Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Australia Tripled in 5 Years? That's How statCounter Sees It....

   Based on statCounter...

2. GNU/Linux Reaches 5% in Indonesia (Population Size Near 300 Million)

   You would need not envy "Microsoft Indonesia" right now

3. GNU/Linux Back to 5% in 2025

   That's not counting ChromeOS

   New

4. Windows Falls to ~22% in France and Spain, Based on statCounter

   Windows 'corrected' at 22% "market share" in France - i.e. roughly the same as Spain

5. Gemini Links 02/01/2025: Goals 2025, Microsofter Clickbaiting Again, Advice for the Newbie or Returning Perl Hacker

   Links for the day

6. When Your Get Your "Latest Technology News" From an LLM Slop Farm

   They still call themselves "BetaNews" (the word "news" is in the name)

7. [Meme] Wrestling With Pigs in Social Control Media

   “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” ― George Bernard Shaw

8. Even Worse Than Racism at the Linux Foundation

   And worse than corporate colonialism

9. It's Not Just MElon X, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, All Social Control Media is Basically a Digital Weapon

   The question is, what are you going to do about it?

10. Microsoft Especially Important to Phoronix (It Also Gives Gifts to Phoronix)

    A whole section devoted to Microsoft, mostly with puff pieces/ads of proprietary things

11. For Software Freedom (and for Broader Personal Freedom), the Goalposts Are Moving

    we need to open up our eyes and identify/classify other threats, such as social control media

12. Microsoft Plummets to New Lows in Azerbaijan

    Perhaps the Azerbaijani population is looking for something other than the NSA's foremost facilitator

13. We Need Something More Like DMOZ, Not Search Engines and Bill-Funded Wikipedia (Censoring Unfaltering Information About Powerful People and Institutions)

    era of LLMs trained on Wikipedia... Microsoft tried - and failed - to game the narrative to the same extent Google does

14. Tens of Billions of Dollars Down the Drain (Microsoft Lost the Search "Arms Race" or Market)

    But caused injury to itself and others, just like with Nokia in mobile

15. Seems Like GNU/Linux Usage Doubled in Japan Last Year

    So says statCounter data anyway

16. GNU/Linux Measured at 4.4% in South America and 3.34% in Africa, Based on 2025's Preliminary Data

    All-time highs

17. GNU/Linux Leaps to 6% in the United States of America (Not Even Counting ChromeOS)

    Additionally, the FSF in Boston is managing well

18. GNU/Linux Usage in Europe Leaps Above 6% in 2025

    This is a big deal because a lot of Microsoft's revenue came from Europe

19. Windows Falls to 22.5% Worldwide, Android Up to 48%

    The world's (by far) biggest populations don't use Windows much

20. Links 02/01/2025: Production of Apple Vision Pro Halted, More on Public Domain Day 2025

    Links for the day

21. Links 02/01/2025: OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Alleged to Have Been Murdered, Islamic Terrorism in New Orleans

    Links for the day

22. Gemini Links 02/01/2025: Friends, Blunder Valley, and New Year

    Links for the day

23. Links 02/01/2025: Violence Crisis in South Africa and Arrest Warrant for South Korean Leadership

    Links for the day

24. Rumour: IBM Will Try to Induce Mass Resignations This Month Using R.T.O. (Just Like Amazon Does This Month)

    Amazon will start some of this in March, sources have told us

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 01, 2025

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