Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Julian Assange’s Brother Gabriel Shipton Explains the Logistics of 'Smuggling' Julian Out of the United Kingdom

   a lot of new information and prison stories

2. [Video] Why Wikileaks Publishing War-Related Documents Was Both Important and Justified

   It's important to remember the principle which says privacy is for the powerless, whereas the powerful (like those with the power to kill) deserve not privacy but transparency

3. [Meme] Attacking the "G" in GNOME (Since 2009) Was a Mistake

   Spending 50,000 pounds to sue women of racial minority

4. Difficult Times in GNOME Foundation

   GNOME Foundation is in "crisis management" or "face-saving" or "damage control" mode

   New

5. Links 13/07/2024: Patent Trolls in UK Court of Appeal, Eric Schmidt Continues so Show Womanising at Google

   Links for the day

6. Links 13/07/2024: Not Quite Dead Yet After All and Unfederated E-mail

   Links for the day

7. Holly Million, GNOME Foundation departure after Albanian whistleblower revelations

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

8. [Meme] Like They Got Rid of Molly (and Now Holly)

   Pay over 100,000 dollars a year for someone without any background in tech (to "lead" a tech project)

9. Microsoft Windows Falls to Almost 10% in Palestine (It Was Measured at 100% Just 15 Years Ago)

   quite a big drop

10. Guardianship of the Licence is Not Enough (the Case of Systemd and Microsoft)

    Whether the GPL gets enforced or not, if people adopt lousy software, that will have negative consequences

11. Speaking Out and Spreading the Message of GNU

    Free Software Foundation (FSF) got 112 new members since 2.5 weeks ago

12. 3.5 Years in Gemini

    It's important to speak about and spread the word (about software freedom, BSD, GNU/Linux, patents etc.) in a medium that's strategic and growing

13. [Meme] Whoever in GNOME Decided to Attack the G (GNU), It Was a Foolish Miscalculation

    How could they expect any outcome other than GNOME's own collapse?

14. Windows Down to Unprecedented Low in Czech Republic, Android Rises to New Record

    From 98% in July 2009 (15 years ago) Windows is down to all-time low of 38% and well below Android

15. GNOME Foundation Lost Nearly a Million Dollars in 2 Years, IBM and GAFAM Won't Bail It Out Anymore

    Seems like a suicide mission

16. Google News Has Become a Big Pile of Garbage

    The issue predates chatbots, but these SEO tricks were accelerated somewhat by slop

17. OpenAI and ChatGPT Could Very Well Collapse and Shut Down Later This Year (Huge Losses, Sagging Usage Levels, and Massive Debt)

    we illuminate the suppressed observations that Microsoft-sponsored publishers and cheaply-made slop (LLM spew disguised as "news") try to distract from

18. Links 13/07/2024: TikTok Interferences, YouTube Throttled in Russia

    Links for the day

19. Kathy Lette on Julian Assange Staying at Her Attic, Why His Release Matters So Much, and Jen Robinson Staying Over Yesterday

    They talk a lot about politics, but the segment mentions publishers, including Rushdie

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 12, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, July 12, 2024

22. Microsoft Windows Down to a New Low in Canada (Only a Third)

    Very steep decline a decade ago

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