Today in Techrights
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Is It a Trap?
Red Hat hired a person who did not know the FOSS world but is now promoted to top of the Fedora 'community'
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 22, 2023
IRC logs for Sunday, October 22, 2023
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Mozilla and Firefox Are Intentionally Failing to Stand for the Open Web
Platitudes and lies about "privacy" and other false promises won't fool enough gullible Web users
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Gaming Pundit Asserts That Microsoft in Charge of Activision/Blizzard Will Mean Lots More Layoffs
Microsoft not only froze the salaries of workers (amid massive inflation, so it is effectively a round of pay cuts)
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Sharing is Caring
Debt is a burden
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Techrights' Winter of Change
we're gratified to have "modernised" everything by removing unnecessary bloat
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Links 23/10/2023: Layoffs at PlayStation's Visual Arts, More Strike Actions
Links for the day
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Financial Compensation of Microsoft Executives Fell by About a Quarter Despite Fast-Rising Inflation
This does not sound like a company that's doing as well as it claims
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Writing for Techrights
The material isn't the work of one person but an international team of contributors
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The Right to Repair is Crucial Outside Computing As Well
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
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Microsoft and the Art of Sleight of Hand Distraction Amid Mass Layoffs
Microsoft had loads of layoffs last week
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GitLab's Losses Nearly Doubled in 3 Years, Do You Want Your Project to Rely on This Company?
GitLab is not "evil"; but there are better options out there
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Microsoft is Lying About Adoption Rates of Vista 11, Which Are Historic Lows
Microsoft is very well aware that it's lying
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[Meme] Hatchet Job Gone Very, Very Wrong
Flinging lots of crap (or axes) at the wall
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Martin Goetz Was Not a Good Person, He Was a Shameless, Unapologetic Booster of Patents That Destroyed and Still Ruin the Software Sector Billions Rely on
Just because he's dead doesn't mean there is an obligation to say nice (but false) things about him
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Links 22/10/2023: Global Encryption Day
Links for the day
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Links 22/10/2023: Open Data Merits and Lots More Censorship, Attacks on the Media
Links for the day
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 21, 2023
IRC logs for Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Tech.LGBT Removes Shadow Ban on George Takei, Who is Gay, Blocks Gay Man for Asking Why Takei Was Shadowbanned
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
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You Cannot Patch/Secure/Protect Your GNU/Linux System Because Microsoft Blocks the Patching Via 'Secure' Boot
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
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The Asian and African Elephant in the Room
In some sense, Linux is already vastly bigger than Windows
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Old But as Relevant as Ever: Committee on the ECHELON Interception System Warned Against Adoption and Use of Proprietary Software
That was exactly 2 months before the more famous "9/11"
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Links 21/10/2023: Fakecoin Prosecutions and Growing Tensions Near China
Links for the day
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Why Google News is Perishing: Failing to Include Thousands of Active News Sites That Cover GNU/Linux
A lack of source diversity can doom Google News
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IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 20, 2023
IRC logs for Friday, October 20, 2023
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Mastodon 'Freedom': Tech.LGBT Bans Gay Progressive, a Victim of American Internment Camps
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer