Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The Campaign to 'End' Richard Stallman - Part II - Scaring People Who Produce Videos in Support of Stallman

   There are allegations of threats, defamation, and censorship

   New

2. A 3-Year Campaign to Coerce/Intimidate Us Into Censorship: Targeting My Wife

   In my view, it is a form of overt sexism

3. [Chart] Chromebooks in Micronesia Grew at the Expense of Microsoft Windows

   As of today...

4. Linus Torvalds Mocked "Cloud Native" in His Latest Talk (Arguing It's Just Hype), 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Chooses Proprietary Software to Query Its Adopters

   The name "Linux" is overused, abused, even grossly misused

5. Links 29/05/2024: More Arrests of Regime Critics and Hate Crimes

   Links for the day

6. Brittany Day (linuxsecurity.com) Now Leverages Microsoft Chatbots to Promote Microsoft Propaganda Disguised as "Linux"

   What Brittany Day does is an attack both on the Web and on Linux

7. [Meme] Don't Trust Users to Boot Their Own PCs?

   UEFI 'secure' boot

8. Links 29/05/2024: Hack The Box, Why I Left Healthcare, and Chatbots as Health Risk

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 29/05/2024: BESM Retro Second Edition and Itanium Day

   Links for the day

10. Azerbaijan: Microsoft Falls From 99.5% to Almost Nothing or Less Than 20% (Windows Down Sharply, GNU/Linux Surges)

    Based on statSounter

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 28, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 28, 2024

13. The Campaign to 'End' Richard Stallman - Part I - Two Canceled Talks in a Row?

    RMS has left Europe, so the concept of "delayed" talk is facetious or deeply cynical

14. An "Efficient Windows 11 Experience" is Removing a Text Editor (Less than 5 Megabytes in Size) and Adding Chatbots That Require a New PC/Datacentre

    Vista 11 24H2 update removes WordPad

15. On Desktops/Laptops in Andorra Windows Fell to Less Than Half, 20% If One Counts Mobile as Well

    And this is a European country

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