Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 23, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Stefano Maffulli's (and Microsoft's) Openwashing Slant Initiative (OSI) Report Was Finalised a Few Months Ago, Revealing Only 3% of the Money Comes From Members/People

   Microsoft's role remains prominent (for OSI to help the attack on the GPL and constantly engage in promotion of proprietary GitHub)

2. [Video] Online Brigade Demands That the Person Who Started GNU/Linux is Denied Public Speaking (and Why FSF Cannot Mention His Speeches)

   So basically the attack on RMS did not stop; even when he's ill with cancer the cancel culture will try to cancel him, preventing him from talking (or be heard) about what he started in 1983

3. On Wednesday IBM Announces 'Results' (Partial; Bad Parts Offloaded Later) and Red Hat Has Layoffs Anniversary

   There's still expectation that Red Hat will make more staff cuts

   New

4. Microsoft's Windows Down to 8% in Afghanistan According to statCounter Data

   in Vietnam Windows is at 8%, in Iraq 4.9%, Syria 3.7%, and Yemen 2.2%

5. [Meme] Only Criminals Would Want to Use Printers?

   The EPO's war on paper

6. EPO: We and Microsoft Will Spy on Everything (No Physical Copies)

   The letter is dated last Thursday

7. Links 22/04/2024: Windows Getting Worse, Oligarch-Owned Media Attacking Assange Again

   Links for the day

8. Links 21/04/2024: LINUX Unplugged and 'Screen Time' as the New Tobacco

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 22/04/2024: Health Issues and Online Documentation

   Links for the day

10. What Fake News or Botspew From Microsoft Looks Like... (Also: Techrights to Invest 500 Billion in Datacentres by 2050!)

    Sededin Dedovic (if that's a real name) does Microsoft stenography

11. [Meme] Master Engineer, But Only They Can Say It

    One can conclude that "inclusive language" is a community-hostile trolling campaign

12. [Meme] It Takes Three to Grant a Monopoly, Or... Injunction Against Staff Representatives

    Quality control

13. [Video] EPO's "Heart of Staff Rep" Has a Heartless New Rant

    The wordplay is just for fun

14. An Unfortunate Miscalculation Of Capital

    Reprinted with permission from Andy Farnell

15. Online Brigade Demands That the Person Who Made Nix Leaves Nix for Not Censoring People 'Enough'

    Trying to 'nix' the founder over alleged "safety" of so-called 'minorities'

16. [Video] Inauthentic Sites and Our Upcoming Publications

    In the future, at least in the short term, we'll continue to highlight Debian issues

17. List of Debian Suicides & Accidents

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

18. Jens Schmalzing & Debian: rooftop fall, inaccurately described as accident

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

19. [Teaser] EPO Leaks About EPO Leaks

    Yo dawg!

20. IBM: We Are No Longer Pro-Nazi (Not Anymore)

    Historically, IBM has had a nazi problem

21. Bad faith: attacking a volunteer at a time of grief, disrespect for the sanctity of human life

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

22. Bad faith: how many Debian Developers really committed suicide?

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 21, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, April 21, 2024

25. A History of Frivolous Filings and Heavy Drug Use

    So the militant was psychotic due to copious amounts of marijuana

26. Bad faith: suicide, stigma and tarnishing

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

27. UDRP Legitimate interests: EU whistleblower directive, workplace health & safety concerns

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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