Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Hiring People Who Attempt to Murder Colleagues

   magnet for sociopaths

   New

2. On Julian Assange, Now 5 Years in Belmarsh Prison: The Good News, the Bad News, and Ugly Noise

   Some time this spring (or summer) we'll revisit the Appelbaum case

3. Links 10/04/2024: Starvation as Weapon in Sudan, Sonos v. ITC Explained

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: JSON explore and geminiprotocol.net Downtime

   Links for the day

5. Links 10/04/2024: Biden Reportedly Considers Dropping the Charges Against Julian Assange

   Links for the day

6. Wikileaks, Dickileaks & Ubuntu Underage girl

   Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

7. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Tanana River, Picotron, and Citation on Gemini

   Links for the day

8. Elio Qoshi & Redon Skikuli missing from OSCAL agenda

   Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

9. Links 10/04/2024: TikTok Trouble, East Asian Companies Receive Subsidies From American Taxpayers

   Links for the day

10. This is What Techrights Would Look Like If We Participated in 'CSS Naked Day'

    All cascading style sheets (CSS) should be optional

11. Francophone GNU/Linux

    Moving in a positive direction

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 09, 2024

14. Over-Enforcement of a Code of Conduct (CoC) Would Ruin Events, Maybe Not for Corporate Posters, Sponsors, Posers, and Speakers

    a shrine for corporate supremacy

15. The "F" in Free Software Doesn't Stand for "Censorship"; Attempts to Censor Mere Links to Articles About DebConf22 in Kosovo

    It's about an article we'll reproduce here later this week

16. Daniele Scasciafratte & Mozilla, OSCAL, Albania dating

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

17. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Notifications, Motivation, Profectus Graphical Browser for the Smallnet

    Links for the day

18. Abuse & Sex Crimes at FOSDEM and Open Source tech events

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-04-04 to 2024-04-10

    1694	/n/2024/04/07/McKinsey_Allegedly_Hired_by_Red_Hat_to_Claim_Layoffs_Are_Necess.shtml
    1467	/n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
    1273	/n/2024/04/04/VMWare_GPL_case_Linux_Foundation_reneged_on_Conservancy_funding.shtml
    1139	/n/2024/04/07/Outreachy_Tindernships_Debian_photo_sites.shtml
    982	/n/2024/04/05/Mozilla_Sells_Out_Will_Serve_Search_Results_From_Microsoft_via_.shtml
    902	/n/2024/04/05/Debian_Project_Leader_DPL_to_Step_Down.shtml
    895	/n/2024/04/09/Justin_Flory_UNICEF_Red_Hat_s_MIT_Epstein_moment.shtml
    895	/n/2024/04/07/Jonathan_Saul_Cohen_Debian_West_London_mansion_exposed.shtml
    883	/n/2024/04/05/Should_Fedora_banish_Russians_as_they_banished_Iranians.shtml
    847	/n/2024/03/27/Microsoft_s_Collapse_in_the_Web_Server_Space_Continued_This_Mon.shtml
    814	/n/2024/04/06/Charles_Fussell_Jonathan_Cohen_Debian_SLAPP_microsite_resignati.shtml
    809	/n/2024/04/04/A_Sign_That_Microsoft_is_in_Serious_Trouble_Now_Shamelessly_Try.shtml
    791	/n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
    790	/n/2024/04/06/Sentiment_at_Red_Hat_Amid_Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_12_Months_Aft.shtml
    786	/about.shtml
    777	/n/2024/04/05/Italian_Experience_of_Richard_Stallman_3_Public_Talks_in_4_Days.shtml
    773	/index.shtml
    771	/n/2024/04/08/In_Their_Own_Words_Militants_Admit_Phoning_My_Employer_and_My_W.shtml
    761	/n/2024/04/04/Open_Invention_Network_Acting_More_Like_a_Satellite_of_IBM_and_.shtml
    760	/n/2024/04/06/Assorted_Comments_on_Rumours_of_Red_Hat_Mass_Layoffs.shtml
    755	/n/2024/04/05/Microsoft_Used_a_Campaign_of_Bribes_and_Lies_to_Derail_GNU_Linu.shtml
    734	/n/2024/04/07/Android_Skyrockets_in_Yemen_Windows_Down_From_99_to_3_According.shtml
    723	/n/2024/04/09/Ubuntu_underage_girl_child_sex_or_child_prostitution.shtml
    720	/n/2024/04/08/OSCAL_Open_Labs_Mozilla_grooming_women_for_Outreachy.shtml
    719	/irc.shtml
    715	/n/2024/04/06/Lior_Kaplan_Mossad_Debian.shtml
    715	/n/2024/04/07/Jim_Whitehurst_Former_Red_Hat_CEO_Now_Works_for_Two_Not_Just_On.shtml
    706	/n/2024/04/03/FSFE_CCC_Erik_Albers_secret_punishments.shtml
    701	/n/2024/04/06/Jonathan_Cohen_Charles_Fussell_Debian_embezzlement.shtml
    687	/n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
    662	/n/2024/04/09/Mastodon_mastodon_social_Gives_the_Boot_to_the_Militants_Who_At.shtml
    647	/n/2024/04/04/Who_is_Left_to_Speak_for_the_Community_and_for_Science_Not_for_.shtml
    624	/n/2024/04/06/Links_06_04_2024_More_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Small_Web_Gaining_I.shtml
    622	/n/2024/04/05/IBM_s_Red_Hat_Has_Stopped_Competing_With_Microsoft.shtml
    620	/n/2024/04/04/Links_04_04_2024_AWS_Layoffs_Showing_That_the_Clown_Computing_B.shtml