Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2024,
updated Aug 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Cluecon 2024 Now Live

   Started streaming 43 minutes ago

2. Former GitHub CEO and Mono Chief Nat Friendman Donated to Ron Paul, Manipulated the Media, Censored Embarrassing Information

   how the media reacts to women who were abused (sort of like Debian Project covering up for powerful men and tossing aside "comfort women")

3. Founder of Gemini Protocol (Solderpunk) Has Noticed Deterioration in the Debian Project

   Our Gemini capsules always ran from Debian

   New

4. How the Growth of GNU/Linux, a Growth of Worldwide Extent, is Rapidly Accelerating Microsoft Layoffs

   Microsoft layoffs are back in the headlines this week

5. Links 12/08/2024: Bracing for More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Hey Hi ("AI") Bubble Continues Popping

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 12/08/2024: Rest, Internal Phishing Test, and More

   Links for the day

7. Daniel Pocock Gives a Talk at ClueCon in Chicago at 3PM (Central Time Zone)

   "USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN"

8. Promiscuous Behaviour (Even Nude Parties) by Microsofters Needs to be Illuminated

   The response of "Team Mono" was to litigate

9. What's Left of the Mainstream Media After the Olympics

   Microsoft is wasting money on this type of advertising, but at the same time this waste of money kills what's left of media online

10. [Meme] Always the Victim

    Troll face pill time meme

11. Marion County Record: police raid anniversary, securing small business, journalists

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. "Protecting the Identity" as a Cover for Protecting the Pervert (Not the Abused)

    Do not let women's rights be hijacked by men looking to protect other men (their buddies)

13. Busan Could Teach Debian Project a Lesson on Comfort Women

    Daniel Pocock has covered lots of examples of these "false promises of employment". He also named some of the repeat offenders/culprits.

14. [Meme] After the Purges (of Debian Developers Who Spoke Out for Women Who Had Blown the Whistle About Abuse)

    Daniel Pocock is giving a public talk today

15. Cross-national Load Time of Tenth of a Second

    That's how Pingdom sees it anyway

16. [Meme] The Future of the World Wide Web, Protecting You From "Misinformation" and "Hate Speech"

    After revoking certificates of "bad" sites

17. A Growing Movement of Web-savvy Geeks Who Say Go Static (Simple Web Pages) and Move to Gemini Protocol

    Gemini is still growing

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 11, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, August 11, 2024

20. x86 is Beyond Redemption, We Need Lean Software and Hardware That We Can Understand

    x86 has a lot of issues, aside from the defects and severe security problems

21. While GNU/Linux Adoption Has Soared in Egypt Vista 11 Stalled and Many Still Use Vista 7

    it looks like many people there move to GNU/Linux

22. It Was an Oligarchs' Festival

    The organisers really don't care what these athletes think

23. [Meme] Next Target of GNOME CoC

    Why would anyone wish to donate time to an autocracy like this?

24. Links 12/08/2024: Microsoft Outages, Facebook Bans Biology

    Links for the day

25. In Ireland, Where statCounter is Based, Windows Has Fallen to Just 18% Market Share (Based on statCounter)

    all-time lows

26. Links 12/08/2024: Available Offline an Updates from Solderpunk

    Links for the day

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