Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Twitter as X-Rated Hatred: Criticising Microsoft is Not OK, Calling for Beheadings (With Bounties on People's Heads) is OK

   Twitter automation missed 'hit job' advertising

2. Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World

   "I'm VERY angry about lots of stuff happening here in Argentina, all of it shielded behind the word "freedom"."

   New

3. Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded

   Links for the day

4. We Were Right All Along and the Collaborators of Microsoft Helped Competition Crimes of Microsoft

   Once again vindicated regarding UEFI "secure boot"

5. [Meme] The New Windows Slogan

   stat me up

6. Addendum: Associate's Notes on Free Software as a Labour Issue and the Connectivity Swindles

   these are related issues/causes

7. Microsofters Infiltrating Roles of Authority and Government Positions to Protect Microsoft and to FUD Microsoft's Competition

   friends of Microsofters who bully me and my wife

8. Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does)

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 16/08/2024: Overgeneralisation and Games

   Links for the day

10. Russia's Yandex 5 Times Bigger Than Microsoft... in Ukraine

    They'd rather rely on the Kremlin than on Microsoft

11. [Meme] Gemini is Different, So What?

    different, not worse

12. Now It's "Official": Over 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules in Lupa

    For the first time ever

13. Clown Computing

    Reprinted with permission from Dr. Andy Farnell

14. [Meme] What Freedom Means to IBM

    Free labou

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 15, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, August 15, 2024

17. From 99% in 2012 to 27% in 2024: How Microsoft Lost Georgia

    What we're seeing is a migration from Windows to other platforms, notably GNU/Linux

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