Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Windows "Market Share" Measured Around 2.7% in Iraq, Plunges to 6.5% in Saudi Arabia

   Microsoft isn't on the agenda in Iraq

2. Video: The Rise of GNU/Linux and Free Software as Seen by RMS in 2004

   DTP's founder argued that when Windows goes below 85% "market share", it'll lose its grip in the monopoly sense

3. When (Almost) One-Man Operations Are Disguised as Medium-Sized Companies

   the CEO hides in the US (hiding from his ex-wives, 4 daughters from those wives, and Sirius staff that he defrauded)

4. Microsoft Actually in Trouble, Microsofters Unable to Obey Judges' Orders

   For the second time in a week, Microsofters are unable to obey orders

   New

5. Google Throwing Out the Search Engine With the Bathwater is a Complete and Utter 'Shi

   New

   -ow' as the Company Drowns in Debt, Layoffs, and Worse

   The mainstream media almost never mentions GAFAM debt

6. Next Month 'New Techrights' Turns Two

   Next month, on the fourth week, it'll be 2 years since the migration

7. Operating Systems' Statistics in New Zealand: GNU/Linux Up, Windows Down to All-Time Lows

   Remember all this when the media says that Microsoft became like 10 times more valuable in those 15 years (from 400 billion to 4,000 billion in alleged "worth")

8. GNU/Linux Share in Sweden Has Doubled Since PewDiePie, A Swede, Recommended It

   months ago he moved to GNU/Linux, then told others to consider doing the same

9. GNU/Linux Hits Record High in Portugal

   GNU/Linux picking up in Portugal

10. Gemini Protocol is Not Dying, It's Growing

    When people say things like "Gemini Protocol is dying" the data does not support them

11. GNU/Linux is Thriving This Summer

    It is meanwhile acknowledged, even by Microsoft pushers, that many GNU/Linux PCs will get sabotaged next month

12. The End of Microsoft's Reign in Spain: Windows Falls to All-Time Lows in Spanish Web Traffic

    Windows sank to new lows in Spain

13. The Bots Never Sleep: In The Weekends, Slopfarms Dominate Google News, Majority of Entries in Google Are Fake Articles About 'Linux'

    Google is fast becoming an ocean of plagiarism; the same goes for Google News, which was supposed to have extra quality control

14. Russia's Yandex Has Caught Up With Bing in Terms of "Market Share"

    Microsoft has been firing loads of Bing workers for over 2 years already

15. Canada: GNU/Linux Up to Records Highs, Windows Down to Record Lows

    Microsoft already announcing some plans to shut down Vista 11

16. Gemini Links 02/08/2025: Transducers in Typed Racket and American ISPs

    Links for the day

17. Links 02/08/2025: Microsoft Already Kills Vista 11 SE, Smartphone Sales Down, Truth Gets "You're Fired!" in the US

    Links for the day

18. Russia: GNU/Linux Rises to Highest Adoption Level Since Invasion of Ukraine

    Moving up in the north

19. Microsoft's Latest Financial Report: We "Gained" 300 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Liabilities Grew by 32 Billion Dollars

    Microsoft's debt has reached an all-time high

20. The Register US = The Register MS

    Formerly The Register UK

21. Weeks After Microsoft Shut Down Its Operations in Pakistan Windows Falls to All-Time Lows

    Only less than a month ago it was quietly revealed, based on laid-off staff, that Microsoft shut down in Pakistan

22. Criminal Behaviour is the Standard Operating Procedure at Microsoft

    In the future I'll be able to tell how, when dealing with SLAPPs from Microsofters, their Microsoft services failed me and sometimes even blocked my contacts

23. GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time Highs in Europe

    many people will get fired for buying Microsoft

24. All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux on the Client Desktop/Laptop, Based on Steam Survey

    GNU/Linux rose to 2.89% in Steam

25. Links 02/08/2025: Blaugust 2025 and "Russia Declares Navalny Memoir ‘Extremist’"

    Links for the day

26. Free Software is Not a Business Model

    Go ahead, ask your friend, "how do you plan to monetise your children?"

27. LLM Slop Harms Real Literature, Real Web Sites, Real Journalism

    LLM slop is a parasite and it'll run out of legitimate outputs

28. Upcoming OSI Scandal Series

    The OSI is a rogue actor because it serves Microsoft in exchange for money

29. Slopwatch: The Issue Persists, But the Consensus in the Media Changes as Google Enrages It With LLM Plagiarism

    We've meanwhile assessed the latest output from Linuxiac

30. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, August 01, 2025

31. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

32. Links 02/08/2025: İstanbul Retail Inflation Reaches 42.48%, US FBI Opens Office in New Zealand

    Links for the day

33. Gemini Links 02/08/2025: ZFS, LLM Hype, and Fake Modules

    Links for the day

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