Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 05, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Techrights is Officially an Adult

   this site's eighteenth anniversary

2. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IX

   By Dr. Andy Farnell

3. Many Geeks' Achilles Heel: They Don't Take Computer Breaks

   Life can get longer if you stay healthy

4. In Asia, Microsoft's Bing Became Smaller Than Yandex and It Shrinks Every Month

   How long before Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing?

   New

5. Links 04/12/2024: Social Control Media Thoughts, Enrons of 2024, and More

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 04/12/2024: Soviet Esotericism, Mikrotik is Awesome, and More

   Links for the day

7. [Meme] Silicon Valley's "Successful Businessmen"

   Debt is not a currency

8. Visualising About 0.7 Trillion Dollars of Debt in Supposedly "Successful" Tech Companies

   If they're doing so well, how come they borrow so much money (which some would struggle to pay back or never manage to pay back)?

9. Single-Digit Microsoft: Windows Finally Falls Below 10% in Angola

   it's only a matter of time before Windows is down to 5%

10. Coming Up With Topics to Cover and Issues to Comment on

    Socialising is a big part of it

11. [Meme] Far From What Was Originally Intended

    Makes site about RMS; Deletes his own 'site'

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 03, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 03, 2024

14. Illuminating Microsoft's Dirty Tactics

    Criticising illegal things that Microsoft does can be classified as "Microsoft bashing" or "hatred"

15. Proof That Drew DeVault Vanished From Mastodon After the RMS Attack Site Was Linked to Him (and People Pointed Out DeVault's Fascination With Animated CP, Drawings of Naked Kids)

    We assume he just wanted to vanish from Mastodon

16. Maybe Bill Gates is Getting Demented Like His Late Father (He Says Things That Are True But He's Not Supposed to Say in Public)

    It happened in a podcast with Reid Hoffman

17. We've Clearly Struck a Nerve

    Microsofters and Microsoft proxies have meanwhile lost their temper

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