Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Bing Has Run Out of Time and Microsoft Might Dismantle It (Save a Financial Miracle)

   How much more of investors' money is Microsoft willing to throw in the trash?

2. Microsoft is Dying in Africa

   Based on the Central African Republic, which "is around the same size as France"

3. Microsoft Needs to be Banned From Contracts, Including Government Contracts, Not Just for Security Failings But for Criminal Negligence, Corruption, and Fatal Cover-ups

   How many deaths will it take for Microsoft to face real, effective scrutiny rather than kid gloves treatment?

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4. Links 14/06/2024: Microsoft Layoffs in the News Again, East-West Conflict/Tensions Update

   Links for the day

5. Links 14/06/2024: Comments on the Death of Email and Lagrange Commentary

   Links for the day

6. Dutch Government Appoints Microsofters to Combat "OSS Fetishism"

   What corruption looks like

7. Microsoft's Collapse in Africa and Shutdown of Entire 'Development Centre'

   Unlike what Microsoft claimed in face-saving statements

8. [Meme] Not Your Typical IRC Troll and Harasser

   I say, let's punch nazis...

9. GNU/Linux's Journey in Qatar: From 0.1% to Over 3%

   Windows is no longer an important contender there

10. Secret Contracts and Corpses

    The media pretends it's just some generic "IT" issue, but it is not

11. Statement on Antisemitism in Our IRC Network and in Social Control Media

    In an ideal world nobody would have to be banned from IRC

12. Gemini Links 14/06/2024: Ads vs. Content, Why Aliases Are Har

    Links for the day

13. Vista 11 Has Fallen in Switzerland, a Country That is More Microsoft Friendly Than Most of Europe

    GNU/Linux rose to its highest level there in almost half a decade

14. [Meme] Microsoft in Africa

    Are you telling me Windows is now down to 1% 'market share' in some countries?

15. Management of the European Patent Office Misleads Staff on Views of the Office's Staff Committee

    The EPO as a workplace very rapidly deteriorates

16. [Meme] Newer is Worse

    "They say those are New Ways of Working (NWoW); New does not mean better, it is worse"

17. Links 14/06/2024: Violence, Famines, and Montana Has More Cows Than People

    Links for the day

18. Microsoft Telecom Layoffs, Facebook Layoffs in Africa: A Month After Microsoft's Mass Layoffs in Lagos (Nigeria) Facebook/Meta Does the Same and Microsoft is Now Retreating and Quitting an Entire Sector! (Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch)

    Disasters in the making for GAFAM. Money down the drain.

19. Papua New Guinea: GNU/Linux Growing, Windows Down Below 15%

    it seems indisputable there's headway and momentum

20. "Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers)

    Don't be subjected to gaslighting; make your own OPML file

21. Topics That Truly Irritate and Consistently Infuriate the Microsofters (Whenever We Cover These)

    Censoring uncomfortable information is a difficult activity that has its limits, even in Reddit

22. Honduras: Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up

    Valve sees GNU/Linux as bigger than Apple's MacOS

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 13, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 13, 2024

25. LibrePlanet 2024 and the Lost Video/Audio of Talks

    After the event was over someone informed us that due to technical issues they had lost (or failed to acquire) recordings of the talks

26. Choosing Between Options to Outsource to Evades the Best Solution (Self-Hosting)

    Most users don't need this sort of complexity

27. IBM Layoffs at Kyndryl

    This can soon spill over to Red Hat

28. Turkmenistan: GNU/Linux Leaps Past 5% This Month?

    This is how statCounter sees it

29. Watch This Space

    what matters most is not the volume or quantity of publications but their underlying depth and quality

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