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  1. [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Spanish (in Peru Last Week)
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  2. Gemini Links 03/11/2024: Fantasy Life Day and Worship
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  3. [Meme] Write Us Drivers and GTFO!
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  4. GNU/Linux "Market Share" in Lebanon More Than Doubled in a Few Months
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  5. Gemini Links 03/11/2024: Election Thoughts, Plagiarism, and LLM Slop
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  6. Links 03/11/2024: Deere 'Right to Repair' (RoR) and "Threads Bans Anyone For Mentioning Hitler"
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  7. [Video] "El Movimiento del Software Libre y el Sistema Operativo GNU" by Richard M. Stallman
    The footage is a bit jittery (taken with a phone apparently, and there's no tripod available), but the sound is OK and the words (in Spanish) are comprehensible
  8. Android at New Highs (47%), Windows at New Lows (24%), Suggests Latest Data From statCounter
    So the market share of Android is about double that of Windows
  9. The Media Focuses on the Wrong Scandal
    The real scandal at MIT was Gates
  10. Decommissioning Copper Lines Makes Us Less Safe
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  11. Life of an Addicted Lolicon Who Can Also Code
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  12. [Meme] Reporting Crime is Not a Crime
    Obviously!
  13. Manchester Party for Techrights
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  14. Privacy is Not a Crime (in Places Where It is a Crime the Regime is Typically Very Rogue)
    Also, criminals lack "privacy rights" to hide their crimes from the public
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 02, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, November 02, 2024
  17. Nearly 40 Years Without Security Incidents
    People who use Windows have come to sort of "accept" that security incidents are part of life or "normal"
  18. [Meme] The Streisand Effect
    Simon says, don't bother trying to suppress facts
  19. Streisand Effect at IBM?
    Trying to silence your workers isn't the best approach. It only makes colleagues even more curious.
  20. Microsoft is a Gift That Keeps Giving (Future Stories to Techrights)
    Microsoft has been trying to silence me using dirty tricks for nearly 20 years
  21. Elon Musk Has Trashed Twitter for Ideological Reasons (and Propping Up Trump in Exchange for Financial and Political Favours Once in Public Office)
    In case you didn't leave Twitter already, consider the fact that Twitter's (or "X"... whatever!) future is uncertain
  22. Wall Street Has Demoted Intel, Seeing There May be No Future to Intel
    Intel's loss isn't a loss to us
  23. Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too
    Linux as de facto proprietary off-the-shelf platform

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