Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Red Hat Loves Microsoft Monopoly (and Proprietary Surveillance With Back Doors)

   full posting history in RedHat.com

2. Windows Has Fallen Below 5% in Iraq, GNU/Linux Surged Beyond 7% Based on statCounter's Stats

   Must be something going on!

3. Read "Google Is Not What It Seems" by Julian Assange

   In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department

   New

   and what that means for the future of the internet

4. Julian Assange: Factual Timeline From an Online Friend

   a friend's account

5. Breaking News: Assange Wins Right to Challenge Extradition to the US

   This is great news, but maybe the full legal text will reveal some caveat

6. Brittany Day, Plagiarist in Chief (Chatbot Slinger)

   3 articles in the front page of LXer.com right now are chatbot spew

7. Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Has Resorted to Plagiarism by Chatbots, Flooding the World Wide Web With Fake 'Articles' Wrongly Attributed to Brittany Day

   busted

   New

8. [Video] Just Let Julian Assange Go Back to Australia

   Assange needs to be freed

9. Microsoft Windows Used to Have Nearly 100% in China and Now Google Has 50% (With Android)

   Will China bring about a faster "fall" for Microsoft?

10. The WWW declares the end of Google

    Reprinted with permission from Cyber|Show

11. Gemini Links 20/05/2024: CMSs and Lua "Post to midnight.pub" Script Alternative

    Links for the day

12. Brodie Robertson - Never Criticise The Linux Foundation Expenses (With Transcript)

    Transcript included

13. Links 20/05/2024: Protests and Aggression by Beijing

    Links for the day

14. Can an election campaign succeed without social media accounts?

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Fact check: relation to Julian Assange, founded Wikileaks at University of Melbourne and Arjen Kamphuis

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Gambia: Windows Down to 5% Overall, 50% on Desktops/Laptops

    Windows was measured at 94% in 2015

17. Links 20/05/2024: Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns, RTO as Silent Layoffs

    Links for the day

18. The Issue With Junk Traffic in Geminispace (Gemini Protocol)

    Some people have openly complained that their capsule was getting hammered by bot

19. Peter Eckersley, Laura Smyth & the rushed closure of dial-up Internet in Australian universities

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

20. [Meme] Bullying the Victims

    IBM: crybully of the year 2024

21. Ian.Community Should be Safer From Trademark Censorship

    We wish to discuss this matter very quickly

22. Microsoft and Its Vicious Attack Dogs (Attacking Women or Wives in Particular)

    Sad, pathetic, destructive people

23. Upcoming Series About the Campaign to 'Disappear' the Father of GNU/Linux

    Today we have Julian Assange's fate to focus on

24. A Month From Now Gemini Protocol Turns 5

    June 20

25. Colombia: From Less Than 0.5% to Nearly 4% for GNU/Linux

    it's not limited to this one country

26. Rumour: Well Overdue Red Hat Layoffs to be Announced in About 3 Days

    we know they've planned the layoffs for a while

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 19, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 19, 2024

29. Gemini Links 20/05/2024: Updated Noto Fontpacks and gemfeed2atom

    Links for the day

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