Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The "Luddite" Complex

   Sometimes simplest is best and sometimes "modern" is designed not with the buyers' interest in mind

2. [Meme] Python Knows Its Bosses

   Microsoft strings attached

3. [Meme] Debt of About $20 Per Active User

   Facebook isn't laying off tens of thousands for "efficiency" but for survival

   New

4. Links 02/11/2024: Many Fakes in Social Control Media

   Links for the day

5. GNU/Linux Usage Surveys: Up to 6.8% (With ChromeOS, Based on StatCounter) in Desktops/Laptops and Above 2% in Steam

   Today StatCounter starts releasing graphs based on data for November

6. Gemini Links 02/11/2024: Petscop, Jokes, and RetroChallenge

   Links for the day

7. Links 02/11/2024: Temu EU Probe and Shorts Trademark

   Links for the day

8. The 'Turning-Free-Code-Proprietary Foundation' (Linux/Microsoft Foundation)

   LF will basically become just as sinister as its corporate sponsors

9. Python Software Foundation is 'Cancel Culture' Rehomed

   Python isn't grassroots and it doesn't really tolerate grassroots

10. DeVault "Closes Down His Mailing Lists Every Time There's a Scandal" and Also Censors Messages

    Censorious code hosting platform

11. What Social Control Media Really Is

    Social Control Media, in a nutshell, isn't just bad if its controller is some foreign or hostile nation

12. Taking Ethics Lectures From Drew

    Projection tactics

13. Links 02/11/2024: Facebook Stock Falls (Soaring Debt), Apple’s Quarterly Profit Down

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 02/11/2024: Burnout, Emacs Bookmarks, and Smooth Migration

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 01, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, November 01, 2024

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