Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 29, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 28/07/2024: Censorship in Africa and Europe, History Of Internet Outages

   Links for the day

2. It Took 33 Days

   FSF made it

3. Links 28/07/2024: Microsoft's LinkedIn Loses Lawsuit, China Uses TikTok to Censor Vulnerable People

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 28/07/2024: Devil Mode in Emacs, LLMs Ruining What's Left of the Web

   Links for the day

5. At Last! GNU/Linux Reaches 4.5% in statCounter (Hours Ago)

   Rounding up, this is 4.5% for the first time ever

6. [Video] Fake Economy With Fake "Success Stories" That Actually Operate at a Loss and Carry Around Very Heavy Debt or Growing Deficits

   Parrots in the mainstream/corporate (or "Wall Street") media will only ever parrot the lies and the delusions

7. Debian it Taking Bribes (Gold Sponsorship) From Microsoft Again

   Very disappointing, Debian

8. The FSF Has Made It (Almost)

   The fundraising campaign started less than 5 weeks ago

9. India Still Leading the Way in GNU/Linux Adoption With Estimates of 16.1% Market Share

   Even more with ChromeOS included

10. Topics to Cover (Including Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and Encryption)

    We'll try to cover those topics every now and then

11. Web Survey: In China, Vista 11's Adoption Has Been So Appalling That Vista 7 Users Still Exceed It

    There are many decent distros of BSD or GNU/Linux that can run on XP-grade/era PCs

12. [Meme] Eventually All the Volunteers Will 'Get' What IBM Really Is

    They litigate against Fedora volunteers

13. Don't Become (or Remain) IBM's Slave

    There was a time when badges were granted to lots of Fedora volunteers and Planet Fedora had almost a dozen updates a day

14. IBM's Vicious Attack on CentOS Has Left CentOS Forums Dead

    IBM doesn't mind "genocide" of information

15. [Meme] 10 Days Since GNOME Foundation Admitted It Had Secretly Banished Board Member in a Secret Court

    This isn't an open community that values freedom of speech or even transparency

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 27, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, July 27, 2024

18. [Meme] Microsoft's Latest Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (E.E.E.) Strategy

    Having lost momentum, the Windows company is trying to 'own' (and control) the competition

19. [Video] Freedom-Respecting Desktops and Laptops: We're Getting There, Gradually

    In today's video I explain that, based on what I've read, in India it's easier to get PCs with GNU/Linux preloaded

20. Links 28/07/2024: TTAB Report and SCOTUS Asked to Reconsider Patent Eligibility

    Links for the day

21. Gemini Links 28/07/2024: "Delete Your Twitter" and Tired of Programming

    Links for the day

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