Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Gratis But Not Free as in Freedom: How Let's Encrypt is Dying in Geminispace

   Let's Encrypt is somewhat of a dying breed where the misguided CA model is shunned

2. The World Wide Web Has Been Rotting for Years (Quality, Accuracy, and Depth Consistently Decreasing)

   In the past people said that the Web had both "good" and "bad" and that the good outweighed the bad

3. Bing Was at 2.6% in Russia When LLM Hype Started. Now It's Down to 0.8% (for 3 Months in a Row Already)

   The sharp fall of Bing may mean that exiting the Russian market won't matter to anybody

4. Djibouti Enters the Windows "10% Club" (Windows Was 99% in 2010)

   In Africa in general Microsoft lost control

5. [Video] Boston Area Assange Defense (Yesterday)

   It was published only hours ago

   New

6. Android Rises to New Highs of Almost 80% in Cameroon

   How many dozens of nations will see Windows at under 10% this coming winter?

7. Backlash and Negative Press After Microsoft Tells Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) People to DIE

   Follow-up stories

8. Links 16/07/2024: TikTok Ban in Europe and Yandex Split

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 16/07/2024: On Packrafting and on Trump Shot

   Links for the day

10. [Meme] Firefox Users Who Think They Know Better Than Mozilla

    Enjoy Firebook

11. Firefox Used to Have About Half the Market in Switzerland, But It Doesn't Stand a Chance Anymore (Chrome Surging This Summer)

    Mozilla has managed to alienate some of the biggest fans of Firefox

12. Microsoft's Biggest Losses Are in Europe This Summer

    Microsoft's ability to milk a relatively rich Europe is fast diminishing

13. How to Make Software Suck and Discriminate Against People at the Same Time

    ageism glorified

14. [Meme] Microsoft Seems to be Failing to Comply With WARN Act (by Refusing to Announce Mass Layoffs as They Happen)

    since when does Microsoft obey the law anyway?

15. Microsoft Layoffs Are Still Too Frequent to Keep Abreast of and Properly (or Exhaustively) Classify

    The "HR" department knows what's happening, but whistleblowers from there are rare

16. Bahamas Joined the "5% Windows" Club

    statCounter only traces back about 1 in 20 Web requests to Windows

17. Links 16/07/2024: Salesforce Layoffs and Microsoft's DMARC Fail

    Links for the day

18. Possibly Worse Than Bribes: US Politicians and Lawmakers Who Are Microsoft Shareholders

    They will keep bailing out Microsoft to bail themselves out

19. The Software Freedom Conservancy Folks Don't Even Believe in Free Speech and They Act As Imposters (Also in the Trademark Arena/Sense)

    Software Freedom Conservancy was already establishing a reputation for itself as a G(I)AFAM censor/gatekeeper

20. GNU/Linux Share Doubled in the United States of America (USA) in the Past 12 Months

    Or so says statCounter

21. Even in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic Of Korea) Google Said to Dominate, Microsoft Around 1%

    Google at 93.26%

22. [Meme] The Red Bait (Embrace... Extinguish)

    They set centos on fire, then offer a (de facto) proprietary substitute for a fee

23. Shooting the Messenger to Spite the Message

    segment of a Noam Chomsky talk

24. Guinea: Windows Down From 99.3% to 2.7% 'Market Share'

    Guinea is not a small country

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 15, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, July 15, 2024

27. What's Meant by "Antenna Abuse" (Gemini)

    syndication is not a monopoly in Gemini and if one doesn't condone political censorship, then one can create one's own syndication service/capsule

28. Microsoft Layoffs and Entire Unit Termination: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    What an announcement to make just before Independence Day

29. Links 16/07/2024: Old Computer Challenge and One Page Dungeon Contest

    Links for the day

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