Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Android About to Fly Past Windows in Portugal

   Perhaps by month's end or next month Portugal will be orange (Android majority)

2. 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.

   New

3. Russia develops an alternative to Android and iOS | News.az

   Russia already has several of its own operating systems

4. Links 14/08/2024: Ecology and War Inside Russia

   Links for the day

5. Daniel Pocock - Use of Technology in European Parliament Election Campaign (Public Talk)

   It starts in 4 hours

6. How OpenAI Will Decrease the Losses

   You have no losses when you have no users left

7. Giving Control to Microsoft is Always a Dire, Huge Mistake

   Microsoft is known for buying things and sabotaging things, not for creating things

8. 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"

9. Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 4 - Daniel on Linux-based Mobile Platforms in LATAM (Latin America)

   GNU, Linux, and mobile

10. Almost Nothing of Invidious Left Online (YouTube is Attacking Gateways)

    what it looks like at this very moment

11. Gemini Links 14/08/2024: Funeral for an E-reader and a Mother Wants a Laptop

    Links for the day

12. Links 14/08/2024: 8 Years of GDPR and Ridicule of "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype

    Links for the day

13. 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?

14. "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

15. YouTube Has Thrown Free Software Users Into a Crisis

    For many Free software users, who rely on Invidious, YouTube is nearly dead already

16. [Meme] "New Chapter in the FSF."

    We expect to have some coverage from this week's event

17. 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

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 13, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 13, 2024

20. 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

21. 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.

22. Tivoisation and Decommodification in Clown Computing

    Some firms or organisations lost sight of what "servers" or "hosting" even mean

23. The News Vacuum

    The problem is worse than just an absence of reporting

24. x86 Lowered the Standards of Hardware Products

    A lot of it is just hacks and cheats that help fake performance

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