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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Saving the Planet With Honesty, Transparency, and Sharing (Not Only of Computer Code)
    GAFAM is destroying the only habitat humans and other animals have and it'll only get worse
  2. Shout-out to Christine From FOSSForce
    Who noticed our short story
  3. Apple's MacOS Shows Us the Vision of Computing That GAFAM Has for Us (Digital Prisons)
    Freedom means "we the people" should be in control, not people being controlled by corporations (contemporary slaveowners)

    New

  4. Microsoft Lost Nearly Half of Its 'Cash Reserves' This Past Year
    Is Microsoft (MSFT) the next Intel (INTC)?
  5. The Year Isn't Over Yet, There Will be More Waves of Microsoft Layoffs
    Nowadays Microsoft just tries to conflate/equate its energy waste with "value"
  6. The Corporate Media Blasted Bitcoin for Destroying the Planet and Must Do the Same to Incite the Public Against the 'Great Rigging of Wall Street' (Under the Guise of "AI", the Latest Gold Rush)
    "AI" is the next "metaverse" (trailing by a few months)
  7. [Video] Richard Stallman is Back to Halo and Gown (in Peru) With 2+ Hours of a Public Talk
    The globetrotting Richard Stallman gave many talks at the end of last month
  8. Going Strong Against the Wind
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  9. Links 04/11/2024: Squashing More Software Patents and Taiwan at Risk
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 04/11/2024: Typing vs Writing and a Smol (Net) Pub
    Links for the day
  11. Links 04/11/2024: LibreOffice Had Adopted PeerTube, "Hey Hi" Hype is a Threat to the Energy Grids (Worse Than Fake-Coins)
    Links for the day
  12. [Meme] Social Control Telescreens With Microphone
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
  13. Not Boycotting Apple (Yet)?
    "Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1"
  14. statCounter This Month: Android Has Nearly Become Twice as Big as Windows
    If it happened, it would be an unprecedented milestone
  15. Why Technical Sites Need Not Make Political Recommendations or Endorsements
    Except perhaps when it's for some purely technical role, e.g. FCC chief
  16. [Meme] Apple Freedom
    Freedom is... the ability to purchase as many 'i' things as you want
  17. "Active" as in One URL, One Emoji, and 4 Words in One Week
    Diversity community in Fedora
  18. Apple Vision Pro Has Failed, Just Like "Metaverse"
    Vision Pro lacks software
  19. Things That Can Improve Election Integrity
    the first two relate to "tech"
  20. Rigging Elections is Difficult, Cheating a Little is Not
    Avoid social control media, it is the biggest rigger of all
  21. "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
    On throwing stones in a glass house
  22. Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
    The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code
  23. Microsoft and "Retrospective Re-writing of History..."
    in YouTube anyone can make stuff up (as one goes along)
  24. This Coming Week
    Go exercise your right to vote
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 03, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, November 03, 2024
  27. Reddit is (Still) Lying and Faking
    Don't fall for this phony idea that the above sites are grassroots or edgy; they're not
  28. GNU/Linux Users Are Not Cheaters
    The bottom line is, most cheaters use Windows
  29. Links 04/11/2024: FCC, Broadband Industry Spar Over Net Neutrality; Software Patent Squashed
    Links for the day
  30. Gemini Links 03/11/2024: Official MyGemini.Space Announcement
    Links for the day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

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    1050 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml
    958 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    792 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    774 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    672 /n/2024/10/13/SDxCentral_which_the_Linux_Foundation_Paid_to_Produce_Marketing.shtml
    658 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    626 /n/2024/10/29/Linux_Fork_or_Community_Fork_of_Linux_in_Russia.shtml
    591 /n/2024/10/28/GNU_Linux_Started_as_Platform_About_Liberation_Freedom_Autonomy.shtml
    572 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    565 /n/2024/10/29/Links_28_10_2024_TSMC_Blunder_and_Volkswagen_Layoffs.shtml
    551 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml
    539 /n/2024/10/30/All_Systems_Operational.shtml
    535 /n/2024/10/29/Emilien_unixfox_Manages_to_Bring_yewtu_be_Big_Instance_of_Invid.shtml
    533 /n/2024/10/30/More_Than_a_Week_Has_Passed_DeVault_Has_Declined_to_Deny_Seriou.shtml
    525 /n/2024/10/29/Links_29_10_2024_Election_War_and_Monopoly_Coverage.shtml
    520 /n/2024/10/30/Volkswagen_Cheated_Us_and_Created_Cars_We_Didn_t_Ask_For.shtml
    517 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    512 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    505 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    505 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_Extreme_Surveillance_in_Schools_More_Openwashi.shtml
    501 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml

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