Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2024,
updated Dec 12, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Protecting People From So-called 'Social Media' is Not Censorship (No More Than Banning or Restricting Access to Cigarettes is 'Censorship')

   it's not censorship when the thing you are censoring [sic] is itself a censorship powerhouse operated by a foreign and hostile nation (or oligarchs of Musk's nature)

2. [Meme] Solving Real Problems With So-called 'Social Media'?

   Feeding and medically treating animals helps, unlike "likes"

3. EPO is Corrupt Like Always, What Changed is the Lack of Media Coverage (No Transparency Means No Democracy)

   We need to revive online media and encourage dissent

4. [Meme] How NOT to Do Activism Online

   So many self-professed liberals continue participating and driving traffic (ads) in X

5. Number of Libera.Chat Users (Simultaneously Online) Falls to Lowest Figure in Over 3 Years

   Notice the downward trend/curve in recent months

6. Shedding Light on How the EPO Sheds Off Staff in Order to Grant Loads of Invalid (Fake) Patents in Europe

   The people who decide on these policies lack a background in science

   New

7. Fresh Rumour of Wave of IBM Layoffs Less Than a Fortnight Before Xmas Day

   Unverified and anonymous

8. Links 11/12/2024: Additional Surveillance Ambitions and Cyberattacks on Sudanese Media

   Links for the day

9. Links 11/12/2024: More Google Layoffs Rumoured for January, 'Linux' Foundation Colonises India

   Links for the day

10. Mozilla's Firefox is Floundering, in the United Kingdom Its Share Fell to 2% This Month

    HTTPS is becoming little but a transport layer for Chrome-like browsers, i.e. proprietary things with DRM and perhaps attestation (which means you cannot modify them; you'd get blocked for trying)

11. Links 11/12/2024: Climate Warming, 'People Can Fly' Layoffs

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 11/12/2024: LLMs as Plagiarism, Advent of Code 2024 Momentum

    Links for the day

13. In United Arab Emirates (UAE), Microsoft Now on One in 8 Internet-Connected Devices?

    Web-connected clients are becoming scarce that run Microsoft operating systems (Windows)

14. IBM and Microsoft Hats at Linux Foundation

    "Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats!"

15. IBM's Latest Fedora Divestment Speaks for Itself

    Microsoft must be very pleased with what IBM is doing

16. Why is UK Press Gazette Jingoistic About Plagiarists and LLM Slop Disguised as Journalism?

    Press Gazette appears to be participating in the attack on honest journalism

17. In Central Africa, Which is Bigger Than Europe, Windows is About 5% in Terms of "Market Share"

    they apparently got so fed up with colonialism

18. Communicating Outside of Skinnerboxes and Social Control Media

    Tackling collective isolation and miscommunication (or communications being controlled by middlemen)

19. [Meme] Social Control Media is NOT Free Speech

    It's time to discard that stupid argument that banning an abusive censor is "censorship"

20. Banning Not Only TikTok... if Not for FOMOC (Fear of Missing on Constituents)

    It's a sort of addiction by peer pressure

21. Montenegro's Share of GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High

    We don't really know why, but that's just what the data from statCounter suggests

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 10, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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