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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 20/03/2024: Internet Safety Discussed, Software Patents Invalidated Again
    Links for the day
  2. Gemini Links 20/03/2024:Dumping Social Control Media, Trading Oddities
    Links for the day
  3. Chris Lamb & Debian Outreachy interns, favoritism perceptions
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  4. Links 19/03/2024: Synthetic Objects Being Labeled as Fakes, Water Scarcity Spreads
    Links for the day
  5. GNOME GUADEC 2022 & Debian Albanian women trafficked to Mexico?
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  6. Sainsbury's: It Takes Us Up to Two Days to Respond to Customers Upon Escalation (and Sometimes Even More Than Two Days)
    It not only does groceries but also many other things, even banking
  7. People Don't Just Kill Themselves (Same for Other Animals)
    And recent reports about Boeing whistleblower John Barnett
  8. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  9. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 18, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, March 18, 2024
  10. Comparing U.E.F.I. to B.I.O.S. (Bloat and Insecurity to K.I.S.S.)
    By Sami Tikkanen
  11. New 'Slides' From Stallman Support (stallmansupport.org) Site
    "In celebration of RMS's birthday, we've been playing a bit. We extracted some quotes from the various articles, comments, letters, writings, etc. and put them in the form of a slideshow in the home page."
  12. Thailand: GNU/Linux Up to 6% of Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter
    Desktop Operating System Market Share Thailand
  13. Suicide Cluster Cover-up tactics & Debian exposed
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  14. Gemini Links 19/03/2024: A Society That Lost Focus and Abandoning Social Control Media
    Links for the day
  15. Matthias Kirschner, FSFE: Plagiarism & Child labour in YH4F
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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    Span from 2024-03-13 to 2024-03-19
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    1954 /n/2024/03/16/Open_Invention_Network_OIN_Fails_to_Explain_If_Linux_is_Safe_Fr.shtml
    1157 /n/2024/03/15/Free_Software_at_Times_of_Conflict.shtml
    1156 /n/2024/03/13/Linux_Foundation_s_Nithya_Ruff_From_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Boar.shtml
    1123 /n/2024/03/12/Android_is_Now_Close_to_Controlling_Half_of_Internet_Web_Connec.shtml
    977 /n/2024/03/15/Julian_Assange_Verdict_What_to_Watch_Out_for.shtml
    972 /n/2024/03/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    903 /n/2024/03/19/People_Don_t_Just_Kill_Themselves_Same_for_Other_Animals.shtml
    881 /n/2024/03/15/The_Demise_of_Bytedance_TikTok_Would_Do_Good_for_Free_Speech_On.shtml
    847 /n/2024/03/15/Slug_is_too_loShaya_Potter_Debian_WaReZ_expulsion.shtml
    771 /n/2024/03/13/A_Sincere_Word_of_Solidarity_to_Patent_Examiners_at_the_EPO.shtml

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