Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Android on 9 Out of 20 Web-Connected Devices for First Time Ever?

   According to statCounter, Android has just topped 45%

   New

2. Love Always Wins (Truth Also)

   I am still working on lengthy bodies of text

3. "Streamline Workforce" is the Same as Mass Layoffs, Apparently

   we deserve better media than this

4. Back on the Saddle, Good News

   Justices Jeremy Johnson and Victoria Sharp can focus on "real" cases instead

5. Truth is Not a Crime

   They try to censor, not to correct, rebut etc.

6. Maldives: Estimates of GNU/Linux Userbase Rose From Less Than 1% Last Year to 4% This Month

   Desktop Operating System Market Share Maldives

7. Labour Party Should Transfer Its Web Site and Communications Back to the United Kingdom

   The "take back control" (Brexit) rhetoric overlooks the real issues.

8. New DW Documentary on Julian Assange (After Release From Prison)

   By Turkish journalist Can Dündar

9. [Meme] A Diversity of Options: YouTube (Proprietary) or YouTube (Proprietary)

   Rikard Grossman-Nielsen: 'will there be some online streaming of it?'

10. Wryl Explains the Software Crisis or Why "Counterculture Movements are Health Signals, and a Fever is Brewing"

    "(the software crisis)"

11. Move to Microsoft Because... Bribes (to FreeBSD Developers)?

    Don't do drugs, kids, even if the first sample is 'free'

12. [Meme] [Teaser] Microsoft's Covert Control of the British Government

    Coming soon...

13. statCounter: GNU/Linux Now at 4.3%

    statCounter isn't a gold(en) measure, the ground truth or a perfect yardstick, it's just an approximation, which may or may not tell us many people move from Vista 11 to GNU/Linux

14. Larissa Brown Shapiro & Mozilla concerned other organizations taking advantage of kids in open source

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Links 06/07/2024: More on Microsoft Layoffs

    Links for the day

16. Gemini Links 06/07/2024: Usenet Comeback, Web Economics

    Links for the day

17. Links 06/07/2024: Shapeways Files For Bankruptcy, Cloudflare Subpoena Emerges

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 05, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, July 05, 2024

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