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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 27, 2023

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Meme] Identity Theft and Forgery
    Coming soon...
  2. The Web is Dying, Sites Must Evolve or Die Too
    Nowadays when things become "Web-based" it sometimes means more hostile and less open than before

    New

  3. [Meme] Leaning Towards the Big Corporate CoC
    Or leaning to "the green" (money)
  4. Software Freedom Conservancy Inc in 2022: Almost Half a Million Bucks for Three People Who Attack Richard Stallman and Defame Linus Torvalds
    Follow the money
  5. Microsoft Has Less Than 1,000 Mail (MX) Servers Left, It's Virtually Dead in That Area (0.19% of the Market)
    Exim at 254,000 servers, Postfix at 150,774, Microsoft down to 824
  6. Still Growing, Still Getting Faster
    Articles got considerably longer too (on average)
  7. In India, the One Percent is Microsoft and Mozilla
    India is where a lot of software innovations and development happen, so this kind of matters a lot
  8. Feeding False Information Using Sockpuppet Accounts and Imposters
    online militants try every trick in the book, even illegal stuff
  9. What News Industry???
    Marketing, spam, and chatbots
  10. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 26, 2023
    IRC logs for Sunday, November 26, 2023
  11. The Software Freedom Law Center's Eben Moglen Explains That We Already Had Free Software Almost Everywhere Before (Half a Century Ago)
    how code was shared in the 1970s and 80s
  12. When the So-called 'Cancel Culture' Sees Everything in Free Software Through the Scopes of 'Sex' (Because It Cannot Argue on Technical or Legal Grounds)
    Losing the plot
  13. Links 26/11/2023: Debunking So-called G.A.I. and Sierra Leone's National Curfew
    Links for the day
  14. In the 'Phoronix Universe', Single Job Openings at AMD Are News, But Not ~400 Layoffs
    like a classifieds section
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news

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