Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Ensuring That Every Computer User Anywhere in the World Can Take Control of All His or Her Computers

   We must fight the people who attack general-purpose computing, in particular those who push this agenda very aggressively inside Linux

2. What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: The Purge, the Cover-up, and the Witch-hunts

   OSI has gone "full Microsoft"

   New

3. In 24 Countries Observed by statCounter Vista 11 is Still Less Than a Quarter of Windows Users Despite All Other Versions Being 'Expired'

   They ought to move to GNU/Linux

4. Links 27/04/2025: Pope Goodbyes, "Politics of Fear", Slop Redux and More Google Shutdowns (Google Debt Had Grown This Year)

   Links for the day

5. Links 27/04/2025: Serenity Dialectics, Hockey Jersey Ethics, and More

   Links for the day

6. Links 27/04/2025: Death of Nest Thermostats, Death of Metaverse

   Links for the day

7. Links 27/04/2025: Projects Workflow and Discovering Technology

   Links for the day

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 26, 2025

   IRC logs for Saturday, April 26, 2025

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