Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] The Future of Alphabet, Google, YouTube...

   "Google is killing one of Chrome’s biggest ad blockers"

   New

2. Only Weeks After ZDNet, IDG Has Also Deleted Linux From the RSS Feeds or Web Pages (Categories)

   That's how much IDG values Linux

3. Libera.Chat Has Reduced Capacity (Servers Turned Off) and Lost 1,000-2,000 Users This Past Month

   We hope IRC will grow, not be deflated

4. Europe in August 2024: Android 41%, Windows 30%

   How times change...

5. YouTube Will Probably be Next to Die

   In Google's latest report the performance of YouTube was very disappointing, so they must be (still) losing loads of money

6. They Say It's for Security (or for Encryption) But it's for Microsoft/GitHub and You Cannot Object (That's Obviously a CoC Violation)

   in effect controlling the opposition

7. Links 11/08/2024: The 'Interweb Sucks', Susan Wojcicki (YouTube Chief) Dies

   Links for the day

8. Even in Europe's 'Capital of Pirated Windows' Vista 11 Adoption Has Stalled This Past Year, Fell This Past Summer

   Romania is basically no longer adopting Vista 11. Even if it's "free"...

9. Fight Against Censorship Has Been Lost

   By Wikileaks, published 6 minutes ago

10. Wikileaks Editor Kristinn Hrafnsson on Donald Trump Attempting (and Failing) to Bribe Julian Assange to Expose Sources

    In roughly the same year the Trump administration contemplated assassinating Assange

11. When IBM 'Pulls a Dell' It'll be Hell

    "Everyone will share in the pain NA = 10-12k, Europe = 8-10k, India = 25-30k, and everyone else approx 3-5k"

12. In the United States Of America Bing Only Lost Share Since the Large Language Model (LLM) Hype, Google Gained More Than 1%

    Based on statCounter's Web survey

13. How Social Control Media Will Perish

    People get arrested for it now

14. Jeffrey Epstein-Connected Microsoft Billionaires Already Bribe the Democrats to Remove Regulators

    "I am going to bribe you, but you must not regulate me, only my rivals..."

15. Microsoft Has Collapsed in Poland, 20% of Web Requests Are Windows (Only One in Five)

    Whatever is happening there in Poland, it can't be good for Microsoft

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 10, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 10, 2024

18. Gemini Protocol and Software/Net Freedom

    The World Wide Web is hopeless in many ways

19. The Linux Foundation's Utter Negligence (or Abandonment) of Linux.com Illustrated With One Screenshot

    The front page

20. Microsoft United's First Match of the Season (With Windows Ads on All the Jerseys) Was a Loss

    Windows train wreck

21. CAPTCHA is Slavery: Corporations Compelling the Masses to Tag Data for Training (So They Don't Need to Pay Any Staff)

    Come on, pleb, play ball!

22. Progress on Literature and Audio/Video

    Our goal, overall, is to spread a message, irrespective of its form

23. United Kingdom: Windows Down, Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up

    This seems like an international trend this summer

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