Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Windows Down to 23% in Spain

   the rate of change is noteworthy

2. Truth is Always Truth

   Desperate efforts to suppress the truth resulted in even worse chaos and some people are going to pay for it

3. GNOME Foundation Welcomes Dolly

   It didn't work out with Molly and Holly

4. A Response to Bill Maher's Senseless Attacks on Julian Assange and Wikileaks

   published a few hours ago

5. The List of Sites or Sources for Linux News is Getting Shorter Over Time (Despite GNU and Linux Steadily Growing in Usage)

   A lack of publishing begets lack of educated, informed population (a return to Dark Ages where rulers leverage mass ignorance)

   New

6. Debian History Harassment & Abuse culture evolution

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. [Meme] It Is Not About Empowerment, It's About Optics for Bigots and Businessmen

   Truth hurts

8. Android Surges to New Highs in Georgia, Windows Plunges to 30% (It Was 99% in 2012)

   Until 2012 almost all Web requests there came from Windows

9. Another Casualty of the 'GAI' Ponzi Scheme: Most of the News Cycle and News Sites

   accelerated death of journalism

10. Empowering Predators Who Fancy Exercising Control Over Women (Using Corporate Money)

    Remember this when Google talks about diversity, women etc.

11. GNU/Linux Continues Its Rapid Growth in July, Today We Look at Belgium

    Again, a word of caution: statCounter isn't a perfect yardstick

12. Links 14/07/2024: Goldman Sachs Says 'Advanced' or 'Generative' Hey Hi (AI) is Just Hype, Thoughts on Negatives

    Links for the day

13. Links 14/07/2024: Perils for AI PC Hype Train, Further Attacks on Freedom of the Press

    Links for the day

14. The Number of Web Servers Has Gone Down

    Cloud fatigue deux?

15. [Meme] GNOME Foundation's Relationship With Women

    Lots more coming soon, so stay tuned

16. The Smugness of "I'm a Journalist"

    Attacking women for expressing their opinions (for example, about the abuse they received) isn't unprecedented

17. It Takes No Courage to Become Another Corporate Stooge

    transition to spam

18. Why Techrights Has Just Programmatically Blacklisted ZDNet

    Even their "Linux" writers are AWOL

19. Gemini Links 14/07/2024: The Stress of 24/7 Notifications and FOSS tools for Sipeed Tang Nano 1K

    Links for the day

20. Windows Already Down to 10% in Lao (It was 96% a Decade and a Half Ago), Vista 11 Adoption Has Stalled

    And GNU/Linux is topping a 1-year high in Loa

21. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 13, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, July 13, 2024

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-08 to 2024-07-14

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    2037	/n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1885	/n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1577	/n/2024/07/10/Apple_s_Main_Competition_Isn_t_Microsoft_But_Low_Cost_Chromeboo.shtml
    1515	/n/2024/07/08/5_Days_Have_Passed_and_Microsoft_Still_Refuses_to_Say_How_Many_.shtml
    1122	/n/2024/07/13/Holly_Million_GNOME_Foundation_departure_after_Albanian_whistle.shtml
    1061	/n/2024/07/12/EPO_Staff_Representatives_Say_It_Has_Gotten_Very_Hard_to_Get_Pr.shtml