Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 18, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Daniel Pocock: "I've Gone to Some Lengths to Demonstrate How Corporate Bad Actors Have Used Amateur-hour Codes of Conduct to Push Volunteers Into Modern Slavery"

   "As David explains, the Codes of Conduct should work the other way around to regulate the poor behavior of corporations who have been far too close to the Debian Suicide Cluster."

   New

2. Microsoft-Connected Sites Trying to Shift Attention Away From Microsoft's Megebreach Only Days Before Important If Not Unprecedented Grilling by the US Government?

   Why does the mainstream media not entertain the possibility a lot of these talking points are directed out of Redmond?

3. [Meme] UEFI 'Secure' Boot Boiling Frog

   UEFI 'Secure' Boot: You can just ignore it. You can just turn it off. You can hack on it as a workaround. Just use Windows dammit!

4. The Market Wants to Delete Windows and Install GNU/Linux, UEFI 'Secure' Boot Must Go!

   To be very clear, this has nothing to do with security and those who insist that it is have absolutely no credentials

5. In the United States Of America the Estimated Share of Google Search Grew After Microsoft's Chatbot Hype (Which Coincided With Mass Layoffs at Bing)

   Microsoft's chatbot hype started in late 2022

6. Techrights Will Categorically Object to Any Attempts to Deny Its Right to Publish Informative, Factual Material

   we'll continue to publish about 20 pages per day while challenging censorship attempts

7. Links 17/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, More YouTube Censorship

   Links for the day

8. YouTube Progresses to the Next Level

   YouTube is a ticking time bomb

9. Journalists and Human Rights Groups Back Julian Assange Ahead of Monday's Likely Very Final Decision

   From the past 24 hours...

10. [Meme] George Washington and the Bill of Rights

    Centuries have passed since the days of George Washington, but the principles are still the same

11. Video of Richard Stallman's Talk From Four Weeks Ago

    2-hour video of Richard Stallman speaking less than a month ago

12. statCounter Says Twitter/X Share in Russia Fell From 23% to 2.3% in 3 Years

    it seems like YouTube gained a lot

13. Journalist Who Won Awards for His Coverage of the Julian Assange Ordeals Excluded and Denied Access to Final Hearing

    One can speculate about the true reason/s

14. Richard Stallman's Talk, Scheduled for Two Days Ago, Was Not Canceled But Really Delayed

    American in Paris

15. 3 More Weeks for Daniel Pocock's Campaign to Win a Seat in European Parliament Elections

    Friday 3 weeks from now is polling day

16. Microsoft Should Have Been Fined and Sanctioned Over UEFI 'Lockout' (Locking GNU/Linux Out of New PCs)

    Why did that not happen?

17. Gemini Links 16/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, Cash Issues

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 16, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 16, 2024

20. Ex-Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Did Not Retire, He Just Left IBM/Red Hat a Month Ago (Ahead of Layoff Speculations)

    Rather than retire he took a similar position at another company

21. Linux.com Made Its First 'Article' in Over and Month, It Was 10 Words in Total, and It's Not About Linux

    play some 'webapp' and maybe get some digital 'certificate' for a meme like 'clown computing'

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