Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Julian Assange is No Longer in Social Control Media

   There are far better and more productive things to do with one's time

2. Mozilla Firefox is Boiling the Frog (Just Like All the 'Chrome Clones'), Time for Gemini Protocol!

   Mozilla outsources everything to PentaGAFAM

   New

3. Links 10/08/2024: North Korea Floods, Invalidating Bad Patents on Software

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 10/08/2024: Sysadmins Gone Wild, NNCP, and Sourcehut

   Links for the day

5. Reminder: A Few Days Before Julian Assange Was Kidnapped the Staff Explained Blackmail Using Personal Files Stored in Microsoft Windows

   They still haven't resolved the issue (no longer a mystery) of illegal spying by the CIA, via Spain, on all of Julian Assange's guests including his lawyers

6. Microsoft United: The Players Have All Become Like Cones for Windows Ads

   What happened to football?

7. GNU/Linux Gains Up to Nearly 5% in Indonesia and Reaches All-Time High

   another record was reached last month and also this month

8. Links 10/08/2024: Another 4,000 Layoffs at Cisco, Google and Meta Caught Having ‘Secret Deal’ to Target Children

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Maldives (Under 20%), GNU/Linux All-Time High

   Add Android to the mix and Windows is below 20% or about 19%

10. Microsoft's Latest Spin: Your Windows Outage is Your Fault for Not Using Windows and Azure

    Redefining anything Microsoft does not control as "old tech"

11. A New Low: Manchester United is Selling Microsoft Malware

    Marketers, not Mancunians, playing

12. More Microsoft Bailouts From President Biden's Government Before Leaving Office

    "free money" (taxpayers' money) to failing companies

13. In Many Nations This Past Months Vista 11 (Latest Version of Microsoft Windows) Share Down, GNU/Linux Up

    international average shows no gain

14. Links 10/08/2024: A Productivity Fallacy and NNCP

    Links for the day

15. They Always Attack Institutions by Attacking Their Heads (and Their Lawyers)

    In Wikileaks' case, that would be not only Julian Assange but also his associates

16. It Has Now Been 3 Years Since Wikileaks Last Added a New Leak to Its Web Site

    They were very busy tweeting for years

17. [Meme] Temporal and Volatile

    You will lose all your friends/subscribers/followers when the platform shuts down, profoundly changes, goes offline, or censors you

18. After Mass Layoffs in the Edge Team, or Chrome Cloners Who Rely on Windows Bundling, Microsoft Should Quit the Web Browsers Race (Its Share Decreased This Past Year)

    there seems to be no long-term strategy

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, August 09, 2024

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