Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 18, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] When the People Who Falsely Accuse You of Pedophilia Turn Out to be Projecting

   When you attack something or someone using falsehoods, as happens a lot to Richard Stallman (RMS), there's risk that the attacks will backfire, badly

2. Why I Continue to Believe That at the End Software Freedom Will Win

   a short and incomplete list of factors which I believe contribute to the sentiment that we can - and will - win the battles over hearts and minds in the "Tech" realm

3. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part X

   By Dr. Andy Farnell

   New

4. In Some Countries, Such as Greece, Almost 80% of Windows Users Are on Vista 10 and About 85% Need to Move to GNU/Linux for Security Patches

   Vista 11 was a failure

5. Saving What's Left of Decent and Independent Journalism on the Web

   We increasingly (over time) try to make local copies (hosted on our server) of important documents; it's hard to rely on third parties

6. [Meme] They Don't Want the Public to Know What "Responsible Encryption" Really Means

   They also blame "China" for their own back doors (because China learned how to exploit those)

7. The Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority (CA) Significantly and Suspiciously Raises the Number of Certificates It Issues (Quantity Increase/Inflation) by Lessening Their Lifetime in the Name of 'Security' (That Barely Makes Sense!)

   LE made 3 months the "standard" for most, soon to become just 6 days instead of 6 months?

8. Links 17/12/2024: More China Sanctions, GOP Scheming to Prop Up Fentanylware (TikTok)

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 17/12/2024: The Streisand Effect and Productivity-systems Desiderata

   Links for the day

10. Links 17/12/2024: More "Tesla Autopilot" and "Hey Hi" (AI) Blunders

    Links for the day

11. Instead of Promoting GNU/Linux (or Ubuntu) Ahead of Vista 10's EoL Canonical is Marketing Microsoft's Proprietary Software

    It's like Canonical employs people who work for Microsoft, not for Canonical

12. Links 17/12/2024: Many Abuses by Microsoft and War Updates From Ukraine

    Links for the day

13. Content Management Systems (CMS) Bloat/ Static Site Generators (SSG) Trouble

    some Web site management stories

14. DEI Room at fedoraproject.org Pretty Much Dead

    We're not against diversity but against its weaponisation by greedy people who do not value diversity at all

15. The "Latest Technology News" at BetaNews is Slop About Slop

    This is at the very top of the "news" (front page) at the moment

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 16, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, December 16, 2024

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