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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Even LKML Subjected to Slop/SPAM by Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com)
    They're really awful
  2. What Makes RMS Such an Attractive Target ('Discreditisation' Campaigns)
    Don't be so easily fooled
  3. The Biggest OEMs or Vendors of GNU/Linux Stopped Competing With Microsoft (Which Pays Them to Promote Windows, Too)
    Where are the competition authorities (or regulators for that matter)?
  4. Would You Trust a Liar?
    Why lie about the authorship?

    New

  5. Links 06/11/2024: BPF in RFC 9669, More Facebook Fines for Privacy Abuses
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Political Shock and Hermaic Encouragement
    Links for the day
  7. Planet Debian Allows Politics (But It Depends on Your Opinions and Debian's Big Sponsors)
    Planet Debian is OK with politics... as long as all your political opinions are the "correct" ones and you add cute animals
  8. Let's Encrypt Falls to a New Low of Only 0.6% of Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa
    In Gemini Protocol, certificates for encryption are required, but centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) aren't needed
  9. Computer-Generator Crap Flooding the Web, the Latest Example About "Linux"
    Here's today's example
  10. Links 06/11/2024: Election Disinformation and Legal Actions
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Stargazing and Death on Hallowe'en
    Links for the day
  12. Mass Layoffs at Mozilla Announced During US Elections
    Maybe nobody will notice?
  13. [Meme] Announcing "Results" Before Everyone Even "Played"
    There is a "tech" angle to otherwise political news
  14. US Polls Close in One Minute (Social Control Media Does Not Care, Will Not Wait)
    US election results will be known in about 2 days
  15. Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication
    KDE has a history of burying old sites
  16. Social Control Media, Even Hours Before Polls Have Closed
    Has social control media controlled by CPC (TikTok) and the Trumpmobile guy (Musk's "X") done enough to convince people not to even vote (based on presumptive "results", presented a long time before all polls have closed)?
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 05, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 05, 2024
  19. Wayland Pains in Community-Led Distros of GNU/Linux
    Few people and companies use Wayland; there's hardly any technical or practical reason to choose it
  20. IBM Still Conflating Microsoft With 'Security'
    As a meme
  21. Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software
    some Chinese Linux developers are already subjected to restrictions similar to Russians'
  22. Web Failing With Slop, Even in 'Linux' Sites (LLM Spam)
    Add SEO prompting to the mix and the Web becomes a pool of slop, not knowledge
  23. [Meme] State of the World Wide Web and Online Journalism
    Technically a failure (DRM) and cannot even get basic things right
  24. Trump's signature policy, building a wall, copied from Irish-Australian student politician
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  25. Linus Torvalds' self-deprecating LKML CoC mail linked to Hitler's first writing: Gemlich letter
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  26. [Meme] Turning 18 in One Day
    just one more day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    1225 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml
    984 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    802 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    677 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    668 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    579 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    577 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    570 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml
    540 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    529 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml
    524 /n/2024/11/03/Streisand_Effect_at_IBM.shtml
    524 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    517 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml
    514 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    512 /n/2024/11/04/Active_as_in_One_URL_One_Emoji_and_4_Words_in_One_Week.shtml

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