Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 28, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Delayed Series About Dr. Richard Stallman

   A lot of the attacks on him boil down to petty things

2. A 3-Year Campaign to Coerce/Intimidate Us Into Censorship: Targeting Several Webhosts (in Collaboration and Conjunction With Mentally-Ill Flunkies)

   Every attempt to nuke the current hosting failed, but it's still worth noting

3. Google: We Don't Have Source Diversity, But We Have Chatbot Spew in Place of Sources (and It's Not Even Accurate)

   Search engines and news search never looked this bad...

4. [Meme] Security is Not a Failure to Boot (or Illusion of Security Due to 'Unknown' System)

   Red Hat is largely responsible for this mess

5. What is Secure Boot?

   Security means the user feels safe and secure - i.e. confident that the machine would continue to work following a reboot or a system upgrade (or kernel upgrade)

6. Links 27/05/2024: Chatbots Generate Hateful Output, TPM Performance Scrutinised

   Links for the day

7. David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Realises What He Should Have Decades Ago

   seeing that DHH is moving away from Apple is kind of a big deal

   New

8. [Meme] Elephant in the Asian Room

   With ChromeOS included GNU/Linux is at 6% across Asia

9. GNU/Linux in Bangladesh Up From 0.5% to Over 4% (Windows Slid From 95% to 18%)

   Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely-populated countries

10. Links 27/05/2024: One Month Left for ICQ, More Openwashing Highlighted

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 27/05/2024: Back to GNU/Linux, Librem 5 Assessed

    Links for the day

12. StatCounter (or statCounter) Has Mostly Recovered From a Day's Downtime (Malfunction)

    Some of the material we've published based on the statCounter datasets truly annoys Microsofters

13. StatCounter (or statCounter) Has Been Broken for Nearly 24 Hours. Who Benefits? Microsoft.

    StatCounter is broken right now and has been broken for nearly 24 hours already

14. Reinvigorating the Voice of GNU/Linux Users (Not Companies Whose Chiefs Don't Even Use GNU/Linux!)

    Scott Ruecker has just announced his return

15. "Tech" in the Context of Even Bigger Issues

    "Tech" (or technology) activism is important; but there's a bigger picture

16. A Decade of In-Depth Coverage of Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO)

    The world needs transparency and sunlight

17. Hopefully Not Sunset for StatCounter

    We hope that StatCounter will be back soon.

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 26, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 26, 2024

20. Links 27/05/2024: Self-Publishing, Patent Monopolies, and Armed Conflicts

    Links for the day

21. Gemini Links 27/05/2024: Tethering Connection and PFAs

    Links for the day

22. Imagine Canada Enabling Rapists to Harass Their (Rape) Victims

    This analogy is applicable because abusers are empowered against the abused

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