Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 21/07/2024: Last of Old Computer Challenge and Forth Language

   Links for the day

2. Links 21/07/2024: Climate, Politics, and More Squashed Patents

   Links for the day

3. Only a Quarter of Web Requests in Micronesia Traced Back to Microsoft Windows (It Used to be Well Over 95%)

   Micronesia has over half a million people in it

4. Your F.U.D. is Already Showing, Microsoft

   That talking point is quickly spreading so that CrowdStrike discussions become about "Linux" instead of Windows

5. Andrew Feinstein on Why Freeing Julian Assange is About the Freedom of the Press in General

   Feinstein points out that truth itself is being challenged by people who value power, not truth, and typically seek to do things like sell arms and start proxy wars

6. In Palau, Windows Has Fallen to 16%

   15 years ago Windows was at 98%

7. Gemini is Blossoming and More Capsules Are Self-Signing, Rejecting the Defunct and Falsely-Marketed Certificate Authority (CA) Model

   Gemini is still very fast, not only because objects are lightweight but the protocol itself - i.e. the underlying logic - is as simple as it needs to be and only as complex as it must be

8. Gemini Links 21/07/2024: New Garden and New Gemini Arrivals

   Links for the day

9. Links 21/07/2024: Extreme Heat and Fortescue Layoffs

   Links for the day

10. GNU/Linux Lifted Up 0.03% Closer to 4.5% "Market Share" (or 50% More Than a Year Ago)

    How many businesses and homes are permanently giving up on Windows after recent days' events?

11. High Adoption Rates for GNU/Linux in Albania, According to statCounter

    Albania has been a central point of some GNOME and diversity scandals

12. It'll Soon Be Half a Decade Since COVID-19's Breakout, We Still Need Verified Facts (Not Corporate Dogma) and Proper Media Reporting

    COVID-19 has meant different things to different people

13. For the First Time, Microsoft's "Market Share" in North Macedonia Falls to Only a Quarter

    Microsoft only has Windows

14. Evan Versus Julian

    Published by Julian Assange's wife some hours ago

15. What The Internet Can Achieve When Put in the Hands of the Good People and Not Censored by the People Who Already Control the Mass Media

    albeit Wikileaks put that in social control media owned and controlled by oligarchs

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 20, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, July 20, 2024

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. [Meme] Hate Speech

    This is also what makes TikTok so dangerous

19. Shark-infected Water on the Web

    Don't turn Gemini into another "Web"

20. OpenHarmony, HarmonyOS Next, Deepin, Kylin, and openKylin: How China's Various Manoeuvres Away From Windows Get Covered in the West

    Kylin was openly based on Ubuntu

21. WikiLeaks Wonders: Major Leaks That Shook the Worlds

    Published 14 hours ago

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