Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Memes] Two Dictators. Donald Trump Loves TikTok.

   This is a problem

2. Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) Spreads Political Propaganda Against the Internet (and the Web)

   Then people wonder why trust in the media has gotten so low

3. In Hong Kong and Taiwan People Flock to GNU/Linux (Unlike Windows, GNU/Linux Doesn't Capture Screenshots of Everything You Do and Add Back Doors to Encryption)

   Hong Kong and Taiwan have bright engineers. They know Windows is a joke.

4. Slow News, But Not Slow for Us

   So far this year (maybe premature to say so because many journalists are still on holiday) the news is very, very slow

5. A Golden Opportunity that Canonical and IBM Intentionally Ignore (in Order to Appease Microsoft)

   They're too dependent on Microsoft "sweeteners"

6. Canada: Windows at All-Time Lows, ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Rise to Almost 8%

   It is widely known that many schools in Canada adopted ChromeOS

7. In Mexico, Windows Down to All-Time Low, GNU/Linux Up to All-Time High

   Yesterday we showed that in North America adoption of GNU/Linux is growing fast

   New

8. Apple 'Articles' That Aren't... Just SPAM From Beta'News', Generated by LLMs

   A 'news' sites reduced to garbage crafted by bots

9. A Salad of Microsoft FUD Against Linux, Published by LinuxSecurity.com Using LLM Slop/Copypasta

   LinuxSecurity.com is an anti-Linux FUD site, powered by Microsoft chatbots on the face of it

10. Gemini Links 03/01/2025: GNU Emacs Key Bindings in GNU Midnight Commander's Mcedit and Gemini Editing Setup with Vim

    Links for the day

11. Links 03/01/2025: Neil Young Drops Out of Glastonbury and MElon Attacking the Free Press

    Links for the day

12. Engineering Things to Last 70 Years in an 8-Bit, 16-Bit, and 32-Bit World

    Nowadays they make things that barely last 7 years

13. GNU/Linux Rose to 5% in Belgium (It Was 1.66% Last January)

    Trebling in 12 months, according to statCounter

14. [Meme] Crushing Free Speech Before Even Taking Public Office...

    someone who isn't even president is already meddling

15. [Meme] Be a Good and Obedient Citizen. Use Microsoft Windows.

    Microsoft actively works with China to censor search results and spy on citizens

16. The Free Software Foundation Extends Cutoff Date (Two More Weeks), Raises About 330,000 Dollars

    Isn't it predictable that people who worked for Microsoft GitHub gave money to some unscrupulous lawyers in London to harass us?

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, January 02, 2025

    ---

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

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

    Span from 2024-12-28 to 2025-01-03

    1700	/n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    1516	/n/2025/01/01/GNU_Linux_Gained_About_0_5_Last_Year_According_to_StatCounter.shtml
    1433	/n/2025/01/02/For_Software_Freedom_and_for_Broader_Personal_Freedom_the_Goalp.shtml
    1343	/n/2024/12/29/Move_to_GNU_Linux_and_Save_the_Planet_CCC_Talk_Explains.shtml
    586	/n/2024/12/29/New_Year_s_Resolution_for_Techrights_No_More_Very_Short_Posts.shtml
    558	/n/2025/01/03/Canada_Windows_at_All_Time_Lows_ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Rise_to_.shtml
    540	/n/2024/12/28/Gemini_Links_29_12_2024_Supernatural_Mystery_and_Mechanical_Peo.shtml
    535	/n/2024/12/31/2025_Coming_Lawsuits_are_temporary_Glory_is_forever_Go_public.shtml
    531	/n/2024/12/30/15_Years_Ago_Mozilla_Firefox_Had_Over_50_of_the_Slovakian_Marke.shtml
    527	/n/2024/12/30/A_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Led_by_Dr_Richard_Stallman_Can_S.shtml
    511	/n/2024/12/29/Bad_Year_for_Microsoft_in_India_and_Another_All_Time_Low_Window.shtml
    504	/n/2025/01/01/Meme_The_Microsoft_Syndrome.shtml