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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft's Windows Falls Below 15% in Tajikistan, According to statCounter
    Android reaches new highs, Windows falls to new lows

    New

  2. Swaziland Has Joined the Single-Digit Windows Club (Less Than 10% Market Share or Less Than 1 in 10 Web Requests)
    Operating System Market Share in Swaziland
  3. The Latest LLM Spam From Brittany Day Disguised as Article About "Linux"
    she can't help it
  4. Politicians' perceived self-interest major factor in online safety failures for children
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  5. Links 06/06/2024: Sciences, Bailouts, and Internet Challenge
    Links for the day
  6. Statement on Debian
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  7. Statement on Daniel Pocock (Election Interference in Ireland by American Firm Funded by Microsoft, SPI)
    trademark shakedown by SPI
  8. Fatalities, insurance premiums and defective (mica) concrete blocks
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  9. Ireland: Protecting children online technology and social media
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. Links 06/06/2024: "You Should Write More" and Why "Consistent Blogging is Hard"
    Links for the day
  11. Tough Year for Windows in the United States Of America
    Seems like a huge problem for Microsoft
  12. Freenode NDA Expiring in a Few Days
    In the coming days people may know more about the past
  13. [Meme] MSN So Far This Week (and Other Sites in Microsoft's Extensive Propaganda Network)
    This is based on a real, verifiable, provable trend, but we'd rather not link to (feed) the misdirection
  14. Sending Debian Developer Daniel Pocock to European Parliament (Voting Day is Tomorrow)
    his only 'offence' is that he spoke about abuse
  15. DDOS Attack Won't Stop Us
    still available, just not so responsive in the morning
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 05, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, June 05, 2024
  18. Morocco: From Almost 100% Windows to 57% Android (Linux)
    This month in Morocco
  19. Edward Brocklesby (ejb) & Debian: Hacking expulsion cover-up in proximity to Oxford and GCHQ
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  20. Gemini Links 06/06/2024: Book Report and Pull Random Gemini Capsules
    Links for the day

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    1349 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    1124 /n/2024/06/05/The_EPO_is_Boiling_the_Staff_According_to_the_Central_Staff_Com.shtml
    1117 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    1004 /n/2024/06/01/Free_Software_is_the_Future_Open_Source_is_Just_Openwashing_Pro.shtml
    877 /n/2024/06/02/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_Below_10_in_Africa_Down_to_About_20_in_.shtml
    854 /n/2024/06/02/Slovenia_Windows_Becomes_Minority_Market_Share_This_Month.shtml

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