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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 23, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. [Meme] The Latest in the Microsoft Windows Blame Game
    Microsoft found the culprit and came to everyone's rescue!
  2. For the First Time Since May Linux.com (Linux Foundation) Published Something. It's All Spam.
    Can we trust the Linux Foundation to look after anything at all? Look what it turned this once-thriving site into.
  3. Honduras: Windows Down, Android Peaking Again
    Honduras does not have many stakes in Microsoft
  4. Why the Media is Dying (It Sucks, No Mentally Healthy People Will Tolerate This for Long)
    linking to actual news articles helps fuel the spam, too
  5. Something is Happening at OFTC
    It looks like it shrank by 20,000 users
  6. GNU/Linux Usage in Guadeloupe Rises Closer to International Average, Based on Web Data Collected by statCounter
    It should be noted that the estimates of GNU/Linux usage are now in 4.5% territories

    New

  7. Links 22/07/2024: Overworking and Performance Issues From Europe
    Links for the day
  8. Microsoft Eliminates 67% of the Building Occupancy - That's Some Truly Massive Layoffs
    Half a dozen floors? Microsoft cuts that down to two.
  9. [Meme] Signs of a Dying Patent Office
    "Bribe the media to say you excel"
  10. This Month's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Webchat ('Meeting') Covered the European Patent Office's Attacks on Its Own Interpreters
    The Central Staff Committee is currently circulating a report with appendices about the GCC meeting [sic] (webchat) that took place less than a fortnight ago
  11. A Byzantine European Patent Office Where Staff Must Beg for Help With Contraception (Worse Than the Rest of Europe)
    The Central Staff Committee (EPO staff representation) has just circulated a report
  12. [Teaser] EPO Run by Children
    "Daddy, why was I born?"
  13. Let's Encrypt About to Fall Below 100 (Capsules) in Geminispace, It's Basically in a Freefall
    The "self-signed" portion keeps growing
  14. Gemini Links 22/07/2024: Spacewalk Dies and Old Computer Challenge in the Rear View
    Links for the day
  15. [Meme] Twitter (X) Will Reject the Concept of a Female President
    Twitter (X) is controlled by misogynists, who socially control (or socially-engineer) their fake concept of "media"
  16. Second Family Photo of Julian Assange Since His Release (First Since His Birthday)
    His wife shows the 4 of them for the first time (2 hours ago)
  17. Protesters in Kenya Need Software That is Free (Libre) and Supports Real Encryption in Order to Avoid Capture and Torture (Sometimes Execution)
    There's more to fight over than economic issues
  18. The Ludicrous Idea That GNU/Linux is a "Poor Man's" Operating System
    Seeing the trends in countries such an Norway, it ought to be abundantly clear that adoption of GNU/Linux has nothing to do with poverty
  19. Links 22/07/2024: Internet Optimism and Kamala Harris Policies Debated
    Links for the day
  20. The Impact of OFTC's Latest Changes on the Perceived Scale of IRC Globally
    IRC is still one of the more potent alternatives to the social control media conglomerates
  21. New: Why They Really Went After Assange
    Uploaded by Chris Hedges
  22. Links 21/07/2024: Health, Politics, and Kamala Harris in Focus
    Links for the day
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 21, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, July 21, 2024
  25. A Drop in Half (From 208 to 104): Sharp Decline in Number of Gemini Capsules That Use Let's Encrypt CA Since December
    Gemini is increasing its independence from Certificate Authorities (CAs)

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

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

    Span from 2024-07-16 to 2024-07-22
    3537 /n/2024/07/16/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Entire_Unit_Termination_Diversity_Equity_.shtml
    1885 /n/2024/07/21/High_Adoption_Rates_for_GNU_Linux_in_Albania_According_to_statC.shtml
    1827 /n/2024/07/17/Billions_of_Computers_Run_Linux_and_Many_Use_Debian_or_a_Deriva.shtml
    1547 /n/2024/07/17/Red_Hat_Keeps_Behaving_Like_a_Microsoft_Reseller_for_Proprietar.shtml
    1379 /n/2024/07/21/For_the_First_Time_Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_North_Macedonia_.shtml
    1331 /n/2024/07/16/Backlash_and_Negative_Press_After_Microsoft_Tells_Diversity_Equ.shtml
    1306 /n/2024/07/21/Only_a_Quarter_of_Web_Requests_in_Micronesia_Traced_Back_to_Mic.shtml
    1174 /n/2024/07/17/Microsoft_s_Bing_Falls_to_Fourth_in_the_Europe_Asia_Based_Turke.shtml
    1152 /n/2024/07/17/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Once_Again_Bricking_PCs_and_Fake_Security_Mode.shtml
    1067 /n/2024/07/22/The_Ludicrous_Idea_That_GNU_Linux_is_a_Poor_Man_s_Operating_Sys.shtml

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