Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 20, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. EU 'Chat Control' Law is Already Discrediting the Stated Goals of GDPR

   Equip kids with always-on always-connected microphones and double-sided cameras, just to be safe...

2. Justices Jeremy Johnson and Victoria Sharp to Decide the Fate of Julian Assange in About Three Weeks

   Will he be back home in Australia by year's end?

3. Treating Them as Teammates, Not as Political Props, Trophies, or Objects

   Most of the world's people are women

   New

4. Morocco: GNU/Linux Surges From 0.1% to 4.21%

   Microsoft has mass layoffs in Africa these days

5. [Meme] EU Chat Control II

   Stuff like "Chat Control" means that GDPR will lose credibility and the true motives be rightly scrutinised/questioned

6. You're Only Proving Our Point, Sir

   clearly obsessed with what we write

7. Just Because It Happened Over 20 Years Ago Doesn't Mean It's "Old News" or Stopped Happening

   This strategy merely evolved

8. Thanking Solderpunk for 5 Years of Gemini Protocol

   Long live Gemini Protocol and long live Solderpunk!

9. [Meme] He Who Controls the Boot

   And licks the Microsoft boot

10. [Meme] systemd-recovery

    Imagine "Linux" (Poetterix) becoming so unreliable that it needs factory resets

11. Almost Every Day This Month the GNU/Linux "Market Share" Grows in statCounter

    Advocates like to see progress

12. Dawg, I Herd You Like Freedom

    In the context of Software Freedom, little is ever said about free speech

13. Links 19/06/2024: Microsoft Faces Big Backlash, Bytedance Referred to US Department of Justice

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Protocol Turns 5 in 15 Hours

    Geminispace is still very much alive

15. OSI's Blog is Still 100% "AI" Nonsense Sponsored by Microsoft (the Authors Are Also Salaried by Microsoft)

    The founder of the OSI no longer supports the OSI

16. Poland is Another Country Where Bing Lost a Lot of Market Share Since the LLM Gimmicks

    down from 3.24% to 2.4%

17. It Took Microsoft More Than 3 Years to Get a Quarter of Windows Users to 'Upgrade' to Vista 11 (3 Out of 4 Windows Users Still Reject It)

    That is exactly what's happening right now

18. [Meme] The Empire

    Don't be like Putin

19. They Want 'Transparency' Only for the General Public (Every Bit of Communication Available to the Government, Usually Via Corporations)

    The EU might decide to effectively ban SSH

20. Free Software Won't Fix Equality, But It Helps

    Let's examine Free software in the context of: 1) money. 2) justice.

21. Links 19/06/2024: SFTP and Gopher Milestone

    Links for the day

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 18, 2024

24. US Surgeon General's Advice on Social Control Media (and "Smart" Phones) Seems Reasonable

    People forget what the real world is about

25. Quiet at Planet Debian

    planet.debian.org has not had any updates since 5 days ago

26. Belarus: Bing Fell From 1.1% to 0.6% Since Microsoft Started the LLM Hype (Yandex is 50 Times Bigger Than Bing)

    Now enter Belarus

27. Morale at Microsoft Sinks to New Lows

    The annual 'Employee Signals' survey showed a drop from 69% to 62% in positive responses

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