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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2024

Truck covered with snow

Updated This Past Day

  1. South America: GNU/Linux Grew to 8.15% Venezuela, Steadily Over 3% Overall
    holding steady above 3%
  2. Clownflare (Cloudflare) Debt Grows, Losses Continue
    debt of nearly $400,000 per employee
  3. [Meme] GAGAM: Google, Apple, Gulag, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Rest
    The Web has never been more dangerous and hostile

    New

  4. The Userbase of GNU/Linux is Growing, Investments in the FSF Grow Too (in Spite of Microsofters Inciting and Slandering It)
    The FSF's expenses are close to 2 million dollars a year
  5. Links 03/12/2024: Pat Gelsinger's Firing Spun as 'Retirement', US Exports Land Mines
    Links for the day
  6. Links 03/12/2024: GrapheneOS, Raspberry Pi 4, and More
    Links for the day
  7. Links 03/12/2024: Googlebombing "Windows 12", Games Preservation, and Public Domain Game Jam
    Links for the day
  8. It's FOSS? No, It's SPAM.
    Another sellout
  9. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) 'Works' for Linux Foundation (LF) on SPAM Campaigns, Just Like Spamnil's TFiR (Swapnil Bhartiya)
    How can he publish something like this under his name?
  10. Microsoft's Debt Ratio is Awful
    It owes almost 150% of what it can give
  11. Microsoft Has Already Laid Off Tens of Thousands of Workers, "Headcount" is Misleading Spin From Microsoft-Funded Sites
    Expect Microsoft to suck up to Trump, looking for more bailouts (those typically manifest themselves in the form of "defence" contracts)
  12. Gemini Links 03/12/2024: December Adventure and Social Justice Gone Wild
    Links for the day
  13. Microsoft Windows Falls to 12.5% in Cuba, Android Soaring
    Windows isn't even doing too well on desktops/laptops
  14. ChromeOS Isn't Freedom, But It's Killing Microsoft's Ability to Profit From Windows
    ChromeOS has shot up to 22% in Sweden
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 02, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, December 02, 2024
  17. The L Word (Not Linux)
    Championing Software Freedom is "dangerous"
  18. Did IBM Layoffs Stop? Ask Dr. Krishna, The 'Genius' of IBM...
    Trust AK to solve all the problems of IBM by creating bigger problems
  19. It's Easy to Snyk in Marketing SPAM (and FUD) Into BetaNews
    The latest marketing piece (disguised as information, not shameless self-promotion)
  20. [Meme] Sportwashing vs Code of Censorship (CoC)
    Expectation of censorship (censor for me... or else!)
  21. GNU/Linux at 4% in Algeria
    So it more than doubled since last year
  22. With 4 Weeks to Go (Before the End of 2024) the FSF Has Already Raised Close to 100,000 Dollars
    The FSF must be doing something right
  23. "Linux on the Desktop" (Less Than a Third of Web-connected Computers Still a Desktop or Laptop)
    It's like we're chasing a goal that's 2 or 3 decades in the past
  24. [Meme] The Failure of Microsoft Rebranding Campaigns
    market share down, costs soared, back to basics
  25. 2 Years Have Passed Since ChatGPT Vapourware and Bing Gained Nothing, Yandex is About to Overtake Microsoft in Search
    A cause for concern at Microsoft?
  26. GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Ireland, ChromeOS Grows and Android Takes Windows' Lunch
    Windows down to 22%
  27. [Meme] Meanwhile at Intel (Where the CEO Got the Boot)
    Well, if taxpayers pay to save Intel, then Intel should be publicly owned (by those taxpayers)

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

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

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    2740 /n/2024/12/02/Why_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Does_Not_Deserve_Money_Karen_S.shtml
    1895 /n/2024/11/27/There_Are_More_Devuan_Based_Distros_of_GNU_Linux_Each_Year.shtml
    1665 /n/2024/11/30/Proving_Yet_Again_That_Techrights_Was_Right_About_UEFI_Secure_B.shtml
    1179 /n/2024/12/03/The_L_Word_Not_Linux.shtml
    948 /n/2024/11/30/Apache_Software_Foundation_Already_Infiltrated_by_Microsoft_for.shtml
    873 /n/2024/12/02/Microsoft_Windows_Market_Share_in_the_United_Kingdom_Has_Fallen.shtml
    765 /n/2024/12/02/Microsoft_Windows_is_Technically_at_0_in_Some_Countries.shtml
    761 /n/2024/12/02/Linux_Foundation_Let_Linux_com_Rot_for_Two_Months_and_Now_It_Po.shtml
    754 /n/2024/12/02/Figures_of_Note_Tesla_s_Debt_Has_More_Than_Doubled_in_Two_Years.shtml
    740 /n/2024/12/02/Windows_Down_to_Only_One_in_Six_Internet_or_Web_Connected_Devic.shtml
    736 /n/2024/12/02/Windows_Measured_at_5_7_Market_Share_in_Philippines_GNU_Linux_R.shtml
    699 /n/2024/12/02/BetaNews_is_Still_a_Shrine_of_Microsoft_and_Casually_Also_an_LL.shtml
    597 /n/2024/11/29/Links_29_11_2024_Smithfield_Market_in_London_Shutting_Down_BRIC.shtml
    563 /n/2024/12/02/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_and_Linux_Foundation_Same_Ment.shtml
    546 /n/2024/12/02/Self_Deprecating_Attacks_on_RMS.shtml
    529 /n/2024/12/03/2_Years_Have_Passed_Since_ChatGPT_Vapourware_and_Bing_Gained_No.shtml
    520 /n/2024/12/03/Did_IBM_Layoffs_Stop_Ask_Dr_Krishna_The_Genius_of_IBM.shtml
    519 /n/2024/12/01/Gerry_Hutch_Debian_suicide_by_Monk.shtml

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