Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Ireland Last to Report Election Results

   Daniel Pocock's involvement in Australian politics goes back to his university days

2. Never Sleeps, Never Slumbers

   We're going to try to improve not just in quantity but also in quality

3. EPO Has Gotten So Bad That Workers Need to Ask to be Allocated a Desk (at Work)

   Wow!!!! An “allocated workplace”!!

   New

4. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: The Rodent Revolution and Adding Twisty Puzzles

   Links for the day

5. Links 12/06/2024: Ukraine War Updates and Many Patents Being Subjected to Squashing Bounties

   Links for the day

6. [Meme] The Purpose of Life is to Find a Desk

   dogs have desks

7. Tux Machines Parties Going Well Do Far

   Cross-posted from Tux Machines

8. In Many Countries, Both Large and Small, Vista 11 is Losing Market Share (Despite New PCs Coming Preloaded With It)

   One need not even consider large nations in isolation

9. By "Going Public" the Raspberry Pi Ensures It'll No Longer Serve the Public

   It'll be owned and controlled by whatever people wish to control it

10. Dave Wreski Also Plays the Bot Game (Chatbot) at LinuxSecurity to Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"

    How much longer can they fool search engines (SEO) and readers?

11. [Meme] Indisputable Success

    MICROSOFT buys shares of MICROSOFT

12. Links 12/06/2024: 'Hey Hi' (AI) Bubble Imploding Already, Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI

    Links for the day

13. Links 11/06/2024: Floods in Germany and Brazil, Political Violence

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: Sketching Plants, OpenBSD Pubnix

    Links for the day

15. "2025 the year of Linux on the Desktop"

    Charlie Stross quote

16. In Bahrain, Historically Low on GNU/Linux Adoption, Things Change for the Better

    They have some people who understand Free software

17. Daniel Pocock Received Twice as Many Votes as Andreas Tille (Debian Project Leader After 2024 Election)

    From the media yesterday...

18. Debian is Built by Hundreds of Volunteers and 524 Irish People Voted for Daniel Pocock

    524 in that area went to the polling station to vote Daniel Pocock (Ind)

19. [Meme] RMS is 'Too Old', Says Company Run by a Person 5 Years His Junior (Ginni Rometty) and 10 Years His Junior (Arvind Krishna)

    Never again?

20. [Meme] Women in Computer Science

    Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace etc.

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 11, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 11, 2024

23. Togo: GNU/Linux Growing Fast This Year, Now Measured at 6%

    Sending Bill Gates with a suitcase to bribe African officials isn't enough anymore

24. Free Software Projects Need to Chase Away Men Who Attack Women Rather Than The Women Who Complain

    A just society holds people accountable rather than covers up such blunders

25. Improving the Image of Women in Free Software by Hiring and Promoting the Proficient Ones

    Million's shaman background isn't the problem, or even the superstitious ghost-chasing. The problem is that she has absolutely no background in Free software.

26. They Say Cash is King

    People who value their freedom will pay with cash any time they can

27. 'Team Microsoft' Wants to Leverage Our Popularity as a Weapon Against Us

    In the past 2 days we published 64 articles and served over a million HTTP/S requests

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