Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. They Are So Afraid of Debian Developer Daniel Pocock Because of What He is Showing About Debian (Also: Ad Hominem is Invalid Defence or Rebuttal to the Evidence He Showed)

   Nothing at all more important for a new DPL to speak about?

2. News Calm Now (July 4th), Time for Microsoft to Unearth First Batch of Mass Layoffs for July? (According to Microsoft's Media Operative, Tom Warren)

   many links

3. [Meme] WikiLeaps

   old timers

4. ‘This is the Criminalisation of Journalism’ — Julian Assange’s Counsel Jennifer Robinson

   It's even worse than she put it

5. In Belarus, Like in Russia, Hardly Anyone Installs or Keeps Vista 11 (and GNU/Linux Doubled This Summer)

   only about 1 in 8 Belarusian Windows users are using Vista 11

6. The Father John Shipton: The Goal of The US Government Was to Bankrupt WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and His Family

   "superpower in its attempt to destroy an Australian citizen."

7. Birthday Gift for Assange and Encouragement for Him to Carry on With WikiLeaks

   When it comes to financing WikiLeaks, it looks like less of a barrier at this point

8. The Share of Microsoft's Vista 11 is Going Down This Year in China

   Twilight for Microsoft

9. The Media May Never Recover (Major Divestments in the Public's Right to Know)

   We shall be writing about press etc. and we'll explain the direction of the Web - albeit this topic is only indirectly related to Free software

10. Things to be Pleased About

    Maybe GNU/Linux can exceed 5% by year's end or even reach 10% if one counts Chromebooks

    New

11. GNU/Linux Growing Towards 6% "Market Share" in Bosnia And Herzegovina

    Vista 11 has been one of Microsoft's biggest failures in operating systems

12. 13 Birthdays

    And new photo of Assange

13. Links 03/07/2024: Holiday, Censorship in Social Control Media Debates, and Stellantis Has Mass Layoffs

    Links for the day

14. [Meme] Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again

    Now you work here... now YOU DON'T!

15. GNU/Linux Seen as Sharply Rising in Bahrain, Windows Down to All-Time Low

    Let's see if these figures can hold up till the end of this year

16. Another Day, More Slop/Spam From Brittany Day, This Time About Linux Mint 22 'Wilma'

    'Creative' plagiarism automated by chatbots

17. Links 03/07/2024: "Microsoft Is Consolidating Its Retail Channels in Mainland China" and "Microsoft CEO of AI Says It's Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web"

    Links for the day

18. statCounter Measures GNU/Linux at 12% in Sudan

    strong adoption of GNU/Linux amid war

19. FSFE Copies the FSF, It Also Copies Techrights

    Just copying a term that Techrights coined around 2007

20. GNU/Linux in Denmark: From Under 1% to 8%

    this month

21. [Meme] Publishing as "allegedly breaching national security law."

    China under CPC and HK under CPC is a sign of what may come next to the West

22. Killing the Public's Right to Know in Five Simple Steps

    Julian Assange: Did I tell you about the time they forced me to plead guilty for 'conspiring' to expose war crimes?

23. Links 03/07/2024: Rubik Cube Turns 50, History Of Perpetual Motion, and Censorship in Social Control Media

    Links for the day

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 02, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 02, 2024

26. Happy Birthday (With the Family)

    So far they've managed to dodge or to avoid the tabloids

27. IBM's "DEI" Means Proprietary Software

    Fedora Week of Diversity 2024, as we noted here last week, was just some niche event (online PR stunt)

28. Techrights Thanks Readers for the Support

    People sacrifice a lot to inform and emancipate other people

29. About Half of Web Requests in Republic Of Korea Come From Android, It Used to be Over 99% Windows (2010)

    The important thing is the trend

30. Matt Campbell's LibrePlanet Talk on AccessKit (Making Free/Libre Software Accessible to Disabled People)

    "This talk will cover what we've accomplished so far, what's next, and how the community can help."

31. It's Time to Say Goodbye to Microsoft and Bill Gates

    Nobody elected Bill Gates and why would Sunak wish to associate with an enabler of Jeffrey Epstein?

32. Adam Monsen on Steadfast Self-hosting

    "Both the book and talk are about self-hosting free software, were created with free software, and are free software themselves."

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