Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Passkeys Are Vendor Lock-in and Imperialism, Not Security, So Escape Them Before They Latch Onto Your Workflows

   This is their 'grand vision' of computing. You merely 'rent' what you assumed you truly bought to own.

2. Microsoft Says Demand/Budget for "AI" is Decreasing, Bing is Also Moving Down and Down This Year ("Bing Chat" Was an Utter Failure, People Want Sites, Not Slop)

   Skype is about to shut down, XBox will likely die soon

3. Data Shows Largest EU Economies Shifting to GNU/linux

   all-time highs

4. Microsoft President Panics Over Europe's Abandonment of Microsoft/GAFAM/Trump's USA, These Figures Show Us Why

   Microsoft is bluffing

5. Microsoft Windows Falls Below Quarter in "Market Share" (While Microsoft Fakes Rising Dominance... in Buzzwords and Fake Accounting)

   Cooking the books while Windows gets 'cooked'

6. Good News, Bad News: Groklaw is Back Online, SoylentNews Apparently Loses Editor

   Jan ought to change the resignation into a mere pause

   New

7. Not Just an OSU Open Source Lab Issue

   Prominent and very prolific news sites about Linux ask for help

8. GNU/Linux Has Risen to All-Time High in South America, Windows Has Fallen a Lot Due to Android

   What will the rest of the year bring?

9. Richard Stallman (RMS) Says US "Magats" Have Destroyed Press Freedom in the US

   Now they're exporting their attacks on the media to the UK

10. In Africa, GNU/Linux Rose From 3% to 4% in Just Two Months

    So says statCounter anyway... What will it be like by the end of this year?

11. Gemini Links 02/05/2025: Bandcamp and Spying "Smart Glasses"

    Links for the day

12. Asia is Running Away From USA-ware (Trump or 'Tariff Regime'), Including Microsoft Windows

    The nationalism harms Microsoft

13. Links 02/05/2025: Expedia Group Undergoes Layoffs, Twitter Exodus in Europe

    Links for the day

14. Manchester Computing Centre (MCC) Made the First GNU/Linux Distro, But You Probably Never Heard of It

    People like Owen are barely remembered, not because they didn't do valuable work but because they didn't suck up to "The Establishment"

15. Online Mobs and Crabs: Doing to Fabrice Bellard What They Did to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds

    They just don't want skilled people to be productive

16. E-mail is Not HTML, Web Pages Aren't a Form of E-mail

    as an associate remains us, always use "plain text, it was good enough for Shakespeare"

17. Slopwatch: Stigma-Baiting by the Serial Sloppers and Latest Garbage From the Slopfarm LinuxSecurity.com (Also Slopping Away at "OpenBSD" With SEO SPAM Made by LLMs)

    Microsoft et al are trying to profit from blurring away information

18. Links 02/05/2025: Mineral Selloff and Chinese Sanctions

    Links for the day

19. Gemini Links 02/05/2025: Hens and Tmux

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 01, 2025

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