Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. South America: GNU/Linux Grew to 8.15% Venezuela, Steadily Over 3% Overall

   holding steady above 3%

2. Clownflare (Cloudflare) Debt Grows, Losses Continue

   debt of nearly $400,000 per employee

3. [Meme] GAGAM: Google, Apple, Gulag, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Rest

   The Web has never been more dangerous and hostile

   New

4. The Userbase of GNU/Linux is Growing, Investments in the FSF Grow Too (in Spite of Microsofters Inciting and Slandering It)

   The FSF's expenses are close to 2 million dollars a year

5. Links 03/12/2024: Pat Gelsinger's Firing Spun as 'Retirement', US Exports Land Mines

   Links for the day

6. Links 03/12/2024: GrapheneOS, Raspberry Pi 4, and More

   Links for the day

7. Links 03/12/2024: Googlebombing "Windows 12", Games Preservation, and Public Domain Game Jam

   Links for the day

8. It's FOSS? No, It's SPAM.

   Another sellout

9. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) 'Works' for Linux Foundation (LF) on SPAM Campaigns, Just Like Spamnil's TFiR (Swapnil Bhartiya)

   How can he publish something like this under his name?

10. Microsoft's Debt Ratio is Awful

    It owes almost 150% of what it can give

11. Microsoft Has Already Laid Off Tens of Thousands of Workers, "Headcount" is Misleading Spin From Microsoft-Funded Sites

    Expect Microsoft to suck up to Trump, looking for more bailouts (those typically manifest themselves in the form of "defence" contracts)

12. Gemini Links 03/12/2024: December Adventure and Social Justice Gone Wild

    Links for the day

13. Microsoft Windows Falls to 12.5% in Cuba, Android Soaring

    Windows isn't even doing too well on desktops/laptops

14. ChromeOS Isn't Freedom, But It's Killing Microsoft's Ability to Profit From Windows

    ChromeOS has shot up to 22% in Sweden

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 02, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, December 02, 2024

17. The L Word (Not Linux)

    Championing Software Freedom is "dangerous"

18. Did IBM Layoffs Stop? Ask Dr. Krishna, The 'Genius' of IBM...

    Trust AK to solve all the problems of IBM by creating bigger problems

19. It's Easy to Snyk in Marketing SPAM (and FUD) Into BetaNews

    The latest marketing piece (disguised as information, not shameless self-promotion)

20. [Meme] Sportwashing vs Code of Censorship (CoC)

    Expectation of censorship (censor for me... or else!)

21. GNU/Linux at 4% in Algeria

    So it more than doubled since last year

22. With 4 Weeks to Go (Before the End of 2024) the FSF Has Already Raised Close to 100,000 Dollars

    The FSF must be doing something right

23. "Linux on the Desktop" (Less Than a Third of Web-connected Computers Still a Desktop or Laptop)

    It's like we're chasing a goal that's 2 or 3 decades in the past

24. [Meme] The Failure of Microsoft Rebranding Campaigns

    market share down, costs soared, back to basics

25. 2 Years Have Passed Since ChatGPT Vapourware and Bing Gained Nothing, Yandex is About to Overtake Microsoft in Search

    A cause for concern at Microsoft?

26. GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Ireland, ChromeOS Grows and Android Takes Windows' Lunch

    Windows down to 22%

27. [Meme] Meanwhile at Intel (Where the CEO Got the Boot)

    Well, if taxpayers pay to save Intel, then Intel should be publicly owned (by those taxpayers)

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