Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV

   By Dr. Andy Farnell

2. Let's Encrypt Below 20 Capsules in Geminispace (Gemini Protocol)

   On the Web, Let's Encrypt became vast; but not in Gemini Protocol, which mandates encryption but not outsourcing

3. The Most Expensive Coffee in the World

   Surely this "product" is aimed at a large company like Microsoft

4. Automattic: We Need a CoC to Protect Automattic From Outside Scrutiny

   The spiral slide of free speech

5. Lionel Dricot Celebrates His 20 Years of GNU/Linux Life (in Gemini Protocol and HTTP)

   Dricot mostly published in French, but his English language articles are good

6. OSI is Microsoft and SFC is Selling Pixels (or Pixelspace) for $5,000-$30,000

   For several years SFC also took Microsoft money for conferences

7. There Have Been Many Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft's LinkedIn (the State of the Job Market Cannot Help), Site Traffic Steadily Going Down

   LinkedIn is just another example of the social control media passing fad (compare to Twitter)

   New

8. 5,000 Gemini Capsules Next Year?

   Assuming this current pace persists, perhaps 2025 will be the year 5,000 is exceeded

9. Gemini Links 21/10/2024: Reading Books, The Power to Appoint Managing Agents, and Permacomputing

   Links for the day

10. Links 21/10/2024: Baidu CEO Says "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble Will Burst, Elon Musk Promotes Corporate Fascism

    Links for the day

11. [Meme] Your Role in Centralised Certificate Authorities

    GAFAM and circle of trust

12. [Meme] The Three Stages of Cancel Culture

    Do not compromise, negotiate or budge with people whose insincerity is so profound

13. Gamification of Blog Comments is Like Social Control Media

    The problem is that Hackaday seems overly obsessed with so-called "engagement"

14. Word of Praise for Growing Recognition That Social Control Media Causes Health Problems (But It's Not Just 'TikTok' or "China")

    Fentanylware ('TikTok') is just harvesting brains (spying) and brainwashing them

15. Diana von Bidder (EVP, Basel) and Debian suicide cluster

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Free Software is Not a Religion (Maybe Just a Satire of One)

    Free Software was never like a religion; it was started by atheists and it's still led by them

17. [Meme] Being Accused of the Very Same Thing You're Consistently Against

    there is no documentation of RMS ever engaging in "sexual violence"

18. Richard Stallman is Going to Peru to Deliver Many Talks

    That's up to (potentially) 7 and the talks will be in Spanish

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 20, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 20, 2024

21. The State of Invidious

    For now, thankfully, we still have a way of using YouTube by proxy, via inv.nadeko.net

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