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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Linus Torvalds Said GNOME Are Like "Nazis", Others Complain That GNOME is Condescending, Arrogant, and Rude
    seems to have an attitude problem

    New

  2. GNU/Linux Continues to Grow in Colombia
    Like in much of South America

    New

  3. Links 09/08/2024: Dengue Comeback, Doping in Sports Rampant
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 09/08/2024: Working in Sourcehut and Using Firefox Remote Debugging Feature
    Links for the day
  5. Links 09/08/2024: Ending the PenPals Experiment and "Smart" Phones Leveraged by Extensive Stats Surveillance
    Links for the day
  6. Published a Week Ago: Honest Government Advertisement on Freedom of Information (FoI) Laws in Australia
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  7. IBM's Debt Increasing for Three Years in a Row
    The stock (shares) cannot tell the full story
  8. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  9. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, August 08, 2024
  10. A Calm Friday Break
    Next week and the rest of the month should be productive and calm
  11. New Video: Twitter and Facebook Censored Distinguished Scientists Who Spoke About COVID-19 and Response to It (the People Who Did This Still Engage in Online Social Control in 2024)
    "Secretive Covid-era ‘spy’ agency brought in to monitor social media during riots"
  12. In Peru, Android (Linux) Has Defeated Windows' Majority
    Operating System Market Share Peru: Feb 2009 - Aug 2024
  13. In China, Three Years After Vista 11 Became Available, More People Still Use Vista 7 Than Vista 11 (Which They Clearly Dislike)
    And adoption of Vista 11 seems to have stalled at less than 20% (of all Windows versions)
  14. "Where Are We on This Jihad?" - Bill Gates Talking Internally About Microsoft's Work to Undermine Linux Support at Intel
    This "Jihad" - a term that Bill Gates repeatedly uses in his internal communications - is far from over
  15. Microsoft's Aeva Black Resigns From Board of the OSI, But OSI Remains Under Microsoft's Control!
    The OSI's blog is basically a Microsoft festival; OSI was 'bought' and then taken over by Microsoft staff or Microsoft-funded staff (like Nick Vidal).
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    961 /n/2024/08/05/Contrary_to_What_Shallow_News_Sites_Said_Canonical_s_Profits_an.shtml
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    801 /n/2024/08/03/LinuxSecurity_Site_Breaks_Down_Many_Fake_Articles_Not_Accessibl.shtml
    755 /n/2024/08/07/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_From_100_to_25_in_Morocco_GNU_Linux_and.shtml
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