Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsofters' War on Linux Takes New Forms, Pentagon Nowadays Controls Linux in More Ways

   Remember what happened to OpenBSD when DARPA learned of its Pentagon-unfriendly stance

2. Only 75 Known Gemini Capsules Still Use Let's Encrypt (More Than 9 Out of 10 Self-Sign)

   Some former HTTP/S sites go offline and move to Gemini

   New

3. Microsoft Tying Together Its Proxies to Promote Proprietary Software and the GitHub Prison

   It does more harm than good

4. Links 07/08/2024: Surveillance and Doxxing in Venezuelan, Plan to Invalidate UK Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023

   Links for the day

5. Reminder: When You Rely on Third-Party Card and Payment Processors (and Realise You're a Slave of a Ruthless System)

   When you expose war crimes, corruption, and other serious crimes while the powerful whom you are exposing control the financial institutions (or system)

6. Links 07/08/2024: Logitech's Horrifying Digital Restrictions (DRM) Fantasy and "Hey Hi" Bubble Already Bursting

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 07/08/2024: Old Computer Challenge and Salix is on Gemini

   Links for the day

8. Thoughts On 'SLUBStick' (Not a Severe Bug, Helps Distract From Lawsuits Against Microsoft Over Clownstrike Fiasco)

   Clownstrike-gate showed Windows TCO of about 10 billion dollars (just for this one incident, not counting suffering to airline passengers and many dead patients, denied access to healthcare)

9. Dell Embracing the "Hey Hi" Revolution to Win the "Hey Hi" Arms Race, It's Not Laying Off Anybody!

   Dell... generated by L.L.M.

10. Dell Wants Us to Think That Its Layoffs (12,500 People) Are Due to LLMs and Other Crock, the Media Repeats This Lie Unscrutinised

    Sweatshops and reselling (Windows PCs) isn't a viable model

11. Microsoft Windows Falls From 100% to 25% in Morocco, GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Exceed 4% on Desktops/Laptops

    About 90% of these are "proper" GNU/Linux users, not Google's "spyware on top of GNU/Linux" (Chrome)OS

12. "If it is not logic, it's magic. If it is not magic, it is female logic."

    Someone can easily overthink this quote

13. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Turns 36, It's Older Than the World Wide Web

    IRC is still alive and kicking

14. Slashdot Media and Linux Journal: Missing Pages, Allegedly

    Doc Searls has begun reproducing his own articles

15. Probably the First Major GNU/Linux Distro to Adopt Gemini and Have an Official Gemini Capsule

    Welcome to Gemini, Salix! Earning much respect among the 'Geminists' or 'the small Internet'

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 06, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 06, 2024

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