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New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.9

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Free the Internet: The Tor Project’s annual fundraiser

What if we could FREE THE INTERNET from the chains of surveillance and censorship?

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Why Your Web Site Should Also Support HTTP (Without 'Secure')
    sites which force everybody to use HTTPS have an inherent accessibility problem
  2. Microsoft Windows is Technically at 0% in Some Countries
    It's not an important platform to target anymore
  3. Windows Measured at 5.7% 'Market Share' in Philippines, GNU/Linux Rose to 5%
    It was 3.62% last month
  4. statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 4.6%, Windows Down Sharply This Month (Almost 22% Worldwide)
    Let's see it the figures stay stable throughout the month
  5. Figures of Note: Tesla's Debt Has More Than Doubled in Two Years and It's a Symptom of a Fake Economic Order
    Cash infusions by taxpayers can create "billionaires" who aren't "job creators" (see what happened to Twitter) and bring no benefits to these taxpayers, only poverty
  6. Linux Foundation Let Linux.com Rot for Two Months and Now It Posts Ridiculous Spam
    Mindless shopping site

    New

  7. A Cult of Fake Security
    It's almost as if there's a coordinated effort to weed out and drive away people who are passionate about security for the users, as opposed to the financial security of companies like Google and Microsoft
  8. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Long Hair and Spirituality, Technology and Nature
    Links for the day
  9. Windows Not Even a 'Thing' Anymore... in North America (Where It Originally Came From)?
    StatCounter shows Windows isn't even listed as a leading platform in any country in North America
  10. Links 02/12/2024: Obesity Crisis to Worsen, Syrian Coups Rebound
    Links for the day
  11. Months After Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Nigeria Windows "Market Share" Collapses (Now Measured at 5%)
    Of course the winner is Android (new all-time high of 77.3%)
  12. South America Has Made It (Android Majority Everywhere) and in North America New Records for GNU/Linux Usage
    Windows monopoly rents cannot be salvaged
  13. Windows Down to Only One in Six Internet- or Web-Connected Devices in Asia
    it's not looking good for Microsoft
  14. Microsoft Windows Market Share in the United Kingdom Has Fallen to About 20%
    Microsoft knows the true numbers, but it would rather not tell
  15. Links 02/12/2024: Journalists Arrested, Tesla Factories Destroying the Planet and Public Health
    Links for the day
  16. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Adventures With Bevy, Google Very Evil, Jumping Into Gemini
    Links for the day
  17. BetaNews is Still a Shrine of Microsoft, and Casually Also an LLM Slop Factory
    Fake articles, anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft propaganda make a sound "business model"?
  18. [Meme] Cyber Monday is Not a Thing; There's No Such Thing (It's a Corporate SPAM Campaign Plaguing the Web)
    Enough with these fake 'holidays' that billionaires (business oligarchs) keep inventing to make more money at other people's expense (debt)
  19. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and Linux Foundation: Same Mentality of Revisionism and Plunder
    Lie about history and then 'cash in'
  20. [Meme] Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Begs You for Donations
    How does one even spend 20,000 dollars per month???
  21. Why Software Freedom Conservancy Does Not Deserve Money (Karen Sandler is Already a Millionaire and Her Organisation Attacks Free Software Leaders)
    These people speak for "Big Money" interests, not for freedom
  22. On the internet [sic] (Lowercase), They Spread Misinformation About the Internet
    Hugh Grant remembers what happened before he was born
  23. Richard Stallman Was Getting Honorary Doctorates Almost Every Year Until 'Cancel Culture' Stepped in, Distracting From Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Bill Gates
    This finally ended... earlier this year (October)
  24. Self-Deprecating Attacks on RMS
    Drew DeVault seems to have deleted all of his social control media accounts
  25. When Bills Are Rising, Whereas the Demand Isn't (OpenAI is Insolvent)
    Latest month on record shows traffic fell about 3 times lower than earlier this year
  26. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  27. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 01, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, December 01, 2024
  28. Links 02/12/2024: Climate, Sportwashing, and Software Patents
    Links for the day
  29. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Words and Apologies, Being Rude, and Geminauts 0.1.0 Release
    Links for the day

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

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

    Span from 2024-11-26 to 2024-12-02
    1874 /n/2024/11/27/There_Are_More_Devuan_Based_Distros_of_GNU_Linux_Each_Year.shtml
    1644 /n/2024/11/30/Proving_Yet_Again_That_Techrights_Was_Right_About_UEFI_Secure_B.shtml
    927 /n/2024/12/02/Why_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Does_Not_Deserve_Money_Karen_S.shtml
    918 /n/2024/11/30/Apache_Software_Foundation_Already_Infiltrated_by_Microsoft_for.shtml
    636 /n/2024/12/02/Figures_of_Note_Tesla_s_Debt_Has_More_Than_Doubled_in_Two_Years.shtml
    586 /n/2024/11/19/What_IBMers_Say_About_IBM_Causing_IBMers_to_Resign_by_Making_Li.shtml
    570 /n/2024/11/29/Links_29_11_2024_Smithfield_Market_in_London_Shutting_Down_BRIC.shtml
    569 /n/2024/11/25/BetaNews_is_Run_and_Written_by_Bots_That_Make_Clickbait.shtml

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