Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft FakeHub: Identity Theft in Microsoft GitHub (Microsoft Won't Bother Addressing It; It Gives a False Impression of Adoption by GNU/Linux Veterans)

   This is the same company that kept intact deleted accounts and counted them as if they're live and active (to hide the gradual abandonment and demise of the "hub")

2. Microsoft Tries to Force People Into Vista 11 by Stopping Vista 10 Patching, Herding Them Into TPMdom

   It's backfiring

3. CyberShow Blog Upgraded, RSS Feed Added

   CyberShow Blog has just had somewhat of a facelift

4. [Meme] The Microsoft Syndrome

   Typical Microsoftism

   New

5. Last Day of 2024 Was Spent by Brittany Day Publishing Only Fake 'Articles' (LLM Slop) About "Linux", Joined by Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli

   Not even a holiday was enough to stop Day from "spamming" the Web with fake 'articles' (LLM slop) about "Linux"

6. Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Looking Back at 2024 and Happy 2025

   Links for the day

7. Addendum: What the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) Really Is

   Not serum free light chains (SFLC)

8. Sitting on a Mountain of Money (Almost 8 Million Dollars) is "Pro Bono"

   Does the general public realise what SFC is?

9. Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign Against Linus Torvalds, Theodore Tso, and Other Prominent Linux Developers)

   Not much needs to be said; a little needs to be shown (from an authoritative source, the IRS)

10. In Operating Systems, Google Was the Biggest Winner in 2024

    Nevertheless, 10% of the managers are to be laid off shortly (after a leak led to confirmation by the CEO)

11. FSF-EEE (Colonial Splinter Group Based in Germany) Promotes Microsoft

    New and misleading

12. Did GAFAM or IBM 'Downgrade' Pensions to 'Insurance' (Which Can be Denied)?

    'Insurance' does not mean what it may sound like

13. Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024

    it's no longer hosted from home

14. GNU/Linux Gained About 0.5% Last Year, According to StatCounter

    2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter)

15. Geoffrey Knauth, FSF President and Treasurer, Comments on the FSF Raising Over $300,000

    Now almost $304,000

16. Links 01/01/2025: Whistleblowers Shunned, EU/Germany Blasts Twitter (X, MElon) Interference

    Links for the day

17. Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says Her Son Was Murdered (He Accused OpenAI of Copyright Violations at a Massive Scale, OpenAI is Running Out of Money That It Borrowed)

    "Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle"

18. Housekeeping and Productivity

    The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links

19. The Engineering Side in 2024: A Look Back, Taking Stock

    uptime was somewhere around 99.95%

20. Dr. Andy Farnell Nominates Gromit the Dog "as an Unlikely Hacker Hero."

    The world needs more decent engineers

21. The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Holiday Fund-Raising Campaign Reaches About $303,000

    in some parts of the US it's still 2024

22. Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Reflecting on 2024 and FSMs

    Links for the day

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 31, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 31, 2024

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

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