Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] Shooting the Messenger

   "you needn't refute the message, just take out the messengers"

2. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Associate Sued Us for Publishing Perfectly Accurate Article About SFC; We Sued Them for Harassment

   SFC and its associates aren't nice people

3. Fantastic Journalism by Brian Fagioli

   A lot of today's Web, even "news" sites, is spam

4. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Raised More Than Three Times More Money Than the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), Which Mostly Gets Money From Corporations, Including Microsoft

   Do not donate any money to copycat organisations. It's worse than money down the river because your money might get spent attacking and even defaming the originals.

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5. Techrights Does Not Forget

   Techrights has many anti-censorship mechanisms

6. Windows Has Fallen to All-Time Low in India

   In India, only about 1 in 8 Web requests comes from Windows

7. Microsoft Criminals: Law Enforcement is the Real Problem

   deflecting the issue and resorting to projection

8. [Meme] They Dropped the L (Libre and Law)

   SFLC, could I borrow 75% of your letters?

9. Companies That the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Will Censor the Community for, Using Their Very Large CoC

   also exploiting poor (and sexually abused) women from eastern Europe

10. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Has Asked a Blogger to Delete This Page About the SFC, So We Reproduce It in Full Here

    Censored article

11. Increasing Productivity With Less Hardware, Little Power, and Fewer CPU Cycles (and Far Less Digital Waste in General)

    A lot of people who glance at our PCs (as they visit us) act a bit baffled, as much of what we're using is a bunch of terminals and some text editors

12. Gemini Protocol Keeps Getting Better (Less and Less Reliance on Centralised Certificate Authorities)

    Reliable systems do not depend on third parties, only themselves

13. Why We Moved to Perl and Dumped PHP Last Year

    Elongating the lifetime of the underlying stack

14. Links 05/12/2024: Explaining the South Korea Chaos and French PM Barnier's Government Already Disintegrating

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 05/12/2024: Domain Changes, Griping With Haskell

    Links for the day

16. Links 05/12/2024: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft's PR (Bribery of Media) Agency, UnitedHealthcare CEO Shot Dead

    Links for the day

17. GNU/Linux news for the past day

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 04, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, December 04, 2024

19. Links 05/12/2024: Formaldehyde and Cancer, US and China Boycotting One Another

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 05/12/2024: Hermeticism, Living in the Shell, and More

    Links for the day

21. At the OSI, Microsoft Operative (Funded by Microsoft) Promotes Proprietary Software of Microsoft

    The OSI is deeply corrupt. The good news is, it's barely hiding it anymore.

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