Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. They Used to Say Avoid Nginx (or NGINX) Because It's Russian. Now You Can Say Avoid It Because It's Microsoft.

   Thankfully we quit using NGINX when we shut down our HTTP proxy for Gemini

2. Peter Eckersley and 'Afterlife'

   It's better to look after one's health at present than to pursue all sorts of perceived 'insurance' policies

3. Instead of Telegram People Should Use Free Software (Telegram Was Always Unsafe for Use)

   "Modern" so-called 'smart' 'phones' are compromised at the OS level or baseband side

4. Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.

   Our 100% source protection record will hold up

5. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XIV - Zoom the Beast

   breakdown of the Zoom TOS and corresponding privacy statement

6. FSFE: Donate to Us to Co-Fund With Microsoft the Unpaid Underage Labour, YH4F

   Latest from FSFE

7. Links 07/09/2024: China's Financial "Bond" to Africa and Attempts to Postpone Trump Criminal Cases

   Links for the day

   New

8. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Self Hosting (Not "CLOUD") and Site Reliability Engineering

   Links for the day

9. The Arrest of Pavel Durov is Changing Telegram

   Remember that Telegram's founder, who is also French, cannot leave France until he satisfies those who detained him

10. The Growth of GNU/Linux is Now a Mainstream Topic With Widespread Awareness

    We can do less counting (of baskets and eggs) and more advocacy

11. The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win

    Sometimes the bad people and the liars get ahead

12. John Pilger's Site Relaunches, Wikileaks' Site Has Not Been Updated in Years

    We have long hoped that, more so after the release of Assange, Wikileaks will have some kind of "relaunch" or recovery

13. Rage in the Propaganda Machine

    There has never been a better time to quit social control media

14. Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Serving the Authorities, Not You

    The centralised CAs "model" is not working

15. A Terms of Service (TOS) Notion of "Consent"

    We're well past the true notion of real consent

16. Links 07/09/2024: Qualcomm May Buy Parts of Intel, YouTube Deletes Channels for the US Government

    Links for the day

17. No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning

    Our sister site pulled the plug on the whole thing over a year ago, seeing it was mostly a source of online abuse

18. A Loss for Fake Security, a Win for Net Autonomy

    Crucifixion of domains has been ramping up this past week; it's a cautionary signal

19. Links 07/09/2024: UK Police Raid Journalist's Home, Epoch Times Setbacks, and Karma

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 06, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, September 06, 2024

22. linuxsecurity.com is Still Spamming the Web

    This is not harmless to Linux and it definitely merits a shun

23. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Freedom in Bareness, Reactions in Addictive Social Control Media

    Links for the day

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