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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2024,
updated Nov 02, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part V
    By Dr. Andy Farnell

    New

  2. Facebook's Debt Has Soared to All-Time High of Nearly 50 Billion Dollars
    But the corporate media pretends all is well (while mass layoffs continue and slop takes over the social control media)
  3. Geminispace Makes It Past 4,200 Capsules on November 1st
    At last!
  4. Links 01/11/2024: Election Interferences by X/Twitter/Musk, Strava as Espionage Tool
    Links for the day
  5. The October 2024 Web Server Survey Shows a Further Collapse for Microsoft in the Servers Market
    Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 699,464 sites (-3.45%)
  6. Gemini Links 01/11/2024: TLS Sucks, twytere.com Announced
    Links for the day
  7. Links 01/11/2024: Few Things Are Cheaper Than This Antenna and "Nothing Lasts Forever"
    Links for the day
  8. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  9. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 31, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 31, 2024
  10. R.T.O. is Another Name (or Acronym) for Voluntary Layoffs
    Amazon is trying to get many workers to leave on their own
  11. Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision (to Fake Revenue Growth by Buying Revenue) Was a Failure
    Of course the mass layoffs at Microsoft aren't just a Microsoft thing
  12. Stagnant, Shrinking Businesses and "IBM's Corporate Culture Since the Late 1980s... Over 35 Years."
    Recently, IBM was using share price as a talking point, insisting the company was doing OK while tens of thousands were being laid off
  13. Links 01/11/2024: World News, Political Catchup
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    499 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml
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