Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 10, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. World Wide Web: Only Criminals Would Want Real Security and Vouch for Themselves When They Use Encryption

   In "modern" browsers, the podlock icon probably does not mean what users might think it means

2. [Meme] OSI Digging Its Very Own Grave (With Microsoft)

   The very latest blog post from OSI is a hoot

3. Geminispace is More Trustworthy (and Private) Than the World Wide Web

   Unlike the Web, Geminispace does not route the lion's share of traffic through a collective of spying companies

4. Once Again Linux Foundation Makes It Clear It's Being 'Absorbed' by Bill Gates

   Linux Foundation devotes about 2% of its budget to Linux

5. World Wide Slop

   If it quacks like a duck...

   New

6. Gemini Links 09/10/2024: YouTube Woes, Post-Truth Slop

   Links for the day

7. Nothing Will Be Secure and Robust to Failure Until Microsoft Windows is Eradicated and/or Disconnected From the Internet

   Every system has limited capacity, Windows botnets push things to their limits

8. GNU/Linux Took Off at the BSDs' Expense (Amid Telecom Lawsuit) and the Rivalry Persists Because Microsoft is Negligible in the Server Space

   UNIX or POSIX is the future

9. Links 09/10/2024: Samsung's Fall, Tensions Growing Near China

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 09/10/2024: Retroware and gmlgcd 2.0

    Links for the day

11. Links 09/10/2024: Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 Officially Dead, X/Twitter Shutdown in Brazil, and "OpenAI Is A Bad Business"

    Links for the day

12. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part III

    By Dr. Andy Farnell

13. [Meme] Bill Gates With a Side of "Linux"

    Linux Foundation is trolling us with Bill Gates

14. IBM is a Boys' Club

    If IBM collapsed, the Red Hat engineers who work on GNU and Linux would simply work elsewhere (on the same projects)

15. The Miserable State of GAFAM

    Looking for government handouts

16. Microsoft is Acting Like a Company That's Running Out of Money (But Still Pretends to be Wealthy in Order to Attract or Retain Shareholders)

    Azure has had mass layoffs every year since 2020, yet Microsoft keeps telling shareholders that "clown computing" is growing

17. Dr. Andy Farnell's Article on Societal Disorganised Attachment and the Role of Social Control Media

    The article is quite long and typos were still being fixed as recently as last night

18. Smear Alert: Linus Torvalds Asking for Better Commit Messages Makes Linus a (Grammar) Nazi

    Maybe the "mainstream media" is looking for clickbait or maybe it's actively looking to make a scandal - a phony controversy with which to make the job of coordinating Linux unpleasant

19. Gemini Links 09/10/2024: Climate Doom and Clagrange

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 08, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 08, 2024

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