Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. 'Official' Debian Sites That Sell Proprietary and Surveillance

   "Azure API throttling strikes back"

2. Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman

   the message being spread by the person who started it all

3. GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter

   Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense

4. statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis)

   Looking at Mexico in isolation

   New

5. statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses Windows

   When/if Windows market share goes down, so will Edge

6. Links 04/02/2025: Social Control Media Bans and US Fighting Its Allies, Not Russia

   Links for the day

7. Links 04/02/2025: Birth of a Calf, FOSDEM, and More

   Links for the day

8. Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies

   Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com

9. BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com)

   the other Serial Slopper, Guardian Digital, Inc

10. Mollamby, Suicide Cluster, not trademark, the real reasons for Debian legal expenses, evidence

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Links 04/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Salesforce, Economic Pressures, Trade Wars

    Links for the day

12. [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India

    clip is only a minute-long

13. statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%)

    really 'took off' half a decade ago

14. LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation

    Net as in Internet, not limited to the Web

15. It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux"

    The most plausible explanation is, Fagioli got caught or his conduct could no longer be ignored

16. From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino

    Announced less than a day ago

17. Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month

    Maybe the media - at least some of it - actually deserves doom. If it covers up for the powerful to muzzle and gaslight the oppressed, then what sort of media is that anyway?

18. Gemini Links 04/02/2025: Tolkien and New Job

    Links for the day

19. Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")

    It was all along expected that "external enemies" would be invoked to suppress discussion about EPO crimes

20. Facebook Finally Admits That It Censored Linux and Banned People for Mentioning It; statCounter Shows Rapid Growth for GNU/Linux in Southeast Asia

    So GAFAM is losing its power

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, February 03, 2025

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