Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 14, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Red Hat: Thank You, Microsoft. Here's Your Paid-for Puff Pieces From Our Media Partner!

   Sort of like "money laundering" (or funnelling of bribes) for bribed "journalists"

2. Links 13/12/2024: Military Buildup Around Taiwan, More Health Problems Associated With Social Control Media Illuminated

   Links for the day

3. [Teaser] The EPO is Still Calling Monopolies "Products"

   Coming soon

4. Why We Cover the Topics That We've Long Focused on (by Choice)

   We'll continue to cover suppressed issues because such issues are usually obstructed

5. [Meme] The Reasonable Man

   "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world"

   New

6. Links 13/12/2024: British Journalism Awards and Censorship by Copyright Misuse

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 13/12/2024: "Virtue Signaling", Gopher, HTML and the 90s Web Aesthetic

   Links for the day

8. Maybe - and Hopefully - More News Sites Will Go "Static" (More New Material Published But Established Pages Served Directly From the File System)

   Keeping things simple and light is important for the sake of scaling

9. [Meme] Vendor Capture for 'Civility's Sake'

   "I CoCed him already"

10. Anonymity for Sources

    At the moment we can learn about stories in person or in encrypted voice chat

11. What Topics We Prioritise

    On fishing for topics to cover

12. Oligarch-Owned Media Twists the Narrative and Demands More Surveillance

    Corruption is the real issue here

13. Windows Falls to Single-Digit "Market Share" in Benin

    Windows has fallen even further

14. [Meme] Doing Online Activism in Social Control Media

    Dictators have always loved lists

15. Gemini Links 13/12/2024: Creative Moods, Berkeley DB, and More

    Links for the day

16. Microsoft Windows Falls to New All-Time Low in Guatemala (Less Than a Quarter)

    When it comes to operating systems, we don't think we've mentioned it before

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 12, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, December 12, 2024

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