Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 25, 2023

Updated This Past Day

1. Musical Chairs Melodrama and 'Extinction' BS (Sensationalist Doomsday Scenarios) Help Distract From What Chatbots Are Truly About: Plundering Other People's Work by Automated Plagiarism

   Works of art, visual and textual (also audio; multimedia at large), are being raided and they tell us it's "AI" or "GAI" when it is in fact "CG" - hardly a new thing

2. "Buy Nothing Day" Was Yesterday. Today... Download BSDs and GNU/Linux Day (No Need to Buy).

   We need to appreciate things based on their value, not their cost

3. Professor Eben Moglen in Freedom-Centric Conference on the Public Domain (Not Copyrights)

   Old Moglen speech

   New

4. Less Than Two-Thirds of Laptops (and Desktops) in Canada Still Run Microsoft Windows, According to statCounter

   many of the gains are Apple's

5. Mozilla Continues to Spam Yours Truly For 'Black Friday'; the E-mails Are Malicious and Privacy-Infringing

   GAFAMozilla (it takes money primarily from Google, hires loads of managers from Facebook, uses Apple everywhere, and outsources many things to Microsoft)

6. statCounter: GNU/Linux Has Risen to 5.4% of Desktops and Laptops in Hong Kong

   In China it seems to coincide with political events

7. CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

   Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability...

8. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 24, 2023

   IRC logs for Friday, November 24, 2023

9. Links 24/11/2023: UPC Worries and Paid Propaganda, China Experiences Respiratory Illness Spike

   Links for the day

10. Links 24/11/2023: Major Strikes at Amazon (Busiest Day), HSBC Offline

    Links for the day

11. The Border Crossings in Severe Freezing Conditions Are a Reminder That Scandinavia Needs to Urgently Dump Microsoft

    Norway seems better positioned to cope with electronic/digital warfare

12. Mozilla Continues to Spam Many People With Privacy-Violating E-mails, Urging Sites to Pretend That Mozilla Values Privacy

    Spam, surveillance and insecurity disguised as "privacy" - that's Mozilla in a nutshell

13. Tracing Back Orchestration of Attacks

    Some time next year we'll explain some of these connections and illuminate Microsoft's role

14. Eben Moglen: Congressional Testimony for “Do-Not-Track Legislation" (2010)

    We've converted it into a free format

15. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 23, 2023

    IRC logs for Thursday, November 23, 2023

16. Links 24/11/2023: ‘Apps’, Ceasefire, and More Russia Aggression at Finnish Border

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news

18. "VOICES OF OPEN SOURCE" (OSI, Microsoft-Controlled) Calls Mass Plagiarism "AI", Makes Lousy Definitions for Openwashing Purposes

    misusing the term "AI"