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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 17, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. In Some Parts of the World, Like Central America and South America, Microsoft is Irrelevant on the Web
    Nadella has bet the farm on a Ponzi scheme
  2. There's Not Much Time Left for President Biden to Pardon Julian Assange and Signal to Journalists That Exposing States' Crimes or Rich People's Misbehaviour is Lawful
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  3. Underpaid and Inexperienced Workers Overwhelm the EPO, Granting Many Invalid Patents and Placing Pressure on Veteran Examiners
    So-called "production" (giving monopolies) pressure is "compromising the quality of our products" [sic] according to a new report

    New

  4. Gemini Links 16/12/2024: Invisibles and 20 Years of GNU/Linux on the Desktop
    Links for the day
  5. Microsoft's Windows Fell From 98% to Less Than 15% (in 15 Years in Africa)
    Operating System Market Share Africa
  6. Swaziland: GNU/Linux Leaps to 7.24%, Based on statCounter
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  7. A Birthday Wish
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  8. [Meme] Definitely Not Your Role Models
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  9. Changes or Variation of Logo at the FSF as 40th Anniversary is Near (Months Away)
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  10. Mobile Usage Nearly 90% in Maharlika (Philippines)?
    Microsoft has become just a footnote
  11. Push Back and Become More Vocal for LLM Abuse and Misuse to Stop
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  12. The Media Failed to Hold GAFAM Accountable (and Now It Suffers From It and For It)
    This recognition of the problem emboldens us to carry on
  13. Botswana: New Highs for GNU/Linux, All-Time Lows for Microsoft
    No wonder Microsoft has so many layoffs in Africa this year
  14. Links 16/12/2024: Skinnerboxes ("Smart" "Phones") and Control Social Media Blamed for Fights
    Links for the day
  15. Reminder: The Microsoft Person Who Used OpenAI for En Masse GPL Violations Told the Whistleblower to Kill Herself
    The evidence (real message)
  16. Links 16/12/2024: emacs, Drawabox, “You Should Have Your Own Website”
    Links for the day
  17. [Meme] Microsoft is Not a Country
    Reporting crimes is essential for democracy
  18. Image Fusion is Not 'AI' (LLMs Aren't Either)
    Such fakes can (and always could) be done by a digital artist, it's just a little more expensive and time-consuming
  19. GNU/Linux at New Highs in Bosnia And Herzegovina
    Quite a few Balkan nations show high adoption rates for GNU/Linux
  20. From Scientists to Pigeons: The EPO Has Turned Patent Examination Into a Process Made by Computers and Improperly Trained Staff Which Doesn't Meet the Requirements of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
    Might as well abolish this entire system if this is the current trajectory
  21. Razik Menidjel Will No Longer be Chief Operating Officer Operations at the EPO
    What does the EPC say about slop and should it be updated to deal with trouble such as slop?
  22. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  23. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 15, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, December 15, 2024

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

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    975 /n/2024/12/11/Communicating_Outside_of_Skinnerboxes_and_Social_Control_Media.shtml
    772 /n/2024/12/12/Explaining_What_Deb_Nicholson_Does_to_the_Python_Software_Found.shtml
    695 /n/2024/12/13/Links_13_12_2024_Military_Buildup_Around_Taiwan_More_Health_Pro.shtml
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    613 /n/2024/12/12/Microsoft_OSI_Promoting_GitHub_Which_is_Proprietary_and_a_Massi.shtml
    598 /n/2024/12/10/Brittany_Day_Still_Uses_Bots_to_Write_Articles_But_Not_All_the_.shtml
    535 /n/2024/02/01/Site_in_Support_of_Richard_Stallman_Reminds_People_of_the_FSF_s.shtml
    524 /n/2024/12/14/Links_14_12_2024_Adobe_s_Shares_Collapse_Apple_Publishes_Fake_N.shtml
    518 /n/2024/12/11/Banning_Not_Only_TikTok_if_Not_for_FOMOC_Fear_of_Missing_on_Con.shtml
    517 /n/2024/12/11/Protecting_People_From_So_called_Social_Media_is_Not_Censorship.shtml
    514 /n/2024/12/13/Anonymity_for_Sources.shtml

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