Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Video] LinuxFest Northwest is Letting GAFAM Take Over (and Why It's Hard to Resist)

   Microsoft and LinuxFest Northwest

   New

2. At This Pace (and Rate) It Won't Take Long for Android to Unseat Windows in Russia

   Operating System Market Share Russian Federation

3. [Video] The High Cost of High-Level Tools and High-Level Programming Languages

   Windows and Microsoft-style teaching remain a barrier to simple programming

4. Linux and Linux Foundation Leftovers

   Some more Linux news

5. Africa is Still Android

   Operating System Market Share Africa: May 2024

6. Windows Falls to 10% in Uganda, It Was 94% in 2010

   Microsoft fell from market dominance to (soon) single digit (percent-wise).

7. Grouping Our Archives by Week

   No more 'numbers lottery', the clustering is based on dates

8. Links 14/05/2024: Bounties on Terrible Patents, China Censors Dissidents Internationally via Attack Dogs

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 14/05/2024: Server Failure Swallows rawtext.club

   Links for the day

10. Links 14/05/2024: SoftBank and ARM Chasing Hype, "Why Are You Working?"

    Links for the day

11. Links 14/05/2024: Microsoft Edelman Works for Climate Change Deniers, NATO Draws a Cyber Red Line in Tensions With Russia

    Links for the day

12. Feasibility of Self-Hosting is About More Than Speeds

    Speed helps, but the Internet (Net) is a global, interconnected system that no single person or company or government fully controls

13. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 13, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, May 13, 2024

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. Watching Our Videos Before We Write Articles for Them

    It has long been possible

16. Microsoft is Measured at Lower Than Apple in Niger (Of Course Android Dominates)

    Niger's OS share (as measured by Web sites) is subjected to significant fluctuations because it's not highly connected

17. Refuting the Ludicrous, Laughable Idea I Don't (or Cannot) Code

    I've written code for 30 years

18. [Meme] "Talk is Cheap. Show Me the Code." - Linus Torvalds

    be like Chad

    New

19. Doing the Site From Home (What I Always Wanted to Do)

    Even some of the hosting was done from home (since 2020)

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