Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype

   Can we just abandon that false notion that modernity (or novelty) implies greater good? It does not.

2. [Meme] Some Uber-Propaganda Right There in Media That Takes Bribes From the Companies It 'Covers'

   Losing over 45 billion dollars and being deep in debt

3. [Video] Openwashing of GAFAM and Large Language Models (LLMs) With OSI as a Key Culprit (Enabler, Collaborator, Facilitator)

   deeply corrupt OSI

4. This August It Seems Like Vista 11's Share is Going Down While GNU/Linux is Up Sharply (at Its Expense)

   Are people deleting Vista 11 and replacing that with GNU/Linux?

5. [Meme] The Infantilisation of IBM, Once a Computing Giant With Computer Science Veterans

   Gimmicks are not meant to work better

6. Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest

   This isn't just happening in the UK

   New

7. This Month All South American Nations Except Two Estimated to Have More Android Than Windows

   Operating System Market Share South America

8. Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware

   Links for the day

9. Links 08/08/2024: Businesses and Man Pages

   Links for the day

10. Attacking "Linux" Using Microsoft Chatbots (Guardian Digital, Inc as SEO Spamfarm of FUD)

    That explains a lot

11. Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)

    Calling out the slop again

12. Links 08/08/2024: Stocks Still Falling, "Paranoia on Parade"

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Slack and Grace, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

    Links for the day

14. Looks Like GNU/Linux is Growing a Lot in Somalia This Year

    there is nobody "too stupid" (racist insult, too) to adopt GNU/Linux, unlike Windows

15. Let's Encrypt (Outsourced Encryption) in Geminispace Has Collapsed to Just 2.5% of the Whole (It Used to be About 12%), Capsules Choose to Self-Sign Instead

    Encryption in Gemini does not mandate outsourcing; more capsules "get" it and quit outsourcing the certificate management to the monopolists' and GPL violators' front group, Linux Foundation

16. [Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech

    With "X", an Anglophobic Musk and the "Royal" family in Saudi Arabia exercise control over most British politicians (e.g. what they can and cannot say, whether they can go "viral" etc.)

17. Microsoft's Ponzi Enabler OpenAI Perishes, Traffic Takes Another Significant Tumble (Again), Down About 78% in Just 3 Months!

    The bubble is bursting

18. Months After Africa Became 100% Android Majority Asia is Almost the Same

    The main exceptions are Japan and Russia (more Windows than Android)

19. Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%

    In 2024 alone GNU/Linux has already gained more than 2%

20. [Meme] No Program Source or Source Data... But Other Than That, It's "Open"

    Open... for business

21. [Meme] The Goals Changed Somewhere Along the Way

    Twitter as a weapon

22. Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them

    They're doing an "Arab spring" on a country they don't care for and try to undermine

23. Links 08/08/2024: Spotify Shrinking and Nvidia Cheating

    Links for the day

24. [Video] Microsofters at IBM and Cultural Changes That Doom IBM's Future

    Red Hat even hired many managers from Microsoft, sometimes despite them having no background in technology!

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 07, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 07, 2024

27. [Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest

    Video coming soon...

28. statCounter Sees Over 4 Out of 5 Web Requests Coming From Android, About 1 in 30 Comes from Windows

    Are Microsoft shareholders aware of trends like these?

29. [Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into

    We decided to revisit the subject later this week, based on further input on the matter

30. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Comparisons on Intel CPUs and Comprehensive NNCP Guide

    Links for the day

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