Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 30, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. This War Crime Footage, Nothing Political Per Se, Is What They Made Julian Assange Plead Guilty To (War Criminals Not Convicted, Only Those Who Expose Them)

   Wikileaks' Julian Assange: Exposing the US Military Crimes

2. 20 Years Passed, Let's Go Even Faster Now

   We are hoping to bring more original stories

3. Windows Lost Almost 92% Market Share in Egypt

   From over 99% to just over 7%

4. Android at 90% or More in Chad

   Windows below 2%

5. Julian Assange Might Continue Wikileaks, But Certainly Not Yet (Recovery Time Needed)

   And probably at a symbolic capacity only

   New

6. Links 29/06/2024: Astronauts at Risk, Ukraine Updates

   Links for the day

7. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers

   mostly redhat.com

8. Microsoft is Now Googlebombing or Spamming 'Open Source' and 'Linux' to Promote Proprietary Surveillance, Azure

   Notice the title and the image, what's being promoted etc.

9. Seychelles: GNU/Linux Doing OK

   Seychelles cannot be considered poor

10. Gemini Protocol Isn't Even Remotely "Dead"

    "Lupa knows of 505,000 (half a million!) working Gemini URLs at present, up from about 425,000 this time last year"

11. About 10 New Free Software Foundation (FSF) Members Per Day

    The total changed from 46 to 47 while typing the article

12. Vista 11 Adoption Unusually Low in Germany and It's Going Down, Not Up

    This is not happening only in Germany

13. Kevin Korte on Computers Being Allowed to Make Decisions Based on Cryptic Algorithms and Proprietary/Secret Data

    It uses buzzwords where none are needed

14. [Meme] Garbage In, Garbage Out (linuxsecurity.com)

    It is neither Linux nor security, just chatbot-generated slop

15. Microsoft-Invaded CISA Spreads Anti-Free Software FUD (as If Proprietary Software Has No Memory Safety Issues), Brittany Day Uses Chatbots to Amplify and Permutate the Microsoft FUD

    linuxsecurity.com became an anti-Linux spam site

16. Microsoft Laying Off Staff in an Act of Retaliation and Union-Busting

    retaliatory layoffs at Microsoft

17. Gemini Links 29/06/2024: Content Drowning in 'Goo' and LLM Slop

    Links for the day

18. In Ecuador, GNU/Linux Adoption Surged From Under 1% to Over 4% in About 3 Years

    Not even counting Chromebooks

19. LibrePlanet: Cultivating Backups (of Recordings)

    an appeal to recover some of these talks

20. Microsoft/Windows Machines Are Turned Off (or Windows Deleted/Decommissioned) in Web Servers, as the "Market Share" Collapse Continues

    Taking full history into account, this is a decrease of over 90% in some cases

21. Corwin Brust Hosting Freedom: A Behind-the-scenes Tour With the GNU Savannah Hackers

    "the "smiling faces" behind it."

22. David Wilson: Cultivating a Welcoming Free Software Community That Lasts

    "a feeling of shared ownership for all users."

23. Bringing in 12 Santas and Taking 13 Out (Old Interview With Julian Assange)

    Julian Assange's life inside the Ecuadorian embassy

24. Neil Plotnick on GNU/Linux in the High School Classroom

    uploaded to the LibrePlanet instance of MediaGoblin

25. Asia Appears to be Fastest to Adopt GNU/Linux

    the home of a considerable majority of the world's population

26. Alexandre Oliva's LibrePlanet 2024 Talk About "Software Enshittification"

    in spite of technical difficulties encountered while recording

27. What They Used to Do With Mono They Now Do With Systemd (Lower and Deeper Down Than Userspace)

    Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM

28. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

29. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 28, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, June 28, 2024

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