Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Spooky Future for the World Wide Web

   Halloween perspective

2. Former Red Hat/Open Source (.com) Folk: Let's Just Reset, Set the Goals for Large Corporations' Benefit

   freedom is the goal

3. The Web Has Become More Spammy (Bot Traffic) Than E-mail

   The Web we once knew is dying; to cope with loads caused by bots consider going static

4. Wikileaks and Assange Family: Donald Trump Still Praises Man Who Wanted to Assassinate Julian Assange

   That hardly looks like a political endorsement for Donald Trump

   New

5. Why There Aren't More Sites Talking About the Attacks on the FSF (or Trying to Defend the FSF)

   The way so-called 'cancel mobs' work, they sort of make "lists"

6. [Meme] 'Smartphones on Wheels'

   "Your 'smart' car is low on batteries"

7. Gemini Links 28/10/2024: Watching Jellyfin Videos with VLC and Moving to Datacentres

   Links for the day

8. YouTube Waning and Drowning

   Perhaps it's unfair to 'single out' YouTube; it seems to be going downwards along with everything else, probably even TikTok (which faces more restrictions and bans)

9. [Meme] Safety First (Security Updates While You Move Fast)

   In vivo, in situ

10. A Kind of Sadness in Society and the Erosion of Kindness

    Such behaviours aren't unprecedented

11. Perhaps a Lot of Customers Don't Want These 'Modern' Cars

    Maybe make cars that the customers actually want rather than try to foist upon them so-called "smartphones on wheels"

12. Links 28/10/2024: Openwashing and China Testing the Water Against Indonesia

    Links for the day

13. [Meme] Drew DeVault's Suggestion to the FSF (in a Nutshell)

    Software Freedom is under attack (aimed at its very core)

14. Links 28/10/2024: Facebook's Openwashing in India and Microsoft's "AI Copilot" Becoming a Confusing Failure With Brand Shuttle

    Links for the day

15. Links 28/10/2024: Plagiarism of Code and Fancy Neighborhood

    Links for the day

16. [Meme] Voting Based on Preferences of Xi and Elon Musk

    Social control media is a problem

17. [Meme] You're Not Even a Computer Scientist (Certainly No Security Expert)

    some charlatan and liar woke up after a week's hibernation

18. Microsoft's Copilot and Copilot+ PCs Have Flopped, Manchester United Not Advertising That Junk

    The fake results are coming

19. Online Hate Group: Wipe Out the Entire Board of the FSF and Appoint Other People to Lead

    The "addicted lolicon" has plans

20. Pardoning Julian Assange for Merely Documenting Facts

    People deserve awards, not punishment, for documenting facts

21. Microsoft Attack Dogs Don't Scare Us

    History shows these tactics always backfire and just intensify the effect of the message

22. Time to Remove gmnisrv, Its Developer is Busy Attacking People Instead of Patching Security Flaws

    Agate generally works well for us and never had any security breaches

23. Mumble (and Murmur), an End-to-end Encrypted (E2EE) Communication Tool for Voice (Group Chats Included), Likely Withstood Over a Decade Without Security Flaws

    That does not mean none exist

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 27, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 27, 2024

26. [Meme] When Two Choices May Not Make a Profound Difference in Tech Policy

    Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer

27. GNU/Linux Started as Platform About Liberation, Freedom, Autonomy; Linux Foundation Tries to Redefine It as "Open Software" and Pretend It Started in the 90s

    Linux Foundation is the new Outercurve (Microsoft)

28. Richard Stallman's Latest Talks Now in Spanish

    If they cannot deplatform or cancel Stallman, then they're likely to aim at those who resist the "cancel culture"

29. Links 28/10/2024: Mostly Political Catchup, Salesforce CEO Calls Microsoft Copilot a "Flop"

    Links for the day

30. Gemini Links 28/10/2024: OpenBSD and CVS

    Links for the day

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