Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Fake Articles About "Linux"

   latest example

2. The Bubble Has Burst. OpenAI.com Traffic Plunges 60% in One Month, Tracker Shows.

   Has Microsoft exhausted places where it can stick/shove chatbot prompts to fake "demand" or "interest"?

3. In Trying to Derail His Campaign, Debian Project Reveals It is Inconsistent in Its Smears Against Pocock

   Can Debian even make up its mind?

4. Software in the GAFAM Interest

   Not a Friend of Freedom

5. Interference in EU Elections and More Censorship Attempts

   Trying to remove accurate information

6. IBM and the Net Holocaust (Trying - and Failing - to Extinguish Entire Domains by Abusing Processes)

   How much money will be spent trying to hide suicide clusters, child labour, modern slavery and so on?

   New

7. British Intelligence, GCHQ, Oxford & Debian conspiracy theories, Edward & Una Brocklesby fact checking

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

8. Tux Machines Anniversary, Then Gemini Protocol Anniversary

   No, not that Google chatbot that's conveniently hijacking the word "Gemini"

9. Ethics Are Not Defined by GAFAM

   they want us to think that ethics means CoC and a CoC is the same as ethics

10. The War on Free Software Reporters - Part V - Death Threats

    adding insult to injury because it was us who had been physically threatened, with allusions to knives and to axes

11. D-Day propaganda & Debian statements on volunteers

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. Party and Running Without a Party (EU)

    EU election results from Ireland will soon be known

13. In Asia, Mozilla Firefox Already Fell to 1% (Below Samsung Internet, Opera, and UC Browser)

    The management of Mozilla has done such an utterly terrible job

14. Threats of Defamation, Physical and Sexual Violence

    The victims won't be silenced

15. Gemini Links 07/06/2024: Botany Automation and OpenBSD From a Linux User's Viewpoint

    Links for the day

16. Links 07/06/2024: OpenAI Employees Openly Express Concerns, Tourists Swim with Endangered Sea Turtles

    Links for the day

17. Firefox is Dying and China's Opera Already Outgrew Mozilla in Many Dozens of Nations

    Let's first examine the story of Paraguay

18. Female Debian Developer: "I Believe Daniel [Pocock] is On the Right Track."

    "Any rate I believe Daniel is on the right track."

19. [Meme] I Didn't Even Like Him! I Broke Up With Him, He Didn't Break Up With Me...

    They are very confused about what Debian Developers are

20. In Mozambique, Microsoft's Windows Has Fallen From 94% to 12%

    In Africa Microsoft's share has fallen to around 10%

21. MEP candidate recordings of Debian intimidation, blackmail and threats

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

22. Open Source Developer Freedoms in liquidation & Debian Suicide Cluster

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

23. Botswana: GNU/Linux Rising Closer to 3% (Windows Down to Quarter of All Web-Connected Devices)

    Looking at Web requests from Botswana, statCounter identifies only a quarter of these as originating from Windows

24. [Meme] Microsoft Poison Pens Against Writers

    To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness

25. After 2 Decades Phoronix Isn't the Same

    Phoronix is no longer the site we used to support and send a lot of traffic to

26. Windows at 10% in Africa, GNU/Linux Adoption in Africa Now Outpaces International Average

    Historically Africa was well behind in terms of GNU/Linux adoption

27. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Tanzania: Flirting With 4% (International Average)

    on United Republic Of Tanzania

28. 16 Years of Transparency Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

    Freenode was embraced by us in the summer of 2008

29. [Meme] You Cannot Silence the Truth

    What kind of person talks like this?

30. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

31. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 06, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 06, 2024

32. Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

33. Debian Project May be Frightened of Being Seen as Connected to GCHQ (or FIVE-EYES at Large)

    This seems like part of a pattern and hardly a coincidence

34. How to Alienate One's Readers for Money

    So they put Microsoft spam in a site about Linux because they get paid to do this...

35. Gemini Links 06/06/2024: Mastodon's Rough Edges and Coding for Oneself

    Links for the day

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