Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 12, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] Being Believed, Not Censored or Defamed

   Daniel Pocock, Zini, and John Sullivan (FSF)

   New

2. Improving Site Navigation for Easier Discovery and Catch-ups

   This site is run by code we wrote ourselves

3. LibrePlanet 2024 Recordings

   Let's hope independent recordings by viewers can help recovery of "lost talks" (recordings)

4. GNU/Linux Reaches 11% Market Share in the United States Of America - an All-Time High

   The United States Of America is where the operating system started (Boston) and where Linus Torvalds works (Portland)

5. Links 11/05/2024: XBox Crisis, Spotify Exodus Continues

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 11/05/2024: Why to Delete GitHub

   Links for the day

7. In Europe, Bing Fell Every Month This Year, Lost a Considerable Share Since "Bing Chat" and All the Chatbot Hype

   Microsoft's Bing has had many layoffs lately

8. Links 11/05/2024: Analysis of the Microsoft Crisis and Backdoor-Looking Bugs

   Links for the day

9. Attacking the Messenger?

   Stack Overflow and LLM licencing

10. Microsoft Fired Loads of Staff in Kenya, Which is Another Large Country Where GNU/Linux Has Grown a Lot

    Microsoft pays Kenyans only 2 dollars an hour for an IT/office job

11. Knowing the True History of Debian, Owing to Irish Debian Developer Daniel Pocock (Currently Running to Become Member of the European Parliament)

    Irish-Australian and scapegoat of a highly dysfunctional 'Debian family'

12. Attacking by Credentials

    Modest people do not demand fancy titles

13. Microsoft Windows Used to Have 99% of the OS Market in Jordan, Now It's Just 13% (Less Than iOS)

    Based on the data of statCounter, GNU/Linux in Jordan climbed from 0.62% in May 2014 to nearly 5% right now

14. More Nations Are Reaching and Exceeding 5% Market Share for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Wants to be Bailed Out Again

    Microsoft is once again reaching out to Biden for a bailout - a subject we'll cover in a video some time this weekend

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 10, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, May 10, 2024

17. [Meme] What Do You Call a Woman Who Does BDS on Free Software? Elana Hamasman.

    Here are some confused thoughts

18. [Meme] Mission Aborted

    Mission Aborted: cancel RMS

19. Taking Things Up a Notch

    we strive/aim towards 15-25 new pages per day, i.e. around 500 per month or 6,000 per year

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