Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 16, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Removing the Tumour From IRC

   looking back

2. Windows Sinking Below 13% Market Share in the Island of Jamaica

   Microsoft's decline continues and will mostly likely continue indefinitely in Jamaica and its neighbours

3. Women in Free Software (FOSS) Need Action, Not Mere Words

   the men who are loudest about women's rights are some of the very worst offenders

4. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Minecraft

   These folks should check out Minetest

5. Techrights Statement on Men Who Viciously Attack Women in Free Software

   history shows women will win

   New

6. [Meme] The Free(dom) Software Engineer in European Elections

   “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

7. Vista 11 Was 'Leaked' Exactly 3 Years Ago and This One Picture Says It All

   how 'well' Vista 11 has done

8. A Smokescreen for Brad Smith

   Maybe the key point was to say "Linux is not secure either" or "Windows and Linux are equally vulnerable", so don't bother dumping Microsoft

9. Links 15/06/2024: Microsoft's Intellectual Ventures Attacks Kubernetes With Software Patents, More Layoff Waves

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 15/06/2024: On Lagrange and on YouTube Getting Worse

    Links for the day

11. Edward Brocklesby: hacker received advance notice of zero-day vulnerabilities in MH and NMH email software

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. [Meme] Code Liberates Kids

    Matthias Kirschner: I can't code, but I can write a book

13. In Armenia, Bing is Measured at 0.6%, About Ten Times Less Than Yandex

    Bing will probably get mothballed in the coming years

14. [Meme] A Pack and Pact (Collusion Against Computer Users)

    They never really cared about users, no more than drug dealers care about drug users...

15. GNU/Linux in Azerbaijan: From ~0.1% to 7%

    Azerbaijan is around the same size as Portugal

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 14, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, June 14, 2024

18. [Meme] People Who Cannot Find Gainful Employment Because of Their Poor Behaviour Online (Not the People Who Merely Call Them Out on It)

    Imagine trying to become a lecturer while talking like this in public

19. You Too Would Get Nervous

    countries where Windows is down to 2%

20. [Meme] The Two Phases (and Faces) of Microsofters

    Microsofters: stalk IRC, then troll IRC

21. The 'Nobody Reads Techrights Anyway' Crowd

    Send In the Clowns

22. Books in the Making

    I intend to spend a considerable amount of time explaining what my family and I were subjected to for the 'crime' of promoting/covering Free software

23. Microsoft is Still Losing Malta

    And GNU/Linux is doing well on laptops and desktops

24. Tux Machines: Third Party Impending

    There will be more next week

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