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  1. They Used to Say Avoid Nginx (or NGINX) Because It's Russian. Now You Can Say Avoid It Because It's Microsoft.
    Thankfully we quit using NGINX when we shut down our HTTP proxy for Gemini
  2. Peter Eckersley and 'Afterlife'
    It's better to look after one's health at present than to pursue all sorts of perceived 'insurance' policies
  3. Instead of Telegram People Should Use Free Software (Telegram Was Always Unsafe for Use)
    "Modern" so-called 'smart' 'phones' are compromised at the OS level or baseband side
  4. Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.
    Our 100% source protection record will hold up
  5. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XIV - Zoom the Beast
    breakdown of the Zoom TOS and corresponding privacy statement
  6. FSFE: Donate to Us to Co-Fund With Microsoft the Unpaid Underage Labour, YH4F
    Latest from FSFE
  7. Links 07/09/2024: China's Financial "Bond" to Africa and Attempts to Postpone Trump Criminal Cases
    Links for the day

    New

  8. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Self Hosting (Not "CLOUD") and Site Reliability Engineering
    Links for the day
  9. The Arrest of Pavel Durov is Changing Telegram
    Remember that Telegram's founder, who is also French, cannot leave France until he satisfies those who detained him
  10. The Growth of GNU/Linux is Now a Mainstream Topic With Widespread Awareness
    We can do less counting (of baskets and eggs) and more advocacy
  11. The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win
    Sometimes the bad people and the liars get ahead
  12. John Pilger's Site Relaunches, Wikileaks' Site Has Not Been Updated in Years
    We have long hoped that, more so after the release of Assange, Wikileaks will have some kind of "relaunch" or recovery
  13. Rage in the Propaganda Machine
    There has never been a better time to quit social control media
  14. Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Serving the Authorities, Not You
    The centralised CAs "model" is not working
  15. A Terms of Service (TOS) Notion of "Consent"
    We're well past the true notion of real consent
  16. Links 07/09/2024: Qualcomm May Buy Parts of Intel, YouTube Deletes Channels for the US Government
    Links for the day
  17. No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
    Our sister site pulled the plug on the whole thing over a year ago, seeing it was mostly a source of online abuse
  18. A Loss for Fake Security, a Win for Net Autonomy
    Crucifixion of domains has been ramping up this past week; it's a cautionary signal
  19. Links 07/09/2024: UK Police Raid Journalist's Home, Epoch Times Setbacks, and Karma
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 06, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, September 06, 2024
  22. linuxsecurity.com is Still Spamming the Web
    This is not harmless to Linux and it definitely merits a shun
  23. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Freedom in Bareness, Reactions in Addictive Social Control Media
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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    Span from 2024-09-01 to 2024-09-07
    1393 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_Lost_the_Search.shtml
    1116 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_is_Aiming_to_Kill_Both_Mono_and_WINE_in_One_Fell_Swoo.shtml
    988 /n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml
    953 /n/2024/09/01/Still_Waiting_for_Microsoft_to_be_Fined_Punished_Sanctioned_for.shtml
    903 /n/2024/09/06/Linux_Foundation_Technical_Advisory_Board_Has_Election_But_Goog.shtml
    899 /n/2024/09/03/Pay_Careful_Attention_to_How_Canonical_is_Promoting_Ubuntu.shtml
    869 /n/2024/09/02/As_New_Month_Commences_GNU_Linux_Blasts_Through_4_96_a_0_44_Inc.shtml
    768 /n/2024/09/01/Update_on_IBM_Layoffs_Wave.shtml
    764 /n/2024/09/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Board_Still_a_Happy_Family.shtml
    731 /n/2024/09/01/A_Beautiful_Year_for_GNU_Linux_But_We_Must_Fight_On.shtml

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