Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Even LKML Subjected to Slop/SPAM by Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com)

   They're really awful

2. What Makes RMS Such an Attractive Target ('Discreditisation' Campaigns)

   Don't be so easily fooled

3. The Biggest OEMs or Vendors of GNU/Linux Stopped Competing With Microsoft (Which Pays Them to Promote Windows, Too)

   Where are the competition authorities (or regulators for that matter)?

4. Would You Trust a Liar?

   Why lie about the authorship?

   New

5. Links 06/11/2024: BPF in RFC 9669, More Facebook Fines for Privacy Abuses

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Political Shock and Hermaic Encouragement

   Links for the day

7. Planet Debian Allows Politics (But It Depends on Your Opinions and Debian's Big Sponsors)

   Planet Debian is OK with politics... as long as all your political opinions are the "correct" ones and you add cute animals

8. Let's Encrypt Falls to a New Low of Only 0.6% of Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa

   In Gemini Protocol, certificates for encryption are required, but centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) aren't needed

9. Computer-Generator Crap Flooding the Web, the Latest Example About "Linux"

   Here's today's example

10. Links 06/11/2024: Election Disinformation and Legal Actions

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Stargazing and Death on Hallowe'en

    Links for the day

12. Mass Layoffs at Mozilla Announced During US Elections

    Maybe nobody will notice?

13. [Meme] Announcing "Results" Before Everyone Even "Played"

    There is a "tech" angle to otherwise political news

14. US Polls Close in One Minute (Social Control Media Does Not Care, Will Not Wait)

    US election results will be known in about 2 days

15. Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication

    KDE has a history of burying old sites

16. Social Control Media, Even Hours Before Polls Have Closed

    Has social control media controlled by CPC (TikTok) and the Trumpmobile guy (Musk's "X") done enough to convince people not to even vote (based on presumptive "results", presented a long time before all polls have closed)?

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 05, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 05, 2024

19. Wayland Pains in Community-Led Distros of GNU/Linux

    Few people and companies use Wayland; there's hardly any technical or practical reason to choose it

20. IBM Still Conflating Microsoft With 'Security'

    As a meme

21. Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software

    some Chinese Linux developers are already subjected to restrictions similar to Russians'

22. Web Failing With Slop, Even in 'Linux' Sites (LLM Spam)

    Add SEO prompting to the mix and the Web becomes a pool of slop, not knowledge

23. [Meme] State of the World Wide Web and Online Journalism

    Technically a failure (DRM) and cannot even get basic things right

24. Trump's signature policy, building a wall, copied from Irish-Australian student politician

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

25. Linus Torvalds' self-deprecating LKML CoC mail linked to Hitler's first writing: Gemlich letter

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

26. [Meme] Turning 18 in One Day

    just one more day

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