Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Emma Irwin, from Mozilla to Microsoft & Debian harassment rumors: the hidden report into Open Labs Hackerspace, Albania

   Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

2. Let's Encrypt in a Freefall in Geminispace (More Capsules 'Get' It)

   Getting a "cert" from a CA says nothing about legitimacy; any malicious site or malware author can get a 'free' one these days. It's like 'Trophy Of Participation' (where merely attending guarantees an award).

3. Anti-Linux Sites, Powered by Microsoft to Generate False Text Under a Domain Like LinuxSecurity.com

   They need to be named and shamed for doing this

4. Pop Weekend in Schagen, Netherlands & Debian Day

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. [Video/Audio] John Shipton's Speech at Julian Assange's (His Son's) Birthday Last Week

   We assume someone who was at the event uploaded the recording of this speech (Julian Assange was not there)

6. In Brunei and Malaysia GNU/Linux Gains Some More, All-Time High Approached in Indonesia

   Further gains in southeast Asia are more of the norm these days

   New

7. IBM (Red Hat) is Burning Away Its Investment in GNU and Linux

   IBM will have nothing left but smoke

8. Statement on Daniel Pocock is Free Publicity for Daniel Pocock (Streisand Effect)

   Since April when a new Debian Project Leader was elected...

9. Links 10/07/2024: War, Environment, and End of ICQ

   Links for the day

10. What Microsoft Hopes Nobody Noticed During Independence Day Week/Weekend

    Microsoft violated California's Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act

11. Gemini Links 10/07/2024: Recalling St.GIGA, smol.pub Tricks

    Links for the day

12. Red Hat Developer (developers.redhat.com), Brought to You by Microsoft Staff to Promote Microsoft Proprietary Software That Doesn't Run on GNU/Linux

    Yesterday at redhat.com

13. OSI Blog Posts From Salaried Microsoft Writers, Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software and GPL-Violating Code Prison

    OSI attacking its very own (original) mission

14. Apple's Main Competition Isn't Microsoft But Low-Cost Chromebooks and GNU/Linux Distros

    Case of Dominica

15. [Meme] Reporting Crimes to the Police, to the Public, to the Media

    people who are committing crimes try to accuse those who expose them as the "real" criminals

16. Microsoft Has Already Lost the Cash Cow in Jamaica

    we're looking at around 7% for GNU/Linux

17. [Meme] Then They Call Their Volunteers 'Fascists' (or Even Worse Labels)

    They want the public to think that people who resigned in protest were in fact "expelled" and that moreover they are "conservative" or something to that effect

18. Sven Luther & Debian forged expulsion after resignation, now with Wind River Software, DebConf24 platinum sponsor

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

19. IBM/Red Hat Racism and Imperialism: Not a New Problem

    Especially in that region

20. In Cuba, Android Surges to New Records, Only About 3% of Web Users Are on Vista 11

    only about 15% are traced back to Windows

21. Colombia: Windows Falls to All-Time Low (26%)

    We might be looking at a community of over 1 million GNU/Linux users in that one country

22. Microsoft "are still in their Extend phase and have been for some time. They know how to play the long game. It's anyone's guess when their Extinguish phase will begin."

    It's reassuring to see recognition of the threat

23. Links 10/07/2024: Microsoft Burns Users of Office 365 connectors in Teams

    Links for the day

24. [Meme] War is Peace and Antitrust Means Trust

    Checking if Microsoft 'trusts' your OS is the same as security???

25. [Video] The Fake Security Complex (and Why You Should Not Trust Canonical)

    "tech world" is full of fake security

26. Egypt (Population 115 Million) Climbing Towards 7% GNU/Linux Usage, Says statCounter

    Egypt is one of Africa's largest populations

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 09, 2024

29. Debian harassment: verbal and textual references to abuse every bit as bad as deepfake and AI generated images of women

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

30. Six Percent of Maharlika

    Microsoft has not been getting good news there in recent years

31. [Meme] When You Do Mass Layoffs in the United States a Day Before July 4th (Independence Day)

    Microsoft still hasn't said how many people it fired

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