Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in Portugal on Wednesday

   new addition to his page

2. Richard Stallman's Hair Has Grown Back and He Does Not Talk About Cancer

   May he live a long and happy life

3. [Teaser] Freenode LTD: What Happened

   Upcoming series based on insiders' account with evidence

4. Links 15/04/2024: Signs of Desperation at Microsoft and Tesla Employees Brace for Mass Layoffs (Update: Yes, Over 10% at Tesla Laid Off)

   Links for the day

   New

5. Links 15/04/2024: Navartis, AWS and Tesla Layoffs

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 15/04/2024: YAML Issues and Gemtext Specification 0.24.0

   Links for the day

7. New Video of Richard Stallman's Talk in Italy (Delivered a Week Ago)

   a working copy of the video

8. Microsoft Windows Falling to New Lows in the United Kingdom and Worldwide

   What's noteworthy here is that there's no sign at all of a Windows rebound

9. [Meme] Quantity of European Patents

   they've rigged the system to make more money

10. Why do free software organizations eliminate community representatives?

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

11. Upcoming Themes and Articles in Techrights

    we expect to have already caught up with most of the administrivia and hopefully we'll be back to the prior pace some time later this week

12. Matthias Kirschner & FSFE People Trafficking, coercion of volunteers

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

13. Gemini Links 15/04/2024: Profectus Alpha 0.4 and RPG of One Capsule Progress

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 14, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, April 14, 2024

16. Oceania: GNU/Linux Measured at Lower Than the International Average (4% or 7% Including ChromeOS)

    statCounter's data

17. Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) Does Not Wish to Become an Instrument of Cost-Free Harassment or 'Cheap Revenge', It Says "Justice is Not Free. Quite the Contrary. Justice is Expensive."

    Long story short, there is no lawsuit, there is a just a hateful, lying idiot abusing "the system" (which this idiot rejects entirely)

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