Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Streaming in a Few Minutes: Julian Assange Press Conference

   They test the microphone now.

2. Debian Project Still Has a Lot of Explaining to Do...

   Assange was actually a Debian Developer

   New

3. Northern Mariana Islands May Have Been Taken Over by Debian!!

   The place is strategic for military reasons (like a giant aircraft carrier with running water)

4. Birthday With His Family

   Julian Assange was born 3 July 1971

5. Julian Assange on Cryptographically-deniable Block Storage Device (aka Marutukku)

   An oldie

6. Links 26/06/2024: US State Department Controlling YouTube, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hype on the Brink as "Losses Balloon"

   Links for the day

7. GNU/Linux Back Above 4% (in statCounter)

   happened minutes or a few hours ago

8. Free Assange! (by Alexandre Oliva)

   Reprinted with permission from Alexandre Oliva

9. Julian Assange & Debian: was he a developer?

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Links 26/06/2024: More on Hey Hi (AI) Bubble Fading, RIAA Steps in

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 26/06/2024: UAF Botanical Garden and YouTube Workarounds

    Links for the day

12. [Video] Julian Assange Arrives Safely in Australia

    even the person on the air cried

13. [Meme] When Ian (of Debian) Was Still Alive

    I wasn't always a Debian Developer...

14. "Julian Assange is Free"

    Published ~34 minutes ago

15. GNU/Linux Userbase Surging in Iceland

    Maybe there's something big going on, like people deleting Vista 11 in droves and installing GNU/Linux instead

16. Jennifer Robinson: "After 14 years of legal battles, Julian Assange can go home a free man”

    She explains the implications for the general freedom of the press

17. Judge: Assange Leaves Court 'A Free Man'

    on his way to Australia now

18. Julian Assange verdict: guilty, not guilty or blackmailed

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

19. 12 Months Ago the FSF Said It Would Issue a Statement on IBM Taking RHEL Proprietary

    Statement never happened

20. Microsoft's Bing Fall From 2.6% Before LLM Hype to Just 0.79% Right Now in Russia

    statCounter's data

21. [Meme] Speaking Truth to Power (Still Easier in the West Than in Russia/BRIC)

    Different people, different outcomes

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 25, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 25, 2024

24. The Plot to Silence (or Deplatform) Techrights

    This past month I've been spending time working on the text of an online publication

25. [Meme] Julian Assange's Lawyers Need to Ensure Assange Maintains Freedom to Publish

    Let's ensure he can continue to publish

26. "Conviction for a Crime he Did Not Commit," Said Jennifer Robinson

    Robinson is the kind of woman accomplisher we should look up to

27. Trying to Make Blogs (Independent and Mostly Decentralised Platforms) What Comes After Social Control Media

    Social Control Networks 'stole the thunder' of blogs, but can we get back to blogs?

28. Julian Assange Has Landed

    There will probably be some press interviews some time this month or next month

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