Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. World Press Freedom Day: WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

2. Links 07/05/2024: Pulitzer for Supreme Court Expose, New Threats to Media Reported

   Links for the day

3. Berlin police declined to investigate FSFE Nazi comparisons

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

   New

4. Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Music Spotlight and Network Knobs

   Links for the day

5. Only Weeks After Microsoft Closed Offices and Studios It is Closing Several More (Many Layoffs, Still Deeply Debt-Saddled)

   When the sad news writes itself

6. Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela: GNU/Linux Reaches 9% (ChromeOS Included)

   Venezuela must have lost interest in some American proprietary software when users were locked out of their own data (Adobe) and the costs could no longer be justified

7. [Video] Microsoft is Like Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Other Perpetrators of Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering

   openwashing, Microsoft lobbying, and Microsoft subsidies (e.g. bailouts in the form of 'defence' contracts)

8. Security & Debian: Urgent: New Feed URLs after another WIPO censorship

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Smashing Windows (Moving to GNU/Linux) and Mastodon Time-wasting

   Links for the day

10. Links 07/05/2024: Cheap EVs and Cloudflare Layoffs

    Links for the day

11. [Meme] Communities Governed by Parasitic Elements and Girlfriends (Who Can't Understand Those Communities)

    Karen Sandler and Molly de Blanc present at DebConf18

12. [Meme] You Can't Kill an Idea (or Facts)

    Thankfully, in Western societies, there's still due process, rule of law etc. You don't just hire assassins or imprison critics

13. [Meme] Software in the Public Interest (SPI), Inc, Values Articles of Daniel Pocock at ~$5,000 Each (and Fails to Hide the Facts)

    we are laughing, not grieving

14. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 06, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, May 06, 2024

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. [Meme] About 2,564 Internet Sites Now at Risk of Hostile Takeover by Microsoft-Sponsored Software in the Public Interest (SPI)

    WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster

17. Links 07/05/2024: Burning Plastic Waste, Facebook Censoring Politicians

    Links for the day

18. Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Smashing Windows (Microsoft Losing Users to GNU/Linux), Sixty Years of BASIC

    Links for the day

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