Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2024,
updated Sep 24, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] Playing 'Internet Cops'

   OK, disable first; Ask questions later

2. A Migration to Centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) Has Betrayed LXer

   Suffocating oneself is never a good option

3. [Meme] Lamb to the Slaughter

   Companies need to compete in the market

4. A Year Since the Big Switch - Part II - Early Discussions About More DDoS- and Censorship-Resistant (Robust to SLAPP) Hosting

   This started around 2021 or 2022

5. Does the WARN Act Still Matter in the United States? (Layoffs and Closure Transparency)

   Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act was meant to help workers, but does it still work? Do companies follow the law?

   New

6. GNU is Turning 41 Next Week and It'll Outlive Linux

   "Next week is the anniversary of GNU!"

7. 5649 Articles/Pages in the First Year

   we've clearly become far more productive

8. The Slow March Towards Computers as Prison

   The "death march" of Software Freedom

9. YouTube Might Still Be Accessible Using Some Free Software (for Now), But Not YouTube.com

   Just hanging by a thread

10. Year 2 of New Techrights

    We received recognition from some high-profile and mainstream sites

11. Expect Microsoft Windows to Nodedive in China, Just Like in India

    Huawei is breaking up with Microsoft

12. Links 23/09/2024: More Layoffs and Toxic Politics

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 23/09/2024: Holidays and Window Managers

    Links for the day

14. Links 23/09/2024: TLS Weaknesses Explained, Banksy Art Recovered

    Links for the day

15. RTOS on a Kernel With Nearly 40 Million Lines of Code

    Hardly simple

16. Burying Criticism of Linux as an RTOS

    Curiously enough, people who know Linux best (from the inside) mocked the idea of Linux as realtime/real-time OS

17. YouTube: You're Blocked From Watching Videos About Why YouTube Sucks Until You Make YouTube Suck Even More

    Sometimes the jokes write themselves

18. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Chosen PeerTube

    The FSF also uses MediaGoblin

19. Google Has Left Almost Nothing of Invidious

    the solution may be to boycott YouTube

20. YouTube Stopped Working With Free Software a Long Time Ago; Now It Stops Working if You Use an Ad Blocker (Across the Web!)

    Does Google now leverage "YouTube addiction" to wage a war on ad blockers everywhere?

21. Here Comes Winter

    We have a number of series planned for this coming winter and next year

22. [Meme] Threatened at Knifepoint

    Thugs and bullies come in many forms

23. Finding Hosts That Are Robust to Censorship, Not Just Boasting Decent Uptime Record

    Synopsis: think carefully, choose wisely

24. Wow! Microsoft Promotes DirectX (Proprietary)

    I covered this in a video 4 years ago

25. All-Time Highs for Android and GNU/Linux in India

    As a reminder, India is the world's largest population and a growing force in "IT"

26. [Meme] Debian's Black Eye: Free Speech

    Debian: "Stop. Criticising. Me."

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 22, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, September 22, 2024

29. Gemini Links 23/09/2024: Autumns, Hackney Carnival 2024, and ROOPHLOCH

    Links for the day

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