Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Chelsea Manning: I Was Careful Not to Disclose Source-Identifying Information (CNN Interview)

   To this date, the US Government cannot name a single person physically harmed by what Wikileaks published

2. Bigger Than Big Apple: How GNU/Linux Rose to 11% in Panama (República de Panamá)

   Even higher than Apple

3. [Meme] Eating Volunteers for Breakfast (Free Coding, Testing, and More)

   Uncle Tom found its slaves for the "Fedora" plantation

4. Debian Needs a Significant Change of Direction and Recognition of Cumulative Errors Made

   Aggregation of cover-up only worsens things (like a chain of lies to cover up an "original lie")

5. Willy Tower Watson (WTW) Crafts Another Fake Staff 'Survey' Whose Objective is Reputation Laundering for the European Patent Office (EPO)

   Over the years the EPO's management wasted money on all sorts of lying firms whose business services basically boil down to "lies with gloss"

   New

6. [Meme] American Judge in Saipan

   "I sentence this dude to 5 years served, for exposing actual crimes?"

7. People Seek Transparency

   Society needs transparency or sunshine, not just "comfortable" (or comforting) headlines

8. [Video/Audio] 12 Minutes of Julian Assange Hearing in US Court in Saipan

   including the birthday greeting towards the end (the judge greeted Assange)

9. What's Killing Search Engines Isn't Chatbots as a Search Replacement But Chatbots as Factories of Chaff (Leveraged for 'Content Farming' With SEO Prompts)

   And some "Linux" sites play a role in this attack against search indices

10. South Korea Has Moved Away From GAFAM - Including Microsoft - Since the LLM Frenzy Started

    Bing went down, not up

11. [Meme] He Always Wins French Elections

    Without even having to run or have French nationality

12. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Added 88 New Members in 2 Weeks

    If everyone gave a little, that would cover the salary of at least one employee there

13. Michael Schultheiss, SPI, and 'Microsoft for Non Profits'

    This is what SPI is dealing with these days

14. What's Growing in the United States This Year is GNU/Linux, Not the Latest Windows

    One might argue this data points to a silent exodus from Windows to GNU/Linux

15. [Video] Bruce Perens Explains How We Shall Combat Openwashing and Exploitation

    The underlying concepts and motivations behind "Post-Open" are worth paying attention to

16. [Meme] Let's Encrypt is Dying in Geminispace (Down to 5%)

    Let's emancipate ourselves... from fake security

17. 5 Days Have Passed and Microsoft Still Refuses to Say How Many People It Laid Off for Independence Day

    Wait, did we say layoffs? Sorry, we meant "steamline the workforce"...

18. [Meme] Willy Tower Watson (WTW) Will 'Greenwash' Your Corrupt Institution (for a Fee)

    Not just environmental greenwashing

19. GNU/Linux 'Market Share' Estimates Continue to Surge, Soon Measured at 5% by Rounding Up, 16% in India (Not Including Chromebooks)

    It climbed by about 0.5% in half a month or so

20. Links 07/07/2024: Bruce Bastian Dies and Escalations in Korea Again

    Links for the day

21. Difficult to Tell How Many People in North Korea Use GNU/Linux

    It seems unlikely that whatever they use will guard users' privacy

22. [Meme] 3 Years Later Illegal EPO Surveillance (Powered by Microsoft) Carries on, Violating Not Only Employees' Rights But Also Applicants'

    it is considered OK to break the law at the EPO

23. Russian Web Server

    Those official sites contain loads of trackers and other surveillance

24. Windows Now Measured at Less Than 5% "Market Share" in 16 Nations, Android Exceeds 70% in 41 Nations

    People still adopt mobile computing (miniature)

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 07, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, July 07, 2024

27. OSI is Microsoft Front Group, Sponsored by Microsoft

    They're hardly even good at pretending anymore!

28. The World of "Linux", According to Microsoft

    You look for Linux news and this is what you get instead

29. Noam Chomsky Apparently Does Not Understand or Care for Software Freedom

    Looking a decade back

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