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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 12, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Growing in Spain (Almost 10% Now)
    Whether this persists next month and next year will certainly matter
  2. [Meme] It Takes Only Words to Destroy Malicious People and Pathological Liars
    Trying to silence us is foolish. Boasting about this in public is worse than foolish; it's a legal liability.
  3. WordPress is Unfit for Purpose in 2024
    The Web itself changed a lot and the majority of Web traffic is pure junk
  4. Nobody Knows What's in Our Fridge! Wow, Spooky!
    Freedom means you can also purchase things anonymously

    New

  5. Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Closed Systems and Verify You Are Human To Continue
    Links for the day
  6. Running Twitter at a Loss and Then Profiting From Trumpism
    How very liberal of Jack Dorsey, the greedy "Liberal" who only prioritised money
  7. Microsoft, Which Benefits From Donald Trump, is Normalising Donald Trump
    Some people still wrongly believe that Microsoft is left-leaning
  8. When You Upload Talks of Richard Stallman to Proprietary YouTube
    Also: notice they work to abolish the word "whitelisted"
  9. Free Software is Probably a Lot Healthier for You
    Does Free software help people live longer and/or live better for longer?
  10. Sweden: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux at 17%, an All-Time High
    According to statCounter
  11. Windows Collapsed to Only 12% of the Operating Systems Market in India, Says statCounter
    Windows falls to 64% on desktops/laptops in India, dips to 12% overall
  12. Links 11/11/2024: Mastodon Year 2 in Review, Freshworks Laying Off 13% of Staff
    Links for the day
  13. [Video] Daniel Pocock Warning About Someone Like Elon Musk Buying and Misusing Twitter Almost 7 Years Ago
    Daniel Pocock spoke about Facebook and Twitter while attending the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland
  14. Dead Blog ('Hoisted By His Own Petard')
    The saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is also applicable here
  15. Debian Voters Clearly Supportive of Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU/Linux), But Debian Leaders Keep Giving Voting Rights to Microsoft Staff
    It can be seen that the pro-Stallman positions are dominant
  16. [Meme] Remember That Microsoft and Trump Already Have a "Targets List"
    Microsoft loves Trump bailouts
  17. Service Notice: IRC Downtimes RESOLVED
    We believe we've solved this entirely (or hope so), but it may take another week to know for sure
  18. Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12 (Trumpism Inside Linux Foundation Affirmed)
    They can make a codename for this release: Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12
  19. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Dead. Cause of Death: Microsoft Bribes.
    At the core, Linux Foundation and OSI adopted lies as a business model
  20. Joan Meyer correctly linked Gideon Cody raid on Marion County Record to Kristallnacht
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. Trans People Misused to Attack a Project or Developer Who Has Nothing to Do With Them
    And why that truly hurts all trans people
  22. Our 18+ Years of Freedom-Fighting
    We always fight back
  23. Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Men Losing Grip and "You're Relaxing Wrong"
    Links for the day
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 10, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, November 10, 2024
  26. Freedom Must Always Be Fought For (All the Time)
    Ridicule of "freedom fighters" in the digital realm is typically orchestrated by dictators or wannabes.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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    1505 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_a_Scam_Like_Crypto_So_is_the_Company_of_Jim.shtml
    1492 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml
    1131 /n/2024/11/09/Joel_Espy_Klecker_unpaid_terminally_ill_youth_labor_Debian_knew.shtml
    780 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml
    716 /n/2024/11/11/WordPress_is_Unfit_for_Purpose_in_2024.shtml
    647 /n/2024/11/05/Halloween_All_Saints_Day_Swiss_citizenship.shtml
    647 /n/2024/11/08/Donald_Trump_as_Censor_in_Chief_Can_Now_Leverage_Censorship_Com.shtml
    643 /n/2024/11/06/Would_You_Trust_a_Liar.shtml
    598 /n/2024/11/09/Teaser_Meme_Central_Occupational_Health_Safety_and_Ergonomics_C.shtml
    595 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml
    587 /n/2024/11/05/Links_05_11_2024_Criminal_Referrals_Regarding_Patent_Trolls_and.shtml
    577 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_Rebuilding_the_Berlin_Wall_to_Keep_Russians.shtml
    556 /n/2024/11/09/EPO_is_Blasting_Its_Own_Foot_There_Will_be_No_EPO_Left.shtml
    554 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    530 /n/2024/11/08/Apple_Tax_funds_railways_defective_concrete_blocks_in_Ireland_s.shtml
    528 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml
    519 /n/2024/11/06/Sanctions_Cause_Fragmentation_in_Software.shtml

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