Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The High Cost of Making Scepticism of Proprietary Voting Machines a "Trump" and "Conspiracy Theory" Territory

   Time to get back to paper? Or read an old paper?

2. Today We Got an Early Birthday Gift

   Exciting times

3. [Meme] Going Too Far to the Left Can Breed Militant Ideology

   Some people can never be appeased because they prefer not to be appeased

4. FSF Expressed No Preference Regarding Presidential Candidates (Its Founder Did)

   Because he is a principled person, he does not prioritise loyalty to customers or employers (money)

5. Who Next on the Linux Foundation's 'Kill List'?

   Remember that only about 2% of the "Linux" Foundation's budget goes to Linux

   New

6. [Meme] Questioning Proprietary Software? Not OK...

   A disaster long in the making

7. Links 07/11/2024: HTTP/3, Health Research, and Punditry

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 07/11/2024: On Writing Publicly and Record Player Table

   Links for the day

9. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Hosted SOSS as Microsoft Propaganda Platform With Microsoft Front Group OSI

   They essentially promote what they're attacking under false pretences [...] OSI is deeply corrupt. It's more toxic than arsenic.

10. Anti-Linux FUD, Now in LLM Form, Thanks to Brittany Day

    They attack Linux with chatbots

11. [Meme] When You Discredit People Who Discredit Secret Code

    proprietary systems with hundreds of millions of transistors (and hundreds of millions of lines of code)

12. Links 07/11/2024: Online Manipulation in Social Control Media, Election Deniers, and More

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 07/11/2024: emacs-guix and File Hoarding

    Links for the day

14. [Meme] Election Day at the European Patent Office

    Less than 60 minutes left to cast your vote

15. Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Election Ending Today

    In one hour

16. [Meme] When the Patent Office Does Illegal Things and Staff Speaks Out

    many leaks received today

17. Apple's Debt Has Skyrocketed While Gimmicks Like Vision Pro Failed

    In Apple's case, the debt is almost double the "Cash on Hand", which isn't even cash

18. A President Trump is Excellent News to Microsoft

    His racist policies gave lots of contracts to Microsoft

19. Links 07/11/2024: Facebook Scams, Journalists on Strike

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 06, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 06, 2024

22. Microsoft-Connected Publishers Want Us to Think That Linux is Some Sort of a Virus and a "Backdoor"

    "The problem is with windows and the attack vector is via Windows"

23. We've Made it to 18! Here's to Another 18!

    Going on for another 18 years means until some time at the end of 2042

24. Links 07/11/2024: Political Angst and Laptop Issues

    Links for the day

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