Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Birthday Over at Tux Machines...

   It brings sadness only to jealous people

2. [Meme] Fake Security If When You Ask Microsoft If It is Safe to Boot Into Linux

   Classic UEFI mindset

   New

3. Links 10/06/2024: Homeownership and The Wall CGI

   Links for the day

4. NotABug.org as Another Cautionary Tale About Outsourcing One'e Code-forge (Relying on Other Parties)

   Not "bashing", just pointing out a pattern

5. Gemini Links 10/06/2024: Planning Gemini Hosting Service and Gemini Table Markup

   Links for the day

6. Revisiting Albania and Neighbouring Countries Where Windows Took the Plunge

   a region of Europe (and some of it part of the EU) where GNU/Linux has decent adoption

7. [Meme] Irish Politicians Who Offer G.A.F.A.M. a Tax Evasion Haven (for Legalised Bribery)

   Still no data on Ireland

8. Featuritis as Threat to Computer Security

   Featuritis explained

9. His Last Tweet (July 2017)

   No report to the police, 'justice' by social control media

10. [Meme] All That Will be Left is a Mountain of Fake Patents and Kangaroo Courts to Enforce/Endorse These

    Can the European Union afford apathy on this blunder?

11. EPO Insiders' Report on Repeal of the Conditions of Employment (CoE) for Interpreters and Award of contract for Healthcare Insurance Administration Services

    the EU is too focused on Putin's Russia to even care about its own corruption

12. When Microsoft Started the Chatbot/LLM Hype ("Bing Chat") Google Had 98% of the Largest African Market, Now It Has nearly 100%

    While we're not arguing that Google Search [sic] and Android will emancipate these people

13. OpenSSH Must be Taken Very Seriously and Not Left for Microsoft/NSA/GCHQ to Handle

    No distro should leave such critical packages at the hands of fake security crackpots

14. Links 10/06/2024: Microsoft's Phil Spencer Asserts that Mass Layoffs Are Growth, Microsoft/Windows/HP Bricking PCs Via ProBook Firmware Updates

    Links for the day

15. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Fell below 2% in Brasil This Month

    Browser Market Share Brazil

16. [Meme] Totally Microsoft

    Even screenshots are "AI" now!

17. Signs of Trouble for Microsoft in Brasil: Vista 11 Down Sharply While GNU/Linux Grows

    Brasil has a huge population, second only to USA in the Americas

18. [Meme] The 'S' in 'GCHQ' Stands for Security

    And the "D" in Debian stands for defamation

19. Jacob Appelbaum wanted SFTP package uploads to Debian

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

20. Another Large Country Where Vista 11 Fell to Usage Levels No Better Than 16 Months Ago

    converted to or replaced by GNU/Linux?

21. Why Microsoft is Grieving Deep Inside

    Microsoft has no clear roadmap other than hype campaigns in Microsoft-sponsored sites

22. Gemini Protocol Turns 5 Exactly 10 Days From Now, Let's Encrypt CA Falls to 7.3% as Over 90% of Capsules Sign Their Own Certificates

    Gemini Protocol officially turns 5 only 10 days from now

23. Links 09/06/2024: Facebook Enabling Online Fraud, Apple Already in Trouble for iOS 18 “Web Eraser” Tool

    Links for the day

24. Microsoft as a Distant Third in Hong Kong

    in Hong Kong, unlike in "proper" China, Google isn't blocked (yet)

25. United Kingdom: Microsoft Crashed Since 'Bing Chat' (LLM/Chatbot Hype), Google Search Rose Almost 3%

    Contrary to what Microsoft-funded media wants people to think

26. Why IBM Bought Red Hat, According to Comments in thelayoff.com

    From this past weekend

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 09, 2024

29. Suicides Don't Move Cases Forward

    The whole thing has only been a total waste of time for everyone, except the unemployed "Lobsta", who turned online harassment against perceived enemies into a hobby that Canadian taxpayers foot the bill for

30. Integrity Fail & Debian Social Contract

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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