Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft's Bing Falls to Fourth in the Europe/Asia-Based Turkey, Share Halved Since LLM Hype, Now Only 1% (Sometimes Less)

   Turkey (Eurasia) is another example of Microsoft failing with LLM hype and just burning a lot of energy in vain (investment without returns)

2. Censorship as Signal of Opportunity for Reform

   It remains sad and ironic that Wikileaks outsourced so much of its official communications to Twitter (now X)

3. Comoros: Windows Plunges to Record Low of About 6% in Country of a Million People (in 2010 Windows Was 100%)

   Many of these people earn a few dollars a day; they don't care for Microsoft's "Hey Hi PC" hype

4. The Mail (MX) Server Survey for July 2024 Shows Microsoft Collapsing to Only 689 Servers or 0.17% of the Whole (It Used to be About 25%)

   Microsoft became so insignificant and the most astounding thing is how the media deliberate ignores it or refuses to cover it

5. Windows Down From 98.5% to 22.9% in Hungary

   Android is up because more people buy smaller mobile devices than laptops

6. Microsoft Windows in Algeria: From 100% to Less Than 15%

   Notice that not too long ago Windows was measured at 100%. Now? Not even 15%.

   New

7. Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 Attracting 0.01% of the IBM Staff "Was a Success"

   They expect volunteers (unpaid slaves) to do the PR for them...

8. African's Largest Population (Nigeria) Approaching 80% Android "Market Share" Amid Steady Monthly Increases While Microsoft Has Mass Layoffs in Nigeria

   Microsoft- and Apple-sponsored Western (or English-speaking) media chooses to ignore that or treat it as irrelevant (a racist disposition in its own right)

9. [Meme] The Warlord's Catspaw

   Thugs that troll us

10. Microsoft Misogyny Will be the Fall of Microsoft (Covering Up for Misogynists is a Huge Mistake and Highly Misguided Short-term Strategy)

    Microsoft's undoing may in fact be its attitude towards women

11. Red Hat Keeps Behaving Like a Microsoft Reseller (for Proprietary Stuff!), Microsoft Employees as Authors in redhat.com

    In some ways this reminds us of Novell

12. UEFI 'Secure Boot' Once Again Bricking PCs and Fake Security Models Are Perishing in Geminispace

    Let's Encrypt has just fallen again

13. Links 17/07/2024: New Attacks on the Press, European Patents Squashed Even at Kangaroo Court (UPC)

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 17/07/2024: Proponents of Censorship and New Arrivals at Gemini

    Links for the day

15. Links 17/07/2024: School Budget Meltdown and Modern Cars as Tracking Nightmares

    Links for the day

16. This Should Certainly be Illegal, But the Person Who Helped Microsoft Do This is Still Attacking the Critics of It

    perhaps time for an "I told you so post"

17. [Meme] A Computer With an Extra Key on the Keyboard Isn't Everyone's Priority

    (so your telling me meme)

18. Africa as an Important Reminder That Eradicating Microsoft Doesn't Go Far Enough

    Ideally, if our top goal is bigger than "get rid of Microsoft", we need to teach people to choose and use devices that obey them, not GAFAM

19. Billions of Computers Run Linux and Many Use Debian (or a Derivative of It)

    many devices never get updated or even communicate with the Net, so exhaustive tallies are infeasible

20. [Meme] Microsoft is Firing

    Don't worry, Microsoft will have some new vapourware coming soon

21. More DEI (or Similar) Layoffs on the Way, According to Microsoft Team Leader

    What happened shortly before Independence Day wasn't the end of it, apparently

22. [Meme] Many Volunteers Now Realise the "Open" in "OpenSUSE" or "openSUSE" Was Labour-Mining

    Back to coding, packaging and testing, slaves

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 16, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 16, 2024

25. Microsoft Windows "Market Share" in New Zealand Plunges to 25%

    Android rising

26. [Meme] Ein Factory

    A choice between "masters" (or "master race") is a false choice that results in mass exploitation and ultimately eradication (when there's little left to exploit)

27. Links 17/07/2024: Open Source Initiative Lies and Dark Net Thoughts

    Links for the day

28. SUSE Goes Aryan: You May Not Use the Germanic Brand Anymore (It's Monopolised by the Corporation)

    Worse than grammar Nazis

29. Media Distorting Truth to Promote Ignorance

    online media is rapidly collapsing

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