Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2024,
updated Nov 15, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Debian GNU/Linux and Free Software Developer Daniel Pocock in Irish Elections This Month (Dublin Bay South)

   Polling day in 15 days

   New

2. Alexander Wirt (formorer), Wayward people & Debian censorship

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

3. Gemini Links 14/11/2024: Infocalypse and "Multiple Monitorings"

   Links for the day

4. Links 14/11/2024: The Web We Lost Coming Back, X/Twitter Crashing

   Links for the day

5. Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability

   Links for the day

6. Links 14/11/2024: EmacsConf and Flounder

   Links for the day

7. Links 14/11/2024: Science and the Demise of Microsoft-Connected USPTO Director

   Links for the day

8. For "X" to Die the Media and Politicians Will Need to Quit (Then, Advertisers Will Lose Interest, Even for Political Ads)

   Fewer people are still there anyway

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 13, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 13, 2024

11. Bob Should Tell Alice About What GitHub (Which Linux Foundation Outsources Code to) Does to Entire Nations, Following Donald Trump's Policies

    "What's next, preventing access to Linux from non-NATO countries? Putting NSA backdoors in the kernel?"

12. Layoffs as Happy Stories in the Corporate Media

    It's based on a longstanding pattern

13. It Took The Guardian More Than 2 Years of Musk to Realise What Twitter Was and It Took Twitter 4 Years of a President Trump to Realise What Trump Was

    Trump was deplatformed only a fortnight before Biden became president anyway

14. [Meme] Google 80%, Windows 2%

    "I'm going to f-ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f-ing kill Google."

15. Microsoft's Market Share Falls to 2% in Haiti

    Throw in Android (now 80% of "the market") and Windows is down to 2%

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