Today in Techrights
Updated This Past Day
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Android About to Fly Past Windows in Portugal
Perhaps by month's end or next month Portugal will be orange (Android majority)
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In Chile, Microsoft's Web Browser (a Chrome Copycat) Fell to 3.6%, About the Same as Firefox and Opera and Less Than Safari, Yandex Browser, Google Chrome
It does not look like Chileans fancy Microsoft's browser. They go out of their way to use something else, even on Windows.
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Russia develops an alternative to Android and iOS | News.az
Russia already has several of its own operating systems
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Links 14/08/2024: Ecology and War Inside Russia
Links for the day
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Daniel Pocock - Use of Technology in European Parliament Election Campaign (Public Talk)
It starts in 4 hours
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How OpenAI Will Decrease the Losses
You have no losses when you have no users left
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Giving Control to Microsoft is Always a Dire, Huge Mistake
Microsoft is known for buying things and sabotaging things, not for creating things
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Founders That Sell Their Company to Microsoft Speak Out
"Microsoft's closure of Arkane Austin in May was one of the more shocking events of the past couple of years"
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Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 4 - Daniel on Linux-based Mobile Platforms in LATAM (Latin America)
GNU, Linux, and mobile
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Almost Nothing of Invidious Left Online (YouTube is Attacking Gateways)
what it looks like at this very moment
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Gemini Links 14/08/2024: Funeral for an E-reader and a Mother Wants a Laptop
Links for the day
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Links 14/08/2024: 8 Years of GDPR and Ridicule of "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype
Links for the day
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This is How You Give Microsoft More Control Over LibreOffice Both as Software and as a Project
Didn't the Document Foundation learn from prior Microsoft Store scandals connected to LibreOffice?
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"Heroes of Fedora" Are Just Salaried Employees of IBM (But "Community" is Just Sounding a Lot Nicer)
A real community would not allow IBM a majority
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YouTube Has Thrown Free Software Users Into a Crisis
For many Free software users, who rely on Invidious, YouTube is nearly dead already
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[Meme] "New Chapter in the FSF."
We expect to have some coverage from this week's event
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There is No I in "GAFAM" and Soon There Won't be I At All (Like Novell Vanished, Not Overnight, as It Took Over a Decade)
Intel is going through the biggest crisis in its entire history
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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It's a "sm0l" World and It Won't Outsource to the Pentagon Anymore
As many people aren't interested in a new PC - or simply cannot afford one - we can expect leaner operating systems to gain further
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Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 3 - GNU/Linux in Argentinian Desktops/Laptops
Daniel explains why many years ago many PCs shipped with GNU/Linux and that there was an economic reason for it. At least in Argentina.
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Tivoisation and Decommodification in Clown Computing
Some firms or organisations lost sight of what "servers" or "hosting" even mean
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The News Vacuum
The problem is worse than just an absence of reporting
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x86 Lowered the Standards of Hardware Products
A lot of it is just hacks and cheats that help fake performance
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