Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Windows in Åland Islands: From 100% to Less Than Half

   Åland Islands lost the sense of urgency to move to GNU/Linux

2. Not Just Slow News But Also Late News (Julian Assange Landing in Thailand)

   Why did AP take so long (nearly a week) to release these?

3. [Meme] Smart Alec Poettering

   How many Microsofters can the Debian Project withstand?

4. Getting Rid of Microsoft Does Not Go Far Enough

   Microsoft already has many problems. One day Microsoft won't exist anymore. But that does not guarantee users' freedom.

5. Alyssa Rosenzweig's LibrePlanet Talk About Freeing the Apple GPU

   Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.

6. Links 30/06/2024: LLMs Under Fire and Dictatorship of the Old

   Links for the day

7. [Meme] Walking Outside the Guardrails of the Walled Gardens Built by Monopolies

   So-called "advertiser-unfriendly" material was never a problem for Wikileaks

   New

8. 200 This Week

   Monday started with 40 articles/pages and this is #200

9. Press Complicity and Public Apathy All Along Enabled 14 Years of Illegal, Arbitrary Detention and Coercion Into Plea Bargain of Julian Assange on Brink of Death

   They basically blackmailed him into letting the US 'win' the argument

10. At the End Journalism a Crime (If It Involves Accessing or Gaining Access to Documents Marked "Confidential" or "Classified" by Those Looking to Hide Their Misconduct/Crimes)

    At least in the US, especially where the imperialism is at stake

11. Links 30/06/2024: Tensions in Korea and Japan, Criminalisation of Sleeping Outdoors

    Links for the day

12. 100% Slop/Spam From linuxsecurity.com

    This is the kind of stuff that's killing the Web faster

13. Gemini Links 30/06/2024: Murdoch and Ideal OS

    Links for the day

14. In the First 6 Months of 2024 Thailand Moved to GNU/Linux, Not to Windows Vista 11

    maybe users moved from Vista 10 and 11 to GNU/Linux, seeing where Microsoft was heading with forced hardware "upgrades"

15. Eko K. A. Owen, New Outreach and Communications Coordinator for the FSF

    Nice to see many new additions to the FSF's team

16. Microsoft Has Slaves and Enablers, Not Partners

    Obligatory meme too

17. Tobias Platen Covered Freedom-To-Play Games in LibrePlanet 2024

    Freedom-To-Play games using Taler

18. [Meme] Opening a 'Webapp' With 'Only' 4 GB of RAM

    Until 2020 none of my PCs ever had more than 2 GB of RAM

19. Destination 'Five Percent'

    We reckon GNU/Linux can break the 5% barrier some time by the end of this year, even without counting Chromebooks

20. A Crisis of Online Journalism

    Almost a week ago a journalist was forced to plead guilty for an act of journalism

21. Germany One of Many Countries Where Microsoft's Bing Lost Market Share After All That LLM Nonsense (Bing Chat and Further Rebrands/Renames)

    openai.com traffic plunged 60% last month

22. Microsoft’s Latest Antitrust Scrutiny

    4 new stories

23. Microsoft Layoffs, Mass Plagiarism, and More

    outrage included

24. GNU/Linux Climbed 0.25% This Month (in statCounter)

    Around midday on Tuesday we'll start seeing preliminary data for July

25. Ilya Gulko Introduces Pollyanna

    "Pollyanna is a web framework that makes it easy to create your own libre social space, such as a social network or blog."

26. 'FSFE': Underage Labour, GAFAM Fronting, and Identity Theft to Undermine the FSF's Current Fundraiser

    looking to raise funds at the same time as the FSF

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 29, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, June 29, 2024

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