Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The 1% Eludes Microsoft

   Bing has been a total disaster in Kyrgyzstan

2. Lots of Talk About NIST in Relation to Encryption and Standards, But NIST Fronts for Imperialism, Not Privacy, and There Are Software Patent Elephants in the Room

   there are also software patents to worry about

3. Links 25/08/2024: 'Microsoft India' Talks Layoffs. "Apple Vision Pro Falls Flat".

   Links for the day

4. GNU/Linux Sites Turning to SPAM Sites

   we hoped that it would stop

5. Torvalds Still Calls the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bluff, Some People Are Upset

   and photos

6. 33 Years Ago Linux Would Not "be Big and Professional Like GNU"

   August 25, 1991 (by Torvalds in comp.os.minix)

   New

7. [Meme] When Your Project Has Zero Volunteers...

   Anything divided by zero is...

8. A Week Ago Fedora Canceled Its "DEI" Meeting Due to Lack of Interest/Attendance and Nobody Has Said Anything Since

   Meeting by Christmas? Maybe not even then?

9. Gemini Protocol (or Geminispace) Uses More Advanced Transport Encryption Than About a Third of the Web

   Most of the Web isn't secure and isn't meant to be (it is accessed using browsers that are effectively, functionally indistinguishable from malware)

10. Mail (MX) Server Survey for August 2024: Microsoft Has Fallen Below 700 Servers (Globally, Worldwide!)

    That's less than 0.1% of the servers queried (754,375)

11. Remember Which "Linux" Companies Enabled Microsoft's Sabotage (Remotely, Without User Intervention) of Millions of GNU/Linux PCs

    Some blowback is very much necessary

12. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part III - Terms-of-service Labeling, Design, and Readability Act

    We're going to give some more examples of this much later in the series

13. Microsoft Losing the Balkans

    Balkan nations are moving away not just from Windows but also from Microsoft in general

14. Before and After Microsoft Destroyed Dual-Boot Setups With Help From "Secure Boot" Liars Who Had Defamed and Harassed "Secure Boot" Sceptics

    Microsoft bullies

15. Microsoft Lost a Lot of Share in Servers After Clownstrike-Gate, Shows Survey

    it looks like Microsoft took a big tumble in every category for Web servers

16. Links 24/08/2024: Journalists Culled Through Social Control Media, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France

    Links for the day

17. Links 25/08/2024: Metric and Gemini Capsule With Docker

    Links for the day

18. Windows Falling Across the Gulf

    They're not moving away from Windows because they cannot afford it

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 24, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 24, 2024

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