Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland)

   So the word is spreading

2. Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour

   the fake 'FSF'

   New

3. Links 13/01/2025: Conflicts, Prisoner Exchange, and Homes on Fire

   Links for the day

4. Angola: Microsoft Windows Falls Below 10%

   Microsoft has a really bad 2024 in Africa

5. [Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022

   Musk's very own "grooming gang"

6. [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean

   It does not sound like RMS suggests anything other than quitting social control media

7. Gemini Links 13/01/2025: RestFest, Yule, and Deedum

   Links for the day

8. Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software

   We continue to recommend Geminispace

9. Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India)

   he will be giving a "Keynote Address" in India

10. Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers)

    a question of cost, not skill

11. Google Got People Sort of Addicted to Android So It Can Cash in (Services, App Store, Advertising) Decades Later

    This is not software freedom

12. The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland)

    Even fellow board members seem unaware of it

13. Record Lows for Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana

    The market share of Vista 11 is seen as going down

14. Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users

    Now it's 2025. Different challenge.

15. Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine

    Links for the day

16. TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines)

    We're not rushing to any conclusions

17. Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him

    The Aaron Swartz story is a reminder of the importance of having verifiable/verified information out there for the general public to see

18. Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol

    Links for the day

19. Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts

    Links for the day

20. Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers)

    This is the Microsoft wage slavery

21. Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives

    This is a problem for Microsoft

22. Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs

    We'll keep a vigilant eye on this

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025

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