Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 19, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Bruce Perens on What Ubuntu (or Mark Shuttleworth) Did to Debian, Which He Led After Ian Murdock (the Original Ian in Deb-Ian)

   Perens recognised what Ubuntu had done to Debian

   New

2. Links 18/08/2024: Science, Sonos Layoffs, and Homelessness

   Links for the day

3. SPAM of the Day: Brittany Day on the "Rise of AI" in Fake News Site About "Linux Security"

   This is destroying the Web

4. Gemini Links 18/08/2024: Tiny Awards 2024 and Progress on closing GitLab Issues in Gemini Protocol

   Links for the day

5. Links 18/08/2024: Joy of Blogging and Public Ownership of Public Goods

   Links for the day

6. [Meme] Until systemd is Over 10 Million Lines of Spaghetti Code That Nobody Understands

   "The best coder or project manager can hold in mind a few tens of thousands of lines of code. Today we have safety critical systems with tens of millions of lines, most of which are forgotten and have not been seen by human eyes in decades. A single misplaced comma in any one of them could be the next world-stopping bug."

7. In Pakistan, Only One in 6 Windows Users is Using the Latest Windows (Vista 11)

   only about 3% of all Web users are on Vista 11

8. They Are Turning the Web Into an 'App Store' (Censorship), Gemini Rejects This Agenda

   They do the same to operating systems

9. [Meme] The EULA of the Web Era (Changes as You Go Along)

   Series to commence soon...

10. Three Years After Its Release Vista 11 Accounts for Only 2% of the Market in Gabon

    And Vista 11 is moving down, not up

11. OFTC Lost Almost Two Thirds of Its Users in 5 Weeks

    The interesting thing is that almost nobody ever reports these things about IRC

12. Only 1 in 50 Gemini Capsules Uses Let's Encrypt, the Certificate Authority That's Falsely Presented as 'Free'

    Solving yet another problem with the Web

13. Free Software and the Link to Feminism, Free Speech, and Activism Online

    some people can erroneously conflate the message of user-controlled programs with Libertarianism - not the same thing!

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 17, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 17, 2024

16. Arjen Kamphuis asked me for protection from Debian before disappearance

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

17. Gemini Links 18/08/2024: Far-right and Second Gemlog

    Links for the day

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