Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 19, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. FSF Has Made It Halfway to Its Target (Funding Goal) a Week Before Christmas Day

   $400,000 definitely seems reachable now, especially if they extend the "deadline"

2. Brian Fagioli's Latest "Linux" Article Appears to be Fake

   Another form of plagiarism/ripoff using bots?

   New

3. [Meme] The Master Churnalist

   Speaking of press releases being passed off as "journalism"

4. Spamnil's TFiR: Still Pretending Press Releases Are 'Articles' (TFiR 'Originals' as Plagiarism or Fluff)

   Same as last year

5. Links 18/12/2024: Zakir Hussain Dies, TuneIn Layoffs

   Links for the day

6. Links 18/12/2024: Karate Love and Advent of Code

   Links for the day

7. Windows (or Microsoft) Has Become the "One Percent" (Market Share) in Chad

   How long before it falls below 1%?

8. Arvind Krishna, IBM's CEO, Will Eventually Suck Up to Donald Trump Like His Predecessor Did or the Watson Family Did With Adolf Hitler

   Literally Hitler

9. Being a Geek Need Not Mean Being Sedentary

   "In the past 18 months," Berkholz writes, "I’ve lost 75 pounds and gone from completely sedentary to fit, while minimizing the effort to do so (but needing a whole lot of persistence and grit)."

10. GAFAM Kissing the Ring of the Mafia Don

    "resistance" to dictatorship and defenders of democracy?

11. Slop Spaghetti From the Chef, Second Time Today

    Fresh slop ready out the oven!

12. IBM - Like Microsoft - Lies About the Number of People It's Laying Off (Several Tens of Thousands, Not Counting R.T.O. "Silent" Layoffs and Contractors/Perma-Temps)

    How many waves of silent layoffs have we seen so far at IBM this year?

13. Links 18/12/2024: EU Launches Probe Into TikTok (At Last!)

    Links for the day

14. Links 18/12/2024: Doha/Qatar Trafficking, Bloat Comfort Zone, and Advent of Code 2024

    Links for the day

15. [Meme] Microsoft's Latest Marketing Pitch

    "Stop Being Poor; buy a new PC with TPMs"

16. In South Africa, a Very Large Nation, Web Developers Can Already Ignore Microsoft Browsers (Edge Measured Below 3% in 55 Nations)

    The dumb assumption you must naively test with Microsoft browsers is no longer applicable in a lot of places

17. Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the Voice of Bill Gates and Satya Nadella

    Not hard to see what they've done with the money

18. Microsoft Boasts That Its (Microsoft-Sponsored) "Open Source AI" Propaganda Got Cited in Media (That's Just What the Money Did)

    This is a grotesque openwashing campaign

19. In Many Places Around the World, Perhaps as Expected, Yandex is Nearly Bigger Than Microsoft (Like in Several African Countries)

    Microsoft may soon fall to "third place" in search

20. Keeping Productive This Christmas

    We've (pre)paid for hosting till almost January 2026 and fully back on the saddle

21. IBM and Canonical Leave Money on the Table Because Microsoft Pays Them Not to Compete and Instead Market Windows, WSL, Microsoft 'Clown Computing', and TPMs

    Where are the regulators?

22. Other Editors Who Agree "Hey Hi" (AI) is Just Hype But Won't Say So Publicly as It Might Upset Key Sponsors

    Some media would gladly participate in a scam to make money

23. IBM (and Red Hat) is a Patent Troll, Still Leveraging Software Patents to Extract Money Out of Other Companies by Suing Them

    Basically, when it comes to patents, IBM is demonstrably part of the problem, not the solution

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 17, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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