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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2024

Beautiful white orchids cascading downward among green ferns on a dark green background.

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Hiring People Who Attempt to Murder Colleagues
    magnet for sociopaths

    New

  2. On Julian Assange, Now 5 Years in Belmarsh Prison: The Good News, the Bad News, and Ugly Noise
    Some time this spring (or summer) we'll revisit the Appelbaum case
  3. Links 10/04/2024: Starvation as Weapon in Sudan, Sonos v. ITC Explained
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: JSON explore and geminiprotocol.net Downtime
    Links for the day
  5. Links 10/04/2024: Biden Reportedly Considers Dropping the Charges Against Julian Assange
    Links for the day
  6. Wikileaks, Dickileaks & Ubuntu Underage girl
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  7. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Tanana River, Picotron, and Citation on Gemini
    Links for the day
  8. Elio Qoshi & Redon Skikuli missing from OSCAL agenda
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  9. Links 10/04/2024: TikTok Trouble, East Asian Companies Receive Subsidies From American Taxpayers
    Links for the day
  10. This is What Techrights Would Look Like If We Participated in 'CSS Naked Day'
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  11. Francophone GNU/Linux
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  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 09, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 09, 2024
  14. Over-Enforcement of a Code of Conduct (CoC) Would Ruin Events, Maybe Not for Corporate Posters, Sponsors, Posers, and Speakers
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  15. The "F" in Free Software Doesn't Stand for "Censorship"; Attempts to Censor Mere Links to Articles About DebConf22 in Kosovo
    It's about an article we'll reproduce here later this week
  16. Daniele Scasciafratte & Mozilla, OSCAL, Albania dating
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
  17. Gemini Links 10/04/2024: Notifications, Motivation, Profectus Graphical Browser for the Smallnet
    Links for the day
  18. Abuse & Sex Crimes at FOSDEM and Open Source tech events
    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    1467 /n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
    1273 /n/2024/04/04/VMWare_GPL_case_Linux_Foundation_reneged_on_Conservancy_funding.shtml
    1139 /n/2024/04/07/Outreachy_Tindernships_Debian_photo_sites.shtml
    982 /n/2024/04/05/Mozilla_Sells_Out_Will_Serve_Search_Results_From_Microsoft_via_.shtml
    902 /n/2024/04/05/Debian_Project_Leader_DPL_to_Step_Down.shtml
    895 /n/2024/04/09/Justin_Flory_UNICEF_Red_Hat_s_MIT_Epstein_moment.shtml
    895 /n/2024/04/07/Jonathan_Saul_Cohen_Debian_West_London_mansion_exposed.shtml
    883 /n/2024/04/05/Should_Fedora_banish_Russians_as_they_banished_Iranians.shtml
    847 /n/2024/03/27/Microsoft_s_Collapse_in_the_Web_Server_Space_Continued_This_Mon.shtml
    814 /n/2024/04/06/Charles_Fussell_Jonathan_Cohen_Debian_SLAPP_microsite_resignati.shtml
    809 /n/2024/04/04/A_Sign_That_Microsoft_is_in_Serious_Trouble_Now_Shamelessly_Try.shtml
    791 /n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
    790 /n/2024/04/06/Sentiment_at_Red_Hat_Amid_Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_12_Months_Aft.shtml
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    761 /n/2024/04/04/Open_Invention_Network_Acting_More_Like_a_Satellite_of_IBM_and_.shtml
    760 /n/2024/04/06/Assorted_Comments_on_Rumours_of_Red_Hat_Mass_Layoffs.shtml
    755 /n/2024/04/05/Microsoft_Used_a_Campaign_of_Bribes_and_Lies_to_Derail_GNU_Linu.shtml
    734 /n/2024/04/07/Android_Skyrockets_in_Yemen_Windows_Down_From_99_to_3_According.shtml
    723 /n/2024/04/09/Ubuntu_underage_girl_child_sex_or_child_prostitution.shtml
    720 /n/2024/04/08/OSCAL_Open_Labs_Mozilla_grooming_women_for_Outreachy.shtml
    719 /irc.shtml
    715 /n/2024/04/06/Lior_Kaplan_Mossad_Debian.shtml
    715 /n/2024/04/07/Jim_Whitehurst_Former_Red_Hat_CEO_Now_Works_for_Two_Not_Just_On.shtml
    706 /n/2024/04/03/FSFE_CCC_Erik_Albers_secret_punishments.shtml
    701 /n/2024/04/06/Jonathan_Cohen_Charles_Fussell_Debian_embezzlement.shtml
    687 /n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
    662 /n/2024/04/09/Mastodon_mastodon_social_Gives_the_Boot_to_the_Militants_Who_At.shtml
    647 /n/2024/04/04/Who_is_Left_to_Speak_for_the_Community_and_for_Science_Not_for_.shtml
    624 /n/2024/04/06/Links_06_04_2024_More_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Small_Web_Gaining_I.shtml
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