Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Wikileaks is Now Stuck Under the Clutches of Donald Trump (via Elon Musk)

   The same Trump administration that was blackmailing Assange and also schemed to torture/assassinate him

2. IPKat's Annsley Merelle Ward Spreading the Same Old Lies and Shameless Propaganda to Promote Software Patents in Europe (i.e. the Usual... and She's Not Even a Coder)

   People are quick to point out that the cited survey is very inherently biased

3. Windows in Azerbaijan: Down From Around 99% to Around 20%

   In the past two years Microsoft could barely keep above 20%

4. Microsoft's Vanity Vapourware ('Lame Duck' Product for Trump and Biden Bailouts) Again "Discontinued"

   Microsoft cannot keep a dying unit that makes almost no sales alive just for mere prospects of a bailout (which falls through because even the military turns it down)

5. When Articles About Linux Foundation Are LLM SPAM (Slop) From Publishers Paid by the Linux Foundation

   This is a corruption of the Web

   New

6. Links 16/11/2024: Twitter (X) Exodus Continues, Social Control Media Sanctions Spread Further

   Links for the day

7. If You Donate to the FSFE, You Are Funding a Microsoft Front Group Inside Europe

   FSFE has a new "Sugar Daddy"

8. Links 16/11/2024: FTC Investigates Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for "Clown Computing" Market Abuses, General Motors Mass Layoffs

   Links for the day

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 15, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, November 15, 2024

11. Claim That IBM Canada Had Mass Layoffs Just Hours Ago

    Nothing in the media, as usual

12. Gemini Links 16/11/2024: Starting Afresh, Community-to-community Networks

    Links for the day

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