Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Saudi Arabia and Its Footprint in X/Twitter

   a massive proportion of pro-ISIS accounts in Twitter were operated from Saudi Arabia or by Saudi Arabians

2. Imposters Inheriting Institutions

   Dealing with the "imposter syndrome"

   New

3. Microsoft Has Infiltrated the OSI and Its Moles (Whom It Pays to Speak 'for' OSI) Control the Narrative

   This is utterly grotesque

4. Links 12/09/2024: Apple Owes a Lot of Money, Repressions and Censorship of Activists Noted

   Links for the day

5. Anniversaries Coming Up

   Probably the funnest year of our lives, and definitely the most productive

6. In Europe, Vista 11 Grew Only 3% (Relative to Other Windows Versions) This Year

   That's a huge problem for Microsoft

7. Google's YouTube Censorship Has Gotten a Lot Worse and Anti-scientific (for Commercial Reasons)

   By today's standards, YouTube is not something RMS can (or would) use

8. Google Appears to Have Broken Every Single Instance of Invidious. It's a Wake-up Call, Please Stop Uploading Videos to YouTube.

   Including videos of Free software events

9. [Meme] Video Uploads Improved

   The tools are all in our self-hosted Git repository and the licence is, as usual, AGPLv3

10. Apple Event as Fine Example of the "IT" Circus

    It's not clear if the enemy of Free software is a company like Apple is simply public ignorance that Apple keeps fostering

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 11, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 11, 2024

13. Gemini Links 12/09/2024: Clean Island and VCFMW19

    Links for the day

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