Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The Free Software Foundation Asks Nathaniel Cohen to Make Music for It using Free Software (SuperCollider)

   uploaded a week ago by the Free Software Foundation

   New

2. Links 16/10/2024: "Another Yesterday Aggregator"

   Links for the day

3. Links 16/10/2024: Science, Politics, and BBC Cuts

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 16/10/2024: Life Before 9/11 and Laptops Ramble

   Links for the day

5. Links 16/10/2024: Rapid Decline of X and Growing Realisation Surveillance Causes Further Abuse

   Links for the day

6. Wishing Well to LibrePlanet, Including Its Volunteers

   Framatube hosts the LibrePlanet videos using PeerTube

7. 4 Years Since We Started a Plain Text Edition of Techrights (Then Adopted IPFS and Gemini Protocol)

   The earliest text editions of this site are dated late October 2020

8. Even in Richer Countries, Where Many People Can Afford Laptops, Windows Has Become Second to Android

   Android has long been bigger than Windows in poor countries were fewer people have a "desktop" (or laptop)

9. On IBM Layoffs at North Carolina Where Red Hat is Headquartered

   Layoffs at "IBM fall through the disclosure cracks"

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 15, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 15, 2024

12. Perfectl is Not New, It's Not News About Linux, Outdated Apache RocketMQ is Not Linux, and the Real News Should be Back Doors Like Windows and CALEA Blunder

    Another theme to be debunked

13. [Meme] Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Not Cancelled, But They Keep Trying...

    The Microsofters are evidently still angry that he gives public talks around the world

14. "IBM Has Trimmed Its Workforce by 8,000 People"

    How can a company legally lay off 8,000 people without saying anything?

15. Links 16/10/2024: OpenBSD 7.6 on the StarFive VisionFive2, Netnews Specs

    Links for the day

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