Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 12, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Aggressive Efforts (and Threats) for Those Who Speak About What Happened in the Balkans

   Acting in this way in an effort to censor people typically results in a second scandal on top of the original scandal

2. [Video] How the Media Blamed SSH and Linux (for Nearly a Whole Fortnight!) Instead of Microsoft's GitHub and Systemd

   Microsoft-connected sites have said a whole bunch of lies

   New

3. [Video] Trainline Finally Issues a Refund, But It Took 9 Days and Showed How 'Modern' Systems Fail Travelers

   They treat people like a bunch of animals or cattle, not like valuable customers

4. DebConf22 Kosovo segregation of women exposed

   Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

5. Links 11/04/2024: Web Diversity and More Crackdowns in Russia

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 11/04/2024: Activity and Motivation in Geminispace, gwit Implementations

   Links for the day

7. First They Came for Iranian Developers...

   Red Hat/IBM and 'cancel culture'

8. [Video] A Debian Project Leader Needs to Also be a Technical Project Leader

   We do not vouch for one (or none) horse in this race

9. How Kosovo won DebConf21

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Anzacathon: a hackathon for Anzac day at home

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 10, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, April 10, 2024

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