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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2025

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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

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  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

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

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-12-27 to 2025-01-02
    1665 /n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    1329 /n/2024/12/29/Move_to_GNU_Linux_and_Save_the_Planet_CCC_Talk_Explains.shtml
    1298 /n/2025/01/01/GNU_Linux_Gained_About_0_5_Last_Year_According_to_StatCounter.shtml
    702 /n/2025/01/02/For_Software_Freedom_and_for_Broader_Personal_Freedom_the_Goalp.shtml
    602 /n/2024/12/27/Gemini_Links_27_12_2024_Slop_and_Self_hosting.shtml
    582 /n/2024/12/27/Small_Codebase_is_Typically_Safer_More_Aftermarket_Snakeoil_Mea.shtml
    578 /n/2024/12/29/New_Year_s_Resolution_for_Techrights_No_More_Very_Short_Posts.shtml
    546 /n/2024/12/27/Links_27_12_2024_Perfect_Desk_Banning_Cellphones_Many_Cables_Cu.shtml
    532 /n/2024/12/28/Gemini_Links_29_12_2024_Supernatural_Mystery_and_Mechanical_Peo.shtml
    522 /n/2024/12/30/15_Years_Ago_Mozilla_Firefox_Had_Over_50_of_the_Slovakian_Marke.shtml
    516 /n/2024/12/30/A_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Led_by_Dr_Richard_Stallman_Can_S.shtml
    502 /n/2024/12/29/Bad_Year_for_Microsoft_in_India_and_Another_All_Time_Low_Window.shtml

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