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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2024

September In The Forest

Updated This Past Day

  1. More Memes About SecureBoot™ 'Security'
    Thanks, Microsoft® and Red Hat®.
  2. Update on IBM Layoffs Wave
    It's difficult to assess how those waves of layoffs impact Red Hat

    New

  3. Links 01/09/2024: Tanzania Joins the Twitter ("X") Blocking Club
    Links for the day
  4. Links 01/09/2024: Web's Demise and Elon Musk Manages to Get Twitter ("X") Banned in a Huge Country
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 01/09/2024: Injuries and The Stranger by Albert Camus
    Links for the day
  6. Canonical Uses Ubuntu to Sell Azure (Microsoft, Proprietary, Surveillance, Back Doors)
    "Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools"
  7. Still Waiting for Microsoft to be Fined/Punished/Sanctioned for Vandalising Dual-Boot/Linux Partitioning
    Microsoft bribes all the key people
  8. [Meme] Only Liars Call This "Security"
    Oops, you cannot boot Linux...
  9. A Beautiful Year for GNU/Linux, But We Must Fight On
    GNU/Linux as a desktop (or laptop) platform won't become mainstream without enormous resistance
  10. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part IX - Spying Refrigerators Where They Sell People Medicine (and Then Sell People's Data)
    This is a problem also for those of us who don't buy online and typically pay with cash for dignity's sake
  11. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  12. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 31, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, August 31, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-08-26 to 2024-09-01
    1533 /n/2024/08/26/Almost_a_Week_Later_Microsoft_Openly_Admits_the_Sabotage_of_GNU.shtml
    1111 /n/2024/08/28/Video_Linus_Torvalds_on_Linux_Still_Trying_to_Tackle_Basic_Issu.shtml
    1024 /n/2024/08/25/Torvalds_Still_Calls_the_Hey_Hi_AI_Bluff_Some_People_Are_Upset.shtml

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