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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 31, 2024

Old Cemetery

Updated This Past Day

  1. The Role of Publishers on the World Wide Web (and Gemini Protocol, Among Other Digital Transmission Protocols)
    social control media is a cesspool that spreads disinformation and hate, in turn fuelling wars and conflict
  2. Volkswagen Cheated Us and Created Cars We Didn't Ask For
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    New

  3. [Meme] It Irritates Them That FSF Still Promotes Software Freedom
    "An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman"
  4. At the End, Facts Typically Win, Liars Walk Away
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  5. Links 30/10/2024: TSMC Concerns and North Koreans in Ukraine War
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 30/10/2024: Mind-Seeing and Heart-Knowing, Views on Perspective
    Links for the day
  7. IBM Has Collapsed This Past Week, thelayoff.com Deletes Rumours of Mass Layoffs in the United States
    Visa is having a crisis right now
  8. Links 30/10/2024: Extreme Surveillance in Schools, More Openwashing by OSI
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 30/10/2024: Death Notes, Mindfulness, and More
    Links for the day
  10. More Than a Week Has Passed, DeVault Has Declined to Deny Serious Accusations Against Him
    The whole "Stallman Report" thing backfired very spectacularly
  11. IBM's Silent Mass Layoffs to Last Another Month, Rumour That Another Wave is Happening Right Now
    A special Halloween for some families
  12. W3Schools Says "Statistics Are Important Information", But Abandons Them After More Than 20 Years
    No update for over half a year
  13. Preserving Information
    Those who seek destruction of information tend to be evil people, whose evildoing they strive to delete
  14. "All Systems Operational"
    We can now devote more time to writing articles and maybe some time soon making more videos
  15. [Meme] Good Books Don't Give You "Likes"
    But they give you information
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 29, 2024
  18. [Meme] Microsoft's CoC Downtime
    "Your system is down"
  19. Manchester United 'Sacks' Microsoft?
    United's relationship with Microsoft hasn't (or won't) last long
  20. [Meme] 16 Years to Hire a Black Person (in the US)
    After having close to 1,000 employees
  21. StatCounter's Shortcomings and More
    So while GNU/Linux and Android continue to grow at Windows' expense there will be other operating systems growing. They're not controlled by GAFAM (e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft).
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-10-24 to 2024-10-30
    1433 /n/2024/10/28/GNU_Linux_Started_as_Platform_About_Liberation_Freedom_Autonomy.shtml
    1420 /n/2024/10/24/How_Microsoft_Attacks_Critics_and_Competition.shtml
    1410 /n/2024/10/27/Guest_Contribution_Open_Software_is_Not_Open_Source.shtml
    1404 /n/2024/10/23/A_Severe_Linux_Foundation_Conflict_of_Interest_Microsoft_Staff_.shtml
    786 /n/2024/10/28/Online_Hate_Group_Wipe_Out_the_Entire_Board_of_the_FSF_and_Appo.shtml
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    658 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    624 /n/2024/10/26/Public_First_Ltd_as_a_Snake_Inside_the_British_Government_Shoeh.shtml
    611 /n/2024/10/26/Drew_Earned_Himself_a_Meme_for_His_Latest_Attack_on_the_Founder.shtml
    609 /n/2024/10/26/Links_26_10_2024_Surrealism_at_100_ChatGPT_Plagiarism_Highlight.shtml
    581 /n/2024/06/23/Microsoft_Inside_Debian_is_Sabotaging_Debian_and_Its_Many_Hundr.shtml
    564 /n/2024/10/25/Mono_Was_Always_Just_a_Front_of_Microsoft.shtml
    557 /n/2024/10/25/What_It_Means_When_All_Russians_Get_Banned_From_All_Free_Softwa.shtml
    554 /n/2024/10/25/China_Has_Bypassed_Sanctions_by_Making_Its_Own_Operating_System.shtml
    551 /n/2024/10/24/To_Linux_Foundation_Bill_Gates_is_a_Saint_and_Every_Russian_Dev.shtml
    545 /n/2024/10/25/No_Microsoft_You_Cannot_Silence_Techrights.shtml
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    533 /n/2024/10/25/NSA_is_NOT_Obama_NSA_is_Harry_S_Truman.shtml
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