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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Did Microsoft 'Buy' Red Hat Without Paying for It? Does It Tell Canonical What to Do Now?
    This is what Linus Torvalds once dubbed a "dick-sucking" competition or contest (alluding to Red Hat's promotion of UEFI 'secure boot')
  2. [Meme] Many Old Gemini Capsules Go Offline, But So Do Entire Web Sites
    Problems cannot be addressed and resolved if merely talking about these problems isn't allowed

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  3. Gemini Links 20/11/2024: Game Recommendations, Schizo Language
    Links for the day
  4. Growing Older and Signs of the Site's Maturity
    The EPO material remains our top priority
  5. Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals
    Links for the day
  6. Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles
    Links for the day
  7. Links 20/11/2024: Standing Desks, Broken Cables, and Journalists Attacked Some More
    Links for the day
  8. Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban
    Links for the day
  9. Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar), Magna Carta and Debian Freedoms: RIP
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) & Debian: from Frans Pop to Euthanasia
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. This Article About "AI-Powered" is Itself LLM-Generated Junk
    Trying to meet quotas by making fake 'articles' that are - in effect - based on plagiarism?
  12. Recognizing invalid legal judgments: rogue Debianists sought to deceive one of Europe's most neglected regions, Midlands-North-West
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  13. Google-funded group distributed invalid Swiss judgment to deceive Midlands-North-West
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  14. Gemini Links 20/11/2024: BeagleBone Black and Suicide Rates in Switzerland
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 19, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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