Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Saving the Planet With Honesty, Transparency, and Sharing (Not Only of Computer Code)

   GAFAM is destroying the only habitat humans and other animals have and it'll only get worse

2. Shout-out to Christine From FOSSForce

   Who noticed our short story

3. Apple's MacOS Shows Us the Vision of Computing That GAFAM Has for Us (Digital Prisons)

   Freedom means "we the people" should be in control, not people being controlled by corporations (contemporary slaveowners)

   New

4. Microsoft Lost Nearly Half of Its 'Cash Reserves' This Past Year

   Is Microsoft (MSFT) the next Intel (INTC)?

5. The Year Isn't Over Yet, There Will be More Waves of Microsoft Layoffs

   Nowadays Microsoft just tries to conflate/equate its energy waste with "value"

6. The Corporate Media Blasted Bitcoin for Destroying the Planet and Must Do the Same to Incite the Public Against the 'Great Rigging of Wall Street' (Under the Guise of "AI", the Latest Gold Rush)

   "AI" is the next "metaverse" (trailing by a few months)

7. [Video] Richard Stallman is Back to Halo and Gown (in Peru) With 2+ Hours of a Public Talk

   The globetrotting Richard Stallman gave many talks at the end of last month

8. Going Strong Against the Wind

   the abuse serves to emphasise or affirm the importance of what we do

9. Links 04/11/2024: Squashing More Software Patents and Taiwan at Risk

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 04/11/2024: Typing vs Writing and a Smol (Net) Pub

    Links for the day

11. Links 04/11/2024: LibreOffice Had Adopted PeerTube, "Hey Hi" Hype is a Threat to the Energy Grids (Worse Than Fake-Coins)

    Links for the day

12. [Meme] Social Control Telescreens With Microphone

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

13. Not Boycotting Apple (Yet)?

    "Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1"

14. statCounter This Month: Android Has Nearly Become Twice as Big as Windows

    If it happened, it would be an unprecedented milestone

15. Why Technical Sites Need Not Make Political Recommendations or Endorsements

    Except perhaps when it's for some purely technical role, e.g. FCC chief

16. [Meme] Apple Freedom

    Freedom is... the ability to purchase as many 'i' things as you want

17. "Active" as in One URL, One Emoji, and 4 Words in One Week

    Diversity community in Fedora

18. Apple Vision Pro Has Failed, Just Like "Metaverse"

    Vision Pro lacks software

19. Things That Can Improve Election Integrity

    the first two relate to "tech"

20. Rigging Elections is Difficult, Cheating a Little is Not

    Avoid social control media, it is the biggest rigger of all

21. "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

    On throwing stones in a glass house

22. Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines

    The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code

23. Microsoft and "Retrospective Re-writing of History..."

    in YouTube anyone can make stuff up (as one goes along)

24. This Coming Week

    Go exercise your right to vote

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 03, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, November 03, 2024

27. Reddit is (Still) Lying and Faking

    Don't fall for this phony idea that the above sites are grassroots or edgy; they're not

28. GNU/Linux Users Are Not Cheaters

    The bottom line is, most cheaters use Windows

29. Links 04/11/2024: FCC, Broadband Industry Spar Over Net Neutrality; Software Patent Squashed

    Links for the day

30. Gemini Links 03/11/2024: Official MyGemini.Space Announcement

    Links for the day

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