Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] Community of People to be Exploited, Then Thrown Away, Left Behind or Even Slandered

   Debian.org front page

2. Alexandre Oliva's FSF disposition

   During my recent trip for LibrePlanet, I was fortunate to have, or at least start, long conversations with nearly everyone in FSF staff

3. One More (Failed) Attempt to Deplatform the Sites by Harassing and Threatening Webhosts

   What we're seeing here is a person who abuses the system in Canada at Canadian taxpayers' expense trying to do the same in the UK, at British taxpayers' expense

4. 12 Days Have Passed Since the Edward Brocklesby Revelations and Debian Project Has Said Absolutely Nothing About That

   One must therefore assume they have nothing to say in their defence (covering up severe security failings)

   New

5. Jean-Pierre Giraud, Possible Forgeries & Debian: elections, judgments, trademark already canceled, archaeologist

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Six on the Beach: After Losing Six Continents Microsoft is Losing Oceania Too

   Based on the 6- or 7-continent view of the world

7. Links 17/06/2024: Mass Layoffs Accelerating in Tech, Concerns About Impact of the Net

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 17/06/2024: Hyprland Analysed and No Use for Betrusted

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Can Never Make a Comeback Anymore, the Community is Shutting It Out

   We're relying on the real community, not fake ones or coopted ones

10. The World is Becoming (or Has Already Become) Linux

    An intercontinental success story

11. Georgia: Bing Share Fell by Half Since 'Bing Chat' (LLM Hype), Fell Behind Yandex As Well

    Georgia's situation is interesting

12. [Meme] SPI and 'FSFE': Sponsored by Microsoft to...

    women's instincts do not matter to these strongmen

13. [Meme] Shitburger of an LLM

    IBM and the Hololens

14. Links 17/06/2024: Chatbot Nonsense Thrown Under the Bus (Severe Failure, Pure Hype), How to Finance Free Software 'Hackers'

    Links for the day

15. Debian's Personal Attacks Are Upsetting Women, Too

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

16. Microsoft's Bing is So Irrelevant in Moldova (1%) That Russia's Yandex is About 5 Times Bigger

    How much longer before Microsoft throws in the towel?

17. Yes, You Can

    Unless you live somewhere like Russia...

18. [Meme] Listen to the Experts

    Bill Gates didn't even finish university]

19. Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) and the Front-End Interfaces

    As the Web deteriorates the availability, quality and prevalence of RSS feeds is not improving, to put it mildly

20. Algeria Shows High GNU/Linux and Android Adoption, All-Time High and Almost Three-Quarters of Web Requests

    GNU/Linux was below 3%, now it is above 3%

21. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft-owned GitHub (About 80 Percent of the Staff in India Laid Off)

    It's not just in India

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 16, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 16, 2024

24. Gemini Links 16/06/2024: Scarecrows, Moles, Ham Radio, and No IPs

    Links for the day

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