Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 24, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. When Wikileaks Sources Were Actually Murdered and Wikileaks Was Still a Wiki

   when Wikileaks was a young site and still an actual wiki

2. Why Virtually All the Wikileaks Copycats, Forks, and Rivals Basically Perished

   Cryptome is like the "grandpa" of them all

   New

3. [Meme] Was He So Productive He Had to be Expelled Somehow? (After He Was Elected and Had Given Many Years of Work to Earn a Board Seat)

   Things like these seem to lessen the incentive to devote one's life to Free software projects

4. GNOME Foundation is Causing Itself More Embarrassment With Secrecy Than With Full Transparency

   It also arouses suspicion and hostility towards Codes of Conduct, which gave rise to 'secret courts' governed by large corporations

5. Links 23/07/2024: NetherRealm Layoffs and Illegitimate Patent 'Courts' (Illegal)

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 23/07/2024: AM Radio, ngIRCd, and Munin

   Links for the day

7. A Lot of GNU/Linux Growth on the Client Side is Owing to India (Where GNU/Linux Has Reached 16%)

   A lot of this happened in recent years

8. Insulting Free Software Users in Social Control Media (Proprietary, Bloated With Opaque JavaScript) is Like Insulting Amish on TV

   Why bother? Don't take the bait.

9. statCounter: Dutch GNU/Linux Usage Surged 1% in Summer

   Microsoft is running out of things to actually sell

10. Microsoft's "Results" Next Week Will be Ugly (But It'll Lie About Them, as Usual)

    Where can Microsoft find income rather than losses as its debt continues to grow and layoffs accelerate?

11. Julian Assange is Still Being Dehumanised in Media Whose Owners Wikileaks Berated (With Underlying Facts or Leaks)

    Wikileaks and Free software aren't the same thing. Nevertheless, the tactics used to infiltrate or discredit both ought to be understood.

12. A Month Later

    We're optimistic on many fronts

13. Links 23/07/2024: Downsizing and Microsoft and Still Damage Control

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 23/07/2024: Friends and Solitaire

    Links for the day

15. Censorship in Eklektix's Linux Weekly News (LWN)

    Medieval system of speech, where the monarchs (Linux Foundation) dictate what's permissible to say

16. 10 Years of In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights (Many Others Have Abandoned the Topic)

    Listen to staff

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 22, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, July 22, 2024

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