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Today in Techrights

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

Redhouse: Located in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the most popular movie theater, now reopen as a modern stage and culture spot.

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

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-09-17 to 2024-09-23
    791 /n/2024/09/17/IBM_is_Acting_No_Better_Than_Patent_Trolls_Preying_on_Smaller_C.shtml
    684 /n/2024/09/19/IBM_Likely_Breaking_Several_Laws_With_Latest_Secret_Mass_Layoff.shtml
    652 /n/2024/09/21/IBM_Layoffs_It_s_Not_Over_Yet_Possibly_8_000_People_Affected.shtml
    633 /n/2024/09/17/The_Linux_Foundation_is_Associating_Linux_With_Scams_and_With_S.shtml
    610 /n/2024/09/21/After_3_Strikes_Watching_YouTube_Without_Ads_YouTube_Accuses_Yo.shtml
    590 /n/2024/09/20/Links_20_09_2024_Chinese_Botnet_Dismantled_More_EU_Shake_ups.shtml

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