Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge

   Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists

2. Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)

   Links for the day

3. Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!)

   seeding doubt about election outcomes

4. Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail

   Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'

5. Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam"

   "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"

   New

6. Birthday Tomorrow

   Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now

7. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium

   Links for the day

8. How Voting Does Not Work

   You cannot vote from an "app"

9. Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web

   Links for the day

10. [Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly

    "OK, my critics are 'spam'"

11. Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition

    Canonical is worth shunning

12. [Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros'

    And prehistoric googling

13. Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time

    This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware

14. [Meme] How NOT to Vote

    Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference

15. An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit

    The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information

16. Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year

    These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024

19. There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month

    I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager

20. "Oppose the Fascist"

    what the founder of GNU/Linux said

21. Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME

    Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives

22. Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

23. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing

    Links for the day

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