linux news

4. Microsoft Booster Boasting About Buying Windows

   MJG Buying Windows

5. Microsoft's Debt is Growing and Apple's Sales Are Falling

   Microsoft's debt continues to grow and in many areas Microsoft is losing money, not earning money

6. Microsoft Buys Large Companies, Saddles Them With Microsoft's Debt, Dismantles Them

   So what's the future of Microsoft?

7. Nokia Was Killed by Microsoft, We Need to Remember That Amid 14,000 More Layoffs

   Nokia never recovered from that

8. "We are witnessing the literal death spiral of X, formerly known as Twitter, in real time"

   "Twitter’s Traffic Is Falling," as we noted here many times before

9. 20/10/2023: A Lot More Censorship and Net Neutrality Milestone

   Links for the day

10. Keep the Eye on the Ball: Taking Linux Semi-Proprietary

    Is GIAFAM/GAFAM+I (Intel+IBM) attacking GPL so that it can make more parts of Linux quasi-proprietary?

11. GNOME’s New Executive Director

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

12. The World After Google News

    legal issues have played a role for over a decade already

13. This Month's Linux Foundation Newsletter Does More Promotion of Linux Rivals (Such as Zephyr) Than of Linux Itself

    Corporate predators in charge of the communities

14. Pretending Charlatans and Corporate Imposters

    Enjoy your croissant and "stock market"

15. Beta/Staging for Techrights Wiki (Now 100% Static)

    And why "old" can be beautiful

16. Elon Musk is Killing the Bird With a Paywall, Not Just Walled Gardens

    Twitter is not run by a genius but an arrogant fraudster whose main source of income is the US taxpayer

17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 19, 2023

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 19, 2023

18. [Meme] Axe-murdering for Bill and Jeff

    Golden Axe meme

19. It Looks Like Gulag Noise ("Google News") is Dying and Legal Issues/New Laws Likely Contributed a Lot to That

    To be very clear, Gulag Noise ("Google News") used to be sort of OK more than a decade ago

20. Growing the Site and the Movement (in the Face of Corporate Takeovers)

    The list of upgrade & migration tasks is becoming shorter

21. Links 19/10/2023: Russia Detains More Journalists, Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Computer-Generated Nonsense ("AI" Hype)

    Links for the day

22. Links 19/10/2023: Open Document Format (ODF) Adopted by NATO, Twitter No Longer Free to Use

    Links for the day

23. Impending Homepage Change: A Month Has Passed Since Our Upgrade, Time to Redo The Front Page

    Coming Home

24. Google Becoming More Like Apple (User-Hostile Lock-Down, Users' Software of Choice Maligned as 'Sideloading'), Not the Other Way Around

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

25. Making Community, Part A

    Article by Thomas Grzybowski

26. Links 19/10/2023: Apple Sales Collapse, Wall Street Dips

    Links for the day

27. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 18, 2023

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 18, 2023