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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2024

Northern part of the village of Killin in the Scottish Highlands

Updated This Past Day

  1. BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles"
    Published 5 minutes ago by Brian Fagioli...
  2. WordPress is for the 'Old Web'; the New Web Necessitates Static Pages
    There are purely practical reasons to move away from WordPress and the likes of it
  3. Biggest Debt Leap in Years, More Than Half a Trillion Dollars in Just One Month
    We remind people (almost every year) that it's also "buynothingday"
  4. Golden Dawn(ald) and What GAFAM Means to Liberal Techies
    In one single screenshot
  5. It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead
    What happens to LLM slop when Brian Fagioli dies?

    New

  6. Links 12/11/2024: A Lot of Censorship and SWNS at 50
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 12/11/2024: Invidious Down and YouTube Addiction
    Links for the day
  8. Links 12/11/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Failures and COP29 Fakers
    Links for the day
  9. Latest Rumours of Red Hat Layoffs
    Rumours or gossip is how almost everything starts
  10. Windows Falling to All-Time Lows and Microsoft Has Nothing to Replace It With
    It's mostly Android (Linux) replacing Windows
  11. Cybershow Has a New 81-Minute Episode on Digital Sovereignty and International Cyber-Relations
    it is a high-quality show
  12. Activism in the Digital Realm Can Never (and Must Never) Rely on GAFAM
    This simply means that tech activists must completely abandon any hopes of finding allies in Google or IBM or whatever...
  13. IBM CEO Says Donald Trump as President-Elect is Good for IBM in New Interview With CNBC
    most unprincipled CEO ever?
  14. GNU/Linux Up to 6.1% in Finland (Almost 9% If One Counts ChromeOS Too)
    Home of Linux (the kernel)
  15. BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles'
    everything is now suspect in BetaNews
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 11, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, November 11, 2024
  18. Free Software and Love of Nature
    It's not a coincidence that many Free software activists are also lovers of nature
  19. Silicon Valley and GAFAM Were Never Liberal
    spineless CEOs and founders aren't against Trump
  20. Windows and 'The Desktop' Floundering
    Microsoft should be extremely worried
  21. WordPress is Bad for the Planet (Even If Many Still Use It)
    the costs nobody wishes to talk about
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1540 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_a_Scam_Like_Crypto_So_is_the_Company_of_Jim.shtml
    1508 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml
    1242 /n/2024/11/12/It_s_Morbid_to_Talk_About_Living_People_as_If_They_re_Dead.shtml
    1176 /n/2024/11/09/Joel_Espy_Klecker_unpaid_terminally_ill_youth_labor_Debian_knew.shtml
    826 /n/2024/11/11/WordPress_is_Unfit_for_Purpose_in_2024.shtml
    784 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml
    649 /n/2024/11/08/Donald_Trump_as_Censor_in_Chief_Can_Now_Leverage_Censorship_Com.shtml
    645 /n/2024/11/06/Would_You_Trust_a_Liar.shtml
    605 /n/2024/11/09/Teaser_Meme_Central_Occupational_Health_Safety_and_Ergonomics_C.shtml
    605 /n/2024/11/10/Gemini_Links_10_11_2024_A_Writer_s_Block_VIM_Tips_and_Tricks.shtml
    586 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_Rebuilding_the_Berlin_Wall_to_Keep_Russians.shtml
    567 /n/2024/11/09/EPO_is_Blasting_Its_Own_Foot_There_Will_be_No_EPO_Left.shtml
    546 /n/2024/11/05/Links_05_11_2024_Criminal_Referrals_Regarding_Patent_Trolls_and.shtml
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    523 /n/2024/11/06/Sanctions_Cause_Fragmentation_in_Software.shtml
    516 /n/2024/11/07/Anti_Linux_FUD_Now_in_LLM_Form_Thanks_to_Brittany_Day.shtml
    515 /n/2024/11/07/Who_Next_on_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Kill_List.shtml
    512 /n/2024/11/07/Today_We_Got_an_Early_Birthday_Gift.shtml
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    508 /n/2024/11/08/Security_Advisory_Debian_falls_for_social_engineering_hacks.shtml
    506 /n/2024/11/07/FSF_Expressed_No_Preference_Regarding_Presidential_Candidates_I.shtml
    501 /n/2024/11/08/Many_Applications_Labelled_as_Cybersecurity_and_Given_a_Veneer_.shtml
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