Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 25, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The "Other" SPLC

   You know you're winning the debate when censorship is explored

2. Microsoft: By Default, Destroy Linux

   Here is what the very "polite" Microsoft Boccassi had to say

3. Perens on a Stick

   Remember what Novell did and how few (barely anyone) sided with Novell

4. Andrew Tanenbaum Gets an Award for His Work on MINIX

   ACM one week ago

5. Twitter's Fall to Irrelevancy in Europe

   Musk bought a dud

6. [Meme] 'Useless' Kids of EPO Examiners

   malnourished?

7. Granting Loads of Monopolies in Europe (to Foreign Corporations of Epic Size and Far Too Much Power Inside Europe) is Vastly More Important Than Raising European Kids Properly?

   "Efficiency" first? Whose? Corporations or families? No wonder so many young families are hesitant to have any kids these days; that's particularly true in east Asia and also in north America, not just Europe

8. Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Free Speech (Online) Angle

   Free speech is a fundamental tenet of a free society

   New

9. Staying the Course

   censorship isn't easy against sites that understand ways to resist it

10. The 'All-Seeing' Microsoft Eye

    Microsofters are observing us closely

11. Links 24/06/2024: Long COVID and "How I Write Blogs"

    Links for the day

12. Allegations That Microsoft is Covering Up Employee Dissatisfaction and Using a Survey to Catch 'Risk' to the Cult Mentality

    This favours or gradually socially-engineers a company for sociopathy

13. 'Linux Hint' Inactive for Nearly a Month (It Used to be Very Active)

    Their Twitter account hasn't been active for a long time and it's not too clear what's going on

14. An Unexpected GNU/Linux Trend

    Burkina Faso is changing and not just politically

15. Android (Linux) at New Highs in Burkina Faso, Now Measured at 72% (Windows Was Measured at 98% 15 Years Ago)

    based on this month's estimates

16. With 0.76% for ChromeOS and 3.7% for GNU/Linux (4.5% Total) Burkina Faso Approaches 5% for 'Linux'

    More if one counts Android as "Linux"

17. Gemini Links 24/06/2024: Being Dull and OpenSSH Autoban

    Links for the day

18. EPO Issues in The Hague

    a report dated 4 days ago about a meeting that took place 12 days ago

19. [Meme] Garbage in, Garbage Out (EPO Patent Quality)

    "Get back to work"

20. When the Employer Makes You Too Sick to Go to Work (New EPO Document)

    "registering when you are sick"

21. [Meme] Putin's Red Flags

    Firefox ESR or Firefox USSR

22. The Corporate/Mainstream Media and Even Social Control Media is Distorting the Record About What Mozilla Actually Did (It Originally Surrendered to Vladimir Putin)

    Mozilla being avoided for purely technical reasons (sites not being compatible with it) is one thing. Foolishly, Mozilla is giving people more political reasons to also shun Mozilla. This is suicide.

23. GNU/Linux Up Some More This Morning, Windows Down Sharply Even in Rich Countries

    Microsoft is in trouble in the Muslim world

24. United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rising... Towards 5% for ChromeOS and GNU/Linux

    the latest numbers show it growing from about 0.1% to around 2.4% for GNU/Linux, plus 2.01% for Chromebooks (ChromeOS), i.e. about 5% in total.

25. Links 24/06/2024: New Research, New Attacks on Justices Sceptical of Patent Maximalists, European Commission for Copyright Maximalists

    Links for the day

26. [Meme] 12 Years a Fedora Volunteer

    IBM gives me a 'free' Fedora badge as recognition

27. IBM Slavery: Not a New Problem

    When IBM got rid of Ben Cotton it showed the world how much it valued Fedora

28. Why They Want to Abolish Master/Slave Terminology (Because This is What They're Turned Free Software Into)

    It used to be about community; GAFAM turned that into exploitation and worse

29. Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) Version 0.2 is Released

    They say summer "officially" started some days ago

30. Torvalds' Number Two Quit Linux a Decade Ago and Has Since Then Earned an Honorary Doctorate

    Revisiting Fuzix and Alan Cox

31. GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in Tunisia

    Based on statCounter

32. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

33. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 23, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 23, 2024

    New

34. You Know the Microsoft Products Really Suck When...

    "Qualcomm and Microsoft go 'beyond the call of duty' to stop independent Copilot+ PC reviews"

35. IBM and "Regime Change"

    Change of regime is not the same as freedom

36. Microsoft Windows in Nicaragua: From 98% to Less Than 25%

    Operating System Market Share Nicaragua

37. Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Community Angle

    Somebody needs to call them out on their BS

38. Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Software Angle

    Gemini Protocol has just turned 5 - i.e. roughly the same age as our Git repositories

39. Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Patent Angle

    Next month marks 10 years since we began covering EPO leaks

40. Wookey, Intrigeri, Cryptie & Debian pseudonyms beyond Edward Brocklesby

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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