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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2024

Every living thing wants their freedom

Updated This Past Day

  1. Android Reaches All-Time High in Haiti, Windows Still Around 3% Market Share
    Windows is falling close to 0%
  2. [Meme] High on a Chair
    EFF/Statue of Liberty Meme
  3. How the EFF Has Spent the Past Decade Working Towards Widespread Internet Censorship (by Web Browsers)
    Behind the facade of patriotism and social causes
  4. Social Control Media is Detrimental to Modern Democracies as It Lowers the Quality of Winning Candidates
    Sound bites and lies without quality control or fact-checking beget a "race to the bottom" and political violence
  5. Links 19/08/2024: LineageOS and E-mail Encryption on OpenBSD
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  6. GNU/Linux on 1 in 20 Desktops/Laptops in Costa Rica
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  7. Links 19/08/2024: X Axed in Brazil, Politicians Turn to Social Control Media 'Influencers'
    Links for the day
  8. Why Dave Wreski Needs Chatbots for Marketing Spam
    Thank you for the "content", Dave Wreski
  9. The Era of Suicidal Lunatics
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  10. Links 19/08/2024: Microsoft Shutting Down Mods, Google's Threat to Publishers
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 19/08/2024: Pedestrian Life and FreeBSD
    Links for the day
  12. Linux Foundation Participates in Underage and Unpaid Labour Through YH4F
    So they get children to work for free for very large corporations
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 18, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 18, 2024
  15. Arjen Kamphuis: last years before disappearance, 6th anniversary on 20 August, press freedom
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Harassment / Abuse evidence: Giannis Konstantinidis & Debian's falsified legal documents
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-13 to 2024-08-19
    1061 /n/2024/08/18/They_Are_Turning_the_Web_Into_an_App_Store_Censorship_Gemini_Re.shtml
    540 /n/2024/08/17/Frans_Pop_Debian_Day_2024_31_years_of_deception_and_modern_slav.shtml

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