Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Only About 1 in 8 Russian Windows Users is Using Vista 11

   it looks like over the past 12 months Vista 11 hardly grew and it remains very low at around 12% of Windows usage in Russia

2. "I Hated Working at IBM. They Were the Most Unfriendly People."

   Don't forget what Watson the son did to a poor woman on a plane

3. Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Taking the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to an International Tribunal (ILOAT)

   SUEPO wants more EPO staff to participate in collective action

   New

4. Links 28/06/2024: Kangaroo Courts and Patents Spam, EFF Still Fighting for CPC's TikTok (a Digital Weapon)

   Links for the day

5. Links 28/06/2024: Overton window and Polarization

   Links for the day

6. [Meme] In 50 Years...

   Microsoft's Vista 11 will take 50 years to be fully adopted

7. Links 28/06/2024: More Attacks on the Press, More Censorship in Russia

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 28/06/2024: Christmas Prematurely, Self-hosting

   Links for the day

9. IBM: So Long, Suckers. Your Free OS is Now Proprietary. Pay IBM or Else.

   almost exactly a year after turning RHEL into proprietary software

10. Vista 11 is Doomed and Despite Lack of Adoption Microsoft Already Speaks of Vapourware ("12")

    "Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures."

11. ChromeOS Reaches Highest Share in Years at the World's Most Populous Nation, Windows Now at All-Time Low of 13%

    We're talking about India today

12. [Video] "It Is Incredible That Julian Assange Survives"

    There was a positive and mutual relationship between Wikileaks and Dr Jill Stein

13. Never Assume That Because the Law Exists the Powerful Will Follow the Law

    Who's going to hold them accountable now?

14. Nearly a Month Has Passed and Nobody at the Debian Project Even Attempted to Explain What Seems Like Back-dooring of Debian (and Hundreds of Distros That Are Debian-Derived)

    I can cynically guess that only matters when a user with a Chinese name does it

15. [Video] Julian Assange Explains Wikileaks' Logistics

    predating indefinite detention

16. IBM Was Never the "Good Guy", Just a Self-Serving and Opportunistic Money- and Power-Hungry Monopolist, Living Off of Taxpayers' Money (Government Contracts)

    The Nazi Party of Germany was its second-biggest client at one point and now it's looking to profit from the work of slaves

17. State of the News (and Depletion of Journalism Online, Not Just Offline)

    Newspapers are not coming back and the Web is not coming back either

18. GNU/Linux Consolidates in North America

    Android rising a lot this year, too

19. [Meme] More Monopolies Granted While Patent Examiners Die (Overworking for Less Compensation)

    Work more; Get less

20. Stella Assange and the Legal Team Speak to the Media a Day After WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrives in Australia

    Published yesterday by a number of mainstream publishers

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 27, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 27, 2024

23. RIP Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Red Hat death

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-06-22 to 2024-06-28

    2422	/n/2024/06/24/Microsoft_By_Default_Destroy_Linux.shtml
    1870	/n/2024/06/24/Torvalds_Number_Two_Quit_Linux_a_Decade_Ago_and_Has_Since_Then_.shtml
    1254	/n/2024/06/06/Edward_Brocklesby_ejb_Debian_Hacking_expulsion_cover_up_in_prox.shtml
    889	/n/2024/06/25/Sheriff_of_Cork_Debian_Edward_Brocklesby_or_Brockelsby_Street_c.shtml
    866	/n/2024/06/27/John_Gilmore_Cofounder_of_the_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Jo.shtml