Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 24, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 23/04/2024: US Doubles Down on Patent Obviousness, North Korea Practices Nuclear Conflict

   Links for the day

2. Stardust Nightclub Tragedy, Unlawful killing, Censorship & Debian Scapegoating

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

3. Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is on Friday, 17:30 in Córdoba (Spain), FSF Cannot Mention It

   Any attempt to marginalise founders isn't unprecedented as a strategy

   New

4. Detecting suspicious transactions in the Wikimedia grants process

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. Gunnar Wolf & Debian Modern Slavery punishments

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. On DebConf and Debian 'Bedroom Nepotism' (Connected to Canonical, Red Hat, and Google)

   Why the public must know suppressed facts (which women themselves are voicing concerns about; some men muzzle them to save face)

7. Several Years After Vista 11 Came Out Few People in Africa Use It, Its Relative Share Declines (People Delete It and Move to BSD/GNU/Linux?)

   These trends are worth discussing

8. Canonical, Ubuntu & Debian DebConf19 Diversity Girls email

   Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

9. Links 23/04/2024: Escalations Around Poland, Microsoft Shares Dumped

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 23/04/2024: Offline PSP Media Player and OpenBSD on ThinkPad

    Links for the day

11. Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, Holger Levsen & Debian DebConf6 fight

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

12. DebConf8: who slept with who? Rooming list leaked

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

13. Bruce Perens & Debian: swiping the Open Source trademark

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

14. Ean Schuessler & Debian SPI OSI trademark disputes

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

15. Windows in Sudan: From 99.15% to 2.12%

    With conflict in Sudan, plus the occasional escalation/s, buying a laptop with Vista 11 isn't a high priority

16. Anatomy of a Cancel Mob Campaign

    how they go about

17. [Meme] The 'Cancel Culture' and Its 'Hit List'

    organisers are being contacted by the 'cancel mob'

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 22, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, April 22, 2024

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. Don't trust me. Trust the voters.

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. Chris Lamb & Debian demanded Ubuntu censor my blog

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

22. Ean Schuessler, Branden Robinson & Debian SPI accounting crisis

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

23. William Lee Irwin III, Michael Schultheiss & Debian, Oracle, Russian kernel scandal

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

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