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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2024

Lotrisor Waterfall , Cozia National Park, Romania

Updated This Past Day

  1. Twitter as X-Rated Hatred: Criticising Microsoft is Not OK, Calling for Beheadings (With Bounties on People's Heads) is OK
    Twitter automation missed 'hit job' advertising
  2. Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World
    "I'm VERY angry about lots of stuff happening here in Argentina, all of it shielded behind the word "freedom"."

    New

  3. Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded
    Links for the day
  4. We Were Right All Along and the Collaborators of Microsoft Helped Competition Crimes of Microsoft
    Once again vindicated regarding UEFI "secure boot"
  5. [Meme] The New Windows Slogan
    stat me up
  6. Addendum: Associate's Notes on Free Software as a Labour Issue and the Connectivity Swindles
    these are related issues/causes
  7. Microsofters Infiltrating Roles of Authority and Government Positions to Protect Microsoft and to FUD Microsoft's Competition
    friends of Microsofters who bully me and my wife
  8. Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does)
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 16/08/2024: Overgeneralisation and Games
    Links for the day
  10. Russia's Yandex 5 Times Bigger Than Microsoft... in Ukraine
    They'd rather rely on the Kremlin than on Microsoft
  11. [Meme] Gemini is Different, So What?
    different, not worse
  12. Now It's "Official": Over 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules in Lupa
    For the first time ever
  13. Clown Computing
    Reprinted with permission from Dr. Andy Farnell
  14. [Meme] What Freedom Means to IBM
    Free labou
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 15, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, August 15, 2024
  17. From 99% in 2012 to 27% in 2024: How Microsoft Lost Georgia
    What we're seeing is a migration from Windows to other platforms, notably GNU/Linux
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-08-10 to 2024-08-16
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    1022 /n/2024/08/10/It_Has_Now_Been_3_Years_Since_Wikileaks_Last_Added_a_New_Leak_t.shtml
    912 /n/2024/08/11/Wikileaks_Editor_Kristinn_Hrafnsson_on_Donald_Trump_Attempting_.shtml

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