Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Why We Need to Make Time for More Videos

   Videos are neither out of style nor have fallen out of grace/fashion

2. Estimated or Educated Guess at Number of Desktops and Laptops With GNU/Linux: 112,500,000

   What is 4.5% of 2.5 billion? It is about 112,500,000

3. New Record High for Android in Mozambique

   Next week Microsoft will have to admit (but hide) that Windows revenue sank again, possibly at the rate of over 10% per year

4. Old Does Not Mean Bad and Older is Not Always Worse

   The quality of the sound is still the same as it was 30 years ago

   New

5. [Meme] Russia Having a Field Day Seeing How Microsoft Bricks Its own Computer Systems

   Russia didn't even have to do a thing

6. GNU/Linux+ChromeOS in Africa: Reaching Record Levels for This Year and Soon 4% on Desktops/Laptops

   So says statCounter this month

7. Links 27/07/2024: Russia's Central Bank Raises Key Interest Rate to 18%, Many More Journalists Laid Off

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 27/07/2024: Donut Stop and Wayland Concerns

   Links for the day

9. linuxsecurity.com Classified as 100% Slop (LLM Spam)

   How long can they carry on like this?

10. Links 27/07/2024: Quicket Scooped up by Ticketmaster, Microsoft Uses Windows' Global Outage as Excuse to Loosen Antitrust Enforcement

    Links for the day

11. European Governments Shift Towards Mandating Free Software in the Public Sector

    Dutch government officials, however, let Microsoft moles decide on policy [...] Microsoft isn't about technology but about bribery

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 26, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, July 26, 2024

14. Our Static Site Generator Has Just Turned 2, It'll Turn 1 in Techrights in Two Months' Time

    Our Static Site Generator (SSG), which is written from the ground up in Perl, had an anniversary this past week

15. Slashdot is Acting as a Spamming Service for Microsoft, Apparently in Service of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (E.E.E.)

    Renting out the "trusted brand" to Microsoft

16. Links 26/07/2024: Hamburgerization of Sushi and GNU/Linux Primer

    Links for the day

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