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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 25, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VIII
    By Dr. Andy Farnell
  2. GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in Europe (at 6%)
    many in Europe chose to explore something else, something freedom-respecting
  3. Techrights' Statement on Code of Censorship (CoC) and Kent Overstreet: This Was the Real Purpose of Censorship Agreements All Along
    Bombing people is OK (if you sponsor the key organisations), opposing bombings is not (a CoC in a nutshell)

    New

  4. Patents Against Energy Sources That Reduce Pollution
    this EV space (not just charging) is a patent mine field and it has long been that way
  5. DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Howard Shrobe, Values Compartmentalisation But Loses the Opportunity to Promote GNU/Linux and BSDs
    All in all, he misses an opportunity
  6. Wayland is an Alternative to X
    the alternative to X (as in Twitter) isn't social control media but something like IRC
  7. BetaNews, Desperate for Clicks, is Pushing Donald Trump Spam Created by LLMs (Slop)
    Big clap to Brian Fagioli for stuffing a "tech" site with Trump spam (not the first time he uses LLMs to do this)
  8. [Meme] Social Control Media Bliss
    "My tree is bigger than yours"
  9. Links 24/11/2024: More IMF Bailouts and Net Client Freedom
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 24/11/2024: Being a Student and Digital Downsizing
    Links for the day
  11. [Meme] The Most Liberal Company
    "Insurrection? What insurrection?"
  12. apple.com Traffic Down Over 7%, Says One Spyware Firm; Apple's Liabilities Increased Over 6% to $308,030,000,000
    Apple is also about 120 billion dollars in debt
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 23, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, November 23, 2024
  15. [Meme] GAFAMfox
    Mozilla Firefox in a state of extreme distress
  16. Google Can Kill Mozilla Any Time It Wants
    That gives Google far too much power over its rival... There are already many sites that refuse to work with Firefox or explicitly say Firefox isn't supported
  17. Free (as in Freedom) Software Helps Tackle the Software Liability Issue, It Lets Users Exercise Greater Control Over Programs
    Microsofters have been trying to ban or exclude Free software
  18. In the US, Patent Laws Are Up for Sale
    This problem is a lot bigger than just patents
  19. ESET Finds Rootkits, Does Not Explain How They Get Installed, Media Says It Means "Previously Unknown Linux Backdoors" (Useful Distraction From CALEA and CALEA2)
    FUD watch
  20. Techdirt Loses Its Objectivity in Pursuit of Money
    The more concerning aspects are coverage of GAFAM and Microsoft in particular

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-18 to 2024-11-24
    2158 /n/2024/11/18/Business_Software_Alliance_BSA_Microsoft_and_AstroTurfing_Onlin.shtml
    2048 /n/2024/11/20/Did_Microsoft_Buy_Red_Hat_Without_Paying_for_It_Does_It_Tell_Ca.shtml
    1996 /n/2024/11/16/If_You_Donate_to_the_FSFE_You_Are_Funding_a_Microsoft_Front_Gro.shtml
    1228 /n/2024/11/24/ESET_Finds_Rootkits_Does_Not_Explain_How_They_Get_Installed_Med.shtml
    815 /n/2024/11/18/LLMs_Are_Not_a_Form_of_Intelligence_They_Never_Will_Be.shtml
    720 /n/2024/11/19/What_IBMers_Say_About_IBM_Causing_IBMers_to_Resign_by_Making_Li.shtml
    673 /n/2024/11/18/BetaNews_is_Still_Shitposting_About_Trump_and_Porn_Two_Analyser.shtml
    594 /n/2024/11/20/Jeremy_Bobbio_Lunar_Debian_from_Frans_Pop_to_Euthanasia.shtml
    589 /n/2024/11/17/Links_17_11_2024_China_s_Diplomacy_and_Gazprom_Setback.shtml
    570 /n/2024/11/19/Links_19_11_2024_War_on_Cables.shtml
    550 /n/2024/11/22/Microsofters_Try_to_Defund_the_Free_Software_Foundation_by_Atta.shtml
    540 /n/2024/11/22/EPO_Education_Workers_Resort_to_Legal_Actions_Many_Cases_Agains.shtml
    538 /n/2024/11/19/Drew_s_Development_Mailing_Lists_and_Patches_to_Refine_His_Atta.shtml
    497 /n/2024/11/19/Re_de_centralisation_Should_Be_Our_Goal.shtml

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