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  1. Flashback: Microsoft Enslaves Black People (Modern Slavery) for Profit, or Even for Losses (Still Sinking in Debt Due to LLMs' Failure)
    "Paid Kenyan Workers Less Than $2 Per Hour"

    New

  2. Links 25/07/2024: Talks of Increased Pension Age and Biden Explains Dropping Out
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  3. Links 25/07/2024: Paul Watson, Kernel Bug, and Taskwarrior
    Links for the day
  4. [Meme] Microsoft's "Dinobabies" Not Amused
    a slur that comes from Microsoft's friends at IBM
  5. From Lion to Lamb: Microsoft Fell From 100% to 13% in Somalia (Lowest Since 2017)
    If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
  6. Microsoft Windows Became Rare in Antarctica
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  7. Links 25/07/2024: YouTube's Financial Problem (Even After Mass Layoffs), Journalists Bemoan Bogus YouTube Takedown Demands
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Now 70 Capsules Short of 4,000 and Let's Encrypt Sinks Below 100 (Capsules) as Self-Signed Leaps to 91%
    The "gopher with encryption" protocol is getting more widely used and more independent from GAFAM
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, July 24, 2024
  11. Techrights Statement on YouTube
    YouTube is a dying platform
  12. [Video] Julian Assange on the Right to Know
    Publishing facts is spun as "espionage" by the US government and "treason" by the Russian government, to give two notable examples
  13. Links 25/07/2024: Tesla's 45% Profit Drop, Humble Games Employees All Laid Off
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 25/07/2024: Losing Grip and collapseOS
    Links for the day
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    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-19 to 2024-07-25
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    1811 /n/2024/07/22/For_the_First_Time_Since_May_Linux_com_Linux_Foundation_Publish.shtml
    1797 /n/2024/07/22/The_Ludicrous_Idea_That_GNU_Linux_is_a_Poor_Man_s_Operating_Sys.shtml
    1561 /n/2024/07/21/For_the_First_Time_Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_North_Macedonia_.shtml
    1477 /n/2024/07/21/Only_a_Quarter_of_Web_Requests_in_Micronesia_Traced_Back_to_Mic.shtml
    1168 /n/2024/07/22/Why_the_Media_is_Dying_It_Sucks_No_Mentally_Healthy_People_Will.shtml
    1132 /n/2024/07/21/Your_F_U_D_is_Already_Showing_Microsoft.shtml

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