Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 19, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Australia: Bing Lost Market Share Since the LLM Hype ("Bing Chat")

   Google rose, Bing went down

2. [Meme] Canonical Has Basically Become Novell II

   Today's Canonical...

3. [Meme] The Doyen and the Colonel

   EPO continues to prioritise lawbreaking over knowledge

4. Microsoft Poetterix is Work in Progress

   Linux's New DRM Panic 'Blue Screen of Death' In Action

   New

5. Microsoft Windows is Being Abandoned in the UK, Relative to Other Platforms (New All-Time Lows)

   Windows at new lows

6. Links 18/06/2024: More Executives Leave Microsoft, Attacks on the Press in Russia and 'Exile'

   Links for the day

7. [Meme] Always Livecasting

   Wait Till Systemd-Recall

8. Gemini Links 18/06/2024: Unconscious Consumption and Firewall Autoban

   Links for the day

9. While Everyone is Furious at Vista 11 (Over TPM, Recall and Other Malicious 'Features') Canonical is Selling It to People

   So the only thing Canonical says about Windows is that you should give it a try?

10. Links 18/06/2024: Adobe and Internet Archive in Trouble

    Links for the day

11. Peter Duffy Explains SystemD

    Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!

12. EPO Union Action: Next Week SUEPO The Hague and SUEPO Munich Talk About New Pension Scheme (NPS) and Salary Savings Plan (SSP)

    So there are basically 32 days left for more people to intervene

13. [Meme] Wait Till Systemd-Recall

    The only thing Linux still needs is a forensics backdoor

14. GNU/Linux Up This Month in India (or Why Famous Criminal Bill Gates Keeps Visiting Modi)

    truth tends to catch up with people

15. 24/7 Work Discipline

    it's not so much about how much (or how long) one works, it's about how one works and whether one feels comfortable doing it

16. Adamant Conformism is an Enemy of Science

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 17, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, June 17, 2024

19. Links 18/06/2024: Further Mass Layoffs and Gemini Leftovers

    Links for the day

20. At IBM, "Brownnosing is the Norm."

    Many of these comments are from IBM insiders

21. Myanmar/Burma: Google Gains One Percent, Microsoft Loses One Percent Since the LLM Hype ('Bing Chat')

    it's not hard to understand LLMs didn't replace real search and didn't replace Google, either

22. [Meme] KISS, not SAAS

    Gemini Protocol turns 5 in exactly 2 days

23. Hostageware: The Threat of Clown Computing (or 'SaaS', Another Misnomer or Buzzword) to Computer Users Everywhere

    This problem isn't limited to Free software adopters

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