IBM: We Can Say It... You Cannot
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-04-08 03:23:01 UTC
- Modified: 2021-04-08 03:23:01 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Gemini Links 16/06/2024: Hand Held Maneuvering Unit and Hugo Static Files
- Links for the day
- Removing the Tumour From IRC
- looking back
- Windows Sinking Below 13% Market Share in the Island of Jamaica
- Microsoft's decline continues and will mostly likely continue indefinitely in Jamaica and its neighbours
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- Letting Microsoft systemd Manage /home Was a Terrible Idea All Along
- systemd-tmpfiles, deleting /home
- When You Touch One of Us You Touch All of Us
- We have a principled, uncompromising stance on this matter
- Links 16/06/2024: New Sanctions Against Russia, Fentanylware (TikTok) Causing More Problems
- Links for the day
- Social Control Media in Japan: Twitter (X) Has Collapsed, YouTube Rising (Apparently)
- What a genius Mr. Musk is!
- Windows Cleansed in South Africa (Already Hovering Around 10% Market Share)
- Plus Microsoft's mass layoffs in Africa
- [Meme] Satya Nadella's Windows PC RECALLS Not What He Did
- Satya got lucky
- Usage of Let's Encrypt in Geminispace Has Collapsed (That's a Good Thing!)
- Ideally, or eventually, all capsules will sign their own certificates or have their own CA
- North Macedonia: Windows Down From 99.2% to 28.5%
- Last year it was even measured at 26%
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 15, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 15, 2024
- [Meme] The Free(dom) Software Engineer in European Elections
- “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
- Vista 11 Was 'Leaked' Exactly 3 Years Ago and This One Picture Says It All
- how 'well' Vista 11 has done
- A Smokescreen for Brad Smith
- Maybe the key point was to say "Linux is not secure either" or "Windows and Linux are equally vulnerable", so don't bother dumping Microsoft
- Links 15/06/2024: Microsoft's Intellectual Ventures Attacks Kubernetes With Software Patents, More Layoff Waves
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/06/2024: On Lagrange and on YouTube Getting Worse
- Links for the day
- Edward Brocklesby: hacker received advance notice of zero-day vulnerabilities in MH and NMH email software
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- [Meme] Code Liberates Kids
- Matthias Kirschner: I can't code, but I can write a book
- In Armenia, Bing is Measured at 0.6%, About Ten Times Less Than Yandex
- Bing will probably get mothballed in the coming years
- [Meme] A Pack and Pact (Collusion Against Computer Users)
- They never really cared about users, no more than drug dealers care about drug users...
- GNU/Linux in Azerbaijan: From ~0.1% to 7%
- Azerbaijan is around the same size as Portugal
- Women in Free Software (FOSS) Need Action, Not Mere Words
- the men who are loudest about women's rights are some of the very worst offenders
- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Minecraft
- These folks should check out Minetest
- Techrights Statement on Men Who Viciously Attack Women in Free Software
- history shows women will win
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 14, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, June 14, 2024
- [Meme] People Who Cannot Find Gainful Employment Because of Their Poor Behaviour Online (Not the People Who Merely Call Them Out on It)
- Imagine trying to become a lecturer while talking like this in public
- You Too Would Get Nervous
- countries where Windows is down to 2%
- [Meme] The Two Phases (and Faces) of Microsofters
- Microsofters: stalk IRC, then troll IRC
- The 'Nobody Reads Techrights Anyway' Crowd
- Send In the Clowns
- Books in the Making
- I intend to spend a considerable amount of time explaining what my family and I were subjected to for the 'crime' of promoting/covering Free software
- Microsoft is Still Losing Malta
- And GNU/Linux is doing well on laptops and desktops
- Tux Machines: Third Party Impending
- There will be more next week
- Links 14/06/2024: Microsoft Layoffs in the News Again, East-West Conflict/Tensions Update
- Links for the day
- Links 14/06/2024: Comments on the Death of Email and Lagrange Commentary
- Links for the day
- Dutch Government Appoints Microsofters to Combat "OSS Fetishism"
- What corruption looks like
- Microsoft's Collapse in Africa and Shutdown of Entire 'Development Centre'
- Unlike what Microsoft claimed in face-saving statements
- [Meme] Not Your Typical IRC Troll and Harasser
- I say, let's punch nazis...
- GNU/Linux's Journey in Qatar: From 0.1% to Over 3%
- Windows is no longer an important contender there
- Secret Contracts and Corpses
- The media pretends it's just some generic "IT" issue, but it is not
- Bing Has Run Out of Time and Microsoft Might Dismantle It (Save a Financial Miracle)
- How much more of investors' money is Microsoft willing to throw in the trash?
- Statement on Antisemitism in Our IRC Network and in Social Control Media
- In an ideal world nobody would have to be banned from IRC
- Gemini Links 14/06/2024: Ads vs. Content, Why Aliases Are Har
- Links for the day
- Vista 11 Has Fallen in Switzerland, a Country That is More Microsoft Friendly Than Most of Europe
- GNU/Linux rose to its highest level there in almost half a decade
- Microsoft is Dying in Africa
- Based on the Central African Republic, which "is around the same size as France"
- [Meme] Microsoft in Africa
- Are you telling me Windows is now down to 1% 'market share' in some countries?
- Management of the European Patent Office Misleads Staff on Views of the Office's Staff Committee
- The EPO as a workplace very rapidly deteriorates
- [Meme] Newer is Worse
- "They say those are New Ways of Working (NWoW); New does not mean better, it is worse"
- Microsoft Needs to be Banned From Contracts, Including Government Contracts, Not Just for Security Failings But for Criminal Negligence, Corruption, and Fatal Cover-ups
- How many deaths will it take for Microsoft to face real, effective scrutiny rather than kid gloves treatment?
- Links 14/06/2024: Violence, Famines, and Montana Has More Cows Than People
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Telecom Layoffs, Facebook Layoffs in Africa: A Month After Microsoft's Mass Layoffs in Lagos (Nigeria) Facebook/Meta Does the Same and Microsoft is Now Retreating and Quitting an Entire Sector! (Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch)
- Disasters in the making for GAFAM. Money down the drain.
- Papua New Guinea: GNU/Linux Growing, Windows Down Below 15%
- it seems indisputable there's headway and momentum
- "Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers)
- Don't be subjected to gaslighting; make your own OPML file
- Topics That Truly Irritate and Consistently Infuriate the Microsofters (Whenever We Cover These)
- Censoring uncomfortable information is a difficult activity that has its limits, even in Reddit
- Honduras: Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 13, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, June 13, 2024
- LibrePlanet 2024 and the Lost Video/Audio of Talks
- After the event was over someone informed us that due to technical issues they had lost (or failed to acquire) recordings of the talks
- Choosing Between Options to Outsource to Evades the Best Solution (Self-Hosting)
- Most users don't need this sort of complexity
- IBM Layoffs at Kyndryl
- This can soon spill over to Red Hat
- Turkmenistan: GNU/Linux Leaps Past 5% This Month?
- This is how statCounter sees it
- Watch This Space
- what matters most is not the volume or quantity of publications but their underlying depth and quality