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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2024

Without fear or favor

Updated This Past Day

  1. No Outage Here
    Microsoft seems to have lost control of the narrative
  2. Microsoft Has Managed to Make GNU/Linux Users Scared of Updating Their GNU/Linux PCs (Thanks to UEFI 'Secure' Boot's Boosters!)
    How many people know who's responsible for this mess?
  3. Geminispace Growing and Getting More Free (Independent)
    Because self-signed certificates are the way to go

    New

  4. Links 20/07/2024: Tesla's UK Lawsuit for 5G Patents Licence Thrown Out by UK Court, Censorship Examples Surface
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 20/07/2024: Why Sleep Is So Important, Bot Problems Online
    Links for the day
  6. [Meme] Truth Hurts
    "Saying that I physically assaulted women is 'defamation'"
  7. Techrights Turns 18 in About 3 Months
    Nothing can stop us
  8. When (Software) Freedom is the Goal
    Freedom of thought also
  9. Giving the False Impression That the R blogosphere is Microsoft's Microcosm
    Curation that culls "astrotrufing" isn't censorship but quality control for relevance
  10. Expect Many More Microsoft Layoffs After the Latest Windows Outages (Bonus: More Media Says Microsoft Has Cut Half the Staff in Nigeria)
    after the latest worldwide blunder we can expect many businesses to gradually ditch Windows
  11. Today GNU/Linux Broke All-Time Record in statCounter Again
    Expect more people to hop over to GNU/Linux after the Windows fiasco
  12. Joab Jackson and "The New Stack" Publishing Microsoft Spam (E.E.E. Against Linux) for a Payment From Microsoft
    It's not a real news site
  13. Links 20/07/2024: Patents on Software Squashed, Further Attacks on Independent News Sites
    Links for the day
  14. Links 20/07/2024: Shopping Mall in Southwestern China and New Health Crises
    Links for the day
  15. Microsoft/Windows Has Fallen Well Below 1% (Now 0.7%) in American Samoa
    statCounter Sees Microsoft Windows at Below 1% in American Samoa
  16. The Thelio Mega Is a Dual-GPU Linux Supercomputer
    System76 sells many desktops and laptops built to run Linux. The company has now revealed its new high-powered Linux desktop, the Thelio Mega
  17. [Meme] "System of a Down"
    The latest international catastrophe kills people
  18. Why Microsoft is Laying Off So Many People in Nigeria
    Nigeria is a place Microsoft has lost
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 19, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, July 19, 2024
  21. Gemini Links 20/07/2024: Gopher Catchup and Old Computer Challenge
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-07-14 to 2024-07-20
    3448 /n/2024/07/16/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Entire_Unit_Termination_Diversity_Equity_.shtml
    1766 /n/2024/07/13/Holly_Million_GNOME_Foundation_departure_after_Albanian_whistle.shtml
    1760 /n/2024/07/17/Billions_of_Computers_Run_Linux_and_Many_Use_Debian_or_a_Deriva.shtml
    1481 /n/2024/07/17/Red_Hat_Keeps_Behaving_Like_a_Microsoft_Reseller_for_Proprietar.shtml
    1474 /n/2024/07/14/Microsoft_Windows_Down_to_23_in_Spain.shtml
    1304 /n/2024/07/16/Backlash_and_Negative_Press_After_Microsoft_Tells_Diversity_Equ.shtml
    1187 /n/2023/12/01/New_Report_Provides_Numerical_Evidence_That_Google_Hired_Too_Ma.shtml
    1110 /n/2024/07/17/Microsoft_s_Bing_Falls_to_Fourth_in_the_Europe_Asia_Based_Turke.shtml
    1038 /n/2024/07/14/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1011 /n/2024/07/14/The_List_of_Sites_or_Sources_for_Linux_News_is_Getting_Shorter_.shtml

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