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Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-12-20 23:57:36 UTC
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Twitter as X-Rated Hatred: Criticising Microsoft is Not OK, Calling for Beheadings (With Bounties on People's Heads) is OK: Twitter automation missed 'hit job' advertising
Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World: "I'm VERY angry about lots of stuff happening here in Argentina, all of it shielded behind the word "freedom"."
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We Were Right All Along and the Collaborators of Microsoft Helped Competition Crimes of Microsoft: Once again vindicated regarding UEFI "secure boot"
[Meme] The New Windows Slogan: stat me up
Addendum: Associate's Notes on Free Software as a Labour Issue and the Connectivity Swindles: these are related issues/causes
Microsofters Infiltrating Roles of Authority and Government Positions to Protect Microsoft and to FUD Microsoft's Competition: friends of Microsofters who bully me and my wife
Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does): Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/08/2024: Overgeneralisation and Games: Links for the day
Russia's Yandex 5 Times Bigger Than Microsoft... in Ukraine: They'd rather rely on the Kremlin than on Microsoft
[Meme] Gemini is Different, So What?: different, not worse
Now It's "Official": Over 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules in Lupa: For the first time ever
Clown Computing: Reprinted with permission from Dr. Andy Farnell
[Meme] What Freedom Means to IBM: Free labou
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 15, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, August 15, 2024
From 99% in 2012 to 27% in 2024: How Microsoft Lost Georgia: What we're seeing is a migration from Windows to other platforms, notably GNU/Linux
To Understand Cisco's Mass Layoffs Look at the Company's Soaring Debt (Same at Microsoft): Look what's happening to Intel - down almost 60% since the start of the year, 57% to be precise
Windows Flying Low at 25%: It's another all-time low
[Meme] Long Texts You Never Bother Reading (Because Life is Too Short, Unlike Those Texts): The devil is in the terms of service
Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid: Links for the day
Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Confession of a Convention Game Master and Some Release nostalgia: Links for the day
Congratulations to Romania, Where Windows is Now "Minority Market Share" Platform: Time will tell if GNU/Linux can pass 5% on the desktop/laptop "form factor" there
Why It Matters That 4,000 Gemini Capsules Are Known to Lupa and Why Gemini Protocol Matters to Us: I have no doubt Gemini Protocol will continue to expand because it solves a real problem
Links 15/08/2024: Avast Surveillance Scandal Unsolved and Facebook Still Censors Terror Sympathisers: Links for the day
Daniel Cantarín's Response to Alexandre Oliva's Talk on Achieving Software Freedom in the Age of Platform Decay: Soylent News caught up with the series
4,000 Gemini Capsules: it's basically one capsule short of 4,000
"Microsoft is a Sponsor of The New Stack.": Many articles turn out to be just ads
New Highs for Android in Russia, But It's Reportedly Working on Its Own Linux-Based Operating Systems (GAFAM-Free): statCounter isn't equipped to properly parse user agents or to keep up
Upcoming Series: Terms of Service (TOS) Under the Microscope, FSF Party, GitHub Scandals, Clowns, and More: Right now we have way more material than we have time to cover. But that's a good thing.
Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Lies of Therapy and Web Applications: Links for the day
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 5 - When Richard Stallman Came to Argentina: It might seem a bit harsh, but a discussion at the end of this series will tie things together and explain why those things were said
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 14, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Russia develops an alternative to Android and iOS | News.az: Russia already has several of its own operating systems
Links 14/08/2024: Ecology and War Inside Russia: Links for the day
Daniel Pocock - Use of Technology in European Parliament Election Campaign (Public Talk): It starts in 4 hours
Android About to Fly Past Windows in Portugal: Perhaps by month's end or next month Portugal will be orange (Android majority)
How OpenAI Will Decrease the Losses: You have no losses when you have no users left
Giving Control to Microsoft is Always a Dire, Huge Mistake: Microsoft is known for buying things and sabotaging things, not for creating things
Founders That Sell Their Company to Microsoft Speak Out: "Microsoft's closure of Arkane Austin in May was one of the more shocking events of the past couple of years"
In Chile, Microsoft's Web Browser (a Chrome Copycat) Fell to 3.6%, About the Same as Firefox and Opera and Less Than Safari, Yandex Browser, Google Chrome: It does not look like Chileans fancy Microsoft's browser. They go out of their way to use something else, even on Windows.
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 4 - Daniel on Linux-based Mobile Platforms in LATAM (Latin America): GNU, Linux, and mobile
Almost Nothing of Invidious Left Online (YouTube is Attacking Gateways): what it looks like at this very moment
Gemini Links 14/08/2024: Funeral for an E-reader and a Mother Wants a Laptop: Links for the day
Links 14/08/2024: 8 Years of GDPR and Ridicule of "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype: Links for the day
This is How You Give Microsoft More Control Over LibreOffice Both as Software and as a Project: Didn't the Document Foundation learn from prior Microsoft Store scandals connected to LibreOffice?
"Heroes of Fedora" Are Just Salaried Employees of IBM (But "Community" is Just Sounding a Lot Nicer): A real community would not allow IBM a majority
YouTube Has Thrown Free Software Users Into a Crisis: For many Free software users, who rely on Invidious, YouTube is nearly dead already
[Meme] "New Chapter in the FSF.": We expect to have some coverage from this week's event
There is No I in "GAFAM" and Soon There Won't be I At All (Like Novell Vanished, Not Overnight, as It Took Over a Decade): Intel is going through the biggest crisis in its entire history
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 13, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, August 13, 2024
It's a "sm0l" World and It Won't Outsource to the Pentagon Anymore: As many people aren't interested in a new PC - or simply cannot afford one - we can expect leaner operating systems to gain further
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 3 - GNU/Linux in Argentinian Desktops/Laptops: Daniel explains why many years ago many PCs shipped with GNU/Linux and that there was an economic reason for it. At least in Argentina.
Tivoisation and Decommodification in Clown Computing: Some firms or organisations lost sight of what "servers" or "hosting" even mean
The News Vacuum: The problem is worse than just an absence of reporting
x86 Lowered the Standards of Hardware Products: A lot of it is just hacks and cheats that help fake performance