Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] IBM's Brand of Diversity and Inclusion: You Can't Install GNU/Linux If You Are Blind

   Maybe Wayland is a lot more important to them than Diversity and Inclusion

2. [Meme] Wayland at Every Cost

   Fedora DEI and Wayland

3. Audio: Julian Assange Tells US Judge That Espionage Act and First Amendment Contradict One Another, But Pleads Guilty (to Save His Life)

   Have a listen to Julian Assange and the judge in Saipan

4. How to Help Pay Assange Debt (£520,000 Plane Bill and Beyond)

   Budget travel was not permitted

5. Wikipedia Co-Founder (Not Wales) Expresses Support for Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, Says Assange Will Probably Continue

   probably exactly the sort of thing that the US prosecutors did not want

   New

6. Links 01/07/2024: Catchup With Science and War in Ukraine

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 01/07/2024: New ICQ and Demise of 'Agile' Cargo Cult

   Links for the day

8. Wikileaks Actually Helped Save the Planet

   Without leaks, we'd not see the coordination of climate science deniers

9. Anti-Assange Provocations in Our IRC Network

   We suspect it is the Microsofters, using a fresh batch of aliases

10. ChromeOS+GNU/Linux in Europe in First Half of 2024 (Windows Gradually Drowning)

    We expect the latest measures to be even higher tomorrow, hopefully above 6%

11. Elon Musk Killed Not Only the Twitter Bird, He Also Killed the Platform

    Today begins the second half of 2024 (2024 H2)

12. RMS: "I am very glad for Assange for being out of prison, but I am alarmed that the danger of being treated similarly will face other journalists and publishers in the future"

    what RMS said about the release of Julian Assange

13. What Richard Stallman (RMS) Thinks of Paying With Cash or 'Cashless Society'

    RMS: Don't be tracked

14. No Discrimination Allowed Against People Who Pay With Cash

    City of Philadelphia on cash

15. Anthony Albanes: Assange's "arrival home ends a long running legal process. [...] We'll have meetings about AUKUS and other arrangements over coming days as well."

    Official transcript

16. 4.04 Linux Not Found, No Such Agency (NSA)

    The CoCs never failed Microsoft

17. Julian Assange Turns 53 in a Couple of Days, Give Him the Gift of Freedom From Debt

    Julian Assange turns 53 on Wednesday

18. IBM's Abandonment of Disabled People (Orca and Wayland Incompatibility) Has Basically Killed Their "DEI" Channel (Room)

    The "DEI" channel (Matrix room) as been silent for 4 days

19. [Meme] Just Because You Throw Money at Lawyers Doesn't Mean You'll Win

    Welcome to the second half of 2024

20. Paulo Henrique Santana (Collabora) on the Debian Brazil Community

    There was similar material in DebConf22

21. Making the Wikileaks Site More Active Again (and Gradually Exiting "X" or Other Social Control Media)

    As soon as Assange got kidnapped the Wikileaks Web site reached a near-standstill

22. Marco Calegaro on Hacking Art Into a Community

    talk by Marco Calegaro

23. Links 01/07/2024: Chokecherry Leaf and Agile Manifesto

    Links for the day

24. Johannes Åsgård on Making the Raspberry Pi More Free With librerpi

    Johannes (also known as dolphinana)

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 30, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 30, 2024

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